The digitalisation of our society is moving fast. Consumers seem to adjust their needs to this growing digitalisation, but multiple companies have trouble keeping up with the pace. One of these companies is Indola, an international brand that sells hair products such as hair colouring and shampoos for …

The Leidse Schouwburg-Stadsgehoorzaal is the umbrella organisation of the concert hall and the oldest theatre in the Netherlands in Leiden. The Leidse Schouwburg-Stadsgehoorzaal offers shows and concerts to a wide range of visitors. Within the organisation, there was no focus on the Customer Journey. …

Een fieldlab impliceert niet alleen onderzoeken, maar ook maken en doen. Het combineren van onderzoek en ontwerp moet uiteindelijk leiden tot bruikbare diensten en producten. De belofte is immers om directe waarde te creëren voor het gebied en de burgers. In Fieldlab Zuidoost wordt samen met alle betrokken …

Placing the woman at the centre of midwifery care is a key recommendation for optimising Dutch midwifery care, although not fully utilised.

ObjectiveWhile acute musculoskeletal pain is a frequent complaint in emergency care, its management is often neglected, placing patients at risk for insufficient pain relief. Our aim is to investigate how often pain management is provided in the prehospital phase and emergency department (ED) and how …

Heathland, with its frail character, has always been one of the most essential habitats for almost all indigenous reptile species in the Netherlands. Situated in the Drents-Friese Wold National Park, the Doldersummerveld ranks as one of the best developed heathland areas of Western Europe and counts …

With a market demand for low cost, easy to produce, flexible and portable applications in healthcare, energy, biomedical or electronics markets, large research programs are initiated to develop new technologies to provide this demand with new innovative ideas. One of these fast developing technologies …

What does it mean to position anthropos in the center? Questioning anthropocentrism is far more than an academic exercise of debating the dominant cultural motif of placing humans at the center of material and ethical concerns. It is a fertile way of shifting the focus of attention away from the problem-symptoms …

When treating cancer by radiation therapy it is always the goal to irradiate the tumour as much as possible and to spare the healthy tissue around it. For this a new type of radiation therapy called Volumetric Modulated ARC Therapy (VMAT) has been developed. During VMAT treatment the radiation machine …

Deictic gestures are gestures we make during communication to point at objects or persons. Indicative acts of directing-to guide the addressee to an object, while placing-for acts place an object for the addressee’s attention. Commonly used presentation software tools, such as PowerPoint and Keynote, …