The challenges faced by business and society in the rapidly-changing 21st century require skills and capabilities that our education system, essentially fit-for-purpose in the 19th Century, struggles to provide. In this brief paper, presented at the Rotterdam TEDX-Rotterdam Clean Tech Delta forum on …

In the Netherlands, research on student success has been highly influenced by Tinto’s integration theory. As part of my broader PhD research, I investigate the possible influence of the use of social media by first year students in higher education on student success. In previous studies I measured the …

Psychosocial interventions aim to mitigate the serious consequences of dementia for the daily life of people with dementia and their informal caregivers. To deliver a person-centred approach, it is crucial to take needs, characteristics and preferences of people with dementia and their informal caregivers …

Bedrijf X is een dienstverlenende en kennisintensieve organisatie, waarbij kennis en hooggekwalificeerde mensen van groot belang zijn. De wereld van IT verandert continue en het is van belang dat de medewerkers mee veranderen. Echter is er onder de medewerkers van bedrijf X weinig besef over wat er daadwerkelijk …

Itch (pruritus) is a common multidimensional complaint after burn that can persist for months to years. A questionnaire able to investigate itch and its consequences is imperative for clinical and research purposes. The current study investigated the factor structure, internal consistency and construct …

In dit boek vind je informatie en tips over hoe je zo goed mogelijk kunt omgaan met het proces van ouder worden met je beperking. Met aandacht voor fit en gezond blijven: omgaan met vermoeidheid en chronische pijn, slapen, medicatie, voeding, bewegen, valpreventie. En ook: hoe zorg je goed voor jezelf, …

Inleiding: ‘deRotterdamseDietist’ is werkzaam als schooldiëtist op 45 Lekker Fit! basisscholen in Rotterdam. ‘Lekker Fit!’ is een project van de Gemeente Rotterdam wat sinds 2005 inspeelt op overgewicht bij Rotterdamse kinderen met inzet van een schooldiëtist en gymleerkracht. Elke school heeft beschikking …

This paper is a case report of why and how CDIO became a shared framework for Community Service Engineering (CSE) education. CSE can be defined as the engineering of products, product-service combinations or services that fulfill well-being and health needs in the social domain, specifically for vulnerable …

The thermally-sensitive resistors (thermistors) used in VSL’s water calorimeter to detect the radiation-induced temperature change in water are affected by self-heat. The measurement current used to determine their resistance causes their temperature to increase above that of their environment. The self-heat …

A welcome policy can be embedded in a municipal authority organisation in a number of different ways. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses. To be effective, the local policy makers must be clear on how they hope to make use of the welcome policy and how this will benefit or suffer from different …