The successful policy intervention of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement was the result of a combination of public and institutional advocacy. ACTA aimed to harmonise the combating of copyright infringements in the digital environment, which are believed to have been left out by the former agreements. …

The European Commission’s Fitness Check exercise, as part of the Better Regulation agenda is a very hot topic at the moment and has already covered six policy areas since 2010. At the moment, a Fitness Check is being performed on the Birds & Habitats Directives, which can be seen as the most controversial …

The inland shipping industry contributes substantially to the trade relations between the Netherlands and Germany. The industry is different from other transport modes (rail, road and air) in that ships are more environmentally friendly and cost-effective. Yet, it faces many structural problems that …

The dissertation at hand is embedded in the context of the 2014 European elections that have brought to light a strong Eurosceptic sentiment throughout Europe. It picks up on the intention to create a new Eurosceptic group in the European Parliament as brought forward by right-wing populists Geert Wilders …

As an essential basic principle of the European Union, the free movement of workers has been on everyone’s lips with the European Enlargement of Romania and Bulgaria in 2007. With the complete abolishment of the restrictions on the free movement of workers for Romanian and Bulgarian citizens in Germany …

Germany has been an influential member state in the European Union, but how influential has Germany been in shaping EU-policies? What domestic policies did Germany upload to shape the EU-policies and what major EU policies did it download to shape domestic policies? This dissertation has researched Germany’s …

Van kleur veranderende kunststoffen zijn kunststoffen die onder invloed van een verandering in de omgeving van kleur veranderen. Er zijn meerdere invloeden bekend, waaronder temperatuur (thermochromatisch), vocht (hydrochromatisch) en uv-straling (fotochromatisch)1. Dit klinkt wellicht futuristisch, …

Een onderzoek naar een CRM applicatie voor Koenen en Co met daaraan gekoppeld een onderzoek onder de medewerkers of de huidige CRM applicatie voldoet aan de eisen en wensen.

De scriptie gaat over de Public Key Infrastructure en digitale certificaten. De afstudeeropdracht betrof het bouwen van een PKI en er voor zorgen dat een melding m.b.t. niet vertrouwde certificaten niet meer voorkomt. Dit laatste is verzorgd door de standaard certificaten op de servers te vervangen door …

The thesis describes the development of an open source search engine implementation for a game development company. The final product has the Aapache lucene library at its core.