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van Altena, V.P. (author), Krans, Jan (author), Bakker, Henk (author), Stoter, J.E. (author)The appearance of ουδα » αν in the table of nations (Acts 2:9-11) has troubled interpreters for centuries. Several scholars have proposed to emendate the text. The argumentations for such conjectures vary in elaboration and support. This article gives a diachronic overview of the conjectured emendations. It concludes with an evaluation of the...review 2020
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Boyce, William Paul (author), Lindsay, Anthony (author), Zgonnikov, A. (author), Rañó, Iñaki (author), Wong-Lin, Kong Fatt (author)Multimodal integration is an important process in perceptual decision-making. In humans, this process has often been shown to be statistically optimal, or near optimal: sensory information is combined in a fashion that minimizes the average error in perceptual representation of stimuli. However, sometimes there are costs that come with the...review 2020
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Anyansi, C.A. (author), Straub, Timothy J. (author), Manson, Abigail L. (author), Earl, Ashlee M. (author), Abeel, T.E.P.M.F. (author)Metagenomic sequencing is a powerful tool for examining the diversity and complexity of microbial communities. Most widely used tools for taxonomic profiling of metagenomic sequence data allow for a species-level overview of the composition. However, individual strains within a species can differ greatly in key genotypic and phenotypic...review 2020
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French, P.J. (author)In-vivo sensors yield valuable medical information by measuring directly on the living tissue of a patient. These devices can be surface or implant devices. Electrical activity in the body, from organs or muscles can be measured using surface electrodes. For short term internal devices, catheters are used. These include cardiac catheter (in...review 2020
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de Kruijff, R.M. (author)A recent addition to the treatment options in external beam therapy, so-called FLASH radiotherapy, shows remarkable healthy-tissue-sparing properties in a number of pre-clinical studies without impacting the overall treatment efficacy. Its potential in clinical applications is attracting a great deal of interest in the medical community. The...review 2019
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Milchram, C. (author), Märker, Carolin (author), Schlör, Holger (author), Kunneke, R.W. (author), van de Kaa, G. (author)The current transition towards low-carbon energy systems does not only involve changes in technologies but is also shaped by changes in the rules and regulations (i.e., the institutions) that govern energy systems. Institutional change can be influenced by changes in core values - normative principles such as affordability, security of supply...review 2019
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Tscheikner-Gratl, Franz (author), Caradot, Nicolas (author), Cherqui, Frederic (author), Leitão, Joao P. (author), Langeveld, J.G. (author), Scholten, L. (author), Lepot, M.J. (author), Stegeman, B. (author), Clemens, F.H.L.R. (author)Sewer asset management gained momentum and importance in recent years due to economic considerations, since infrastructure maintenance and rehabilitation directly represent major investments. Because physical urban water infrastructure has life expectancies of up to 100 years or more, contemporary urban drainage systems are strongly influenced...review 2019
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Lam, K.L. (author), Zlatanovic, L. (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author)Recovering resources from wastewater systems is increasingly being emphasised. Many technologies exist or are under development for recycling nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater to agriculture. Planning and design methodologies are needed to identify and deploy the most sustainable solutions in given contexts. For the...review 2020
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Marsden, S.R. (author), Mestrom, L. (author), McMillan, D.G.G. (author), Hanefeld, U. (author)The enzymatic synthesis of esters and peptides is unfavoured in aqueous solvent systems due to competing hydrolysis. This can be overcome by using energy rich substrate analogues: elimination of a good leaving group temporarily establishes more favourable equilibrium conditions, allowing for (nearly) complete conversion. While kinetically...review 2019
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Hanna, Edward (author), Pattyn, Frank (author), Navarro, Francisco (author), Favier, Vincent (author), Goelzer, Heiko (author), van den Broeke, Michiel R. (author), Vizcaino, M. (author), Whitehouse, Pippa L. (author), Ritz, Catherine (author)Recent research shows increasing decadal ice mass losses from the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets and more generally from glaciers worldwide in the light of continued global warming. Here, in an update of our previous ISMASS paper (Hanna et al., 2013), we review recent observational estimates of ice sheet and glacier mass balance, and...review 2020
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Douw, Linda (author), Dellen, van, Edwin (author), Gouw, Alida A. (author), Griffa, Alessandra (author), de Haan, Willem (author), van den Heuvel, Martijn (author), Hillebrand, Arjan (author), Van Mieghem, P.F.A. (author), Nissen, Ida A. (author)Clinical network neuroscience, the study of brain network topology in neurological and psychiatric diseases, has become a mainstay field within clinical neuroscience. Being a multidisciplinary group of clinical network neuroscience experts based in The Netherlands, we often discuss the current state of the art and possible avenues for future...review 2019
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Mittempergher, Silvia (author), Succo, Andrea (author), Bistacchi, Andrea (author), Storti, Fabrizio (author), Bruna, P.B.R. (author), Meda, Marco (author)The sedimentary succession exposed in the Northern Dalmatia Islands mainly consists of Cretaceous to Neogene shallow water carbonates, folded and imbricated within the External Dinarides thrust belt. During Cretaceous times, carbonate sediments were deposed on a heterogeneous, tectonically-influenced carbonate platform, which was then uplifted...review 2019
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Peters, J.A. (author), Djanashvili, K. (author), Geraldes, Carlos F.G.C. (author), Platas-Iglesias, Carlos (author)In the periodical system, the lanthanides (the 15 elements in the periodic table between barium and hafnium) are unique in the sense that their trivalent cations have their valence electrons hidden behind the 5s and 5p electrons. They show a gradual decrease in ionic radius with increasing atomic number (also known as the lanthanide...review 2020
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Vakulchuk, Roman (author), Overland, Indra (author), Scholten, D.J. (author)This article reviews the literature on the geopolitics of renewable energy. It finds that while the roots of this literature can be traced back to the 1970s and 1980s, most of it has been published from 2010 onwards. The following aggregate conclusions are extracted from the literature: renewable energy has many advantages over fossil fuels...review 2020
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Eelkema, R. (author), Pich, Andrij (author)Hydrogels are fascinating soft materials with unique properties. Many biological systems are based on hydrogel-like structures, underlining their versatility and relevance. The properties of hydrogels strongly depend on the structure of the building blocks they are composed of, as well as the nature of interactions between them in the network...review 2020
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Cuellar, Maria C. (author), Straathof, Adrie J.J. (author)Downstream processing aims at recovering the target product at the required specifications from the bioreactor effluent. Research and development in this field relies on experimental and mathematical tools at the levels of chemical components, unit operations and processes. Recently, advances have been made in addressing the broth mixture...review 2020
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Ahmad, Arslan (author), van der Wens, Patrick (author), Baken, Kirsten (author), de Waal, Luuk (author), Bhattacharya, Prosun (author), Stuyfzand, Pieter Jan (author)Arsenic (As) is a highly toxic element which naturally occurs in drinking water. In spite of substantial evidence on the association between many illnesses and chronic consumption of As, there is still a considerable uncertainty about the health risks due to low As concentrations in drinking water. In the Netherlands, drinking water companies...review 2020
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Callens, S.J.P. (author), Uyttendaele, Rafael J.C. (author), Fratila-Apachitei, E.L. (author), Zadpoor, A.A. (author)Recent evidence clearly shows that cells respond to various physical cues in their environments, guiding many cellular processes and tissue morphogenesis, pathology, and repair. One aspect that is gaining significant traction is the role of local geometry as an extracellular cue. Elucidating how geometry affects cell and tissue behavior is,...review 2020
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Schrijvers, Dieuwertje (author), Hool, Alessandra (author), Blengini, Gian Andrea (author), Chen, Wei Qiang (author), Dewulf, Jo (author), Eggert, Roderick (author), van Ellen, L.A. (author), Gauss, Roland (author), Goddin, James (author), Peck, David (author)The assessment of the criticality of raw materials allows the identification of the likelihood of a supply disruption of a material and the vulnerability of a system (e.g. a national economy, technology, or company) to this disruption. Inconclusive outcomes of various studies suggest that criticality assessments would benefit from the...review 2020
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Choi, Deung Jang (author), Lorente, Nicolas (author), Wiebe, Jens (author), Von Bergmann, Kirsten (author), Otte, A. F. (author), Heinrich, Andreas J. (author)Magnetism at low dimensions is a thriving field of research with exciting opportunities in technology. This Colloquium focuses on the properties of 1D magnetic systems on solid surfaces. From the emulation of 1D quantum phases to the potential realization of Majorana edge states, spin chains are unique systems to study. The advent of scanning...review 2019