Purpose Palliative care improves quality of life of patients and relatives facing life-threatening illnesses; it places their needs central (WHO, 2015). It is however unknown if facility design in Dutch hospice care facilities fulfils these needs. This paper aims to establish if services and spaces of …

Redevelopment of the West Brabant area is a merger of the ‘known’ and the ‘to be’. A once thriving agricultural area does not have to lay in waste due to a new allocation plan. The landscape will change after the introduction of salt tidal water, but this gives opportunities for saline agriculture with …

When considering a composite strip or plate under certain thermal and environmental conditions and loadings, there is a minimum strain threshold for the appearance of the first micro crack. The associated strain level is defined here as “critical strain”. There are various active displacement methods …

PURPOSE: The aims of this study were to adapt the Gross Motor Function Measure-88 (GMFM-88) for children with Cerebral Palsy (CP) and Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI) and to determine the test-retest and interobserver reliability of the adapted version. METHOD: Sixteen paediatric physical therapists …

The amount of biogas produced in agricultural areas is expected to increase. The increasing number of local and regional initiatives show the growing interest in decentralized energy production. In these new developments biogas can play a role, as a producer of energy, but also in balancing the electricity …

Entrepreneurial Journalism is gaining in interest, first in the United States, but now also increasingly in Europe and in the Netherlands. This can be explained by a combination of factors. Firstly, reorganisations and substantial lay-offs in recent years at news publishers, especially of regional newspapers, …

The objective of this dissertation is to investigate the reasons for a low political participation in Czechoslovakia in the wake of the Velvet Revolution, which started on 17 November 1989, by a literature review. The Czechoslovak citizens reacted on several developments in their surrounding countries, …

Onderzoek naar hoe een nieuw magazijn het meest efficiënt en effectief mogelijk kan worden ingericht. Probleemstelling: Hoe ziet de nieuwe magazijn lay-out er uit, wat zijn de gevolgen voor de processen en welke administratieve verwerkingstechniek is wenselijk om hierbij te gebruiken?

Purpose: The Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA), including the PG-SGA Short Form (SF, aka ‘abridged’), was originally developed in the mid 1990’s as a scored, patient self-report, paperbased instrument and has been widely validated. The PG-SGA (SF) has been used for screening, assessment …

website of CEP (Confederation of European Probation) with with “state of the art knowledge” on probation. The information is both scientifically rigorous and practically relevant to a broad public of practitioners and interested lay persons. The context of probation is complex and multi-facetted. …