Context Retirement is an opportune time for people to establish new healthy routines. Exercise and nutritional interventions are promising in the prevention and treatment of sarcopenic obesity. Objective This systematic review aimed to assess the effectiveness of nutritional and exercise interventions …

Recommender systems are widely used in today’s society, but many of them do not meet users’ needs and therefore fail to reach their full potential. Without careful consideration, such systems can interfere with the natural decision-making process, resulting in the disregard for recommendations provided. …

Background: Sarcopenic obesity (SO) is an increasing phenomenon and has been linked to several negative health consequences. The aim of this umbrella review is the assessment of effectiveness and certainty of evidence of nutrition and exercise interventions in persons with SO.  Method: We searched for …

The retirement phase is an opportunity to integrate healthy (nutrition/exercise) habits into daily life. We conducted this systematic review to assess which nutrition and exercise interventions most effectively improve body composition (fat/muscle mass), body mass index (BMI), and waist circumference …

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the importance for university teachers to have adequate pedagogical and technological competences to cope with the various possible educational scenarios (face-to-face, online, hybrid, etc.), making use of appropriate active learning methodologies and supporting technologies …

The aging population faces two conditions that threaten healthy aging: high fat mass (obesity) and low muscle mass and function (sarcopenia). The combination of both—referred to as sarcopenic obesity—synergistically increases the risk of adverse health outcomes. The two conditions often co-occur because …

De innovaties die het team maakt, worden allemaal gedaan op basis van data. Hiervoor is niet alleen een goede data infrastructuur nodig, maar eveneens het hebben van de juiste data. Helaas klopt niet alle data binnen de database. De EquipmentTracking tabel van ‘Doris’, een Oracle database, wordt gebruikt …

OBJECTIVES: The aim of the present study was to disentangle the impact of age and that of cancer diagnosis and treatment on functional status (FS) decline in older patients with cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Patients with breast and colorectal cancer aged 50-69years and aged ≥70years who had undergone …

Dit onderzoek richt zich op het samenwerkend leren en dan specifiek in de vorm van het werken in groepen. Er wordt nagegaan of er een effect is op de motivatie van de leerlingen die de lesstof gaan verwerken en verwerven door middel van het samenwerken in groepen. Uit vele onderzoeken o.a. Johnson, …

Van 5 tot en met 12 november 2012 vond in de koepelzaal van Academie Minerva een projectweek plaats in het kader van Anke Coumans installatie als lector Image in Context. Het Lectoraat Image in Context bestudeert de nieuwe rollen die kunstenaars en ontwerpers ontwikkelen wanneer zij hun werk relateren …