BACKGROUND: Online self-management diaries are used to support patients' self-management skills and facilitate associated behavioral changes. Although web-based diaries are well-known as a potential self-management tool, reasons that patients use (or do not use) self-management diaries, as well as …

Author supplied: "Six commercial peanut enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay kits were assessed for their ability to recover peanut from the standard reference material 2387 peanut butter and also for their specificity in detecting four major peanut allergens, Ara h 1, Ara h 2, Ara h 3, and Ara h 6. The …

Climate change and continuous urbanization contribute to an increased urban vulnerability towards flooding. Only relying on traditional flood control measures is recognized as inadequate, since the damage can be catastrophic if flood controls fail. The idea of a flood-resilient city – one which can withstand …

A tangible proof of the meaning and scope of human flourishing that can change not only organizations but also entire societies, is given by Robert Schuman, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs who launched the Schuman Declaration (1950) that gave birth to the EU. His leitmotiv was to be a faithful …

Worldwide there is a lack of well-educated and experienced information security specialists. The first step to address this issue is arranging enough people with a well-known and acceptable basic level of information security competences. However, there might be a lot of information security education …

Historical empathy can be helpful when learning history. However, we do not know what students do when completing an empathy-task or how they perceive this type of task. In the explorative study presented in this article, we recognized different types of empathy-tasks, we saw students showing cognitive …

In a knowledge economy such as that of the Netherlands, the importance of higher education is widely recognized. Dutch universities of Applied Sciences aim to create successful learning environments to prepare young people for their future work and role in society.

Conference paper of the Third North American Correctional and CriminalJustice Psychology Conference (NACCJPC Since some time now, working alliance has been recognized in psychotherapy as a main factor conducive to positive outcomes (Norcross, 2012). In mandated supervisory context, relevance and manifestation …

There is a high demand for soybean products in Cameroon yet the country is experiencing low soybean production levels and has triggered more importation of the product. This has created an opportunity in the domestic market. AgriDynamic Foundation, a non-profit social entrepreneurial organization has …

Fish have the natural behaviour to move across various aquatic ecosystems and for some species this is of vital importance. Migration is often a seasonal phenomenon which occurs in order to move between habitats, such as winter refuges-, foraging- and spawning or nursery habitats, also escaping unfavourable …