Chronic non-specific low back pain is assumed to be a multifactorial affliction, implying that a number of different risk factors contribute to its development and persistence. After onset, prognostic factors can potentially predict the future course. Risk factors for the development of chronic pain …

The Saxion Research Centre for Design and Technology employs many students during research projects. This paper discusses a series of student design projects on safety helmets in the Safety@Work project. At construction sites workers are required to wear personal protective equipment during their work. …

Although poor reading and spelling skills have been associated with weak skills of executive functioning (EF), its role in literacy is not undisputed. Because EF has different theoretical underpinnings, methods of analysis and of assessing EF, it has led to varying and often contrasting results in its …

In dit artikel, verschenen in TexPress (augustus 2014), besteedt Anton Luiken, lid van de Kenniskring Smart Functional Materials van Saxion en directeur van Texperium, aandacht aan ReBlend. ReBlend is een Nederlands upcycling-initiatief om van textielafval van bepaalde samenstelling door mechanische …

Er wordt in het artikel antwoord gegeven op de vragen die steeds opduiken als het gaat om ouderbetrokkenheid. Uit onderzoeken is gebleken dat leerlingen zich beter ontwikkelen als ouders, leerkrachten en anderen in hun omgeving samenwerken en de ontwikkeling van de leerlingen ondersteunen. Toch ontstaan …

WHEAT Trust is a small organisation which provides financial and other resources to small community-based organisations (CBOs) and women to support local, rural and national initiatives throughout South Africa that would otherwise not have been able to access these on their own. Some of those organisations …

The main goal of this graduation assignment is to provide the client organization Vivonline with strategic advice in order to outline a better and accurate profile of their existing audience, and how to strengthen their brand resonance with the current online followers of their website. This is achieved …

Verslag van het deelproject Temperatuurmeting, onderdeel van het SaxShirt-project.

Hoe ziet de toekomst van de thuiszorgverlening eruit? Het  Nederlandse zorgsysteem is sterk aan het veranderen, onder andere door de grondige bezuinigingen en een stijgende zorgvraag tegenover een dalend aanbod in zorgverleners. Een zorgsetting die onderhevig is aan zulke grote veranderingen, vraagt …

The problem addressed in this report is to verify the possibility of using an optical sensor in the SaxShirt in order to extract the heart rate. There are specifically three questions that we try to address. 1) How is it possible to extract heart rate (BPM) from the optical sensor? 2) Is it possible …