This study examined the effect of meals varying in amount, size, and hardness of food pieces on the development of the chewing capabilities of 8-month-old infants. The study also examined changes in shivering, gagging, coughing, choking, and their ability to eat from a spoon. In an in-home setting two …

INTRODUCTION: Knee and hip osteoarthritis (OA) is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Therapeutic exercise is a recommended core treatment for people with knee and hip OA, however, the observed effect sizes for reducing pain and improving physical function are small to moderate. This may be due …

This study aimed to get more insight into the habitat use and distribution of three sandeel species (Ammodytes sp. & H. lanceolatus) in the Voordelta and describes the findings regarding the Voordelta as a transitional habitat for sandeel populations. As compensation for loss of habitat and foraging …

Dat moet je ook maar net weten! Dit is de titel van mijn afstudeeronderzoek en deze is gebaseerd op een uitroep van nogal wat respondenten nadat ze de zoveelste vraag fout hadden. Waar ging mijn onderzoek over: de wondere wereld van milieuklachten en de wirwar aan loketten waar deze gemeld kunnen worden. …

We describe the participation of the University of Amsterdams ILPS group in the Total Recall track at TREC 2015. Based on the provided Baseline Model Implemention (”BMI”) we set out to provide two more baselines we can compare to in future work. The two methods are bootstrapped by a synthetic document …

Objective: Kidney transplant recipients face many self-management challenges. We aimed to identify profiles of attitudes towards self-management support (SMS) shortly after kidney transplantation. Methods: Profiles were generated using Q-methodology: In face-to-face interviews participants rankordered opinion …

Es wurden bereits zahlreiche Studien über veränderte auditive Rückmeldung (altered auditory feedback, AAF) bei stotternden Personen (SP) durchgeführt. Demnach kann AAF die Frequenz von Stottern reduzieren. Nach aktuellem Wissensstand gibt es jedoch keine Indikatoren dafür, ob und inwieweit eine SP von …

Privacy, copyright, classified documents and state secrets, but also spontaneous network phenomena like flash mobs and hashtag revolutions, reveal one thing – we lost control over the digital world. We experience a digital tailspin, or as Michael Seemann calls it in this essay: a loss of control or Kontrollverlust. …

De afstudeeropdracht heeft twee doelstellingen. De eerste doelstelling is het aanpassen van de OK Cockpit. De OK Cockpit moet niet meer afhankelijk zijn van het uitvoeren van een operatie zoals hierboven beschreven is. De tweede doestelling is het toevoegen van functionaliteiten die samen met de CSA …