Velen in de milieubeweging zetten hun kaarten op regelgeving. De schaduwkanten van deze benadering blijken bij Triodos Bank, een duurzame onderneming met een maatschappelijke doelstelling. Voor écht duurzame ontwikkeling is een goede verbinding nodig tussen geld en duurzame doelen. Daarin heeft regelgeving …

On the Open Research Amsterdam website, the Digital Production Research Group presented its main projects and achievements. -- Dutch: Verbinding onderwijs, onderzoek en praktijk In 2017 is het Robot Lab van de Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA) opgericht. Zij transformeren onder andere sloophout tot nieuwe …

Particle image velocimetry has been widely used in various sectors from the automotive to aviation, research, and development, energy, medical, turbines, reactors, electronics, education, refrigeration for flow characterization and investigation. In this study, articles examined in open literature containing …

Al bijna een jaar geleden publiceerde ik een artikel over de toekomst van archivering, Archivering in 2050, in het Archievenblad. Ik leidde dat artikel als volgt in: “In 2012 gaf ik in ‘Archiving should be just like an Apple’ een samenvatting van hoe archivering zich zou kunnen gaan ontwikkelen, namelijk …

An energy harvesting device for obtaining energy from drops without needing of moving the drops along the device, in a reduced scale and combinable with other types of harvesting devices, the energy harvesting device comprising one or more triboelectric generators comprising a bottom electrode, a friction …

Background: Recent studies suggest that ethnic minority students underperform in standardised assessments commonly used to evaluate their progress. This disparity seems to also hold for postgraduate medical students and GP trainees, and may affect the quality of primary health care, which requires an …

Calls have been made for improving transparency in conducting and reporting research, improving work climates, and preventing detrimental research practices. To assess attitudes and practices regarding these topics, we sent a survey to authors, reviewers, and editors. We received 3,659 (4.9%) responses …

The objective of this study is to evaluate the energetic, exergetic, sustainability, economic and environmental performances of a 4-cylinder turbodiesel aviation engine (TdAE) used on unmanned aerial vehicles for the take-off operation mode to assess the system with large aspects. Energy efficiency of …

Subcutaneous emphysema, pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum are well-known complications of invasive ventilation in patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure. We determined the incidences of air leaks that were visible on available chest images in a cohort of critically ill patients with acute …