Background To examine the relationship between health literacy and self-care (maintenance, monitoring, and management) in people with chronic diseases. Methods A multicenter cross-sectional study was conducted in six hospitals (one academic, four teaching, and one general) in the Netherlands among 536 …

We introduce NeedForHeat DataGear: an open hardware and open software data collection system designed to accelerate the residential heating transition. NeedForHeat DataGear collects time series monitoring data in homes that have not yet undergone a heating transition, enabling assessment of real-life …

Introduction Resistance to antibiotics is an increasing worldwide problem. Hence, identifying and implementing the use of alternatives to antibiotics is crucial. A prototype app providing evidence-based advice on the use of safe and effective natural medicinal products (NMPs) for acute, uncomplicated …

The European Union Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act was adopted in 2024 to protect public interests from AI-related harms. We aimed to determine whether the AI Act captures the most relevant stakeholders’ values for a high-risk AI Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) for cardiovascular disease. Ethics …

Two modern trends in insurance are data-intensive underwriting and behavior-based insurance. Data-intensive underwriting means that insurers analyze more data for estimating the claim cost of a consumer and for determining the premium based on that estimation. Insurers also offer behavior-based insurance. …

Machine learning models use high dimensional feature spaces to map their inputs to the corresponding class labels. However, these features often do not have a one-to-one correspondence with physical concepts understandable by humans, which hinders the ability to provide a meaningful explanation for the …

Vaak dempen we die emoties, zeker in een professionele context. Maar wat gebeurt er als we die emoties juist toelaten in het onderwijs? Een pleidooi van Marca Wolfensberger, lector Transdisciplinair Samenwerken, om ook het hart open te stellen in onderwijs en samenwerkingen.

Teleoperated or remote-controlled driving complements automated driving and acts as transitional technology towards full automation. An economic advantage of teleoperated driving in logistics operations lies in managing fleets with fewer teleoperators compared to vehicles with in-vehicle drivers. This …

Bilingual education using a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach is widespread in secondary education throughout Europe and also found further afield. In many contexts CLIL seems to select or attract the more able and more academically-inclined pupils, or only be available to pupils …

The paper introduced an automatic score detection model using object detection techniques. The performance of sevenmodels belonging to two different architectural setups was compared. Models like YOLOv8n, YOLOv8s, YOLOv8m, RetinaNet-50, and RetinaNet-101 are single-shot detectors, while Faster RCNN-50 …