In the European Union, cattle registration has been harmonised, and every farmer has to report cattle deaths to a national computer database. However, there is no obligation to mention the reason for culling, death or slaughter. In dairy farming, the herd is constantly renewed by letting in some young …

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are our plan for a futureproof world in which every person can live in peace and prosperity. The power of this vision is even more relevant today than it was when the Goals were adopted in 2015. The 17 Goals provide the basis to make our societies and economies …

Background: Aerobic (VT1) and anaerobic threshold (VT2) detection requires either expensive gas analysis machines or difficult practise. A company named StepUp Air who have created a wearable Breathing Rate (BR) and Heart Rate (HR) monitor could potentially provide a cheaper solution in. Objective: …

Background: Follow‑up of curatively treated primary breast cancer patients consists of surveillance and aftercare and is currently mostly the same for all patients. A more personalized approach, based on patients’ individual risk of recurrence and personal needs and preferences, may reduce patient burden …

What Happens at the Intersection of Conceptual Art and Teaching? was first a live, six-hour and ten-minute marathon zoomposium held on August 15, 2020. With contributions from thirty-nine artists, researchers, and teachers at every level and kind of institution in Poland, Canada, Korea, Mexico, Colombia, …

As the labor crisis keeps bringing stress among hospitality leaders making the subject of employee retention a key point on the agenda of every future-oriented business, the study comes as a support for Hotel Transilvania in designing a benefits scheme to ensure retention. The importance of benefits …

The complexity of analysing dynamical systems often lies in the difficulty to monitor each of their dynamic properties. In this article, we use qualitative models to present an exhaustive way of representing every possible state of a given system, and combine it with Bayesian networks to integrate quantitative …

Background: Roughly 200 million women become pregnant every year - most of them living in developing countries in Asia and Africa - many of these women suffer from ongoing nutritional deficiencies, contributing to the estimate of half a million maternal deaths a year. Educational programs teaching on …

White paper: Financing the circular economy in the tourism sector For SMEs in tourism, a transition to a circular economy can often be costly. Crowdfunding is a promising financing approach for a circular economy in tourism as it can help avoid the bureaucratic and often complex funding application …

Despite continuous improvement, lifelong learning, and plan-do-check-act cycles, every new day the planet is a little worse off than the day before! In the first 10 months of this year alone, an area the size of the Netherlands has been deforested and twice that area has been added to desert! Technology …