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Hutchinson, K. (author), van Zandwijk, Jan Peter (author), Vester, Marloes E.M. (author), Seth, A. (author), Bilo, Rob A.C. (author), van Rijn, Rick R. (author), Loeve, A.J. (author)Inflicted shaking trauma can cause injury in infants, but exact injury mechanisms remain unclear. Controversy exists, particularly in courts, whether additional causes such as impact are required to produce injuries found in cases of (suspected) shaking. Publication rates of studies on animal and biomechanical models of inflicted head injury...review 2024
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van Looveren, Judith (author)The field of interactive textiles has many names, all describing textiles that interact with the environment, often using electronics to create interactivity. However, combining textiles with electronics creates hard to recycle materials. In this research, linen is proposed as a sustainable alternative, using its hygromorphic characteristics to...master thesis 2023
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Hack, Roos (author)► Introduction & Client | Over the last decade, there has been a notable increase of interest in discussions surrounding animal welfare, driven by a deeper understanding of the mental states of animals. This growing awareness has triggered a global push to improve laws and regulations in animal welfare, prompting zoos worldwide to increase...master thesis 2023
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Cimino, Giovanni (author)The textile and fashion industry, with its complex supply chain from fiber production to retail, employs harmful chemicals, posing risks to the environment and workers. Fast fashion has intensified clothing production, leading to extensive textile waste. Consequently, it has fostered a more ephemeral and less emotionally durable connection with...master thesis 2023
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Muller, K. (author)This thesis describes methods and first analyses to study the shape and motion of a large school of approximately 2000 Harengula clupeola (false herring) in three-dimensional space. This school of fish was present at the large-scale and publicly accessible ocean aquarium of the Rotterdam zoo, in the Netherlands known as Diergaarde Blijdorp, from...doctoral thesis 2023
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van der Leun, Joanna (author)In advanced capitalist societies, nature has become more dependent on human influence. But some species are living in closer proximity than others. Including the Lesser Black-backed Gull. Throughout the 20th century, human activities have led to changes in the environment of this “synanthropic” species, a species living in close proximity to...master thesis 2023
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Peng, C. (author), May, Ali (author), Abeel, T.E.P.M.F. (author)BackgroundEnteric methane from cow burps, which results from microbial fermentation of high-fiber feed in the rumen, is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. A promising strategy to address this problem is microbiome-based precision feed, which involves identifying key microorganisms for methane production. While machine...journal article 2023
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Xu, J. (author), Fahmy-Garcia, Shorouk (author), Wesdorp, Marinus A. (author), Forte, Lucia (author), De Luca, Claudio (author), Filardo, Giuseppe (author), Labberté, Margot (author), Kok, Joeri (author), Nickel, Joachim (author), van Osch, G.J.V.M. (author)Despite promising clinical results in osteochondral defect repair, a recently developed bi-layered collagen/collagen-magnesium-hydroxyapatite scaffold has demonstrated less optimal subchondral bone repair. This study aimed to improve the bone repair potential of this scaffold by adsorbing bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP-2) and/or platelet...journal article 2023
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Bose, Shirsha (author), Fereidoonnezhad, B.F. (author), Akbarzadeh Khorshidi, Majid (author), Watschke, Brian (author), Mareena, Evania (author), Nolan, Daragh (author), Cooney, Sean (author), Cullen, Ivor M. (author), Lally, Caitríona (author)INTRODUCTION: Erectile dysfunction (ED) affects to some degree approximately 52% of the male population aged 40-70 years. Many men do not respond to, or are precluded from using, pharmaceutical treatments for ED and are therefore advised to consider penile prostheses. Different types of penile prosthesis are available, such as inflatable...review 2023
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Siverino, Claudia (author), Fahmy-Garcia, Shorouk (author), Niklaus, Viktoria (author), Kops, Nicole (author), Dolcini, Laura (author), Misciagna, Massimiliano Maraglino (author), Ridwan, Yanto (author), Farrell, Eric (author), van Osch, G.J.V.M. (author), Nickel, Joachim (author)Bone Morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) like BMP2 and BMP7 have shown great potential in the treatment of severe bone defects. In recent in vitro studies, BMP9 revealed the highest osteogenic potential compared to other BMPs, possibly due to its unique signaling pathways that differs from other osteogenic BMPs. However, in vivo the bone forming...journal article 2023
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Kranzbühler, A. (author), Schifferstein, Hendrik N.J. (author)Eating meat can have detrimental effects on the environment, animal welfare, and a person’s health. However, consumers are often reluctant to reduce their meat consumption and public information-based awareness campaigns show little effect. As an alternative, some vegan activists and pressure groups employ emotion-based campaigns using meat...journal article 2023
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Mosleh, Yasmine (author), van Die, M. (author), Gard, W.F. (author), Breebaart, Iskander (author), van de Kuilen, J.W.G. (author), van Duin, Paul (author), Poulis, J.A. (author)Gelatine adhesives aka ‘animal glues’ are water-soluble biopolymers used in historic objects such as wooden cabinets and panel paintings since ancient times. This paper investigates the correlations between microstructural features, namely triple helices, and macroscopic properties of four different types of gelatine adhesives, prevalently...journal article 2023
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Gillies, Natasha (author), Martín López, Lucía Martina (author), den Ouden, O.F.C. (author), Assink, Jelle D. (author), Basille, Mathieu (author), Clay, Thomas A. (author), Clusella-Trullas, Susana (author), Joo, Rocío (author), Weimerskirch, Henri (author)The ways in which seabirds navigate over very large spatial scales remain poorly understood. While olfactory and visual information can provide guidance over short distances, their range is often limited to 100s km, far below the navigational capacity of wide-ranging animals such as albatrosses. Infrasound is a form of low-frequency sound...journal article 2023
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Georgiadis, Marios (author), Menzel, Miriam (author), Reuter, Jan A. (author), Born, Donald E. (author), Kovacevich, Sophie R. (author), Alvarez, Dario (author), Taghavi, Hossein Moein (author), Schroeter, Aileen (author), Rudin, Markus (author)Myelinated axons (nerve fibers) efficiently transmit signals throughout the brain via action potentials. Multiple methods that are sensitive to axon orientations, from microscopy to magnetic resonance imaging, aim to reconstruct the brain's structural connectome. As billions of nerve fibers traverse the brain with various possible geometries...journal article 2023
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Ji, Xulingyun (author)Animal farming is increasingly getting more attention and debate nowadays because of a lot of environmental issues it caused. Apart from that, the intensive animal factories have made consumers quite separated from food animals. What’s more, the animal welfare in current animal farming is not ensured, especially in those intensive animal...master thesis 2022
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de Waardt, Bonnie (author)Nature inclusive is a large topic that is still in its pioneering phase. There is a need for clear elaboration and ways of incorporating this new way of thinking into design. In order to have a functional nature inclusive design one must fist<br/>know the existing ecosystem to contribute to this. The research question: how can a designer analyze...master thesis 2022
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Jonker, Luc (author)For mobile augmented or virtual reality applications with limited processing power, representing realistic water geometry is a challenge. Many existing solutions are simulations that can only run at interactive rates on desktop computers. This paper presents a lightweight approximative approach to water representation achieved through mesh LOD...bachelor thesis 2022
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Lungu, Alexandru (author)This paper proposes a novel approach to visualizing events in sailing regattas, in a way that is engaging, informative and interactive to the users of the Sailing+ application. The approach used was to create two different types of visualizations for each type of event: artistic, which contains animations and effects such as depth of field, and...bachelor thesis 2022
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Speelman, Ruben (author)In the underwater environment, it is all but silent. In most parts of the oceans, sunlight is barely available and thus marine animals have evolved to rely on sound for navigation, foraging and communication. Marine animals are not the only sources of underwater sound. Other natural sources such as earthquakes, waves and rain cause ambient noise...master thesis 2022
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Idsinga, Johannes (author)Animal-induced anomalies on a levee surface negatively affect the erosion-resistance of a levee, leading to rapid failure of the inner slope in case of overtopping and/or overflow during high water. Where active prevention techniques of burrows from large animals, such as muskrats, are applied in and around levees in the Netherlands, the...student report 2022