Within the middle hills of Nepal, OPs were found to prescribe the same operations, irrespective of species composition, forest conditions, and forest management objectives. The OPs play little, if any, role in practical forest management. The combined use of remote sensing and GIS technologies can be …

De Hogeschool van Amsterdam en het Amsterdam UMC werken samen om zorgverleners handvatten te bieden die hen helpen bewustere en duurzamere keuzen te maken bij luchtwegzorghandelingen op de intensive care.

This report presents a comparison of biodiversity benefits of tree plantation with areas managed traditionally outside the plantation in farmlands. The aim of the research was to provide data that can be used for evaluating and certifying biodiversity benefits of the plantations. The question used to …

Patients who are critically ill and receiving invasivemechanical ventilation are at increased risk for accumula-tion of secretions in the lower airways. Such accumula-tion of airway mucus can induce atelectasis and contributeto ventilator-associated pneumonia. Preventive airwaycare interventions, including …

In 2011, at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), 20 targets were established to address and mitigate biodiversity loss across the globe by 2020. Unfortunately, none of the targets were globally met. The last Convention on Biological Diversity National Report of the Kingdom of the Netherlands …

This report presents 1) a biodiversity baseline study conducted in the restored areas of the Mushullakta community, Napo, Ecuador, and 2) a community-based monitoring protocol for ongoing biodiversity monitoring. Monitoring is a vital part of conservation and restoration, as it provides practitioners …

INTRODUCTION: Mechanical Insufflation-Exsufflation (MI-E) is used as an airway clearance intervention in primary care (home ventilation), long-term care (prolonged rehabilitation after intensive care, neuromuscular diseases, and spinal cord injury), and increasingly in acute care in intensive care units …