BACKGROUND: The predictive validity of the Low Back Pain Perception Scale is determined in two studies in general practice and showed sufficient discriminative ability, although the psychometric properties of the scale have never been established until now. OBJECTIVE: To determine the reliability and …

Bitumen is a highly valued and much used roofing material, but as an oilbased, non-renewable product, bitumen is now no longer sustainable. In response to this growing need to produce more sustainable construction materials, Icopal bv, Algaecom and the Hanze University of Applied Sciences collaborated …

Until recently, we separated farmers and urban communities. Each had their own ministries, policy plans, cultures, knowledge and education institutes and even political parties. Now we accept that this division is gone in the Netherlands. Rural areas ceased to exist, and urbanity was found everywhere. …

More than 45,000 international students are now studying for bachelor programs in the Netherlands. The number of Asian students increased dramatically in the past decade. The current research aims at examining the differences between Western European and Asian students’ perceptual learning styles, and …

An overview of whole body scanners in 1998 (H.A.M. Daanen, G.J. Van De Water. Whole body scanners, Displays 19 (1998) 111–120) shortly after they emerged to the market revealed that the systems were bulky, slow, expensive and low in resolution. This update shows that new developments in sensing and processing …

From the thesis: This thesis describes a research project with the goal of creating a reference architecture for big data solutions. Big data is an evolution of the field business intelligence and at the same time a revolution in terms of the business value it can bring to organizations. Cloud computing …

Many children with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) now reach adulthood. The aim of this study was to elicit parents’ experiences with the transfer from pediatric to adult medical care. A convenience sample of 131 Dutch parents of young people with PIMD (16–26 years) completed a …

Every year more than 140 million visitors visit EAZA member zoos. To promote conservation to this enormous public of zoo visitors, EAZA launches annual conservation campaigns. Since the start of EAZA’s first campaign in 2000 they have been running 10 campaigns with a variety of issues that affect certain …

ICT Automatisering is a Dutch company. The main expertises of ICT are portal & application development, embedded software development, and industrial automation. The company aims to have the leading-edge technology to ensure its competitiveness, which can be seen in this graduation project. The project …

Literature study has been completed within this research to find the possibilities to add e-health to the short-term tinnitus treatment provision in Geestelijke Gezondheidszorg en Maatschappelijke Dienstverlening (Hereinafter GGMD) for hearing impaired. This in order to add missing elements to the existing …