How to create personas to improve designs for behaviour change strategies in the public domain? Three recent cases illustrate lessons learnt and challenges encountered during persona development in the public domain. Personas were helpful to gain insight into diversity within a target group, to create …

Background: Hypothyroidism is a common endocrine disorder and the standard treatment is replacement therapy with levothyroxine (LT4). Although many hypothyroid patients improve upon treatment with LT4, a proportion seems to experience residual hypothyroid complaints despite treatment, even when plasma …

The purpose of this dissertation is to test what makes an effective pitch and compare the theory Vs. the practice. During the entrepreneurial tech summit, Seedstars World, in Lausanne, 66 start-ups came together to pitch their start-up ideas to an audience of investors and other VIPS. The objective of …

BACKGROUND: After hospitalization for cardiac disease, older patients are at high risk of readmission and death. Although geriatric conditions increase this risk, treatment of older cardiac patients is limited to the management of cardiac diseases. The aim of this study is to investigate if unplanned …

Aanleiding- Depressie is een veelvoorkomende ziekte in Nederland, die twintig procent van de bevolking tenminste éénmalig kan overkomen. Dit is zes procent van de Nederlandse bevolking. Depressie gaat gepaard met ziektelast en hoge zorgkosten. In september 2015 is het Rob Giel Onderzoekscentrum begonnen …

Recent developments in the aftermath of several terrorist attacks in European Member States have caused uncertainty and disorder. Although measures have been taken, terrorism seems to be always one step ahead, inciting fear. Increased cooperation between Member States is necessary. Yet, it is not happening. …

Background: An effective and tolerable bowel preparation is important to secure quality of colonoscopies. It remains unclear if sodium picosulphate with magnesium citrate (SPMC), which is considered a tolerable bowel preparation agent, is also an effective alternative for polyethylene glycol (PEG) and …

Tegenwoordig worden veel techbedrijven in Silicon Valley beschuldigd van het creëren van problemen in plaats van ze op te lossen. Er wordt bijv. gerefereerd aan de Russische inmenging in de presidentsverkiezingen in de VS. De macht en invloed van techbedrijven is zeer groot geworden. Amazon bepaalt hoe …

Gedurende dit onderzoek is een atheneum 3 klas steeds meer onderworpen aan autonomie verhogende lesgeefstijlen. Vervolgens is er onderzocht wat voor effect een leerling-gestuurde lesgeefstijl had op de motivatie van de leerlingen. De SRQA-vragenlijst gaf geen effect aan. De stappentellers gaven daarentegen …