AIMS: The purpose of this study was to describe articulation and resonance characteristics of Ugandan English-speaking children with cleft lip and palate (CLP) after synchronous lip and palatal closure (Sommerlad technique) prior to the age of 6 months in comparison with an age- and gender-matched control …

Positive Travels is an online company that organises trips for business companies and for people who want to go on a holiday for leisure purposes. It was developed from its parent company Positive Business Events. Positive Travels offers trips with different themes and trips are mostly tailor-made. Positive …

The dissertation at hand is embedded in the context of the 2014 European elections that have brought to light a strong Eurosceptic sentiment throughout Europe. It picks up on the intention to create a new Eurosceptic group in the European Parliament as brought forward by right-wing populists Geert Wilders …

In this report a description is given of two implementation concepts for the implementation of shaft alignment, vibration measurement and on site machining in the Asia market. The entire analysis process has been described including an actor analysis, process analysis and market analysis. The two …

Complex innovations involve multi-organizational ecologies consisting of a myriad of different actors. This study investigates how innovation activities can be interpreted in the context of multi-organizational ecologies. Taking a project-level perspective, this study proposes a typology of four activity …

In this paper, the performance gain obtained by combining parallel peri- odic real-time processes is elaborated. In certain single-core mono-processor configurations, for example, embedded control systems in robotics comprising many short processes, process context switches may consume a considerable …

“Together a family” is a research on the effect of the module Psychomotor System therapy (PMST) on the positioning of the parents in a family with at least one child with the diagnose autism. Autism does not only affects the child, but the whole family. PMST can give a family the opportunity to grow and …

Motivation: It becomes more and more important to base a treatment on evidence which is obtained from doing research. Leekerweide started a psychomotor group treatment which is not ‘evidence-based’. The goal of this thesis is to answer the question if the performed treatment has contributed to the purpose …

In the medical community, X-rays are an important tool in imaging the human body. In principle X-ray images are 2 dimensional images. By measuring such X-ray images at multiple angles, one can construct the 3 dimensional inner structure of the sample. This 3 dimensional structure is created by applying …

BACKGROUND: Complaints of the arm, neck, or shoulder (CANS) have a multifactorial origin and cause considerable work problems, including decreased work productivity, sickness absence, and, ultimately, job loss. There is a need for intervention programs for people with CANS. Self-management is an approach …