Innovations are required in urban infrastructures due to the pressing needs for mitigating climate change and prevent resource depletion. In order to address the slow pace of innovation in urban systems, this paper analyses factors involved in attempts to introduce novel sanitary systems. Today new requirements …

Terwijl de rap van Snap door de speakers schalt, vult het auditorium zich langzaam met tientallen opgewonden gezichten. Studenten die elkaar herkennen, lachend en verwon­derd begroeten, terwijl anderen stilletjes plaatsnemen en verbaasd om zich been kijken. Hadden zij geweten dat zij met zovelen zijn! …

Issues of race and discrimination towards the ethnic minorities have always existed in the United Kingdom. With the initiation of the EU referendum and Brexit, these issues have increased. Following the referendum, the media published news of hate crimes against Indian and Pakistani citizens. During …

In dit onderzoek is nagegaan hoe ouders en jongeren uit Middenof Oost-Europese landen hun dagelijkse woon- en leefsituatie in Den Haag en in Segbroek beoordelen. Ook zijn de meningen en ervaringen gevraagd van professionals en vrijwilligers die actief zijn in het onderwijs aan kinderen van EU-arbeidsmigranten …

This research project aimed to find an answer to the central research question of “how can the overall quality of teachers and their teaching methods in Dutch secondary education improve using the Finnish secondary education model as example?”. The purpose to finding an answer to this question was for …

This pilot study explores the possibility of cognitive training software Neurotracker (NT), to have potential beneficial effects for Traumatic Brain Injury patients with Sensory Processing Disorder. Five subjects with TBI and SPD trained for 5 weeks/21 sessions with Neurotracker. Pre-post training cognitive …

This dissertation was conducted at The Hague University of Applied Sciences in the programme of European Studies. The document analyses the current situation of brain drain in Lithuania. Lithuania is a small European country in the Baltic region with a rather small population that faces significant losses …

Veel organisaties nemen maatregelen in het kader van duurzaamheid. Met het nemen van maatregelen is de organisatie echter nog niet duurzamer: voor het laten slagen van de duurzame maatregelen is het van beland dat duurzaam gedrag vertonen. Echter lopen medewerkers bij het vertonen van duurzaam gedrag …

This essay reports on a research project aiming at validation of a concept for an Al-driven speech interface for smart services in public spaces. The research team created a simple experience prototype that simulated the envisioned functionality and was used to experiment with subjects in dialogues. …

Anthropocentrism is the belief that value is focused on human beings and that all other beings are means to human ends. Related to anthropocentrism, humanism privileges the aim of improvement of human welfare. Humanism has underwritten efforts to expose social injustices and improve the welfare of all …