Background A major challenge for effective practical work in school science is to encourage students to connect hands-on aspects to minds-on principles, in other words to Think Back-and-Forth (TBF). Teacher behaviour is pivotal in achieving this goal, but teachers lack guidelines how to accomplish this. …

Editorial on the Research Topic "Leveraging artificial intelligence and open science for toxicological risk assessment"

Introduction The Dutch Medical Doctor-Global Health (MD-GH) prepares to work in low-resource settings (LRS) by completing a hybrid postgraduate training program of 2 years and 9 months, with clinical and public health exposure in the Netherlands and a Global Health residency in LRS. The objectives of …

Purpose: To describe perceptions and experiences of people who have undergone a major dysvascular lower limb amputation (LLA) regarding nutrition, and to identify perceived barriers and facilitators regarding nutritional intake. Methods: In this phenomenological qualitative study, individual, semi-structured, …

Theoretici zoals Tobin Siebers, Ato Quayson en Martha Stoddard Holmes hebben onderzocht hoe handicaps verschillende emoties oproepen en hoe deze relatie centraal staat in het sociale leven. Dit artikel introduceert de concepten affordances en genre om deze relatie beter te begrijpen. Affordances verwijzen …

BACKGROUND: Physical activity is essential in burn care to counteract the effects of severe burns and inactivity during hospitalization. However, detailed knowledge of performed physical activities is lacking. This study evaluated the feasibility of a dual accelerometer-based method to assess type, frequency, …

1. The authors regret that some of the references in the final version of the manuscript were still indicated as ‘deleted for blinded review’. These have been corrected below: a) On page 2: For example, in a recent Delphi study, older people in the Netherlands indicated that they did not use or like …

A modified genetic algorithm (MGA) optimization procedure, alongside time series machine learning (ML) classifiers, is proposed to minimize handovers in a digital twin-based visible light communication (VLC) system. Frequent handovers have a direct impact on the overall performance of the VLC system …

Op 9 oktober vond de jaarlijkse Onderzoeksconferentie Kind en Educatie plaats op Hogeschool KPZ. Tijdens de onderzoeksconferentie deelden betrokken onderzoeksscholen en Hogeschool KPZ onderzoeksuitkomsten en -ervaringen met elkaar en andere geïnteresseerden. In dit artikel vertellen verschillende professionals …

Reliability is a constraint of low-power wireless connectivity, commonly addressed by the deployment of mesh topology. Accordingly, power consumption becomes a major concern during the design and implementation of such networks. Thus, a mono-objective optimization was implemented in this work to decrease …