Participation in everyday occupations influences people's health and well-being. To enable individuals to do the activities they want and need to do is the main concern of occupational therapy practice. Many daily occupations are universal, but they also depend on culture. The development of the Activity …

This report examines the structural and decision-making processes of the United Nation's Security Council (hereafter referred to as UNSC) and their effects on peace-keeping and peace enforcement. The flaws of the Security Council are unraveled through analysis and description of some of the major conflicts …

The first part of this paper will start with an introduction of the general context of the education system in The Netherlands. This is followed by a presentation of the general characteristics of the teacher education system, of the balance between school autonomy and government control, and of the …

This paper essentially presents an exploration of the relationship between organizational culture and information systems management. Three contributions are offered namely the findings of a study of the organizational culture and information management competencies of five organizations in the Netherlands, …

The objective is to describe the German horse feed market and its developments and to investigate what the change in legislation means to production, packaging and marketing processes for feed manufacturers and therefore what manufacturer’s problems with the new legislation are. Furthermore it has to …

The Internet is changing the way we organize work. It is shifting the requirements for what we call the “schedule push” and the hierarchical organization that it implies, and therefore it is removing the type of control that is conventionally used to match resources to tasks, and customer demand to supplies …

The web is widely used by museums as a low-barrier platform to inform people on activities in the museum and publish their collections online. It is not uncommon that this publishing consists of an simple web interface connected to a database that holds records with limited information about the artifacts; …

The space applications industry is a huge developing market that is now playing an important role at the political, social and economic scenes of every country. More and more attention is drawn to the space technologies and its application possibilities. This is the reason why a lot of exhibitions and …

The objective of this paper is a reflective discussion on the validity of the construct Information Literacy in the perspective of changing information and communication technologies. The research question that will be answered is: what is the impact of technological developments on the relevance of …

This book, ‘Outreach work and imminent eviction: RAAK research’, is a report of the results obtained from the examination of these innovations. The first chapter contains a description of the pilot projects, which brought together care workers from the Blankenberg Foundation and Dynamo for early intervention …