Within large service organizations there are currently two trends visible. These trends seem to be diametrically opposed. On the one hand organizations face increasing price pressure and thus a pressure to cut costs. One of the consequences of this trend is that organizations are increasingly encouraging …

Taal speelt een belangrijke rol in processen waarin heel verschillende partijen aan sociale innovatie werken. Daarom is het belangrijk dat er in een fieldlab een bepaalde gevoeligheid ontstaat voor de talen die partijen gebruiken. Woorden die voor de ene partij belangrijk zijn, kunnen voor een andere …

Background: Retention of movement technique is crucial in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury pre- vention programs. It is unknown if specific instructions or video instructions result in changes in kine- matic and kinetic measures during a relatively short training session, and in a retention test …

This short text was written to accompany the images on the invitation of Laura White, for which I would like to thank her very much. The text is based on a number of publications and the exhibition Object Lessons: The History of Material Education in 8 Chapters, I curated together with Imke Volkers at …

‘How do we write when we write online?’ is the question asked by the first item on this list and by the list as a whole. We write a lot online; that’s for sure. Of course, there are discussions about the mobile phone destroying our sense of grammar, about image-biased media overturning the craft of writing, …

This thesis is written for Kwekerij De Vesting to determine to what extent a brand of zucchinis can be successful within the Dutch market. Kwekerij De Vesting started to grow zucchinis without any knowledge of the Dutch market in February 2015. This research assesses the needs and desires of the potential …

In the absence of words… A systemic N=1 study of Art Therapy in combination with Storytelling as a contributive therapy for adults suffering with acquired brain injury and possibly diagnosed with aphasia. People with acquired brain injury and aphasia can experience communication impairments and therefore …

Background The testing effect is the finding that information that is retrieved during learning is more often correctly retrieved on a final test than information that is restudied. According to the semantic mediator hypothesis the testing effect arises because retrieval practice of cue-target pairs …

BACKGROUND: The Quebec Back Pain Disability Scale (QBPDS) has been translated into different languages, and several studies on its measurement properties have been done. PURPOSE: The purpose of this review was to critically appraise and compare the measurement properties, when possible, of all language …

Art therapy is frequently prescribed for patients with eating disorders. Recent developments in the field have led to a renewed interest in evidence of the effectiveness of art therapy. This multicentre study examines whether patients evaluate art therapy to be effective in the treatment of an eating …