This chapter paints a picture of the city of Groningen in the last decades of the twentieth century focussing on health care, education, culture and amusement.

It is widely accepted that the application of new information technologies has a significant impact on today's warfare and crisis management and that this impact will only grow in the near future. This article examines several advantages and disadvantages of these technological developments with regard …

The emphasis that is presently put on clean and integrated technologies, does not imply that the conventional environmental technologies, developed for end-of-pipe treatment, will become obsolete. Development of new processes, other production methods and complete different ways to satisfy human needs …

How did family and kin take care of their elderly in the communities of Limbricht (South of the Netherlands with extensive household structures) and Scheemda (North of the Netherlands with more nuclear families) in the decades between both world wars.

The last decades, the number of dairy cows per farm has increased and the time spent on individual cows by the farmer has been reduced. To help the farmer detect changes in activity of cows associated with health issues, activity monitoring systems are being developed. The systems can help with daily …