Wheelchair mobility skills (WMS) training is regarded by children using a manual wheelchair and their parents as an important factor to improve participation and daily physical activity. Currently, there is no outcome measure available for the evaluation of WMS in children. Several wheelchair mobility …

Wellbeing, comfort and safety in outdoor shoes have always been based on parameters that vary from person to person (male, female, weight, build, etc.). The aim of the project OutFeet was to go beyond this subjective approach by taking a merely qualitative analysis to a higher scientific level. The …

De gemeente Den Haag heft sinds 2010 zeven outdoor fitness locaties aangelegd om haar inwoners meer te laten bewegen. Maar worden deze 'fitplaatsen' wel gebruikt? En wat zijn de randvoorwaarden en succesfactoren voor gebruik van de Haagse fitplaatsen?

Knowledge of spatial and temporal trends in the environmental exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) is a key prerequisite for RF-EMF risk assessment studies attempting to establish a link between RF-EMF and potential effects on human health as well as on fauna and flora. In this …

‘De stad als sportschool’ illustreert dat de gemeente Groningen stadjers uitnodigt om te sporten en bewegen in de openbare ruimte van Groningen. Van hardlopen in het Noorderplantsoen, skeeleren in het Stadspark tot crossfit trainingen op de Grote Markt, steeds meer mensen sporten in de openbare ruimte. …

Marketingplan ten behoeve van de introductie van de Arendse Health Club Kerkdriel

On May 20, 2016, the Member States of the European Union will have to transpose the 2014/40/EU revised tobacco directive. The dissertation in front of you provides an understanding of the revised tobacco directive and the transposition of the directive into North Rhine-Westphalian law. The historical, …

Background: In general people after stroke do not meet the recommendations for physical activity to conduct a healthy lifestyle. Programs to stimulate walking activity to increase physical activity are based on the available insights into barriers and facilitators to physical activity after stroke. However, …

In this paper, we address the problem of people detection and tracking in crowded scenes using range cameras. We propose a new method for people detection and localisation based on the combination of background modelling and template matching. The method uses an adaptive background model in the range …

Physical activity (PA) is important for healthy ageing. Better insight into objectively measured PA levels in older adults is needed, since most previous studies employed self-report measures for PA assessment, which are associated with overestimation of PA. This study aimed to provide insight in objectively …