Language users have preferences for the connectives they choose to express causal relations. These choices may depend on the subjectivity involved in the relation. Dutch connectives illustrate this situation clearly: want ...

To accommodate the stochasticity of variable renewable energy sources (VRES) while efficiently dispatching generation resources and procuring adequate reserves, previous research proposed co-optimizing energy and reserves ...

A continuously growing group of people are forced to flee their home countries to seek refuge from unsafe living conditions. Forced migrants are at relatively high risk for developing mental health problems, like posttraumatic ...

The rhymed love letter is a hybrid genre, positioned between the real love letter in prose and fictional love poems and love songs. In Dutch a handful of these has been transmitted from ca. 1400 onwards. This article is ...

Video games are increasingly portraying many topics that we face in our everyday lives. Yet we have only limited evidence about the way narrative games affect how we think about the topics they depict; in other words, about ...

Intra-annual (i.e. seasonal) temporal niche partitioning is essential to the maintenance of biodiversity in many plant communities. However, understanding of how climate and global change drivers such as eutrophication ...

The influx of technology in education has made it increasingly difficult to assess the validity of educational assessments. The field of information systems often ignores the social dimension during validation, whereas ...

Background Given that high levels of stress during adolescence are associated with negative consequences, it is important that adolescents with psychological needs are supported at an early stage, for instance with ...

The Enhanced Permeability and Retention (EPR) effect is a highly variable phenomenon. To enhance EPR-mediated passive drug targeting to tumors, several different pharmacological and physical strategies have been evaluated ...

Many studies have examined the effects of neighbourhoods on educational outcomes. The results of these studies are often conflicting, even if the same independent variables (such as poverty, educational climate, social ...