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Timing of surgery after short course radiotherapy for rectal cancer: real-world evidence
(2023)Background: A prolonged interval between short course radiotherapy (SCRT, 25 Gy in 5 fractions) and surgery for rectal cancer (4-8 weeks, SCRT-delay) has been associated with a lower postoperative complication rate and ... -
Regulatory opportunities for treating age-related macular degeneration with bevacizumab biosimilars in low-middle income countries.
(2023)Neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) is a progressive eye-disease that can be treated through off-label intravitreal administration of bevacizumab, an anti-VEGF antibody registered for oncologic indications. ... -
Impact of lifestyle changes during the COVID-19 lockdown on sleep patterns: a population-based study in the Netherlands from the IMPACT project
(2023)Background: Although there is scientific evidence of an increased prevalence of sleep disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic, we still have limited information on how lifestyle factors might have affected sleep patterns. ... -
Local versus extra-local representation of Holocene vegetation change in North-East Germany
(2023)Contrasting results from studies on triggers of the postglacial expansion of Fagus sylvatica reveal that either the processes connected to this expansion were different across Europe or that these processes were acting on ... -
Petrological and mineralogical analysis of the metamorphic zones in Cap de Creus, NE Spain
(2023)The Cap de Creus massif in the northeastern Pyrenees consist of LP–HT greenschist to upper amphibolite facies metasediments and granitoid bodies. The region is subdivided into five metamorphic zones. These zones have been ... -
Mother milk use in the perioperative period, is there an association with NEC? A retrospective cohort study.
(2023)Background Patients with a congenital heart disease (CHD) are at high risk for developing necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) due to the decreased perfusion to the intestines. To limit the risk of NEC, nutrition, and specific ... -
Ovulation induction with letrozole in women with polycystic ovary syndrome
(2023)Study question: What is the effectiveness of first-line letrozole treatment in anovulatory women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and what ovulation induction protocols are followed in Dutch fertility clinics? Relevance ... -
Beyond the Goggles: Examining the Potential of Virtual Reality for Climate Change Empathy.
(2023)Despite recognition of the dire consequences of human-caused climate change, addressing the issue had been slow. Individuals struggle to empathize with environmental issues due to a lack of personal connections and physical ... -
Semantic-Aware Person Inpainting Using Generative Adversarial Networks
(2023)The widespread use of street view imagery in various applications, such as urban planning, navigation, and real estate, has raised concerns about the privacy of individuals captured in these images. While anonymization ... -
Oxytocin and vasopressin in the amygdala: key factors underlying the sex-differential liability for autism spectrum disorders?
(2023)Autism spectrum disorders (ASD), a range of neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by deficits in social communication and interaction, are particularly prevalent in boys, a phenomenon that has given rise to the notion ... -
Economic potential of Demand Response for office buildings in the Netherlands
(2023)To combat imbalances in the electricity grid and support the integration of renewable energy sources, demand response (DR) is increasingly being looked at as a key solution. Electricity consumers can change their electricity ... -
Mobilising academic research for transformative change
(2023)In order to face the societal challenges of today and tomorrow, governments look for innovations that could help in solving these challenges. In recent years a third frame on these governmental policies has been formed, ... -
Dynamic capabilities conducive to scaling product-service-systems: How product companies can deal with internal barriers to scaling. The case of Fairphone Easy.
(2023)Unsustainable business practices have led to dramatic sustainability pressures for modern society in the form of climate change and resource scarcity. A potential solution to meet the challenges of the climate crisis are ... -
Evaluating the chronic pain collaborative movement therapy consultation
(2023)Introduction Chronic pain is a prevalent and complex health problem with a significant impact on patients' well-being. The collaborative movement therapy consultation (CMTC), offered by the Division of Pain Medicine at the ... -
Facing Our Standards: On the validity of standardised faces in face perception research
(2023)Many studies in face perception research use standardised facial stimuli: digitally manipulated facial images used in eye tracking experiments studying facial viewing behaviour and emotion perception. With technological ... -
What explains the difference between naive Bayesian classifiers and tree-augmented Bayesian network classifiers.
(2023)Naïve Bayesian Networks (NB) have been proven to be decently accurate classifiers, even in cases where their independency assumption does not hold. An approach to relax the independency assumption is to search through the ...