European clothing consumption has increased dramatically in recent decades, leading to a current average of 26 kg of textiles annually purchased per capita (EEA, 2019). While garments (and most of clothing’s environmental impacts) are produced in other parts of the world, European municipalities face …

Digital health is considered a promising solution in keeping healthcare accessible and affordable. However, implementation is often complex and sustainable funding schemes are lacking. Despite supporting policy, scaling up innovative forms of healthcare progresses much slower than intended in Dutch national …

Lower cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and physical activity (PA) associate with higher cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, but the relationship between CRF and PA in people who have rheumatoid arthritis (RA) at an increased CVD risk (CVD-RA) is not known. The objectives of this study were to determine …

In this study we investigate how consumers in The Netherlands can be persuaded to adopt sustainable practices when purchasing, using and disposing of clothes. This study investigates the attitude-behavior gap for the sustainable choices for purchase, use and disposing of clothes. For each consumption …

Heatwaves are expected to increase in the future due to climate change. Heatwaves cause heat stress to humans and some of the effects are dehydration and hyperthermia. In general it is known what can be done to reduce heat stress. However, applying this knowledge on a local scale requires a clear overview …

The aim of this thesis is to identify and implement the best personalized recommendation system that will increase the engagement of Fitenium users. Based on the research, it was determined that the best personalized recommendation system for this use case is Amazon Personalize. Amazon Personalize …

Background: Outcome assessment is essential to understand the impact and recovery of burns of the hand and tailor treatment. There is however, a large variety of measures and outcome assessment is often incomplete. The aim was therefore to initiate a set of outcome assessments for use in a clinical setting. …

Previous research conducted by the WaardenMakers has shown that the collaboration between water management organisations in the city of 's-Hertogenbosch is not reaching its full potential and that they do not have a shared ambition for water management in the future. The chances of the duration of projects …

Waterschap Scheldestromen has a measurement device named Multiflexmeter. It uses the LoRaWAN technology to send the measurement data to the gateway. But sometimes, the Multiflexmeter can not connect to the gateway to send data because the line of sight is blocked. So the company is seeking a design of …

Objective Medical Crew Resource Management (CRM) training courses are designed to increase patient safety by reducing the effects of human errors. These training courses are most popular in surgery and a wide range of medical CRM training courses for surgical teams is now available. However, the effects …