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Doloman, Anna (author), de Bruin, S. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Sousa, Diana Z. (author), Lin, Y. (author)Glycans are crucial for the structure and function of anaerobic granular sludge in wastewater treatment. Yet, there is limited knowledge regarding the microorganisms and biosynthesis pathways responsible for glycan production. In this study, we analysed samples from anaerobic granular sludges treating papermill and brewery wastewater,...journal article 2024
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Nikolaev, Anton V. (author), Fang, Yitian (author), Essers, Jeroen (author), Panth, Kranthi M. (author), Ambagtsheer, Gisela (author), Clahsen-van Groningen, Marian C. (author), Minnee, Robert C. (author), van Soest, G. (author), de Bruin, Ron W.F. (author)Due to the shortage of kidneys donated for transplantation, surgeons are forced to use the organs with an elevated risk of poor function or even failure. Although the existing methods for pre-transplant quality evaluation have been validated over decades in population cohort studies across the world, new methods are needed as long as delayed...journal article 2024
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Biemolt, J. (author), Meeus, Eva J. (author), de Zwart, Felix J. (author), de Graaf, Jeen (author), Laan, Petrus C.M. (author), de Bruin, Bas (author), Burdyny, T.E. (author), Rothenberg, Gadi (author), Yan, Ning (author)Immobilizing molecular catalysts on electrodes is vital for electrochemical applications. However, creating robust electrode-catalyst interactions while maintaining good catalytic performance and rapid electron transfer is challenging. Here, without introducing any foreign elements, we show a bottom-up synthetic approach of constructing the...journal article 2023
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Fang, Yitian (author), van Ooijen, Lisanne (author), Ambagtsheer, Gisela (author), Nikolaev, Anton V. (author), Clahsen-van Groningen, Marian C. (author), Dankelman, J. (author), de Bruin, Ron W.F. (author), Minnee, Robert C. (author)Objectives: Normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) provides a platform for pre-transplant kidney quality assessment that is essential for the use of marginal donor kidneys. Laser speckle contrast imaging (LSCI) presents distinct advantages as a real-time and noncontact imaging technique for measuring microcirculation. In this study, we aimed to...journal article 2023
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Chen, L.M. (author), de Bruin, S. (author), Pronk, M. (author), Sousa, Diana Z. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Lin, Y. (author)Anaerobic and aerobic granular sludge processes are widely applied in wastewater treatment. In these systems, microorganisms grow in dense aggregates due to the production of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS). This study investigates the sialylation and sulfation of anionic glyconconjugates in anaerobic and aerobic granular sludges...journal article 2023
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Brauns, Fridtjof (author), Iñigo de la Cruz, L.M. (author), Daalman, W.K. (author), de Bruin, Ilse (author), Halatek, Jacob (author), Laan, L. (author), Frey, Erwin (author)How can a self-organized cellular function evolve, adapt to perturbations, and acquire new sub-functions? To make progress in answering these basic questions of evolutionary cell biology, we analyze, as a concrete example, the cell polarity machinery of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This cellular module exhibits an intriguing resilience: it...journal article 2023
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de Bruin, R. (author), Castellucci, Héctor I. (author)The chairs' editorial for the theme track 'Sound and Design'journal article 2022
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Adar, M.E. (author), de Bruin, R. (author), Keyson, D.V. (author)Whether it is from the office-office or the home office, creating a physical work environment is essential for both improving work performance as well as for the physical and mental wellbeing of employees. But as jobs are becoming increasingly less active, and working adults are spending almost a third of their lives in the office, most of their...conference paper 2022
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de Bruin, S. (author), Vasquez Cardenas, D. (author), Sarbu, S. M. (author), Meysman, F.J.R. (author), Sousa, D. Z. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Lin, Y. (author)Sulfated glycosaminoglycans (sGAG) are negatively charged extracellular polymeric substances that occur in biofilms from various environments. Yet, it remains unclear whether these polymers are acquired from the external environment or produced by microbes in the biofilm. To resolve this, we analyzed the presence of sGAGs in samples of an...journal article 2022
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Ronda-Lloret, M. (author), Slot, T. K. (author), van Leest, N. P. (author), de Bruin, B. (author), Sloof, W.G. (author), Batyrev, E. (author), Sepúlveda-Escribano, A. (author), Ramos-Fernandez, E. V. (author), Rothenberg, G. (author), Shiju, N. R. (author)MXenes are a new family of 2D carbides or nitrides that have attracted attention due to their layered structure, tunable surface groups and high electrical conductivity. Here, we report for the first time that the Ti<sub>2</sub>CT<sub>x</sub> MXene catalyses the selective oxidative dehydrogenation of n-butane to butenes and 1,3-butadiene....journal article 2022
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aan het Rot, H.N. (author), Kortmann, Rens (author), Verbraeck, A. (author), de Vries, G. (author), Kooreman, M. (author), de Bruin, B.J.E. (author)Tabletop games that require the aid of a human facilitator are typically designed for a physical environment. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdown measures prevented people from gathering. Therefore, tabletop games were sometimes played and facilitated in a mediated environment using online communication tools instead. But this...conference paper 2022
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de Zwart, Felix J. (author), Sinha, V. (author), Trincado, Monica (author), Grützmacher, Hansjörg (author), de Bruin, Bas (author)Homogeneous ruthenium catalysed methanol dehydrogenation could become a key reaction for hydrogen production in liquid fuel cells. In order to improve existing catalytic systems, mechanistic insight is paramount in directing future studies. Herein, we describe what computational mechanistic research has taught us so far about ruthenium...journal article 2022
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Mouter, N. (author), Jara, Karen Trujillo (author), Hernández, J.I. (author), Kroesen, M. (author), de Vries, M.O. (author), Geijsen, Tom (author), Kroese, Floor (author), Uiters, Ellen (author), de Bruin, Marijn (author)Background: The COVID-19 outbreak early 2020 was followed by an unprecedented package of measures. The relative calmness of the pandemic early 2022 provides a momentum to prepare for various scenarios. Objectives: As acceptance of COVID-19 measures is key for public support we investigated citizens’ preferences towards imposing measures in four...journal article 2022
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Klaassen, R.G. (author), de Bruin, B.J.E. (author)Often industry expects university graduates to hit the ground running. One way to deal with this expectation is to offer our graduates opportunities to collaborate with the industry - a collaboration to acquire theoretical skills and acumen in engineering practices and how a business works. Challenge-based learning environments intimated by...conference paper 2022
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Kreulen, Kurt (author), de Bruin, B. (author), Ghorbani, Amineh (author), Mellema, René (author), Kammler, Christian (author), Vanhee, Loïs (author), Dignum, Frank (author), Dignum, Virginia (author)Since its first appearance in Wuhan (China), countries have been employing, to varying degrees of success, a series of non-pharmaceutical interventions aimed at limiting the spread of SARS-CoV-2 within their populations. In this article, we build on scientific work that demonstrates that culture is part of the explanation for the observed...journal article 2022
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Padoan, R. (author), Klein, Marvin E. (author), Groves, R.M. (author), de Bruin, Gerrit (author), Steemers, Ted A.G. (author), Strlič, Matija (author)Ageing of historical documents often results in changes in the optical properties of the constituent materials. Imaging spectroscopy (IS) can be a valuable tool for monitoring of such changes, if the method fulfils two important conditions. Firstly, compared to natural ageing, the accumulated light dose from repeated measurements of the...journal article 2021
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de Bruin, T.D. (author)The arrival of intelligent, general-purpose robots that can learn to perform new tasks autonomously has been promised for a long time now. Deep reinforcement learning, which combines reinforcement learning with deep neural network function approximation, has the potential to enable robots to learn to perform a wide range of new tasks while...doctoral thesis 2020
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de Bruin, T.D. (author), Kober, J. (author), Tuyls, Karl (author), Babuska, R. (author)Deep reinforcement learning makes it possible to train control policies that map high-dimensional observations to actions. These methods typically use gradient-based optimization techniques to enable relatively efficient learning, but are notoriously sensitive to hyperparameter choices and do not have good convergence properties. Gradient...journal article 2020
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Dix, Barbara (author), de Bruin, Joep (author), Roosenbrand, E.J. (author), Vlemmix, T. (author), Francoeur, Colby (author), Gorchov-Negron, Alan (author), McDonald, Brian (author), Zhizhin, Mikhail (author), Elvidge, Christopher (author), Veefkind, j. Pepijn (author), Levelt, Pieternel Felicitas (author), de Gouw, Joost (author)U.S. oil and natural gas production volumes have grown by up to 100% in key production areas between January 2017 and August 2019. Here we show that recent trends are visible from space and can be attributed to drilling, production, and gas flaring activities. By using oil and gas activity data as predictors in a multivariate regression to...journal article 2020
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Taale, Henk (author), Wiersma, Bouke (author), de Bruin, Rudie (author)Eind 2018 werd het programma Beter Benutten Vervolg definitief afgerond met de publicatie van het evaluatierapport. Van 2015 tot 2017 zijn in 12 regio’s allerlei maatregelen geïmplementeerd, variërend van het verbeteren van bestaande fietsroutes tot optimalisatie van logistieke processen, en van het aanpassen van collegetijden van hogescholen...conference paper 2019