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… Welfare and Sport, the The Living Lab in Ageing & Long-Term Care is now studying the effects of the relaxation of the visitation guidelines, which have been in force since mid-May, in 26 nursing homes as a test. The main focus is on the well-being and experiences of residents, family members and employees, as well as on how the nursing homes implement the guidelines and the extent to which everyone adheres to them. The initial results (in Dutch) are now in. And then there is Christian Hoebe—in …
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… of the concept of work. Self-discipline was a virtue of vital importance to many Greek philosophers, but work was not; that was for slaves. “At this point, self-help books by neuroscientists refer back to Buddhism”, Van de Werff says. “Many people experience stress at work. Mindfulness is currently the magic word for dealing with it.” With the help of neuroscience, meditation is first stripped of its Buddhist roots. Brain coaches then recommend mindfulness as brain training, a cure for stress …
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… we need to know this, people sometimes ask me. A sexual problem doesn’t seem urgent, but it does have an impact on your health—just like many physical and mental disorders, as well as the medication that is taken for them, have an impact on our sexual experience. Sexual well-being is essential for our quality of life. That makes research in a dyadic context so relevant.” Femke Kools So many myths about sex ... Marieke Dewitte previously worked as a sexologist at a hospital and regularly speaks about …
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… and will start working on the projects Eat Better and Mental Wellbeing after this first pilot. Healthy Universities are commonplace at Anglo-Saxon universities. We hope we can also proudly present that predicate in a while.” “It was outstanding to experience employees` keen engagement in the project. One of my favourite moments occurred when one of the participants forgot to put her shoes back on and walked out the room on socks. I highly value that we lived up to participants` expectations and …
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AI will change the world – possibly in a very direct way. UNU-MERIT's Michal Natorski thinks the technology could inadvertently influence the decision-making processes of UN agencies.
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… and the Executive Board to make positive changes. I do get the sense that everyone realises that something needs to be done to ensure the continued flourishing of UM.” Dekker encourages everyone to consider putting themselves forward. “It’s a great experience and a lot of fun! You get to play a constructive role in helping to shape your workplace, you learn how the organisation works, how to participate in meetings, and it certainly doesn’t hurt your CV because it shows that you’re engaged and …
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… of the Argos-Shimano team. “It was a performance analysis of their two top sprinters, Marcel Kittel and John Degenkolb. To my surprise, the team used the results to decide who would do the sprint in each stage of the Tour de France. It was my first experience of the direct application of sports-science research to pro cycling.” Sanders obtained his PhD in Sport and Exercise Science from Liverpool Hope University, where he studied the monitoring of training load in professional cycling. He then …
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… and suffering damages (Belgium, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, and Sweden). This is to see whether and why similar losses may lead to different damages being awarded. Interviewed judges from those same countries, to learn more about their views and experiences when it comes to compensating non-economic losses. I studied the judicial decisions and interviewed judges following the study protocols developed and publicly shared for transparency some time ago. Both the study of judicial decisions and … these with representatives of stakeholders in a series of focus groups (a kind of ‘group interviews’). Stakeholders involved judges, lawyers, victims, medical experts, insurers, academics and policymakers. This helped me obtain feedback from people experienced in the compensation of pain and suffering damages on the pros and cons of the draft and finalise the guidelines and model legislative proposal. I also drafted a paper about the results of the focus groups. Curious to learn more about this? …
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… goals to the near future, as well as to ‘the now’. In other words, their actions are affected by their distant future goal, and at the same time, the distant future goals are affected by the situated activity. Overall, the conference was a great experience. I got good feedback on my current working paper, as well as upcoming projects, and left with inspired mind to continue working on the important topics such as sustainability. Abstract: Creating Spaces to Translate between Near and Distant …
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… Agency, co-chairs the European Academic Refugee Interdisciplinary Network. EARIN is a regional network seeking to implement the UN Global Compact on Refugees through research, teaching and solidarity with displaced scholars and students. “These experiences have informed my research questions and methods,” she says. “They gave me a rich understanding of the different perspectives: policymakers’ processes and limitations, but also the struggles, despair and ingenuity of refugees.” For Tsourdi, …