Philips strives to make the world healthier and more sustainable through innovation, in both advanced and emerging markets. There are major differences between these worlds, also in healthcare. This is mainly the result of the limited resources in the emerging countries and the lack of availability of …

Recently, the use of military robots – which may be drones, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), remotely piloted systems, autonomous weapon systems or ‘killer robots’ – has been debated in the media, politics, and academia. Military robots are increasingly automated, which means that they can perform tasks …

Om te voldoen aan de nieuwe NBW toetsingsnormen hebben de waterschappen De Dommel, Aa en Maas en Brabantse Delta samen met Rijkswaterstaat opdracht gegeven aan Witteveen+Bos om een gedetailleerd hydraulisch model van optredende waterstanden te voorspellen in stroomgebied Mark-Vliet en een bijbehorende …

In het kader van duurzaamheid zijn verschillende bemalingsmethoden ontwikkeld die het bemalingsproces optimaliseren. Eén van deze methoden is een frequentiegestuurde bemaling met behulp van niveaumeting. Hiermee kunnen tijdens een bemaling verschillende grondwaterstandverlagingen gehanteerd worden die …

In small businesses with no employees, learning environments have a low learning readiness. Consequently, learners need to rely on their own agency to shape their learning experiences. Results from a study of agricultural entrepreneurs indicated that the components of motivation and self-regulated learning …

A model for programmatic assessment in action is proposed that optimizes assessment for learning as well as decision making on learner progress. It is based on a set of assessment principles that are interpreted from empirical research. The model specifies cycles of training, assessment and learner support …

Although sustainability is often discussed solely in ecological terms, it cannot be disconnected from the way humans behave in their social environment. This article presents a theoretical approach toward sustainability that takes a human behavior and knowledge view on sustainability as a starting point. …

Although previous research programs have yielded valuable knowledge that can help sugar beet growers to innovate farming processes, actual transfer of this knowledge to the growers so far is lacking. Currents ways of knowledge transfer do not match learning styles, personal traits or the social environment …

OPTIRas is een beslissingsondersteunend systeem voor de zetmeelaardappelteelt in Nederland en Duitsland. Het adviseert telers rassenkeuze op basis van nematoden en wratziekte resistentie en toleranties, het berekent plantafstand en voorspelt bewaarverliezen op basis van rooibeschadiging.

Redesigning IT systems for specific user groups encompasses a lot of effort with respect to analysing and understanding user behaviour. The goal of this paper is to provide insights into patterns of behaviour of agricultural users, during the usage of a decision support system called OPTIRas (TM). This …