Military involvement in foreign policy decision-making, and its role as a driving force in that process, has long been anathema to both academic and practitioner circles. Without wanting to pursue the quest for principles or ultimate predictions this study looks specifically into the role of the military …

"De cafés waren dicht, het kantoor was verboden terrein en huisgenoten heeft redacteur Emmeke Bos ook al niet. Of je moet de zilvervisjes meetellen. Gelukkig kreeg ze midden in deze pandemische tijden gezelschap van een knuffelrobot. Maar helpt zo’n zoemende zeehond?" In deze publicatie wordt onderzoeker …

During my graduation, I worked with Family Quest to further their mission of getting parents and children to play together in this digital age. Family Quest is always looking for a way to improve their framework with interactive stories supplemented with real-world missions. For this graduation, they …

Interview Jan Veuger in Quest

Background Meaning in life (MiL) is considered to be an important part of health and is associated with many positive outcomes in older adults, such as quality of life and longevity. As health promotors, nurses may take patients’ MiL into account in the care process. There is a knowledge gap in terms …

Globalization was supposed to connect people, but instead ended up connecting the powerful. Local news is rapidly disappearing and leaving crucial stories unreported, communities unrepresented and disconnected, a side-effect of digitalization and the ownership concentration in media markets. But local …

The theme of multi-voicedness in the search on the path of life is explored. It will be argued that we, as human beings, not only live within an ambiguous world, but also have to deal with an ambiguous self. In the quest for happiness it is the challenge to acknowledge all inner positions, each with …

Het doel van dit onderzoek is het ontwikkelen van een model op basis van technieken uit het veld Educational Data Mining (EDM) die door individuen zowel bekend als onbekend met het veld (EDM) in gebruik genomen kan worden om studiesucces (al dan niet doorstromen naar het tweede leerjaar) mee te kunnen …

To aid HR practitioners in their design of firm specific HRM configurations, andcontribute to the state of the art HRM knowledge, we created a simulation model. In this paper we present the simulation model, and the serious game in which it was implemented, but focus on the practical and academical implication …

ADHD en reïficatie Dit proefschrift begint met een quote van de 11-jarige Sylvia, die denkt: “ADHD is net als kanker (…) maar je gaat er niet dood aan”. ADHD is zeker geen ziekte als kanker, maar een concept uit de Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), waarvan momenteel de 5e editie uit is. De DSM-5 …