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Chlamydia check-up: Tracking policy shifts with a scientific swab at general practices
(2025)Background - Chlamydia trachomatis is a common sexually transmitted disease. Since January 2025, the Dutch public health service (GGD) implemented a major policy change for sexual health centers, discontinuing the testing ... -
Ecosystem Services versus Flood Risk Adaptation Strategies in Global River Deltas
(2025)Coastal river deltas provide vital ecosystem services that sustain human life, yet they are increasingly vulnerable to flooding. To address these risks, various flood-risk strategies, including protect-open, protect-closed, ... -
Revisiting Operation IceBridge snow-on-sea-ice measurements in the Arctic
(2025)The polar regions play a fundamental role in the ongoing climate warming and despite their remoteness and distance from human civilization, we have a great interest in understanding the changes taking place in the Arctic ... -
Sustainability in the OR: reducing environmental impact and hospital specific waste by filtration of used cardioplegic solution to exclude active pharmaceutical ingredients before disposal
(2025)A low-budget sustainable method was developed for the filtration and quantification of procaine in used cardioplegic solution. The quantification method consisted of reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography ... -
Human and Climate-Induced Pressures on Coastal Dune Ecosystems: Effects on Biodiversity, Functionality and Ecosystem Services
(2025)Coastal dune ecosystems are dynamic and unique ecosystems with a high ecological significance. These dynamic systems harbour a wide diversity of species and provide many ecosystems services such as coastal protection, the ... -
The practical potential of generating synthetic data for cardiovascular disease research.
(2025)Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remain a leading global health issue, contributing to significant mortality and reduced quality of life. While advancements in big data and precision medicine have improved diagnostic and ... -
Impact of AI Personalization on Email Clicks and Conversions: Insights from a Real-World AI-Personalized Phishing Simulation
(2025)Large Language Models (LLMs) enable near-instantaneous, high-quality text generation and is rapidly revolutionizing various industries. A promising use case is AI email personalization, which is relevant for legitimate ... -
Ontology Learning using public Large Language Models under set conditions, identifying metrics for measuring success
(2025)Capturing natural language text in an ontology which accurately reflects the domain semantics is a labor intensive task. It requires both knowledge regarding ontology modeling theory and the domain to be modeled. Large ... -
Parameter-bounded parallelism for fixed parameter tractable problems
(2025)Fixed-parameter tractability (FPT) addresses computational hardness by isolating complexity to a problem-specific parameter. As input sizes grow, so does the need for parallelism, partic- ularly when resources are constrained. ... -
Comparing national strategies for reducing antimicrobial resistance in foodborne pathogens in Europe
(2025)Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in foodborne pathogens is a global health concern driven by the overuse of antibiotics in agriculture and animal production. This literature review compares the national strategies for reducing ... -
Improving representation of sediment fluxes due to glacial retreat in catchment-scale fluvial modelling
(2025)Fluvial sediment plays a crucial role in shaping riverine ecosystems, supporting aquatic habitats, and maintaining the geomorphological balance of catchment areas. However, both excess sediment and sediment scarcity can ... -
Medication Waste and Returns in a General Hospital: amount, sources, reuse potential and associated costs
(2025)Medication waste in hospitals is an increasing problem. The total environmental burden of the Dutch healthcare sector is approximately 11 megatons of CO2 per year. Medication waste has both financial and environmental ... -
Compressing Object Detectors for Bear Detection on Edge Devices
(2025)Camera traps are deployed in Romania to keep bears from entering villages in search of food. These battery-powered, low-energy devices rely on a deep neural network for effective bear detection. However, neural networks ... -
Minesweeper might not be hard
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Mathematics in Prediction Modeling: Predicting Quality of Life of Patients Treated for Spinal Metastatic Disease.
(2025)Background: Metastatic spine disease significantly impacts the quality of life (QoL) in oncological patients. As most of these patients are treated in a palliative setting, maintaining or enhancing QoL emerges as the primary ...