As a German conglomerate company specialized in electrical engineering and electronics, operates Siemens the world market with eight different divisions ranging from Power and Gas to Mobility. This study refers to the division Siemens Building Technologies (BT), the worlds market leader for energy efficient …

A major challenge associated with the implementation of CL initiatives lies with their economic and financial long-term success. In this context, the business model concept can support assessing the business side of stakeholders’ decision-making processes as major determinants for such success. The purpose …

Nurses are accountable to apply the nursing process, which is key for patient care: It is a problem-solving process providing the structure for care plans and documentation. The state-of-the art nursing process is based on classifications that contain standardized concepts, and therefore, it is named …

A Nursing Process-Clinical Decision Support System (NP-CDSS) Standard with 25 criteria to guide future developments of Nursing Process-Clinical Decision Support Systems was developed. The NP-CDSS Standards' content validity was established in qualitative interviews yielding fourteen categories that demonstrate …

Standard for clinical decision support systems in Electronic Health Records. The Association for Common European Nursing Diagnoses, Interventions and Outcomes.

Philips strives to make the world healthier and more sustainable through innovation, in both advanced and emerging markets. There are major differences between these worlds, also in healthcare. This is mainly the result of the limited resources in the emerging countries and the lack of availability of …

Recently, the use of military robots – which may be drones, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), remotely piloted systems, autonomous weapon systems or ‘killer robots’ – has been debated in the media, politics, and academia. Military robots are increasingly automated, which means that they can perform tasks …

Life-cycle costing (LCC), originally developed by the US DoD, promises integrated insight in investment, maintenance, usage and disposal costs of weapon systems. In an era of tightening budgets, these opportunities have led to programs to tailor and implement LCC. At present, conceptual development of …

Om te voldoen aan de nieuwe NBW toetsingsnormen hebben de waterschappen De Dommel, Aa en Maas en Brabantse Delta samen met Rijkswaterstaat opdracht gegeven aan Witteveen+Bos om een gedetailleerd hydraulisch model van optredende waterstanden te voorspellen in stroomgebied Mark-Vliet en een bijbehorende …

In het kader van duurzaamheid zijn verschillende bemalingsmethoden ontwikkeld die het bemalingsproces optimaliseren. Eén van deze methoden is een frequentiegestuurde bemaling met behulp van niveaumeting. Hiermee kunnen tijdens een bemaling verschillende grondwaterstandverlagingen gehanteerd worden die …