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… learnt that vascular factors have an influence, and that lifestyle factors are associated with a lower risk of developing the disease. As a result, you see that studies are expanding and becoming more complex.” Maastricht researchers have recently started setting up a large-scale study to gather data on subjects aged between 20 and 100 years. The STRAIN study will collect not only MRI scans, but also information from blood analyses, cognitive tests, stress tests and lifestyle data. “Our goal is …
… in the UK. http://www.sportentransplantatie.nl/ Promising career The future was looking rosy when Rienties graduated in 2000 with a promising career as an academic on the horizon. He began working as an economics lecturer at UM and, six years later, started his PhD research. In his free time he was a fanatical cyclist. “During the preparations for the Transalp Challenge, a multi-day race with an extremely challenging route through the Alps, I noticed that the training wasn’t going as well as I’d …
… cancerous tissue. With this method we can now precisely identify which lipids change as cancer develops and use this information to understand the molecular processes responsible for cancer progression. Ultimately this could lead to new therapies that target these chemical alterations” says M4I Assistant Professor and first author Shane Ellis. Currently, the M4I team is studying the role of lipids and the influence of subtle changes in lipid structure in a variety of biomedical studies where this …
… ? Should the Dutch, in particular, spot “the tulip mania of our era” in Ethereum, Ripple… and Bananacoin ? The Golden Age reference comes courtesy of Paulo Rodrigues , assistant professor of finance at the School of Business and Economics, who started his working life as a bored teenager in a German bank, “the guy at the counter talking to people who wanted to open a chequing or savings account”. He went on to study theoretical econometrics and financial engineering, carried out research on modelling stock returns, and has lately turned his attention to broader economic questions. He’s also SBE’s designated crypto-bitcoin-fintech go-to guy. Between fielding half-serious questions from colleagues about whether virtual cash could make them genuinely rich, he’s working on incorporating these developments in the faculty’s curriculum. K.M. … we have only so much gold on the planet. The way bitcoin is set up, there will only be 21 million bitcoins mined. I’m no economic historian, but from what I remember of Macroeconomics 101, one reason the Great Recession was so severe was because monetary policy was inadequate to react to economic conditions. When bitcoin was set up, one argument was ‘The central banks are just going to print money, so I’ll put my money in bitcoin’. But everything that a central bank does has some economic theory …
… makers to make decisions that are beneficial, also economically, due to their accuracy and consistency. This is true with respect to big data analytics based on personal data used for university admissions, job recruitment, customer profiling, targeted marketing, and health services. By way of an analysis of vast data sets in any of the aforementioned fields, common threads can be used to predict whether or not Candidate X is fit for a position, or if Individual Y will develop heart disease …
… show why law must have a central place in the big research themes of today. Last week I visited a ‘work conference’ on legal research in the Netherlands. This meeting was organised by the Council of Deans, the platform of deans of the ten Dutch law faculties. We spent an afternoon talking about the state of legal research in the presence of vice-deans for research, the president of the VSNU and the chair of the new NWO domain Social Sciences and Humanities (that Law belongs to). There was enough … I therefore made a plea at the meeting that legal academics better show themselves in these societal debates. Of course in the very first place through top research, but also through op-eds, blogs (the Dutch economists do this very well with their website me judice ), possibly with a sector plan, and certainly with a powerful lobby with funding organisations. Legal science itself cannot speak. This is why its spokespeople – all of us – must show how important our discipline is. Read more …
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… 19.10 uur Casus: Spasticiteit en Multimorbiditeit: Wat is jouw behandelbeleid? 19.25 uur Anne Visser (specialist ouderengeneeskunde). Multimorbiditeit en polyfarmacie, when less is more? 19.45 uur Erik de Klerk (revalidatiearts). Spasticiteitsbehandeling: dr. Jeckyll of dr. Hyde? 20.05 uur Samen kom je verder dan alleen 20.15 uur Pauze 20.35 uur Limburg revalideert: Wat is van belang? 21.00 uur Einde Voor deze avond is accreditatie aangevraagd. Tijdstip en locatie Tijdstip: 27 …
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This workshop is funded by a 2021 YERUN Research Mobility Award and the Globalisation and Law Network.