Dementia is often diagnosed after emergency situations have emerged.The social network of elderly was studied in order to find out if persons or institutions could help to discover problems in an earlier phase. It was concluded that family is most important, and that information, rather than detection, …

The objective of this paper is to examine how a combination of the concepts of Fair Trade, CrossBorderProsperity (CBP), Yunus' microcredit and social business could strengthen the producers' socio-economic situation and position in the free market. Small-scale producers in developing countries are being …

The objective of this paper is a reflective discussion on the validity of the construct Information Literacy in the perspective of changing information and communication technologies. The research question that will be answered is: what is the impact of technological developments on the relevance of …

The use of patterns in a design process, including data modeling, is an attempt to create a better solution to a problem. We propose the use of data model patterns, organized in a pattern language, and based on Fully Communication Oriented Information Modeling (FCO-IM) as the modeling approach, as a …

The network economy typically signifies a notion from the information society where new products and services are developed by collaborating individuals and/or businesses organised in virtual networks. The network economy has important characteristics in common with Northern European governance models, …

In the Netherlands and the Dutch speaking part of Belgium stakeholders in education and Shoe orthopaedics have formed a consotium platform. this pplatform "Forum Orthopaedic Programs (FOOT) is esthablished to reduce existing distance between cultures and backgrounds and provide a sound platform in exchanging …

This document contains development and test information regarding further development of the Universal Capacity Measurement (UCM)system. The UCM is a printed circuit board (PCB) to measure capacitance in the 0-10pF range with great accuracy.

This paper describes a business process and organizational re-design and implementation project for an e-government service organization. In this project the initial process execution time of a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection request has been reduced from some 60 days to 2 days. This has been …