Purpose The aim of this study is to provide insights into how the purchasing function can increase the maturity of smart maintenance management (SMM) in construction clients by (1) assessing current SMM maturity and (2) developing an adapted service triad for purchasing's meaningful involvement in SMM. …

A resource optimization methodology is proposed for application in long range wide area networks (LoRaWANs). Using variable neighborhood search (VNS) and a minimum-cost spanning tree algorithm, it reduces the implementation and the maintenance costs of such low power networks. Performance evaluations …

Cerebral palsy is a lifelong neurodevelopmental condition arising from non-progressive disorders occurring in the fetal or infant brain. Cerebral palsy has long been categorised into discrete motor types based on the predominance of spasticity, dyskinesia, or ataxia. However, these motor disorders, muscle …

Voor het Aedes-controllersnetwerk heb ik een presentatie gehouden over een deel van de uitkomsten van het onderzoek Van Goeden Huize. De presentatie laat zien dat vooral een reflectieve cultuur en een pro-actieve rolopvatting van de onafhankelijke controlfunctie bijdraagt aan de effectiviteit van het …

Research suggests that construction clients, as building owner-occupier, are struggling to implement smart maintenance. This thesis assumes that this is due to a failure to fully understand the institutional complexities of smart maintenance. Hence, the aim of this thesis was to improve our understanding …

Weergave van eerder gepubliceerde vakartikelen, beschouwingen over praktijkonderzoek en reflecties op het SIA-Raak Onderzoeksproject Van Goeden Huize, naar de onafhankelijke controlfunctie binnen woningcorporaties

As campuses wish to stimulate interactions among different campus users, we aim to identify why some locations are successful in fostering unplanned meetings while others are not. This can help campus managers, directors, and other practitioners to optimize their campus to facilitate unplanned meetings …

The questionnaire was completed by 36 third year nursing students. Results indicate that main reasons for insufficient dental hygiene performed by nurses include insufficient knowledge of protocols, lack of skills and time, opposition of the patient and low priority. In addition, respondents indicated …

South Boom Boom is an attempt to survive in apnea, a continuous labor, a possibility to re-imagine the world, a way to escape captivity, to draw fugitive lines, to resist, to fight and fly, to conceive resistances, to migrate, to reinvent a catastrophe, to deform the shapes of oppression across time. This …

Although education programmes are constantly being renewed, innovation does not always lead to anchored changes in educational practice. One explanation is that educational innovation evolves more dynamics than often is assumed. Instead of following a well-designed plan, the core activities of innovation …