While Amazonian forests are extraordinarily diverse, the abundance of trees is skewed strongly towards relatively few ‘hyperdominant’species. In addition to their diversity, Amazonian trees are a key component of the global carbon cycle, assimilating and storing morecarbon than any other ecosystem on …

Presentation on the basics of big data technology and some application examples. Presented at the Berlin School of Economics and Law, Berlin, April 14, 2015.

In 2008 heeft de provincie Overijssel geconcludeerd dat de destijds gehanteerde sturing van de provinciale jeugdzorg geen perspectief bood op substantiële verbeteringen in de jeugdzorg. De provincie heeft daarop haar sturing fundamenteel aangepast en zich ten doel gesteld het stelsel op te bouwen op …

Researchers of project management over the last 20 years have published multiple significant reviews that have served to map the landscape of project management, revealing its complexity and deepening our understanding. Contributing to this understanding is an ongoing challenge, and one dependent …

The Artist Organisations International conference, organised by Florian Malzacher, Jonas Staal and Joanna Warsza, took place in Berlin’s HAU theatre from 9 to 11 January 2015. The organisers emphasised how it seems that more and more activist artists are creating organisational structures that increase …

The objective of this dissertation is to investigate the reasons for a low political participation in Czechoslovakia in the wake of the Velvet Revolution, which started on 17 November 1989, by a literature review. The Czechoslovak citizens reacted on several developments in their surrounding countries, …

Blog post op de blog van het Amsterdam Creative Industries Network. Tijdens de Berlin Music Week hebben Inholland-onderzoekers Koos Zwaan en Sabine de Lat van het lectoraat Media, Cultuur en Burgerschap de eerste bevindingen gepresenteerd van een lopend onderzoeksproject getiteld ‘No Limits: The Value …

Wie kann der Tierschutzverein für Berlin dem erhöhten Anteil an älteren Haushunden und Hauskatzen im Tierheim Berlin begegnen? Um diese Frage zu beantworten, wurden zwei zusätzliche Unterfragen formuliert. Die erste Unterfrage beschäftigte sich mit den Ursachen der Problematik. Daraufhin wurden vier …

In this study, we experimentally investigated the material flows of coloured dyes in coalescing small inkjet printed droplets of different volume ratios. With two differently coloured dyes, one in each droplet, we were able to distinguish the time-resolved contributions in dye transport across the coalescence …

A city is a public space where people find meaning by living together. Although cities are governed by city councils, it is mainly the citizens that make their own city. The contemporary cityscape is increasingly pervaded with emerging media. Recent invasions of interactive media in the cityscape, however, …