23 research outputs found
Dutch fruiting vegetable growers prepare themselves for future demands of foreign retailers: British retailers in particular expect co-operation in supply chain May 2001
Internationale concurrentiepositie van de Nederlandse vollegrondsgroenteteelt
Onderzoek naar de internationale concurrentiepositie van de Nederlandse vollegronds-groenteteelt. De vijf strategische thema's voor de toekomst van de Nederlandse vollegrondsgroentesector zijn: ketensamenwerking, kwaliteit, productinnovatie, arbeid en gewasbescherming. Deze conclusie volgt uit een SWOT-analyse op basis van een studie van de belangrijkste afzetmarkten én concurrenten Duitsland en het Verenigd Koninkrijk. Het onderzoek sluit af met een beschrijving van vier mogelijke marktstrategieën voor indi-viduele producenten en een aantal aanbevelingen voor de Nederlandse vollegrondsgroenteketen als geheel ter verbetering van de concurrentiekrach
Biologische vollegrondsgroenten in het Verenigd Koninkrijk en Duitsland : een inventarisatie voor de strategische besluitvorming in Nederland
Concurrentiekracht glasgroente : perspectieven voor een vitale en marktgerichte Nederlandse groentesector
In deze publicatie wordt onderzoek toegelicht naar de huidige concurrentiepositie van de glasgroentesector, de relevante toekomstige ontwikkelingen en de mogelijkheden voor Nederlandse ondernemers om hun positie te behouden of te versterke
Self-Averaging, Distribution of Pseudo-Critical Temperatures and Finite Size Scaling in Critical Disordered Systems
The distributions of singular thermodynamic quantities in an ensemble
of quenched random samples of linear size at the critical point are
studied by Monte Carlo in two models. Our results confirm predictions of
Aharony and Harris based on Renormalization group considerations. For an
Ashkin-Teller model with strong but irrelevant bond randomness we find that the
relative squared width, , of is weakly self averaging. , where is the specific heat exponent and is the
correlation length exponent of the pure model fixed point governing the
transition. For the site dilute Ising model on a cubic lattice, known to be
governed by a random fixed point, we find that tends to a universal
constant independent of the amount of dilution (no self averaging). However
this constant is different for canonical and grand canonical disorder. We study
the distribution of the pseudo-critical temperatures of the ensemble
defined as the temperatures of the maximum susceptibility of each sample. We
find that its variance scales as and NOT as
R_\chi\sim 70R_\chi (T_c)\chiT_c(i,l)m_i(T_c,l)T_c(i,l)(T-T_c(i,l))/T_c$. This function is found to be universal and to behave
similarly to pure systems.Comment: 31 pages, 17 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
Evaluation of lexical clarification by patients reading their clinical notes: a quasi-experimental interview study
Background: Patients benefit from access to their medical records. However, clinical notes and letters are often difficult to comprehend for most lay people. Therefore, functionality was implemented in the patient portal of a Dutch university medical centre (UMC) to clarify medical terms in free-text data. The clarifications consisted of synonyms and definitions from a Dutch medical terminology system. We aimed to evaluate to what extent these lexical clarifications match the information needs of the patients. Secondarily, we evaluated how the clarifications and the functionality could be improved. Methods: We invited participants from the patient panel of the UMC to read their own clinical notes. They marked terms they found difficult and rated the ease of these terms. After the functionality was activated, participants rated the clarifications provided by the functionality, and the functionality itself regarding ease and usefulness. Ratings were on a scale from 0 (very difficult) to 100 (very easy). We calculated the median number of terms not understood per participant, the number of terms with a clarification, the overlap between these numbers (coverage), and the precision and recall. Results: We included 15 participants from the patient panel. They marked a median of 21 (IQR 19.5–31) terms as difficult in their text files, while only a median of 2 (IQR 1–4) of these terms were clarified by the functionality. The median precision was 6.5% (IQR 2.3–14.25%) and the median recall 8.3% (IQR 4.7–13.5%) per participant. However, participants rated the functionality with median ease of 98 (IQR 93.5–99) and a median usefulness of 79 (IQR 52.5–97). Participants found that many easy terms were unnecessarily clarified, that some clarifications were difficult, and that some clarifications contained mistakes. Conclusions: Patients found the functionality easy to use and useful. However, in its current form it only helped patients to understand few terms they did not understand, patients found some clarifications to be difficult, and some to be incorrect. This shows that lexical clarification is feasible even when limited terms are available, but needs further development to fully use its potential