The last decades it is increasingly recognized that acute as well as chronic postoperative pain is an important problem. Treatment and prevention of postoperative pain is a challenge, especially in special patient populations where there is only limited guidance on how to optimally use opioids.

Jaroslaw Kantorowicz onderzoekt hoe strategische klimaatprocessen de publieke houding ten aanzien van klimaatbeleid beïnvloeden.

Does knowledge of environmental performance change farmer's behaviour?

Ambtenarensystemen zijn wereldwijd krijgen wereldwijd veel kritiek. Dit artikel presenteert een onderzoek naar bewijsmateriaal over over overheidsprestaties en merictocratie.

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In de nieuwe hulprubriek 'Dr. Does ziet licht' behandelt hoogleraar klinische psychologie Willem van der Does maandelijks grote en kleine levensvragen die lezers van het blad Zin hebben gemaild.

How do local, non-institutional ideas about end-of-life care influence professional palliative care and vice versa? These questions will be answered by medical anthropologists Annemarie Samuels and Natashe Lemos Dekker in the coming years.

Als het gaat om de naleving van de coronaregels verschillen we nogal van mening. Maar waarom eigenlijk? Volgens Willem van der Does is er sprake van rouwverwerking en bevindt niet iedereen zich in hetzelfde stadium. Lees meer op de populair-wetenschappelijke nieuwssite Scientias.nl.

De schedel doorboren met een ijspriem, onverdoofd shocks toedienen of bloedzuigers in de baarmoeder aanbrengen: geen middeleeuwse martelmethoden, maar therapieën uit de geneeskunde. Willem van der Does schreef er een boek over. ‘Artsen voerden zo'n behandeling met de beste bedoelingen uit.’

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Willem van der Does vertelt in zijn boek De magie van heling over veertien pioniers uit de geschiedenis van psychiatrie. Deze pioniers hadden allemaal een ding gemeen: ze begonnen met een radicaal idee wat leidde tot groot enthousiasme

Hoe vergroot je de kans om gedrag aan of af te leren? Wat kan helpen is kennis van een overzichtelijk aantal principes van gedragsverandering. Die principes worden uitgelegd en toegepast door Willem van der Does, hoogleraar Klinische Psychologie. Eerder verschenen van zijn hand o.a. Zo ben ik nu eenmaal!…

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Promotor: J. Schaye

Bicarbonate buffer is largely found in nature due to its ability to regulate pH variations around neutral values. As the pH changes, so does the speciation of the buffer.

Systems are called real-time systems, if the correctness of the system does not only depend on the correctness of the system output but also on whether the output is delivered on time.

There is no human society that does not employ a rich and diverse language. This course introduces you to linguistics, featuring interviews with well-known linguists and with speakers of many different languages. Join us to explore the miracles of human language!

Het bestuur van het LUBEC bestaat uit de Raad van Toezicht, de Raad van Bestuur en het Managementteam.

In today's volatile market environments, companies must be able to continuously innovate. In this context, innovation does not only refer to the development of new products or business models but often also affects the entire organization, which has to transform its structures, processes, and ways of…

Why do black holes emit thermal radiation? And how does a closed quantum system thermalize?

Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) was tested in chronic worriers. tVNS may reduce spontaneously occurring negative thought intrusions. After a worry induction, there was no longer an effect of tVNS. tVNS did not affect physiological responding to worrying.

In the traditional theory of linear elasticity, superposition dictates that the response of a material does not depend on the sequence of the applied mechanical actuations.

CMLCA is a software tool that supports the technical steps of the Life Cycle Assessment. The focus of the program is on advanced computational aspects of life cycle inventory calculations.

Does a mid-season fire impact invertebrate populations?

Course Program 2023-2024

PNEC-pro is a user-friendly screening tool for professionals dealing with the assessment of surface water quality. The tool calculates local, watertype specific no-effect concentrations (PNEC) of copper, lead, nickel and zinc based on biotic ligand models (BLMs).

Does a high quality prairie restoration in an urban/agricultural landscape provide invertebrates necessary for a sustainable ecosystem?

Promotor: Koen Kuijken Co-promotor: Henk Hoekstra

Promotor: G.J. Kramer Co-Promotor: E.G.M. Kleijn

Where does the urge to collect come from? What are the explicit or underlying reasons for gathering large amount of objects?

1: What is the relative importance of alfa and beta biodiversity in polar ecosystems, and how does intraspecific variation influence this? 2: How can we use remote sensing to determine functional biodiversity (within communities) in polar ecosystems? 3: Temporal and spatial scales of functional biodiversity:…

This thesis describes a study from both a theoreticaL and an experimental point of view.

The field of exoplanet research is rapidly advancing through the development of new technology, observing techniques, and post-processing methods.

In this thesis, we use low-frequency and high-frequency radio observations to address the following questions regarding quasars: is the radio loud/quiet quasar dichotomy real?

Does roadside management in the mid-west USA increase invertebrate diversity similar to practices in Europe?

Fungal infections pose a significant threat to individuals with compromised immune systems and despite advancements in diagnosis and treatment, they continue to jeopardize patient’s health.

Galaxies in the local Universe fall into two main categories of spirals and ellipticals. In this Thesis, we explore the structural evolution of galaxies into this bimodal distribution.

A new publication on changes in the relationship between news and their public in Chile

This thesis presents insights from our study of various correlated electron systems with a scanning tunneling microscope (STM). In ordinary metals, electron-electron interactions exist, but get substantially screened due to the sheer number of electrons.

Promotor: J.P. Abrahams, Co-promotor: T. Grüne

This thesis considers multi-prover commitment schemes whose security is based on restrictions on the communication between the provers.

Promotor: P.D. Grünwald

Promotor: C.J. ten Cate

What impact does a mid-season wildfire have on grassland invertebrates?

Combinatorial games are games for two competing players, moving in a turn-by-turn fashion, in which there is no chance nor hidden information⁠. Chess, checkers and the simpler tic tac toe are well-known examples of this class of games, as well as game of go⁠.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-Promotor: O.W. van Gaans