Arsenic contamination of groundwater is a major public health concern worldwide. The problem has been reported mainly in southern Asia and, especially, in Bangladesh. Slow-sand filters (SSF) augmented with iron were proven to be a simple, low-cost and decentralized technique for the treatment of arsenic-contaminated …

In a longitudinal design, 51 low-achieving adolescents’ development in writing proficiency from Grades 7 to 9 was measured. There were 25 native-Dutch and 26 language-minority students. In addition, the roles of (1) linguistic knowledge, (2) metacognitive knowledge, and (3) linguistic fluency in predicting …

Heeft de wijze waarop een melkveehouder zijn bedrijf runt invloed op de smaak en de samenstelling van rauwe melk? ARC Food & Dairy van hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein deed daar oriënterend onderzoek naar, in opdracht van Boerengilde en NoorderlandMelk.

BACKGROUND: Our previously published CUDA-only application PaSWAS for Smith-Waterman (SW) sequence alignment of any type of sequence on NVIDIA-based GPUs is platform-specific and therefore adopted less than could be. The OpenCL language is supported more widely and allows use on a variety of hardware …

OBJECTIVES: To elucidate the role and pathways of psychosocial home demands, psychosocial home resources, and psychosocial job resources in relation to sickness absence among nurses working in residential elder care. METHODS: Longitudinal (SEM) analyses with bootstrapping with a 1 year follow-up among …

In the literature, illness perceptions have been reported to be important psychological factors associated with pain intensity and physical function in individuals with musculoskeletal pain. The objective of this study was to assess the relationship of illness perceptions with pain intensity and physical …

Een van de belangrijkste oorzaken van problemen bij landverhuizen is culture shock. We laten zien dat in de literatuur vooral aandacht is voor de praktische en psychologische factoren die een rol spelen wanneer iemand van land wisselt. De aandacht voor de invloed van landverhuizen op relaties is relatief …