What kind of serious games dealing with climate change are out there? Do these types of games share similar quality levels across borders? The purpose of this article is to carry out a comparative quality assessment of games produced in two different countries: United States and Spain. For this purpose, …

Tijdens de Energy Kickstart week werd wederom de We-Energy Game gespeeld in de vorm van een workshop. 40 deelnemers maakten kennis met deze serious game en hebben meer kennis en inzicht opgedaan t.o.v. de energietransitie

Tijdens de Nie-conferentie 2019 is de We-Energy gespeeld met een aantal geïnteresseerde bezoekers. Naast het presenteren en het spelen van deze serious game heeft dr. T. Ouariachi Peralta een presentatie verzorgd over Serious Games in de energiesector.

In dit artikel wordt beschreven hoe door middel van workshops met een strategische HRM game een belangrijke stap is gezet in het maken van een realistisch strategisch HRM simulatiemodel. 187 HR-pro- fessionals kregen tijdens een workshop 72 HR-praktijken voorgelegd. De door hen verwachte effecten van …

Life on the Brink is an unusual volume in that it allows non-­‐academic, activist voices as well as  politicians,  environmental  studies  scholars,  and  social  scientists  to  participate  in  the  argument that concerns us all, the argument about the future of our planet and of humanity. The common …

Abstract Background: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of the estimated 11–25 years reduced life expectancy for persons with serious mental illness (SMI). This excess cardiovascular mortality is primarily attributable to obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidaemia. Obesity is associated …

Introduction The Integrated Recovery Scales (IRS) was developed by the Dutch National Expertise board for routine outcome monitoring with severe mental illnesses. This board aimed to develop a multidimensional recovery measure directed at 1. clinical recovery, 2. physical health, 3. social recovery (work, …

Review: With great interest we have read the paper “Pregnancy Screening before Diagnostic Radiography in Emergency Department; an Educational Review” by A.I. Abushouk et al. (1). We agree with the authors that unnecessary fetal radiation exposure should be avoided and that pregnancy screening can …

Introduction In 2016 a new form of integrated community treatment for patients with serious mental illnesses was implemented in two neighborhoods in the city of Utrecht (335000 inhabitants) in the Netherlands. Treatment is characterized by close collaboration of psychiatric care, somatic care (i.e. general …

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the policy changes that Italy and the European Union (EU) experienced due to the EU migrant crisis. The European country that, besides Greece and Spain, has been most affected by problems of irregular migrant arrivals by the Mediterranean Sea, is Italy. The …