Plant-based cheese has become popular due to health, environment, and ethical reasons. A study among Dutch consumers showed that most respondents have never tried plant-based cheese, but younger people are more willing to try it. The main motives for trying plant-based cheese were animal welfare and …

In de wekelijkse podcast over goed onderwijs en gelijke kansen wordt de toegevoegde waarde van voor- en vroegschoolse educatie voor jonge kinderen toegelicht vanuit het Pre Cool cohortonderzoek en de praktijk.

Issue In the Netherlands, the National Public Health Foresight Study (PHF) is published every 4 years, as starting point for national and local public health policy development. As these policies impact citizens’ health and lives, it is important to include their voices. We piloted an approach to strengthen …

Background: In the Netherlands, general practitioners (GPs) play a key role in provider-initiated HIV testing, but opportunities for timely diagnosis are regularly missed. We implemented an educational intervention to improve HIV testing by GPs from 2015 to 2020, and observed a 7% increase in testing …

Abstract Background Clients with severe mental illness (SMI) have overall poor physical health. SMI reduces life expectancy by 5–17 years, primarily due to physical comorbidity linked to cardiometabolic risks that are mainly driven by unhealthy lifestyle behaviours. To improve physical health in clients …

Creative arts engagement has been shown to be related to maintaining wellbeing in older adulthood (Tymoszuk et al., 2019). For people living with dementia, music can be engaging and rewarding (Baird & Thompson, 2018), and is often presented as a therapeutic activity. It is theorised that music’s capacity …

Dit onderzoek is gestart vanuit de ambitie om student-leraren kleuter- en lager onderwijs voor te bereiden op het teamwerk in een professionele leergemeenschap (PLG) met expliciete en doelgerichte aandacht voor interacties. Hiervoor werden leerinterventies ontworpen, onderbouwd vanuit wetenschappelijke …

Longitudinal Business Process Management (BPM) studies are rare. BPM maturity and process performance can be used to quantify an organization's BPM evolution. This research aims to examine the growth of BPM maturity over time and its impact on process performance inside an organization in continuous …

In this TechForFuture project ‘Polymer Mixing in a Single Screw Extruder’ a method to optimize mixing elements is developed based on numerical simulations (Computational Fluid Dynamics, CFD). A numerical procedure is developed to calculate the flow field in the extruder. By tracing particles in this …