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The general goal of this thesis was to provide information useful for the breeding programme of the Royal Dutch Warmblood Studbook (KWPN) in relation with the ongoing specialisation of the population. Data provided by KWPN consisted of records from studbook-first inspection, competition performance on dressage and show-jumping, and pedigree information. Firstly, the effect of specialisation was studied on the connectedness between the subpopulations of dressage and show-jumping horses, using the pedigree information. Results indicated that relatedness between horses in the two subpopulations has been reduced to a low level, while relatedness within both subpopulations has been increasing consistently. A reduction in the number of influential ancestors in both subpopulations was observed. Secondly, it was analysed whether the specialisation for either dressage or show jumping has affected genetic parameters of traits recorded in the two subpopulations. Traits recorded at studbook-entry inspection were defined as a dressage trait or a show-jumping trait according to the type of horse that received the inspection. Bivariate analyses were performed to estimate the genetic correlation between the two traits. Results indicated that the specialisation process has resulted in a difference in mean trait values between dressage and show-jumping horses. However, differences in heritabilities for traits defined as dressage or show-jumping did not differ significantly, and the genetic correlations between them were not different from one considering their posterior standard deviation. Thirdly, the model to analyse performance in competition of dressage and show-jumping was studied. Results showed that performance in competition for dressage and show-jumping is a heritable trait (h2 ~ 0.11-0.13), and that it is important to account for the effect of rider in the genetic analysis. Fourthly, it was estimated the genetic correlation between the performance of horses in dressage and show-jumping competition, and the genetic correlations between traits measured early in life and performance in competition in each of the disciplines. Results showed that the genetic correlation between performance of horses in dressage and show-jumping was slightly unfavourable (-0.12). The genetic correlation between dressage and show-jumping tended to become more unfavourable over time, but this trend was not reflected in changes in the correlations between competition traits and traits recorded in the studbook-entry inspection. From this study it can be concluded that no extra benefit is to be expected from definition of a combined breeding goal. However, entirely separated breeding programmes for both disciplines are therefore not advisable. Constructing separate selection indexes would allow for optimal weighting of information sources such as studbook-entry inspection traits in accordance to the breeding goal of each sports discipline.

Within marketing and advertising, transcreation constitutes a fairly new domain, which has experienced extensive growth during the last decade or so. More and more companies provide transcreation alongside other services like translation and localisation.In academic circles, the term transcreation has so far received little attention. This, however, is not to say that transcreation is an untreated subject within translation studies. It does appear on different occasions (e.g. Bernal Merino 2006; Gaballo 2012; Rike 2013; Katan 2015), and the scientific journal Cultus even included transcreation in the title of its 7th edition in 2014. So in a certain way you could say that the growth of transcreation among practitioners is starting to be reflected in academia. However, the view from within the transcreation industry itself is something that has so far been hard to find, and that is where the present dissertation wants to contribute.

The summary presents the key findings from the first comprehensive survey of what students expect of the Danish Study Progress Reform. The summarised report is based on a survey conducted among 4.354 university students, who were asked to assess how they expect to manage their time and prioritise their activities in light of the Study Progress Reform’s requirements for faster completion. The survey was distributed in April 2015 as part of a politically independent research project funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research/Humanities (FKK).

Dynamic programming languages are highly popular and widely used. Java-Script is often called the lingua franca of the web and it is the de facto standardfor client-side web programming. On the server-side the PHP, Python andRuby languages are prevalent. What these languages have in common isan expressive power which is not easily captured by any static type system.These, and similar dynamic languages, are often praised for their ease-of-useand flexibility. Unfortunately, this dynamism comes at a great cost: The lack ofa type system implies that most errors are not discovered until run-time. Thus,in the worst-case, these bugs are not uncovered before they are encounteredby real users of the system. A further cost is limited tool support: For instance,integrated development environments with code completion, code navigationand automatic refactorings are widely available for languages with static typesystems, such as Java and C# , but the same features are rarely available fordynamic languages such as JavaScript.The aim of this thesis is to investigate techniques for improving the tool-support for dynamic programming languages without imposing any artificialrestrictions on the behaviour of these languages. A common theme is thereliance on static program analysis to over-approximate the behaviour ofprograms written in these languages. Specifically, the use of whole-programdataflow analysis. The research challenge of this line of work is the adaptionof existing- and invention of new dataflow analysis techniques to tackle thenature of dynamic programming languages.