De provincie Overijssel staat voor een van de grootste uitdagingen voor de komende decennia: “Het realiseren van een energietransitie waardoor Overijssel in 2050 energieneutraal is”. Een uitdaging die alle geledingen van de samenleving raakt en vraagt om sterke veranderingen in de energie-infrastructuur, …

Background  Advanced medical technologies (AMTs), such as respiratory support or suction devices,  are increasingly used in home settings and incidents may well result in patient harm.  Information about risks and incidents can contribute to improved patient safety, provided that those are reported …

Eindrapportage van het TFF project RPAS meets Fire Fighting van het lectoraat AFT. 

Brain & Technology is about the relationship between mind and technology, so about brain and lifelong learning, and therefore about the extended mind. More generally, humanity uses technology to outsource brain processes (mind) to smart devices, just as we partially outsource our digestion to cooking …

It is time for science and politics to take real responsibility for the "iatrogenesis" (pathogenic effect) of technology, instead of blindly investing in new disruptive technology. Even though the close link between technology and the economy seems to "force" it. Monocultures are both not natural, and …

If a pianist receives a completely different organized keyboard, (s)he would have to learn to play again. In digital technology this happens continuously. However, software companies show little or no awareness of this inadvertently “tweaking” users, and this is because we do not understand enough that …

A paradigm shift occurs when scientists stick to their model of reality (theory), while evidence begins to pile up that doesn 't fit in there. Often a group of relative outsiders is needed, for example a younger generation of scientists or scientists from a different discipline, who are first seen as …

Rich versus poor, rural versus urbanites, workers versus managers, the autistic versus the “normal”. Despite systems to “enlighten” truth (such as the rational enlightenment that heralded the scientific revolution), we will always have to feel and believe. Our knowing will always remain temporary, until …

Eerder gepubliceerd in ROMagazine, jrg. 37, nr 6 http://romagazine.nl/ Aardbevingen in Groningen, discussies over schaliegas en ondergrondse CO2-opslag, warmte-koudeopslag, geothermie, gebiedsgericht grondwaterbeheer, ondergronds bouwen en de aanleg van nieuwe kabels en leidingen. Met name de energietransitie …

CC BY 4.0 BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 21, 360 (2020) AbstractBackground: Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are the primary cause of disability worldwide and a major societalburden. Recent qualitative research found that although a patient’s work is considered important, physical therapists take work …