Deliberate practice, an iterative process that leads to expertise, is found to be positively associated with superior performance in domains such as sports, education, and entrepreneurship. At the same time, deliberate practice is also seen as being less than enjoyable and difficult to pursue consistently. …

Volgens Jungmann en Madern is het belangrijk om aandacht te besteden aan de financiële competenties van burgers. Het kabinet Rutte III vindt het belangrijk dat iedereen met problematische schulden zich kan wenden tot de gemeente, mensen mogen zich niet in de steek gelaten voelen. Toch heeft de aangeboden …

(This is part III of a series of essays on meme theory, all published on this site. Part I is called They Say That We Can’t Meme: Politics of Idea Compression. Part II is entitled Rude Awakening: Memes as Dialectical Images)

Purpose Empowerment in patients can lead to a higher participation in care and self-management skills. However, there are a limited number of high-quality instruments to assess empowerment and its various dimensions in young persons. The aim was to develop and assess the psychometric properties of the …

Purpose. Staphylococcus haemolyticus has emerged as a highly antimicrobial-resistant healthcare-associated pathogen, in particular for patients admitted to neonatal intensive care. The objective of this study was to study the nature of SCCmec types among MDR-SH strains isolated from paediatric patients. Methodology. …

Recent research has shown that many chloroplast markers commonly used for the identification of species in land plants are not useful in the moss genus Campylopus. The only known suitable marker in Campylopus is the nuclear ribosomal ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 region. However, evolutionary patterns of this region …

Inleiding: Binnen dit onderzoek stond de vraag centraal welk testprotocol van fysieke, psychologische en sociale testen het best bruikbaar is om vast te stellen wanneer voetballers klaar zijn voor de return to play na een voorste kruisbandreconstructie. Tot nu toe is er veel onderzoek gedaan naar de …

In december 2015 werd het wetsvoorstel ‘Wet Computercriminaliteit III’ ingediend bij de Tweede Kamer. In dit wetsvoorstel is een nieuwe bevoegdheid opgenomen voor opsporingsambtenaren welke hen de mogelijkheid geeft om op afstand de geautomatiseerde werken, zoals computers, binnen te dringen. Deze bevoegdheid …

In this study we measured the performance times on the Wheelchair Mobility Performance (WMP) test during different test conditions to see if the performance times changed when wheelchair settings were changed. The overall performance time on the WMP test increased when the tire pressure was reduced and …

Purpose : A structured, tailored exercise therapy strategy was found to significantly improve physical functioning, reduce pain and was safe for patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA) and severe comorbidity. The intervention was performed in a specialized, secondary care center. Before the intervention …