Objectives Adherence to lifestyle interventions is crucial for the treatment of obesity. However, there is little research about adherence to lifestyle interventions in persons around retirement age. The objectives of this study are (1) to identify factors associated with the adherence to resistance …

Background & aims: Accurate diagnosis of sarcopenia requires evaluation of muscle quality, which refers to the amount of fat infiltration in muscle tissue. In this study, we aim to investigate whether we can independently predict mortality risk in transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) patients, …

Rationale: Sarcopenia and obesity are prevalent conditions and are both associated with negative health outcomes. ESPEN and EASO reached consensus on the definition and diagnostic criteria for sarcopenic obesity (SO) encompassing indicators fat mass, muscle mass, and muscle function. However, few studies …

Rationale: Sarcopenia and obesity are prevalent conditions and often co-occur within the same individual. ESPEN and EASO reached consensus on the definition of sarcopenic obesity (SO), encompassing altered muscle function (MF) and altered body composition (BC). However, both handgrip strength (HGS) and …

Entrepreneurial ecosystems, and the actors within, are a core factor in fostering entrepreneurial activity in regions (Brush et al., 2019). Business networks are one of the entrepreneurial ecosystems element and key in socially embedding entrepreneurs. The extent to which an entrepreneur is embedded …

In het artikel "Past een sociale robot bij mijn winkel?" (Nas et al., 2024) onderzoeken Ewout Nas, Tibert Verhagen, Jacqueline Arnoldy, Stephanie van de Sanden, Filip Otten en Koen Hindriks of en wanneer een sociale robot een passende toevoeging is aan een fysieke winkel. Tijdens een zes weken durend …

Kim Meijer, zelf werkzaam als docent, onderzoeker en trainer in de bedrijfsethiek, is in december 2023 gepromoveerd op het proefschrift ‘Impossible and Inevitable: Reconstructing the Critique of Business Ethics’. Voor toegepast filosofen is dit een belangrijk proefschrift, omdat het de modderigheid van …

In secondary school philosophy classes students learn to reason critically about social and scientific issues. This study examined the effects of a whole-class, teacher-led philosophy classroom dialogue intervention on students’ value-loaded critical thinking. Value-loaded critical thinking is logically …