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Zapata Arango, Mateo (author), Hoppe, T. (author), Itten, A.V. (author), Blok, K. (author)Background<br/>At the COP21, cities were recognised as key actors in combatting climate change. In supporting cities, climate city networks such as transnational climate networks (TCNs) and national climate networks (NCNs) have emerged to enable cities in building capacities and formulating climate policy whilst also encouraging citizen...journal article 2024
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Moosabeiki, Vahid (author), Yarali, E. (author), Ghalayaniesfahani, A. (author), Callens, S.J.P. (author), van Manen, T. (author), Accardo, A. (author), Ghodrat, S. (author), Bico, José (author), Habibi, Mehdi (author), Mirzaali, Mohammad J. (author), Zadpoor, A.A. (author)Emerging 4D printing techniques have enabled the realization of smart materials whose shape or properties can change with time. Two important phenomena play important roles in the 4D printing of shape memory polymeric materials. First, the anisotropic deformation of the printed filaments due to residual stresses can be harnessed to create out...journal article 2024
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Christiaanse, Jakob (author), Antolínez, José A. Á. (author), Luijendijk, Arjen (author), Athanasiou, Panagiotis (author), Duarte, Carlos M. (author), Aarninkhof, S.G.J. (author)Climate change and human activity threaten sea turtle nesting beaches through increased flooding and erosion. Understanding the environmental characteristics that enable nesting can aid to preserve and expand these habitats. While numerous local studies exist, a comprehensive global analysis of environmental influences on the distribution of...journal article 2024
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Polyportis, A. (author), Pachos-Fokialis, N. (author)While the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) tools holds promise for delivering benefits, it is important to acknowledge the associated risks of their deployment. In this article, we conduct a focused literature review to address two central research inquiries concerning ChatGPT and similar AI tools. Firstly, we examine the potential...journal article 2024
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Zhang, S. (author), Hanjalic, A. (author), Wang, H. (author)Nodal spreading influence is the capability of a node to activate the rest of the network when it is the seed of spreading. Combining nodal properties (centrality metrics) derived from local and global topological information respectively has been shown to better predict nodal influence than using a single metric. In this work, we investigate...journal article 2024
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Krishnan, S. (author), Aydin, N.Y. (author), Comes, M. (author)Increasing frequency of climate-related disruptions requires transformational responses over the lifecycles of interconnected urban systems with short- and long-term change dynamics. However, the aftermath of disruptions is often characterised by short-sighted decision-making, neglecting long-term urban shifts. In this study, we present a...journal article 2024
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Yu, C. (author), Van Zuijlen, Mitchell J.P. (author), Spoiala, C. (author), Pont, S.C. (author), Wijntjes, M.W.A. (author), Hurlbert, Anya (author)The spectral shape, irradiance, direction, and diffuseness of daylight vary regularly throughout the day. The variations in illumination and their effect on the light reflected from objects may in turn provide visual information as to the time of day. We suggest that artists' color choices for paintings of outdoor scenes might convey this...journal article 2024
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Ceria, A. (author), Wang, H. (author)Human social interactions are typically recorded as time-specific dyadic interactions, and represented as evolving (temporal) networks, where links are activated/deactivated over time. However, individuals can interact in groups of more than two people. Such group interactions can be represented as higher-order events of an evolving network....journal article 2023
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Bouland, G.A. (author), Mahfouz, A.M.E.T.A. (author), Reinders, M.J.T. (author)With the number of cells measured in single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) datasets increasing exponentially and concurrent increased sparsity due to more zero counts being measured for many genes, we demonstrate here that downstream analyses on binary-based gene expression give similar results as count-based analyses. Moreover, a binary...journal article 2023
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Tišma, M. (author), Janissen, R. (author), Antar, Hammam (author), Martin Gonzalez, A. (author), Barth, R. (author), Beekman, T.G.T. (author), van der Torre, J. (author), Michieletto, Davide (author), Gruber, Stephan (author), Dekker, C. (author)In most bacteria, chromosome segregation is driven by the ParABS system where the CTPase protein ParB loads at the parS site to trigger the formation of a large partition complex. Here, we present in vitro studies of the partition complex for Bacillus subtilis ParB, using single-molecule fluorescence microscopy and AFM imaging to show that...journal article 2023
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Carvalho Teixeira, M.T. (author), Pillay, S. (author), Urhan, A. (author), Abeel, T.E.P.M.F. (author)Motivation: Plasmids are carriers for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes and can exchange genetic material with other structures, contributing to the spread of AMR. There is no reliable approach to identify the transfer of AMR genes across plasmids. This is mainly due to the absence of a method to assess the phylogenetic distance of...journal article 2023
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Zhang, M. (author), Bouland, G.A. (author), Holstege, H. (author), Reinders, M.J.T. (author)Background and Objectives - With age, somatic mutations accumulated in human brain cells can lead to various neurologic disorders and brain tumors. Because the incidence rate of Alzheimer disease (AD) increases exponentially with age, investigating the association between AD and the accumulation of somatic mutation can help understand the...journal article 2023
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Copeland, S.M. (author), Hinrichs-Krapels, S. (author), Fecondo, Federica (author), Santizo, Esteban Ralon (author), Bal, Roland (author), Comes, M. (author)BACKGROUND: Prompted by recent shocks and stresses to health systems globally, various studies have emerged on health system resilience. Our aim is to describe how health system resilience is operationalised within empirical studies and previous reviews. We compare these to the core conceptualisations and characteristics of resilience in a...journal article 2023
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Faber, J.S. (author), Al-Dhahir, Isra (author), Kraal, J.J. (author), Breeman, Linda D. (author), Reijnders, Thomas (author), van Dijk, S. (author), Visch, V.T. (author), Chavannes, N.H. (author), Evers, A.W.M. (author)BACKGROUND: People with a low socioeconomic position (SEP) are less likely to benefit from eHealth interventions, exacerbating social health inequalities. Professionals developing eHealth interventions for this group face numerous challenges. A comprehensive guide to support these professionals in their work could mitigate these inequalities....journal article 2023
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Devia Pinzon, C.A. (author), Giordano, G. (author)We propose an agent-based opinion formation model characterised by a two-fold novelty. First, we realistically assume that each agent cannot measure the opinion of its neighbours about a given statement with infinite resolution and accuracy, and hence it can only perceive the opinion of others as agreeing much more, or more, or comparably, or...journal article 2023
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Geleijnse, J. (author), Rutten, M.M. (author), de Villiers, D.J. (author), Bamwenda, James Tayebwa (author), Abraham, E. (author)Monitoring safe water access in developing countries relies primarily on household health survey and census data. These surveys are often incomplete: they tend to focus on the primary water source only, are spatially coarse, and usually happen every 5-10 years, during which significant changes can happen in urbanisation and infrastructure...journal article 2023
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Hobeika, N. (author), van Rijssel, L.N. (author), Prusti, M.K. (author), Dinklo, C.J.T. (author), Giannelli, D. (author), Dukai, B. (author), Kok, Arnaud (author), van Loon, Rob (author), Nota, René (author), Stoter, J.E. (author)Noise simulations are an important part of noise studies that investigate the impact of noise sources on the environment. In noise simulation, noise levels at receiver points are calculated based on the noise propagation paths between the receiver and source points. These paths are derived from the height of the terrain. In current calculation...journal article 2023
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de Jong, M.H.J. (author), Ganesan, Adarsh (author), Cupertino, A. (author), Groeblacher, S. (author), Norte, R.A. (author)Mechanical frequency combs are poised to bring the applications and utility of optical frequency combs into the mechanical domain. So far, their main challenge has been strict requirements on drive frequencies and power, which complicate operation. We demonstrate a straightforward mechanism to create a frequency comb consisting of mechanical...journal article 2023
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Hartel, P.H. (author), van Wegberg, R.S. (author)Law enforcement agencies struggle with criminals using end-to-end encryption (E2EE). A recent policy paper states: “while encryption is vital and privacy and cyber security must be protected, that should not come at the expense of wholly precluding law enforcement”. The main argument is that E2EE hampers attribution and prosecution of...journal article 2023
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Pols, C.F.J. (author), Dekkers, P.J.J.M. (author), de Vries, M.J. (author)This small-scale, qualitative study uses educational design research to explore how focusing on argumentation may contribute to students’ learning to engage in inquiry independently. Understanding inquiry as the construction of a scientifically cogent argument in support of a claim may encourage students to develop personal reasons for adhering...journal article 2023