BACKGROUND: Limited research has examined what is actually done in the process of care by nursing staff in long-term institutional care. The applied instruments employed different terminologies, and psychometric properties were inadequately described. This study aimed to develop and test an observational …

Purpose: The author sets out the basis for a new research programme designed to demonstrate that by encouraging managers of small to medium-sized businesses (SMEs [1]) to take a positive approach to social and environmental risks, embedding and operationalising their responses into their business strategy, …

Control of plant growth is an important aspect of crop productivity and yield in agriculture. Overexpression of the At CHR12/ 23 genes in Arabidopsis thaliana reduced growth habit without other morphological changes. These two genes encode Snf2 chromatin remodelling ATPases. Here, we translate this approach …

In het kader van onze afstudeerscriptie voor de opleiding fysiotherapie aan Zuyd Hogeschool te Heerlen, hebben wij onderzoek uitgevoerd naar de verschillen in spieractiviteit tussen mensen met een gezond gangpatroon en mensen met de symptomen van een klapvoet. Een normaal, gezond gangpatroon is niet …

Berding & Pols (2006) benadrukken dat iedere leerling uniek is en dat iedere leerling een uniek leerproces doormaakt. Het is de taak van de mentor om het onderwijs aan te laten sluiten op de individuele behoeftes van de leerling. Op het praktijkonderwijs (PRO) college wordt dit in de theorie en de praktijklessen …

Since the announcement of the establishment of the Islamic ‘caliphate’ in the Middle East on June 29 2014, the number of people leaving Western European countries to join the ISIS military has dramatically increased. It is estimated that over 1,430 French, around 700 British and at least 180 Dutch nationals …

Objective: To investigate how reengagement in valued activities poststroke is influenced by environmental factors. Data Sources: PubMed, CINAHL, and PsycINFO were searched to June 2015 using multiple search terms for stroke, activities, disability, and home and community environments, with the following …

In this reserach, standard reference values for the diaphragm thickness in healthy young adults are looked for. These will be put into relation with the age, the gender, the height and the FFMI of these subjects. Furthermore, a connection to COPD-patients is made in respect to using MSU in clinical practice …

Samenvatting De opleiding Oefentherapie Cesar (OTC) is een HBO opleiding van de Hogeschool Utrecht. Recente ontwikkelingen in de visie op het onderwijs en een nieuw competentieprofiel maken dat ik als stagedocent een verandering constateer in de begeleidende en beoordelende rol tijdens de stages. Voor …

Purpose Palliative care improves quality of life of patients and relatives facing life-threatening illnesses; it places their needs central (WHO, 2015). It is however unknown if facility design in Dutch hospice care facilities fulfils these needs. This paper aims to establish if services and spaces of …