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Background The caesarean delivery (CD) rate has risen in most countries over the last decades, but it remains relatively low in the Netherlands. Our objective was to analyse the trends of CD rates in various subgroups of women between 2000 and 2010, and identify the practice pattern that is attributable …

Goed onderwijs vormgeven is een constante uitdaging voor scholen. Het onderwijs bestaat uit meer dan kennisoverdracht, de leerlingen moeten worden voorbereid op hun rol in de maatschappij (Pameijer, Beukering, Wulp & Zandbergen, 2012). In dit onderzoek staat een gezonde balans tussen academisch en sociaal-emotioneel …

To solve the problem of phosphorus leaching, the new method which uses iron-coated sand to absorb the ortho-P through the drainage pipes was generated recently. However, the method still need more research to apply it in practice. For this purpose, a main question of the thesis is generated: how is the …

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common clinical tachyarrhythmia associated with significant morbidity and mortality and is expected to affect approximately 30 million North Americans and Europeans by 2050. AF is a persistent disease, caused by progressive, often age-related, derailment of proteostasis …

This research was done in the Land Dynamic group of Wageningen University between February and June of 2012. The research is mainly focused on analysis of whether land use/cover change (LUCC) influences sediment discharge and stream flow in the upstream regions of the Beiluo River, China. Five methods …

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 …

Om de bestaande best practices te inventariseren is er een literatuuronderzoek gedaan. Uit het literatuuronderzoek is gebleken dat een aantal thuiszorgorganisaties de nieuwe werkwijzen al min of meer hebben toegepast in hun zorgpraktijk. De bestaande “voorbeeldorganisaties” van “kleinschalige en geïntegreerde …

There are two aims of this thesis; one is selecting 2n pollen producers from F1 hybrids of T. gesneriana x T. fosteriana tulip hybrids crossing experiment. Furthermore, to test one year old tulip seedlings for ploidy levels of the F1 progenies in order to determine the result of the function of the 2n …