The Saxion University of Applied Sciences recently started the project “Safety atWork”. The objective of the project is to increase safety at the workplace by applyingand combining state of the art artifacts Ambient Intelligence, Industrial & ProductDesign and Smart Functional Materials [1].There is …

When a human Body is confronted with toxic substances it has an immediate reaction. This first reaction was recently verbalised by a friend of mine, who happens to be an artist and was exposed to toxic steams in her studio; when she recognised the physical effects she immediately felt: “Oh my good- I …

1e alinea column: Life happens to you while you are busy making other plans, J. Lennon Hoe komen succesvolle innovaties in de internettijd tot stand? Toeval, geluk, reputatie en timing blijven een rol spelen, maar social media en 24*7 wereldwijd verbonden maken het spel wel anders dan vroeger.

Tijdens muziektherapie kiezen veel jongeren tussen 12-18 jaar er graag voor om te zingen of te rappen. Het komt regelmatig voor dat zij hierbij andersoortig stemgebruik hanteren dan hun eigen, natuurlijke stem. Met name wanneer ze sociaal-emotionele problemen hebben of een psychiatrische stoornis. Om …

1e alinea column: “Revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new technology. It happens when society adopts new behaviors”. Clay Shirky, 2008 Sociale media maken het nog gemakkelijker zo’n volle agenda te hebben. Mailtjes, tweets, status updates, direct messages, etc sturen en elkaar bezig houden …

Introduction Nowadays, humans are used to sit a lot during daily activities. Most of the time this happens in a relaxed way. This position is also called ´slouching´ or ´slouched posture´. In the slouched posture the pelvis and the lumbar spine are flexed and places the muscle spindles, muscles and ligaments …

The coming decades, the baby boomers (born between 1946 and 1965) are going to retire. This retirement wave will cause a loss of knowledge for organizations and thus threatens the organization‟s ability to make knowledge productive and thus competitiveness. As knowledge management (KM) is the formal …

After 2001, nine years after the fall of the Taliban, women's socio-economic position in Afghanistan has hardly improved. To this day, women are subjected to many cruelties such as torture and rape. After the Taliban had been defeated in 2001, the total amount of development assistance by the international …

The Internet is a media that is used by everyone, and children are at risk, they start using it at an early age. Children get bullied and intimidated by other children or even become victims of paedophiles on the Internet. Human traffickers are more and more pretending to be someone else on the Internet …

During several internships by the researcher of this study, the researcher discovered through personal experiences that there is a big diversity in the level of motor skills of the students. The goal of this theoretical part of this study is to get insight in what motor development is and how it is testable …