Scholars in sustainable consumption increasingly highlight the limitations of “weak sustainable consumption” approaches to overcome the challenges of the current environmental crisis. While efforts to enable cleaner production and circular flows of materials are necessary and important, progress in environmental …

When products are no longer suitable for reuse, repair or refurbishment, they are discarded and recycled, often losing a lot of value (downcycling). Repurpose is a strategy that gives discarded products or obsolete parts a new, high-quality purpose, also known as upcycling. With Repurpose, the value …

Background: Around 13% of the world’s population suffers from obesity. More than 40% of people with obesity display emotional eating behaviour (eating in response to negative emotions or distress). It is an alternate to more effective coping strategies for negative emotions. Our study explored the opportunities …

Due to the increase in scale due to (digital) technology, we are increasingly losing sight of our "common grounds". Our behaviour becomes bizarre, almost psychotic, but decimated by social media. In these Big Tech 'village squares ', we are both consumers and producers, like the sheep of yesteryear, …

In dit praktijkgericht onderzoek werd onderzocht in hoeverre de scantijd van het 89Zr PET/CT-protocol gereduceerd kon worden op de Biograph Vision met behoud van de beeldkwaliteit. Uit de resultaten blijkt dat het EARL-reconstructieprotocol het beste gebruikt kan worden voor het reduceren van de scantijd. …

In this chapter, it is argued that corporate communication is not an arbitrary affair, but an activity with its own intrinsic normativity. Communication is part of a creation order, which means that one has to obey specific norms and rules in order to present oneself in a convincing way. First of all, …

Mobile Rapid DNA technology is close to being incorporated into crime scene investigations, with the potential to identify a perpetrator within hours. However, the use of these techniques entails the risk of losing the sample and potential evidence, because the device not only consumes the inserted sample, …

In On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects (1958), French philosopher Gilbert Simondon noticed that humans were losing their reciprocal connection with technology. We push buttons without understanding what’s happening ‘inside’ the machine – whether it’s a light switch or a smartphone. ‘For Simondon, …

The Resilient Delta research group has been researching in infrastructures stability under a case study of ‘flooding of the territory of the Reimerswaal municipality.' For this, this research is carried out by the research group to check the effect of the flood on the railway. This research had aimed …

Bynder is a Software as a Service company that develops and provides a Digital Asset Management tool. It was founded in 2012 in Amsterdam and it currently consists of 275 employees in offices in Boston, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, London, Barcelona, and Dubai. The business participates in several events from …