Op basis van literatuuronderzoek en gesprekken met bedrijven in het RAAK-PRO Veiligheid op de Werkvloer-consortium is een risicoanalyse uitgevoerd met als doel het definiëren van relevante, bedrijfsspecifieke casussen. Hiertoe wordt in dit document een eerste, voorlopige aanzet gegeven. Meer onderzoek …

Safety at work The objective of the project Safety at Work is to increase safety at the workplace by applying and combining state of the art artefacts from personal protective equipment and ambient intelligence technology. In this state of the art document we focus on the developments with respect to …

Schluckstörungen können gerade bei älteren Menschen fatale Folgen haben. Neben Mangelernährung und Gewichtsverlust, ist vor allem die Aspiration gefürchtet, da sie zu schweren Atemwegsinfektionen, den so genannten Aspirationspneumonien, führen kann. Internationalen, in Altenpflegeheimen durchgeführten …

In order to receive a licence to produce, poultry farmers have to take into account societal demands, among others: animal welfare, healthy working conditions for the workers and landscape quality. A way to reach a combination of these goals is to create a design for the poultry house and outdoor run. …

The use of cameras is growing: not only personal computers and laptops are standard equipped with a camera, but also the public domain is increasingly equipped with cameras. Today's camera is not merely a pair of eyes. A surveillance camera can see much more than a single person can do. The rapid proliferation …

This study seeks to explore the sources of strength giving rice to resilience among older people. Twenty-nine in-depth interviews were conducted with older people who receive long-term community care. The interviews were subjected to a thematic content analysis. The findings suggest that the main sources …

Piracy and DRM are both forces that impact negatively as well as positively on the video game industry. Attempting to work these two forces together is difficult, if not impossible. Piracy cannot be stopped, and DRM cannot work its way around piracy in any way. This paper attempts to find a way to connect …

In this study, promotion channels for an eco-fashion collection of the German start up label Flowers&Birds have been identified. It has been revealed, how sustainability in regard to clothing can be credibly communicated and who the target group for these garments are. In Germany, a slowly increasing …

This paper presents the results of a literature review in regard to Social Media and participation. Besides that, to understand the meaning and impact of Social Media on elections, we show field results from the 2010 and 2011 elections in the Netherlands. There are several challenges when it comes to …

Corporate identity represents the sum of immaterial values in an organisation, as well as the degree to which employees identify with their employer. For this reason, the purpose of this paper will be to first assess whether the FCJ has a distinct and personal identity, and what the consequences are …