Inleiding: Dit onderzoek is uitgevoerd binnen zorgorganisatie ’s Heeren Loo, woonzorgpark Willem van den Bergh. De opdrachtgevers van dit onderzoek, de ergotherapeuten binnen dit woonzorgpark, zien dat cliënten met een ernstige meervoudige beperking (EMB) niet altijd zinvolle vrijetijdsbesteding krijgen …

Permacomputing is a nascent concept and a community of practice centred around design principles that embrace limits and constraints as a positive thing in computational culture, and on creativity with scarce computational resources. As a result, permacomputing aims to provide a countervoice to digital …

Purpose This study aims to qualitatively examine the relationship between the indoor environmental quality (IEQ), lecturers’ and students’ perceived internal responses and academic performance. Design/methodology/approach To capture user experiences with the IEQ in classrooms, semi-structured interviews …

In 2013 kondigde Koning Willem-Alexander de transformatie van Nederland naar een participatiesamenleving aan, waarin vrijwilligerswerk een nog grotere rol ging spelen. Hoewel Nederland historisch gezien een hoge participatie in vrijwilligerswerk heeft gehad, toonde 2019 een daling, mogelijk door de coronapandemie. …

Green energy is just one of the two types of energy humanity needs, the energy for our man-made world, including cities, road networks, industries and technological systems (energy for the systems that drive out the ecology). However, a second type of energy is needed to meet our biological needs, energy …

Psychologist and computerscientist Geoffrey Hinton, called the godfather of AI, argued that we should stop with A(G)I. In this column it is argued that Artificial General Intelligence like ChatGPT works very differently than organic intelligence. An organic complexity works like a chain reaction. Unlike …

It is argued that in our world there are many "pessimists", who do not believe that climate, environmental and natural disasters can still be averted, and therefore want to live today as if there was no tomorrow. And if you have nothing more to expect, why should you also let the pleasures of today be …

Even journalists and academics sometimes employ dichotomies that fall short almost immediately. An example is the prophets and wizards dichotomy. Populism with a scientific twist, which apparently makes sense and appeals to our gut feeling. A golden formula, with an implicit logical appeal to dialectics, …

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are by far the leading cause of death due to non communicable diseases in the world. The development of CVDs in many cases is caused by atherosclerosis. In atherosclerosis, plaques in blood vessels are formed by the excessive accumulation of lipids in the endothelial lining. …

Terug naar het begin van deze eeuw, waar er met de invoering van de Wet Maatschappelijke Ondersteuning (WMO) in 2007 een grote politieke keuze is gemaakt en doorgevoerd om de verzorgingsstaat verder af te bouwen en meer verantwoordelijkheden neer te leggen op het gemeentelijke niveau (Bijlsma & Janssen, …