This city profile provides a multi-dimensional overview on the most recent social, economic, political and spatial changes in the city of Amsterdam. We map the social-geography of the city, discussing recent housing and spatial development policies as well as city-regional political dynamics. Today, …

The fifth book in the Ebifananyi series is based on the memoirs and slide collection of Engineer Martin Wangutusi Wambwa (b. 1928). He is one of the first western trained Ugandan engineers. Journalism and photography would have been his second vocational choice, had his engineering ambitions not worked …

BACKGROUND: Limited research has examined what is actually done in the process of care by nursing staff in long-term institutional care. The applied instruments employed different terminologies, and psychometric properties were inadequately described. This study aimed to develop and test an observational …

This study aims at uncovering intra-organizational dynamics in implementing supply chain partnering. Narrative techniques are used in a qualitative case study in a Dutch housing association. This study shows how project leaders of a Dutch housing association perceive relationships in the internal supply …

The volume of biogas produced in agricultural areas is expected to increase in coming years. An increasing number of local and regional initiatives show a growing interest in decentralized energy production, wherein biogas can play a role. Biogas transport from production sites to user, i.e. a CHP, boiler …

SUMMARY The Easy Reading Corner is a translation of the name of a Dutch project. This project, inside libraries in the Netherlands and Belgium (Flanders), called Makkelijk Lezen Plein (after this MLP). The aim of this project is to give children with reading difficulties, confidence in their reading …

SAMENVATTING Popster! is een talentenjacht waarbij poppenspeler(s) met de leukste, opvallendste en meest originele poppenact strijden om de eerste plek (SBS Broadcasting, z.j.). De probleemstelling voor dit onderzoek is: welke elementen zou Talpa Producties in haar socialmediastrategie voor het programma …

SAMENVATTING Nederland staat op nummer drie van landen als het gaat om het maken van succesvolle tv-formats. Sinds 2002 heeft er een explosie aan talentenjachten plaatsgevonden. Idols, X Factor, De beste singer-songwriter, The Hit en The Voice zijn talentenjachten die elkaar in hoog tempo opvolgen. De …

SAMENVATTING In dit afstudeeronderzoek heb ik onderzocht of de HvA-student zich laat beïnvloeden door terrorisme. Sinds de aanslagen van 11-9-2001 in de Verenigde Staten is er een transnationaal karakter te herkennen in het hedendaagse moderne terrorisme, dat er hoofdzakelijk op is gericht aanslagen …

More and more seniors are using computers and smartphones on a regular basis. However, research shows that many seniors are only using a small number of the apps available to them, in contrast to younger adults. The current study aims to explore reasons for this selective use of apps by seniors.