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VAULTS: NATURES GARBAGE COLLECTORS
(2023)Since the discovery of vaults, several different applications have been investigated. Vaults are the biggest known eukaryotic ribonucleoproteins. Through engineering vaults, empty structures can be produced, opening up a ... -
Context-based User Playlist Analysis for Music Recommendation
(2023)Convenient access to music through streaming platforms has given rise to an insurmountable amount of choice when it comes to listening to music. These platforms have turned to music recommender systems to keep the user ... -
EXPERIENCES OF ART ADHERENCE AND VIRAL LOAD TESTING IN ESWATINI
(2023)eSwatini is the country with the largest HIV infection rate worldwide. In order to lower this rate, it is necessary to reach the 95-95-95 goals from the Joint United Nations Programme. The accomplishment of these goals ... -
Using the Opportunities and Challenges of Process Mining to Improve Understandability in its Application Domains
(2023)Process mining is a technique that uses the event logs of a system to discover, monitor, and improve process models. It can be applied in many domains, but the knowledge of a process mining expert is often needed. This ... -
Healthy Choices in Transportation
(2023)Background: Globally obesity rates and car use are increasing. Active transportation is suggested to mitigate both problems. In the Netherlands, 47% of all car trips are short-distance trips under 7.5 km, which can easily ... -
Peers, politics and community involvement in harm reduction: a qualitative exploration of barriers to service provision across Europe
(2023)Harm reduction has been found to be a successful approach in attempting to mitigate the risks associated with drug use. However, a number of barriers arise for service provision. The current research set out to examine ... -
Understanding the Relation between Frequency of Technology Usage on Work life Balance: The Role of Age, Occupation and Education
(2023)Background: Technology, such as computers, laptops and tablets, negatively affects work-life balance due to work and non-work conflicts an individual experiences. This directly affects an individual’s well-being and quality ... -
“Let’s break it into smaller steps”: the possible role of social workers in improving the access of vulnerable smokers to smoking cessation support.
(2023)Background: Smokers with a lower socioeconomic status or migration background experience multiple barriers to accessing smoking cessation support. Previous studies suggest that social workers could play a significant role ... -
Identity (re)constructing of (ex)recurrent homeless individuals
(2023)Exiting homelessness is not only about transitioning to housing, but also about dealing with a precarious stigmatized social identity and regaining self-worth. This case-study explored how (ex)recurrent homeless individuals ... -
Designing for Success: Exploring the interplay between achievement goals and progress visualisation preferences in a learning analytics dashboard
(2023)Student-facing learning analytics dashboards process and visualise learning traces to enable informed decision-making and goal-setting. Previous work contributes to understanding how to use feedback reference frames in ... -
The Role of Context in Disability Intervention: Realist Evaluation of the Work and Respect Project from the Liliane Foundation
(2023)All youth deserve the chance to take advantage of their rights. However, youth with a disability often experience poverty and socioeconomic exclusion, especially in low-income countries such as Kenya and Rwanda. The Liliane ... -
The Algorithmic Reimagination: exploring critical making with algorithmic tools in new media art
(2023)This study examines the creative potentials of algorithms and how AI tools may be utilized by media artists to reappropriate them from tools of discrimination to tools of liberation. Through a case study and a critical ... -
Risk factors and outcomes of NEC in preterm and low birth weight infants with a congenital heart defect
(2023)In this study population of 64 preterm and LBW infants with CHD, the incidence of NEC was substantially higher than the general population. This incidence coincides with the experience that prematurity, LBW and CHD increase ... -
Traditional Augmentation Versus Deep Generative Diffusion Augmentation for Addressing Class Imbalance in Chest X-ray Classification
(2023)Medical image analysis has advanced rapidly with the integration of deep learning techniques. However, the challenge of unbalanced datasets and the need for effective pre-processing methods remain significant difficulties ... -
High-resolution grain size analysis using photos
(2023)Grain size is an important factor that influences sediment transport at beaches. Traditional methods of obtaining grain size properties, such as sieving or settling tube, are time-consuming and labour-intensive, which ... -
Sanday en de zorgprofessional: zorgen voor gebruiksvriendelijke gezondheidssystemen
(2023)In deze studie analyseer ik de gebruiksvriendelijkheid van drie huisartsinformatiesystemen (HIS), ASP, Scipio en Sanday. Deze systemen zijn cruciaal voor een efficiënte informatieverwerking in de zorg. Onderzoek naar ... -
Boltzmann Generators for sampling many-body systems in the isobaric-isothermal ensemble
(2023)Boltzmann generators (BGs) are exact-likelihood generative models that can be used to sample equilibrium states of many-body systems from the canonical ensemble and to compute the associated Helmholtz free energy. Moreover, ... -
Anthropogenic carbon in the Atlantic Ocean at 40°S from 1972 to 2014
(2023)The anthropogenic carbon (Cant) concentration at 40°S in the Atlantic Ocean was calculated over the period 1972-2014. The C* method was used to eliminate the biological fraction of the total DIC, both AOU and NO3 were used ... -
Supporting autonomous motivation for chemistry in a controlling secondary school environment
(2023)This study addresses the motivational challenges faced by 9th-grade students in the Dutch educational system, during the decision-making process of their subject cluster choice (SCC). Halfway through ninth grade, these ...