PURPOSE: In this study we aimed (1) to identify the most prevalent physical symptoms and functional limitations that limit physical activity of patients with palliative treatment for metastatic breast cancer (MBC) and (2) to identify their preferences for exercise-based physical therapy programs, as …

Background: A chronic low-grade infammatory profle (CLIP) is associated with sarcopenia in older adults. Protein and Vitamin (Vit)D have immune-modulatory potential, but evidence for efects of nutritional supplementation on CLIP is limited. Aim To investigate whether 13 weeks of nutritional supplementation …

Zusammenfassung Anlässlich des negativen Medien-Images von Bildungsmaßnahmen des JobCenters beschäftigt sich diese Arbeit mit der Evaluation einer Bildungsmaßnahme für Jugendliche im Übergang zwischen Schule und Beruf. Die Zielsetzung ist die Messung der Zufriedenheit und Sinnerkenntnis der Teilnehmenden. …

PURPOSE: Clinical examination is often the first step to diagnose shock and estimate cardiac index. In the Simple Intensive Care Studies-I, we assessed the association and diagnostic performance of clinical signs for estimation of cardiac index in critically ill patients. METHODS: In this prospective, …

AIM: To compare the shear bond strength (SBS) after aging of two dual-curing composite resin cements to multiphase composite resin (experiment) and glass-ceramics (control). METHODS: Seventy computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) blocks were prepared: 24 multiphase composite resin …

TYPO3 is an enterprise content management system. This project will build an integration between a marketing automation system (in this case Mautic) and TYPO3. A research was conducted in order to determine the marketing automation solution that would best fit this project. Following that, an analysis …

This document entails the activities performed by Daniël Leffelaar during his graduation period at Humanetics Europe GmbH in Delft. The goal of the project was to create a test set-up with which the behavior of measurement instruments under dynamic circumstances could be evaluated. This was done by first …

Purpose: Measurement of muscle mass is paramount in the screening and diagnosis of sarcopenia. Besides muscle quantity however, also quality assessment is important. Ultrasonography (US) has the advantage over dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) and bio-impedance analysis (BIA) to give both quantitative …

In the original publication Dr Patrick Meybohm of the Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, Frankfurt University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany was inadvertently omitted from the list of investigators.