Wanneer er een aardbeving heeft plaatsgevonden dan is het van belang dat veiligheidsdiensten en gebouwbeheerders snel een goed beeld hebben van de schade aan gebouwen en risico’s in het gebied. Sensortechnologie in combinatie met data over gebouwen en bewonersaantallen kan van grote meerwaarde zijn voor …

Over a period of seven months, I intensively dealt with the question of whether Michael Chekhov's acting method can be transferred to the musical laws of the jazz genre. This research project consists of two phases of an action driven research design. In the first phase, I narrowed down my method through …

Rationale: It is well established that resting energy expenditure (REE) decreases with age. Data derived from indirect calorimetry (IC) are still limited with respect to the number of high aged individuals, BMI groups and health conditions. Therefore, IC generated REE of the BASAROT sample and those …

Background: Effective and sustainable interventions are needed to counteract the decline in physical function and sarcopenia in the growing aging population. The aim of this study was to determine the 6 and 12 month effectiveness of blended (e-health + coaching) home-based exercise and a dietary protein …

Distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) such as blockchain have in recent years been presented as a new general-purpose technology that could underlie many aspects of social and economic life, including civics and urban governance. In an urban context, over the past few years, a number of actors have …

Regular physical activity is regarded as an important component of a healthy lifestyle, decreasing the risk of many non-communicable diseases, mental health issues and increasing functioning and quality of life in older adults. Despite these benefits, a substantial segment of the older adult population …

The full potential of predictive maintenance has not yet been utilised. Current solutions focus on individual steps of the predictive maintenance cycle and only work for very specific settings. The overarching challenge of predictive maintenance is to leverage these individual building blocks to obtain …

Online meeting for the presentations of the interim findings of the research aspart of the Borderline Offensive project.

Nederlandse jongeren eten onvoldoende groente. Als ze wel groente eten, gebeurt dat vooral bij het avondeten. Jongeren kopen in de middelbareschoolleeftijd vaker zelf wat te eten of te snacken en die momenten bieden mogelijk kansen om de groenteconsumptie te verhogen.Er zijn weinig groenterijke snacks …

An important consideration for future age-friendly cities is that older people are able to live in housing appropriate for their needs. While thermal comfort in the home is vital for the health and well-being of older people, there are currently few guidelines about how to achieve this. This study is …