Living a sedentary lifestyle is one of the major causes of numerous health problems. To encourage employees to lead a less sedentary life, the Hanze University started a health promotion program. One of the interventions in the program was the use of an activity tracker to record participants' daily …

Door middel van literatuurstudie is onderzoek gedaan naar effectieve interventies om de valfrequentie bij Parkinsonpatiënten te verminderen. De ziekte van Parkinson is de tweede meest voorkomende neurodegeneratieve aandoening ter wereld. Door het verlies van dopaminerge neuronen in de substantia nigra …

Sleeping is an important part of human life as multiple sleep restriction studies have shown. However, its function is not yet completely understood even though researchers have been performing sleep experiments for years. These experiments require sleep stage scoring, which as of this moment is done …

Abstract gepubliceerd in Elsevier: Introduction: Recent research has identified the issue of ‘dose creep’ in diagnostic radiography and claims it is due to the introduction of CR and DR technology. More recently radiographers have reported that they do not regularly manipulate exposure factors for different …

Inleiding – Pijn is wereldwijd het meest prominente symptoom en de voornaamste reden voor medische hulp. Het meten van pijn kan middels subjectieve vragenlijsten en objectief doormiddel van pijndrempelmetingen (PPT-metingen). Pijndrempels kunnen worden gemeten met diverse typen algometers. Er is echter …

The study was carried out in the Southern part of Ethiopia within Ziway-Hawassa milk shed. The study was aimed to identify climate-smart practices in the downstream dairy value chain in order to design efficient and climate-smart business models for milk collectors. Purposive and random sampling techniques …

BACKGROUND: A lack of physical activity is considered to cause 6% of deaths globally. Feedback from wearables such as activity trackers has the potential to encourage daily physical activity. To date, little research is available on the natural development of adherence to activity trackers or on potential …

Pseudomonas fluorescens strain SS101 (Pf.SS101) promotes growth of Arabidopsis thaliana, enhances greening and lateral root formation, and induces systemic resistance (ISR) against the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato (Pst). Here, targeted and untargeted approaches were adopted to identify …

Purpose: Law enforcement may require police officers to inhibit intuitive responses to high threat and thereby affect their emotional reaction and operational effectiveness. Upon this premise, the current study reports two experiments which compare the impact of two relevant shot execution strategies …

Het Alrijne Ziekenhuis Leiderdorp probeert zijn patiënten zo goed mogelijk te informeren conform de Wet op de Geneeskundige Behandelingsovereenkomst, opgenomen in Boek 7 van het Burgerlijk Wetboek. Om dit te kunnen realiseren is het van belang dat hulpverleners weten welke plichten en rechten zij hebben …