Objective: There are widespread shortages of personal protective equipment as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Reprocessing filtering facepiece particle (FFP)-type respirators may provide an alternative solution in keeping healthcare professionals safe. Design: Prospective, bench-to-bedside. Setting: …

Many people on Earth are hungry or do not have a reliable source of drinking water. Drought-tolerantcrops do not need much water to grow and therefor usable in regions where water is an issue. Cropbreeders are working on crops that are more drought-tolerant and grow faster. Corp …

It is a fact that the communication branch has been involved in a big variety of unethical practices. Greenwashing exists because we in communications and our colleagues (mainly our colleagues of course J) made text and communication materials to let the green intentions of a company shine, by not including …

This column is about two paradoxes in IT, the Law of Gates and the Hanlon Razor. Many functionalities can be automated, but that this rarely says anything about the "real" contribution of the employees. For example, we still have train conductors, who also still check the validity of admission tickets, …

To evaluate the 5-year course of physical work capacity of participants with early symptomatic osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip and/or the knee; to identify trajectories and explore the relationship between trajectories and covariates. Methods In a prospective cohort study, physical work capacity was measured …

PCR-free techniques such as meta-mitogenomics (MMG) can recover taxonomic composition of macroinvertebrate communities, but sufer from low efciency, as >90% of sequencing data is mostly uninformative due to the great abundance of nuclear DNA that cannot be identifed with current reference databases. …

Al decennialang worden de gestelde doelen bij de meeste fusies en overnames niet behaald. Uit onderzoek blijkt steevast dat 65-85 procent van de overnames mislukt, ondanks het feit dat vaak een ‘due diligence’-onderzoek is gedaan en ook de strategische doelen vooraf zijn uitgewerkt. Op basis van harde …

Op 14 mei jl. vond in Nijmegen de presentatie plaats van het landelijke onderzoek “Loopbaan APK’s gekeurd” door Jos Sanders (HAN) en Jouke Post (Saxion). Noloc participeerde in klankbordgroep. Beide onderzoekers hebben in opdracht van instituut GAK een inventarisatie gedaan van ‘Loopbaan-APK instrumenten’ …

De probleemstelling voor dit onderzoek is de volgende: door te weinig gespecialiseerde mensen en stijgende loonprijzen voldoet de afbouw niet meer aan de eisen van Trebbe Wonen op het gebied van bouwkosten, bouwtijd (vertraging) en kwaliteit. Er is een grote afhankelijkheid van te weinig gespecialiseerd …

Physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior (SB) have important implications for health benefits. A growing number of people use consumer available wearables such as activity trackers, which claim to objectively monitor PA and SB in free-living conditions. These devices could provide essential information …