Founded in 2004, the Games for Health Project supports community, knowledge and business development efforts to use cutting-edge games and game technologies to improve health and health care. The Games for Health Conference brings together researchers, medical professionals and game developers to share …

Although sustainability is often discussed solely in ecological terms, it cannot be disconnected from the way humans behave in their social environment. This article presents a theoretical approach toward sustainability that takes a human behavior and knowledge view on sustainability as a starting point. …

Redesigning IT systems for specific user groups encompasses a lot of effort with respect to analysing and understanding user behaviour. The goal of this paper is to provide insights into patterns of behaviour of agricultural users, during the usage of a decision support system called OPTIRas (TM). This …

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to propose a fundamentally new extension of the marketing paradigm. This is theoretically and practically necessary since in the authors' view there is an insufficient balance between customer and brand thinking. Design/methodology/approach - While the marketing …

Jaarlijks maken 36 duizend kinderen en jongeren een echtscheiding mee van hun ouders (Steenbrink & Sprangers, 2006). Uit onderzoeken is gebleken dat een echtscheiding een grote impact heeft op het leven van een volwassene. Binnen onze stage bij het Algemeen Maatschappelijk Werk was echtscheiding een …

Bisphosphonates (BPs) are widely used in the treatment of osteolytic bone disease associated with multiple myeloma, and have been demonstrated to exert antitumor effects both in vitro and in vivo. However, the precise molecular mechanisms involved in the direct antitumor effects of BPs in vitro are not …

Vluchtelingenkinderen kampen vaak met uiteenlopende problemen die te maken hebben met hun achtergrond, vluchtgeschiedenis en/of onzekere verblijf in Nederland. Om na te gaan of lesprogramma’s het welbevinden van vluchtelingenkinderen in het basisonderwijs kunnen bevorderen zijn de effecten van twee lesprogramma’s …

Inoculation of maize silage with Lactobacillus buchneri (5 × 105 c.f.u. g-1 of maize silage) prior to ensiling results in the formation of aerobically stable silage. After 9 months, lactic acid bacterium counts are approximately 1010 c.f.u. g-1 in these treated silages. An important subpopulation (5.9 …