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Ex ante analysis of circular built environment policy coherence

Bucci Ancapi, F.E. (author)

As European governments adopt new circular built environment policies to cope with the socio-ecological crisis, the need for evaluating such policies gains in urgency. Ex post evaluation is, however, difficult as these policies have not been in place long enough to have had significant effects. Nonetheless, ex ante policy evaluation may be...

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Increased temporal binding during voluntary motor task under local anesthesia

Driller, K.K. (author), Fradet, C.A.S. (author), Mathijssen, Nina (author), Kraan, G.A. (author), Goossens, R.H.M. (author), Hayward, Vincent (author), Hartcher-O'Brien, J. (author)

Temporal binding refers to a systemic bias in the perceived time interval between two related events, most frequently voluntary motor actions and a subsequent sensory effect. An inevitable component of most instrumental motor actions is tactile feedback. Yet, the role of tactile feedback within this phenomenon remains largely unexplored. Here...

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Inflicted head-injury by shaking-trauma in infants: the importance of spatiotemporal variations of the head’s rotation center

Schiks, L.A.H. (author), Dankelman, J. (author), Loeve, A.J. (author)

Inflicted head injury by shaking trauma (IHI-ST) in infants is a type of abusive head trauma often simulated computationally to investigate causalities between violent shaking and injury. This is commonly done with the head’s rotation center kept fixed over time. However, due to the flexibility of the infant’s neck and the external shaking...

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Mastery and social position: Factors in negotiating urban social resilience

Benitez Avila, C.A. (author), Schuberth, Florian (author), Copeland, S.M. (author)

The pragmatic view of urban resilience has re-framed long-lasting social issues as chronic social stresses that can be addressed by building strong social networks in urban environments. This practice, inspired by disaster management, is problematic because it presupposes a community whose members share the same fate. Conversely, social...

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Non-invasive current collectors for improved current-density distribution during CO₂ electrolysis on super-hydrophobic electrodes

Iglesias van Montfort, H.P. (author), Li, Mengran (author), Irtem, I.E. (author), Abdinejad, M. (author), Wu, Yuming (author), Pal, S.K. (author), Sassenburg, M. (author), Ripepi, D. (author), Subramanian, S.S. (author), Biemolt, J. (author), Rufford, Thomas E. (author), Burdyny, T.E. (author)

Electrochemical reduction of CO₂ presents an attractive way to store renewable energy in chemical bonds in a potentially carbon-neutral way. However, the available electrolyzers suffer from intrinsic problems, like flooding and salt accumulation, that must be overcome to industrialize the technology. To mitigate flooding and salt...

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A multibody kinematic system approach for the design of shape-morphing mechanism-based metamaterials

de Jong, P.H. (author), Schwab, A.L. (author), Mirzaali, Mohammad J. (author), Zadpoor, A.A. (author)

Shape-morphing structures have the ability to adapt to various target shapes, offering significant advantages for many applications. However, predicting their behavior presents challenges. Here, we present a method to assess the shape-matching behavior of shape-morphing structures using a multibody systems approach wherein the structure is...

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The relevance of reducing Veress needle overshooting

Horeman, T. (author), Postema, R.R. (author), Fischer, T. (author), Calleja-Agius, J. (author), Camenzuli, C. (author), Alvino, L. (author), Hardon, S.F. (author), Bonjer, H. J. (author)

Safe insertion of the Veress needle during laparoscopy relies on the surgeons’ technical skills in order to stop needle insertion just in time to prevent overshooting in the underlying organs. To reduce this risk, a wide variety of Veress needle systems were developed with safety mechanisms that limit the insertion speed, insertion depth or...

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Physiological and stoichiometric characterization of ethanol-based chain elongation in the absence of short-chain carboxylic acids

Allaart, M.T. (author), Fox, B.B. (author), Nettersheim, I.H.M.S. (author), Pabst, Martin (author), Sousa, Diana Z. (author), Kleerebezem, R. (author)

Hexanoate is a valuable chemical that can be produced by microorganisms that convert short-chain- to medium-chain carboxylic acids through a process called chain elongation. These microorganisms usually produce mixtures of butyrate and hexanoate from ethanol and acetate, but direct conversion of ethanol to hexanoate is theoretically possible....

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Data-Enhanced Design: Engaging Designers in Exploratory Sensemaking with Multimodal Data

Gorkovenko, Katerina (author), Jenkins, Adam (author), Vaniea, Kami (author), Murray-Rust, D.S. (author)

Research in the wild can reveal human behaviors, contexts, and needs around products that are difficult to observe in the lab. Telemetry data from the use of physical products can help facilitate in the wild research, in particular by suggesting hypotheses that can be explored through machine learning models. This paper explores ways for...

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Autoregressive graph Volterra models and applications

Yang, Qiuling (author), Coutino, Mario (author), Leus, G.J.T. (author), Giannakis, Georgios B. (author)

Graph-based learning and estimation are fundamental problems in various applications involving power, social, and brain networks, to name a few. While learning pair-wise interactions in network data is a well-studied problem, discovering higher-order interactions among subsets of nodes is still not yet fully explored. To this end, encompassing...

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Membrane-based microfluidic solvent extraction of Ga-68 from aqueous Zn solutions: towards an automated cyclotron production loop

Trapp, S. (author), Lammers, Tom (author), Engudar, Gokce (author), Hoehr, Cornelia (author), Denkova, A.G. (author), Paulssen, E. (author), de Kruijff, R.M. (author)

Background: The radionuclide Ga-68 is commonly used in nuclear medicine, specifically in positron emission tomography (PET). Recently, the interest in producing Ga-68 by cyclotron irradiation of [⁶⁸Zn]Zn nitrate liquid targets is increasing. However, current purification methods of Ga-68 from the target solution consist of multi...

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Finding shortest and nearly shortest path nodes in large substantially incomplete networks by hyperbolic mapping

Kitsak, M.A. (author), Ganin, Alexander (author), Elmokashfi, Ahmed (author), Cui, Hongzhu (author), Eisenberg, Daniel A. (author), Alderson, David L. (author), Korkin, Dmitry (author), Linkov, Igor (author)

Dynamic processes on networks, be it information transfer in the Internet, contagious spreading in a social network, or neural signaling, take place along shortest or nearly shortest paths. Computing shortest paths is a straightforward task when the network of interest is fully known, and there are a plethora of computational algorithms for...

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High entropy liquid electrolytes for lithium batteries

Wang, Q. (author), Zhao, C. (author), Wang, Jianlin (author), Yao, Zhenpeng (author), Wang, Shuwei (author), Kumar, Sai Govind Hari (author), Ganapathy, S. (author), Eustace, S.J. (author), Wagemaker, M. (author)

High-entropy alloys/compounds have large configurational entropy by introducing multiple components, showing improved functional properties that exceed those of conventional materials. However, how increasing entropy impacts the thermodynamic/kinetic properties in liquids that are ambiguous. Here we show this strategy in liquid electrolytes...

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A Methodology to Develop Agent-Based Models for Policy Support Via Qualitative Inquiry

Nespeca, V. (author), Comes, M. (author), Brazier, F.M. (author)

Qualitative research is a powerful means to capture human interactions and behavior. Although there are different methodologies to develop models based on qualitative research, a methodology is missing that enables to strike a balance between the comparability across cases provided by methodologies that rely on a common and context...

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Steering the product spectrum in high-pressure anaerobic processes: CO₂ partial pressure as a novel tool in biorefinery concepts

Ceron Chafla, P.S. (author), de Vrieze, Jo (author), Rabaey, Korneel (author), van Lier, J.B. (author), Lindeboom, R.E.F. (author)

Background: Elevated CO₂ partial pressure (pCO₂) has been proposed as a potential steering parameter for selective carboxylate production in mixed culture fermentation. It is anticipated that intermediate product spectrum and production rates, as well as changes in the microbial community, are (in)directly influenced by...

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Sub-diffusion flow velocimetry with number fluctuation optical coherence tomography

Cheishvili, K. (author), Kalkman, J. (author)

We have implemented number fluctuation dynamic light scattering optical coherence tomography (OCT) for measuring extremely slow, sub-diffusion flows of dilute particle suspensions using the second-order autocovariance function. Our method has a lower minimum measurable velocity than conventional correlation-based OCT or phase-resolved Doppler...

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The Time Scale of Shallow Convective Self-Aggregation in Large-Eddy Simulations Is Sensitive to Numerics

Janssens, M. (author), Vilà-Guerau de Arellano, Jordi (author), van Heerwaarden, Chiel C. (author), van Stratum, Bart J.H. (author), de Roode, S.R. (author), Siebesma, A.P. (author), Glassmeier, F. (author)

Numerical simulations of the tropical mesoscales often exhibit a self-reinforcing feedback between cumulus convection and shallow circulations, which leads to the self-aggregation of clouds into large clusters. We investigate whether this basic feedback can be adequately captured by large-eddy simulations (LESs). To do so, we simulate the non...

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SHIP: identifying antimicrobial resistance gene transfer between plasmids

Carvalho Teixeira, M.T. (author), Pillay, S. (author), Urhan, A. (author), Abeel, T.E.P.M.F. (author)

Motivation: Plasmids are carriers for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes and can exchange genetic material with other structures, contributing to the spread of AMR. There is no reliable approach to identify the transfer of AMR genes across plasmids. This is mainly due to the absence of a method to assess the phylogenetic distance of...

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Going dark? Analysing the impact of end-to-end encryption on the outcome of Dutch criminal court cases

Hartel, P.H. (author), van Wegberg, R.S. (author)

Law enforcement agencies struggle with criminals using end-to-end encryption (E2EE). A recent policy paper states: “while encryption is vital and privacy and cyber security must be protected, that should not come at the expense of wholly precluding law enforcement”. The main argument is that E2EE hampers attribution and prosecution of...

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Historical Shifts in Seasonality and Timing of Extreme Precipitation

Gründemann, Gaby J. (author), Zorzetto, E. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author), van der Ent, R.J. (author)

Global warming impacts the hydrological cycle, affecting the seasonality and timing of extreme precipitation. Understanding historical changes in extreme precipitation occurrence is crucial for assessing their impacts. This study uses relative entropy to analyze historical changes in seasonality and timing of extreme daily precipitation...

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