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Wolfkamp, Wouter (author), Meijer, Joyce (author), van Hoeve, Jolanda C. (author), van Erning, Felice (author), de Geus-Oei, L.F. (author), de Hingh, Ignace (author), Veltman, Jeroen (author), Siesling, Sabine (author)Background: In the Netherlands, the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a temporary halt of population screening for cancer and limited hospital capacity for non-COVID care. We aimed to investigate the impact of the pandemic on the in-hospital diagnostic pathway of breast cancer (BC) and colorectal cancer (CRC). Methods: 71,159 BC and 48,900 CRC...journal article 2024
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Ton, D. (author), De Bruyn, Menno (author), Van Hagen, Mark (author), Duives, D.C. (author), van Oort, N. (author)Mobility patterns and transport systems have been heavily impacted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Public transport is impacted heavily, as governments worldwide advised against using it. This paper presents the data collection effort initiated by NS (Dutch Railways) and Delft University of Technology to capture changes in travel behavior,...journal article 2024
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Kowalski, Michał J. (author), Wang, T. (author), Kazak, Jan K. (author)The COVID-19 pandemic period brings huge uncertainty, especially for the real estate sector. On the one hand, restrictions on the mobility of a population, decline in travel demands, popularization of remote work and education models caused doubts among investors questioning the future of the sector and the functions of real estate. On the...journal article 2023
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Li, Meng (author), Chen, Yifei (author), Zhu, Liehaung (author), Zhang, Zijian (author), Ni, Jianbing (author), Lal, C. (author), Conti, M. (author)Many regions are in urgent need of facial masks for slowing down the spread of COVID-19. To fight the pandemic, people are contributing masks through donation systems. Most existing systems are built on a centralized architecture which is prone to the single point of failure and lack of transparency. Blockchain-based solutions neglect...journal article 2023
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Fielbaum, Andres (author), Ruiz, Felipe (author), Boccardo, Giorgio (author), Rubio, Daniela (author), Tirachini, Alejandro (author), Rosales-Salas, Jorge (author)Transport workers were among the most affected by the COVID-19 crisis. In several countries, public transport and delivery drivers were considered essential workers during the pandemic, while the demand changed dramatically. In this context, little is known about the actual effects of the pandemic on the lives of drivers, and whether those...journal article 2023
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Langeveld, J.G. (author), Schilperoort, Remy (author), Heijnen, Leo (author), Elsinga, Goffe (author), Schapendonk, Claudia E.M. (author), Fanoy, Ewout (author), de Schepper, Evelien I.T. (author), Koopmans, Marion P.G. (author), de Graaf, Miranda (author), Medema, G.J. (author)Over the course of the Corona Virus Disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020–2022, monitoring of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ribonucleic acid (SARS-CoV-2 RNA) in wastewater has rapidly evolved into a supplementary surveillance instrument for public health. Short term trends (2 weeks) are used as a basis for policy and...journal article 2023
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Ferguson, Thomas (author), Storm, S.T.H. (author)This article critically evaluates debates over the causes of U.S. inflation. We first show that claims that the Biden stimulus was the major cause of inflation are mistaken: the key data series—stimulus spending and inflation—move dramatically out of phase. While the first ebbs quickly, the second persistently surges. We then look at alternative...journal article 2023
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Kroesen, M. (author), Le, Huyen T.K. (author), De Vos, Jonas (author), Ton, Danique (author), de Bruyn, Menno (author)This study investigates whether the decline in public transit ridership is a temporary phenomenon or indicative of a structural shift in travel patterns and attitudes. We estimate a latent class trajectory model using data from a comprehensive and large-scale survey administered by the Dutch national train operator conducted at eight...journal article 2023
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Sparnaaij, M. (author), Yuan, Y. (author), Daamen, W. (author), Duives, D.C. (author)The Covid-19 pandemic has had a large impact on the world. The virus spreads especially easily among people in indoor spaces such as restaurants. Hence, tools that can assess how different restaurant settings can impact the potential spread of an airborne virus and that can assess the effectiveness of mitigation policies are of high value....journal article 2023
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Hadjisotiriou, Sophie (author), Marchau, V.A.W.J. (author), Walker, W.E. (author), Rikkert, Marcel Olde (author)Policymakers around the world were generally unprepared for the global COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, the virus has led to millions of cases and hundreds of thousands of deaths. Theoretically, the number of cases and deaths did not have to happen (as demonstrated by the results in a few countries). In this pandemic, as in other great disasters,...journal article 2023
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Park, S.Y. (author), Newton, C.E.L. (author), Lee, Rachel (author)The sudden adoption of working from home (WFH) during the COVID-19 pandemic has required the reconfiguration of home spaces to fit space for remote work into existing spaces already filled with other domestic functions. This resulted in blurring of home and work boundaries, the potential lack of space for telecommuting from home, and...journal article 2023
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Morawska, Lidia (author), Bahnfleth, William (author), Bluyssen, P.M. (author), Boerstra, Atze (author), Buonanno, Giorgio (author), Dancer, Stephanie J. (author), Floto, Andres (author), Franchimon, Francesco (author), Hogeling, Jaap (author)This is an account that should be heard of an important struggle: the struggle of a large group of experts who came together at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to warn the world about the risk of airborne transmission and the consequences of ignoring it. We alerted the World Health Organization about the potential significance of the...journal article 2023
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Kermavnar, T. (author), Visch, V.T. (author), Desmet, P.M.A. (author)Background: The COVID-19 pandemic introduced an urgent need for effective strategies to disseminate crucial knowledge and improve people’s subjective well-being. Complementing more conventional approaches to knowledge dissemination, game-based interventions were developed to create awareness and educate people about the pandemic, hoping to...journal article 2023
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Esmi, Nima (author), Golshan, Yasaman (author), Asadi, Sara (author), Shahbahrami, A. (author), Gaydadjiev, G. (author)The COVID-19 disease pandemic spread rapidly worldwide and caused extensive human death and financial losses. Therefore, finding accurate, accessible, and inexpensive methods for diagnosing the disease has challenged researchers. To automate the process of diagnosing COVID-19 disease through images, several strategies based on deep learning,...journal article 2023
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Adlakha, D. (author), HIggs, Carl (author), Sallis, James F. (author)In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, dubious assertions that population density increased spread of the virus led to premature and dangerous recommendations promoting suburban sprawl. In 2020, we published a commentary in Cities & Health to refute these recommendations. We hypothesized that features of activity-supportive...journal article 2023
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Eichengreen, Adva (author), Tsou, Yung Ting (author), Nasri, Maedeh (author), van Klaveren, Lisa Maria (author), Li, Boya (author), Koutamanis, A. (author), Baratchi, Mitra (author), Blijd-Hoogewys, Els (author), Kok, Joost (author), Rieffe, Carolien (author)Social connectedness at school is crucial to children's development, yet very little is known about the way it has been affected by school closures during COVID-19 pandemic. We compared pre-post lockdown levels of social connectedness at a school playground in forty-three primary school-aged children, using wearable sensors, observations,...journal article 2023
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Serrano Calvo, R. (author), Veefkind, j. Pepijn (author), Dix, Barbara (author), de Gouw, Joost (author), Levelt, Pieternel Felicitas (author)COVID-19 caused a historic collapse in fossil fuel demand, a general decline in economic activity, and hydrocarbon price volatility. This resulted in an unprecedented scenario to evaluate the contribution of the O&G (Oil and Gas) industry NO<sub>2</sub> (nitrogen dioxide) emissions in the Permian basin (United States), currently the...journal article 2023
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Wang, Z. (author), Aoun, J. (author), Szymula, Christopher (author), Bešinović, Nikola (author)The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed a dramatic effect on the mobility habits of both passengers and freight in the rail sector. Since the relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions worldwide, rail transport has been revitalised gradually. However, the new normal emerges with unprecedented issues, such as changed travel behaviour, lost profits, and a...journal article 2023
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Yap, M.D. (author), Wong, Howard (author), Cats, O. (author)It is important to understand how public transport passengers value on-board crowding since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The main contribution of this study is to derive the crowding valuation of public transport passengers in a post-pandemic era entirely based on observed, actual passenger route choices. We derive passengers’...journal article 2023
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Zehnder, Calvin (author), Béen, Frederic (author), Vojinovic, Zoran (author), Savic, Dragan (author), Torres, Arlex Sanchez (author), Mark, Ole (author), Zlatanovic, L. (author), Abebe, Y.A. (author)Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has been proven to be a useful tool in monitoring public health-related issues such as drug use, and disease. By sampling wastewater and applying WBE methods, wastewater-detectable pathogens such as viruses can be cheaply and effectively monitored, tracking people who might be missed or under-represented in...journal article 2023