Publicaties

The purpose of this paper is to explore the dangers of using intention as a surrogate for retention in a decision support system (DSS) for brand positioning. An empirical study is conducted, using structural equations modeling and both data from the internal transactional database and a survey. The study is aimed at evaluating whether the DSS recommends different product benefits for brand positioning when intention is used as opposed to ...

It has frequently been observed that L1 words which share beginnings, such as onset consonants, are especially likely to render each other accessible in memory (Aitchison, 2003). In L2 research several experimental studies have found that learners who have been exposed to a list of decontextualized alliterative and non-¬‐alliterative L2 collocations (e.g., full force and full speed) find it relatively easy to recall the alliteratives ...

Background:
As people age, the risk of becoming frail increases, often leading to negative outcomes and less well-being. Within the light of prevention, early detection and guidance to the right care and support is crucial. This study aimed to give an overview of the descriptive results of the D-SCOPE program and evaluate the process.

Methods:
The D-SCOPE program was developed as a detection and prevention program for frail ...

People often fail to detect changes between successively presented tactile patterns, a phenomenon known as tactile change blindness. In this study, we investigated whether changes introduced to tactile patterns are detected better when a participant's attention is focused on the location where the change occurs. Across two experiments, participants (N = 55) were instructed to detect changes between two consecutively presented tactile patterns. ...

The Kidney Solid Organ Response Test (kSORT) blood gene expression assay was developed to noninvasively detect acute rejection (AR) after kidney transplantation. Its performance in a setting with natural disease prevalence has not been evaluated. A retrospective, multicenter cohort study was conducted across all single kidney transplant recipients, transplanted between 2011 and 2015, with samples within the first year after transplantation ...

The "Make it Work!"-manual is primarily designed for professionals and/or residents who wish to set up SGBV prevention activities or to develop an SGBV prevention policy in their asylum or reception centre. However, with slight adaptations of wording in the exercises, it can easily be used in any other intercultural setting where prevention of SGBV is at stake. The purpose of the "Make it Work!"-manual is to: a) Develop a better understanding of ...

Pedestrian detection is an important challenge in computer vision due to its various applications. To achieve more accurate results, thermal images have been widely exploited as complementary information to assist conventional RGB-based detection. Although existing methods have developed numerous fusion strategies to utilize the complementary features, research that focuses on exploring features exclusive to each modality is limited. On this ...

The recent development of social media poses new challenges to the research community in analyzing online interactions between people. Social networking sites offer great opportunities for connecting with others, but also increase the vulnerability of young people to undesirable phenomena, such as cybervictimization. Recent research reports that on average, 20% to 40% of all teenagers have been victimized online. In this paper, we focus on ...