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High demand, rising customer expectations, and government regulations are forcing companies to increase the efficiency and sustainability of urban (last-mile) distribution. Consequently, several new delivery concepts have been proposed that increa...

The amount of impervious surface is increasing rapidly worldwide. Although urban expansion has been studied extensively, the alteration of impervious land cover in rural regions remains under-examined. In particular, insights into the utilization ...

Background Adherence to home-based exercise (HBE) recommendations is critical in physiotherapy for patients with low back pain (LBP). However, limited research has explored its connection with clinical outcomes. This study examined how adherence t...

In a previous Space Shuttle/Spacelab experiment (STS-42), we observed direct responses of isolated fetal mouse long bones to near weightlessness. This paper aimed to verify those results and study the effects of daily 1×g exposure during micrograv...

Built-up land has increased rapidly in recent decades, thus aggravating the competition for land between multiple uses. The increase in urban land can be decomposed into changes in population and changes in built-up land per person. Yet, it is unc...

Land is an increasingly scarce resource that plays a critical role in achieving many Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Land scarcity, namely the imbalance state between cropland availability and demand, can be mitigated by the trade of agricul...

Chronic pain is a disabling condition which is prevalent in about 20% of the adult population. Physiotherapy is the most common non-pharmacological treatment option for chronic pain, but often demonstrates unsatisfactory outcomes. Virtual Reality ...

his thesis describes the results of two studies: first, the HARMOny study on long-term health effects of risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy before natural menopause on sexual functioning, urogenital functioning and neurocognitive functioning. To ...

Objective: To identify parents’ information needs about impending very preterm birth and compare these needs to current information practices in the Netherlands. Methods: Step 1: We surveyed N = 203 parents of preterm infants to assess their infor...

Background No previous studies have examined the association between attitudes and beliefs of chiropractors and their adherence to low back pain (LBP) guidelines. The aim of this study is: (1) to assess the attitudes and beliefs towards the manage...

Background To curb human-made carbon-dioxide emissions, the European Union will introduce carbon pricing for buildings and transport in 2027. Central and East European (CEE) countries are pressured to embark on ambitious decarbonization pathways l...

This article presents a novel model for building biweekly rosters for physicians according to the regulations of a German teaching hospital, while also ensuring the viability of breaks. Currently, rosters are manually prepared by experienced physi...

Self-control is a personality dimension that is associated with better physical health and a longer lifespan. Here, we examined (1) whether self-control is associated with buccal and saliva DNA-methylation (DNAm) measures of biological aging quant...

The smallest worthwhile effect (SWE) is the smallest beneficial effect of an intervention that justifies the costs, risks, and inconveniences. The objective is to establish the SWE of spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) for the treatment of low back...

Unequal outcomes resulting from urbanization can pose a significant challenge to sustainable development. Vehicles are an important urbanization dimension as a critical component of urban infrastructure by providing mobility and accessibility to s...

The general aim of this dissertation was to explore the extent to which gaze can provide insights into task performance in daily life. Previous research has often described gaze strategies as tightly coupled with task structure, particularly evide...

This dissertation engages with the implications of an important demographic transformation of our time, namely demographic shifts across large and mid-sized European cities where the population without a migration background – dominant at the nati...

Software development can be seen as a process in which the knowledge and decisions of a wide variety of people are integrated to produce a machine-readable specification. The majority of today's specification and programming languages are base...

The daily guidance that coaches provide to their swimmers is based on a mixture of objective and subjective information amidst a multitude of unknown factors. Providing more objective measures may facilitate the comprehension of swimming in a cont...

This thesis consists of three main parts, each addressing different topics regarding the evaluation and improvement of CRC screening and surveillance. In the first part of this thesis, we describe possibilities to improve the CRC screening program...