The company this export/marketing plan focuses on is the Dutch company Dopper. This social enterprise is founded in 2010 and engages in reusable water bottles. The main objective Dopper has is reducing single use plastic waste. In the Netherlands the company is well positioned in the market. Dopper has …

Coupling beams between shear walls are one of the key elements for energy dissipation in tall buildings. A representative mathematical model of coupling beam should represent flexure, shear and interface slip/extension mechanisms simultaneously. This goal can be achieved by using either detailed finite …

Publicatie verschenen bij lectorale rede van Margie Topp over de onderzoeksthema’s van het lectoraat Kunststoftechnologie: ontwerpgereedschappen voor snelle innovaties (duurzaam produceren), de effecten van gebruik en recycling op de materialen (recycling), het dissemineren van kennis en coengineering …

Deze scriptie gaat over de motivatie van jongeren om zich aan de vernieuwde Drank- en Horecawet te houden. De probleemstelling is daarbij: Wat kan de gemeente Leiderdorp in samenwerking met de verenigingen en horeca doen om jongeren zich aan de vernieuwde Drank- en Horecawet te laten houden? Het onderzoek …

With a market demand for low cost, easy to produce, flexible and portable applications in healthcare, energy, biomedical or electronics markets, large research programs are initiated to develop new technologies to provide this demand with new innovative ideas. One of these fast developing technologies …

Een mallet finger is een zeer veel voorkomend letsel. Tot op heden is de Stack spalk de meest gangbare manier om dit conservatief te behandelen. Deze spalk betreft echter een lomp stuk plastic dat ervoor zorgt dat de vinger niet goed meer te gebruiken is. In dit onderzoek is er gezocht naar een alternatief …

Marine litter is cited by UNEP as “Any persistent, manufactured or processed solid material discarded, disposed of, or abandoned in the marine and coastal environment”, and includes metal, glass, paper, cardboard, processed wood, cloth and plastic. This report focuses mainly on the plastic fraction of …

This bachelor thesis reports on a study conducted at the research institute IMARES in the Netherlands. It focused on plastics ingested by northern fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) around the North Sea region as a contribution to a better understanding of the fulmar in its role as an indicator for marine …

BACKGROUND: The face is a very frequent site of burn injuries. This multicenter, randomized, controlled trial thus investigates the effectiveness of cerium nitrate-silver sulfadiazine in the treatment of facial burns compared with silver sulfadiazine. METHODS: Adult patients with acute facial burns admitted …