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Dutch involvement in international water development projects via Masterplans Comparative case study on Beira, Jakarta & Manila Bay
(2023)The Netherlands aspires to assist other countries across the globe in achieving safety and security regarding water. The Netherlands wants to supply researchers and consultants to countries that lack the required specialist ... -
The imperfect co-production of security: tracing the emergence and development of community-based armed groups in Mali & Burkina Faso between the 1990s and 2022
(2023)The year 2022 marks the tenth anniversary of violent conflict in the central Sahel, characterized by escalating and increasingly generalized violence. So-called self-defense groups are taking on a growing role in Burkina ... -
The association between active sleep and development of the superior and middle cerebellar peduncles in extremely and very preterm infants
(2023)Background: Extremely and very preterm infants (<28 and <32, respectively) are born within a vulnerable period of brain development, often causing atypical brain development at term-equivalent age and beyond. Around 30 ... -
Evaluating the use of meropenem in hematologic patients with febrile neutropenia admitted to Meander Medical Centre
(2023)Objective The Antibiotic Stewardship Team of Meander Medical Centre (MC) instigated a revaluation of its treatment protocol for hematologic patients admitted with febrile neutropenia. Current guidelines advise treating ... -
Text mining of clinical outcomes for medical research: how accurate should it be?
(2023)In medicine, clinical prediction models are often developed to estimate future risk of pa- tients regarding a certain health outcome (e.g., in-hospital mortality). To develop these models, historic structured data is needed ... -
Early life determinants of cardiovascular disease
(2023)Purpose: The purposes of this study were to primarily investigate whether determinants measured in adolescence could predict carotid intima-media thickness in adolescents aged 12-16 years. And secondly to determine whether ... -
Ancestral differences in atherosclerotic plaque composition
(2023)Background: Cardiovascular disease is still the leading cause of death worldwide (World health statics, 2023), which causes an estimated 17.9 million deaths each year. Atherosclerosis is the underlying cause of coronary ... -
Improving Oryza sativa Ribulose-biphosphate carboxylase (Rubisco) Kinetics using a novel directed evolution approach
(2023)To decrease land sacrifice to agriculture and prevent a sixth mass extinction, increasing yields in agricultural crops is essential. Photosynthetic assimilation of CO2 by green plants starts with the carboxylation of ... -
Superconductive Tendencies of Strange Metals
(2023)Motivated by recent ARPES experiments on strange metals, we implement those measurements to the standard condensed-matter theory. Considering that the best description is found to be a nodal self-energy similar to that of ... -
The automatization and adressal of processes such as corruption investigations and document analysis using Active Learning and Natural Language Processing.
(2023)Active Learning is a relatively underused part of the machine learning domain in the real world for textual data that has shown better performance than Passive Learning. In this research, Active Learning is applied to two ... -
Text Classification of a Small and Imbalanced Dataset With Long Texts
(2023)Text classification describes the process of categorising documents into groups based on certain features in their content. Previous research on this topic has focused on testing how specific data attributes such as data ... -
Finding a House in Utrecht: The Perception of Inclusion for the International Students
(2023)The following research aims to investigate the concept of inclusiveness in finding housing for the international community. The research questions are focused on understanding the function of the concept of inclusion for ... -
Van arcadia tot activisme? Een ecokritische lezing van de verbeelding van plaats, identiteit en landschap in de Friestalige poëzie van Obe Postma
(2023)Sinds enkele jaren spreken Friezen van ‘lânskipspine’ bij het aanzien van hun landschap dat door de intensieve veeteelt steeds meer is veranderd in een monocultuur. Het gaat niet alleen om een ecologische pijn, maar ook ... -
Characterization of complex genetic interactions in cancer cells
(2023)Cancer dependencies are genes required for proliferation and survival in cancer cells, making them potential therapeutic targets. Cancer dependencies are often selective for subtypes of cancers, and are measured as conditional ... -
Stoking Depression in Insecurely Attached Individuals: The Role of Rumination and Perceived Social Support
(2023)Despite a substantial amount of research on depression, depressive symptoms are increasing globally. To gain insights into individuals’ vulnerability to develop depression, this study investigated attachment and smaller ... -
The Moderating Role of Coping Styles in the Association Between Discrimination and Depression Among Bicultural Adults
(2023)Migration is a global phenomenon which has increased immensely during the past decades, yet knowledge about cultural challenges for bicultural individuals such as the relationship between perceived discrimination and mental ...