We present a novel hierarchical model for human activity recognition. In contrast with approaches that successively recognize actions and activities, our approach jointly models actions and activities in a unified framework, and their labels are simultaneously predicted. The model is embedded with a …

Professional higher education is expected to educate large numbers of students to become innovative professionals within a time frame of three or four years. A mission impossible? Not necessarily, according to Henriëtta Joosten who is a philosopher as well as a teacher. She uses the experimental, liberating, …

How can we make Inquiry-Based Science and Mathematics Education (IBSME) durable? …. by incorporating it in the pre-service programs for elementary teachers! With pre-service students the training can be much more intensive than with inservice teachers. To have an impact in the classroom the minimum contact …

Because dental health and oral pathology may affect forensic psychiatric patients' well being, it is important to be able to assess oral health related quality of life (OH-QoL) in these patients. Two studies were conducted among Dutch forensic psychiatric male patients to assess the psychometric properties …

The 5th International Whey Conference, organized jointly by the European Whey Products Association (EWPA) and the American Dairy Products Institute (ADPI), was held in Paris September last. The conference focused on market developments and novel developments in the fields of process technology, food …

Companies today are in the continuous improvement game continuously anticipating customer needs at the same time as reducing transaction costs. It’s a tough game, in which techniques evolve so fast that an organisation with rigid management cannot hope to keep up. Indeed, requirements for management …