Background: The purpose of this study is to increase our understanding of environmental correlates that are associated with route choice during active transportation to school (ATS) by comparing characteristics of actual walking and cycling routes between home and school with the shortest possible route …

De Nederlandse bevolking wordt steeds ouder. Daarboven op komt het effect van de naoorlogse babyboom; een grote golf van extra ouderen in de komende 20 jaar. Deze grote groep babyboomers is nu (2015) tussen de 60 à 70 jaar oud. Hierdoor ontstaat er een overschot aan mensen die zorg nodig zullen hebben. …

BACKGROUND: Shiftwork is a major job demand for nurses and has been related to various negative consequences. Research suggests that personal and job resources moderate the impact of work schedules on stress, health and well-being. OBJECTIVES: This longitudinal study examined whether the interactions …

The aim of this paper is to reflect on Russian-OSCE relations and how this has changed from Russia's constructive engagement to gradual disillusionment. The history of Russia’s engagement in the OSCE is traced back to the founding of the organisation in 1975, while there is particular focus on the Yeltsin …

Conflicts between livestock owners and wolves are already present for ages in Europe. In southern Europe, especially in areas with important livestock production, wolves may depend heavily on livestock as prey (Iliopoulos et al., 2009). Predation on livestock is the crucial factor promoting wolf persecution. …

Het verhogen van het eigen vermogen van banken gaat niet zonder kosten en een lange overgangsperiode.

De komende jaren zal de hoeveelheid helikopter onderhoud in hangaar 374 sterk toenemen. In 2015 en 2016 zullen de Block II modificaties versneld uitgevoerd worden en vanaf 2017 is het plan om alle fase-inspecties binnen hangaar 374 uit te voeren. Het plan is om vanaf 2016 alle Chinook fase-inspecties …

At the biomedical department of the TUDelft a sensor node is designed[1]. This is an Autonomous Wireless Sensor Node(AWSN) with temperature monitoring, which is powered up wirelessly and have data transmission through backscattering. The aim of the project is to design a receiver for the AWSN and to …

In order to better understand the precursors of bridge employment, this study aimed to investigate whether individual action strategies in terms of selection, optimization, and compensation (SOC; Baltes & Baltes, 1990) are able to buffer the well-known negative impact of poor health on the intention …

Pleidooi voor een drietrapsraket, waabij de overheid meer ruimte geeft aan instellingen om haar eigen kwaliteit te bewaken (instellingsaccreditatie); management van scholen als buffer op treedt en professionals hun verantwoordelijkheid nemen en bereid zijn verantwoording af te leggen aan peers.