Video games have the potential to educate and engage people—especially young people—in climate change and energy issues by facilitating the development of helpful thoughts, feelings, and actions. The objective of the present article is to propose a set of game attributes that could maximise the cognitive, …

Purpose – Older people with dementia (OPD) have specific housing and technology-related needs, for which various design principles exist. A model for designing environments and its constituting items for people with dementia that has a firm foundation in neurology may help guide designers in making design …

Citizen science – the active participation of lay people in research – may yield crucial local knowledge and increase research capacity. Recently, there is growing interest to understand benefits for citizen scientists themselves. We studied the perceived impacts of participation in a public health citizen …

Reliable management information is invaluable for policymakers and advisers to make informed policy decisions. Depending on the information needs of the policymakers and the characteristics of the data required, different approaches exploiting different ways to process data from multiple sources, may …

Due to climate change the frequency of extreme precipitation is set to increase. To reduce the risk of damage, Dutch municipalities will need to retrofit the urban areas in a climate resilient (CR) way. To justify this investment, they need evidence for the possibilities of CR urban street designs and …

Branden op cruiseschepen komen voor en doordat de huidige cruiseschepen steeds groter worden met meer passagiers en uitbreiding van het totaal aantal schepen wereldwijd zullen branden steeds vaker voorkomen. De uitkomst van een brand hangt af van een aantal factoren waarbij dit onderzoek zich vooral …

In het algemeen wordt het onderwijssysteem binnen Nederland als stressvol ervaren. In het algemeen worden de Nederlandse Antillen en Aruba en daarmee ook hun onderwijscultuur als ‘relaxt’ en ‘lay-back’ gezien. Maar is werken in het onderwijs op Aruba ook echt zo relaxt? Zo ja, wat zijn hiervan de oorzaken …

from Narcis.nl: "Background: Introducing a post-discharge community pharmacist home visit can secure continuity of care and prevent drug-related problems. Currently, this type of pharmaceutical care is not standard practice and implementation is challenging. Mapping the factors influencing the implementation …

When a pipeline is laid on the seabed it can be exposed to hazards of ship anchors, large fishing gear or ice keels. To prevent the pipeline of being damaged, the pipeline can be trenched. Trenching is a technique where the pipeline will be buried in the seabed to a certain depth. This can either be …

In dit beschrijvend onderzoek worden de sportkaternen van de drie Brabantse titels onder de loep genomen. Sinds april 2015 is De Persgroep de nieuwe eigenaar van de ex-Wegenertitels. Voor mij een reden om eens uit te pluizen wat de staat van de sportkaternen is van Brabants Dagblad, Eindhovens Dagblad …