Older care recipients living at home increasingly rely on support from informal caregivers. As informal caregivers often combine these caregiving tasks with other tasks, such as paid work, they are at risk of becoming overloaded. To decrease informal caregiver burden, diferent forms of support are available …

Few studies on residential mobility of ageing adults to rural areas have investigated which of them buy a home in a rural risk area. This paper examines which socio-demographic characteristics, housing attributes and earthquake circumstances influence the actual choice of mid-to-later life adults to …

The number of Electric Vehicles (EVs) is expected to increase exponentially in the coming years. The growing presence of charging points generates a multitude of interactions between EV users, particularly in metropolitan areas where a charging infrastructure is largely part of the public domain. There …

Background: Recent studies suggest that ethnic minority students underperform in standardised assessments commonly used to evaluate their progress. This disparity seems to also hold for postgraduate medical students and GP trainees, and may affect the quality of primary health care, which requires an …

Inset plots can be used to “zoom in” on densely populated areas of a graph or to add extra relevant data in the form of, for example, distribution plots. However, the standard Stata command for combining plots, graph combine, does not permit this type of seamless integration. Each plot within a graph …

Als in het voorjaar de watertemperatuur stijgt, maken oesters zich klaar voor de voortplanting. Dit is het startpunt van nieuwe oesters. Zodra de bevruchting van eicellen plaats heeft gevonden, worden er oesterlarven gevormd. Maar wanneer zijn deze oesterlarven waarneembaar in de waterkolom en komen …

In het late voorjaar worden de eerste oesterlarven in het water waargenomen. Oesterlarven brengen gemiddeld 6-13 dagen (platteoesters) tot 21 dagen (Creuse oesters) in de waterkolom door voordat ze zich vestigen op hard substraat. Binnen dit project is er drie jaar rond de voortplantingsperiode invangmateriaal …

Om Creuse en platte oesters te kunnen kweken zijn jonge oesters ('oesterbroed') nodig. Oesterbroed wordt verkregen door het invangen van oesterlarven. Traditioneel leggen oesterkwekers hiervoor lege mosselschelpen op de bodem van hun percelen. Er worden ook proeven gedaan met invangmateriaal dat vrij …

Comprehensive understanding of the merits of bottom-up urban development is lacking, thus hampering and complicating associated collaborative processes. Therefore, and given the assumed relevancies, we mapped the social, environmental and economic values generated by bottom-up developments in two Dutch …

Anthropogenic changes to estuaries, usually highly productive systems, may result in increased turbidity levels, suppress pelagic primary production and negatively affect ecosystem functions. The Ems-Dollard estuary, enclosed between the Netherlands and Germany, is such an estuary with a long history …