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Associations of lifestyle factors and Neuroendocrine Tumor Development: Results from the EPIC cohort
(2023)Methods: A cohort of in total 450,111 participants from 9 participating countries was established from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study. Information on lifestyle and diet was ... -
Technological Diversification in Peripheral Regions: An Empirical Study on the Importance of Interregional Linkages across European Regions
(2023)This thesis puts the literature on Evolutionary Economic Geography central and assumes that technological diversification is necessary in peripheral regions to foster sustainable and inclusive growth across regions. However, ... -
Sampling-based Stochastic Single-machine Scheduling
(2023)The problem to be considered is non-preemptive stochastic single machine scheduling to minimize the total weighted completion time of a set of N jobs. This is a classical problem setting that has been studied in the ... -
Localized immunomodulation technologies to enable cellular and organoid transplantation
(2023)Cellular therapies have the potential to revolutionize medicine by using living cells to restore damaged tissues and treat various diseases wherein traditional medications cannot. In this literature review, the successes ... -
Synthesis and Characterisation of a GRPR and PSMA Targeting Heterodimer for Theranostic Applications in Prostate Cancer
(2023)Prostate cancer (PC) is the second most common cancer in the world for which diagnostic and therapeutic techniques require optimization. Currently the most used techniques for diagnosis are invasive digital rectal exams ... -
The Disenchantment of the World? The evolution of belief in witchcraft in England and the Netherlands during the nineteenth century
(2023)This thesis challenges the proposition that belief in witchcraft vanished in the face of modernity by studying its evolution in nineteenth-century England and the Netherlands. By employing multidisciplinary approaches, it ... -
Food insecurity and HIV medication adherence among people living with HIV in rural South-Africa
(2023)Treatment adherence is crucial for people living with HIV to prevent suppression of the immune system and drug resistance. However, adherence is not always optimal and is influenced by many factors. There are social, ... -
The Association between Life's Essential 8 and the Risk for Atrial Fibrillation in a Dutch Population
(2023)BACKGROUND: This study examined the association between Life’s Essential 8 (LE8) and the incidence of atrial fibrillation (AF). METHODS: In total, 37,807 participants from the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer ... -
Association Between Air Pollution and Disruption of Iron Homeostasis
(2023)Air pollution remains a growing source of concern as research in recent years has revealed evidence of significant adverse health impacts and toxicological effects stemming from exposure to ambient air pollution. Epidemiological ... -
Determinant effect of PAR on role of FR photons; FR light as a resource or signal for stress
(2023)Rice is one of the most important crops for agricultural purposes. The space required for farming (i.e., rice) will likely increase to feed a growing world population. Research on plant growth responses, may contribute to ... -
Electron-Activated Dissociation for Glycan Identification with Ion Mobility-Tandem Mass Spectrometry
(2023)The structural complexity and diversity of glycans has limited the understanding of the roles that these essential biomolecules play in homeostasis and disease. Methods that fully characterize glycan structure have been ... -
Demystifying normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) for greenness exposure assessments and policy interventions in urban greening
(2023)Most nature and health research use the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) for measuring greenness exposure. However, little is known about what NDVI measures in terms of vegetation types (e.g., grass, canopy ... -
Machine Learning Many-Body Interactions for Charged Colloidal Suspensions
(2023)Suspensions of charged colloidal particles are complex systems of mesoscopic colloidal particles in an electrolyte solution composed of microscopic water molecules and ions. An accurate description of these systems is vital ... -
The genetic toolkit for tetrapod development and evolution
(2023)The developmental toolkit (genetic toolkit for development) is a group of highly conserved genes that play crucial roles in developmental patterning and phenotypic evolution. Embryonic expression patterns of toolkit genes ... -
Navigating Swiss Neutrality - Switzerland, the UN and Right-Wing Discourse on Neutrality 2002-2022
(2023)[""Swiss neutrality, once seen as straight-forward, has become a disputed concept. Recent events, such as Switzerland’s election to the UN Security Council and the Russo-Ukrainian war, have put the country’s neutrality ... -
Manieren waarmee opdrachten van de aardrijkskunde lesmethode het dekolonisatieproces kunnen beïnvloe
(2023)[""Dit onderzoek heeft een antwoord gegeven op de vraag op welke manier opdrachten in de huidige aardrijkskunde lesmethoden een rol kunnen spelen in het dekolonisatieproces. Hierbij is een gedetailleerde kwalitatieve en ...