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Controle fuzzy do gerador de indução trifásico para micro centrais hidrelétricas

Skills als basis voor een nieuwe (re-)integratiepraktijk

Substantial and continuous shifts in skills demands urge us to rethink education, labour market and reintegration policies and practices. In this article, we argue for a more skills based approach to (re)integration. This skills based (re)integration practice is based more on up-to-date, complete and validated skills sets of candidates, than on diplomas and other, more or less, outdated and incomplete proxies to one’s current skills. Such a new reintegration practice seems feasible if the actual and complete skills set of an individual becomes the starting point for both matching, guidance and (up/re)skilling efforts. Intersectoral mobility, alternative career pathways and suitable training and development routes can be designed on a more fine-grained skills basis, with occupations considered more as dynamic sets of tasks requiring specific skills. This new (re)integration practice presupposes a common skills language, which is being developed in the Netherlands, Competent NL. Sectoral and intersectoral experiments with skills instruments using this language, such as skills passports, are conducted to optimize their quality and effectiveness. Since first experiments with skills instruments seem promising, we argue that more room for experiment is required. So that integration in the labor market can be sustained and reintegration practices can be prevented.

Use of behaviour change techniques by direct support professionals to support healthy lifestyle behaviour for people with moderate to profound intellectual disabilities

Background: Behaviour change techniques (BCTs) can be employed to support a healthy lifestyle for people with intellectual disabilities. The aim of this study is to determine whether and which BCTs are used by direct support professionals (DSPs) for supporting healthy lifestyle behaviour of people with moderate to profound intellectual disabilities. Method: Direct support professionals (n = 18) were observed in their daily work using audio-visual recordings. To code BCTs, the Coventry Aberdeen London Refined (CALO-RE-NL) taxonomy was employed. Results: Direct support professionals used 33 BCTs out of 42. The most used BCTs were as follows: ‘feedback on performance’, ‘instructions on how to perform the behaviour’, ‘doing together’, ‘rewards on successful behaviour’, ‘reward effort towards behaviour’, ‘DSP changes environment’, ‘graded tasks’, ‘prompt practice’ and ‘model/demonstrate behaviour’. Conclusions: Although a variety of BCTs is used by DSPs in their support of people with moderate to profound intellectual disabilities when facilitating healthy lifestyle behaviour, they rely on nine of them.

The economics of collective management in the music copyright industry in the Netherlands

The digital era has brought about profound changes in how music is created, distributed, and consumed, posing a need for modernizing the Dutch collective management system of music copyright to match the rapidly changing digital music industry. This study aims to identify the key stakeholders and their perceptions of the Dutch system of collective management of music copyright. Utilizing qualitative document analysis, the study examines a range of public and non-public documents, including income statements, annual reports from Collective Management Organizations (CMOs), and contracts between publishers and creators. The research is further enriched by twenty-four semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders such as composers, lyricists, music publishers, copyright lawyers, and CMO executives. The findings of the study highlight several issues like the outdated IT systems and the lack of data standardization within the system. The research also notes a contrast in organizational effectiveness: major publishers are well-organized and unified in their negotiations with Digital Service Providers (DSPs) and CMOs, effectively advocating for their rights. However, music copyright holders, despite their legal homogeneity, are either unorganized or ineffectively aligned, displaying diverse interests and varying levels of access to information, as well as differences in norms and values prioritization. The study is grounded in the economics of collective management (ECM) and makes a significant academic contribution to this field by introducing new empirical findings to ECMs core constructs and integrating theoretical perspectives. The research offers valuable insights for policymakers, industry stakeholders, and researchers, aiming to foster a more equitable music copyright management system in the digital context.

Using procurement power to accelerate sustainable city logistics

Eén voor allen, allen voor één?

Sociaal werk staat sinds enige tijd in het brandpunt van de grote omwentelingen in de verzorgingsstaat die voor een ‘kanteling’ naar een ‘participatiesamenleving’ zouden moeten zorgen. Naast de Wmo en de daarmee verbonden praktijkvernieuwingen zoals die als ‘bakens’ in Welzijn Nieuwe Stijl zijn benoemd, gaat het om de zogenoemde transities op het domein van arbeid en inkomen (Participatiewet), het domein van de jeugdzorg (Wet op de jeugdzorg, passend onderwijs), de zorg voor kwetsbaren (ouderen die niet meer zelfstandig zijn, licht verstandelijk gehandicapten, psychiatrische patiënten, mensen met een beperking − oftewel zij die voorheen op ondersteuning en begeleiding via de Algemene Wet Bijzondere Ziektekosten (AWBZ) konden rekenen). Om deze grote verschuivingen soepel te laten verlopen speelt het sociaal beleid een cruciale rol. Het staat voor de uitdaging om vroegtijdig problemen op een breed terrein (armoede, schulden, opvoeding, sociaal isolement, werkloosheid) af te vangen, kwetsbare burgers ‘in hun kracht’ te zetten én op te vangen waar nodig en de veerkracht van de samenleving te versterken.