- document
-
Asveld, L. (author)Green and sustainable chemistry holds the promise of realising a sustainable society by providing environmentally friendly production processes. However until now the focus has been very much on reducing waste and hazards, while there is also a need to consider the broader societal impact of chemical innovations. This article presents three...review 2019
- document
-
Kas, R. (author), Ayemoba, Onagie (author), Firet, N.J. (author), Middelkoop, J. (author), Smith, W.A. (author), Cuesta, Angel (author)The field of electrochemical CO<sub>2</sub> conversion is undergoing significant growth in terms of the number of publications and worldwide research groups involved. Despite improvements of the catalytic performance, the complex reaction mechanisms and solution chemistry of CO<sub>2</sub> have resulted in a considerable amount of...review 2019
- document
-
Tepjit, S. (author), Horvath, I. (author), Rusak, Z. (author)Smart CPSs (S-CPSs) have been evolving beyond what was identified by the traditional definitions of CPSs. The objective of our research is to investigate the concepts and implementations of reasoning processes for S-CPSs, and more specifically, the frameworks proposed for the fuzzy front end of their reasoning mechanisms. The objectives of...review 2019
- document
-
Bentivoglio, Roberto (author), Isufi, E. (author), Jonkman, Sebastiaan N. (author), Taormina, R. (author)Deep learning techniques have been increasingly used in flood management to overcome the limitations of accurate, yet slow, numerical models and to improve the results of traditional methods for flood mapping. In this paper, we review 58 recent publications to outline the state of the art of the field, identify knowledge gaps, and propose future...review 2022
- document
-
Elfferich, J.F. (author), Dodou, D. (author), Della Santina, C. (author)Nowadays, harvesting delicate and high-value fruits, vegetables and edible fungi requires a large input of manual human labor. The relatively low wages and many health problems the workforce faces make this profession increasingly unpopular. Meanwhile, robotic systems that selectively harvest crops are being developed. Whilst the moving platform...review 2022
- document
-
Cohen, Keira A. (author), Manson, Abigail L. (author), Desjardins, Christopher A. (author), Abeel, T.E.P.M.F. (author), Earl, Ashlee M. (author)Tuberculosis (TB) is a global infectious threat that is intensified by an increasing incidence of highly drug-resistant disease. Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) studies of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of TB, have greatly increased our understanding of this pathogen. Since the first M. tuberculosis genome was published in 1998...review 2019
- document
-
de Fouw, Marlieke (author), Oosting, R.M. (author), Rutgrink, Amy (author), Dekkers, Olaf Matthijs (author), Peters, Alexander Arnold Willem (author), Beltman, Jogchum Jan (author)Background: Thermal coagulation is gaining popularity for treating cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) in screening programs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) due to unavailability of cryotherapy. Objectives: Assess the effectiveness of thermal coagulation for treatment of CIN lesions compared with cryotherapy, with a focus on...review 2019
- document
-
van Thoor, M.T.A. (author)The Rietveld Schröder House (1924) in Utrecht is the only private home among the ten UNE SCO World Heritage sites in the Netherlands. In 1987 it was opened to the public as a museum house and since 2013 it has been part of the collection of Utrecht's Centraal Museum. The world-famous house was designed by the architect Gerrit T. Rietveld ...review 2019
- document
-
Esen, Cansu (author), Kumru, B. (author)The utilization of sunlight to conduct chemistry has been on a stark rise in the era of sustainability. A similar trend is observed in polymer science, mainly to initiate polymerization and modify polymer materials, but mostly relying on the utilization of soluble initiator/activator molecules. Semiconductors, on the other hand, grant a...review 2022
- document
-
Angst, Ueli M. (author), Geiker, Mette R. (author), Alonso, Maria Cruz (author), Polder, R.B. (author), Elsener, Bernhard (author), Wong, Hong (author), Michel, Alexander (author), Hornbostel, Karla (author), Sanchez, Mercedes (author)The steel–concrete interface (SCI) is known to influence corrosion of steel in concrete. However, due to the numerous factors affecting the SCI—including steel properties, concrete properties, execution, and exposure conditions—it remains unclear which factors have the most dominant impact on the susceptibility of reinforced concrete to...review 2019
- document
-
Berrio, Shyrle (author), Barrero, Lope H. (author), Zambrano, Laura (author), Papadimitriou, E. (author)Comprehension of traffic signs is important to road safety. This review aims to study the extent to which road users in different countries comprehend traffic signs and to identify which ergonomic principles in traffic sign design can affect the levels of comprehension. We conducted an extensive literature review dealing with comprehension of...review 2022
- document
-
Tanner, Florian (author), Tonn, Sebastian (author), de Wit, J. (author), Van den Ackerveken, Guido (author), Berger, Bettina (author), Plett, Darren (author)Plant pathogens cause yield losses in crops worldwide. Breeding for improved disease resistance and management by precision agriculture are two approaches to limit such yield losses. Both rely on detecting and quantifying signs and symptoms of plant disease. To achieve this, the field of plant phenotyping makes use of non-invasive sensor...review 2022
- document
-
Bogaard, T.A. (author), Greco, R. (author)Many shallow landslides and debris flows are precipitation initiated. Therefore, regional landslide hazard assessment is often based on empirically derived precipitation intensity-duration (ID) thresholds and landslide inventories. Generally, two features of precipitation events are plotted and labeled with (shallow) landslide occurrence or...review 2018
- document
-
van Manen, T. (author), Janbaz, S. (author), Zadpoor, A.A. (author)Shape-shifting of flat materials into the desired 3D configuration is an alternative design route for fabrication of complex 3D shapes, which provides many benefits such as access to the flat material surface and the ability to produce well-described motions. The advanced production techniques that primarily work in 2D could then be used to...review 2018
- document
-
Tonin, F. (author), Arends, I.W.C.E. (author)Ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) is a pharmaceutical ingredient widely used in clinics. As bile acid it solubilizes cholesterol gallstones and improves the liver function in case of cholestatic diseases. UDCA can be obtained from cholic acid (CA), which is the most abundant and least expensive bile acid available. The now available chemical routes...review 2018
- document
-
Sheldon, R.A. (author)The pressing need for climate change mitigation has focused attention on reducing global emissions of carbon dioxide by effectuating the transition from fossil-based chemicals manufacture to a carbon neutral alternative based on lignocellulosic waste. The first step involves fractionation of the lignocellulose into cellulose, hemicellulose,...review 2018
- document
-
Navarro, Laetitia M. (author), Fernandez, Nestor (author), Guerra, Carlos (author), Guralnick, Rob (author), Kissling, W. Daniel (author), Londono, Maria Cecilia (author), Muller-Karger, Frank (author), Turak, Eren (author), El Serafy, G.Y.H. (author), Balvanera, Patricia (author)The ability to monitor changes in biodiversity, and their societal impact, is critical to conserving species and managing ecosystems. While emerging technologies increase the breadth and reach of data acquisition, monitoring efforts are still spatially and temporally fragmented, and taxonomically biased. Appropriate long-term information...review 2017
- document
-
Nikzad, Shouleh (author), Hoenk, Michael (author), Jewell, April D. (author), Hennessy, John J. (author), Carver, Alexander G. (author), Jones, Todd J, (author), Goodsall, Timothy M. (author), Hamden, Erika T. (author), Bulmer, J. (author), Charbon-Iwasaki-Charbon, E. (author), Padmanabhan, Preethi (author), Hancock, Bruce (author), Bell, L. Douglas (author)Ultraviolet (UV) studies in astronomy, cosmology, planetary studies, biological and medical applications often require precision detection of faint objects and in many cases require photon-counting detection. We present an overview of two approaches for achieving photon counting in the UV. The first approach involves UV enhancement of photon...review 2016
- document
-
Busch, H. (author), Hagedoorn, P.L. (author), Hanefeld, U. (author)The application of purified enzymes as well as whole-cell biocatalysts in synthetic organic chemistry is becoming more and more popular, and both academia and industry are keen on finding and developing novel enzymes capable of performing otherwise impossible or challenging reactions. The diverse genus Rhodococcus offers a multitude of...review 2019
- document
-
Bruschini, Claudio (author), Homulle, Harald (author), Antolović, I.M. (author), Burri, S. (author), Charbon-Iwasaki-Charbon, E. (author)Single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) arrays are solid-state detectors that offer imaging capabilities at the level of individual photons, with unparalleled photon counting and time-resolved performance. This fascinating technology has progressed at a very fast pace in the past 15 years, since its inception in standard CMOS technology in 2003....review 2019