In today’s retail landscape, in-store technology is rapidly transforming how consumers interact with physical stores (Grewal et al., 2023). One such innovation is the interactive kiosk, which is an in-store, digital, self-service system employing hardware such as a computer, tablet or larger touchbased …

Purpose The Optimal Physical Recovery After Hospitalization (OPRAH) Intervention is a blended intervention, combining a smartphone app for self-monitoring of physical activity and protein intake with coaching from a physiotherapist and dietician, to enhance the functional recovery after gastro-intestinal …

Vandaag, ter gelegenheid van mijn pensionering, maakte ik een rondgang langs meer dan een decennium aan onderzoek bij zorginstellingen in Noord-Nederland, uitgevoerd door één van de eerste innovatiewerkplaatsen van de Hanze: Health Space Design. Het was een eer om de grote variëteit aan onderzoeken de …

Following centuries of persecution and the destruction and degradation of wetland habitat, the coastal populations of the American crocodile, Crocodylus acutus, of Colombia and Venezuela show signs of recovery, in part, due to conservation efforts. Here we first report on the sequence of events surrounding …

Research Aim So far, Implementation Science has mainly focused on implementing and de-implementing specific evidence-based interventions. However, this is not always feasible. Implementation science has not yet formulated a response to this. We believe that implementation science can provide an opportunity …

Many have suggested that AI-based interventions could enhance learning by personalization, improving teacher effectiveness, or by optimizing educational processes. However, they could also have unintended or unexpected side-effects, such as undermining learning by enabling procrastination, or reducing …

The problem with investments in digital technology arise when much wanted and needed small companies and entrepreneurs have to invest in costly device the benefits of which are largely unforeseen, or unpredictable. An example of this is the use of 3D whole garment knitwear machines, there not only the …

A large, recently published, inter-laboratory study by the ReAct group has shown that there is considerable variability in DNA recovery that exists between forensic laboratories. The presence of this inter-laboratory variability presents issues when one laboratory wishes to carry out an evaluation and …