The primary aim was to investigate feasibility of a web-based cross-over Paleolithic diet intervention in the general population. The secondary aim was to calculate the sample size needed to reach a statistically significant difference in effect of a Paleolithic-like diet on psychological and somatic symptoms compared with the Dutch consensus diet.
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Tourism experiences, also called vacations, are known to boost subjective well-being, although it has been argued that the effects are primarily affective in nature and short-lived. We argue that this is a methodological artifact due to the brief duration—1 year or less—of almost all extant longitudinal studies of tourism experience effects. Based on broaden-and-build and personal resource theories, we hypothesize that tourism experiences contribute to both affective and cognitive components of subjective well-being over a multi-year timespan. Using random intercept cross-lagged panel models, we tested these hypotheses in 8 years of panel data based on a representative sample of the population of the Netherlands. We found both between- and within-individual effects of vacation frequency on cognitive as well as affective well-being. More frequent vacationers experienced higher life satisfaction and lower negative affect, while the average participant also experienced slightly higher life satisfaction and positive affect following a year with higher vacation frequency. Increases in life satisfaction also predicted more frequent vacationing in a following year, consistent with an “upward spiral” pattern of improving well-being based on accumulation of positive experiences, as suggested by the broaden-and-build theory.
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Booklet met bevinden van het project 'Samen zichtbaar duurzaam' dat zich richt op de vraag: “hoe maken we zichtbaar dat duurzame verandering mogelijk en wenselijk is?”Binnen en buiten de HvA zijn er hoge ambities om met verschillende benaderingen en praktijkgericht onderzoek duurzame verandering teweeg te brengen. Mede dankzij de betrokken lectoraten, Centres of Expertise en de Green Office worden er steeds meer zaadjes geplant en verbindingen gelegd rondom het thema Duurzaamheid. Toch gebeurt het nog veel dat men niet van elkaar af weet en worden best en worst practices niet met elkaar gedeeld. Dit project wil daar zichtbare verandering in brengen. Vanuit verschillende technische, digitale en creatieve kanten, en met studenten, docenten, onderzoekers en de praktijk wordt het thema duurzame verandering op zichtbare, creatieve, interactieve enspeelse wijze benaderd.Dit project is onderdeel van de Cross-overregeling. Deze zogenaamde cross-overregeling is een initiatief van het Centre of Expertise for Creative Innovation (CoECI)en het Centre of Expertise City Net Zero (voorheen UT). De projecten die een financiële bijdrage hebben gekregen gaan over complexe uitdagingen uit de Metropoolregio Amsterdam, die vragen om een integrale benadering, met input vanuit verschillende disciplines. De regeling beoogt nieuwe samenwerkingen tussen verschillende disciplines en tussen onderwijs en onderzoek aan te jagen.
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Uit praktijkonderzoek blijkt dat werk verandert, maar dat de beroepsbeelden die breed leven, hier niet in mee veranderen: er zijn veel verouderde beelden. Terwijl de patronen die spelen over sectoren en organisaties heen, zich duidelijk aftekenen: meer cross overs, meer werken in netwerken en ketens en veel meer samenwerken en communiceren. Bovendien moet je je als medewerker blijven ontwikkelen. Samenwerkend leren, met collega's én met samenwerkingspartners is een must. Maar we moeten voorkomen dat dit niet uitmond in 'samen vergaderen'. Dat risico zit er in omdat managers (en HRM-ers) nog onvoldoende geëquipeerd zijn om werkomgevingen zo in te richten dat het een vruchtbare omgeving is om in te leren.
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Deze rede gaat over het verrichte werk en de eerste vervolgplannen van het NHL Stenden Thorbecke Academie lectoraat ‘Bestuur in een Digitaliserende Samenleving’. Dit lectoraat werkt actief samen en vormt samen met het lectoraat ‘digitale weerbaarheid van mens en organisatie’ en de cross-over ‘digital citizenship’ de onderzoeksgroep Cybersafety.
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Het ministerie van Economische zaken, Landbouw en Innovatie (EL&I, thans EZ) heeft in 2012 het Lectoraat Welzijn van Dieren (Hogeschool VHL, Leeuwarden) gevraagd meer inzicht te verschaffen in de beweegredenen van mensen die kiezen voor een dier met een hoog welzijns- en gezondheidsrisico. Deze vraag werd gesteld vanuit het beleidsvoornemen deze groepen te bereiken met voorlichting aangaande de risico’s en alternatieven. De auteurs van het rapport doen meerdere aanbevelingen om particulieren te bereiken ter voorkoming van welzijnsproblemen bij hun huisdieren. Zij adviseren o.a. een cross-mediale aanpak waarin (aankomende) diereigenaren via verschillende kanalen en op verschillende manieren worden geïnformeerd over het houden van dieren. Ook bevelen de auteurs aan het gedrag van de diereigenaar bespreekbaar te maken in de discussie over het houden van ‘risicovolle’ dieren.
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Like a marker pen on a map, the Covid-19 pandemic drastically highlighted the persisting existence of borders that used to play an ever decreasing role in people´s perception and behavior over the last decades. Yes, inner European borders are open in normal times. Yes, people, goods, services and ideas are crossing the border between Germany and the Netherlands freely. Yet we see that the border can turn into a barrier again quickly and effectively and it does so in many dimensions, some of them being not easily visible. Barriers hinder growth, development and exchange and in spite of our progress in creating a borderless Europe, borders still create barriers in many domains. Differing labor law, social security and tax systems, heterogeneous education models, small and big cultural differences, language barriers and more can impose severe limitations on people and businesses as they cross the border to travel, shop, work, hire, produce, buy, sell, study and research. Borders are of all times and will therefore always exist. But as they did so for a long time, huge opportunities can be found in overcoming the barriers they create. The border must not necessarily be a dividing line between two systems. It has the potential to become a center of growth and progress that build on joint efforts, cross-border cooperation, mutual learning and healthy competition. Developing this inherent potential of border regions asks for politics, businesses and research & education on both sides of the border to work together. The research group Cross-Border Business Development at Fontys University of Applied Science in Venlo conducts applied research on the impact of the national border on people and businesses in the Dutch-German border area. Students, employees, border commuters, entrepreneurs and employers all face opportunities as well as challenges due to the border. In collaboration with these stakeholders, the research chair aims to create knowledge and provide solutions towards a Dutch-German labor market, an innovative Dutch-German borderland and a futureproof Cross-Border economic ecosystem. This collection is not about the borderland in times of COVID-19. Giving meaning to the borderland is an ongoing process that started long before the pandemic and will continue far beyond. The links that have been established across the border and those that will in the future are multifaceted and so are the topics in this collection. Vincent Pijnenburg outlines a broader and introductory perspective on the dynamics in the Dutch-German borderland.. Carla Arts observes shopping behavior of cross-border consumers in the Euregion Rhine-Meuse-North. Jan Lucas explores the interdependencies of the Dutch and German economies. Jean Louis Steevensz presents a cross-border co-creation servitization project between a Dutch supplier and a German customer. Vincent Pijnenburg and Patrick Szillat analyze the exitence of clusters in the Dutch-German borderland. Christina Masch and Janina Ulrich provide research on students job search preferences with a focus on the cross-border labor market. Sonja Floto-Stammen and Natalia Naranjo-Guevara contribute a study of the market for insect-based food in Germany and the Netherlands. Niklas Meisel investigates the differences in the German and Dutch response to the Covid-19 crisis. Finally, Tolga Yildiz and Patrick Szillat show differences in product-orientation and customer-orientation between Dutch and German small and medium sized companies. This collection shows how rich and different the links across the border are and how manifold the perspectives and fields for a cross-border approach to regional development can be. This publication is as well an invitation. Grasping the opportunities that the border location entails requires cooperation across professional fields and scientific disciplines, between politics, business and researchers. It needs the contact with and the contribution of the people in the region. So do what we strive for with our cross-border research agenda: connect!
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This study contributes to the employability skills debate by investigating how students’ self-perceived 21st century skills relate to the self-perceived fit between their higher education curriculum and their future labor market for a sustainable entry to this labor market. Survey data from 4670 fourth-year students over a period of four years were analyzed. Furthermore, out of this group, 83 students were monitored longitudinally over their full educational student careers. Results showed a positive relationship between students’ self-perceived 21st century skills and their self-perceived “education-future labor market fit”. Among more recent cohorts, a significant improvement in their self-perceived 21st century skills was found. Overall, this study indicated that in order to deliver “employable” graduates, students need to be thoroughly trained in 21st century skills, and their development should be retained and expanded. This is one of the few studies that uses a vast amount of both cross-sectional and longitudinal data on skills and labor market perspectives among new graduates.
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Transitions can be facilitated through collective networked action, moving from coordinated learning towards more forceful interventions. This coordinated effort is challenging in more extended learning and innovation networks. Creating and maintaining an overview of activities within such a network and connecting them to a common cause can be a powerful approach. A tool named MissionMapping was developed in an iterative process in applied co-design research. With the tool, we intend to allow for a more holistic perspective when navigating the activities of the network related to the transition by working towards more of an overview of the questions and activities within the network. This article describes three cases in which MissionMapping was applied to facilitate synergy in networks of people collaborating on societal challenges. A cross-case analysis was done to develop insights on how MissionMapping supports the synergy of goals and projects within societal challenges. MissionMapping allows participants to build their mission landscape. They combine individual activities to create shared territories. The tool was developed in an iterative process. In the three cases, different versions of the tool were used during live workshops. After the cases and applying MissionMapping in other cases, the tool results in a flexible set that can be adapted to different purposes for a workshop and adopted by others who like to apply the tool. The article presents insights resulting from a cross-case analysis of applying the MissionMapping tool. One insight was that it is difficult to keep track of adjustments over time when the network dynamics change. Additionally, we found that while preparing the workshop, adjusting and printing the tiles cost time and are not easily transferable to others who might be interested in applying the tool. Navigating the mission resulted in increased enthusiasm for the topic at hand. The form factor also seems to contribute to a sense of agency. However, the increased agency does not automatically transfer to actions, as organisations are often inflexible. MissionMapping stimulates the development of a shared language through the landscape metaphor. This helps to cross boundaries in multidisciplinary networks. Capturing and transferring insights visually and digitally was quite challenging. Further exploration is needed to find an effective method. It is difficult to capture the impact of the MissionMaps and requires monitoring over time. For now, we conclude that it benefits collaboration, creates overviews in complex networks, and may fuel idea generation.
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