Mediation en de vaststellingsovereenkomst: aantasting en afdwingbaarheid naar Nederlands en Amerikaans recht

Dit onderzoek wordt verricht naar aanleiding van de sterk toegenomen belangstelling voor mediation in Nederland. In navolging van de Verenigde Staten, waar de moderne mediationmethode haar wortels heeft, is mediation sinds het midden van de jaren negentig in Nederland in opmars. Vooral in arbeidsconflicten en in echtscheidingszaken wordt regelmatig gebruik gemaakt van mediation. Daarnaast komt mediation steeds meer in de belangstelling bij geschillen in de gezondheidszorg en het onderwijs en bij zakelijke en commerciële conflicten.Marie Sophie van Muijden werd op 13 januari 1975 geboren te Leiden. In 1995 begon zij haar studie Nederlands recht aan de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam waar zij in 2001 cum laude in de privaatrechtelijke en bedrijfsjuridische richtingen afstudeerde. Gedurende haar studie was zij als student-assistent verbonden aan de sectie Internationaal privaatrecht en privaatrechtelijke rechtsvergelijking. In april 2001 kwam zij bij deze sectie in dienst als promovendus. Mede in het kader van haar promotieonderzoek vertrok zij in de zomer van 2001 naar Harvard Law School waar zij in 2002 haar Master of Laws (LL.M.) behaalde. Bij terugkeer in Rotterdam werd het promotietraject vervolgd. Tevens doceerde zij aan de rechtenfaculteit, onder meer in het Post-Graduate LL.M. ‘Business, Corporate and Maritime Law’

Different views on collaboration between older persons, informal caregivers and care professionals

Background:Informal care features high on the policy agenda of many countries to deal with workforce shortages. As a consequence, care provision increasingly takes place in the care triad of care recipients, informal caregivers and care professionals. How collaboration between care partners takes shape depends on how the different partners perceive this collaboration. This paper aims to investigate the relative importance of the different aspects of collaboration from the perspectives of care recipients, informal caregivers and care professionals in the context of the care for older persons in The Netherlands. Methods:Using Q-methodology, 32 participants ranked 28 statements that reflect different aspects of collaboration in the care triad and explained their ranking during a follow-up interview. Participants comprised 9 older persons, 10 informal caregivers and 13 care professionals. Data were analysed using by-person factor analysis to identify common patterns in the rankings of the statements. Emerging patterns were interpreted and described as views on collaboration using aggregated rankings and qualitative data from the interviews. Results: Five distinct views on collaboration were found: (1) Emphasizing warm collaboration, (2) trusting care professional's expertise, (3) open and compassionate care professionals, (4) responsive decision-making by autonomous care professionals and (5) prioritizing care recipient's and informal caregiver's interests. Care recipients and/or informal caregivers were associated with views 1, 3 and, 5, whereas care professionals were associated with all five views. Conclusions: Our study highlights the importance of recognizing the potential diversity of views between and within different partner groups in care triads. Governmental and organizational policy makers, as well as healthcare professionals who aim to increase or support the involvement of informal caregivers, should take this heterogeneity into consideration. Patient or Public Contribution: An advisory board of older persons (care recipients and informal caregivers) was involved in the recruitment of the participants, the formulation of the statements and the reflection on the findings of the study and potential implications.</p

Enhancement of aircraft cabin comfort studies by coupling of models for human thermoregulation, internal radiation, and turbulent flows

Scientific enhancement of the analysis of thermal comfort aspects in aircraft cabins is the subject of the current investigation. For this purpose, three important processes are identified that play a significant role in thermal comfort, viz. the human response to its thermal environment which is also known as thermoregulation, the actual movement of air and heat inside aircraft cabins due to natural and forced convection, and heat transfer due to radiation. Three existing models have been adopted to describe these phenomena. In the current investigation, the behaviour of these three models is investigated in terms of modelling aspects and computational efficiency. Furthermore, a robust coupling of the models in a single simulation environment is described. Simulation results are shown for academic and real-life applications. It is concluded that a useful simulation environment has been obtained for studying aspects of the individual seat climate. Also, open issues in physical and computational aspects of the models are identified which can be addressed in future studies

Genetic Modulation of Training and Transfer in Older Adults: BDNF Val66Met Polymorphism is Associated with Wider Useful Field of View

Western society has an increasing proportion of older adults. Increasing age is associated with a general decrease in the control over task-relevant mental processes. In the present study we investigated the possibility that successful transfer of game-based cognitive improvements to untrained tasks in elderly people is modulated by preexisting neuro-developmental factors as genetic variability related to levels of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), an important neuromodulator underlying cognitive processes. We trained participants, genotyped for the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism, on cognitive tasks developed to improve dynamic attention. Pre-training (baseline) and post-training measures of attentional processes (divided and selective attention) were acquired by means of the useful field of view task. As expected, Val/Val homozygous individuals showed larger beneficial transfer effects than Met/-carriers. Our findings support the idea that genetic predisposition modulates transfer effects

Online games training aging brains: Limited transfer to cognitive control functions

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