Alrobaish, Waeel Vlerick, Peter Luning, Pieternel A. Jacxsens, Liesbeth
The operating environment for food safety interventions in nations such as Saudi Arabia, with limited local agricultural productivity, high reliance on foreign food imports and observance of Islamic laws, is remarkably challenging for the national control and regulatory institutions, since compliance to the mandatory food safety regulations and the...
Bauwens, Robin Decramer, Adelien Audenaert, Mieke
This article extends the job demands–resources model in the public sector by including (a) cross-level (moderation) effects of job demands and resources, (b) positive and nonlinear effects of job demands, and (c) vitality as a key work engagement concept. Data on expected contributions and developmental rewards in public university colleges (n = 65...
Van Acker, Bram Parmentier, Davy Conradie, Peter Van Hove, Stephanie Biondi, Alessandro Bombeke, Klaas Vlerick, Peter Saldien, Jelle
Manual assembly in the future Industry 4.0 workplace will put high demands on operators’ cognitive processing. The development of mental workload (MWL) measures therefore looms large. Physiological gauges such as electroencephalography (EEG) show promising possibilities, but still lack sufficient reliability when applied in the field. This study pr...
Roets, Ellen Dierickx, Sigrid Deliens, Luc Chambaere, Kenneth Dombrecht, Laure Roelens, Kristien Beernaert, Kim
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Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica
Upon prenatal diagnosis of congenital malformations, termination of pregnancy (TOP) may be an option, sometimes at a gestational age when the fetus is already viable (late TOP). We aimed to study attitudes towards late TOP of all tertiary healthcare professionals involved in late TOP practice. A mail survey was conducted among all physicians and pa...
Song, Jie Martens, Annelies Vanhoucke, Mario
Schedule Risk Analysis (SRA) has shown to provide reliable activity sensitivity information for taking corrective actions during project control. More precisely, by selecting a small subset of activities with high sensitivity values for taking corrective actions, the project outcome can be improved. In resource constrained projects, disrupted activ...
Meral Gunes, Adalet Millot, Frederic Kalwak, Krzysztof Lausen, Birgitte Sedlacek, Petr Versluys, A. Birgitta Dworzak, Michael De Moerloose, Barbara Suttorp, Meinolf
Introduction Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is rare in the first two decades of life comprising only 3% of newly diagnosed pediatric and adolescent leukemias. We studied the epidemiologic and clinical features of patients with CML diagnosed at younger than 3 years of age and evaluated treatment and long-term outcome. Method Data from the Internatio...
Guerrero Castillo, Angela Patricia De Neve, Stefaan Mouazen, Abdul
Nitrogen (N) is a main parameter affecting crop growth and yield. However, when variable rate N fertilization (VRNF) is adopted, a main question arises of whether to add more on the highly fertile zone or on the less fertile zone. This study aimed to compare two map-based VRNF treatments, e.g., variable-rate 1 (VRNF1) with the application of recomm...
Londoño Agudelo, Esteban García Fariñas, Anaí Pérez Ospina, Viviana Taborda Pérez, Cecilia Villacrés Landeta, Tatiana Battaglioli, Tullia Gómez Arias, Rubén Van der Stuyft, Patrick
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Global health action
Background Hypertension requires life-long medical care, which may cause economic burden and even lead to catastrophic health expenditure. Objective To estimate the extent of out-of-pocket expenditure for hypertension care at a population level and its impact on households' budgets in a low-income urban setting in Colombia. Methods We conducted a c...
Neate, Sandra L Taylor, Keryn L Nag, Nupur Jelinek, George A Simpson-Yap, Steve Bevens, William Weiland, Tracey J
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International journal of environmental research and public health
People with multiple sclerosis (PwMS) often experience uncertainty and fear about their futures. Partners of PwMS may share their concerns and experience fears about their own futures, limitations on their lives, ability to work, and becoming a carer. For PwMS, modification of lifestyle-related risk factors has been associated with improved health ...
Quintens, Charlotte; De Coster, Johan; Van der Linden, Lorenz; 60507; Morlion, Bart; 44030; Nijns, Egon; Van den Bosch, Bart; 5423; Peetermans, Willy E; 17444; Spriet, Isabel; 44833;
BACKGROUND: Pain therapy in inpatients is regularly suboptimal and might be improved by clinical pharmacy services. In our hospital, we have implemented a software-supported 'Check of Medication Appropriateness' (CMA), which is a centralized pharmacist-led service consisting of a clinical rule-based screening for potentially inappropriate prescript...