BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Traditional malnutrition screening instruments, including the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST), strongly rely on low body mass index (BMI) and weight loss. In overweight/obese patients, this may result in underdetection of malnutrition risk. Alternative instruments, …

Industrial robot manipulators are widely used for repetitive applications that require high precision, like pick-and-place. In many cases, the movements of industrial robot manipulators are hard-coded or manually defined, and need to be adjusted if the objects being manipulated change position. To increase …

In dit kwalitatieve ontwerponderzoek is onderzocht hoe formatieve evaluatie kan worden toegepast in een lessituatie op vmbo Pascal Zuid in Zaandam. Dit onderzoek zal antwoord geven op de hoofdvraag: ‘Op welke wijze kunnen formatieve evaluatietechnieken/tools worden toegepast in een biologiesituatie …

Malnutrition has a negative impact on quality of life and survival in renal transplant recipients (RTR). Therefore, malnutrition detection is important in RTR, but this may be hampered by concomitant presence of weight gain and overweight. Recently, the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) …

Scleractinische koralen met endosymbiotisch Symbiodinium zijn de dominante soort van tropische koraalriffen. Deze koraalriffen vormen de habitat voor ongeveer 25% van de mariene soorten op Aarde. Ook voor de mens zijn koraalriffen van groot belang voor voedsel, toerisme en voor de economie. De laatste …

The following e-book was prepared as part of the Erasmus+ UNLOCK project, which has the objective of identifying the use of educational escape rooms (EERs) in higher education environments and examining the role of educators in those activities. The document presents a review of the existing body of …

Background and aims: Malnutrition screening is a first step in the nutrition care process for hospitalized patients, to identify those at risk of malnutrition and associated worse outcome, preceding further assessment and intervention. Frequently used malnutrition screening tools including the Malnutrition …

Objectives: In Dutch hospitals malnutrition screening is routinely performed at admission, but not during follow-up or before discharge. Therefore we evaluated nutritional status during hospitalization and predischarge in a routine care setting. Methods: The Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment …

Organic farming is increasingly promoted as a means to reduce the environmental impact of artificial fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, and antibiotics in conventional dairy systems. These factors potentially affect the microbial communities of the production stages (soil, silage, dung, and milk) of …

Dit onderzoek gaat over de concept-contextbenadering en hoe deze didactiek in relatie staat tot de betrokkenheid en motivatie van leerlingen uit de derde klas theoretische leerweg/mavo. De concept-contextbenadering is een didactiek die voor leerlingen bij kan dragen aan het relevant maken van het vak …