Abstract

The goal of this project was to develop and promote Bayesian hypothesis tests for social scientists. By and large, social scientists have ignored the Bayesian revolution in statistics, and, consequently, most social scientists still assess the veracity of experimental effects using the same methodology that was used by their advisors and the advisors before them. This state of affairs is undesirable: social scientists conduct groundbreaking, innovative research only to analyse their results using methods that are old-fashioned or even inappropriate.

Background: Undocumented migrants face particular challenges in accessing healthcare services in many European countries. The aim of this study was to systematically review the academic literature on the utilization of healthcare services by undocumented migrants in Europe.

Methods: The databases Embase, Medline, Global Health and Cinahl Plus were searched systematically to identify quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods studies published in 2007–2017.

Although it is assumed that epigenetic mechanisms, such as changes in DNA methylation (DNAm), underlie the relationship between adverse intrauterine conditions and adult metabolic health, evidence from human studies remains scarce. Therefore, we evaluated whether DNAm in whole blood mediated the association between prenatal famine exposure and metabolic health in 422 individuals exposed to famine in utero and 463 (sibling) controls.

Objective Mitochondria are multifunctional life-sustaining organelles that represent a potential intersection point between psychosocial experiences and biological stress responses. This article provides a systematic review of the effects of psychological stress on mitochondrial structure and function.

Abstract

“This is Munich all over again!”: Such comparisons between a present situation and a past one (i.e. a historical analogy) are common in public and political discourses. Historical analogies were used for centuries but have received increased interest in the last 50 years from scholars in political science, history, and psychology.

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Question  Is a brief, exposure-based treatment noninferior to the more time-intensive cognitive processing therapy in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder?

Vluchtelingenkinderen die op een AZC verblijven worden nu slechts op beperkte schaal doorverwezen voor specialistische behandeling, terwijl meer kinderen gebaat zouden kunnen zijn bij traumagerichte therapie.

Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943) groeide op in een bourgeois Duits-joods milieu in Berlijn. Daar leefde ze als jong meisje relatief onbezorgd tot de nationaalsocialistische machtsovername in 1933. Desondanks voltooide ze nagenoeg een opleiding aan de kunstacademie. In januari 1939 ontvluchtte Charlotte Berlijn en reisde naar haar grootouders in Zuid-Frankrijk, die nazi-Duitsland al in 1933 verlaten hadden. In 1940, na het uitbreken van de Tweede Wereldoorlog, pleegde haar grootmoeder zelfmoord.

De oorlog laat me niet los

Hoge Nederlandse militairen hebben tijdens de Indonesische Onafhankelijkheidsoorlog (1945-1949) tweegevechten georganiseerd tussen inwoners van het toenmalige Nederlands-Indië die ze verdachten van verzet. Wie verloor, kreeg de kogel.