BACKGROUND AND AIMS Parents of preterm born infants experience challenges when transitioning home, including the struggle to feel confident in their capacity to parent. Attuned information provision is a prerequisite for self-efficacy and empowerment and has been linked to positive parenting outcomes. …

The coffee is the main cash crop grown in Rwanda, especially in the Gakenke district where the research has been conducted. Coffee is farmed mostly by smallholder farmers on plots of less than one hectare. Coffee production in Rwanda has grown in recent years, and prospects for a better income pushed …

We extend a standard for doing agile scrum teamwork in education that permits individual assessment within teams (IAFOR ECE2020). Since the teacher's bandwidth in education is limited and increasingly under pressure, we focus on course design options that can be used to leverage the bandwidth. One economizing …

This research was done on behalf of ecohero, ecohero is experiencing a problem with its current social media marketing strategy. The company does not present as well on social media as management would like, in addition, no to hardly any sales are made through the social media marketing activities. Ecohero …

The following research justification report shows how Secad can implement a Digital marketing plan to gain new customers, nurture the relationship with the existing customers, increase brand awareness and brand reputation. Building and nurturing brand awareness and brand reputation is vital for the …

The 2BeSure case: Be careful, innovation on the work floor represents a problem faced by innovation managers at insurance companies, which is initiating new ideas within the organisation and then implementing and embedding these in the current management organisation. Unfortunately, employees of the …

Background Preconception care (PCC) is care prior to conception to optimize parental health, and health of the future child, through biomedical and behavioral changes. Providing PCC to all women with a wish to conceive will improve perinatal health. PCC is especially important for women with a chronic …

Communal breeding, wherein multiple conspecifics live and reproduce together, may generate short-term benefits in terms of defence and reproduction. However, its carry-over effects remain unclear. We experimentally tested the effects of communal breeding on parental care and reproduction in burying beetles …

Today, our environment and the objects therein are equipped with an increasing number of devices such as cameras, sensors, and actuators, which all together produce a huge amount of data. Furthermore, we observe that citizens generate data via social media applications running on their personal devices. …

This applied research project aims to generate a better understanding of the effects of heatwaves on vulnerable population groups in the municipality of The Hague, and suggests ways in which the municipality can help such groups to cope with these heatwaves. The research was performed as a cooperation …