Nicaragua is the second poorest country in Latin America and the Northern Hemisphere. The country is in this bad position due to military conflicts in the past, corrupt and dubious politics in the past and present, a weak economy, and bad quality education and low school enrolment rates. The accumulation …

Enterprise 2.0, deconstructed firms, organisational ecosystems: all of these buzzwords are used to identify operating concepts behind today's companies. They are driven by the need to be agile, flexible, distributed, open, transparent, simple, on demand and with a short time to market. In order to be …

A Chinese colleague of mine said to me the other day: “You’re an old man!” I was really hurt by this remark, because first of all do I not feel old and secondly, there are things that I would definitively not like to hear from a young woman. My colleague on her part probably wondered why my reaction …

This design study aimed to develop and test a coherent set of guidelines for teacher professional development. Based on literature we settled for five main principles, and translated these into guidelines for a teacher professional development program. To realize (1) feedback on classroom practice we …

This thesis is an overview of the market and management for WEEE (waste of electrical and electronic equipment) in Bulgaria. It was executed to answer certain questions to WEEE Forum, which was my internship provider. Chapter 2 analyzes the WEEE market and business developments in Bulgaria. Chapter 2.1 …

Doel Door het groeiende aantal werknemers met een burnout komt ook de eerstelijns fysiotherapeut steeds vaker in aanraking met het ziektebeeld burnout. Er is echter nog geen voorlichtingsprotocol voor deze beroepsgroep ontwikkeld, dat beschrijft hoe een werknemer met burnout benaderd en behandeld dient te …

Onderzoeksvraag Is er een betere functionele arm-hand test dan de Frenchay arm test, die snel en eenvoudig toepasbaar is bij patiënten met een CVA in de revalidatie fase? Doel De afgelopen jaren is de vraag naar evidence based handelen toegenomen. De behandeling dient objectief onderbouwd te worden …

De Technische Hogeschool te Venlo heeft aangegeven dat er behoefte is aan een voorlichtingsprogramma voor informaticastudenten over de risico's van beeldschermwerk. De studenten hebben onvoldoende kennis met betrekking tot Klachten aan Arm, Nek en/of Schouder (KANS). Tevens ontbreekt een voorlichtingsprogramma …

The research project ‘In search of pedagogical sensitivity’ is executed from the research department of the knowledge circle ‘renewing methods and didactics for teacher education and training’ of the Hogeschool Utrecht in the Netherlands under supervision of Hans Jansen (associated professor of the Hogeschool …

Demand Driven Care plays a key role in the modernization of the Dutch health care system. This modernization is needed because a) clients’ needs for care increases quantitatively as well as in diversity, b) the financial means for collective services are inadequate, c) the accessibility of health care …