This book consists of thirteen chapters with elaborations on several perspectives of the Universities kaleidoscope. The aim of our book is not meant as a purely scientific endeavour, but as a contribution to the future development of universities. The style is popular science, primarily targeted at our …

Research has demonstrated that teachers working in early childhood education and care (ECEC) are proficient in offering emotional support to young children, but markedly weaker when it comes to instructional support. We conducted a controlled experimental study in the Netherlands, to investigate the …

The study was carried out in the Southern part of Ethiopia within Ziway-Hawassa milk shed. The study was aimed to identify climate-smart practices in the downstream dairy value chain in order to design efficient and climate-smart business models for milk collectors. Purposive and random sampling techniques …

Background: Despite improvement of tumour response rates in patients with progressive and metastatic cancer, immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICM) induce toxicities in cancer patients. Viscum album L. (VA, mistletoe) extracts are applied as add-on cancer therapy especially in German speaking countries and …

All over the world, objects are increasingly connected in networks such as the Industrial Internet of Things. Interconnections, intercommunications and interactions are driving the development of an entirely new whole in the form of the Industrial Internet of Things. Communication and interaction are …

BACKGROUND: Health care organizations supporting individuals with intellectual disabilities (IDs) carry out a range of interventions to support and improve a healthy lifestyle. However, it is difficult to implement an active and healthy lifestyle into daily support. The presence of numerous intervention …

The Bison Hillock is an area in the Carpathians, Romania and one of the areas where the previously extinct European Bison (Bison bonasus) recently has been reintroduced. Although some research on the ecology of the European bison in other areas exist, there was little know about their ecology in the …

PURPOSE: To explore the underlying dimensions of the Barriers and Motivators Questionnaire that is used to assess barriers to and motivators of physical activity experienced by recipients of solid organ transplantation and thereby improve the application in research and clinical settings. METHOD: A cross-sectional …

This research assesses how neuromarketing might offer a suitable marketing method for Loyalty Makers. It does so by examining what neuromarketing consists of and how it can be used. Especially, it is investigated what techniques and tactics exist in the field of neuromarketing and to what extent they …