Caregivers of persons with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) often describe the quality of the daily movements of these persons in terms of flexibility or stiffness. Objective outcome measures for flexibility and stiffness are muscle tone or level of spasticity. Two instruments used …

This special issue of Systems Research and Behavioural Science is about the systematic use of metaphor and its implications for behaviour, especially in the field of knowledge management.

With the average age of the working population increasing, Europeans now have to work longer. How can these extended careers become more successful and satisfying? And how can lifelong guidance and counselling specifically support older workers? 

The strengths of design-based research (DBR from now on) is that it teststheories in the real word of practice and in doing so generates newknowledge and artifacts useful to both the scientist and the practitioner.However, DBR’s strength might also be considered its weakness; becausethe research takes …

Het thema ‘Onderzoek in het onderwijs en afstuderen’ is het belangrijkste speerpunt van het Kenniscentrum MFR (jaarplan kenniscentrum MFR/MTV 2010-2011). Om te komen tot normering van de kwaliteit van afstudeeronderzoek heeft een werkgroep zich gebogen over kwaliteitscriteria. Het resultaat is opgenomen …

Communities of practice (CoPs) impact different actors in different ways. Because using a singular approach would not do justice to the complexity that surrounds CoPs, a multi-disciplinary and pluralistic approach is used here to develop a model for measuring the impact CoPs may have on individuals, …

In May 2007, our Centre for Research in Intellectual Capital hosted the International Congress on Intellectual Capital: The future of business navigation. The Congress – which took place in Haarlem, The Netherlands – was attended by more than 140 participants from 23 countries. Based on almost 70 papers, …

Onderzoek binnen het hbo in Nederland krijgt steeds meer vorm. Inmiddels zijn er meer dan 450 lectoren in het hbo actief bij meer dan 400 lectoraten. Met de groei van het onderzoek klinkt ook steeds luider de roep om verbetering en borging van de kwaliteit van onderzoek. Ook de ontwikkeling van Open …

The purpose of this article is the presentation of a multidimensional guideline for the diagnosis of anxiety and anxiety-related behavior problems in people with intellectual disability (ID), with a substantial role for the nurse in this diagnostic process. DESIGN AND METHODS:  The guideline is illustrated …

Interview Eja Kliphuis in SURF Magazine, jaargang 15, nummer 3