Facility Management encapsulates unprecedented positive forces with which any workforce in an organization can function and perform better. A right facility design is also beneficial for clients, patients, and other end users. You will be immersed in best case practices, showing organizational-spatial …

Prerequisites (AVAC-SCP) metric was developed to assess whether an organisation plans and implements activities that correspond to prerequisites for fostering a positive safety culture. The metric was designed based on an inclusive theoretical framework stemmed from academic and professional literature …

The aim of this study was to assess the predictive ability of the frailty phenotype (FP), Groningen Frailty Indicator (GFI), Tilburg Frailty Indicator (TFI) and frailty index (FI) for the outcomes mortality, hospitalization and increase in dependency in (instrumental) activities of daily living ((I)ADL) …

The airport of Mexico City has been declared saturated for most of the day. For that reason, the Mexican government announced a couple of years ago the construction of a completely new one which is supposed to be operative in 2020 in its first phase. However, the technical issues and the economic downturn …

We analyze how ‘original’ residents in different gentrifying working class areas in Amsterdam North experience and evaluate the changes in their neighborhood in terms of social cohesion – in other words, whether they feel at home in their changing neighborhood and whether they feel connected to other …

This article explores how concern about animal welfare and animal rights relates to ecological citizenship by discussing student assignments written about the Dutch Party for Animals or PvdD. ‘Animal welfare’, ‘animal rights’, and ‘ecological citizenship’ perspectives offer insights into strategic choices …

Urban water bodies like ponds or canals are commonly assumed to provide effective cooling in hot periods. Some of the evidence that feeds this assertion is based on remote sensing observations at relatively large scales. Such observations generally reveal reduced surface temperatures of water bodies …

Inleiding – Bij kinderen met het syndroom van Down (DS) is er sprake van primaire (genetische) en secundaire (niet genetische) problematieken in het mondgebied. De Nederlandse en Duitse richtlijnen zijn verschillend betreft de omgang met deze problematiek. Het doel van dit praktijkgerichte onderzoek …

During our lives we go through many of these cycles. It is no coincidence that, now that our world is so constantly available, on average we start with jobs, friends and loved ones over and over again. Now that we derive our stability from a continuously available environment, our cyclical nature is …

The objective of the study described in this paper is to define safety metrics that are based on the utilisation of resources. The background of this research is a specific need of the aviation industry where small and medium-sized enterprises lack large amounts of safety-related data to measure and …