The Knowledge Centre NoorderRuimte conducts practice-oriented research into the built environment in the Northern Netherlands. In Oldambt, a region in the northeast of the province Groningen, it was observed that the current demographic, behavioural and economic development causes a low business succession …

Purpose: With the ageing population, there is an increasing demand for strategies to optimise muscle mass, strength and physical performance in community dwelling older adults. We designed a new innovative e-health intervention "VITAMIN" to improve physical performance in older adults. The blended home-based …

The continous growth of the tourism industry, the shift from a service to an experience economy and global trends such as increasing technological innovations, make hospitality performance crucial to any tourism organization. However, not all tourism players are yet understanding the significance of …

This is an advice for Hilton Kyiv, about HRM performance - decreasing turnover and applying a new retention strategy at Hilton Kyiv

City Hotel 1905 is a new developing hotel, which is located in a center of Moscow, Russia and provides both business and leisure guests with a hospitality service. This hotel doesn’t have a well-organized set of Human Resource Management policies in order to manage and develop its employees. Therefore, …

Although there is consensus in the current literature that feedback plays a fundamental role tostudent performance and learning, there is debate about what makes it effective. Particularly,some assessment instruments, like the National Student Survey in the United Kingdom, revealthat evaluation and feedback …

First year students Aeronautical Engineering had the opportunity to enter a five days program to enhance their mathematical skills. The program had 55 participants. Our research questions were: What are the effects of participation in the summer school program on math skills? Do participants experience …

Background: A chronic low-grade infammatory profle (CLIP) is associated with sarcopenia in older adults. Protein and Vitamin (Vit)D have immune-modulatory potential, but evidence for efects of nutritional supplementation on CLIP is limited. Aim To investigate whether 13 weeks of nutritional supplementation …

INTRODUCTION: After treatment with chemotherapy, many patients with breast cancer experience cognitive problems. While limited interventions are available to improve cognitive functioning, physical exercise showed positive effects in healthy older adults and people with mild cognitive impairment. The …

Background Exercise therapy is the cornerstone of knee osteoarthritis (OA) management. In particular muscle strengthening exercise, targeting the characteristic loss of muscle strength present in knee OA, is a key factor for the beneficial effects reported for exercise therapy. The optimal training intensity …