Purpose - This paper aims to establish the profile of an excellent facility manager in The Netherlands.Design/methodology/approach − As part of a large-scale study on profiles of excellent professionals, a study was carried out to find the key characteristics of an excellent facility manager. Three panel …

Motivation: Unambiguous sequence variant descriptions are important in reporting the outcome of clinical diagnostic DNA tests. The standard nomenclature of the Human Genome Variation Society (HGVS) describes the observed variant sequence relative to a given reference sequence. We propose an efficient …

- Hybrid print and electronic publishing requires new work methods and workflows. - Low-budget, small-edition, visually-oriented publications that are designed in-house will require more significant changes in work methods than big-budget publications for which the ebook design can be outsourced. - Interactive …

Purpose: Pressure ulcers are a high cost, high volume issue for health and medical care providers, having a detrimental effect on patients and relatives. Pressure ulcer prevention is widely covered in the literature, but little has been published regarding the risk to patients in the radiographical setting. …

Discussions around the influence of the free software philosophy on art tend to revolve around the role of the artist in a networked community, and their relationship with so-called open source practices. However, one overlooked question, that is why some artists have been quickly attracted to the legal …

This work has: •Examined, compared and evaluated 22 programming languages and environments for parallel computing on multi-core CPUs and GPUs •Chosen to use OpenMP as the standard for multi-core CPU programming and OpenCL for GPU programming •Re-implemented a number of standard and well-known algorithms …

Van belang binnen iedere organisatie is een goed verloop van processen en de samenhangende kwaliteit. Wil aan deze doelstelling worden beantwoord, dan dient sprake te zijn van bewustzijn ten aanzien van knelpunten en verspillingen. De Lean filosofie biedt hierin een uitkomst. Vanuit de medewerkers is …

This report is written to guide the reader step by step through the process of developing a heating stage and a iron mapping device for a photoluminescence setup, used to measure the lifetime of silicon wafers in solar cells. Subject specific terms will be explained throughout the report. First, research …

With regard to the increasing global competition for highly-skilled labour, the group of mobile international students is becoming more and more prominent in the considerations of national policy-makers. One concrete idea is to develop policies in order to bind international students and foreign knowledge workers …

The development of an international nursing documentation standard: the nursing perspective