OBJECTIVE: Language development is important for children's success in life. Therefore, language is monitored by child health care professionals and parents, but a uniform set of milestones in language development is lacking. Our aim was to identify a set of clear and distinctive milestones that empirically …

The Netherlands came late to 19th-century industrial revolution but when modernization occurred, it prompted an almost feverish cultural and social 'Anglomania'. Elite youngsters enthusiastically appropriated sports such as cricket and football, which were introduced and promoted by English native speaker …

Het doel van dit onderzoek was om te kijken of een zeven weekse module samenwerken een verschil teweeg brengt in leerlingen hun zelfbeeld. Onder zelfbeeld wordt verstaan welke eigenschappen je denkt te hebben, en hoe je ze waardeert (Solomon et al., 2013). Aan dit onderzoek deden 64 leerlingen mee uit …

Hoewel er de laatste decennia veel onderzoek is gedaan naar risico- en beschermende factoren en er vele risicotaxatie-instrumenten ontwikkeld zijn, is er duidelijk minder bekend over hoe de communicatie van risico’s naar de rechter of naar andere instellingen verloopt. Een wezenlijke vraag hierbij is …

‘Ik ben misschien een sentimentele zeikerd op dierengebied, maar als er één slag mensen is dat ik de strot zou willen doorbijten, dan is het wel het slag verdommelingen dat wreed is tegen dieren. Je leest elke week wel weer een verhaal over bijvoorbeeld zo’n stuk schorum, dat de keel van z’n hond heeft …

Mixing examples of different categories (interleaving) has been shown to promote inductive learning as compared with presenting examples of the same category together (massing). In three studies, we tested whether the advantage of interleaving is exclusively due to the mixing of examples from different …

Objective Lowered pressure‐pain thresholds have been demonstrated in adults with Ehlers‐Danlos syndrome hypermobility type (EDS‐HT), but whether these findings are also present in children is unclear. Therefore, the objectives of the study were to determine whether generalized hyperalgesia is present …

Crime scenes can always be explained in multiple ways. Traces alone do not provide enough information to infer a whole series of events that has taken place; they only provide clues for these inferences. CSIs need additional information to be able to interpret observed traces. In the near future, a new …

Objectives Patients who underwent corrective surgery for tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) have increased long-term risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Yet, limited information is available on how to evaluate the risk in this population. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the prognostic …