Objective: Kidney transplant recipients face many self-management challenges. We aimed to identify profiles of attitudes towards self-management support (SMS) shortly after kidney transplantation. Methods: Profiles were generated using Q-methodology: In face-to-face interviews participants rankordered opinion …

Purpose: Pressure ulcers are a high cost, high volume issue for health and medical care providers, having a detrimental effect on patients and relatives. Pressure ulcer prevention is widely covered in the literature, but little has been published regarding the risk to patients in the radiographical setting. …

Introduction: Pressure ulcers are a high cost, high volume issue for health and medical care providers, affecting patients’ recovery and psychological wellbeing. The current research of support surfaces on pressure as a risk factor in the development of pressure ulcers is not relevant to the specialised, …

Dit rapport is een weergave van uitgevoerd ecohydrologisch en pedologisch onderzoek ten behoeve van blauwgraslandontwikkeling in het Natura 2000-gebied De Zouweboezem. Dit in het kader van een afstudeeronderzoek binnen de deeltijdopleiding Bos- en Natuurbeheer, major Natuur- en Landschapstechniek aan …

In dit onderzoek is gekeken naar de storingverschijnselen van elektromagnetische straling op thermokoppelprobes. Deze thermokoppels worden gebruikt om de temperatuur te meten tijdens een hyperthermie behandeling. Bij hyperthermie wordt een patiënt verwarmd met elektromagnetische straling tot ongeveer …

De gemeente Someren is een kleine gemeente. Samenwerkingsverbanden met andere gemeenten in de regio, maar ook met de relaties in de gemeente zijn belangrijk. Ondanks dat de gemeente Someren een kleine gemeente is, is het relatienetwerk in de gemeente groot. Ook op het gebied van de Wmo. Deze relaties …

Talent development programmes for professional soccer clubs aim to guide players towards professional level performance. We identify whether the intermittent endurance capacity of these players may have changed over time. Since the 2000/2001 competition season, the intermittent endurance capacity of …

In this chapter it is argued that fundamental change in society is required, because environmental problems are serious and ask for a factor 10 or more shift in society, the resilience approach (as outlined in Chap. 2 ) implies change to higher resilience systems and current spatial planning is unable …

Glucocorticoids (GCs), such as prednisolone (PRED), are widely prescribed anti-inflammatory drugs, but their use may induce glucose intolerance and diabetes. GC-induced beta cell dysfunction contributes to these diabetogenic effects through mechanisms that remain to be elucidated. In this study, we hypothesized …

Background: Drug resistance is a major problem in ovarian cancer. Triggering apoptosis using death ligands such as tumour necrosis factor-related apoptosis inducing ligand (TRAIL) might overcome chemoresistance. Methods: We investigated whether acquired cisplatin resistance affects sensitivity to recombinant …