Publicaties

This paper addresses the issue of the latest analytical method when tackling a vacuum consolidation problem in a ground improvement project using prefabricated vertical drains (PVD) and the necessity of using numerical simulation. This paper aims to introduce a matching scheme to derive appropriate soil and drain properties in analytical solution and numerical modeling (axisymmetric and plane strain conditions). The scheme started with the ...

Propionibacterium acnes is known primarily as a skin commensal. However, it can present as an opportunistic pathogen via bacterial seeding to cause invasive infections such as implant-associated infections. These infections have gained more attention due to improved diagnostic procedures, such as sonication of explanted foreign materials and prolonged cultivation time of up to 14 days for periprosthetic biopsy specimens, and improved molecular ...

Teachers play a crucial role in the diagnostic process of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in students: They are often the first to identify ADHD-related behaviors in children and to signal them to parents. Research has demonstrated that the recognition and labeling of certain behaviors as evidential for ADHD by teachers vary with respect to student characteristics. This study examines if and how the association between teacher ...

Determining the drivers of non-native plant invasions is critical for managing native ecosystems and limiting the spread of invasive species(1,2). Tree invasions in particular have been relatively overlooked, even though they have the potential to transform ecosystems and economies(3,4). Here, leveraging global tree databases(5-7), we explore how the phylogenetic and functional diversity of native tree communities, human pressure and the ...

Only recently, the question whether within-person personality variability is a blessing or a curse for job performance has reached the agendas of industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology researchers. Yet, this limited stream of research resulted in inconsistent findings, and only little understanding exists about the role of rater source and mean-level personality in this relationship. Broadly following socioanalytic theory, the present ...

Introduction: Listener training is necessary to achieve agreement between perceptual ratings. However, evidence is limited regarding the effect of a training in the perceptual evaluation of cleft palate speech on the reliability of students in speech pathology. The aim of this study was to evaluate the short-term and longer-term effect of a training using the Belgian Dutch outcome tool for cleft palate speech on reliability and the students' ...

Natural history museum collections hold extremely rare, extinct species often described from a single known specimen. On occasions, rediscoveries open new opportunities to understand selective forces acting on phenotypic traits. Recent rediscovery of few individuals of Bocourt ' s Terrific Skink Phoboscincus bocourti, from a small and remote islet in New Caledonia allowed to genetically identify a species of land crab in its diet. To explore ...

To have more information about the English words known by second language (L2) speakers, we ran a large-scale crowdsourcing vocabulary test, which yielded 17 million useful responses. It provided us with a list of 445 words known to nearly all participants. The list was compared to various existing lists of words advised to include in the first stages of English L2 teaching. The data also provided us with a ranking of 61,000 words in terms of ...

Resume-screening by human raters is vulnerable to hiring discrimination but recruiter training as a way to overcome biased resume-screening is under-researched. The present study addresses this gap. Building on key cognitive processes that steer discriminatory decision-making in resume-screening and insights from diversity literature, we investigated the effectiveness of two cognitive training interventions (i.e., a culture-general assimilator ...