In human-controlled environments and in cultivated landscapes, the plants accommodate social, cultural and economic needs. This article will focus on the use of plants for agriculture, urban planning, forestry, environmental education and indoor decoration in The Netherlands. This exploration, based …

Deze bijdrage thematiseert het proces om mensen die door wat zich heeft voorgedaan in hun leven buiten de samenleving, onder toezicht van justitie zijn geplaatst, te ondersteunen weer burger te worden. Vaak is ons systeem van detinering, behandeling, reclassering en begeleiding, zo lijkt het, daar redelijk …

Research on solving mathematical word problems suggests that students may perform better on problems with a close to real-life representation of the problem situation than on word problems. In this study we pursued real-life representation by a mainly depictive representation of the problem situation, …

Het Ministerie van Defensie vermoedt dat prijzen van militair materieel sneller stijgen dan de gemiddelde inflatie. Door het ­Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek ontwikkelde defensie­specifieke inflatie-indices laten zien dat dat niet zo is. Toch kan het gebruik van zulke indices nuttig zijn.

A wireless sensor network (WSN) is a network of low-size and low-complexity devices that senses the environment and communicate the gathered data through wireless channels. The sensors sense the environment, and send data to a control unit for processing and decisions. The data is forwarded via multiple …

Loods Tien is a restaurant located in Breskens at the coast of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen. The restaurant looks over the Westerschelde and up to the skyline of Vlissingen. In 2013 Loods Tien was completely renewed and rebuild. The Boathouse was build in order to rent it for private events. However, the Boathouse …

In deze scriptie wordt de tenuitvoerlegging van de levenslange gevangenisstraf in Nederland uitvoerig besproken. Sinds 1886 heeft de levenslange gevangenisstraf een plek gekregen in het Nederlandse Wetboek van Strafrecht. Toentertijd was veel commentaar rondom de levenslange gevangenisstaf. Er werden …

BACKGROUND: Various feedback characteristics have been suggested to positively influence student learning. It is not clear how these feedback characteristics contribute to students' perceived learning value of feedback in cultures classified low on the cultural dimension of individualism and high on …

In this paper, we report on interview data collected from 14 Deaf leaders across seven countries (Australia, Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States) regarding their perspectives on signed language interpreters. Using a semi-structured survey questionnaire, …