Traditional toy industries have been influenced by the emergence of tech gadgets such as iPad and Virtual Reality Glasses. Based on a report on The Telegraph (2010), tech gadgets have replaced traditional dolls and cars as children’s favorite presents. Huawei, one of the China’s leading toy companies, …

In literature on public support for military missions, political discord has been criticised, because it is claimed that having a single strategic narrative as a basis for consensus helps foster such support. In this chapter the author starts from the perspective of the primacy of politics. The chapter …

Background A variety of options and techniques for causing implicit and explicit motor learning have been described in the literature. The aim of the current paper was to provide clearer guidance for practitioners on how to apply motor learning in practice by exploring experts’ opinions and experiences, …

The goal of this thesis is to see if education and experience, or a combination of both, influence the acceptance of eating crickets. This information could be used to start selling cricket containing products in Amsterdam. Eighty participants from Amsterdam collected at three different food events are …

This report presents a detailed analysis of the German market concerning bakeries as well as a detailed recommendation to Bakker Bart on whether they should enter the German market. This research evolved from five years of experience as a floor manager at the store Bakker Bart in Gouda. As a European …

The purpose of this dissertation is to determine and evaluate the economic consequences of a hypothetical independence for Catalonia. The desk research was conducted among all the chapters of the dissertation in order to give background of the topic, as well as, to determine these economic consequences. …

The aim of this longitudinal qualitative interview study (3 waves of interviews) was to examine the nature of older workers’ late career decision-making processes, including the main drivers and obstacles for prolonging working life or retiring. Late career decision-making is regarded as a process of …

Urban Expression seeks to plant exciting, grass-roots, transformative ways of being church in inner city neighbourhoods. In doing this they work from a set of values, one of which describes faith as a journey. This essay looks at how this value is worked out in three English Urban Expression churches, …

One of the objectives of Circles4EU was the collection of best practices in COSA implementation. This report on best practices is one of the deliverables in workstream 3 of the project Circles4EU. In this project, COSA pilots were started in Latvia, Spain and Bulgaria, while project partners in the UK, …

While the socio-cultural concept of gender inequality in the workplace has been an issue since time immemorial, it has received more and more attention in recent years. Gender inequality is considered to be an essentially contested concept in which biological and cultural differences form the underlying …