De wereld staat voor een uitdaging: de opwarming van de aarde door broeikasgassen. De bouwsector draagt aanzienlijk bij aan CO2-uitstoot en moet dringend worden aangepakt om toekomstige beperkingen te voorkomen. Momenteel is het een uitdaging om duurzamere en kostenefficiënte afwegingen te maken in het …

Bedrijventerreinen verduurzamen maar mondjesmaat. Schiphol Trade Park en het Utrechtse Strijkviertel nemen het voortouw. ‘Als het ons niet lukt, lukt het nergens.’

The Dutch food and agricultural market has been focusing on producing efficiently and effectively with the aim of cost minimization and profit maximizing. In addition to positive developments (higher efficiency and more effective production), this market system has created negative impact for nature, …

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Background Assessment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms in individuals with dementia is difficult due to diagnostic challenges like an incomplete self-report, interference of neuropsychiatric symptoms and overlapping comorbid psychiatric symptoms. Objective These diagnostic challenges …

Basic human rights, like freedom of expression, freedom of the press, and privacy, are being radically transformed by new technologies. The manifestation of these rights in online spaces is known as “digital rights,” which can be impeded or empowered through the design, governance, and litigation of …

The search for existing non-animal alternative methods for use in experiments is currently challenging because of the lack of both comprehensive structured databases and balanced keyword-based search strategies to mine unstructured textual databases. In this paper we describe 3Ranker, which is a fast, …

De afgelopen jaren is klimaatverandering steeds meer centraal gaan staan en de bouwsector wordt gezien als een van de meest vervuilende industrieën. Om klimaatverandering tegen te gaan, zijn er verschillende doelstellingen opgesteld waaronder het doel om Europa in 2050 CO2-neutraal te maken. Deze verandering …

Origin verification of timber is essential to expose origin fraud and reduce illegal timber trade. A promising forensic method for origin verification is based on stable isotope ratios in wood, but large-scale studies that test local and regional variation to apply the method at a sub-country scale are …

During an interview at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service one student questioned Prime Minister Rutte about an official apology for slavery. The Dutch Prime Minister assured that each island-nation to whom the Kingdom apologized “has full power to decide to leave the Kingdom. They are …