In September 2009 the department of Engineering of Fontys University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands has started a pilot honours program for excellent engineering students called PRogram OUstanding Development (PROUD). Aim of this program is to give those engineering students, who have the ambition, …

In kringen van beleid en bestuur is de excellente leraar een hot topic: de leraar als sleutel tot verbetering van de onderwijskwaliteit en de excellente leraar die in belangrijke mate bijdraagt aan excellent onderwijs. De vraag is hoe je excellentie kunt stimuleren. Een optie is de masteropleiding. Zo …

Background Patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty (TKA) often experience strength deficits both pre- and post-operatively. As these deficits may have a direct impact on functional recovery, strength assessment should be performed in this patient population. For these assessments, reliable measurements …

Delirium is a frequent disorder in the ICU associated with poor outcome. Several organizations, including the SCCM and the APA, therefore recommend standard screening for delirium to improve early diagnosis and treatment. The CAM-ICU is the most frequently used delirium detection tool in the Netherlands. …

Het onderzoek is gericht op de kwaliteit en waarde van het keurmerk BREEAM-NL. Dit keurmerk is door de Dutch Green Building Council (DGBC) op de Nederlandse markt gebracht met het doel de duurzaamheid van gebouwen meetbaar te maken. BREEAM-NL is een vertaling van het Britse BREEAM naar de Nederlandse …

The past few years Internet has become an important medium in modern society. The use of Internet as a mass medium has resulted in the development of new online media. The feature all these new online media have in common is interactivity. The new web based applications allow citizens to create and share …

Alteya is a small, private, Bulgarian company which was founded in 1999. Its high quality products are certified by many different international organizations. It manufactures products based on lavender and rose oils such as pure essential oils, cosmetics, perfumes etc. Alteya sells them via e-commerce …

PURPOSE: A systematic evaluation of the literature to identify health and contextual factors associated with employment in patients with neuromuscular diseases (NMD) and to perform a best evidence synthesis, taking into account the design of studies, methodological quality and the statistical significance …

In striving for an excellent position regarding competitors in all aspects of management and operations, organizations benefit from establishing strategic cooperations. With allies they can be more successful in surviving the hyper competition. From this survey we derived the frequency, importance and …

De bouwwereld moet af van traditioneel en routinematig ontwerpen en bouwen. Onterechte gedachten over de hoge extra kosten zorgen voor een effectiviteitverlaging voor het beleid gericht op duurzaam bouwen. Duurzaam bouwen moet een gewoonte worden. Maar hoe ziet het ontwerp van een duurzaam en passief …