Aim To explore situations in daily home nursing regarding meaning in life of older adults. Design Qualitative research design. Methods In total, 197 participant observations were conducted during home nursing visits between September 2015–May 2018. Descriptions were thematically analysed. The …

Voor u ligt de eindrapportage van het project SEPAC dat onder aanvoering van AVANS Hogeschool is uitgevoerd over een tijdsbestek van september 2016 tot januari 2019. Lector Karel Spee is mede initiatiefnemer geweest in dit praktijkgericht onderzoek waarbij de kennis van zonnecel-technologie vanuit AVANS …

Integrated river basin management increases technical as well as management and governance complexity. In this multidisciplinary setting, actors, from their different backgrounds, frame both issues and solutions differently. To resolve conflicts, it is important to recognize – and to not ignore – the …

A main challenge in single emitter microscopy is that it is difficult to efficiently collect all the emitted light from single photon sources. Due to the dipole nature of the single photon sources, is it hard to measure the brightness of these molecules in a calibrated manner, since the light is not …

Dit verslag behandeld het research- en ontwikkelproces van het automatische EQ en Delay optimalisatie algoritme en het bijbehorende hardware advies. Dit document heeft als doel om informatie te verschaffen over het tot stand komen van het algoritme en het hardware advies. Het doel van dit systeem …

Dit essay geeft een systeemvisie op het ontwikkelen van embedded software voor slimme systemen: (mobiele) robots en sensornetwerken.

This paper proposes an amendment of the classification of safety events based on their controllability and contemplates the potential of an event to escalate into higher severity classes. It considers (1) whether the end-user had the opportunity to intervene into the course of an event, (2) the level …

For the past decade I have, as an artist/researcher, investigated the uses of photographic pictures in East African country Uganda. The relation between photographic pictures and memory have been well researched and argued. But this is often done from a rather one sided Eurocentric perspective on photographic …

In the wake of neo-liberal informed global trends to set performance standards and intensify accountability, the Dutch government aimed for ‘raising standards for basic skills’. While the implementation of literacy standards was hardly noticed, the introduction of numeracy standards caused a major backlash …

In large organisations, innovation activities are often located in separate departments, centres or studios. These departments aim to produce prototypes of solutions to the problems of operational business owners. However, too often these concepts remain in the prototype stage: they never cross the valley …