Maintaining the Millennial workforce level is continually one of the most significant challenges facing the service industry in Belgium. The same issue applies to the Erasmus Center Assocation Sans But Lucratif, also known as Erasmus Center ASBL, which is active in the education service sector. In short, …

Er bestaat een groot verschil in de prevalentie en incidentie van wonden op de wereld. Nederland heeft naar schatting ongeveer 500.000 patiënten met wonden per jaar. Bij de term ‘wond’ is er sprake van een beschadiging van de huid en/of het onderliggende weefsel. Het verlenen van wondzorg wordt gezien …

Introduction: Intractable epilepsy can be treated with the Ketogenic diet (KD). One of the side-effects of the KD is poor bone health. Experience from the Erasmus MC Sophia Children’s Hospital (EMCS) shows that the status of bone mineral density (BMD) is unknown in many cases. This makes it difficult …

This chapter considers the use of haptics for learning fundamental rhythm skills, including skills that depend on multi-limb coordination. Different sensory modalities have different strengths and weaknesses for the development of skills related to rhythm. For example, vision has low temporal resolution …

Onderzoekend leren, een term die in het huidige onderwijs vaak voorkomt. Basisscholen in heel Nederland zijn bezig met het inzetten van dit concept bij vakken als Natuur & Techniek. Er worden echter ook problemen ondervonden in dit proces. Kunnen kinderen zelfstandig aan de slag met onderzoekend leren? …

Ageing of the population in European cities creates fundamental challenges with regard to employment, pensions, health care and other age-related services. Many older people want to live independent lives as long as possible. This aspiration is currently strongly supported by many local governments. …

Door de vele bezuinigingen in de zorg lijkt in de afgelopen jaren een verandering te hebben plaatsgevonden van de manier waarop de overheid voor haar burgers zorgt. Hierdoor worden burgers gedwongen zelfredzamer te zijn. Voor mensen met een licht verstandelijke beperking (LVB) in combinatie met een psychische …

‘Old’ marketing, such as flyers and newspaper ads, did not work that well anymore for Sport2000 Bakker, and was becoming too expensive. They assumed that social media would be a cheaper, more effective, and goal-oriented marketing tool. Sport2000 Bakker was also seeking more customer participation and …

Children worldwide are confronted with interpersonal violence (IV) on a daily basis. They encounter violence in children’s books, cartoons, on television and in the media or, more personally, in social media, at home, at school, in church or on the streets, with the acts being perpetrated by parents, …

Citizen science – the active participation of lay people in research – may yield crucial local knowledge and increase research capacity. Recently, there is growing interest to understand benefits for citizen scientists themselves. We studied the perceived impacts of participation in a public health citizen …