This document contains descriptions of almost all my technical papers. Omitted are papers for which I no longer have copies and papers that are incomplete. I have also omitted early versions of some of these papers—even in cases where the title changed. Included are some initial drafts of papers that I abandoned before fixing errors or other problems in them. A table of contents precedes the de...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed at evaluating the profile and scientific production of researchers in Nephrology and Urology, receiving grants in the area of Clinical Medicine from the Brazilian National Research Council. METHODS The standardized online curriculum vitae (Curriculum Lattes) of 39 researchers in Medicine receiving grants in the 2006-2008 triennium were included in the analysis. The ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with a similar cardiovascular risk to that in diabetes, and therefore cardiovascular risk management (CV-RM) - that is, identification and treatment of cardiovascular risk factors (CRFs) - is mandatory. However, whether and to what extent this is done in daily clinical practice is unknown. In a retrospective cohort investigation, CV-RM was therefore compa...

Promotiecommissie Promotor: Contents Chapter 1 Introduction and Outline 7 Chapter 2 Determinants of the sit-to-stand movement: a review 15 Chapter 3 Analysis and decomposition of accelerometric signals of trunk and thigh obtained during the sit-to-stand movement 33 Chapter 4 Validity of accelerometry in assessing the duration of the sit-to-stand movement 49 Chapter 5 Sensitivity of accelerometr...

Evaluation of scientific work underlies the process of career advancement in academic science, with publications being a fundamental metric. Many aspects of the evaluation process for grants and promotions are deeply ingrained in institutions and funding agencies and have been altered very little in the past several decades, despite substantial changes that have taken place in the scientific wo...

INTRODUCTION The number of female medical school faculty being promoted and the speed at which they are promoted have not kept pace with their male counterparts at many institutions. One of the reasons is that these women are not publishing peer reviewed manuscripts at an equivalent rate. This study evaluates the impact of a women's writing group on faculty publication rates. MATERIALS AND ME...

Samenvatting en discussie (Summary and discussion in Dutch) PhD portfolio Curriculum Vitae Bibliography Dankwoord (Acknowledgements) With great interest we have read the paper of Hoogewerf et al. [1] , who stated that the face is central to our identity and provides our most expressive means of communication. We absolutely agree to this statement. The treatment of facial burns aims to restore b...

The enlargement of the European Union will lead to a higher number of cross-national curriculum vitas of European citizens. Thus, the complexity of public administration interaction across Europe will rise. To ensure that this interaction does not become a barrier to citizens’ mobility, European public administrations need to support eGovernment in an informational, communicational and transact...

2 Résumé 4 Chapter 1: General Introduction 6 Chapter 2: Impacts of forebrain neuronal glycine transporter 1 disruption in the senescent brain: Evidence for age-dependent phenotypes in Pavlovian learning 28 Chapter 3: Examining the sex-and circadian dependency of a learning phenotype in mice with glycine transporter 1 deletion in two Pavlovian conditioning paradigms 52 Chapter 4: Glycine transpo...

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