This book is a journey through coexisting, emerging or speculated about, types of digital value transfer infrastructures. Using digital value transfer infrastructures as a central case study, this thesis is concerned with unpacking the negotiation processes that shape the governance, design and political …

Het project PreciSIAlandbouw heeft precisielandbouwtechnieken ontwikkeld en gevalideerd op vijf thema's: sensortechnologie, kennis en advies, robotisering, digitalisering, en verdienmodellen. Dit rapport bevat de resultaten van digitalisering. Er is onderzocht welke digitale technologieën er op agrarische …

Based on 13 interviews with Eritrean status holders and professionals in Amsterdam this article explores how paying attention to media skills and media literacies may help gain a better understanding of what matters in exchanges between professionals and legal refugees in the mandatory Dutch integration …

The COVID-19 pandemic took over the world in March 2020. After the implementation of lock-down measures,the level of acute loneliness increased around the world (Dahlberg,2021). This emotional state was especially prevalent among students who experienced the dramatic shift of education from …

OBJECTIVE: To describe the long-term functioning of patients who survived a COVID-19-related admission to the intensive care unit and their family members, in the physical, social, mental and spiritual domain. DESIGN: A single-centre, prospective cohort study with a mixed-methods design. SETTING: The …

De Merwe-Vierhavens (M4H) ontwikkelen zich de komende decennia tot een een nieuwe stadswijk. Wat voor voor een stadswijk kan M4H zijn hoe wordt zij onderdeel van het stedelijk weefsel? Om antwoord te geven op deze vragen is er een sociaal verhaal nodig, als onderdeel van het grotere, bestaande verhaal …

BACKGROUND: In the last decades, autologous fat grafting has been used to treat adherent dermal scars. The observed regenerative and scar-reducing properties have been mainly ascribed to the tissue-derived stromal vascular fraction (tSVF) in adipose tissue. Adipose tissue's components augment local angiogenesis …

Background : The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is widely used to screen for psychosocial problems among adolescents. As the severity of such problems is known to be related to age and gender, screening could be improved by interpreting SDQ scale scores with age-specific and perhaps gender-specific …

In this TechForFuture project ‘Polymer Mixing in a Single Screw Extruder’ a method to optimize mixing elements is developed based on numerical simulations (Computational Fluid Dynamics, CFD). A numerical procedure is developed to calculate the flow field in the extruder. By tracing particles in this …