Central to this research is the question how habitat banking relates to the Dutch governmental ambition to societalize nature policy. This question is answered by outlining and combining a substantial and a governance ...

Die vorliegende Studie befasst sich mit der Figur Hagens aus dem Nibelungenlied und mit dem mittelalterlichen Ritterideal. Ziel dieser Forschung ist zu untersuchen ob das Handeln Hagens dem Ritterideal entspricht. Dieses ...

Fake news has been around for a long time, but in this time of online networks, the problem is under debate even more. This research examines the role of different mechanisms in the spread of fake news in online networks. ...

This thesis focuses on the concept of mainstreaming migration into urban development. Based on the belief that migration is a human and urban normality, the concept proposes a pragmatic approach that takes both the whole ...

In dit onderzoek staat het mogelijke effect van het aantal gebaren van politici op de overtuigingskracht van de politici en de stemintentie van de kiezer op de politici centraal. De onderzoeksvraag is als volgt: ‘In hoeverre ...

Wie naar een speech kijkt ziet twee vormen van communicatie door elkaar heen lopen, verbale en non-verbale communicatie. In een speech gaat het niet alleen om de inhoudelijk tekst die verteld wordt. De presentatie en ...

This thesis reports on the development of a hand gesture driven musical instrument. Using the Nintendo Wii remote controller in combination with IR-LEDs attached to a glove, users can draw gestures in the air. The system ...

The focus of this research are the ‘governance’ projects of the Dutch PRT in Uruzgan, Afghanistan. Because these projects are more than the classic CIMIC projects and are intended to have a sustainable result the following ...

Hannah Arendt refers to ‘common sense’ in many places in her work and attributes it a significant role: it makes us fit into the common world; when lost, society disintegrates as happened under totalitarian regimes at the ...

I introduce a new problem for cognitive neuroscience and its cognitive ontology project: the hard split, which attacks the implicit folk psychological ontology of cognitive neuroscience. First, I show the presence of ...