As a student of industrial product design I have gotten used to making and fixing everything myself. If I run into a problem or a product breaks, I try to solve and repair it. If I couldn’t do it yet, I'd just learn how to. This led me to build my own house on wheels at the start of 2020. The complete …

There is a clear demand for a collaborative knowledge-sharing by online climate adaptation platforms that contribute to (inter)national knowledge exchange and raising awareness about climate change. Climate adaptation platforms (CAPs) can contain decision-support tools to facilitate the process of decision-making, …

This thesis covers the development process of a realistic representation of a news item in VR. Additionally, the thesis aims to test whether this technology can generate empathic feedback in young adults from 20 to 30 years old. Another purpose is to make recommendations for future developers who are …

Industrial Symbiosis Networks (ISNs) consist of firms that exchange residual materials and energy locally, in order to gain economic, environmental and/or social advantages. In practice, ISNs regularly fail when partners leave and the recovery of residual streams ends. Regarding the current societal …

Uit de Managementsamenvatting: "In dit rapport beschrijven we de opzet en de uitkomsten van de evaluatie van het project Online Stagebegeleiding dat is uitgevoerd vanuit de Stimuleringsregeling Open en Online Onderwijs (projectcode O019-03). Het project had als doel om kennis te ontwikkelen over hoe …

This is a repository containing an agent-based model (code, data, documents and results) of Industrial Symbiosis Network implementation. The repository is related to the publication: Lange, K.P., Korevaar, G., Nikolic, I., Herder, P.M., 2021. Actor Behaviour and Robustness of Industrial Symbiosis Networks: …

Rehabilitation after an accident in which an arm or hand is paralyzed, is a long process. Stimulate the brain during this process is important to improve recovery. A common therapy to help patients, is mirror therapy. Originally designed to help people with phantom limb pain it activates mirror neurons …

Hbo studenten moeten minimaal één keer tijdens hun studie een stage lopen bij een organisatie, om praktische vaardigheden te ontwikkelen. Een onderzoek van Studentenbureau (2019) laat zien dat in 2019 61% van alle studenten in het hoger onderwijs het vinden van een stage als lastig ervaren. In voorgaande …

Tropical deforestation is one of the main causes for habitat destruction and fragmentation for bird communities worldwide, but Costa Rica is one of the few countries where forest cover increased. Biodiversity in Costa Rica is astonishing, especially in the isolated cloud forests of the ecoregion ‘Talamancan …