The rise of smart technologies has created new opportunities to support blind and visually impaired persons (VIPs). One of the biggest problems we identified in our previous research on problems VIPs face during activities of daily life concerned the recognition of persons and their facial expressions. …

Since 2011, over 500 Belgian nationals have become radicalised and left Belgium for a Jihadist conflict zone. The Brussel bombings, on the 22nd of March 2016 were carried out by two Belgian nationals who were also returning Jihadists. This dissertation explores whether Belgium can improve its current …

Dit artikel beschrijft een onderzoek waarbij gekeken is naar mogelijkheden die Business Rules Management-concepten bieden bij het aanbieden van bedrijfsprocessen as a service via een cloud-dienst. BRM helpt bedrijven door het gestructureerd vastleggen van organisatorische keuzes en regels waaraan organisaties …

People tend to use the same door every time they enter and exit a building. When certainentrances are widely preferred over others, congestion can occur. This paper describes twointerventions to persuade visitors to use another entrance. The first intervention used sensory deprivation (darkness), and …

People have the habit to use the same door every time they enter and exit a building. When a certain entrance is widely preferred over the other, congestion can occur. This poster describes two experiments to persuade visitors to use another entrance by applying different persuasive techniques.   This …

In the last decade, directed from the European Union, entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education became a main topic on both, political and strategic managerial agenda’s. Despite the enormous effort and money invested, the failure rate of starting entrepreneurs seems to be stable. Next to an increase …

Door het bevriezen van spaartegoeden is Cyprus tijdelijk uit de eurozone getreden. Het zou beter zijn voor het land als dat definief wordt.

Letting go of the firm or “my baby” as some entrepreneurs describe their creation, leads to a certain amount of stress (Rahim 1996, Kets de Vries 1999). Dealing with stress in singular events as the transfer of a business, is hardly been subject of research (Uy et al. 2012). Improving coping strategies …

This research focuses on exit choices within SMEs. In this study, “exit choice” refers to the decision to opt for either liquidation or sale of the firm. The predictions focus on human-capital and firm-resource variables. The hypotheses are tested on a set of 158 owners of small firms, the majority of …

De NHL is een van de vier Hogescholen die in 2012 een convenant getekend hebben genaamd “Doorst(r)oming in de keten”, ter bevordering van succesvolle doorstroom van studenten tussen MBO en HBO instellingen. Volgens de Werkgroep Onderwijs & Kwaliteit NHL blijken na het houden van exit gesprekken (januari …