Recently, a new marketing trend has entered the market. This new software is called marketing automation. It consists of using different marketing tools put together and thereby aiming to collect and analyse all data from an input database. Marketing automation provides organizations the opportunity …

This research analyses the situation of the Russian minority in Lithuania. Lithuania is a post-soviet country and a neighbour of the Russian Federation that has been feeling threats due to Russia´s actions in Ukraine and its overall policies for its near abroad and compatriots. As a country with a Russian …

Background: Postprocedural complications after elective cardiac interventions include hematomas and infections. Telemedical wound assessment using mobile phones with integrated cameras may improve quality of care and help reduce costs. Aims: We aimed to study the feasibility of telemedical wound assessment …

This research was created as a contribution to the internationalization strategy of RAI Amsterdam. The company wants to bring more international conferences, and exhibitions to Amsterdam. One of the objectives of this strategy is to create an ‘international standard’, which complies with the basic services, …

In the face of increasing globalisation, with the biggest cities reaping the greatest rewards, knowledge economy specialist Willem van Winden examines the future for smaller university cities.

This essay claims that the declared war on drugs has failed, it has caused more harm than good, and that a new approach is necessary. The focus of analysis lays especially on the implemented drug policies of Mexico and the United States. The goal is to point out the flaws of the current policy based …

Verne beheert en ontwikkelt een online verzekeringsadministratieplatform. Zij stelt zich tot doel de volledige levenscyclus van verzekeringen zo veel mogelijk te automatiseren. Daarbij hebben ze te maken met verschillende klant-omgevingen van verzekeraars waarin producten aangevraagd en gewijzigd moeten …

Als er iets aan jongeren moet worden duidelijk gemaakt, dan is het wel dat kunnen omgaan met betrouw bare informatie cruciaal en onontkoombaar is. Informatievaardigheden behoren gedurende een totale schoolloopbaan te worden getraind, van basis- tot hoger onderwijs. Als dat bewustzijn er niet is dan zouden …

Privacy, copyright, classified documents and state secrets, but also spontaneous network phenomena like flash mobs and hashtag revolutions, reveal one thing – we lost control over the digital world. We experience a digital tailspin, or as Michael Seemann calls it in this essay: a loss of control or Kontrollverlust. …

In this paper we explore the extent to which privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) could be effective in providing privacy to citizens. Rapid development of ubiquitous computing and ‘the internet of things’ are leading to Big Data and the application of Predictive Analytics, effectively merging the real …