Social robots have been introduced in different fields such as retail, health care and education. Primary education in the Netherlands (and elsewhere) recently faced new challenges because of the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdowns and quarantines including students falling behind and teachers burdened with …

Animal burrows create discontinuities on the body of earthen levees that under certain circumstances can threaten their structural integrity through hydraulic alteration and surface erosion. Although it is a virtually established fact that discontinuities can undermine the structural integrity of levees, …

Background: Honorary authorship refers to the practice of naming an individual who has made little or no contribution to a publication as an author. Honorary authorship inflates the output estimates of honorary authors and deflates the value of the work by authors who truly merit authorship. This manuscript …

This dissertation presents research on customers’ perceptions of cleanliness in service environments. The research contributes to the gap in the literature on cleanliness examined from a customer perspective, and adds to the understanding of environmental cues that influence perceived cleanliness. Part …

The current Covid-19 pandemic has underlined the importance of urban public spaces in achieving health and social well-being (Dobson, 2021; Poortinga et al., 2021), prompting policymakers and urban planners to rethink their approach to the design of these spaces. They now propagate adapting urban public …

This thesis presents an exploration of ‘how entrepreneurship education pedagogy can enhance undergraduate business students’ autonomous motivation for self-directed learning’. It has twin, equally valuable, purposes: to make an original theoretical contribution and to improve professional practice in …

What Moves People: Sustainable Travel to Events at Arena Poort Today over 50% of the event goers who are going to a venue at the Poort are travelling by car. Unfortunately this has a big downside for the environment. This interactive experience map presents opportunities in which event goers can be stimulated …

What Moves People: Sustainable Travel to Events at Arena Poort Today over 50% of the event goers who are going to a venue at the Poort are travelling by car. Unfortunately this has a big downside for the environment. This interactive experience map presents opportunities in which event goers can be stimulated …

What Moves People: Sustainable Travel to Events at Arena Poort Today over 50% of the event goers who are going to a venue at the Poort are travelling by car. Unfortunately this has a big downside for the environment. This interactive experience map presents opportunities in which event goers can be stimulated …

In recent decades, the level of scale in urban regions has become increasingly important for economic development. The characteristics of the specific economy in an area must be identified first in order to develop policy for regional economic growth. All kinds of measuring instruments have been developed …