Farmers often install automatic cow brushes to promote grooming behaviour, potentially reducing stress. Health problems in cattle are typically accompanied by a suit of sickness behaviours and a reduction of low resilience behaviours such as grooming. Thus, decreased automatic brush use could be a potential …

Treatment guidelines difer signifcantly, not only between Europe and North America but also among European coun tries [1–4]. Reasons for these diferences include antimi crobial resistance patterns, accessibility to and reimburse ment policies for medicines, and culturally and historically determined …

"Despite many efforts, people with a refugee background still have great difficulties to find a job on the Dutch labour market. This has adverse consequences for the economic independence of people with a refugee background, their social connections, personal development, health and general well-being, …

Presentation at University of Bologna on experimental/new techniques of seismic strengthening

This synopsis presents the preliminary results of a larger study that aims to uncover design principles for teaching computational thinking to primary school children. This research focuses on teaching computational thinking to 8-year-olds through Scratch Jr. By engaging in a cyclic process in which …

Obtaining a European advanced degree awards a measure of skill for bachelor graduates due to the Bologna Process standardization system, allowing open access to the European workforce. Yet since even with a degree the process of entering the marketplace requires a certain extent of employability to secure …

Change is endemic in modern society, and the educational systems that operate in it. In Higher Education societal trends such as globalization and economic rationalism are impacting on teachers. Changes in the student population, new educational methods derived from shifting perspectives on the role …

Het zijn boeiende tijden waarin we leven. De uitdagingen waar de maatschappij mee geconfronteerd wordt zijn van lokaal tot globaal niveau omvangrijk en vaak schier onoverzichtelijk. In het licht van klimaatverandering, grondstoffentekorten, (over)bevolking, voortbestaan van diersoorten en volksmigraties …

De doelstellingen die de Europese Unie zichzelf stelt op het gebied van studentenmobiliteit in het hoger onderwijs, veranderen het onderwijsmodel fundamenteel. Van aanbodgericht (het proces staat centraal) transformeert het naar klantgericht (de keuze van de student staat centraal). Deze omslag, die …

The European thematic network “Polifonia” was developed between 2004 and 2007 and was initiated and coordinated by the European Association of Conservatories (AEC). Within this project four working groups were engaged with the Tuning process (issues of transparency within the Bologna process), pre-college …