Background The sense of home of nursing home residents is a multifactorial phenomenon which is important for the quality of living. This purpose of this study is to investigate the factors influencing the sense of home of older adults residing in the nursing home from the perspective of residents, relatives …

Abstract from the article: "Conjugates of fatty acids and amines, including endocannabinoids, are known to play important roles as endogenous signaling molecules. Among these, the ethanolamine conjugate of the n-3 poly unsaturated long chain fatty acid (PUFA) docosahexaenoic acid (22:6n-3) (DHA) was …

© 2014 Springer Science+Business Media New York Video is increasingly used as an instructional tool. It is therefore becoming more important to improve learning of students from video. We investigated whether student learning effects are influenced through an instruction about other viewing behaviours, …

This study investigated how job satisfaction influenced organizational commitment which, in turn, influenced employee turnover intention among medical staff in a Chinese hospital in Beijing. Data were collected from 107 hospital employees using a questionnaire-based survey. The survey measured various …

This report provides an analysis and evaluation of a survey into how stakeholders (employees and customers) of Exact can be activated to become ambassadors on social media. Exact wants to obtain insight in how internal and external stakeholders can have more engagement on how Exact presents itself to …

This paper analyzes the influence of three private incentive mechanisms over decision making related to improved sustainability of fishing practices in Filipino tuna fisheries. The three mechanisms compared are the World Wildlife Fund for Nature’s fishery improvement project model, Marine Stewardship …

The collapse of Enron in 2001 made policy makers developed some new addition to corporate governance regulations. According to OECD (2015) there are 5 principles of good corporate governance which are transparency, fairness, accountability, responsibility and independency. CEOs need to be accountable …

Intertidal areas in the Netherlands suffer from divers pressures in the delta. The Western Scheldt has an open connection to the sea. This system is in use for the Port of Antwerp, for which dredging is required. Therefore, Rijkswaterstaat has to compensate natural areas, among which intertidal areas. Area …

The paper explores the process of early growth of entrepreneurial science-based firms. Drawing on case studies of British and Dutch biopharmaceutical R&D firms, we conceptualize the speed of early growth of science-based firms as the time it takes for the assembly (or combined development) of three types …

La Place, is a unique food service chain company that started in the Netherlanders and currently operates on a global level. Research is carried out at La Place in order to find and create implementations, which would minimize the gap between operational services and the manager operations. The gap …