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The Effect of Social Robotic Embodiment on Persuasion in Collective Moral Decision-Making
(2023)From day-to-day impressions such as marketing and social media, to political debates, people try to influence and persuade each other. Social cues such as speech, gazing, and listening are important to effectively convince ... -
Harnessing costimulatory domains for the structural design of transgenic T cell receptors to improve T cell-based immunotherapy
(2023)The use of T cell based immunotherapy has been growing over the years and a number of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-modified T cell therapies have been approved for clinical use. These therapies have shown impressive ... -
Traveling with a chatbot: How to adapt chatbot personality to different traveler types
(2023)Train travel is a popular way of transport in the Netherlands. Multiple tools exist for travelers to help them plan their journey and to look up information about their trip. However, these tools do not account much for ... -
Deletion of Hydrophobin Genes in Aspergillus Niger
(2023)Aspergillus niger is a saprophytic fungus that is widely used for the industrial production of enzymes and small molecules that find applications in food, feed, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. Optimization of ... -
Naturalizing history, historicizing nature: The times of environmental history
(2023)Climate change is not one story. It is both too fast and too slow, it is everywhere and nowhere at once. So, to make historical sense of environmental change’s origins and effects requires not a single history, but diverse ... -
A biomarker-based paleotemperature record over the last 3 million years west off Tasmania
(2023)The last 3 Ma is a crucial period for the Earth’s climate evolution as it went through the transition from a warm mid-late Pliocene (~3.2 Ma) into the colder late Pliocene- early Pleistocene (~2.5 Ma), with larger ice ... -
Quantum Algorithms For Compositional Distributional Semantics in Natural Language Processing
(2023)In this thesis, we try to combine machine learning and quantum computing in order to simultaneously perform different readings of a sentence. In the first part, we introduce a procedure to obtain a distributional tensor ... -
Local Search for integrated Economic Dispatch and Unit Commitment problems
(2023)Abstract I will present a novel way to model the hybrid Unit Commitment (UC) and Economic Dispatch (ED) problem as a variation of an interior point problem, which allows the problem to be tackled by common local-search ... -
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 ... -
Oceanic and Atmospheric Controls on Decadal Ice Shelf Basal Melt Variability around the Amundsen Sea
(2023)Warm ocean waters are driving the rapid ice loss around the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica. Decadal variability in melt and on-shelf heat transport is thought to be controlled by zonal shelf break winds and Pacific sea surface ... -
The Lost Generation and an American Flirtation: The Effects of War on Literary Culture as Exemplified by the Life and Writings of Harry Crosby
(2023)This paper examines Harry Crosby’s life and writings within the broader context of the literary movement that is the Lost Generation. In the 1920s, men and women who had come of age during the First World War faced changes ... -
Predictive factors for antipsychotic treatment adherence among first-episode psychosis patients in the first year after remission
(2023)Abstract Background: Adherence rates to antipsychotic drugs in schizophrenia are low, while good adherence is important for achieving and maintaining remission. In patients with a ‘First Episode of Psychosis’ (FEP), early ... -
Antibody mining in SARS-CoV-2 spike-immunized rhesus macaques
(2023)The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) at the end of 2019 quickly developed into a pandemic. COVID-19, the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, has led to over 6 million deaths since the end ...