Semi-closed greenhouses have been developed in which window ventilation is minimized due to active cooling, enabling enhanced CO2 concentrations at high irradiance. Cooled and dehumidified air is blown into the greenhouse from below or above the canopy. Cooling below the canopy may induce vertical temperature …

Professionele arbeid wordt steeds meer onderwerp van regulering en standaardisering op basis van wetenschappelijke richtlijnen en kwaliteitsvoorschriften. Voor professionele praktijken waarin het relationele aspect een grote rol speelt, is het essentieel om dit regelgestuurde handelen te integreren met …

The global epidemic of overweight and obesity results from individual factors and from meso- and macro environmental factors. Adolescents are especially vulnerable to unhealthy changes in life style. One major influence on health behavior in this age group is represented by friends in peer groups. Young …

The worldwide obesity epidemic is a major and complex problem, resulting from the interaction of individual metabolic, genetic, and psychological factors with meso- and macro environmental factors. Adolescents, with their rapid changes in body composition, together with their shift in orientation from …

Background: The aim of this study is to validate a newly developed nurses' self-efficacy sources inventory. We test the validity of a five-dimensional model of sources of self-efficacy, which we contrast with the traditional four-dimensional model based on Bandura's theoretical concepts. Methods: Confirmatory …

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how strategic vision of change is communicated by managers and how this affects the discourse behavior of service engineers. The case study describes the consequence of variations in professional discourse of managers and employees (mostly engineers) working …

Iedereen heeft wel een mening over taal. Over het gebruik van 'hun hebben', over de taal van Cruijff, over sms-taal, over Engelse woorden in het Nederlands. Maar wat weten we eigenlijk van taal? In De taalcanon komen alle belangrijke vragen over taal aan bod. Kun je je moedertaal ook vergeten? Verschilt …

Brains and gender, separately and in their interrelatedness, are hot items today in popular journals and academic literature. It is in particular the complexity of the interdependence of physical-, psychological-, and contextual-related developments of feminization in education that we focus on these …

Convivencia en Educación: Problemas y Soluciones. Perspectivas Europea y Latinoamericana, es una obra que nace de las aportaciones de investigadores europeos y latinoamericanos mediante tres jornadas de trabajo desarrolladas en mayo de 2010, en las que participan diferentes ponentes que trabajaran temas …

Het onderwijsbeleid is erop gericht te bevorderen dat scholen kunnen omgaan met verschillen tussen leerlingen en dat meer leerlingen met gedragsproblemen, opvoedingsmoeilijkheden, ontwikkelings-problemen en beperkingen kunnen profiteren van goede onderwijsondersteuning in het regulier onderwijs. Scholen, …