Het kwalificatieprofiel van Masteropleidingen Leren en Innoveren (MLI’s) onderscheidt de rollen van innovator, expert in leren en onderzoeker (Rozendaal, Van Sandick, & De Jong, 2019). MLI-alumni verbinden met genoemde rollen als ‘boundary crossers’ (Akkerman & Bakker, 2012) de werelden van onderzoek …

Most endogenous viruses, an important proportion of eukaryote genomes, are doomed to slowly decay. Little is known, however, on how they evolve when they confer a benefit to their host. Bracoviruses are essential for the parasitism success of parasitoid wasps, whose genomes they integrated ~103 million …

Crustumerium was an Iron Age settlement north of Rome, inhabited between 850 and 500 BC. On the basis of archaeological field surveys in the 1970’s a scenario for the development of the city and its countryside was proposed, which matches traditional models of city-state formation. However, little attention …

What's in a name? Een paar maanden terug sprak ik met jeugdhulp­ambtenaren onder meer over de titel van mijn lectoraat: 'Jeugdhulp in transformatie'. Een van hen vroeg waarom het woord 'effectiviteit' er niet in voorkwam. lk vroeg haar wat zij verstond onder effectieve jeugdhulp. "Sneller en beter", …

Sinds de decentralisatie van het sociaal domein in 2015 bepalen gemeenten het beleid op het terrein van zorg, welzijn en jeugd. Dat betekent dat sociaal professionals en beleidsambtenaren samen de ondersteuning moeten verzorgen voor burgers die dat nodig hebben. Dynamiek van sociaal werk en gemeentelijk …

The space between the noseband and the skin of competition horses is a current welfare issue. The practices regarding the noseband tightness of Dutch horses was studied, as well as the intentions of Dutch equestrians when fastening the noseband. More than half (59%) of Dutch riders had their horses’ …

Differences in risk perceptions of public health and food safety hazards in various poultry husbandry systems by various stakeholder groups, may affect the acceptability of those husbandry systems. Therefore, the objective was to gain insight into risk perceptions of citizens, poultry farmers, and poultry …

This study addresses the theme of airpower in irregular warfare, more specifically information age airpower in modern irregular conflict. It uses the scase study of airpower application in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2016. Its central research quastion is: what was the role of airpower during the conflict, …

Some public organisations, despite being committed to attain the ideals of Open Data, struggle to meet the Open Data requirements fully. Often this is the case when their data are of low quality, have (potentially) sensitive information, or have non-interoperable format and semantics. These restrictions, …