Plantar pressure measurement provides important information about the structure and function of the foot and is a helpful tool to evaluate patients with foot complaints. In general, average and maximum plantar pressure of 6-11 areas under the foot are used to compare groups of subjects. However, masking …

Over the course of nearly two decades, the United Nations has displayed an looming incapability of effectively using its organizational means to intervene in order to prevent and suppress genocide. This paper defines the term 'genocide' and its implications and gives a short introduction to the treaties …

During the last 2 years, the city of Zoetermeer has been one of the research & design locations for the Master project MSc2 Urban Plan & City Analysis. The project was part of the curriculum of the Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology. A group of 18 (inter)national …

BACKGROUND: We compared the effect of a 12-week group-based multidisciplinary self-management rehabilitation program, combining physical training (twice weekly) and cognitive-behavioral therapy (once weekly) with the effect of 12-week group-based physical training (twice weekly) on cancer survivors' …

Aim of this presentation was to stress the utmost importance of gaining insight in the physical-spatial quality and context of the urban fabric as a whole before venturing out into the realm of transformation design proposals. Large-scale areas or confined objects alike, the quality of the urban frame …

In a real-world environment a face detector can be applied to extract multiple face images from multiple video streams without constraints on pose and illumination. The extracted face images will have varying image quality and resolution. Moreover, also the detected faces will not be precisely aligned. …

IL-4 and IL-13 are prototypic Th2 cytokines that generate an “alternatively activated” phenotype in macrophages. We used high-density oligonucleotide microarrays to investigate the transcriptional profile induced in human monocytes by IL-13. After 8-h stimulation with IL-13, 142 genes were regulated …

In this paper, fractal transforms are employed with the aim of image recognition. It is known that such transforms are highly sensitive to distortions like a small shift of an image. However, by using features based on statistics kept during the actual decomposition we can derive features from fractal …

The wrist allows the hand to combine dorsopalmar flexion and radioulnar deviation, a unique combination of functions that is made possible by a highly complex system of joints. The morphologic features of the carpal bones and of the radiocarpal and intercarpal contacts can be functionally interpreted …

A bacterium belonging to the Bacillus firmus/lentus-complex and capable of growth on native potato starch was isolated from sludge of a pilot plant unit for potato-starch production. Utilization of a crude enzyme preparation obtained from the culture fluid after growth of the microorganism on native …