Research into workplace mentoring is principally focussed on predictors and psychosocial and instrumental outcomes, while there is scarcely any in-depth research into relational characteristics, outcomes and processes. This article aims to illustrate these relational aspects. It reports a co-constructed …

This strategic sales report is realized by Thomas Vos, a student at the University of Applied Sciences in Leiden. On behalf of Metsens, a strategic sales report has been written in order to gain growth. Metsens’ target is to achieve a growth of 125% by conducting research aimed at the Metsens’ strategic …

This report is written for Barning Telecommunicatie. The goal of this research is to gain insights into the level of customer satisfaction for Barning Telecommunicatie and to come up with an advice on how to improve customer satisfaction. Background information Barning Telecommunicatie is an independent …

This study is commissioned by OCLC to research the interest of customers of OCLC in hosted services. OCLC is a worldwide organisation that provides software and services to libraries in 170 countries. Libraries use these management systems to optimize their workflow. OCLC endeavours to satisfy the needs …

According to several authors, such as Bunner-Sperdin and Peters (2009), Ogorman (2010) and Hokkeling and Mar (2012), hospitality can be defined as an interpersonal exchange, in which the host wants to give the best experience, whereby the physical, spiritual, emotional and social well-being of the patient …

Human activity recognition system is of great importance in robot-care scenarios. Typically, training such a system requires activity labels to be both completely and accurately annotated. In this paper, we go beyond such restriction and propose a learning method that allow labels to be incomplete and …

Background The sense of home of nursing home residents is a multifactorial phenomenon which is important for the quality of living. This purpose of this study is to investigate the factors influencing the sense of home of older adults residing in the nursing home from the perspective of residents, relatives …

Abstract from the article: "Conjugates of fatty acids and amines, including endocannabinoids, are known to play important roles as endogenous signaling molecules. Among these, the ethanolamine conjugate of the n-3 poly unsaturated long chain fatty acid (PUFA) docosahexaenoic acid (22:6n-3) (DHA) was …

Little is known about innovation in the non-profit sport sector. The current research addresses this gap by questioning whether and to what extent sport federations innovate. It aims to identify types of innovation implemented by sport federations and their attitude and preferences towards innovation. …

For decades, Scandinavian culture effectively prohibited the development of special provisions for talented students in higher education. However, in recent years, a cultural shift has gradually made more room for excellence and talent development in the national discourses. This paper analyzes the climate …