This thesis has increased our knowledge of the needs of homeless people using shelter facilities in the Netherlands and of the needs and wishes of people living in persistent poverty. It provides guidance for policy and further professionalization and quality improvements to the services and support …

Het lectoraat Schulden en Incasso doet samen met de praktijk onderzoek om uitvoering en beleid te versterken en schuldenproblematiek te verminderen. Zowel de samenwerking tussen onder meer schuldhulp en bewind als de kwaliteit van en toezicht op bewindvoering vormen daarbij belangrijke thema’s. In dit …

Growing research in sign language recognition, generation, and translation AI has been accompanied by calls for ethical development of such technologies. While these works are crucial to helping individual researchers do better, there is a notable lack of discussion of systemic biases or analysis of …

The first Stakeholder Network Meeting of the EU Horizon 2020-funded ONTOX project was held on 13-14 March 2023, in Brussels, Belgium. The discussion centred around identifying specific challenges, barriers and drivers in relation to the implementation of non-animal new approach methodologies (NAMs) and …

Future work processes are going to change in several aspects. The working population (at least in Western European countries) is decreasing, while average age of employees increases. Their productivity is key to continuity in sectors like healthcare and manufacturing. Health and safety monitoring, combined …

Since late 2020, all district courts and courts of appeal in the Netherlands have internal forensic support in the form of “forensic advisers.” This position was created in 2012 and resulted from the efforts made to expand knowledge of the forensic sciences within the inquisitorial Dutch criminal justice …

Optimization of aviation maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) operations has been of high interest in recent years for both the knowledge institutions and the industrial community as a total of approximately $70 billion has been spent on MRO activities in 2018 which represents around 10% of an airline’s …

BACKGROUND: Although enhancing physical activity (PA) is important to improve physical and/or cognitive recovery, little is known about PA of patients admitted to an inpatient rehabilitation setting. Therefore, this study assessed the quantity, nature and context of inpatients PA admitted to a rehabilitation …

This diagram shows the position that an Urban Sawmill could have in the value chain of wood coming from demolition and how it could expand the lifespan of wood products by reusing or upcycling before the wood ends up at the waste collection.

NORTHERN MARITIME SECTOR BECOMES FRONTRUNNER AS GREEN MARITIME COALITION ADOPTS ‘GREEN’ SHIPS.The maritime sector in the Northern Netherlands presented the promising results of the Green Maritime Coalition’s ‘Green and Digital Maritime Innovation Ecosystem Northern Netherlands’ (GDMIEN-NL) project at …