Onderdeel van het symposium 'De-minimalising teacher education' op het ATEE annual conference 2009 in Boedapest over opvattingen over professionaliteit en de consequenties daarvan voor leraren en lerarenopleidingen.

Background & aims:  Individual energy requirements of overweight and obese adults can often not be measured by indirect calorimetry, mainly due to the time-consuming procedure and the high costs. To analyze which resting energy expenditure (REE) predictive equation is the best alternative for indirect …

Column van Marco Snoek voor Scienceguide. Terwijl OCW op allerlei manieren probeert de kwaliteit van de lerarenopleidingen te verbeteren, blijft het echte probleem zo buiten schot: het gebrek aan nascholing. Die zouden leraren zelf moeten organiseren, betoogt HvA-lector Marco Snoek.

To date, it is unknown whether waist circumference can be measured validly and reliably when a subject is in a supine position. This issue is relevant when international standards for healthy participants are applied to persons with severe intellectual, sensory, and motor disabilities. Thus, the aims …

Background: When the resting energy expenditure (REE) of overweight and obese adolescents cannot be measured by indirect calorimetry, it has to be predicted with an equation. Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the validity of published equations for REE compared with indirect calorimetry …

To examine the association of adolescents' snack and soft drink consumption with friendship group snack and soft drink consumption, availability of snacks and soft drinks at school, and personal characteristics, snack and soft drink consumption was assessed in 749 adolescents (398 girls, 351 boys, age …

Sinds 2008 bestaat er een landelijke Body of Knowledge & Skills voor vijf domeinen binnen het hoger onderwijs, te weten Business Administration, Commerce, Communications, Economics en Laws (Hbo-raad 2008). De term Body of Knowledge & Skills (BoKS) staat voor het geheel van kennis, vaardigheden en attitudes …

Background: Depression and being overweight are correlated health problems in adulthood. Adolescence is a significant period for the onset and increase of depression and obesity, especially among girls. Pubertal development also occurs with concomitant increases in weight. Thus, it is not yet clear whether …

The present study investigated the effect of salt (NaCl) intake on urea-N excretion by using milk urea level as an indicator. Sixteen multi-parity Dutch dairy Holsteins (daily milk production 27.74 ± 3.14 kg and body weight 654.9 ± 43.1 kg) were used in a 4x4 crossover design with treatment varying in …

Homovijandigheid neemt nog steeds toe, vooral onder jongeren. Jongerenwerkers in Amsterdam deden mee aan een 'dialoogproject', waarbij ze leerden met dit fenomeen om te gaan en hun eigen weerstanden tegen homo's overwonnen.