Obesity is a fast-growing societal threat, causing chronic conditions, physical and psychological health problems, as well as sickness absence and heavy healthcare costs. Despite numerous attempts to promote physical activity and healthy diet, existing interventions do not focus on the common emotional …

Knowledge of spatial and temporal trends in the environmental exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) is a key prerequisite for RF-EMF risk assessment studies attempting to establish a link between RF-EMF and potential effects on human health as well as on fauna and flora. In this …

The number of primary rainforests in South-East Asia is in rapid decline since many formerly continuous forests become splintered as a result of human activities like mining, agriculture and silviculture. This study examined the effects of forest fragment size and logging on the tree carbon stocks and …

Deze scriptie is uitgevoerd in opdracht van Gimsel de Groenterij, een volledig biologische natuurvoedingswinkel. Het doel van het onderzoek is inzicht te geven in de huidige klanttevredenheid voor behoud en uitbreiding van de klantenbase en verhoging van de omzet. De omzet valt de laatste jaren tegen …

In 2000 begon DierenPark Amersfoort met het huisvesten van een populatie mantelbavianen (Papio hamadryas). In 2002 werd een overzicht van de demografische samenstelling en sociale structuur van deze groep opgesteld. De afgelopen 13 jaar is dit overzicht gedateerd geraakt. DierenPark Amersfoort wil de …

SIW International Vrijwilligersprojecten (SIW) is a non-profit organization that provides the opportunity to do volunteer project in more than 70 countries. Throughout, the years the number of participants for international volunteer projects have been declining. This has caused financial limitations …

Obesity is a fast growing societal threat, causing chronic conditions, physical and psychological health problems, as well as absenteeism and large healthcare costs. Despite numerous attempts to promote physical activity and healthy diet, existing interventions do not focus on often occurring emotional …

Raman spectroscopy is an optical technique that is based on the inelastic scattering of light. It is non-invasive, fast, objective and easy to use. These traits make it an ideal tool for use in medical diagnosis. Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer. Currently, melanomas are visually diagnosed …

We describe the participation of the University of Amsterdams ILPS group in the Total Recall track at TREC 2015. Based on the provided Baseline Model Implemention (”BMI”) we set out to provide two more baselines we can compare to in future work. The two methods are bootstrapped by a synthetic document …

PURPOSE: The purpose of the study is (a) to describe care needs derived from records of patients in Dutch hospitals, and (b) to evaluate whether nurses employed the NANDA-I classification to formulate patients' care needs. METHODS: A stratified cross-sectional random-sampling nursing documentation audit …