The flood fighter: a practical example of street design interventions to prevent flooding.City resilience refers to making cities more resilient to the physical, social and economic challenges that are a growing part of the 21st century. How can mobility planning contribute to city resilience? What are …

Inaugural lecture Professorship "Transition Bioeconomy"

BACKGROUND: Blended care, a combination of online and face-to-face care, is seen as a promising treatment option. However, actual use of blended interventions in practice is disappointing. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was two folded. The first aim was to develop a blended exercise therapy intervention …

Verbeteren van conceptueel denken in externe leeromgevingen

Using Quick Scan methods for management of urban heat and flood risks.

It is often assumed that ‘evaluation’ is about judging or assessing a particular piece of practice or intervention, for example after an initial pilot stage to determine whether to continue, or at the end of a programme of work to determine the impact on client behaviour and recidivism. What may be considered …

Symposium ESWRA - ECSWR 2016: empirical ethics in social work. Objective: ethical aspects of social work (esp. at home) Structure: cooperation of the research group of UAS Utrecht Netherlands with six regional welfare organizations Method: practice based ethics research Focus on professional practice: …

Het aantal scheidingen per jaar stijgt. Bij de meerderheid van de scheidingen zijn kinderen betrokken. Ongeveer 20 procent van de scheidingen verloopt problematisch en jaarlijks lijden ongeveer 3.500 kinderen onder de scheiding van hun ouders. Het leed dat kinderen en ouders ervaren kan voorkomen worden …

Background: Telehealth is viewed as a major strategy to address the increasing demand for care and a shrinking care professional population. However, most nurses are not trained or are insufficiently trained to use these technologies effectively. Therefore, the potential of telehealth fails to reach …

Conceptual independence is a novel approach for adaptable information systems. It extends the ideas of Model Driven Development. Conceptual independence eases adaptability by a separation of the Business domain terms from the functions that use the terms in the application. Although in practice many …