Interprofessional collaboration (IPC) is of great importance in the complex care of frail older people. IPC goes beyond multidisciplinary collaboration and ties in with trends and developments in health care that can further improve the quality of health care. However, IPC can be obstructed when it is …

For organizations that use IT systems in their primary business or as support of their business processes, optimal alignment between the business strategy and their business information technology (BIT) is critical. However, achieving business information technology alignment remains challenging due …

Autonomous robots require high degrees of cognitive and motoric intelligence to come into our everyday life. In non-structured environments and in the presence of uncertainties, such degrees of intelligence are not easy to obtain. Reinforcement learning algorithms have proven to be capable of solving …

The environmental conditions during the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games are expected to be challenging, which increases the risk for participating athletes to develop heat-related illnesses and experience performance loss. To allow safe and optimal exercise performance of Dutch elite athletes, the …

PV systems are used more and more. Not always is it possible to install them in the optimal direction for maximum energy output over the year. At the Johan Cruijff ArenA the PV panels are placed all around the roof in all possible directions. Panels oriented to the north will have a lower energy gain …

Due to a lack of transparency in both algorithm and validation methodology, it is diffcult for researchers and clinicians to select the appropriate tracker for their application. The aim of this work is to transparently present an adjustable physical activity classification algorithm that discriminates …

Industrial control systems are essential for the functioning of our society since they control our electricity, water, agriculture, health, communication, transportation, emergency service and financial service. In the digital age of big data and data analytics these so-called critical infrastructures …

To better control the growing process of horticulture plants greenhouse growers need an automated way to efficiently and effectively find where diseases are spreading. The HiPerGreen project has done research in using an autonomous quadcopter for this scouting. In order for the quadcopter to be able …

To better control the growing process of horticulture plants greenhouse growers need an automated way to efficiently and effectively find where diseases are spreading.The HiPerGreen project has done research in using an autonomous quadcopter for this scouting. In order for the quadcopter to be able …

Sinds 2017 is het personeelstekort binnen ziekenhuizen een groot probleem. De operatiekamer-afdeling (OK) van het VU medisch centrum (VUmc) wordt hiermee het hardst geraakt. Rond dezelfde periode zijn het VUmc en Academisch Medisch Centrum gefuseerd onder de naam: Amsterdam UMC. Als gevolg van deze tekorten …