Wim Leereveld – how do you get an industry moving in the right direction? The access to medicine index

This post was contributed by Wim Leereveld, the Founder and CEO of the Access to Medicine Foundation. Ten years ago, I started work on the Access to Medicine Index, which now ranks the world’s 20 largest pharmaceutical companies on their policies and practices for improving access to medicine for patients in middle-income and low-income countries

Organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst records from a prospective Turonian - Coniacian (upper Cretaceous) GSSP, Slupia Nadbrzezna, Poland

AbstractA river section at Słupia Nadbrzeżna, central Poland, has been proposed as a candidate Turonian – Coniacian (Cretaceous) GSSP, in combination with the Salzgitter-Salder quarry section of Lower Saxony, Germany. Results of a high-resolution (25 cm) palynological study of the boundary interval in the Słupia Nadbrzeżna section are presented. Terrestrial palynomorphs are rare; marine organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts dominate the palynological assemblage. The dinoflagellate cyst assemblage has a low species richness (5–11 per sample; total of 18 species recorded) and diversity (Shannon index H = 0.8–1.4), dominated by four taxa: Circulodinium distinctum subsp. distinctum; Oligosphaeridium complex; Spiniferites ramosus subsp. ramosus; Surculosphaeridium longifurcatum. Declining proportions of O. complex and S. ramosus subsp. ramosus characterise the uppermost Turonian, with an increased dominance of S. longifurcatum in the lower Coniacian. The Turonian – Coniacian boundary interval includes an acme of C. distinctum subsp. distinctum in the upper Mytiloides scupini Zone, a dinoflagellate cyst abundance maximum in the Cremnoceramus walterdorfensis walterdorfensis Zone, and the highest occurrence of Senoniasphaera turonica in the basal Coniacian lower Cremnoceramus deformis erectus Zone. Most previously reported Turonian – Coniacian boundary dinoflagellate cyst marker species are absent; a shallow-water oligotrophic epicontinental depositional setting, remote from terrestrial influence, likely limited species diversity and excluded many taxa of biostratigraphic value

Anthecological relations between reputedly anemophilous flowers and syrphid flies. III. Worldwide survey of crop and intestine contents of certain anthophilous syrphid flies

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De gebiedscoöperatie als model voor leven lang ontwikkelen

Binnen het lectoraat is het concept gebiedscoöperatie ontstaan als een model waarbinnen ondernemers, onderwijs en onderzoek en overheden kunnen samenwerken op een integrale wijze om zodoende LLO te ontwikkelen. Op een aantal congressen is deze video gepresenteerd om op een eenvoudige wijze een zeer complexe materie kort en beeldend te etaleren als start van discussie en toelichtin

de gebiedscoöperatie als model voor leven lang ontwikkelen

Binnen het lectoraat is het concept gebiedscoöperatie ontstaan als een model waarbinnen ondernemers, onderwijs en onderzoek en overheden kunnen samenwerken op een integrale wijze om zodoende LLO te ontwikkelen. Op een aantal congressen is deze video gepresenteerd om op een eenvoudige wijze een zeer complexe materie kort en beeldend te etaleren als start van discussie en toelichtin

Understanding perceived tranquillity in urban woonerf streets: case studies in two Dutch cities

Within the current urbanised society, the call for calm and quiet areas seems more pressing than ever. Such tranquil environments like the woonerf streets in the Netherlands, allow a more human-centred design, where traffic has a restricted speed limit of 15 km/h, while pedestrians and cars share the street without segregation. In the past, predictive models have been developed to assess the tranquillity levels based on indices related to noise exposure and the amount of greenery measured through the Green View Index (GVI). However, the urban environment encompasses multiple sound sources with people having different reactions towards the auditory stimuli. Because of this complexity, objective sound measurements are examined in combination with the subjective perception of noise through eight perceptual attributes. This is done by collecting audio and visual data in 61 woonerf streets in the cities of Groningen and Leeuwarden, supported by additional questionnaire data gathered from the corresponding residents of the above-mentioned areas. Within the context of woonerf streets, results indicate that sound levels are perceived as relatively pleasant and uneventful. Furthermore, a difference is observed between the predicted and subjective tranquillity