This study focuses on students’ approaches to learning, particularly in innovative learning environments. A person-oriented research perspective was chosen to search for nuances and details that add to existing knowledge on secondary students’ learning. The relation between students’ goal orientations, …

Objective To develop and internally validate a prognostic model to predict chronic pain after a new episode of acute or subacute non-specific idiopathic, non-traumatic neck pain in patients presenting to physiotherapy primary care, emphasising modifiable biomedical, psychological and social factors. Design …

Farmers often install automatic cow brushes to promote grooming behaviour, potentially reducing stress. Health problems in cattle are typically accompanied by a suit of sickness behaviours and a reduction of low resilience behaviours such as grooming. Thus, decreased automatic brush use could be a potential …

Lebanon’s economic crisis has disrupted the country’s energy and water sectors, highlighting their interdependence. The methodology involves surveying 150 municipalities across all Lebanese governorates, ensuring a comprehensive coverage of public and private water resources. Data on water and energy …

To enhance our understanding of forest carbon sequestration, climate change mitigation and drought impact on forest ecosystems, the availability of high-resolution annual forest growth maps based on tree-ring width (TRW) would provide a significant advancement to the field. Site-specific characteristics, …

A promising contribution of Learning Analytics is the presentation of a learner's own learning behaviour and achievements via dashboards, often in comparison to peers, with the goal of improving self-regulated learning. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence on the impact of these dashboards …

Electric vehicles have penetrated the Dutch market, which increases the potential for decreased local emissions, the use and storage of sustainable energy, and the roll-out and use of electric car-sharing business models. This development also raises new potential issues such as increased electricity …

Over time memories are believed to undergo a time-dependent reorganization in the brain through a process known as systems consolidation during which they become less dependent on the hippocampus and more dependent on the neocortical structures. This reorganization is accompanied by a generalization …

The aim of this thesis is to assess the reliability and accuracy of Miedema's clay-cutting model by critically examining its underlying assumptions and investigating potential discrepancies. The research questions revolve around identifying the inconsistencies in nomenclature, evaluating the chosen strain …

In today’s competitive business environment, companies acknowledge the critical role that efficient sales management plays in driving revenue growth and sustaining a market position. The problem definition on which this research is based emerged from the increase of complaints related to the Sales Excellence …