Victoria's Secret is the leading specialty retailer of lingerie and beauty products. This brand is dominating the world with body fashion, fragrances and cosmetics. In addition, Victoria’s Secret is also globally recognized for their supermodels and world-famous fashion shows. There are more than 1,000 …

Instead of using a passive AC power grid for low power applications, this paper describes a smart plug for DC networks that is capable of providing the correct power to a device (up to 100W) and that allows for communication between different plugs and monitoring of energy consumption across the …

Agent-based models (ABMs) are important tools for predicting infectious disease epidemics and for designing effective interventions. ABMs take into account individual differences, for instance in contact rate. The drawbacks of ABMs are high complexity and low performance. In this paper, we present a …

Keyboard and 2D mouse are the commonly used input devices for computers. Unfortunately, these input methods come across as being unituitive when the user has to interact with 3D data. The 2D mouse has 2 degrees of freedom, whereas 3D interaction requires 6 degrees of freedom. To overcome this restriction, …

Based around the central research question 'Can social media be used as a marketing tool for a restaurant?' this dissertation sets out to discover how a starting restaurant in Canada can use social media as a marketing tool. Over the past decade a large number of companies have embraced social media …

3form Europe (part of the Hunter Douglas Group) is an independent establishment of 3form located in Schiedam, The Netherlands. This location, office and factory, provides all sales-support and production for Europe and Africa. 3form Europe has 55 employees. The employees of 3form are divided into seven …

The purpose of this study is to research the current situation concerning brand awareness for Africa Centre (AC). What do people from Cape Town know and what do they think of AC? Within this study research was conducted to create a clear view of the brand awareness and brand knowledge among the people …

This vademecum allows us to look at landscape in a different way. Landscape here is not considered as a static image, a picture painted by nature or designed by man. It is, instead, considered as the temporary result of social, economic and political movements, as a snapshot in the continuous interaction …

IKEA stores around the world are part of the IKEA franchise, the franchisor of which is called Inter IKEA Systems B.V. All IKEA stores need to fulfill mandatory requirements set up by Inter IKEA Systems B.V., such as which services to offer customers, one of these mandatory services is the picking with …

In summary, state aid exists of government measures that provide a financial benefit to one or more undertakings or a certain industry, with the potential to distort competition or affect trade between MSs within the EU. The rules for state aid are laid down in Art. 107, 108 and 109 TFEU and the different …