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Through a critical media content analysis, this contribution explores the police practice of identity checks in Belgium. Identity checks are one of the most occurring police practices in Belgium and have lately been under close media and academic attention. Several reports by organisations as Amnesty International, Unia and Human Right Watch already signalled the current problems within the Belgian police force concerning identity checks. ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The Targeted Prostate Health Check (TPHC) programme was set up to identify men with prostate cancer (PC) in the Surrey and Sussex region of England that was undetected during the COVID-19 era. We report outcomes for more than 18 000 prostate-specific antigen (PSA) checks using modern diagnostic techniques. METHODS: Men aged 50-70 yr, or 45-70 yr if Black or with a family history of PC, were identified via ...

Compulsive buying (CB) - an uncontrolled urge to buy unneeded products - though not yet officially recognized as a mental disorder, causes significant impairments in financial, legal, social and occupational areas of functioning of an affected person. The goal of the current research was twofold: first, to investigate the link between CB and personality looking at more specific than Big Five personality traits, and secondly to determine whether ...

Colonies of ground-nesting species often have heterogeneous nest densities and their offspring experience different social conditions depending on the size and location of the breeding territory. For example, unintentional territory crossing by mobile chicks can trigger strong aggression from neighbouring adults, as observed in semi-precocial gulls. This would be expected to shape chicks' movement tendencies, exploratory behaviour and propensity ...

Stocking density is a management factor which has critical implications for the poultry industry. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of high stocking density as a predisposing factor in an experimental model of necrotic enteritis in broiler chicks. The experimental challenge model included an oral inoculation with 10-fold dose of attenuated anticoccidial vaccine and multiple oral inoculations with a specific strain of ...

Adolescents seeking professional help with their gender identity development often present with psychological difficulties. Existing literature on psychological functioning of gender diverse young people is limited and mostly bound to national chart reviews. This study examined the prevalence of psychological functioning and peer relationship problems in adolescents across four European specialist gender services (The Netherlands, Belgium, the ...

Introduction : At the start of gender reassignment therapy, persons with a gender identity disorder (GID) may deal with various forms of psychopathology. Until now, a limited number of publications focus on the effect of the different phases of treatment on this comorbidity and other psychosocial factors. Aims : The aim of this study was to investigate how gender reassignment therapy affects psychopathology and other psychosocial factors. ...

The presence of substandard and falsified (SF) medicines poses a significant challenge in resource-limited countries. Low-quality antibiotics are commonly reported in low-income countries. The present study aimed to develop and validate a liquid chromatography method with ultraviolet detection (LC-UV) for the identity screening and assay of 13 different injectable antibiotics, i.e., cefepime, amoxicillin, cefazolin, ampicillin, chloramphenicol, ...

The Internet has already changed people's lives considerably and is likely to drastically change forensic research. We developed a web-based test to reveal concealed autobiographical information. Initial studies identified a number of conditions that affect diagnostic efficiency. By combining these moderators, this study investigated the full potential of the online ID-check. Participants (n = 101) tried to hide their identity and claimed a ...

This research focuses on the Hmong in Europe, especially on their effort to maintain their identity and navigate conviviality in the European context. My focus is on the Hmong identity in the context of living together with neighbors from various linguistic, religious, and ethnic backgrounds. Specifically, this research aims to provide an answer to the following questions: how have the European Hmong adapted and adjusted to their local context ...