Safety culture has been a topic of discussion in safety literature in the past three decades. Since its first mentioning after the Chernobyl accident much have been written about what fosters a positive safety culture within organizations. The Aviation Academy of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences …

The thesis at hand was written for the client “Intercruises Shoreside and Port Services”, more specifically their office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Intercruises is a tour operator specialized in services for the ocean and river cruise industry. The company already established offices over the whole …

Complex interventions are criticized for being a “black box”, which makes it difficult to determine why they succeed or fail. Recently, nine proactive primary-care programs aiming to prevent functional decline in older adults showed inconclusive effects. The aim of this study was to systematically unravel, …

Introduction: Patient education is a relatively new science within the field of health care. In the past it consisted mainly of the transfer of knowledge and mostly biomedically based advice. Research has shown this to not be effective and sometimes counterproductive. As health care has moved away from …

The main objective of this report is to document research conducted at The Hague University of Applied Sciences on how Brazilian deforestation policies have contributed to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal # 13. This report is written due to the numerous discussions regarding the scientific …

Across Western Europe, the emphasis has shifted from physical manufacturing to the development of ideas, new products and creative processes. This has become known as the knowledge economy. While much has been written about this concept, so far there has been little focus on the role of the city. Bringing …

After the unconditional surrender of the Third Reich in May 1945, Germany no longer existed as a sovereign, independent nation. It was occupied by the four Allied powers: France, Great Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union. When it came to the postwar European recovery, the biggest obstacle …

Prefaces are always written in the end, perhaps because only in the end one knows how to start, or should have started. These a-chronic and a-synchronic starting words are meant to charm the reader into an investigating journey that has already ended; it is an act of seduction where promises are made …

Data on which the manuscript was accepted: Reference: Snijders, I., Rikers, R. M. M., Wijnia, L., and Loyens, S. M. M., “Relationship Quality Time: The validation of a relationship quality scale in higher education”. Manuscript submitted for publication on 5 November 2016 at the journal of Higher Education …

This strategic marketing report is written for the 20Duurzaam20 foundation and bouAd Adviesgroep. The 20Duurzaam20 foundation is an initiative founded by entrepreneurs situated in the community of Katwijk. The foundation strives to accomplish the reduction of energy use by twenty percent or to replace …