PURPOSE: To conduct a meta-analysis to describe clinical course of pain and disability in adult patients post-lumbar discectomy (PROSPERO: CRD42015020806). METHODS: Sensitive topic-based search strategy designed for individual databases was conducted. Patients (> 16 years) following first-time lumbar …

Due to the depletion of fossil fuel resources and concern about increasing atmospheric CO2 levels, the production of microbial oil as source for energy and chemicals is considered as a sustainable alternative. A promising candidate strain for the production of microbial oil is the oleaginous yeast Schwanniomyces …

Nowadays, digital tools for mathematics education are sophisticated and widely available. These tools offer important opportunities, but also come with constraints. Some tools are hard to tailor by teachers, educational designers and researchers; their functionality has to be taken for granted. Other …

Over the past decade, the maker movement and in its slipstream maker education have attained worldwide popularity among educators, politicians, and the media. Makers’ enthusiasm for creative design and construction, using old and new tools has proven contagious, and is worth exploration and critical …

In this chapter, I look back at the implementation of W12-16, a major reform of mathematics education in the lower grades of general secondary education and pre-vocational secondary education in the Netherlands including all students aged 12–16. The nationwide implementation of W12-16 started in 1990 …

Across the globe, linguistically heterogeneous populations increasingly define school systems at the same time that developing the ability to communicate cross-culturally is becoming essential for internationalized economies. While these trends seem complimentary, they often appear in paradoxical opposition …

Kunst kan in haar rijkheid en variëteit worden ingezet om een inclusieve samenleving te bevorderen. Maar hoe doe je dat? Want ook het werken met kunst kan mensen uitsluiten. In het onderzoek naar het project De Kunst van Delen is gezocht naar de do’s en don’t’s bij het inzetten van kunst door sociale …

In de drukte en hectiek van het werk lukt het vaak niet om stil te staan, te vertragen en te kijken naar ons handelen. Zo komen we niet op een diepere laag en kunnen we de vragen wat, hoe en waartoe niet voldoende stellen. Hoe komt dat? Volstaan de huidige reflectiemethoden niet, is tijdsdruk een issue, …