This book discusses how the Dutch vocational education system has undergone significant waves of reform driven by global imperatives, national concerns and governmental policy goals. Like elsewhere, the impetuses for these reforms are directed to generating a more industry-responsive, locally-accountable …

Social workers nowadays are confronted with recurrent issues about religion and spirituality when in contact with diverse client groups. This was also the case in the beginning of the profession around 1900, in Europe as well as in the US. This study analyses the work of a Dutch pioneer in social work, …

Lighting accounts for a significant amount of electrical energy consumption in office buildings, up to 45% of the total consumed. This energy consumption can be reduced by as much as 60% through an occupant-dependent lighting control strategy. With particular focus on open-plan offices, where the application …

In this chapter we discuss the Surinam Deaf community as a linguistic minority with a language of their own: an as yet unnamed sigh language. This language is sometimes called Surinam Sign Language bu could easily also be named Paramaribo Sign Lanaguage or even Kennedy School Sign Language. Ther ehas …

Law, in particular international law, plays an increasingly significant role in todays military operations. In accordance with the principle of the rule of law, States can deploy their armed forces abroad based on a clear legal foundation while the deployed forces must operate within the applicable rules. …

Introduction: Subfertility is a growing problem in The Netherlands. Assisted reproductive techniques (ART) are applied to aid subfertile couples conceiving. The EmbryoScope is a novel incubator, used in ART, to cultivate embryos under optimal conditions. The EmbryoScope provides time lapse images, which …

The topic of this research paper are four contemporary flute techniques: whistle sounds, multiphonics, tongue ram and jet whistle. I wanted to understand these techniques from a scientific point of view and see if this knowledge can then help me improve their execution. There have been few studies done …

Balance is essential in daily life, and when trying to improve balance, it is found that traditional balance exercises have little adherence. Horse riding has been shown to be beneficial for proprioceptive balance, yet there is no indication to how often it is necessary to do it. This research aims to …

Cairo. Home to twenty million people, bursting at the seams. An archipelago of planned and unplanned districts. How should this metropolis prepare for future growth? ‘Delta Strikes Back’ focuses on the rapidly urbanising agricultural landscape within the Nile Delta. Environmental pressure, ‘water wars’ …

At the beginning of the twenty first century obesity entered Dutch maternity care as a ‘new illness’ challenging maternity care professionals in providing optimal care for women with higher BMI’s. International research revealed that obese women had more perinatal problems than normal weight women. …