Sinds 2017 geldt er een geitenstop in Nederland en kunnen veehouders niet verder groeien. De vraag naar geitenmelk neemt toe en daarom proberen geitenhouders meer kilogrammen melk uit hun huidige veestapel te halen. Om de opbrengsten per geit te verhogen is het van belang dat de geit dit ook aan kan. …

Binnen veel universiteiten in Nederland, waaronder de Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam, merken ze dat Masterstudenten Geneeskunde twijfelen of geen idee hebben over hun vervolgstappen in het werkveld (Doense, Bisheshar, Kootstra & Gartzke, 2021). Er is veel keuze, maar wat past nu écht bij ze? Het doel …

Assistive Technology (AT) is any technology that supports people with functional difficulties to per form their daily activities with less difficulty and/or obstruction, thus contributing to a more fulfilling life. This refers to people of all ages and to all kinds of functional limitations, either permanent …

Background. To date, studies that have investigated the bonds between students and their institution have emphasized the importance of student–staff relationships. Measuring the quality of those relationships (i.e., relationship quality) appears to help with investigating the relational ties students …

The majority of Dutch peatlands are drained and used intensively as grasslands for dairy farming. This delivers high productivity but causes severe damage to the provisioning of ecosystem services. Peatland rewetting is the best way to reverse the damage, but high water levels do not fit with intensive …

Many new logistics initiatives arise based on the principles of resource sharing through crowdsourcing. Sharing unused and/or underused resources can deliver new efficiencies in the logistics value chain in an industry where efficiency is the name of the game. The benefits of applying sharing economy …

Ik heb een gastles gegeven aan gymnasiumleerlingen in het kader van de 'Week van de Wetenschap', waarbij ik heb verteld over mijn werk als onderzoeker in het onderwijs.

This paper analyses the ways in which informal mediation channels facilitate service delivery in the Citizen Service Bureaus at the Municipal Corporation of Delhi and give rise to an interplay between formal and informal institutions. In particular, the personal backgrounds of brokers as informal mediators …

Kubernetes adoption has grown drastically since its release in 2014. Today, Kubernetes has become the de-facto standard to deploy and orchestrate containerized applications. Avisi Managed Environments (AME) is a cloud-agnostic platform that provides fully managed Kubernetes clusters that host mission-critical …

Traditionally moving raw data from source to destination has been a tedious process of planning infrastructure predicting scalability, availability, and costs. The solution demonstrated in this thesis is a serverless ETL pipeline that manages semi-structured data and transforms it into a query-compatible …