Background: Peer Assessment (PA) in health professions education encourages students to develop a critical attitude towards their own and their peers’ performance. We designed a PA task to assess students' clinical skills (including reasoning, communication, physical examination and treatment skills) …

Purpose Due to the recent economic crisis, competition has considerably increased in the legal profession in the Netherlands. However, marketing in legal services is mostly in its infancy and value research in this context is scarce. We therefore used a contingency approach in exploring the origin of …

This report outlines the origin of aberrations in a Low Energy Electron Microscope (LEEM) and how to measure and automatically correct them. The aberrations in a LEEM are mainly caused by the cathode objective lens and are a limiting factor for the achievable resolution. To optimise the resolution of …

BACKGROUND: Many people suffer from complaints of the arm, neck or shoulder (CANS). CANS causes significant work problems, including absenteeism (sickness absence), presenteeism (decreased work productivity) and, ultimately, job loss. There is a need for intervention programs for people suffering from …

In this paper we present the design and field trial of the Dynamic Collage. The Dynamic Collage was designed to facilitate and to stimulate participation of family members in the informal care of an elderly person. The Dynamic Collage enabled relatives to update their current activity by sending a photo …

Dysarthritic Parkinson speech is characterised by impairment of expressive linguistic prosody, even making it difficult to understand. While rigidity and bradykinesia can be held responsible for a general decline in speaking ability, the origin of prosodic impairment must be seen in the light of the …

In the GoGreen project an intelligent home that is able to identify inhabitants and events that take place is created. The location of sounds that are being produced is an important feature for the context awareness of this system. A a wireless solution that uses low-cost sensor nodes and microphones …

Conventional dairy husbandry systems acknowledge animal welfare guided by Brambel’s five freedoms. The concept of natural, or normal behaviour would in contrast to Brambel’s convention, be based on stability through chance and offers a less anthropocentric and more naturalistic approach. The present …

The surge of the interest in the migration-development nexus and the sheer "euphoria" about the potential positive impact of migration on development in origin countries, has also entered EU - level politics on migration. Yet it seems unbelievable that only about one decade ago the effects of migration …

This final project assesses the supervision and guidance provided by Smiling Faces in order to achieve the best possible fulfillment of the duty to care. The main question that will be answered in this final project is: how could Smiling Faces improve its position in the au pair business by achieving …