Background In October 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping launched the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative. It consists of a massive 4 to 8 trillion investment project spanning 60 countries and sever...
Problem outline The landscape of higher education (HE) has changed dramatically in recent years due to the growing social importance of lifelong learning. The influx of students is therefore more het...
Problem statement Digital droplet PCR (ddPCR) is a very recent molecular technique that detects and absolutely quantifies nucleic acids with high precision. ddPCR can detect mutations that occur on...
Context The question of national, European and international citizenship is increasingly present in national debates. Terrorist attacks and threats, but also the influx of migrants to Europe reinfo...
AP University of Applied Sciences and Arts carries out both practice-oriented scientific research and research in the arts. We conduct research in an urban environment with the por...
Michel Tirions (°1967) is a social worker and sociologist and has been working as a lecturer and researcher at the Social Work program of Artesis Plantijn University College in Antwerp since 2002. Pre...
Nearly 10 percent of the residents of nursing homes are hospitalised every year (Ingarfield et al., 2009; Ong et al., 2011). Hospitalisation is burdensome for the resident and their family, is often a...
Introduction Life balance encompasses the balance that individuals experience in all activities and engagements in which they (want to) be involved (such as work, school, family, social life, hobbies...
Problem description Since the implementation of the Royal Decree of 15.12.2013, midwives in Belgium have the right to prescribe medicines autonomously. Because the authority for midwives to prescribe...
