Research suggests that construction clients, as building owner-occupier, are struggling to implement smart maintenance. This thesis assumes that this is due to a failure to fully understand the institutional complexities of smart maintenance. Hence, the aim of this thesis was to improve our understanding …

Interactivity has become a crucial aspect of marketing. It allows companies to connect with their customers, often resulting in positive outcomes. Based on a literature review, this chapter discusses ten of the most pioneering tools used in interactive marketing. First it will be explained how each tool …

In this study, we assessed to what extent data on the subject of TPPR (transfer, persistence, prevalence, recovery) that are obtained through an older STR typing kit can be used in an activity-level evaluation for a case profiled with a more modern STR kit. Newer kits generally hold more loci and may …

This chapter takes a closer look at the case of Amsterdam as a particular manifestation of a film festival city. Drawing from a new dataset on festivals in the Netherlands, the data supports the view of film festivals as a highly dynamic cultural sector: Internationally acclaimed film festivals exist …

With the proliferation of misinformation on the web, automatic methods for detecting misinformation are becoming an increasingly important subject of study. If automatic misinformation detection is applied in a real-world setting, it is necessary to validate the methods being used. Large language models …

In Antenne Gooi en Vechtstreek wordt sinds 2017 jaarlijks het gebruik van alcohol, tabak, cannabis en andere drugs in de regio in kaart gebracht. Dit gebeurt op basis van een combinatie van kwalitatieve en kwantitatieve methoden. In 2022 verzamelden we informatie via (1) interviews met een panel van …

Hoe repareer je en maak je op een structurele manier IT-systemen verantwoord, voor de nieuwe toepassingen? Nanda Piersma doet een oproep om dit vraagstuk ook neer te leggen bij de ontwerpers en bouwers van digitale systemen. Hoe kunnen zij IT-systemen bouwen die verantwoord zijn en van waarde in de maatschappij? …