De 48e editie van de Onderwijs Research Dagen (ORD) werd onder toezicht van de Vereniging voor Onderwijs Research (VOR) afgelopen jaar op 13, 14 en 15 juni in Nijmegen georganiseerd door de Radboud Universiteit, het Radboud UMC en de Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen. Gedurende drie dagen kwamen onderzoekers, …

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The goal of this study is to identify the perspectives that development NGOs attribute to organisational social media, and furthermore elaborate on an appropriate categorisation of these perspectives for social media use by development NGOs. How social media is used in the area of development, where …

Rationale: Metastatic pancreatic cancer has a dismal prognosis. Many patients seek integrative care as an add-on to their conventional cancer treatment. Viscum album extracts (VAE)—widely used as an adjunct to cancer treatment—have cytotoxic, apoptogenic, and immune stimulatory properties. A statistically …

Although usually very predictable, the outcome of (inter) action on both the individual and the group level is in principle not predictable (undetermined, or chaotic). Mathematically, this is called nonlinear dynamics, or non-deterministic systems, or chaos. There are so many forces involved in the "system" …

In 1875 explorer Henry Morton Stanley (UK 1841-1904) produced a photograph of Kabaka (King) Muteesa of Buganda (UG, 1838-1884) and his chiefs. Muteesa’s land was positioned on the northern shore of a body of water that we now call Lake Victo-ria, in a country that would later be named after his kingdom. …

De zomer van 2018 gaat de geschiedenis in als ‘de droogste zomer’ en dit zal vaker voorkomen. (Inter-)nationale overheden, kennisinstituten en adviesbureaus vragen zich af of de klimaatadaptieve regenwatervoorzieningen die de laatste decennia op veel plaatsen zijn aangelegd, de intensievere buien na …

The changing climate has an effect on the quality of life in our cities: heavier rainfall (resulting in floodings), longer periods of drought, reduced air and water quality and increasing temperatures in cities (heat stress). Awareness about these changes among various stakeholders is of great importance. …

In this chapter, we propose that the democracy we wish to see out in the world is influenced by the quality of our own “inner democracies”—that is: the quality of the democracies among and between the selves or voices in the landscape of the self. We must find ways out of the I-prisons we experience …

Zeldzaam mooi is het als je op safari The Big Five ontdekt. Deze zomer kun je die unieke ervaring opdoen, en verrassend genoeg: in Friesland! Op de slotdag van de TAFISA European Sports for All Games organiseert Kenniscentrum Sport samen met partners in ‘mienskip’ dit unieke wandelende (inter)nationale …