This study was conducted to find out if loose feeding systems (LFS) and automatic feeding systems (AFS) can be recommended for group housed horses. Influences of both feeding systems on the behaviour of horses kept in groups was studied. Aggression, aberrant behaviour and daily activities such as feeding …

Nutrition is an important consideration in zoos, as it affects the physical and mental wellbeing of the animals. To satisfy all aspects of the nutritional needs of animals, diet protocols are carefully designed. Kodiak bears are one of the largest land predators in the world, with males weighing up to …

In our professorship 'Learning Strategies' of the Fontys Secondary Teacher Training College Tilburg, we stress the importance of practitioner research for the professional development of teachers. To investigate our own beliefs, we started a project in which teachers learned to do practitioner research …

The goal of this graduate project is to design a cooling system for the race car of University Racing Eindhoven for 2008-2009. The radiator will be produced by a sponsor of University Racing Eindhoven which is ERF (Eindhoven manufacturer of radiators). In consultation with ERF an aluminium type of radiator …

In this paper, fractal transforms are employed with the aim of image recognition. It is known that such transforms are highly sensitive to distortions like a small shift of an image. However, by using features based on statistics kept during the actual decomposition we can derive features from fractal …