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The Importance of Glia-Synapse Interactions in Synaptic Connectivity
(2014)During the past decades, it has become clear that glial cells play a vital role in all stages of the synaptic life cycle: Formation, elimination, maintenance and plasticity. Here, I summarize what is known about glia-synapse ... -
Microbial risks of reclaimed water uses in agriculture: Development of a QMRA model
(2014)In arid and semi-arid areas, wastewater is a reliable source of water with valuable nutrients for agriculture. However, treated wastewater might contain pathogenic microorganisms that survived the water treatment. The ... -
Proposed mechanisms of action of serum triglyceride lowering by plant sterols and stanols
(2014)Plant sterols and their saturated derivates called stanols (PS) are structurally very similar to cholesterol. Due to this similarity, PS compete with dietary cholesterol for absorption in the small intestine. Consequently, ... -
Matching and Scheduling Algorithms on Large Scale Dynamic Graphs
(2014)The research for this thesis was conducted at Progressive Planning, an online multi-project management tool. For Progressive Planning, the precedence graph determines a partial ordering of the execution of jobs in each ... -
Epigenetic effects of psychological stressors in humans
(2014)The term epigenetics describes the machinery that acts over DNA and controls gene expression and cellular phenotype. With this mechanism, the epigenome controls gene expression by silencing or activating gene transcription. ... -
From Fighting To Belonging: the role of violence informed language in construction of affinity to own group in the Bogside and the Fountain, Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland
(2014)The aim of this thesis was to explore the signification processes of young people’s inter-group hostile attitudes and violent behaviour related to and used for building their sense of belonging to a particular place and ... -
La reconnaissance de la transidentité en France
(2014)La France, est-elle progressiste dans sa reconnaissance de la transidentité ? Oui, si on prend les journaux de 2010 au sérieux. Vue qu’en Europe, la France est surtout considérée comme un pays conservateur, cela soulève ... -
Trends in baseline characteristics of hypertensive patients on Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors compared to other antihypertensive medications
(2014)Background and objective: Observational studies are considered more appropriate in the assessment of comparative effectiveness in the general population. We aimed to explore the trends in differences in baseline characteristics ... -
Relating ECoG and the local field potential to underlying mechanisms
(2014)Since the advent of multielectrodes, interest in the low-frequency part of the extracellular field potential (EFP) has surged. Interpreting this electric signal is complicated because it is a superposition of transmembra ... -
Antiviral Therapy for Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
(2014)Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML) is a demyelinating disease of the brain caused by JC polyomavirus (JCV). PML occurs mostly in people with compromised immune systems like HIV infected persons, patients ... -
Early life stress predisposes to food allergy via modulation of the brain-gut-axis
(2014)The neural, immune and endocrine pathway communication between the brain and the gut, is referred to as the brain-gut-axis. The brain-gut-axis is a complex reflex network between the central nervous system and the enteric ... -
Regulating violence: response inhibition is differentially related to instrumental and reactive aggression
(2014)Response inhibition is the termination or prevention of impulsive motor responses. Impaired response inhibition has been primarily related to disorders with pronounced impulsivity. The current review proposes that response ... -
Identification of epigenomic patterns to annotate regulatory elements in the human genome
(2014)Recently, studies on transcriptional regulation have turned from single-gene to genome-wide research. This transgression provides new possibilities towards the identification of transcriptional regulation pathways, and the ... -
Immunoproteasomes and their functions in immunity and cell viability
(2014)Proteasomes are large protein complexes capable of degrading poly-ubiquitylated proteins. They function in the degradation of misfolded and damaged proteins and in many other cellular processes. Upon induction of the ... -
De Rol van Motivatie bij het Leren van een Tweede Taal
(2014)In huidig onderzoek werd gekeken naar de relatie tussen motivatie en Engelse receptieve woordenschat bij groep acht leerlingen van een reguliere school, een Vrije school en een EarlyBird school (n = 63). Om motivatie te ... -
Protective Factors in the Family Environment of Children of Divorce
(2014)Background: Children of divorced families report more internalizing and externalizing problem behavior compared to children of continuously married parents. Research shows that a possible cause for this increased problem ... -
Influence of non-resident father-child contact on mother’s wellbeing
(2014)In this study we did research on the influence of father-child contact after a divorce on mother’s wellbeing. Since the amount of divorces has increased from 12,1% till 36,5% between 1971 and 2011, many researchers examined ...