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Miao, X. (author), Magnier, L.B.M. (author), Mugge, R. (author)This research investigates consumers’ perception of two main types of reusable packaging systems: refillable and returnable packaging systems. An online experiment was conducted with Dutch consumers (n=250) in which attitudinal and behavioural responses to two reusable packaging systems were compared to the responses to disposable packaging. We...book chapter 2024
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Wang, T. (author), Qian, S. (author), Zhu, Haiou (author), Goossens, R.H.M. (author), Giunti, Guido (author), Melles, M. (author)Design is expanding its influence on shaping future healthcare. Ideally, designers apply human-centered design and human factors that introduce theory, principles, and methods to design to optimize people’s healthcare experiences in both digital and non-digital environments. To discuss and implement experience design in healthcare, consensus...book chapter 2024
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Beckmann, Julia (author), Coenen, Pieter (author), Speklé, Erwin (author), Kraal, J.J. (author)People with a physically demanding job have an unhealthy disbalance in occupational and leisure-time physical activity (PA). We aimed to understand which contextual factors influence this disbalance, and explore opportunities for lifestyle interventions that could restore this disbalance. We applied a contextmapping study with six production...book chapter 2024
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Yuan, Tianyun (author), Song, Yu (author), Goossens, R.H.M. (author), Kraan, G.A. (author)Studies on finger kinematics, especially the range of motion (RoM) measurements, are essential to understand the use of finger joints and the pathology of related disease. Limited literatures compared the active RoM (A-RoM) of finger joints with either their functional RoM (F-RoM) or passive RoM (p-RoM) using different measuring protocols and...book chapter 2024
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Zhu, H. (author), Liu, E. (author), You, Fangzhou (author), de Bont, Cees (author), Gruber, Thorsten (author), Dong, Hua (author), Melles, M. (author)Economic studies have shown that living in poverty may produce a subjective feeling of scarcity, which affects people's cognitive functions and decision-making. Understanding this mechanism could inform healthcare designers on designing inclusive health interventions by considering the psychological scarcity and limited cognitive resources of...book chapter 2024
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Liu, Zhengxuan (author), Sun, Ying (author), Huang, Ruopeng (author)The increasing greenhouse gas (CO2) emissions constitute one of the most significant global environmental issues. CO2 emissions from buildings and transportation are responsible for the largest proportion of total global carbon emissions from various sectors. Therefore it is necessary to utilize clean energy sources (e.g., renewable energy,...book chapter 2024
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Peck, David (author)Buildings are an essential part of living for everyone in the world. They provide at the most basic level shelter and safety. Buildings are where people live, work, and play.<br/><br/>The construction sector in the European Union is, however, the highest producer of waste when compared to other economic sectors, accounting for 35% of the total...book chapter 2024
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Mlecnik, E. (author), Qian, QK (author), Straub, A. (author), Ersoy, A. (author), Remøy, H.T. (author), Gruis, V.H. (author), Hobma, Fred (author), Rooij, R.M. (author), Vande Putte, H.J.M. (author), van Bortel, G.A. (author), Roeling, M.M. (author)It is recommended to integrate specific management competencies in academic education to support the transition towards environmentally sustainable practices, particularly in the construction and real estate sector. This paper explores how architectural management education can integrate environmental sustainability within its current university...book chapter 2024
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Ersoy, A. (author), Cavalcante Siebert, L. (author), Wang, T. (author), Chan, P.W.C. (author)Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become one of the most dicussed topics of today and are being used to support solving complex problems. AI has given opportunities for efficiency, control, safety while raising issues around trust, optimism and responsibility. One of the prominent features of AI resides in the digitalization of the built...book chapter 2024
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Andres, Lauren (author), Bryson, John R. (author), Ersoy, A. (author), Reardon, Louise (author)The nature of shocks and crisis is highly diverse; crises and shocks tend to conglomerate rather than occur as single events. People and places are affected differently and have distinct abilities and resources to respond, cope and recover. Key here are path-dependent socio-economic living conditions along with pre-existent intersectional...book chapter 2024
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Bryson, John R. (author), Andres, Lauren (author), Ersoy, A. (author), Reardon, Louise (author)COVID-19 initially closed universities forcing rapid adoption of online teaching. This chapter reflects on pandemic recovery in the context of higher education and explores some of the longer-term impacts that the pandemic has had on academic practice. Recovery is a complex and highly differentiated process and is founded upon resilience that is...book chapter 2024
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Centeio Jorge, C. (author), van Zoelen, E.M. (author), Verhagen, R.S. (author), Mehrotra, S. (author), Jonker, C.M. (author), Tielman, M.L. (author)As human-machine teams become a more common scenario, we need to ensure mutual trust between humans and machines. More important than having trust, we need all teammates to trust each other appropriately. This means that they should not overtrust or undertrust each other, avoiding risks and inefficiencies, respectively. We usually think of...book chapter 2024
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Sohn, H. (author)Dawn is close. A thick layer of mist lingers a few inches above the ground in a patch of dense tropical forest near Hopelchén, the place of the five sinkholes. The air is humid and fat with dew; it smells of cold ashes and smoke, rotting leaves, mushrooms, moss, mud. A thin ray of light starts to make its way through the lush foliage of a...book chapter 2024
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Ćatović Hughes, Selma (author), Kukic, Ena (author), Tanović, S. (author)When the design competition for Germany’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (MMJE) was published in 1994, Sarajevo was under a brutal siege that lasted from April 1992 until February 1996. In December 1995, the war was officially over when the Dayton Peace Agreement was signed in Paris. Visiting in 1997 to pay a pre-Christmas visit to...book chapter 2024
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Kousoulas, Stavros (author), Radman, A. (author)It is common enough question: What is the human? Sure enough, it is also a question that has troubled some of the greatest minds to walk this planet. Nevertheless, one might wonder, is it really a good question in its own right? To show our allegiances from the outset, we categorically declare it an extremely bad question – in the sense of being...book chapter 2024
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Gorny, R.A. (author), Kousoulas, Stavros (author), Perera, Dulmini (author), Radman, A. (author)Our present condition urges those critically and creatively engaged with it, to address the transformative potentials that are brought about by a highly intertwined triad of changes. As the posthuman philosopher Rosi Braidotti notes, these three changes can no longer be addressed in isolation or in the context of singular disciplines. At an...book chapter 2024
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Sorokin, Dimitry Y. (author), Merkel, Alexander Y. (author)The family Desulfurivibrionaceae includes obligately anaerobic, moderately salt-tolerant, obligately alkaliphilic chemolithoautotrophic bacteria with a unique energy metabolism consisting of elemental sulfur disproportionation. H<sub>2</sub> or formate can also serve as additional electron donors for sulfur reduction, while nitrate can be...book chapter 2024
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Sorokin, Dimitry Y. (author), Merkerl, Alexander Y. (author)The genus <i>Natranaerovirga</i> is a member of the class <i>Clostridia</i>. It includes obligately anaerobic, fermentative heterotrophs which whose key metabolic property is the ability to utilizes polygalacturonates as growth substrates. The species of the genus are highly salt-tolerant, chloride-independent, obligate alkaliphiles found in...book chapter 2024
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Sorokin, Dimitry Y. (author), Merkel, Alexander Y. (author)Natr.an.aer.o.vir.ga’ce.ae N.L. fem. n. <i>Natranaerovirga</i>, the type genus of the family, -aceae ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. <i>Natranaerovirgaceae</i>, the <i>Natranaerovirga</i> family. The family <i>Natranaerovirgaceae</i> includes obligately<br/>anaerobic fermentative bacteria from soda lakes. They are highly salt...book chapter 2024
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van Duin, Ron (author), de Vries, A.M.R. (author), Anand, N.R. (author)De komende jaren zullen steden meer en meer te maken krijgen met uitdagingen op het gebied van vervoer in termen van toegankelijkheid, ruimtegebruik en duurzaamheid. Het passagiers- en goederenvervoer zullen naar verwachting toenemen, terwijl de transportsector een belangrijke bijdrage levert aan de uitstoot van broeikasgassen en congestie in...book chapter 2024