Acquired brain injury (ABI) is a leading cause of disability in adults worldwide, resulting in physical and cognitive challenges. Rehabilitation is often prescribed depending on the symptoms and severity of the injury. Technologies like robotics, wearables, and extended reality (XR) have been explored …

Background: Sexual deviance is regarded as an important risk factor for sexual offending. However, little is known about the development of deviant sexual interests. The transfer of arousal between emotions, i.e., excitation transfer, could attribute sexual salience to stimuli that would otherwise not …

Sexual interest in children is an important factor contributing to sexual (re)offending against children. The current state of research makes it difficult to conclude if people with pedophilia are overly interested in children, or have lower interest in adults, or both. This is relevant knowledge in …

A previous study found a variety of unusual sexual interests to cluster in a five-factor structure, namely submission/masochism, forbidden sexual activities, dominance / sadism, mysophilia, and fetishism (Schippers et al., 2021). The current study was an empirical replication to examine whether these …

Dit artikel gaat in op de opbrengsten uit het onderzoek Goede Voorbeelden van Verpleegkundige Zorg - Hartzorg op afstand. Hierin is een best practice beschreven over het gebruik van telemonitoring op de hartfalenpolikliniek in Isala. De telemonitoring maakt het mogelijk op afstand patiënten met hartfalen …

This paper describes a best practice by presenting useful materials for nurses to support them in developing and implementing telemonitoring for patients with chronic heart failure in their own organization. The case is a Dutch hospital with a successful telemonitoring practice for chronic heart patients …

In Nederland is het op dit moment nog mogelijk om kalveren tot en met 2 maanden te onthoornen met een elektrische of hete luchtmethode, uiteraard moet dit gebeuren in het bijzijn van de dierenarts om te assisteren en om de verdoving toe te dienen. Vanaf 6 maanden oud mag het onthoornen ook nog gebeuren …

Mirror therapy is used in a broad spectrum of rehabilitation therapy ranging from phantom limb pain, stroke, peripheral nerve injury to cerebral palsy. With the development of a virtual reality (VR) environment for mirror therapy, patients can now practice independently of time and place. However, the …

Dit spel is tot stand gekomen in samenwerking met studenten van de master Talent Development & Creativity Rijksuniversieit Groningen (Maleah Knevel en Emma Kok), studenten van de Pabo Hanzehogeschool Groningen (Matthijs Smid, Jason Engbers, David Veen, Milan Kingma) en van Toegepaste Psychologie Hanzehogeschool …

Parasitoids lay their eggs in or on a host, usually another insect. During foraging, parasitoids can encounter insects that differ in terms of host suitability and quality. At one extreme end of this spectrum are non-hosts that are unsuitable for offspring development.Non-hosts are generally ignored …