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  • Socially-aware business process redesign 
    Senderovich, Arik; Schippers, Joop J.; Reijers, Hajo A. (Springer, 2020)
    Existing techniques for the redesign of business processes are mostly concerned with optimizing efficiency and productivity, but do not take social considerations into account. In this paper, we represent social business ...
  • Entrepreneurs’ Over-optimism During the Early Life Course of the Firm 
    Kambourova, Zornitza; Stam, Erik (Springer, 2017-08-28)
    Recent research on cognitive biases in decision making suggests that over-optimism critically influences entrepreneurs’ decisions to establish and sustain new firms. This paper looks at entrepreneurs’ over-optimism during ...
  • A Skilled Workforce – Ready to Contribute to Tomorrow’s World of Work 
    Goos, Maarten (Springer, 2022-05-04)
    The digital transformation is rapidly changing the demand for workers’ skills, and this poses several challenges. One such challenge is how do we define ‘skills’ in the digital economy. Another challenge is who invest in ...
  • It is about power!: Unveiling power and empowerment in grassroots agri-food initiatives 
    De Sa Pavarini Raj, Guilherme (Utrecht University, 2024-05-22)
    Capitalist agri-food systems prioritise economic growth and capital accumulation, leading to extensive environmental degradation and social inequalities. Their dominance, shaped by unequal negotiations among actors, relies ...
  • Improvising Infrastructure: Infrastructure Practices and Social Exclusions of Unhoused Persons in Berlin 
    Protschky, Andrea Rita (Utrecht University, 2024-05-22)
    The thesis explores how unhoused Berliners living in public spaces or using temporary emergency shelters use or replace infrastructures for water, energy, communication, and mobility. It is based on a qualitative empirical ...
  • Spiritual Legacy, Sufi Identity, and Mystical Knowledge in Taṣliya formulae 
    Sajid, Mehdi (Brill, 2023)
    The tradition of taṣliya texts and practices in Sufism constitute an important source of Muslim intellectual and religious history. Previous studies have argued that these texts were more than mere cultural expressions of ...
  • A digital twin of Earth for the green transition 
    Bauer, Peter; Stevens, Bjorn; Hazeleger, Wilco (Nature Publishing Group, 2021-02)
  • Anomalous moisture sources of the Rhine basin during the extremely dry summers of 2003 and 2018 
    Benedict, Imme; van Heerwaarden, Chiel C.; van der Linden, Eveline C.; Weerts, Albrecht H.; Hazeleger, Wilco (Elsevier BV, 2021-03)
    Droughts can be studied from an atmospheric perspective by analysing large-scale dynamics and thermodynamics, and from a hydrological perspective by analysing interaction of precipitation, evaporation, soil moisture and ...
  • Event-Based Storylines to Address Climate Risk 
    Sillmann, Jana; Shepherd, Theodore G.; van den Hurk, Bart; Hazeleger, Wilco; Martius, Olivia; Slingo, Julia; Zscheischler, Jakob (Wiley, 2021-02)
    The climate science community is challenged to adopt an actionable risk perspective, which is difficult to align with the traditional focus on model-based probabilistic climate change projections. Event-based storylines ...
  • Revealing Lattice Expansion of Small-Pore Zeolite Catalysts during the Methanol-to-Olefins Process Using Combined Operando X-ray Diffraction and UV-vis Spectroscopy 
    Goetze, Joris; Yarulina, Irina; Gascon, Jorge; Kapteijn, Freek; Weckhuysen, Bert M. (American Chemical Society, 2018-03-02)
    In small-pore zeolite catalysts, where the size of the pores is limited by eight-ring windows, aromatic hydrocarbon pool molecules that are formed inside the zeolite during the Methanol-to-Olefins (MTO) process cannot exit ...
  • Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: The Foundations of Place-based Renewal 
    O’Connor, Allan; Stam, Erik; Sussan, Fiona; Audretsch, David B. (Springer, 2018)
    Regardless of how the concept of a ‘place’ is geographically defined, be it cities, regions, nations or otherwise, the impact of new technologies will influence much of our business, social, and economic landscapes. ...
  • Mesenchymal stromal/stem cells promote intestinal epithelium regeneration after chemotherapy-induced damage 
    Yetkin-Arik, B; Jansen, S A; Varderidou-Minasian, S; Westendorp, B; Skarp, K-P; Altelaar, M; Lindemans, C A; Lorenowicz, M J (BioMed Central, 2024-04-29)
    BACKGROUND: Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is a curative treatment for leukemia and a range of non-malignant disorders. The success of the therapy is hampered by occurrence of acute graft-versus-host ...
  • Scalable Visual Exploration of 3D Shape Databases via Feature Synthesis and Selection 
    Chen, Xingyu; Zeng, Guangdong; Kosinka, Jiri; Telea, Alex (SpringerSpringer, 2022-01-23)
    We present a set of techniques to address the problem of scalable creation of visual overview representations of large 3D shape databases based on dimensionality reduction of feature vectors extracted from shape descriptions. ...
  • Fathers of Young Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing Children: A Systematic Review 
    Szarkowski, Amy; Dirks, Evelien (Oxford University Press, 2021-03-17)
    Abstract Much of the literature exploring the role of parents of children who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) has focused on mothers; yet, the involvement and perspectives of fathers is valuable and warrants attention. ...
  • Global Groundwater Modeling and Monitoring: Opportunities and Challenges 
    Condon, Laura E.; Kollet, Stefan; Bierkens, Marc F.P.; Fogg, Graham E.; Maxwell, Reed M.; Hill, Mary C.; Fransen, Harrie Jan Hendricks; Verhoef, Anne; Van Loon, Anne F.; Sulis, Mauro; Abesser, Corinna (American Geophysical Union, 2021-12)
    Groundwater is by far the largest unfrozen freshwater resource on the planet. It plays a critical role as the bottom of the hydrologic cycle, redistributing water in the subsurface and supporting plants and surface water ...
  • Improving Deep Learning Projections by Neighborhood Analysis 
    Modrakowski, Terri; Espadoto, Mateus; Falcao, Alexandre; Hirata, Nina; Telea, Alex (SpringerSpringer, 2022-01-23)
    Visualization of multidimensional data is a difficult task, for which there are many tools. Among these tools, dimensionality reduction methods were shown to be particularly helpful to explore data visually. Techniques ...
  • Concern with COVID-19 pandemic threat and attitudes towards immigrants: The mediating effect of the desire for tightness 
    PsyCorona Collaboration; Mula, Silvana; Di Santo, Daniela; Resta, Elena; Bakhtiari, Farin; Baldner, Conrad; Molinario, Erica; Pierro, Antonio; Gelfand, Michele J.; Denison, Emmy; Agostini, Maximilian; Bélanger, Jocelyn J.; Gützkow, Ben; Kreienkamp, Jannis; Abakoumkin, Georgios; Abdul Khaiyom, Jamilah Hanum; Ahmedi, Vjollca; Akkas, Handan; Almenara, Carlos A.; Atta, Mohsin; Bagci, Sabahat Cigdem; Basel, Sima; Kida, Edona Berisha; Bernardo, Allan B.I.; Buttrick, Nicholas R.; Chobthamkit, Phatthanakit; Choi, Hoon Seok; Cristea, Mioara; Csaba, Sára; Damnjanovic, Kaja; Danyliuk, Ivan; Dash, Arobindu; Douglas, Karen M.; Enea, Violeta; Faller, Daiane Gracieli; Fitzsimons, Gavan J.; Gheorghiu, Alexandra; Gómez, Ángel; Hamaidia, Ali; Han, Qing; Helmy, Mai; Hudiyana, Joevarian; Jeronimus, Bertus F.; Jiang, Ding Yu; Jovanović, Veljko; Kamenov, Željka; Kende, Anna; Keng, Shian Ling; Reitsema, Anne Margit; Stroebe, Wolfgang; van Lissa, Caspar J. (Elsevier, 2022-01)
    Tightening social norms is thought to be adaptive for dealing with collective threat yet it may have negative consequences for increasing prejudice. The present research investigated the role of desire for cultural tightness, ...
  • Op zoek naar een verbeeldend utilisme: Besluitvormingsinstrumenten voor bestuurders en burgers bij beeldbepalende projecten 
    Mouter, Niek; Pelzer, Peter (2021)
    Soms worden dromen werkelijkheid, maar er zijn ook vele voorbeelden waarin manische ideeën voor beeldbepalende projecten uitmonden in fiasco’s. Hoe vind je in de plan- en besluitvorming over beeldbepalende projecten het ...
  • Virtual reality marketing and customer advocacy: Transforming experiences from story-telling to story-doing 
    de Regt, Anouk; Plangger, Kirk; Barnes, Stuart (Elsevier, 2021-11-01)
    Marketing managers strive to build branded experiences that both excite and engage their customers in novel ways in order to enhance attitudes and encourage positive behaviors towards their brands. As it offers immersive ...
  • The Way to Rome in the Medieval Welsh Imagination 
    Petrovskaia, Natalia (Palgrave MacmillanPalgrave Macmillan, 2024-04-27)
    This article examines how Rome, and the journey(s) to Rome, are represented in two autobiographical accounts of Gerald of Wales De rebus a se gestis ‘On the Things He Has Achieved’ (ca. 1210–1215) as well as in De iure et ...