invasive meningococcal disease (imd) is a severe bacterial infectious disease with high mortality and morbidity rates worldwide. in recent years, industrialised countries have implemented vaccines targeting imd in their national immunisation programmes (nips). in 2002, the netherlands successfully implemented a single dose of meningococcal serogroup c conjugate vaccine at the age of 14 months a...

in the netherlands, serious soil investigations were started in the mid-1800s and in the mid-1900s with university courses and the establishment of research institutes soil science rapidly expanded. the dutch and western european society have changed dramatically in the past century from and early industrial society with a dominantly rural and agricultural character to a post-industrial society...

A founding member of the European Union, the Netherlands is a democratic kingdom of 16,000,000 people, located between Germany, Belgium, and England. It became an independent republic in 1581 and a kingdom in 1806. The seventeenth century was its "golden age," a period when the Dutch Republic (1581-1795) was a major international force, creating a worldwide web of economic and political relatio...