Early STATUS staat voor ‘Early Strategic Alerts for the Turnaround of Small businesses’ - onderzoek naar vroege signalen van verval bij kleinbedrijven. Meer inzicht in deze signalen is van belang om ondernemers, accountants en adviseurs te helpen om eerder problemen van stagnatie te (h)erkennen, bespreekbaar …

This study addresses the challenges facing the City of Praia, the capital of Cape Verde, in adapting to climate changes and reducing the effects of flash floods. Praia is highly vulnerable to these extreme weather events, due to its volcanic scenery, uncontrolled urbanization, and insufficient infrastructure, …

Retail industry consists of the establishment of selling consumer goods (i.e. technology, pharmaceuticals, food and beverages, apparels and accessories, home improvement etc.) and services (i.e. specialty and movies) to customers through multiple channels of distribution including both the traditional …

As part of their SMS, aviation service providers are required to develop and maintain the means to verify the safety performance of their organisation and to validate the effectiveness of safety risk controls. Furthermore, service providers must verify the safety performance of their organisation with …

Traditional turn-by-turn navigation approaches often do not provide sufficiently detailed information to help people with a visual impairment (PVI) to successfully navigate through an urban environment. To provide PVI with clear and supportive navigation information we created Sidewalk, a new wayfinding …

Tijdens mijn werk als onlineredacteur bij het Brabants Dagblad viel mij op dat keuzes rondom pushberichten vaak arbitrair waren. De keuze om nieuws wel of niet te pushen leek af te hangen van de eindverantwoordelijke die op dat moment dienst had. Of om het breder te trekken: de criteria op basis waarvan …

This paper presents how the application of the STPA method might support the evaluation of fighter pilots training programs and trigger procedural and technological changes. We applied the STPA method by considering the safety constraints documented in the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) of a South …

The last decades, the number of dairy cows per farm has increased and the time spent on individual cows by the farmer has been reduced. To help the farmer detect changes in activity of cows associated with health issues, activity monitoring systems are being developed. The systems can help with daily …