Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences

To take back value: critique as protocol design

What can it mean to inherit the tradition of a critical international lawyer in a time when legal form is increasingly entangled with code, infrastructure, and automation? This article explores this questions by tracing a shift from critique as judgment to critique as practice, a...

EU Influence in Global AI Governance and its Limits

Abstract When the European Union (EU) adopted its AI Act (AIA) in 2024, hopes were high that EU rules would diffuse globally through a “Brussels Effect.” We investigate how structural and contextual factors in the field of AI governance affect the likelihood and transformative po...

Forging agrarian trajectories through assets, strategies, and values: structural hybridization between agro-extractivism and the socio-biodiversity economy in the Brazilian Amazon

Abstract The socio-biodiversity economy is widely regarded as an alternative agrarian pathway to agro-extractivism in the Brazilian Amazon, capable of reconciling conservation, social inclusion, and income generation. Recent research challenges this promise. Agro-extractivist dyn...

Brokerage, power and individual innovation:When do brokers act on their structural advantage?

Prior research has found that brokers, those who stand between two disconnected parties, may access non-redundant information that is conducive to higher innovation. However, research has also shown that occupying brokering network positions does not systematically translate into...

Deciding on thresholds for clinical relevance of PROMIS-upper extremity v2.0 in patients with upper extremity injury

Abstract Purpose In this study we focused on gaining better interpretation of the PROMIS-Upper-Extremity v2.0 (PROMIS-UE v2.0) T-score scale for measuring upper extremity function in patients with upper extremity injuries (UEIs). This is fundamental in order to clearly understand...

Interventions to reduce diabetes-related distress among adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

Diabetes distress (DD) refers to the emotional and psychological burden experienced by individuals living with diabetes. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have investigated the efficacy of interventions on DD among adults with type 1 diabetes or type 2 diabetes. We aimed to sys...

The effect of the respiratory rate on mechanical power and patient outcomes – a systematic review

INTRODUCTION: Mechanical power (MP) is associated with worse clinical outcomes. Respiratory rate (RR) is a key component of MP. The aim of this systematic review was to assess whether, among mechanically ventilated adult ICU patients, a low versus high RR is associated with diffe...

Risk Theory in a Finite Customer-Pool Setting

This paper investigates an insurance model with a finite number of major clients and a large number of small clients, where the dynamics of the latter group are modeled by a spectrally positive Levy process. We begin by analyzing this general model, in which the inter-arrival tim...

Sociotechnical synergy: how employee involvement unlocks the value of data analytics

Purpose Despite high expectations about the benefits of data analytics (DA), our understanding of the mechanisms that drive value creation from the implementation of DA in firms remains incomplete. While some studies have suggested that innovation prowess, human resources and ope...

Availability and representativeness of freshwater macroinvertebrate data to enable Europe-wide assessment of biodiversity trends

Freshwater ecosystems, though covering less than 1% of Earth's surface, harbor around 10% of all species. Pressures like pollution, water extraction, and habitat loss can exhibit complex interactions in their effects on freshwater biodiversity. Understanding the effects of these...

From commitment to communication: a roadmap for strategic communication of corporate digital responsibility

Purpose This article introduces a theoretically grounded and practice-oriented roadmap to guide communication professionals in translating corporate digital responsibility (CDR) from organizational commitment into effective communication practice. It seeks to clarify CDR communic...

Clean up your mesh! Part 1: plane and simplex

Abstract We revisit the geometric foundations of mesh representation through the lens of plane-based geometric algebra (PGA), investigating its efficiency and expressiveness for discrete geometry. We find how k-simplices (vertices, edges, faces, …) and k-complexes (point clouds,...

Radiological Late Dental Adverse Effects Following Treatment for Paediatric Head and Neck Rhabdomyosarcoma: Results of a Transatlantic Multicentre Cohort Study

ABSTRACT Objectives Rhabdomyosarcoma represents the most common paediatric soft tissue sarcoma, with 40% occurring in the head and neck region. Given that survival rates now reach 80%, minimising late adverse effects, particularly dental developmental complications, has become a...

Bronchiectasis as an Underrecognized Extraintestinal Manifestation of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

ABSTRACT Introduction Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are chronic inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, often presenting with extraintestinal manifestations (EIMs). The most prevalent pulmonary EIM is IBD‐associated bronchiectasis (IBD‐BE), which is often overloo...