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  • Effects of toll-like receptor agonists and SARS-CoV-2 antigens on interferon (IFN) expression by peripheral blood CD3+ T cells from COVID-19 patients 
    Abdolmohammadi-Vahid, Samaneh; Baradaran, Behzad; Sadeghi, Armin; Bezemer, Gilina; Kiaee, Fatemeh; Adcock, Ian M; Folkerts, Gert; Garssen, Johan; Mortaz, Esmaeil (Academic Press Inc., 2024-06)
    Background: Signaling by toll-like receptors (TLRs) initiates important immune responses against viral infection. The role of TLRs in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection is not well ...
  • Dansplaining #41: Prequels in de Versnelling 
    Hassler-Forest, Dan (2024-05-01)
  • Interplay of OATP1A/1B/2B1 uptake transporters and ABCB1 and ABCG2 efflux transporters in the handling of bilirubin and drugs 
    Li, Wenlong; Sparidans, Rolf W; Wang, Yaogeng; Martins, Margarida L F; de Waart, Dirk R; van Tellingen, Olaf; Song, Ji-Ying; Lebre, Maria C; van Hoppe, Stéphanie; Wagenaar, Els; Beijnen, Jos H; Schinkel, Alfred H (Elsevier Masson, 2024-06)
    Transmembrane drug transporters can be important determinants of the pharmacokinetics, efficacy, and safety profiles of drugs. To investigate the potential cooperative and/or counteracting interplay of OATP1A/1B/2B1 uptake ...
  • Chemical Recycling of Polypropylene 
    Jenks, Michael James Francis (Utrecht University, 2024-06-10)
    There are various types of plastic produced and used today in society. Depending on the plastic type and also the application, different recycling techniques are best suited to recovering as much value (in a economic but ...
  • Social Influence and the Energy Transition: Leveraging social networks and norms 
    Schneider, Philipp Tobias (Utrecht University, 2024-05-24)
    How people influence each other with regards to adopting sustainable behaviors is a major scientific and societal question. This is particularly relevant within the context of the energy transition. While much research has ...
  • Data Driven Understanding of Energy-Meteorological Variability and its Impact on Energy System Operations 
    Stoop, Laurens Persijn (Utrecht UniversityDutch Research School for Information and Knowledge Systems, 2024-05-22)
    Earth’s climate is changing. For a habitable planet in the future the emission of greenhouse gasses needs to be stopped. As future societies still require energy for their basic needs, a transition away from fossil fuel ...
  • Aerial mapping of the Peruvian Chira Valley banana production system to monitor the expansion of Fusarium wilt caused by Tropical Race 4 
    Nakasato tagami, Giuliana; Van westerhoven, Anouk c.; Seidl, Michael; Van der sluis, Jaap; Cozzarelli, Mario; Balarezo, Diego; Pflücker, Rafael; Marquez rosillo, Claudio; Clercx, Luud; Kema, Gerrit h. j. (2024-04-16)
    The recent incursion of Fusarium wilt of banana (FWB) caused by TR4 threatens banana production in the Chira Valley of Peru. To develop a management strategy, we mapped the entire production area from the air. During 12 ...
  • Characterization of the Edge States in Colloidal Bi2Se3 Platelets 
    Moes, Jesper R.; Vliem, Jara F.; Monteiro Campos de Melo, Pedro; Wigmans, Thomas C.; Botello-Méndez, Andrés R.; Mendes, Rafael G.; Brenk, Ella F. van; Swart, Ingmar; Licerán, Lucas Maisel; Stoof, Henk; Delerue, Christophe; Zanolli, Zeila; Vanmaekelbergh, Daniel (American Chemical Society, 2024-05)
    The remarkable development of colloidal nanocrystals with controlled dimensions and surface chemistry has resulted in vast optoelectronic applications. But can they also form a platform for quantum materials, in which ...
  • Evolution of Humanity: English Translation of the Original Essay by Kinji Imanishi. Including Commentaries by Contemporary Scholars 
    DeTroy, Sarah E.; Hirata, Satoshi; Nakamura, Michio; Haun, Daniel B. M.; van Leeuwen, Edwin J. C. (Springer, 2024)
    In 1952, Kinji Imanishi wrote a thought-provoking essay on the nature of animal societies. In this essay, he applied the concept of human culture (which he referred to as Karuchua) to nonhuman animals by giving different ...
  • Adopting Mechanistic Molecular Biology Approaches in Exposome Research for Causal Understanding 
    Foreman, Amy L; Warth, Benedikt; Hessel, Ellen V S; Price, Elliott J; Schymanski, Emma L; Cantelli, Gaia; Parkinson, Helen; Hecht, Helge; Klánová, Jana; Vlaanderen, Jelle; Hilscherova, Klara; Vrijheid, Martine; Vineis, Paolo; Araujo, Rita; Barouki, Robert; Vermeulen, Roel; Lanone, Sophie; Brunak, Søren; Sebert, Sylvain; Karjalainen, Tuomo (American Chemical Society, 2024-04-30)
    Through investigating the combined impact of the environmental exposures experienced by an individual throughout their lifetime, exposome research provides opportunities to understand and mitigate negative health outcomes. ...
  • Atacama Desert’s Solastalgia: Color and Water for Dumping 
    Sánchez De Jaegher, Carolina (Springer, 2024)
    The blooming desert or ‘El desierto florido’ in Spanish, is a millenarian climate pattern caused by El Niño that warms the surface waters in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean and creates the conditions for rain in the ...
  • Editorial: 2024 - A promising start for regulatory toxicology and pharmacology 
    van den Berg, Martin; Aylward, Lesa (Academic Press Inc., 2024-05)
  • Miracles and Misadventures: Childhood and Public Health in the Late Medieval Low Countries 
    Coomans, Janna; Marschall, Bente (Elsevier, 2024)
    Administrative sources and miracle accounts from six Netherlandish urban shrine cults help to explore the interests of inhabitants and urban institutions in intervening in children’s safety, behaviour, and upbringing. Care ...
  • Uncovering Determinants of Entrepreneurial Behaviour in a Transitioning Economy: A Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis 
    Al-Silefanee, Rebean; Bosma, Niels (Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd, 2024)
    The purpose of this research article is to explore the determinants of entrepreneurial behaviour among university students in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The study uses a novel approach of fuzzy-set qualitative comparative ...
  • FAO’s 1.5 °C roadmap for food systems falls short 
    Verkuijl, Cleo; Dutkiewicz, Jan; Scherer, Laura; Behrens, Paul; Lazarus, Michael; Hötzel, Maria José; Nordquist, Rebecca; Hayek, Matthew (Springer Nature, 2024-03-18)
    The first instalment of the FAO food systems roadmap is a key step in identifying pathways to achieve zero hunger without breaching the 1.5 °C climate change threshold. But future instalments should be more methodologically ...
  • All Necessary Measures: Climate Law for International Shipping 
    Kerr, Baine (2024)
    International shipping is one of the largest sources of climate pollution. The conventional view is that, despite some ambiguities in the climate treaties, international law only requires states to implement global rules ...
  • Assessing the Digital Visibility of Literary Translators 
    van Egdom, G.M.W.; Declercq, Christophe (2024-04)
    Academic and professional publications have shown that the social status of literary translators is relatively low. However, with the rise of digitalization, translators dispose of new means to enhance their visibility ...
  • Shipping's Fair Share 
    Kerr, Baine (2024-05)
    In July 2023, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) resolved to reduce international shipping’s greenhouse gas emissions to net zero “by or around, i.e., close to” 2050. There is a long-running debate about whether ...
  • A transformative shift in urban ecology toward a more active and relevant future for the field and for cities 
    Frantzeskaki, Niki; Childers, Daniel L.; Pickett, Steward; Hoover, Fushcia Ann; Anderson, Pippin; Barau, Aliyu; Ginsberg, Joshua; Grove, Morgan; Lodder, Marleen; Lugo, Ariel E.; McPhearson, Timon; Muñoz-Erickson, Tischa A.; Quartier, Mien; Schepers, Selina; Sharifi, Ayyoob; van de Sijpe, Katrien (Allen Press Inc., 2024)
    This paper builds on the expansion of urban ecology from a biologically based discipline—ecology in the city—to an increasingly interdisciplinary field—ecology of the city—to a transdisciplinary, knowledge to action ...
  • Shifting forward: Urban ecology in perspective 
    Pickett, Steward T.A.; Frantzeskaki, Niki; Andersson, Erik; Barau, Aliyu Salisu; Childers, Daniel L.; Hoover, Fushcia Ann; Lugo, Ariel E.; McPhearson, Timon; Nagendra, Harini; Schepers, Selina; Sharifi, Ayyoob (Allen Press Inc., 2024)
    The world has become urban; cities increasingly shape our worldviews, relation to other species, and the large-scale, long-term decisions we make. Cities are nature, but they need to align better with other ecosystems to ...