A three-dimensional finite element method was used to calculate the stress intensity factors for corner cracked specimens of a single crystal nickel-based superalloy. The anisotropic material properties and inclinations of the cracks were shown to have significant effects on the stress intensities. Then …

Research has shown that female students cannot profit as much as male students can from cooperative learning in physics, especially in mixed-gender dyads. This study has explored the influence of partner gender on female students’ learning achievement, interaction and the problem-solving process during …

The objective of this study is to illuminate the effects of intensive aid on the self-reliance and independence of single mothers, and to show what is and what can be done to improve the empowerment of this group. Firstly the paper focuses on the effects of intensive social aid on the self-reliance and …

De VBDO, Vereniging van Beleggers voor Duurzame Ontwikkeling, werd op 8 september 1995 opgericht en komt voort uit de gedachte dat duurzaam ondernemen onvermijdelijk is voor het behoud en de groei van welvaart en welzijn. De vereniging neemt een unieke sleutelpositie in op het snijvlak van de financiële …

The concurrent self-assembly of new 1,3,5-trisamide-cyclohexane-based low molecular weight hydrogelators and various surfactants in water leads to the formation of self-assembled fibrillar networks with encapsulated micelles. This prototype system presents an example of orthogonal self-assembly, that …

Samenvatting Doel: In opdracht van Revalidatiecentrum Blixembosch is een onderzoeksstudie uitgevoerd met als titel: "Analyse van de submaximale inspanningstesten". Het onderzoek betrof een literatuur studie naar de verschillende submaximale inspanningstesten. De probleemstelling van de literatuurstudie …

Companies today are in the continuous improvement game continuously anticipating customer needs at the same time as reducing transaction costs. It’s a tough game, in which techniques evolve so fast that an organisation with rigid management cannot hope to keep up. Indeed, requirements for management …

This letter to the editor argues that the assumption of a single value for the acetate recovery factor in carbon-13 stable isotope research for different individuals, can lead to significant errors in the outcomes of substrate utilization measurements.

Ten years into the post Cold War era have shown many humanitarian disasters caused by war. In the wake of these disasters many relief organizations emerged to give humanitarian aid. Nowadays, there is a great variety of actors working in the field of humanitarian operations in order to cope with the …

Mycotoxins are small (MW approximately 700), toxic chemical products formed as secondary metabolites by a few fungal species that readily colonise crops and contaminate them with toxins in the field or after harvest. Ochratoxins and Aflatoxins are mycotoxins of major significance and hence there has …