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Martins Costa, A.R. (author), van den Berg, D.F. (author), Esser, J.Q. (author), Muralidharan, A. (author), van den Bossche, Halewijn (author), Estrada Bonilla, B.A. (author), van der Steen, B.A. (author), Haas, Pieter Jan (author), Brouns, S.J.J. (author)Prokaryotes encode multiple distinct anti-phage defense systems in their genomes. However, the impact of carrying a multitude of defense systems on phage resistance remains unclear, especially in a clinical context. Using a collection of antibiotic-resistant clinical strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and a broad panel of phages, we...journal article 2024
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Jongeneel, Alyssa (author), Delespaul, Philippe (author), Tromp, N. (author), Scheffers, Dorien (author), van der Vleugel, Berber (author), de Bont, Paul (author), Kikkert, Martijn (author), Croes, Carlos F. (author), van den Berg, David (author)Background: Temstem is a smartphone app developed with and for clinical voice hearing individuals with the aim to reduce their voice hearing distress and improve social functioning. Methods: A randomized controlled trial with adult outpatients suffering from distressing and frequent auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) was conducted....journal article 2024
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Ojiyed, Hamutu (author), van den Berg, Maarten (author), Batashev, I. (author), Shen, Q. (author), van Dijk, N.H. (author), Brück, E.H. (author)The magnetocaloric properties of Mn<sub>5</sub>Si<sub>1-x</sub>P<sub>x</sub>B<sub>2</sub> (0 ≤ x ≤ 1) compounds were studied for energy harvesting applications. The crystal structure and the magnetic structure were characterized by powder X-Ray Diffraction and powder Neutron Diffraction. The results indicate that these magnetocaloric...journal article 2024
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van den Hoven, Kim (author), Grashof-Bokdam, Carla J. (author), Slim, Pieter A. (author), Wentholt, Ludolph (author), Peeters, Patrik (author), Depreiter, Davy (author), Koelewijn, André R. (author), Stoorvogel, Marte M. (author), van den Berg, M. (author), Kroeze, Carolien (author), van Loon-Steensma, Jantsje M. (author)Coastal flood managers seek to anticipate future flood risk and as a result consider the adaptation of flood defences. Instead of crest heightening, dikes can be adapted to include hydrodynamic reducing vegetated foreshores to form a nature-based hybrid flood defence, for instance; at managed realignments. In this study we investigated the...journal article 2024
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Eijkelenboom, A.M. (author), Hobo, Iris (author), Bleeker, René (author), van den Berg, Daniël (author)Design solutions bases on Evidence Based Design (EBD) principles vary due to the context and organizational aspects of hospitals. This paper explains how EBD principles were included during the design process of an academic hospital, including design guidelines that were developed with a representative group of key stakeholders from the...journal article 2024
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Bruggeman, A.M.R.M. (author), Bansal, D. (author), la Rocca, G. (author), van der Laan, T (author), van den Berg, T. (author)Including production considerations in the early design stages of aircraft structures is challenging. Production information is mostly known by experts and rarely formally documented such that it can be effectively used during the design process. Producibility is mostly considered after completing the design, resulting in increased cost and...journal article 2024
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ruiten, Kyra (author), Pesch, U. (author), Rodhouse, T.S.G.H. (author), Correljé, A. (author), Spruit, Shannon (author), Tenhaaf, Antje (author), Dijkshoorn, Jochem (author), van den Berg, Susan (author)This paper describes the decision-making process regarding the siting of a high voltage transmission line in the southern part of the Netherlands by TenneT, the Transmission System Operator responsible for the electricity infrastructure. TenneT started this siting process by deploying conventional decision-making procedures, which have the...journal article 2023
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Sorokin, Dimitry Y. (author), Tikhonova, Tamara V. (author), Koch, Hanna (author), van den Berg, E.M. (author), Hinderks, Renske S. (author), Pabst, Martin (author), Kuenen, J.G. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Lücker, Sebastian (author)Dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonia (DNRA) is a common biochemical process in the nitrogen cycle in natural and man-made habitats, but its significance in wastewater treatment plants is not well understood. Several ammonifying Trichlorobacter strains (former Geobacter) were previously enriched from activated sludge in nitrate-limited...journal article 2023
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van den Berg, D.G. (author), De Tavernier, D. (author), van Wingerden, J.W. (author)In recent years, control techniques such as dynamic induction control (often referred to as “the pulse”) have shown great potential in increasing wake mixing, with the goal of minimising turbine-to-turbine interaction within a wind farm. Dynamic induction control disturbs the wake by varying the thrust of the turbine over time, which results in...journal article 2023
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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