Most people in The Netherlands have access to high quality palliative care—multidisciplinary total care aimed at patients’ quality of life when patients have limited life expectancies. All nurses and generalist physicians receive at least basic palliative care training. Nursing home staff is also well …

Stichting Woonbegeleiding Jong Volwassenen begeleidt jongeren van de leeftijd 16 tot en met 25 jaar oud. De doelgroep kenmerkt zich door gedragsproblemen, een psychische of psychiatrische stoornis of een (licht) verstandelijke beperking. Deze kenmerken komen in de literatuur overeen met groepen die veel …

Nowadays “facts” and thus “truth” seems inescapable: there 's hardly any room for imagination, let alone for myths. However, we must not confuse facts with truth. Newton, for example, would never have come to his deep knowledge if he had not looked past the facts. There are never enough facts, if you …

Why do young people study psychology? Together with medicine and law, psychology has been one of the most popular studies for years in the Netherlands. Unlike for example medicine, many students drop out during the first year.  This article focusses on the question why.

Digital techniques have enabled us to enjoy music, literature and communication to an unlimited extent. Images, music and other files can even bridge the largest distances on Earth in just a few milliseconds via the World Wild Web (and satellites). Digital connection would be less demanding for the planet …

Door fintech verandert de financieringsmarkt voor het mkb. Er zijn nu veel niet-bancaire aanbieders tot de markt toegetreden en financieringsvormen kunnen makkelijker worden gecombineerd. Zo ontstaan er nieuwe kansen voor ondernemers en hun adviseurs. Zal ook de financieel adviseur daardoor in de nabije …

Samenvatting Goede financiering is cruciaal voor een goede economische ontwikkeling van mkb- bedrijven. Dit rapport laat op basis van negentien interviews zien hoe onafhankelijke financieel mkb-adviseurs tot hun keuzes komen. De interviews zijn afgenomen op basis van een strikt interviewprotocol. Bij …

What about people, hardware (biology) and software (culture)? Our construction starts with an egg cell and a sperm cell that is 83,000 times smaller (in this phase the female is certainly cooperative). The 2 cells double, and double, 47 times (247) resulting in the 140.737 billion (1.4 * 1014) complex …

Youyou et al. showed that from 70 likes the algorithm could predict the personality better than friends, from 150 likes better than family members and from 300 likes even better than the test person himself. However, the machine learning algorithm does not know the person better than the colleagues, …