BACKGROUND: Although many patients with foot complaints receive customized insoles, the choice for an insole design can vary largely among foot experts. To investigate the variety of insole designs used in daily practice, the insole design and its effect on plantar pressure distribution were investigated …

News media in The Netherlands show great variety in the extent and ways, in which they realize media accountability online in terms of actor transparency, product transparency and feedback opportunities online. It is suggested that even those news rooms that seem to adhere to transparency and public …

We empirically investigate the factors that drive the uneven regional distribution of foreign direct investment (FDI) across Chinese provinces from 1995 to 2006. We first perform a factor analysis to summarize information embodied in around 40 variables and derive four FDI determinants: ‘institutional …

This report contains market research, an internal/external analysis, distribution analysis and a marketing mix for the company Allergan and its product Latisse eyelash enhancer. Allergan is a specialty pharmaceutical company specialized in the development of products with aesthetical and medical solutions. …

Relatively new computerized media (new media) such as mobile telephony and Internet have given lead to the surfacing of new marketing methods. One of these techniques is viral marketing, which aims to encourage the distribution of marketing messages between individuals via digital channels. Its potential …

The aim of this research was to describe paddock use of horses and cattle in different densities in the salt marshes of Noord-Friesland Buitendijks. In this report is also added the ongoing discussion about grazing in salt marshes in whole Europe and it might help understanding different outcomes in …

A common strategy to assign keywords to documents is to select the most appropriate words from the document text. One of the most important criteria for a word to be selected as keyword is its relevance for the text. The tf.idf score of a term is a widely used relevance measure. While easy to compute …

In order to gain a better understanding of the epidemiology of Avian Influenza in their natural hosts, more insight in the effects on its natural hosts should be gained. The aim of this research is to gain insight into the effects of a LPAI infection on winter movement and the influence on the preparation …

In this paper we analyze the effects if two countries, with different settings on the labor market, open their capital markets. To do this we follow the ideas of New Institutional Economics in combination with a new model of economic growth. We will use a Leontief production function, where we derive …

The developments in the field of media, technology and business models are going faster and ensure that the publisher can choose from a wide range of publish possibilities. As well private as in practice the consumer changes its search-, read- and buying motive. Companies within but also outside the …