Publications

Bodem- en waterverontreiniging door cadmium (Cd), voornamelijk als gevolg van antropogene activiteiten, is een ernstig probleem dat vele regio’s wereldwijd treft. Hoewel het een toxisch, niet-essentieel element is, nemen planten Cd gemakkelijk op, waardoor fysiologische processen worden verstoord en plantengroei wordt geremd. Bovendien komt Cd op deze manier in de voedselketen terecht. Cadmiumopname in planten vermindert bijgevolg gewasopbrengst ...

The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected vulnerable populations’ access to health care. By proactively reaching out to them, general practices attempted to prevent the underutilization of their services. This paper examined the association between practice and country characteristics and the organization of outreach work in general practices during COVID-19. Linear mixed model analyses with practices nested in countries were performed ...

Attachment approaches have played a crucial role in furthering our understanding of individuals with personality disorders (PDs) and their treatment. Yet, recent years have witnessed the emergence of a number of findings that urge us to reconsider the role of attachment in PDs. Besides the overlap between conceptualizations of attachment and core features of PD, there is increasing evidence that the link between childrearing environments, ...

Recent data clearly show that the gut microbiota plays a significant role in the biotransformation of many endogenous molecules and xenobiotics, leading to a potential influence of this microbiotic metabolism on activation, inactivation and possible toxicity of these compounds. To study the colonic biotransformation of xenobiotics by the gut microbiome, in vitro models are often used as they allow dynamic and multiple sampling overtime. However, ...

The biological effects of polyphenols depend on their mechanism of action in the body. This is affected by bioconversion by colon microbiota and absorption of colonic metabolites. We developed and validated an in vitro continuous flow dialysis model with colon phase (GastroIntestinal dialysis model with colon phase) to study the gastrointestinal metabolism and absorption of phenolic food constituents. Chlorogenic acid was used as model compound. ...

The effect of educational differences between partners on marital quality and stability is commonly analysed using difference, or compound measures. This article considers the theoretical foundations for these approaches and examines an alternative approach, diagonal reference models (DRMs). The three methods are then compared empirically, using data on 629 married couples from the survey Child-Rearing and Family in the Netherlands. Difference ...

© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013. Psychology studies a great variety of processes (e.g. conflict, aggression, frustration, memory, learning) and is used in different fields or areas (e.g. labour relations, mental health, advertising, human resources management, the courts, people’s private life). Among these, one also finds education and child-rearing. Psychology not only carries with it the promise that it will deliver insights ...

In this article we focus on how the language of developmental psychology shapes our conceptualisations and understandings of childrearing and of the parent-child relationship. By analysing some examples of contemporary research, policy and popular literature on parenting and parenting support in the UK and Flanders, we explore some of the ways in which normative assumptions about parenthood and upbringing are imported into these areas through ...

Depression is a major health concern, affecting predominantly women during their childbearing and childrearing age. Since these women are usually excluded from pharmacological research, the use of antidepressants during pregnancy and lactation is rarely studied. The negative consequences of an untreated maternal depression, on both mother and child, have the ascendancy over the possible adverse effects of in utero exposure to antidepressants. ...