In the first half of the 20th century, the individual life course was largely determined by ‘standard biographies’ (Du Bois-Reymond, 1998; Meijers & Wesselingh, 1999) whereby identity – the story individuals tell themselves and share with others about the meaning of their lives (Meijers & Lengelle, …

Writing like Tzara is fun but we’ve left the 20th century and there is no way back. Warfare and boredom have merged on the timeline of our digital daily life. Sharing ain’t no caring. The more riots and killings, the more likes. Twitter tells us it’s yet another horrified Isis video turned viral, watched …

The economic recession has hit especially hard the residential building sector in the EU region, e.g., the number of the housing completions has decreased -49% and the total residential output has been squeezed down by -24% between 2007 and 2014 (Euroconstruct, 2015). In turn, the aim of our paper is …

Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron’s The Californian Ideology, originally published in 1995 by Mute magazine and the nettime mailinglist, is the iconic text of the first wave of Net criticism. The internet might have fundamentally changed in the last two decades, but their demolition of the neoliberal …

When considering a composite strip or plate under certain thermal and environmental conditions and loadings, there is a minimum strain threshold for the appearance of the first micro crack. The associated strain level is defined here as “critical strain”. There are various active displacement methods …

Abstract Teaching project management is becoming a standard part of curricula in higher education. Assessing the added value of the teaching efforts needs pre- and post assessments. Given the wide variety of skills and knowledge project management embraces a proper assessment of project management …

This study aims to build a new framework - learning experience - to classify individual differences from students. It is not based on theories about learning styles or cognitive styles but on user experience models from human computer interaction and already applied in serious gaming. Some of these theories …

Changes in perceived stress and and recovery relate to changes in submaximal performance in team sport players. Introduction In team sport, it is known that players perceive more stress and less recovery during the competition phase compared to pre-season (di Fronso et al., 2013). It is assumed that …

This thesis provides an analysis of the drivers and manifestations of xenophobia in European societies. Massive migration flows have taken place in European countries during the second half of the 20th century, which have caused a swift rise of multicultural societies. This rapid societal change has …