Can unhealthy food purchases at checkout counters be discouraged by introducing healthier snacks? A real-life experiment in supermarkets in deprived urban areas in the Netherlands

Geographic information system (GIS) based tools have become popular for solar photovoltaic (PV) potential estimations, especially in urban areas. There are readily available tools for the mapping and estimation of solar irradiation that give results with the click of a button. Although these tools capture the complexities of the urban environment, they often miss the more important atmospheric parameters that determine the irradiation and potential estimations. Therefore, validation of these models is necessary for accurate potential energy yield and capacity estimations. This paper demonstrates the calibration and validation of the solar radiation model developed by Fu and Rich, employed within ArcGIS, with a focus on the input atmospheric parameters, diffusivity and transmissivity for the Netherlands. In addition, factors affecting the model’s performance with respect to the resolution of the input data were studied. Data were calibrated using ground measurements from Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) stations in the Netherlands and validated with the station data from Cabauw. The results show that the default model values of diffusivity and transmissivity lead to substantial underestimation or overestimation of solar insolation. In addition, this paper also shows that calibration can be performed at different time scales depending on the purpose and spatial resolution of the input data.

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Quality of care for anxiety and depression in different ethnic groups by family practitioners in urban areas in the Netherlands

General Hospital Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2010.04.010 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 32 (4) ◽

pp. 368-376 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Thijs Fassaert ◽

Mark Nielen ◽

Robert Verheij ◽

Arnoud Verhoeff ◽

Jack Dekker ◽

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Keyword(s):

Quality Of Care ◽

The Netherlands ◽

Ethnic Groups ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Anxiety And Depression ◽

Family Practitioners

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“They Live in Indifference Together”: Marriage Mobility in Zeeland, The Netherlands, 1796–1922

International Review of Social History ◽

10.1017/s0020859005002130 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 50 (S13) ◽

pp. 247-274 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Hilde Bras ◽

Jan Kok

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Social Class ◽

The Netherlands ◽

Life Course ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Personal Relationships ◽

Mixed Marriage ◽

Government Report ◽

Logistic Regressions ◽

The Life Course

This article investigates developments in and antecedents of socially mixed marriage in the rural Dutch province of Zeeland during the long nineteenth century, taking individual and family histories, community contexts, and temporal influences into account. A government report of the 1850s said of Zeeland that farmers and workers lived “in indifference together”. However, our analysis of about 163,000 marriage certificates reveals that 30 to 40 per cent of these rural inhabitants continued to marry outside their original social class. Multivariate logistic regressions show that heterogamous marriages can be explained first and foremost by the life-course experiences of grooms and brides prior to marriage. Previous transitions in their occupational careers (especially to non-rural occupations for grooms, and to service for brides), in their migration trajectories (particularly moves to urban areas), and changes in the sphere of personal relationships (entering widowhood, ageing) are crucial in understanding marriage mobility.

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PRS8 Burden of Exacerbations in Patients With COPD in the Netherlands: a Real-Life Study

Value in Health ◽

10.1016/j.jval.2012.08.2007 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 15 (7) ◽

pp. A560-A561 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

J.A. Overbeek ◽

M.M. Balp ◽

F.J.A. Penning ◽

P.N.R. Dekhuijzen ◽

R.M.C. Herings

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

Real Life ◽

Life Study ◽

Real Life Study

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Honor-Related Violence in the Netherlands

Globalization and Its Impact on Violence Against Vulnerable Groups - Advances in Religious and Cultural Studies ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-9627-1.ch006 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 122-143

Author(s):

Janine Janssen

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

Real Life ◽

Vulnerable Groups ◽

Important Lesson ◽

Lethal Outcome ◽

Honor Codes ◽

Modern Times ◽

The Family

What has the Dutch police learned about violence in the name of the family honor over the years? In the first paragraph, authors will deal with the question: What is violence in the name of the family honor? And what has the Dutch police done to curb this particular form of violence? The second paragraph addresses the question: What tools do the Dutch police have for dealing with this form of violence and helping vulnerable groups in society? The most important lesson that the Dutch Police have learned is that this form of violence has many faces. It might be a threat or have a lethal outcome. Next to that, ancient honor codes are capable of tapping into modern times: offenses against the honor of the family do not only take place in ‘real life' so to speak, but also online. In the early days in The Netherlands, violence in the name of family honor was often associated with migrants of Turkish decent, but nowadays the police also see cases in other communities.

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Laboratory surveillance of bacterial gastroenteric pathogens in The Netherlands, 1991–2001

Epidemiology and Infection ◽

10.1017/s0950268803008392 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 130 (3) ◽

pp. 431-441 ◽

Cited By ~ 81

Author(s):

W. van PELT ◽

M. A. S. de WIT ◽

W. J. B. WANNET ◽

E. J. J. LIGTVOET ◽

M. A. WIDDOWSON ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Escherichia Coli ◽

Young Children ◽

The Netherlands ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Annual Number ◽

Dutch Population ◽

Laboratory Surveillance ◽

Bacterial Gastroenteritis ◽

General Practices ◽

The Mean

Results of the Dutch laboratory surveillance of bacterial gastroenteritis between 1991 and 2001 are presented and compared with recent findings in general practices and in the community. Between 1996 and 2000 the mean annual number of stools screened by sentinel laboratories was about 1000 samples/100000 inhabitants, which is 4% of the estimated annual incidence of gastroenteritis in the Dutch population. Campylobacter (36/100000 inhabitants) and salmonella (24/100000 inhabitants) were the main pathogens isolated. Since 1996, the incidence of laboratory confirmed salmonellosis decreased by 30%, predominantly among young children. The incidence of campylobacter was highest in urban areas and Salmonella Enteritidis emerged as the predominant serotype in urban areas. Between 1991 and 2001, multi-resistant Salmonella Typhimurium DT104 emerged to comprise up to 15% of all salmonella isolates in 2001. Reported rates of Shigella spp. and Yersinia spp. varied little, with average annual incidences of 3·2 and 1·2 cases/100000 inhabitants, respectively. Escherichia coli O157 (90% STEC) was scarcely found (0·26/100000).

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Playing with power: Kink, race, and desire

Sexualities ◽

10.1177/1363460720964063 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 136346072096406

Author(s):

Michelle Liang

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

Ethnic Minorities ◽

Women Of Color ◽

Daily Life ◽

Real Life ◽

People Of Color ◽

Sexual Expression ◽

Queer Women ◽

The Face ◽

Queer Women Of Color

Although the separation between “real life” and “play” appears to reinscribe liberal notions of autonomy, BDSM practitioners actually mobilize this boundary to trouble liberal understandings of the liberal autonomous rational agent. Through understandings desires as inextricable from power, and fetishes as displacements of anxieties, BDSM practices recognize “irrational” desires and multiple, fractured selves. In examining kink practices of queer women of color in the Netherlands, this paper explores the transformative potentials of BDSM for queer people of color, especially in resisting colonial discourses that privilege liberal discourses of agency and conceptualize bodies of color as nonmodern, inferior, exotic, and irrational. In the face of discourses that pit Dutch freedom and sexual expression against ethnic minorities and sexual constraint, marginalized kinksters are forming communities that radically centralize marginalized kink experiences and reject pathologizing discourses, as they critically alter the implications of and possibilities for slippages between daily life and kink.

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