In navolging van de ‘Kracht van Sport’ lezingencyclus in het voorjaar van 2013 is besloten om ook de vijf lezingen van 2015 vast te leggen in een boekje. Dit omdat tijdens deze lezingencyclus, die inging op de verbindende kracht van sport, er veel prachtige beleidsverhalen en -inzichten werden verzorgd …

This thesis provides an analysis of the drivers and manifestations of xenophobia in European societies. Massive migration flows have taken place in European countries during the second half of the 20th century, which have caused a swift rise of multicultural societies. This rapid societal change has …

This dissertation studies the management processes that plan, control, and optimize warehouse operations. The inventory in warehouses decouples supply from demand. As such, economies of scale can be achieved in production, purchasing, and transport. As warehouses become more and more vital for the success …

Purpose: To explore the recent emergence of “authenticity” in fashion in terms of its linkingvalue in the context of tribal brand cultures in conjunction with value co-creation processes inmediated environments. Methodology: This study adopts a qualitative approach in the form of a case study of a youngNew …

This study researches the current Dutch Bob-campaign and its impact on the attitudes and behaviour of the target audience. The Bob-campaign is concerned with the road safety issue of drinking and driving in the Netherlands and is part of the initiative “Daar Kun Je Mee Thuiskomen”, which is an initiative …

DCT Net levert apparatuur en de infrastructuur aan kerken voor het online uitzenden van kerkdiensten. Omdat de vraag naar HD video kwaliteit toeneemt, is er door CS Engineering een nieuwe kerkzender ontwikkeld die deze kwaliteit mogelijk maakt. Deze kerkzender bevat een Blackmagic DeckLink Studio capturekaart …

The Dutch biogas industry is developing slowly and in many instances still unviable. Insights in the drivers of value creation may help to create viable biogas business networks. This research explores these related drivers and accordingly, proposes a new and comprehensive definition of a driver of value …

What does it mean to position anthropos in the center? Questioning anthropocentrism is far more than an academic exercise of debating the dominant cultural motif of placing humans at the center of material and ethical concerns. It is a fertile way of shifting the focus of attention away from the problem-symptoms …

Aviation increasingly faces capacity challenges exposing inefficiencies and shortcomings of aviation related processes and systems. The European slot allocation system was designed in an era with little to no capacity constraints, now resulting in regulations not fitting in today’s developments.

EtherCAT is a real-time industrial field bus based on Ethernet. The bus master uses an Ethernet device to communicate with the slaves. At Prodrive, it has been decided that the PPA8548 AMC, a PowerPC embedded system, should get support for the EtherCAT master functionality because the current EtherCAT …