De gemeente Zandvoort en de organisatie van de Dutch Grand Prix hebben Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas) gevraagd om de economische, sociale en maatschappelijke impact van het evenement Dutch Grand Prix en haar side events (zoals verenigd in Zandvoort Beyond) te onderzoeken. Dit onderzoeksrapport geeft de resultaten weer en licht toe hoe tot deze resultaten gekomen is. Het onderzoek is uitgevoerd middels gestructureerde vragenlijsten afgenomen onder bezoekers van het circuit, bezoekers aan het dorp Zandvoort, bewoners van Zandvoort, ondernemers van Zandvoort. Daarnaast is aanvullende informatie opgevraagd bij de organisatie van de Dutch Grand Prix, Stichting Zandvoort Beyond, Zandvoort Marketing en Gemeente Zandvoort.
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In this article, we calculate the economic impact of pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in the NUTS 2 region Galicia (Spain) in 2010. This economic impact is relevant to policymakers and other stakeholders dealing with religious tourism in Galicia. The analysis is based on the Input-Output model. Location Quotient formulas are used to derive the regional Input-Output table from the national Input-Output table of Spain. Both the Simple Location Quotient formula and Flegg's Location Quotient formula are applied. Furthermore, a sensitivity analysis is carried out. We found that pilgrimage expenditures in 2010 created between 59.750 million and 99.575 million in Gross Value Added and between 1, 362 and 2, 162 jobs. Most of the impact is generated within the 'Retail and Travel Services' industry, but also the 'Industry and Manufacturing', 'Services' and 'Financial and Real Estate Services' industries benefit from pilgrimage expenditures. This research indicates that in even in the most conservative scenario, the impact of pilgrimage is significant on the local economy of Galicia.
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Evenals vorig jaar hebben de gemeente Zandvoort en de organisatie van de Dutch Grand Prix (DGP) Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas) gevraagd om de economische, sociale en maatschappelijke impact van het evenement Dutch Grand Prix 2022 en haar side events (onder de noemer Zandvoort Beyond) te onderzoeken. Dit onderzoeksrapport geeft de resultaten weer en licht toe hoe deze resultaten tot stand gekomen zijn.Het onderzoek is uitgevoerd middels gestructureerde vragenlijsten afgenomen onder bezoekers van het circuit, bezoekers aan het dorp Zandvoort, ondernemers van Zandvoort en bewoners van Zandvoort, Bloemendaal, Heemstede, Haarlem, Haarlemmermeer en Velsen. Daarnaast is aanvullende informatie opgevraagd bij de organisatie van de Dutch Grand Prix, Stichting Zandvoort Beyond, Zandvoort Marketing en Gemeente Zandvoort.
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Gemeente Zandvoort en de organisatie van de Dutch Grand Prix (DGP) hebben Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas) gevraagd om de economische, sociale en maatschappelijke impact van het evenement Dutch Grand Prix 2023 en haar side events (onder de noemer Zandvoort Racefestival) te onderzoeken.Het onderzoek is uitgevoerd middels online en/of face-to-face afgenomen gestructureerde vragenlijsten onder 726 bezoekers van het circuit, 286 bezoekers aan het dorp Zandvoort, 108 ondernemers van Zandvoort en 3418 bewoners van Zandvoort (736), Bloemendaal (37), Haarlem (2322), Haarlemmermeer (162), Heemstede (59) en Noordwijk (102). Daarnaast is aanvullende informatie opgevraagd bij de organisatie van de Dutch Grand Prix, Stichting Zandvoort Beyond, Zandvoort Marketing en Gemeente Zandvoort.Voor het berekenen van de economische impact is gebruik gemaakt van de richtlijnen zoals deze opgesteld zijn door de Werkgroep Evaluatie Sportevenementen (WESP). Er is inzicht verkregen in de additionele bestedingen van DGP-bezoekers en de DGP-organisatie.In de berekening van economische impact is niet gecorrigeerd voor verdringingseffecten. Sponsoractivaties (zoals afhuur van gelegenheden in Zandvoort, inhuur personeel, verzorgen eten en drinken voor genodigden) zijn niet in kaart gebracht. Bestedingen van bezoekers die niet het circuit maar wel het dorp hebben bezocht tijdens het raceweekend zijn eveneens niet meegenomen in de berekening van de economische impact. Het winstcijfer van de DGP-organisatie wordt niet gedeeld en is ook niet meegenomen in de berekening van de economische impact.
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Background:In the context of decreasing breastfeeding rates and unsuccessful breastfeeding promotion campaigns, a qualitative research project in the Northern part of the Netherlands was initiated.Objectives:As part of the overall project, the aim of this study was to explore the content and sources of breastfeeding knowledge among primiparous women. Identifying and categorizing the content and the sources of breastfeeding knowledge could guide professionals such as midwives and maternity nurses as well as others in the women’s surroundings to engage in disseminating knowledge and therefore support women in achieving their breastfeeding goals.Methods:We conducted 26 in-depth interviews from the emic perspective with 13 new mothers pre- and postpartum, up to saturation level. Transcripts were analysed applying thematic analysis. As sensitising concepts, the themes identified were divided into two categories: those gained from 'professional' sources and those obtained from 'popular' sources.Results:Five knowledge content themes were identified: (1) pros and cons of breastfeeding, (2) how breastfeeding works, (3) individual breastfeeding practice, (4) expressing milk, and (5) formula feeding. ‘Professional’ sources are perceived as more helpful than ‘popular’ sources, whereas ‘intuition’ was inductively identified as an important knowledge source.Conclusion:Limited breastfeeding practice exposure, along with the recommendations to breastfeed for six months and perceptions of breastfeeding as ‘natural’ at the same time, generates much pressure in women. Emphasizing all knowledge content in campaigns, addressing a variety of target groups in women’s social environment, and recognizing intuition as an adequate source of knowledge supported by professionals will facilitate women in making informed infant feeding decisions.
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For susceptible children, appropriate education and the right circumstances are of the utmost importance, even more than with "normal" children. In wrong circumstances things can easily go wrong. But under favourable conditions these people can reach the top. A bit like Formula 1 cars, which still have to be tinkered with at the circuit, while on the track the performance is unprecedented (if you 're lucky)! this colomn presents an alternative vision of Autism.
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Thermal comfort is determined by the combined effect of the six thermal comfort parameters: temperature, air moisture content, thermal radiation, air relative velocity, personal activity and clothing level as formulated by Fanger through his double heat balance equations. In conventional air conditioning systems, air temperature is the parameter that is normally controlled whilst others are assumed to have values within the specified ranges at the design stage. In Fanger’s double heat balance equation, thermal radiation factor appears as the mean radiant temperature (MRT), however, its impact on thermal comfort is often ignored. This paper discusses the impacts of the thermal radiation field which takes the forms of mean radiant temperature and radiation asymmetry on thermal comfort, building energy consumption and air-conditioning control. Several conditions and applications in which the effects of mean radiant temperature and radiation asymmetry cannot be ignored are discussed. Several misinterpretations that arise from the formula relating mean radiant temperature and the operative temperature are highlighted, coupled with a discussion on the lack of reliable and affordable devices that measure this parameter. The usefulness of the concept of the operative temperature as a measure of combined effect of mean radiant and air temperatures on occupant’s thermal comfort is critically questioned, especially in relation to the control strategy based on this derived parameter. Examples of systems which deliver comfort using thermal radiation are presented. Finally, the paper presents various options that need to be considered in the efforts to mitigate the impacts of the thermal radiant field on the occupants’ thermal comfort and building energy consumption.
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Conducted for the 2019 Venice Bienale catalogue of the Romanian pavillion, in particular Canal Grande: The Capital Pool and the Associated Public of Dan Mihaltianu, curated by Cristian Nae. The work “functions at first sight as a wishing well. It establishes an autonomous art fund and invites the visitors to self-organize and to decide on the utilization of the capital raised during the exhibition via capitalpool.net, proposing an artistic formula for exercising direct democracy.”
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