The application of DC grids is gaining more attention in office applications. Especially since powering an office desk would not require a high power connection to the main AC grid but could be made sustainable using solar power and battery storage. This would result in fewer converters and further advanced …

De “sun simulator” project, of zonnelicht simulator is een project waar een apparaat werd gemaakt om zonnepanelen te testen. De zonnepanelen die getest moeten worden zijn speciale hele efficiënte zonnepanelen. Deze zonnepanelen zijn gemaakt uit 3 lagen. Elke laag is gevoelig voor andere spectrum van …

The goal of this thesis is achieving saturation intensity of 76.5 mW/cm2for 2S1/2F=1 - 2P1/2F = 2 transition in singly-ionized beryllium ions (Be+). By enlarging the optical power of a laser diode at 626.266 nm via a bow-tie cavity and converting to 313.133 nm using Second Harmonic Generation in a nonlinear …

De therapeuten en behandelaren van revalidatiecentrum Reade in Amsterdam begeleiden verschillende patiëntengroepen tijdens hun revalidatietraject. Daarbij wordt er gebruik gemaakt van de tien meter looptest om de kwaliteit van gaan in kaart te brengen. Dit wordt gedaan met behulp van de Interactive Walkway …

With a lack of a clear definition, though a normalized use, the discursive weight of the concept of integration is felt throughout policy and civic integration programmes. In wider societal discourse the term integration is used in a taken-for-granted way, with an assumed understanding of its meaning …

Citizens have responded to newcomers in the Netherlands with acts of solidarity and programmes to support integration, often in response to increasingly restrictive government policies. In a previously published study by the primary author, a critical discourse analysis was conducted of texts used in …

Het boek is uitgegeven in de VS maar wordt in verschillende landen verkocht. Hierin wordt onder andere een uitgebreidere versie van het Meta-Model of Interprofessional Development beschreven. Dit meta-model is een soort 'routekaart' die de verbinding legt tussen beroepspraktijk, onderwijs en onderzoek. …

In this chapter, seven intercultural teaching experiences are contextualised by using the Hofstede (2011) model on cultural dimensions. The experiences are from Australia, China, France, Germany, Russia, India and Thailand. They are analysed using Hofstede’s four cultural dimensions of Power Distance, …

Participation in sport can positively impact young lives by promoting social development and also physical and mental health and well-being. However, several challenges related to sport participation still exist, such as dropout, health risks related to overtraining, and misconceptions about what evidence-based …

This chapter studies the creation and maintenance of representations from different insiders’ perspectives. Outsider representations stand in sharp contrast to the erased story of Indigenous peoples themselves. The importance of place for Indigenous peoples comes to the fore in creation histories, in …