Background: On two Care Innovation Units in the Netherlands, staff, students and Lecturer Practitioners work intensively together to provide care, create a rich learning environment, and to foster innovation and research. In striving to advance the quality of care and to develop person centred cultures …

These Proceedings gather the research works presented to the Conference “Diversity of Journalisms: Shaping Complex Media Landscapes”, held in Pamplona (Spain), the 4th and 5th of July, 2011. This event was co-organised by ECREA Journalism Studies Section and the School of Communication of the University …

A (semi-)closed greenhouse is a novel greenhouse with an active cooling system and temporary heat storage in an aquifer. Air is cooled, heated and dehumidified by air treatment units. Climate in (semi-)closed greenhouses differs from that of conventional open greenhouses. The aims of our research were …

Flexible production units provide very efficient mechanisms to adapt the type and production rate according to fluctuations in demand. The optimal sequence of the different manufacturing tasks in each machine is a challenging problem that can deal with important productivity benefits.

UNLABELLED: Reaching movements are initiated by activity of the prime mover, i.e. the first activated arm muscle. We aimed to investigate the relationship between prime mover activity and kinematics of reaching in typically developing (TD) infants in supine and sitting position. Fourteen infants were …

Predictive models, such as acute physiology and chronic health evaluation II (APACHE-II), are widely used in intensive care units (ICUs) to estimate mortality. Although the presence of delirium is associated with a higher mortality in ICU patients, delirium is not part of the APACHE-II model. The aim …

A psycho-organic disorder such as delirium is a frequently occurring and serious disorder especially on Intensive Care units. Nowadays, more attention is paid to this problem by physicians, nurses and by researchers, but assessment of delirium in all ICU patients is still not common practice. If patients …

Deze scriptie is uitgevoerd bij Dak kindercentra. Dak kindercentra is een organisatie te Den Haag onderverdeeld in verschillende units. Om dit onderzoek concreet te houden is er voor gekozen om het onderzoek binnen één unit, Erik Dak te houden. Erik Dak is een centrum met zowel peutergroepen (twee tot …

De huidige generatie kinderen groeit op in een samenleving die ingrijpend aan het veranderen is. Kinderen hebben andere wensen, passies en leerbehoeften. Hierdoor is het onderwijs volop in beweging. Om deze generatie kinderen optimaal te kunnen voorbereiden op hun toekomst vraagt dit professionalisering …

In the nineties the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), faculty Maritime Technology (MT), department of hydromechanics, and the RNLNC, nautical sciences department, led by professor J.A Spaans, explored the possibility of determining the coefficients from full-scale sea trials. As a starting point …