Oncology physiotherapists frequently provide care for patients experiencing severe immunosuppression. Exercise immunology, the science that studies the effects of exercise on the immune system, is a rapidly evolving field with direct relevance to oncology physiotherapists. Understanding oncology physiotherapists’ …

Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a widely used method for evaluating demand response (DR) strategies. To comprehensively assess the impact of DR strategies on a district cooling system, the integration of building managers’ DR behavior is essential. However, most ABM studies focus on technical optimization …

Virtual care centres (VCCs) are novel wards of hospitals and facilitate the provision of remote monitoring and home-based patient care by virtual care nurses. Whereas since the COVID-19 pandemic VCCs have rapidly emerged, there is a lack of insight in virtual care nurses’ work and the associated work …

Citizens regularly search the Web to make informed decisions on daily life questions, like online purchases, but how they reason with the results is unknown. This reasoning involves engaging with data in ways that require statistical literacy, which is crucial for navigating contemporary data. However, …

Objective: To assess the effectiveness of interventions using feedback from objective measurements to reduce sedentary behavior in older adults during rehabilitation. Data Source: Cochrane Library, Web of Science, PubMed, Embase and Emcare were systematically searched for controlled trials in May 2023. …

Responding to society’s growing concerns for climate change, European Union (EU) launched European Green Deal (EGD) a plan to transform Europe into a sustainable community. Acknowledging the vulnerability of coal regions in this transition, EU offers support to these regions to reduce negative impacts …

Anthropogenic climate change demands innovative educational approaches that effectively bridge sustainability concepts with practical learning. Particularly this applies to the broad context of sustainable energy education. The CIRCLE project (Creative Impulses for Recycling, Crafting and Learning) conducted …

The energy transition requires engineers who can reason about complex renewable energy systems, diagnose faults, and work collaboratively in dynamic environments. Problem-Based Learning (PBL) is widely recognized for supporting such competencies, yet many engineering courses lack authentic contexts that …

This thesis investigated how homeostatic resilience can be determined based on the response of various biomarkers during and after a standardised bicycle ergometer test. The test model had to be reproducible and widely applicable to people with varying health statuses. To this end, two controlled human …

Purpose – This study aims to explore staff attitudes toward trauma-informed care (TIC) within Dutch forensic psychiatric settings. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 111 staff members completed the Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care Scale (ARTIC-35) to assess their attitudes on TIC. Findings …