This paper describes a possible solution to the underwater sound filtering problem, using Blind Source Separation. The problem regards splitting sound from a boat engine and the water waves to prove the possibility to extract one sound fragment from the other on the open sea. The illustrations shown …

De onderzoeksopdracht is het ontwikkelen van een platform waar deze twee BCI’s op aangesloten kunnen worden en het verbeteren van de onderscheidingsalgoritmes. De algoritmes kunnen bijvoorbeeld verbeterd worden door een langere trainingstijd aan te bieden, maar daarvoor moet eerst een werkend algoritme …

Biography, identity, improvisation, sound.

The students from three universities (Groningen, Oldenburg and the University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht) were surveyed on the experience of hearing and listening in their studies. Included in the online survey were established questionnaires on hearing loss, tinnitus, hyperacusis, a subscale on …

Objectives: Participation is considerably restricted in children and adolescents with acquired brain injury (ABI) as compared to their healthy peers. This systematic review aims to identify which factors are associated with participation in children and adolescents with ABI. Methods: A systematic search …

Recently environmental education (EE) literature has been supportive of pluralistic rather than goal-oriented learning. Researchers argue that sustainability is not fixed but socially constructed and that sustainability issues should not be represented as indisputable targets. Countering this trend in …

Objective: Due to the multidimensional nature of resonance disorders, multivariate diagnostic assessment is advisable. The nasality severity index (NSI) is based on this point of view. Because of the influence of personal and environmental variables on the current NSI, this study aims to refine this …

Instrument/Tool: Network Analysis. It was developed in a research project on process improvement in small and medium sized companies in the north of the Netherlands. The instrument takes so-called worker frustrations as its starting point. A worker gets frustrated when he is confronted with a problem, …

OBJECTIVE: Motivational Interviewing (MI) can effectively stimulate motivation for health behavior change, but the active ingredients of MI are not well known. To help clinicians further stimulate motivation, they need to know the active ingredients of MI. A psychometrically sound instrument is required …