The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility of quantitative muscle ultrasound (QMUS) to visualize oral muscles and to establish normative data for muscle thickness and echo intensity of submental and tongue muscles in healthy children and young adults. The data were compared with those of …

Dysphagia is reported in advanced stages of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The population of DMD is changing due to an increasing survival. We aimed to describe the dysphagia in consecutive stages and to assess the underlying mechanisms of dysphagia in DMD, in order to develop mechanism based recommendations …

Validation of a new method for ultrasonic structural health monitoring using advanced signal analysis. This paper presents the results of research on a new method for the monitoring of structural health using ultrasound. Conventional ultrasonic methods use the damping of the first arrival of the echo …

Most arguments in favor of command line versus graphical user interface (GUI) computing are flawed by system administrator Platonism. A command like "cp test.txt /mnt/disk" is, however, not a single bit closer to a hypothetic "truth" of the machine than dragging an icon of the file.txt with a mouse pointer …

Het in kaart brengen van de onafhankelijkheid van hogeschoolbladen en van universiteitsbladen wordt in deze reflectie gedaan aan de hand van een literatuur- en een veldonderzoek.

In het Instituut Archimedes, de tweedegraads lerarenopleiding van de Faculteit Educatie van de Hogeschool Utrecht, neemt de instroom van allochtone studenten toe en daarmee ook de diversiteit van eerder verworven competenties van studenten. Signalen van decanen, docenten, studieloopbaanbegeleiders en …