Het projecteam Next Skills voor de Metropoolregio Rotterdam-Den Haag van het Kenniscentrum Business Innovation van Hogeschool Rotterdam heeft in het kader van een KIEM hbo-subsidie een verkenning uitgevoerd welke skills cq vaardigheden nodig zouden zijn voor de toekomstige situatie van de metropoolregio …

Many species of parasitoid wasps use plant volatiles to locate their herbivorous hosts. These volatiles are reliable indicators of host presence when their emission in plants is induced by herbivory. Hyperparasitoids may also use information from lower trophic levels to locate their parasitoid hosts …

Dit artikel is overgenomen van www.mejudice.nl https://www.mejudice.nl/artikelen/detail/de-bijstand-kan-beter   Doel van de Participatiewet is om mensen weer op eigen benen te laten staan en (snel) uit te laten stromen naar (betaald) werk of, als dat niet kan, op een andere manier te laten participeren. …

Global climate change is resulting in a wide range of biotic responses, including changes in diel activity and seasonal phenology patterns, range shifts polewards in each hemisphere and/or to higher elevations, and altered intensity and frequency of interactions between species in ecosystems.Oak (Thaumetopoea …

Thermal disinfection is probably the oldest water treatment method ever used. Similarly to other disinfection processes, it targets the inactivation of pathogenic (micro)organisms present in water, wastewater and other media. In this work, a pilot-scale continuous-flow thermal disinfection system was …

Objectives: To determine the psychometric properties of a questionnaire to assess fear of movement (kinesiophobia): the Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia (TSK-NL Heart), and to investigate the prevalence of kinesiophobia in patients attending cardiac rehabilitation. Methods: A total of 152 patients were …

De overlast van de eikenprocessierups (EPR) voor de gezondheid van mens en dier vraagt om aandacht en aanpakken. Op veel plekken gebeurt dat al. In de praktijk zijn verschillende middelen en maatregelen in zwang. Daarbij ontstaan vragen over de werkzaamheid, effectiviteit, (schadelijke) neveneffecten …

Most endogenous viruses, an important proportion of eukaryote genomes, are doomed to slowly decay. Little is known, however, on how they evolve when they confer a benefit to their host. Bracoviruses are essential for the parasitism success of parasitoid wasps, whose genomes they integrated ~103 million …

To locate mating partners and essential resources such as food, oviposition sites and shelter, insects rely to a large extent on chemical cues. While most research has focused on cues derived from plants and insects, there is mounting evidence that indicates that micro‐organisms emit volatile compounds …

Insect hyperparasitoids are fourth trophic level organisms that commonly occur in terrestrial food webs, yet they are relatively understudied. These top-carnivores can disrupt biological pest control by suppressing the populations of their parasitoid hosts, leading to pest outbreaks, especially in confined …