Purpose Honours programs prepare talented students to become future excellent professionals . However, competences defining an excellent professional have not been elucidated yet. We investigated how professionals characterize an excellent communication professional, aiming to develop a competence profile …

The Artist Organisations International conference, organised by Florian Malzacher, Jonas Staal and Joanna Warsza, took place in Berlin’s HAU theatre from 9 to 11 January 2015. The organisers emphasised how it seems that more and more activist artists are creating organisational structures that increase …

Stormwaters, flowing into storm sewers, are known to significantly increase the annual pollutant loads entering urban receiving waters and this results in significant degradation of the receiving water quality. Knowledge of the characteristics of stormwater pollution enables urban planners to incorporate …

Nowadays, modern societal trends and technologies enable us to live our lives with comfort and fun. On the one hand, these developments enhance quality of life, on the other hand there are downsides related to our health and happiness. Therefore, in our current society, it is necessary that parents consciously …

Over the past few years the terms 'fair trade', 'sustainable' and 'organic' have become more present in combination with tea products in the supermarkets. These terms are used for many different goals. Some suppliers actually try to provide the consumer with a product that has been produced following …

To evaluate the effect of the educational program "Guided Clinical Reasoning" (GCR) and the introduction of an intelligent electronic nursing documentation system (e-doc) on the quality of the nursing process. Evaluation was conducted at three measurement points and rated with the instrument "Quality …

In Hoogland-West wordt een nieuwe golfbaan aangelegd. Voor deze nieuwe golfbaan moet nog een beheerplan worden gemaakt. De golfbaan is gelegen in een cultuurhistorisch landschap, namelijk het oude hoevenlandschap. Om ervoor te zorgen dat de landschappelijke- en natuurlijke waarde van het landschap zoveel …

Dertig jaar geleden presenteerde Spijkenisse zich als een groene groeistad. Dat Spijkenisse groen is kan men vooral goed zien vanuit de hoge woontorens langs de Oude Maas. De afgelopen jaren heeft de gemeente overigens fors moeten bezuinigen en ook het onderhoudbudget voor het groen werd hierin niet …

De eisen die gesteld worden aan de dijken worden steeds strenger door vernieuwend onderzoek. Toch ging het in 1993 en 1995 met hoog water bijna mis. Na onderzoek bleek dat de dijken bijna doorbraken door piping. Bij piping stroomt water onder de dijk door en worden zandkorrels meegenomen. Hierdoor wordt …

OBJECTIVE: To determine the value of training for the Emergency Management of Severe Burns (EMSB) for medical and nursing staff working in emergency care as measured by their performance in a simulated burn incident online program. METHODS: An Internet-based questionnaire, which included a simulated …