Background: Evidence-based practice has developed over the last 30 years as a tool for the best possible nursing care. Nevertheless, many nurses do not regularly participate in the evidencebased practice process. Barriers to participation include nurses’ self-perceived ability in successfully fulfilling …

BackgroundTranscutaneous vagal nerve stimulation has analgesic potential and might be elicited by abdominally administered low-frequency vibrations. The objective was to study the safety and effect of a combination of music and abdominally administered low-frequency vibrations on pain intensity in elderly …

Panorama Films is an Italian-based production and service company, for feature films, commercials, photographic shoots and more; and assists foreign production companies in all aspects of the production, such as budget allocation, crew, locations, etc. Panorama Films plans to implement a radical change …

Jongeren met autisme, ad(h)d, angststoornis, borderline, depressie, anorexia of een andere psychische stoornis doen het op school steeds beter. Maar de overstap naar de arbeidsmarkt blijkt moeilijk. Meer tijd, betere begeleiding en tegelijkertijd ‘zo normaal mogelijk’ doen, moeten verbetering brengen. …

While many researchers have investigated soft skills for different roles related to business, engineering, healthcare and others, the soft skills needed by the chief information security officer (CISO) in a leadership position are not studied in-depth. This paper describes a first study aimed at filling …

Het is een reis van zo'n 6.000 kilometer, maar vooral op de eerste kilometers komen ze allerlei obstakels tegen: de palingen die van Fryslân naar de Sargassozee bij Bermuda willen.

De honingbij is bijna een landbouwhuisdier en heeft in Nederland weinig last van de afnemende biodiversiteit. De kasten van de honingbijen staan vaak bij land- en tuinbouwgewassen. Als de bloei van die gewassen stopt, gaan de honingbijen bij het zoeken naar voedsel de concurrentie aan met wilde bijen. …

There is a need for effective methods to teach critical thinking. Many studies on other skills have demonstrated beneficial effects of practice that repeatedly induces retrieval processes (repeated retrieval practice). The present experiment investigated whether repeated retrieval practice is effective …

Seclusion of patients on psychiatric wards is a controversial intervention with serious safety issues for patients. Nurses have an important role in the decision to use seclusion when encountering aggressive behaviour. The aim of this thesis is to improve knowledge about the influence of nurses on the …

This article starts from the observation that popular culture resides in a contradictory space. On the one hand it seems to be thriving, in that the range of media objects that were previously studied under the rubric of popular culture has certainly expanded. Yet, cultural studies scholars rarely study …