The term last-mile delivery refers to the final leg of a business-to-customer service, in which products are shipped from a depot to a destination point bymeans of land transportation, such as vans and small trucks. Although these vehicles provide a common and easy way to consign products, companies …

With population aging and the expected shortage of formal and informal caregivers, emerging technologies for assistive living are on the rise. Focusing on the perspective of the prospective users of these technologies, this study investigates the perceived drivers and barriers that influence AAL adoption. …

Purpose: This article summarizes the shared principles and evidence underpinning methods employed in the three sentence-level (syntactic) grammatical intervention approaches developed by the authors. We discuss associated clinical resources and map a way forward for clinically useful research in this …

In recent years, a step change has been seen in the rate of adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies by manufacturers and industrial organizations alike. This article discusses the current state of the art in the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies within the construction industry. Increasing complexity …

The Netherlands is considered one of the frontrunners in the field of electric mobility, both in number of plug-in electric vehicles sold as in the number of publicly available charging stations. This chapter analyses the policy measures that led to the growth in the number of plug-in hybrid electric …

Dit verslag betreft mijn afstudeerstage bij het IT bedrijf Macaw in Hoofddorp. Als ontwikkelaar heb ik gewerkt aan een chatbot applicatie binnen Microsoft Teams, een belangrijk samenwerkingsplatform binnen Macaw. Ik heb gewerkt aan het analyseren van het probleem, het inventariseren van de requirements …

BACKGROUND: Dissatisfaction is being voiced with the generally used way joint flexibility problems are defined (operationalised), i.e. as a range of motion (ROM) one or more degrees lower than normative ROM of healthy subjects. Other, specifically more function-related operationalisations have been proposed. …

Introductie: In 2015 had 11.9% van de kinderen tussen de 4-12 jaar in Nederland overgewicht. Bij 3.1% van deze groep was er zelfs sprake van ernstig overgewicht (obesitas). Uit de Drentse trendcijfers voor kinderen en jongeren kan echter niet direct geconcludeerd worden dat hier de prevalenties van overgewicht …

Virtual communities are online spaces with potential of integration of (member-generated) content and conversations [7,8]. In our research project we are interested in the adoption and building of virtual communities in organized sports, that is to say in the voluntary sports clubs (VSCs) in the Netherlands. …

Overview of Research line 3 in RAAK PRO project "Why Care More" - Professorship of Jan-Peter Nap