Background: Palliative care patients desire more symptom management interventions that are complementary to their medical treatment. Within the multi-professional team, nurses could help support pain management with non-pharmacological interventions feasible for their practice and adaptable to palliative …

Post-training quantization reduces the computational demand of Large Language Models (LLMs) but can weaken some of their capabilities. Since LLM abilities emerge with scale, smaller LLMs are more sensitive to quantization. In this paper, we explore how quantization affects smaller LLMs’ ability to perform …

Social innovation acknowledges that alternative arrangements between state, market and civil society are called for if innovations are to be sustainable. This chapter examines grassroots-led processes of social innovation in the field of poverty in Flanders, inspired by Ibrahim’s model of grassroots-led …

In deze handreiking vindt u handvatten om een project op te zetten waarin senioren zelf filmpjes maken over verbeterpunten in hun eigen leefomgeving. De filmpjes worden gedeeld met relevante stakeholders om concrete verbeteringen teweeg te brengen en bij te dragen aan het creëren van een leeftijdsvriendelijke …

Currently, various higher education (HE) institutes develop flexible curricula for various reasons, including promoting accessibility of HE, the societal need for more self-regulated professionals who engage in life-long learning, and the desire to increase motivation of students. Increasing flexibility …

Lerende praktijken schieten als paddenstoelen uit de grond. De werkgroep Lerende Praktijken van de Werkplaatsen Sociaal domein is blij met de opkomst, maar heeft ook kritische kanttekeningen. Zij ziet steeds vaker dat het vormen van een lerende praktijk een lege huls is. De foto's bij dit artikel vallen …

At the conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) Niels Bohnen and Suzan van Ierland presented their research about enhancing student self-regluation through prgrammatic assessment. The aim of the current study is to discover to which degree studying within …

Onderzoeksresultaten masterthesis gepresenteerd 'a predictive model of symptoms on pain in independently living frail elderly in palliative care'

Blue-collar workers often have disadvantageous health statuses and might therefore benefit from a combination of individual and environmental workplace health promotion interventions. Exploring stakeholders’ perceived facilitators and barriers regarding the combined implementation of these interventions …

Background Understanding the perceptions of lower socioeconomic groups towards workplace health promotion is important because they are underrepresented in workplace health promotion activities and generally engage in unhealthier lifestyle behaviour than high SEP groups. This study aims to explore interest …