This thesis provides a report on research aimed at enhancing treatment of patients with bipolar disorder. We describe various aspects of treatment of bipolar disorder. The central study reported in this thesis is an effect study of a multicomponent intervention, Collaborative Care. Chapter 1 describes …

Technology and architectural solutions are needed as a means of support in future nursing homes. This study investigated how various monodisciplinary groups of stakeholders from healthcare and technology envision the nursing home of the future and which elements are necessary for its creation. Moreover, …

Key note presentation together with R. Crabtree.

The main focus of this research was to explore possible reasons for the continuous decline in the congregational membership of the Redeemed Christian Church of God- Jesus House Amsterdam over the last three years. The central argument is that the church started on a ery promising note with regular …

Key note bij het symposium Talentvol opgroeien. Het is de morele en sociale plicht om ieder kind alle kansen te bieden om talentvol op te groeien. Dit soort missies zijn in brede scholen terug te vinden. Echter, in de praktijk blijkt dat men met deze begrippen verschillende dingen bedoelt. De begrippen …

WHEAT Trust is a small organisation which provides financial and other resources to small community-based organisations (CBOs) and women to support local, rural and national initiatives throughout South Africa that would otherwise not have been able to access these on their own. Some of those organisations …

Lezing tijdens een symposium georganiseerd door de parochie Sint Petrus’ Stoel en Stichting KIEN over energiebesparing in de Sint Petruskerk in Eindhoven, gehouden op 14 mei 2014. De key-note ging over PhD research naar het herontwikkelen van duurzame beschermde monumenten en het case studie project …

The increase in renewable energy sources will require an increase in the operational flexibility of the grid, due to the intermittent nature of these sources. This can be achieved for the gas and the electricity grid, which are integrated by means of power-to-gas and vice versa, by applying gas and other …

A new gravitation wave observatory is being built in Japan. This facility is a big Michelson interferometer where the mirrors and sensors will be made cryogenic down to 4 K. The problem is that: the heat cannot be transported out of the mirror by its surroundings because the whole system is in an ultra-high …

A laboratory test setup is built to transfer and actively stabilize an ultrastable signal, obtained from a laser with sub-Hz linewidth, trough a 5 km long fiber link. The fiber noise is measured and compensated via a feedback loop acting on an AOM that can change the frequency (and therefore the phase) …