Speech of Jan Mengelers, President of EARTO ITRE Committee, European Parliament, Public Hearing on Horizon 2020 - Brussels, 20th March 2012

Op 20 maart sprak Jan Mengelers, voorzitter van de TNO Raad van Bestuur en tevens president van EARTO, tijdens een openbare hoorzitting over Horizon 2020 in het Europees Parlement. Jan Mengelers waarschuwde voor het risico dat veel Research and Technology Organisations (RTO’s) hun deelname aan Horizon 2020 zullen moeten terugbrengen ten opzichte...

Paving the way for innovation in enhancing the intake of whole grain

A major objective of EU projects is to promote the communication of results and the transfer of technology in publications, presentations, dedicated conferences, training activities and websites. In HEALTHGRAIN the dissemination has been extended beyond these activities, by the creation of close links with stakeholders. These have been...

Tachtig jaar TNO

TNO, Nederland’s grootste zelfstandige researchorganisatie, speelt van oudsher een belangrijke rol binnen de Nederlandse kennisinfrastructuur. In het kader van het 80 jarig jubileum van TNO in 2012 heeft de SHT de geschiedenis van de organisatie in kaart gebracht. Het bijna 300-pagina's tellende boek is ook een maatschappijgeschiedenis. De...

De kleur van kaas: 19 vragen van kinderen beantwoord door de experts van TNO

Enabling Technology Programma Gedrag en Innovatie: Kennis als Vermogen over de Thema’s 2011-2014

Het Enabling Technology Program (ETP) ‘Gedrag en Innovatie’ is in 2011 gestart en ontwikkelt generieke kennis over de verklaring en verandering van menselijk gedrag in relatie tot systeeminnovatie. Met een TNO brede multidisciplinaire en multilevel benadering worden modellen, methoden en toolboxes ontwikkeld voor effectieve gedragsbeïnvloeding, ...

Frameworks and technologies for exchanging and sharing product life cycle knowledge

Frameworks and technologies for exchanging and sharing product life cycle knowledge (PLK) are discussed. A life cycle-centric knowledge management approach with stakeholders-in-the-loop allows for a life-long evaluation of the instantaneous performance and the consequential decision making about the rest of the product's useful life. The...

Report of the 2010 RSPCA/UFAW Rodent Welfare Group meeting - The effects of husbandry on welfare and promoting good practice

A Transgenic Study on Affecting Potato Tuber Yield by Expressing the Rice Sucrose Transporter Genes OsSUT5Z and OsSUT2M

In many plants, sucrose transporters are essential for both sucrose exports from sources and imports into sinks, indicating a function in assimilate partitioning. To investigate whether sucrose transporters can improve the yield of starch plant, potato plants (Solanum tuberosum L. cv. Désirée) were transformed with cDNAs of the rice sucrose...

Flexibilisering is de sleutel

Een duurzaam vervoerssysteem kent een grote mate van flexibiliteit. Synchromodaliteit, een optimale afstemming van het goederenvervoer via water, rail, weg en lucht vormt hiervoor de route. Dit houdt in dat logistieke netwerken zo worden ingericht, dat voor elke lading op ieder moment de juiste vervoerswijze wordt gekozen.

Increasing restriction of the Egyptian shelf during the Early Eocene? - New insights from a southern Tethyan carbonate platform

The evolution of the isolated Galala carbonate platform has been studied intensively with respect to the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) and the strong climatic variability from the Late Paleocene to the Early Eocene. In this study, we compare the results of different approaches which deal with the Early Palaeogene evolution of the...

Reassessing the biostratigraphy and the paleobathymetry of the gonfolite lombarda group in the como area (Northern Italy)

Calcareous nannofossil and foraminiferal analyses have been carried out on outcrops from the type-area of the Gonfolite Lombarda Group (Como, northern Italy). In these marine fine- to coarse-grained elastics, rapidly accumulating at the southern front of the uprising Alpine range during the Oligo-Miocene, a scarce, but reliable, sequence of...

The upcoming and proliferation of ubiquitous technologies in products and processes

Ubiquitous computing is a research field that started in the late 1980s, and is now believed to be at the brink of a steep acceleration in terms of technology development and applications. Ubiquitous computing is often regarded as the third wave of computing, after a first wave of mainframe computing and a second wave of PC computing. It aims at...

Training Effect Based Reasoning: Developing a next generation of training simulators

Current missions demand commanding officers and their staff to be trained in decision and/or sense making in a complex and adaptive environment. An important factor for success in many missions is winning the ‘hearts and minds’ of the local population. The amount of violence, aid given, the damage level, the economic situation etcetera all...

ESRIF final report

Van de werkgroepen met in totaal ruim 600 experts uit heel Europa zorgde TNO in de eindfase voor twee van de elf voorzitters, te weten voormalig Raad van Bestuur-lid C. (Cees) van Duyvendijk en Dr. R.W. (Ruud) Busker van TNO Defensie en Veiligheid in Rijswijk. Bij het schrijven van het eindrapport waren nog eens drie TNO'ers betrokken: Dr. H.A.H...

Study on the Competitiveness of the EU security industry Within the Framework Contract for Sectoral Competitiveness Studies – ENTR/06/054. Final Report

The report is divided into two parts: Part A provides a general assessment of the security sector as well as a set of policy recommendations; while Part B describes the main findings emerging from the analysis of the specific segments – which were selected in consultation with the client and the study monitoring committee. The report has been...

A diary study to open up the black box of overtime work among university faculty members

Objectives: This study aimed at opening up the black box of overtime work among university faculty members by providing information on (i) when faculty members work overtime, (ii) what activities are undertaken during overtime, and (iii) how overtime is experienced. Methods: Data were collected among 120 Dutch faculty members who completed a...

Management of change: Lessons learned from staff reductions in the chemical process industry

Increasing global competition and shareholder pressure are causing major changes in the chemical industry. Over the last decade companies have been continuously improving staff efficiency. As a result, most modern chemical plants can be regarded as lean. Plans to further reduce the number of staff have come under increasing criticism by...

Distinguishing between overtime work and long workhours among full-time and part-time workers

Objectives: This study aimed at disentangling the effects of overtime hours from those of long workhours. For part-time workers, overtime work is not intertwined with long workhours as it is for full-time workers. Therefore, part-time and full-time employees were compared with regard to the association between overtime and well-being (fatigue...