Urgent publishing pertains both to timeliness and relevance. What strategies are available to publishers in the cultural and research domains to conceive, produce, and position their contents in an urgent way? Revolving around the key notions of relations, trust, and remediation, Here and Now? Explorations …

Corona en de intelligente lock down heeft grote invloed op het beweeggedrag van mensen en de daarmee samenhangende consequenties voor de fysieke en mentale gezondheid, het immuunsysteem etc. Fitbit beschrijft in een blog op haar website de wereldwijde afname van lichamelijke activiteit afgemeten aan …

Since 1990, natural hazards have led to over 1.6 million fatalities globally, and economic losses are estimated at an average of around USD 260–310 billion per year. The scientific and policy communities recognise the need to reduce these risks. As a result, the last decade has seen a rapid development …

Our planet’s ecology and society are on a collision course, which manifests due to a contradiction in the assumptions of unlimited material growth fueling the linear economic paradigm. Our closed planetary ecosystem imposes confined amounts of space and a finite extent of resources upon its inhabitants. …

Are you looking for some tips to stay focused on your studies, now that education has gone online? Have a read through the tips below from the Study Success research group. These tips have been compiled on the basis of scientific insight from cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and educational science, …

I remember the last conversations my former colleague José and I had one year ago. At that time, we were working in a small art gallery owned and controlled by a private company. We were placed in different positions, but both of us felt trapped and enslaved by the system. José went to India many times …

In this post I give an overview of the theory, tools, frameworks and best practices I have found until now around the testing (and debugging) of machine learning applications. I will start by giving an overview of the specificities of testing machine learning applications.

Human memories are not precise, fixed and independent of context and current influences, or even expectations from the future. To a greater or lesser extent, memories change every time we regenerate them and form the basis from which we act in the here and now and from which we face the future. Unlike …

Nederlandse versie: Hoe staat het ervoor met de pioniersplekken die vanuit de Protestantse Kerk gestart zijn? Dit rapport geeft u een indruk. In deze tussenstand staan niet de cijfers centraal, maar zoomen we in op wat pionieren betekent in de concrete levens van mensen. We hebben onderzoek gedaan naar …

To support the implementation of the Ecosystem Based approach to Management (EBM), ICES strives to provide evidence-based scientific advice and relevant management options that also assess potential trade-offs among sectors or between environmental status and human uses. To help achieve this, the Workshop …