De aandacht van accountants voor vaktechniek is afhankelijk van een aantal zaken: 1) de stand van de economie, 2) de ontwikkelingen rondom wet- en regelgeving en 3) de omvang van het accountantskantoor/de accountantsorganisatie. Voor de ‘vaktechneuten’ zijn naast hard-skills ook soft-skills bijzonder …

The importance of professional skills in future engineering jobs is beyond discussion. Increasing numbers of universities have integrated training for such skills in their engineering curricula to prepare students to become highly qualified employees. HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht also …

Since the 29th of March 2017, after the invocation of Article 50, the Brexit is one of the hottest topics of the last two and a half years. A lot of assumptions have been made since, different Brexit outcomes have been talked about, possible consequences have been discussed but mainly, the big uncertainty …

This paper describes a calibration method for inertial and magnetic sensors using a batched optimization procedure. Well estab- lished sensor, motion and constraint models are applied which include sensor gains, biases, misalignments and inter-triad misalignments. For the magnetometer, hard and soft …

Groningen gas field is the largest on-land gas resource in the world and is being exploited since 1963. There are damaging earthquakes, the largest of which was 3.6 magnitude. The recursive induced earthquakes are often blamed for triggering the structural damages in thousands of houses in the area. …

Expert finding systems (EFS) is a method of finding experts by typing in a search query that results in multiple expert profiles. An expert profile is a profile of a user that has certain knowledge and expertise. After a matching process between the search query and the available profiles in the system, …

Al decennialang worden de gestelde doelen bij de meeste fusies en overnames niet behaald. Uit onderzoek blijkt steevast dat 65-85 procent van de overnames mislukt, ondanks het feit dat vaak een ‘due diligence’-onderzoek is gedaan en ook de strategische doelen vooraf zijn uitgewerkt. Op basis van harde …

Soft controls, in combinatie met hard controls, leiden tot een gewenste organisatiecultuur en voorkomen ongewenst gedrag. Maar hoe doet u dat: sturen op soft controls?

Objective: Post-mortem computed tomography (PMCT) is an established method for disease, complications, and cause of death determination in both clinical and forensic cases. By adding intravascular infusion of contrast medium, computed tomography angiography (PMCTA) provides additional information on …