Background: To date, women are most often diagnosed with bacterial vaginosis (BV) using microscopy based Nugent scoring or Amsel criteria. However, the accuracy is less than optimal. The aim of the present study was to confirm the identity of known BV-associated composition profiles and evaluate indicators …

Deze rapportage bevat een analyse van het maatschappelijk debat over de terreinen onderwijs, cultuur, wetenschap en media. De analyses zijn in de periode 2010-2015 gemaakt. De analyses van het maatschappelijk debat zijn bedoeld om het beleid beter te doen aansluiten bij de maatschappelijke vraag. De …

A welcome policy can be embedded in a municipal authority organisation in a number of different ways. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses. To be effective, the local policy makers must be clear on how they hope to make use of the welcome policy and how this will benefit or suffer from different …

This paper discusses a recent (and ongoing) Dutch television series called Penoza (Kro, 2010-). It portrays the Dutch criminal milieu from the perspective of the daughter of an Amsterdam mobster who shortly into the first season will be the widow of another criminal. Against her wishes she is drawn into …

Lecture on reading images (using semitiocs and discourse theory) and the theorization of 'affect' (what is it that images 'do' to us).

'The best place to hide a dead body is page 2 of Google search results.' For some time now the image above has been circulating online. The joke accurately introduces the core question of this essay. What is the effect of the list as the most used structure of presenting online information on the way …

Onderzoek in opdracht projectgroep Leef en Leer! (bestaand uit ObA, gemeente Amsterdam, E-TV en AT5) om onderzoek te doen naar de kwaliteit van netwerkvorming en netwerkintelligentie en de manier waarop die netwerkvorming ondersteund kan worden met een goed hanteerbare communicatiestructuur. Leef en …

Presentatie HG, gehouden in het kader van BNR - Joke van der Ven, op 21-05-2015.Donderdag 21 mei 2015 heeft Joke van der Ven, directeur van Briefopbestelling, deel genomen aan het ondernemerspanel van BNR Nieuwsradio, onder leiding van Paul van Liempt. Er werd onder ander gesproken over de Hanzehogeschool …

This paper will query whether a dedicated news platform can attune to young people’s civic needs? That is to ask: can this be a space that follows a social media logic of conversation and ‘give and take’ – with producers and consumers changing roles or even losing the distinction? How could and would …

In media audience research we tend to assume that media are engaged with when they are used, however ‘light’ such engagement might be. Once ‘passive media use’ was banned as a reference to media use, being a media audience member became synonymous with being a meaning producer. In audience research however …