© 2014 Springer Science+Business Media New York Video is increasingly used as an instructional tool. It is therefore becoming more important to improve learning of students from video. We investigated whether student learning effects are influenced through an instruction about other viewing behaviours, …

Anaerobic digestion (AD) can play an important role in achieving the renewable energy goals set within the European Union. Within this article the focus is placed on reaching the Dutch local renewable production goal set for the year 2020 with locally available biomass waste flows, avoiding intensive …

The shallow subsurface in historic cities often contains extensive archaeological remains, also known as cultural deposits. Preservation conditions for naturally degradable archaeological remains are strongly dependent on the presence or absence of groundwater. One of the main goals at such heritage …

In the game of online visibility; cuddly animals, selfies, houseplants, bro-culture, health mantras, and Fiji water bottles are now strangely powerful tools. It is no coincidence that these images and sub-cultures are also commonly utilized in the rapidly growing category called ‘post-internet art’. …

Honors in Europe: getting to work.Utrecht Honours Conference 2016: Honours Futures, Utrecht, June 2-3. Set up: Presentation of brochure ‘Honors in Europe: getting to work’ by authors. Discussion on three topics, starting by an example. Goal: facilitating exchange of good practices and lessons learned …

Many of today’s challenges that confront society are complex and dynamic and require new perspectives, new ways of looking at problems and issues, in order to be able to come to solutions that could not be found before. This process is called reframing and we suggest that one of the key stages in this …

Climate change and urbanization will increase the frequency and magnitude of urban flooding and water quality problems in many regions of the world. In coastal and delta areas like The Netherlands and the Philippines, where urbanization is often high, there has been an increase in the adoption of sustainable …

This brochure is one of the results of the research project Honors in Europe at the Research Centre for Talent Development in Higher Education and Society at Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen in the Netherlands. It is based on the book Talent Development in European Higher Education – Honors …

Participatory data collection relies on the commitment of the participants to report data continuously, which makes providing incentives to people crucial. In this case study, we describe how we designed a web app by using different incentive mechanisms to collect participatory data for monitoring community …

The aim of this dissertation was to investigate the UN peacekeeping mission in Bosnia and the failures made, which led to the Srebrenica genocide. All limitations of the mandate and the lessons of Bosnia/Srebrenica were summed up and compared with subsequent peacekeeping missions in order to see whether …