This special edition on coexisting with reptiles (guest edited by Dr Simon Pooley) highlights our deep cultural connection with biodiversity, including the scaly, slithering kind. Moving away from Eurocentric narratives of coexistence, the articles in this issue acknowledge the tolerance of local people …

Fouling plays a major role in the Dairy industry. Five criteria: defined flow, no circulation, real factory product, defined product temperature and defined wall temperature, are used to review articles on this topic published between 2003 and 2020. To show the effect of those criteria in experiments, …

South Boom Boom is an attempt to survive in apnea, a continuous labor, a possibility to re-imagine the world, a way to escape captivity, to draw fugitive lines, to resist, to fight and fly, to conceive resistances, to migrate, to reinvent a catastrophe, to deform the shapes of oppression across time. This …

Wie in een zoekmachine op internet de woorden ‘politie’, ‘kat’ en ‘muis’ ingeeft, vindt moeiteloos talloze ‘hits’ waarin gewag wordt gemaakt van een strijd tussen de politie en verdachten van misdrijven. Het gebruik van de metafoor van het ‘kat en-muisspel’ roept verschillende associaties op: die van …

Actieleren is een manier van samen leren en werken aan een gezamenlijke verandering. De auteurs laten zien hoe actieleren benut kan worden bij vraagstukken waar meerdere vakmensen en disciplines bij betrokken zijn. Aan de hand van zeven zeer uiteenlopende praktijkvoorbeelden laten zij zien hoe klanten, …

The Procurement and Supply of hospital isolation gowns (IGs) pose significant challenges, including the potential for sudden increases in demand, the necessity of maintaining high-quality gowns, and the complexity of the supply process. One potential solution to these challenges is the investment in …

Background Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) teachers at urban preschools are potential key figures to promote healthy behaviours in disadvantaged young children and to engage parents in lifestyle-related topics. An ECEC teacher-parent partnership regarding healthy behaviours may support parents …

What do human rights look like when we present them as action-based, bottom-up concepts, and not exclusively as legal items? After all, when we narrow down human rights to a legal concept only, we do not do justice to its meaning. In many professions and branches the idea of human rights is used in …