A damage estimation exercise has been carried out using the building stock inventory and population database of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and selected European earthquake loss estimation packages: KOERILOSS, SELENA, ESCENARIS, SIGE, and DBELA. The input ground-motions, common to all models, …

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Home automation that allows for telecare services is increasingly becoming a tool to help older adults live independently and to improve perceived safety and security. The number of older adults receiving professional care, in relation to housing, on a daily basis is not very large. Only 15% receives …

In November 2006, SOMO published a report that criticised labour conditions in Nokia's factories in Asia. This report revealed conditions where workers work up to 72 hours a week with compulsory overtime, have insecure employment contracts and work in unsafe factories, where no or inadequate protection …

Objective: Psychophysical lift capacity tests are lifting tests in which the performance, expressed in Newtons, is divided by the perceived exertion, expressed on a Borg scale. The aim of this study was to analyse test-retest reliability of psychophysical lift capacity tests. Subjects: Patients with …

It has become a topic at Dutch educational institutes to feel not only responsible for improvement of theoretical and practical skills, but also of 'competences' in a wider sense. The curriculum of the Fontys University of Applied Sciences (32.000 students) and especially the Electrical and Electronic …

Professionalisering in het Onderwijs door Formatieve Assessments (Proformas) is een virtuele werkomgeving die (beginnende) leraren helpt inzicht te krijgen in de eigen competentieontwikkeling en de stappen die gezet kunnen worden bij de verdere competentieontwikkeling van leraren zoals de pedagogische …

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Recently, more students have entered Dutch higher education. This is a consequence of the possibility to offer students to enter higher education, with a certificate from senior secondary education (SSVE). In earlier days most students in higher education had passed senior general secondary education …

Verslag van een evaluatieonderzoek onder gebruikers van een digitaal instrument voor formatieve assessments van (beginnende) leraren. Uit de evaluatie kwam onder andere naar voren dat gebruikers in het online instrument graag de mogelijkheid van een 'guided tour' wilden hebben en dat de feedback in het …