MANIFESTO If you have legs so white as milk, or only have one leg… If you get red cheeks during the most inconvenient times… If you listen to punk during your daily yoga exercises… If you sound like a horse when someone makes you laugh… If you wear multiple layers of clothing, even in summer… If you …

Studying images on social media introduces several challenges that relate to the size of datasets and the different meaning-making grammars of social visuality; or as aptly pointed out by others in the field, it means ‘studying the qualitative on a quantitative scale’. Although cultural analytics provides …

The World Health Organization (WHO) strives to assist and inspire cities to become more “age-friendly”, and the fundamentals are included in the Global Age-Friendly Cities Guide. An age-friendly city enables residents to grow older actively within their families, neighbourhoods and civil society, and …

Machine learning algorithms can help to find patterns (coherence) in the "ingredients" (data). As long as the conditions aren 't changed, taking these patterns as it 's starting point, it can extrapolate the ingredients to the (near) future, showing some future developmental possibilities (again, as …

Sometimes people return stronger from a battle, while also the opposite is sometimes true (a battle, restriction or limitation is disastrous. Isolation and restricted attention can sometimes lead to motivation and inventiveness, while comfort and continuous access can lead to passivity and stagnation. …

De transitie van thuis naar een verpleeghuis is een keerpunt in de levensloop van ouderen die diep kan ingrijpen in de levens van deze ouderen. De onzekerheid van een komende verhuizing kan veel stress veroorzaken en kwetsbaar maken. Uit onderzoek is gebleken dat deze onzekerheid verbonden is met een …

Over the years, one disease that is increasingly common in society is the disease “depression”. This disease is often described by people as “it’s in your head and it doesn’t exist”. Previous studies have shown that more than 25 % of seafarers are dealing with symptoms of depression. These symptoms have …

In machine learning, people stay responsible for defining both the available data, and the desired outcomes. The growth of knowledge and insights remains both critical and constantly dependent on developments, and therefore on professionals. Although the quality of our work can increase through the use …

The earthquakes after the natural gas extraction in the Groningen region of the Netherlands have a significant impact on the housing market and sustainability of the communities. Since the strongest earthquake around the community of Huizinge in August 2012, with a magnitude of 3.6 on the Richter scale, …

There are a lot of problems associated with clayey soil. More geotechnical pathologies appeared as more developed project brighten up. The geotechnical engineers encounter problems with modelling the stiff clayey soil behaviour especially while using the classical methods for obtaining the input parameters …