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Endendijk, Thijs (author), Botzen, W.J. Wouter (author), de Moel, Hans (author), Aerts, Jeroen C.J.H. (author), Duijndam, Sem J. (author), Slager, Kymo (author), Kolen, B. (author), Kok, M. (author)This study provides an overview of the impact of the 2021 Summer floods in the Netherlands and the assessment of the effectiveness of various adaptation measures, evacuation strategies, and their impact on society. The floods were characterized by record rainfall in the cross-border region of the Meuse and Rhine basins and resulted in...journal article 2023
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Educational level and its relationship with body height and popliteal height in Chilean male workersViviani, C. (author), Castellucci, H. I. (author), Arezes, P.M. (author), Bartsch, Angelo (author), Bragança, S. (author), Molenbroek, J.F.M. (author), Martínez, Marta (author), Aparici, V. (author)A secular trend in body height has been experienced in many nations and populations, hypothesized to be the result of better living conditions. Educational level has been shown to be closely associated with body height. This study examined the changes in body height and popliteal height in a group of adult Chilean male workers by age cohort and...journal article 2019
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Electronic assistive technology for community-dwelling solo-living older adults: A systematic reviewSong, Y. (author), van der Cammen, T.J.M. (author)The proportion of older adults who live alone in single households is growing continuously. In the care of these solo-living older adults, electronic assistive technology (EAT) can play an important role. The objective of this review is to investigate the effects of EAT on the wellbeing of community-dwelling older adults living alone in...journal article 2019
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Danckaers, Femke (author), Huysmans, T. (author), Hallemans, Ann (author), De Bruyne, Guido (author), Truijen, Steven (author), Sijbers, Jan (author)For product developers that design near-body products, virtual mannequins that represent realistic body shapes, are valuable tools. With statistical shape modelling, the variability of such body shapes can be described. Shape variation captured by statistical shape models (SSMs) is often polluted by posture variations, leading to less compact...journal article 2019
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Sylvestre, E. (author), Jahne, Michael A. (author), Reynaert, Eva (author), Morgenroth, Eberhard (author), Julian, Timothy R. (author)Greywater reuse is a strategy to address water scarcity, necessitating the selection of treatment processes that balance cost-efficiency and human health risks. A key aspect in evaluating these risks is understanding pathogen contamination levels in greywater, a complex task due to intermittent pathogen occurrences. To address this, faecal...journal article 2024
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Martin Saint-Laurence, P.M. (author), Aguilar, C. (author), Cabrera, J. M. (author)Refractory high-entropy alloys (RHEAs) are promising candidates for those applications requiring of strong materials at high temperatures with elevated thermal stability and excellent oxidation, irradiation, and corrosion resistance. Particularly, RHEAs synthesized using mechanical alloying (MA) followed by spark plasma sintering (SPS) has...journal article 2024
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Kollom, Kaire (author), Tammets, Kairit (author), Scheffel, Maren (author), Tsai, Yi-Shan (author), Jivet, I. (author), Muñoz-Merino, Pedro J. (author), Moreno-Marcos, Pedro Manuel (author), Whitelock-Wainwright, Alexander (author), Calleja, Adolfo Ruiz (author)The purpose of this paper is to explore the expectations of academic staff to learning analytics services from an ideal as well as a realistic perspective. This mixed-method study focused on a cross-case analysis of staff from Higher Education Institutions from four European universities (Spain, Estonia, Netherlands, UK). While there are some...journal article 2021
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Albaba, Adnan (author), Simões-Capela, Neide (author), Wang, Yuyang (author), Hendriks, R.C. (author), De Raedt, Walter (author), Van Hoof, Chris (author)Background and objective: Long-term electrocardiogram monitoring comes at the expense of signal quality. During unconstrained movements, the electrocardiogram is often corrupted by motion artefacts, which can lead to inaccurate physiological information. In this situation, automated quality assessment methods are useful to increase the...journal article 2021
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Guo, Y. (author), Sharma, S. (author), Kumar, Siddhant (author)Smooth and curved microstructural topologies found in nature—from soap films to trabecular bone—have inspired several mimetic design spaces for architected metamaterials and bio-scaffolds. However, the design approaches so far are ad hoc, raising the challenge: how to systematically and efficiently inverse design such artificial...journal article 2024
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Dashtabi, Mahdi Mozdoor (author), Khoshmehr, Mohammad Talebi (author), Nikbakht, Hamed (author), Lopez Rodriguez, B. (author), Sharma, N. (author), Esmaeil Zadeh, I.Z. (author), Akca, B. Imran (author)Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are enabling breakthroughs in several areas, including quantum computing, neuromorphic processors, wearable devices, and more. Nevertheless, existing PIC measurement methods lack the spectral precision, speed, and sensitivity required for refining current applications and exploring new frontiers such as...journal article 2024
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Vijai Kumar, S. (author), Vuik, Cornelis (author)We present a simple and fast algorithm for computing the exact holes in discrete two-dimensional manifolds embedded in a threedimensional Euclidean space. We deal with the intentionally created "through holes" or "tunnel holes" in the geometry as opposed to missing triangles. The algorithm detects the holes in the geometry directly without...journal article 2021
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Nederhoff, C.M. (author), Leijnse, Tim W.B. (author), Parker, Kai (author), Thomas, Jennifer (author), O’Neill, Andrea (author), van Ormondt, Maarten (author), McCall, Robert (author), Erikson, Li (author), Barnard, Patrick L. (author)Subtropical coastlines are impacted by both tropical and extratropical cyclones. While both may lead to substantial damage to coastal communities, it is difficult to determine the contribution of tropical cyclones to coastal flooding relative to that of extratropical cyclones. We conduct a large-scale flood hazard and impact assessment across...journal article 2024
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Chen, Y. (author), Nijhuis, S. (author), van Dorst, M.J. (author)Numerous studies show the benefits of wilderness to humans and the environment. Therefore, preserving and developing wilderness areas within urban settings are crucial to combat and mitigate challenges like biodiversity decline resulting from urbanization. According to previous studies, human-wilderness interactions can be contradictory, e.g.,...journal article 2024
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Liu, Z. (author), Liu, Haipei (author), Vera, Andrés M. (author), Yang, Byeongseon (author), Tinnefeld, Philip (author), Nash, Michael A. (author)Catch bonds are a rare class of protein-protein interactions where the bond lifetime increases under an external pulling force. Here, we report how modification of anchor geometry generates catch bonding behavior for the mechanostable Dockerin G:Cohesin E (DocG:CohE) adhesion complex found on human gut bacteria. Using AFM single-molecule...journal article 2024
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Sugano, Keisuke (author), Lu, Simo (author), Hooimeijer, F.L. (author), van de Ven, F.H.M. (author)Within the global transition to sustainable urban water management, Dutch polder cities are also contemplating revitalising their water traditions. One of the keys to this task is to integrate water management into urban design, which is explored but not yet practically instrumentalized in the urban design process. This article introduces the...journal article 2024
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Angst, Ueli M. (author), Rossi, Emanuele (author), Boschmann Käthler, Carolina (author), Mannes, David (author), Trtik, Pavel (author), Elsener, Bernhard (author), Zhou, Z. (author), Strobl, Markus (author)The steel–concrete interface (SCI) is known to play a major role in corrosion of steel in concrete, but a fundamental understanding is still lacking. One reason is that concrete’s opacity complicates the study of internal processes. Here, we report on the application of bimodal X-ray and neutron microtomography as in-situ imaging techniques...journal article 2024
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Cheng, Peiyao (author), Mugge, R. (author), de Bont, Cees J.P.M. (author)Designers are frequently involved in embodying product innovations. It is challenging to embody really new products (RNPs) because<br/>consumers often have difficulty comprehending them. This study explores the value of visual complexity for designing RNPs. In study 1, an experiment was conducted (n = 77) to test the effects of visual complexity...journal article 2020
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Karatsoli, Maria (author), Nathanail, Eftihia (author), Basbas, Socrates (author), Cats, O. (author)The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted people's everyday lives, as avoiding being in crowded places became the number one societal rule. Crowdedness has therefore increasingly affected decisions such as a place visit via a specific path, the selection of a public transport stop, itinerary, etc., thereby making related information increasingly...journal article 2024
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Palepšienė, Rūta (author), Muralidharan, A. (author), Maciulevičius, Martynas (author), Ruzgys, Paulius (author), Chopra, S. (author), Boukany, P. (author), Šatkauskas, Saulius (author)RNA interference (RNAi) is a powerful and rapidly developing technology that enables precise silencing of genes of interest. However, the clinical development of RNAi is hampered by the limited cellular uptake and stability of the transferred molecules. Electroporation (EP) is an efficient and versatile technique for the transfer of both RNA...journal article 2024
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Kolagar, M. (author), Parida, Vinit (author), Sjödin, David (author)Manufacturing firms are increasingly seeking to capture the potential of digitalization by transforming towards digital servitization. Yet, most manufacturers struggle to realize the value through digital servitization because it requires a sustained focus on forming ecosystem partnerships. Digital servitization research has long recognized the...journal article 2022