Not much is known about the favourable indoor air quality in long term care facilities (LTCFs), where older adults suffering from dementia live. Older adults, especially those who suffer from dementia, are more sensible to the indoor environment. However, no special requirements for the indoor air in …

The overriding purpose of the thesis research is to develop new design concepts for improved and sustainable asphalt mixes. To accomplish this goal, it became necessary to reach some prerequisite goals. Determining what a sustainable asphalt means, and how that ideal is connected with the field of asphalt …

In one-dimensional disordered wires electronic states are localized at any energy. Correlations of the states at close positive energies and the AC conductivity \sigma(\omega) in the limit of small frequency are described by the Mott-Berezinskii theory. We revisit the instanton approach to the statistics …

To identify predictors during adolescence for receiving disability benefits in young adulthood, and to compare benefit recipients’ and non-recipients’ social participation, and psychosocial outcomes in young adulthood. By doing so, insights for future policy and rehabilitation care could be provided …

In our society, sustainability has emerged as a major concept in our daily lives and activities, e.g. from reducing the environmental impact of our foods to corporate social responsibility in doing business, and social impact of our activities. The original idea of sustainability was to address human …

In this research, which is part of my PhD research into the influence of the use of social media in higher education, I have lessened the amount of variables, from Tinto’s integration theory. By including only the best-proven predictive variables, based on previous studies, I avoid the capitalization …

The purpose of this dissertation is to test what makes an effective pitch and compare the theory Vs. the practice. During the entrepreneurial tech summit, Seedstars World, in Lausanne, 66 start-ups came together to pitch their start-up ideas to an audience of investors and other VIPS. The objective of …

PURPOSE: This study explores the feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of an exercise program in people scheduled for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). METHODS: In this controlled clinical trial, we compare pre-transplantation exercise to no exercise in the waiting period for an allogeneic …

BACKGROUND: The mixing ability test (MAT) as an outcome measure of masticatory performance is largely used in studies with adults, but not yet with children. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to test the construct validity and the test-retest reliability of the MAT in children with spastic cerebral palsy (CP) …

In this paper, we describe the development of a collaborative approach to elicit and analyse service process experience as part of a project commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment. We designed and deployed a model-based instrument for measuring the experiences of both the …