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The Sergeants Speak: Identifying the Language Needs of the Royal Netherlands Army
(2022)This study used a mixed-method approach to identify the English language needs of non-commissioned officers (NCOs) in the Royal Netherlands Army. Respondents for the Needs Analysis consisted of 62 former infantry NCOs and ... -
“Born in the wrong place?”Association between municipality-level income inequality and Dutch adolescent mental health
(2022)While Dutch adolescents consistently report the highest level of perceived well-being within Europe there has been a decline in emotional well-being between 2009 and 2013. This has been a current trend in other Northern ... -
Schoolstress en prestatiedruk bij adolescenten voorkomen of verminderen: een kwalitatief onderzoek naar potentieel werkzame elementen
(2022)Nederlandse jongeren ervaren steeds meer schoolstress en prestatiedruk, terwijl de negatieve gevolgen voor zowel jongeren zelf als de maatschappij groot zijn. Er is weinig bekend over de aanpak van scholen om deze problemen ... -
Social Cost-Benefit Analysis of Mangrove Restoration in Mozambique
(2022)The people of Icidua, a neighbourhood of Quelimane (Mozambique), rely on logging their local mangrove population for their livelihood to survive. Unfortunately, these same practises are causing environmental degradation, ... -
An Inclusive Mindset Towards Transgender Youth Through Inner Dialogue
(2022)In past decades awareness of transgender issues and acceptance of transgender individuals has grown, but today transgender youth is still at risk for mental health problems and bullying. This lagging acceptance implies a ... -
The Transformational Process of Addressing Heat Stress in Social Housing
(2022)As a consequence of climate change, heat waves are expected to occur more frequently, increase in duration and be more severe in the coming decades. High temperatures lead to higher incidences of heat stress among humans ... -
Generating English explanations of logical formulas: measuring the quality of the generated sentences
(2022)Logic languages such as First Order Logic can describe complex ideas, with the downside of being too abstract. In order to make them clearer, it is possible to translate sentences in them to Natural Language. In order ... -
Qualitative comparison of the preprocessing pipelines of the inferior cerebellar peduncle in pre-operative paediatric oncology data
(2022)Cerebellar mutism syndrome (CMS) arises in some patients after the surgical removal of posterior fossa tumours. The complications include speech retardation, emotional lability, various mobility impairments and developmental ... -
Does size matter? The Influence of Fibre Diameter on the Mechanical Properties and Magnetic Actuation of MEW printed Single Fibres.
(2022)Mechanical stimulation of cell-laden, tissue engineering scaffolds has proven to guide cell behaviour and organization towards enhanced regenerative potential of numerous tissue types. However, current techniques for ... -
Perception of Farmers on Reforestation of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest - The case from the Alto Paranapanema Watershed
(2022)The Brazilian Atlantic Forest (BAF) is an ecological hotspot, and nowadays only 11,4% to 16% of the native vegetation is left, in which most of its remaining forest patches are small and disconnected from each other. Of ... -
A Walk with the Future: the long-term in planning
(2022)The sustainability challenges of the 21st century, like climate change and biodiversity loss, require a long-term future perspective. By definition, planners are concerned with the future, or at least they should be. ... -
Analysis of the Dutch Mission-oriented Innovation System (MIS) for a natural gas-free built environment
(2022)This thesis applied the Mission-oriented Innovation System (MIS) framework on a case study in the Dutch built environment. It studies the mission “disconnecting 1.5 million existing homes from natural gas by 2030”, which ... -
Nowcasting rainfall in the Netherlands with the focus on extreme summer precipitation events
(2022)Extreme summer precipitation often caused by convection is a phenomenon that can lead to flooding, but at the same time, it is challenging for forecasting methods. Among others, deep learning tools are being used to tackle ... -
Self-regulated Learning as a Predictor for Learning Analytics Dashboard Reference Frame Preferences
(2022)In Immersive Learning Environments (ILEs) the feedback tools are often passive displays which do not necessarily help learners to progress in their learning process. Learners could really benefit from receiving the ... -
Online One-Way Trading with Machine Learned Advice
(2022)In the one-way trading problem, a player is presented with a number of rates. For each rate the player needs to decide if they want to trade, and how much of their budget they want to trade for a profit. This trade will ...