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van den Berg, D.F. (author), van der Steen, B.A. (author), Martins Costa, A.R. (author), Brouns, S.J.J. (author)Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) in bacteriophage genomes are widespread across bacterial host genera, but their exact function has remained unclear for more than 50 years. Several hypotheses have been proposed, and the most widely accepted one is codon compensation, which suggests that phages encode tRNAs that supplement codons that are less frequently...journal article 2023
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van den Berg, T.G.C. (author), Corrias, Luigi Dennis Alessandro (author)Within the empirical study of moral decision making, people’s morality is often identified by measuring general moral values through a questionnaire, such as the Moral Foundations Questionnaire provided by Moral Foundations Theory (MFT). However, the success of these moral values in predicting people’s behaviour has been disappointing. The...journal article 2023
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Bhoopalam, Anirudh Kishore (author), van den Berg, Roy (author), Agatz, Niels (author), Chorus, C.G. (author)Work towards making automated driving systems a reality is well underway. In this study, we look at what is likely to be one of the first widespread implementations of a form of automated driving on public roads, i.e., truck platooning, where virtually connected trucks drive at short headways to save fuel and associated emissions. With...journal article 2023
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Pronk, Tessa E. (author), Fischer, A. (author), van den Berg, Annemijne E.T. (author), Hofman, Roberta C.H.M. (author)A main focus of water managers with regard to micropollutants is the protection of aquatic ecology. However, micropollutants also have the potential to affect the production of clean drinking water. In this paper, we propose to consider the removal effort when assessing micro-pollutants with an ‘Effort Index’ (EI). Assessments using the EI...journal article 2023
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van den Berg, A. (author), de Vries, B. (author), Breedveld, Z.A. (author), van Mierlo, A.M.A. (author), Tijhuis, M.J. (author), Marchal Crespo, L. (author)Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) has gained popularity in neurorehabilitation for its potential to increase patients’ motivation and engagement. A crucial yet relatively unexplored aspect of IVR interfaces is the patients’ representation in the virtual world, such as with an avatar. A higher level of embodiment over avatars has been shown to...journal article 2023
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Sonneveld, J.S. (author), van den Berg, T. (author), la Rocca, G. (author), Valencia Ibáñez, S. (author), van Manen, B. (author), Bruggeman, A.M.R.M. (author), Beijer, B. (author)This paper discusses the approach for architecture design space optimization of aeronautical systems investigated in the DEFAINE project. In system architecture optimization problems, hierarchical relations between design variables may exist. This means that the quantity and type of some variables are dependent on the value of other variables....conference paper 2023
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van den Berg, M. (author), Stoorvogel, Marte (author), Schoutens, Ken (author), van den Hoven, Kim (author), Rikkert, S.J.H. (author), Herman, P.M.J. (author), Aarninkhof, S.G.J. (author)Coastal defences such as dikes are increasingly pressured by climate change. Increasing storm surge, extreme rainfall and periods of draught requires evermore strengthening of dikes to maintain flood risk standards. Conventional dike strengthening (i.e., heightening and/or widening) will be either structurally or financially unfeasible. Therefor...abstract 2023
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van den Berg, D. (author), Izelaar, B. (author), Fu, S. (author), Kortlever, R. (author)Most research into electrochemical CO2 conversion focusses on improving electrode materials, but neglects the role of the electrolyte. We show the buffer influence on the selectivity of a bimetallic gold–palladium electrode in an effort to elucidate observed inconsistencies between different studies. While hydrocarbons are produced in the...journal article 2023
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Szép, T. (author), van den Berg, T.G.C. (author), Cointe, Nicolas (author), Daniel, Aemiro Melkamu (author), Martinho, Andreia (author), Tang, Tanzhe (author), Chorus, C.G. (author)Social routing schemes are widely regarded as promising tools to reduce traffic congestion in urban networks. We contribute to the growing literature on such schemes and their effect on travel behavior, by exploring the interaction between the characteristics and framing of the scheme on the one hand, and travelers' moral personality and moral...journal article 2023
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Japaridze, A. (author), van Wee, R.G. (author), Gogou, C. (author), Kerssemakers, J.W.J. (author), van den Berg, D.F. (author), Dekker, C. (author)The bacterial chromosome is spatially organized through protein-mediated compaction, supercoiling, and cell-boundary confinement. Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes (SMC) complexes are a major class of chromosome-organizing proteins present throughout all domains of life. Here, we study the role of the Escherichia coli SMC complex MukBEF...journal article 2023
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van den Berg, Cyntha M. (author), Volkov, V. (author), Schnorrenberg, Sebastian (author), Huang, Ziqiang (author), Stecker, Kelly E. (author), Grigoriev, Ilya (author), Gilani, Sania (author), Frikstad, Kari Anne M. (author), Dogterom, A.M. (author)Microtubules are dynamic cytoskeletal polymers, and their organization and stability are tightly regulated by numerous cellular factors. While regulatory proteins controlling the formation of interphase microtubule arrays and mitotic spindles have been extensively studied, the biochemical mechanisms responsible for generating stable...journal article 2023
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Pijnappel, T.R. (author), van den Berg, J.L. (author), Borst, S.C. (author), Litjens, R. (author)Reliable mobile communications is of critical importance, and should be maintained even in case of extremely crowded events or emergency scenarios. In such scenarios the deployment of drone-mounted base stations offers an agile and cost-efficient way to sustain coverage and/or provide capacity relief. In this paper we develop an analytical...conference paper 2023
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Herrera-Semenets, Vitali (author), Bustio-Martínez, Lázaro (author), Hernández-León, Raudel (author), van den Berg, Jan (author)Decision trees are one of the most popular structures for decision-making and the representation of a set of rules. However, when a rule set is represented as a decision tree, some quirks in its structure may negatively affect its performance. For example, duplicate sub-trees and rule filters, that need to be evaluated more than once, could...conference paper 2023
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Rivera-Arbeláez, José M. (author), Keekstra, Danjel (author), Cofiño-Fabres, Carla (author), Boonen, Tom (author), Dostanic, M. (author), ten Den, Simone A. (author), Vermeul, Kim (author), Mastrangeli, Massimo (author), van den Berg, A (author)The high rate of drug withdrawal from the market due to cardiovascular toxicity or lack of efficacy, the economic burden, and extremely long time before a compound reaches the market, have increased the relevance of human in vitro models like human (patient-derived) pluripotent stem cell (hPSC)-derived engineered heart tissues (EHTs) for the...journal article 2023
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Mahler, M.S. (author), Malone Portu, L.M. (author), van den Berg, D.F. (author), Smith, Leah M. (author), Brouns, S.J.J. (author), Fineran, Peter C. (author)Serratia sp. ATCC 39006 is a Gram-negative bacterium that has been used to study the function of phage defences, such as CRISPR-Cas, and phage counter-defence mechanisms. To expand our phage collection to study the phage-host interaction with Serratia sp. ATCC 39006, we isolated the T4-like myovirus LC53 in Ōtepoti Dunedin, Aotearoa New...journal article 2023
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- Wamelink, J.W.F. (author), Heesbeen, Charlotte (author), van den Berg, Marc (author), Feller, Roger (author), Ouwerkerk, Hans (author), Terwel, K.C. (author) book 2023
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van den Berg, L. (author)A large part of the wastewater produced worldwide is discharged without any treatment. This has several negative consequences, including the spread of diseases and contamination of the environment. One method to treat wastewater is called aerobic granular sludge (AGS), an advanced, compact technology that uses granules. Granules are spherical...doctoral thesis 2022
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de Bruijn, Douwe S. (author), ten Eikelder, Henricus R.A. (author), Papadimitriou, V. (author), Olthuis, Wouter (author), van den Berg, Albert (author)The assessment of particle and cell size in electrical microfluidic flow cytometers has become common practice. Nevertheless, in flow cytometers with coplanar electrodes accurate determination of particle size is difficult, owing to the inhomogeneous electric field. Pre-defined signal templates and compensation methods have been introduced to...journal article 2022
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van den Berg, M.A. (author), Owen, C.C. (author), Hendrikse, H. (author)This study analyses the results from basin tests with a vertically sided cylindrical pile loaded by ice failing in crushing. Tests were performed with a ‘rigid’ structure and with structural models representing a series of single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) oscillators covering a wide range of mass, frequency, and damping values. The structural...journal article 2022
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Schoutens, Ken (author), Stoorvogel, Marte (author), van den Berg, M. (author), van den Hoven, Kim (author), Bouma, Tjeerd J. (author), Aarninkhof, S.G.J. (author), Herman, P.M.J. (author), van Loon-Steensma, Jantsje M. (author), Meire, Patrick (author)Nature-based strategies, such as wave attenuation by tidal marshes, are increasingly proposed as a complement to mitigate the risks of failure of engineered flood defense structures such as levees. However, recent analysis of historic coastal storms revealed smaller dike breach dimensions if there were natural, high tidal marshes in front of...journal article 2022