The concept of resilience, i.e., the capacity of a system to bounce back after a stressor, is gaining interest across many fields of science, policy and practice. To date, resilience research in people with cognitive decline has predominantly addressed the early stages of decline. We propose that: (1) …

The current systematic framework of aviation has developed complex air transport systems where reliability and performance are sensitive and instantly adaptive to the supply side due to the growing and elevated degree of demand in aviation market circumstances. The role of quality measurements has increased. …

Societal actors across scales and geographies increasingly demand visual applications of systems thinking – the process of understanding and changing the reality of a system by considering its whole set of interdependencies – to address complex problems affecting food and agriculture. Yet, despite the …

Our study elucidates collaborative value creation and private value capture in collaborative networks in a context of sustainability. Collaborative networks that focus on innovative solutions for grand societal challenges are characterized by a multiplicity and diversity of actors that increase the complexity …

Background and objective: Practically trained (student) caregivers (further: caregivers) make up the majority of care staff in nursing homes (NHs). To keep up with the fast-changing healthcare environment and ensure a high quality of care, it is important to know how to stimulate continuous work-based …

Species responding differently to climate change form ‘transient communities’, communities with constantly changing species composition due to colonization and extinction events. Our goal is to disentangle the mechanisms of response to climate change for terrestrial species in these transient communities …

Biomimicry wordt vooral verbonden aan technologische ontwikkelingen. Er zijn veel voorbeelden van producten en innovaties op basis van de biologie. Ingenieurs, architecten, ontwerpers maken gebruik van nieuwe kennis die we hebben opgedaan en opdoen door met moderne middelen de natuur te bestuderen. Mauro …

Biomimicry wordt vooral verbonden aan technologische ontwikkelingen. Er zijn veel voorbeelden van producten en innovaties op basis van de biologie. Ingenieurs, architecten, ontwerpers maken gebruik van nieuwe kennis die we hebben opgedaan en opdoen door met moderne middelen de natuur te bestuderen. Mauro …

This study links business requirements and adaptability of existing software systems. Organizations expect flexibility of IT with regard to business requirements. We hypothesize that the flexibility of business requirements is difficult in IT systems, because of software dependencies in the way domain …

There is more to be learned from nature as a whole. In practice ‘nature’ is often used in teaching, training, consultancy and organisational development as a metaphor, as a source of inspiration or as an example for all kinds of processes, including leadership, cooperation, relationships and the development …