Sample Bias in Web-Based Patient-Generated Health Data of Dutch Patients with Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor: Survey Study

Background: Increasingly, social media is being recognized as a potential resource for patient-generated health data, for example, for pharmacovigilance. Although the representativeness of the web-based patient population is often noted as a concern, studies in this field are limited. Objective: This study aimed to investigate the sample bias of...

Impact of operational details and temporal representations on investment planning in energy systems dominated by wind and solar

Planning of future energy systems with higher prevalence of wind and solar energy requires a careful representation of the temporal and operational characteristics of the system in the investment planning model. This study aims to identify the aspects that should be considered when selecting the representation for a particular system. To...

The effect of hydrogen content and yield strength on the distribution of hydrogen in steel: a diffusion coupled micromechanical FEM study

Social Dialogue and Psychosocial Risk Management: Added Value of Manager and Employee Representative Agreement in Risk Perception and Awareness

The present study aimed to explore the added value of managers’ and employee representatives’ agreement in risk perception and awareness in explaining the management of more ‘subjective’ psychosocial risks as compared to the more ‘objective’ traditional OSH risks. The general assumption tested was whether the added value of agreement in risk...

Symmetry breaking in mixed integer linear programming formulations for blocking two-level orthogonal experimental designs

Two-level orthogonal designs play an important role in industrial screening experiments, in which the primary goal is to identify the treatment factors with the largest main effects on the output of a process or the performance of a product. Often, the experimental tests suggested by the orthogonal designs cannot be performed on a single day or...

Worker participation - the Netherlands

Worker participation relates to the involvement of workers in the management decision-making processes. In this article attention is focused on worker participation related to occupational safety and health in the Netherlands. Worker participation can refer either to direct or indirect participation by the worker. Indirect participation involves...

CFD dispersion investigation of CO2 worst case scenarios including terrain and release effects

In the present paper, CFD (computational fluid dynamics) computations were performed in order to get insight in heavy gas dispersion behavior based on experimental results and extrapolate them to a representative full bore rupture scenario of a CO2 pipeline. The impact of the release process is investigated on the overall heavy gas dispersion....

Sea salt concentrations across the European continent

The oceans are a major source for particles that play an important role in many atmospheric processes. In Europe sea salt may contribute significantly to particulate matter concentrations. We have compiled sodium concentration data as a tracer for sea salt for 89 sites in Europe to provide more insight in the distribution of sea salt across...