Publicaties

Employment constitutes a major and important pa rt of our lives and contributes to welfare and wel l-being. Yet, the competitive employment rate of p eople with (severe) mental health problems is low. The Individual Placement and Support (IPS) m odel of Supported Employment is an evidence-b ased vocational rehabilitation (VR) model proved t o increase competitiveemployment rates. For t his, IPS programs adhere to some important princip les, ...

Insect bite hypersensitivity or IBH is an allergic reaction to salivary antigens from Culicoides species and possibly other insects. It is the most common allergic disease in horses and it seriously reduces the commercial value as well as the welfare of affected horses. Until now, no curative treatment is available but clear indications exist that the susceptibility for IBH is partly heritable. Therefore, the genetic basis of IBH susceptibility ...

Fixed-Size Least Squares Support Vector Machines (FS-LSSVM) is a powerful tool for solving large scale classification and regression problems. FS-LSSVM solves an over-determined system of M linear equations by using Nyström approximations on a set of prototype vectors (PVs) in the primal. This introduces sparsity in the model along with ability to scale for large datasets. But there exists no formal method for selection of the right value of M . ...

Landslides are well known processes that hamper sustainable development efforts, particularly in developing countries where extreme poverty is already a household to societal scale problem. Though a worldwide issue, landslides remain enigmatic especially with regards to their geometry, causative factors, triggering mechanisms, relationship between triggering factors and landslide occurrence, and the susceptibility of any area to mass wasting ...

One of the effective ways of the definition of the high level-purposes and business requirements to the information systems is modelling of the organization which is automated by software creation and deployment With this aim the domain specific language in the form of a UML profile for business modelling, where the basis is the systemological approach "Unit - Function - Object", is defined The profile allows to create syntactically correct UML ...

In Belgium, a federal country in the heart of Europe, the competencies for nature conservation and nature policy lie within the regions. The Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) is an independent research institute, funded by the Flemish regional government, which underpins and evaluates biodiversity policy and management by means of applied scientific research, and sharing of data and knowledge.One of the 12 strategic goals in the ...

BackgroundAcute and late toxicities in patients treated with (chemo)radiotherapy for head and neck cancer (HNC) is common and can negatively impact quality of life and performance. Performance status instruments measure the functional ability to perform daily life activities and are important tools in the oncologic population. AimsSince Dutch performance status scales for the HNC population are lacking, we conducted this study to translate the ...

Dreaming big propels you forward. But it is often a bumpy road. In this book, two remarkable women unravel 15 persistent myths about the path to success and finding happiness in life and work, both from their own experiences and from their daily interactions with professionals. They want to encourage people to set themselves free from such myths and to pursue their dreams with confidence and optimism. In this inspiring book they share their ...

The topic of recommender systems is rapidly gaining interestin the user-behaviour modeling research domain. Over the years, various recommender algorithms based on different mathematical models have been introduced in the literature. Researchers interested in proposing a new recommender model or modifying an existing algorithm should take into account a variety of key performance indicators, such as executiontime, recall and precision. Till date ...