Doel van dit onderzoek is 1a. Is het mogelijk om een Critical Velocity (CV) te bepalen voor getalenteerde schaatsers? 1b. Rijden de proefpersonen op CV met een steady state in hun zuurstofopname? 2. Is er een relatie tussen slagfrequentie/e hoek en het kunnen volhouden van CV? Methode: De CV is bepaald …

Silvio Berlusconi was Italy's longest serving Prime Minister since the Second World War. As Prime Minister, he exercised control over the three public television channels in Italy. The combination of a strong political figure that controls large parts of public media and has considerable business interests …

Introduction A qualitative study was carried out to understand how people with a slow progressive adult type neuromuscular disease (NMD) perceive employment participation. Methods 16 paid employed persons with NMD were interviewed in open, in-depth interviews. Data were analyzed using the constant comparison …

Het doel van het onderzoek is om te bepalen of gezonde proefpersonen tijdens het lopen op een loopband in staat zijn om de kniehoek aan te passen door middel van visuele feedback. Wanneer de opgelegde target voor de kniehoek behaald wordt, wordt er gekeken wat voor compensatiestrategieën er optreden …

Frail older adults are increasingly encouraged to be in control of their health care, in Western societies. However, little is known about how they themselves perceive control in health care. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the concept of health care-related perceived control from the viewpoint …

Are we at the eve of a transformation in our economic system? “Yes”, according to several visionary scientists and policymakers. They predict the rise of an economy that is based on biological materials, the so-called bio-based economy. The key challenge is that due to several socio-economic developments, …

In this study we assessed which is the most appropriate method of detecting stress to study the effect of Jacobson’s progressive relaxation exercises in patients with stress problems. In the study 7 patients are requested to fill in 3 different scales to quantify their stress before and after the exercises. …

The influence of mutual spousal interrelations in domains such as health and wellbeing has been demonstrated, but little is known about the domain of everyday activities of couples in late life. In the present explorative study, we considered all of the activities participating couples talked about to …

De kolengestookte energie centrale van GDF SUEZ op de Maasvlakte wordt gekoeld met zeewater uit de Mississippihaven. Het zeewater wordt ingenomen via twee identieke koelwatersystemen. In dit zeewater bevinden zich organismen als mosselen, zeepokken en dergelijken die zich vast kunnen hechten binnen de …

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is an imaging technique for collecting depth resolved information in human tissue based on an interferometer. With an imaging depth of between 1 and 2 mm, OCT is only used to investigate (near) surfaces. But with an axial (depth) resolution of between 2 and 10 μm, and …