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Dose-related microstructural changes in metastatic patients measured with diffusion MRI: First insights of the APRICOT trial
(2023)ABSTRACT: Background: Radiotherapy (RT) is one of the most common therapeutic intervention for cerebral tumor, which also promotes changes in healthy brain structures, leading to cognitive decline in the majority of the ... -
Het surrealisme van Laure Prouvost
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Exploring the ribosomal stress pathway as a targetable vulnerability in TP53 aberrant Acute Lymphoblastic leukemia
(2023)Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) is one of the most frequently diagnosed cancers in children. Although the survival rates have been increasing, relapses are still occurring, which are generally hard to cure. Especially ... -
From il and elle to iel and ael: the French Gender Revolution - A Semantic Model of Pronominal Grammar Changes in French
(2023)In recent years, the emancipation of women and the increasing awareness of identities outside the gender binary of man and woman have been a central debate in western society. Since the 2000’s the French language has seen ... -
An evaluation of the Dutch company bicycle policy measure ‘fiets van de zaak’
(2021)To contribute to a sustainable mobility system, the Dutch Ministry of Finance has adjusted the Dutch company bike policy measure. Starting January 1st 2020, the Ministry introduced a new policy allowing employers to place ... -
Combining BCI with functional electrical stimulation for facial nerve paralysis in locked-in indviduals
(2023)Locked-in syndrome (LIS) is a nervous system disorder that is characterised by loss of voluntary muscle control, which can lead to whole body paralysis. Classical and incomplete LIS patients retain the ability to produce ... -
Microscopic gossip: quorum sensing in the adaptive immune system
(2023)When an infection occurs in the human body, the body responds by sending many different types of immune cells to the infection. Some of these cells can stop the infection, others can create memory cells that can attack ... -
Utilizing Conditions for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Brain MRI
(2023)A need to label vast amounts of data in medical image analysis makes supervised algorithms time-consuming and raises concerns about incorrectly annotated pathologies. Unsupervised anomaly detection algorithms, which employ ... -
Revolutionizing the Understanding of Immune Cell Heterogeneity through Single-Cell Transcriptomics
(2023)Studying the immune system broadens our understanding of the underlying mechanisms contributing to health and disease. Recently, single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has provided an alternative unbiased approach to study ... -
Caulobacter crescentus holdfast: A bio-based and water-resistant adhesive
(2023)Due to climate change, society demands more environmentally friendly products. An excellent way to approach this is to develop more circular, waste-free, zero/negative emission or biodegradable products. For something to ... -
Impacts of mega-event-driven development on urban transit systems and user experiences: A comparative study of four Olympic host cities
(2023)This thesis investigates the transport component of mega-event driven development through the case studies of four former Olympic host cities: Athens (2004), Beijing (2008), London (2012) and Rio de Janeiro (2016). By ... -
Black holes and Symplectic Geometry
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The Route to a Bionic Human Heart - How far are we and how far can we go?
(2023)Diseases targeting the heart or vascular system of the human body are very common. Specifically, heart failure and heart attacks are the leading causes of death around the world. A human heart that is at the end of treatments ... -
Impact of chemically defined media conditions on the production and regenerative function of mesenchymal stem cell‐derived extracellular vesicles
(2023)The use of mesenchymal stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles (MSC-EVs) have gained much attention because of their therapeutic potential for cardiac repair. However, their translation to the clinic is dependent on ... -
The Relationship between Anorexia Symptoms and the Perception of Observed Affective Touch: The Mediating Role of Interoceptive Awareness
(2023)Interpersonal difficulties and social anhedonia are widely reported in relation to Anorexia Nervosa (AN) symptoms. This is also reflected in reduced pleasantness ratings of affective touch, a particularly gentle form of ... -
The further development and implementation of the Quality Assurance and Pharmacovigilance activities of MSD Animal Health
(2023)Due to the merger of MSD AH Netherlands and MSD AH Belgium/Luxembourg divisions, the following problem arose; MSD AH Benelux now applies different ways of working, as different protocols now exist in the one business that ... -
Understanding Severe Staphylococcus aureus Infections: Recalibration of the Focus Towards Host Genetic Factors
(2023)Staphylococcus aureus is the human pathogen causing the most infections in the world today. While most of these infections are rapidly neutralized by immunity, severe infections can occur and lead to death. Furthermore, ... -
Neuropathology and Neurological Manifestations in ME/CFS and Long COVID with focus on Post-Exertional Symptom Exacerbation: a Literature Review
(2023)Many of the people that get infected with the Coronavirus develop long-lasting complaints and are diagnosed with Long COVID after the acute infection is gone. These complains can last several months or years and include ... -
Congo in Vlaanderen: Opvattingen over Congo en kolonisatie in de Vlaamse Beweging, 1885-1914
(Utrecht University, 201-08-12)Vanaf het begin van de kolonisatie van de Congo-Vrijstaat werd binnen de Vlaamse beweging nagedacht over de rol die Congo in het Vlaamsgezinde denken zou kunnen spelen. In deze scriptie worden de Vlaamsgezinde opvattingen ...