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  • Dismantling the dispositif: Social science experiments in the classroom 
    de Klerk, Nico (2023-06-05)
    This is a case study of a series of pioneering tests with visual teaching aids in elementary and secondary schools in the United States, conducted between 1920 and 1923. As it happened, these tests coincided with similar ...
  • The educational dispositif: A smaller abstraction 
    de Klerk, Nico; Yazdanpanah, Marie-Noelle (2023-06-05)
    Introduction to special issue on audio-visual, educational media and their use in schools, universities, popular education or vocational training since the late-19th century. In recent years the growing body of work on the ...
  • What's in an Index: Extracting Domain-specific Knowledge Graphs from Textbooks 
    Alpizar-Chacon, I.; Sosnovsky, S. (Association for Computing Machinery, 2022)
    A typical index at the end of a textbook contains a manually-provided vocabulary of terms related to the content of the textbook. In this paper, we extend our previous work on extraction of knowledge models from digital ...
  • Introduction to the Fifth Annual Lifelog Search Challenge, LSC'22 
    Gurrin, Cathal; Zhou, Liting; Healy, Graham; Jónsson, Björn Pór; Dang-Nguyen, Duc Tien; Lokoć, Jakub; Tran, Minh Triet; Hürst, Wolfgang; Rossetto, Luca; Schöffmann, Klaus (Association for Computing Machinery, 2022-06-27)
    For the fifth time since 2018, the Lifelog Search Challenge (LSC) facilitated a benchmarking exercise to compare interactive search systems designed for multimodal lifelogs. LSC'22 attracted nine participating research ...
  • Enriching Intelligent Textbooks with Interactivity: When Smart Content Allocation Goes Wrong 
    Sabet, A.J.; Alpizar-Chacon, I.; Barria-Pineda, J.; Brusilovsky, P.; Sosnovsky, S. (2022)
    One of the main directions of increasing the educational value of a digital textbook is its enrichment with interactive content. Such content can come from outside the textbooks - from multiple existing repositories of ...
  • Designing a Topic-Based Literature Exploration Tool in AR-An exploratory study for neuroscience 
    Tanhaei, Ghazaleh; Troost, Ivar; Hardman, Lynda; Hurst, Wolfgang (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022)
    The large and increasing amount of scientific literature makes it difficult for researchers to analyse and understand relations between topics even in their specific sub-field. Neuroscience researchers are interested in ...
  • Multiplayer Tension in the Wild: A Hearthstone Case 
    Mavromoustakos-Blom, Paris; Melhárt, Dávid; Liapis, Antonios; Yannakakis, Georgios N.; Bakkes, Sander; Spronck, Pieter (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2023-04-12)
    Games are designed to elicit strong emotions during game play, especially when players are competing against each other. Artificial Intelligence applied to predict a player's emotions has mainly been tested on single-player ...
  • Model-Based Sparse Communication in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning 
    Han, Shuai; Dastani, Mehdi; Wang, Shihan (International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS), 2023)
    Learning to communicate efficiently is central to multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). Existing methods often require agents to exchange messages intensively, which abuses communication channels and leads to high ...
  • Introducing 3D Thumbnails to Access 360-Degree Videos in Virtual Reality 
    Vermast, Alissa; Hurst, Wolfgang (IEEE Computer Society, 2023-05-01)
    360° videos provide an immersive experience, especially when watched in virtual reality (VR). Yet, even though the video data is inherently three-dimensional, interfaces to access datasets of such videos in VR almost ...
  • Identifying Body Appreciation by Visualising Actual/Ideal Self-Discrepancy: An Avatar Creation Task 
    Wagensveld, Lisa; Nimwegen, Christof Van; Bakkes, Sander (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2023-04-12)
    Negative body perception can negatively affect one's health, as it can lead to depression and eating disorders. Body appreciation on the other hand, is about accepting, respecting, loving, and appreciating the body, and ...
  • First Experiments with an Applied Gaming Intervention for reducing Loneliness of Children with Chronic Illness: Lessons Learned 
    Alexandridis, Dionysis; Bakkes, Sander C.J.; Nijhof, Sanne L.; Van De Putte, Elise; Veltkamp, Remco C. (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2023-04-12)
    We present the first experiments from a pilot study with Ruby's Mission, an applied gaming intervention for reducing feelings of loneliness in children with a chronic illness. Based on a previously performed literature ...
  • A cross-sectional study on gaming intensity and social vulnerability in adolescents that have a chronic condition 
    Alexandridis, Dionysis; Nijhof, Sanne L; van der Rijst, Vincent G; van der Neut, Damian Y; Spijkerman, Renske; Stevens, Gonneke W J M; Bakkes, Sander C J; Lesscher, Heidi M B; van den Eijnden, Regina J J M; van der Ent, Cornelis K; van den Berg, Gerrit; Peeters, Margot (Frontiers Media S.A., 2023)
    BACKGROUND: Adolescents growing up with a chronic condition might experience more social vulnerabilities compared to their healthy peers as an indirect result of their conditions. This can lead to a relatedness need ...
  • Mobility dynamics within the settlement phase of Syrian refugees in Norway and The Netherlands 
    van Liempt, Ilse; Bygnes, Susanne (Routledge, 2023-06-01)
    This paper sets out to investigate the forced and voluntary (im)mobility of Syrians who recently moved to Europe and are in the transition from asylum to settlement. We conceptualise ‘settlement’ for this group as a dynamic ...
  • The State of the Art and Challenges of In Vitro Methods for Human Hazard Assessment of Nanomaterials in the Context of Safe-by-Design 
    Ruijter, Nienke; Soeteman-Hernández, Lya G; Carrière, Marie; Boyles, Matthew; McLean, Polly; Catalán, Julia; Katsumiti, Alberto; Cabellos, Joan; Delpivo, Camilla; Sánchez Jiménez, Araceli; Candalija, Ana; Rodríguez-Llopis, Isabel; Vázquez-Campos, Socorro; Cassee, Flemming R; Braakhuis, Hedwig (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2023-02-01)
    The Safe-by-Design (SbD) concept aims to facilitate the development of safer materials/products, safer production, and safer use and end-of-life by performing timely SbD interventions to reduce hazard, exposure, or both. ...
  • Surface protein profiling of milk and serum extracellular vesicles unveils body fluid-specific signatures 
    Giovanazzi, Alberta; van Herwijnen, Martijn J C; Kleinjan, Marije; van der Meulen, Gerbrich N; Wauben, Marca H M (NLM (Medline), 2023-05-30)
    Cell-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) are currently in the limelight as potential disease biomarkers. The promise of EV-based liquid biopsy resides in the identification of specific disease-associated EV signatures. ...
  • Acquiring Financial Support for Children's Sports Participation: Co-Creating a Socially Safe Environment for Parents from Low-Income Families 
    van Leeuwen, Lonneke; Ruiter, Angelique; Visser, Kirsten; Lesscher, Heidi M B; Jonker, Merel (MDPI AG, 2023-05-12)
    Despite the many benefits of club-organized sports participation for children, sports participation is lower among children from low-income families than among those from middle- or high-income families. Social safety ...
  • The DECIDE project: from surveillance data to decision-support for farmers and veterinarians 
    Schaik, Gerdien van; Hostens, Miel; Faverjon, Céline; Jensen, Dan B.; Kristensen, Anders R.; Ezanno, Pauline; Frössling, Jenny; Dórea, Fernanda; Jensen, Britt-Bang; Carmo, Luis Pedro; Steeneveld, Wilma; Rushton, Jonathan; Gilbert, William; Bearth, Angela; Siegrist, Michael; Kaler, Jasmeet; Ripperger, Johannes; Siehler, Jamuna; Wit, Sjaak de; Garcia-Morante, Beatriz; Segalés, Joaquim; Pardon, Bart; Bokma, Jade; Nielen, Mirjam (F1000 Research Ltd., 2023-05-17)
    Farmers, veterinarians and other animal health managers in the livestock sector are currently missing sufficient information on prevalence and burden of contagious endemic animal diseases. They need adequate tools for risk ...
  • Wool cortisol as putative retrospective indicator of stress in ewes during the third trimester of pregnancy, and their newborns: effects of parity and litter size — an exploratory study 
    Zeinstra, Elly; Vernooij, Hans; Bentvelzen, M. (Mireille); van der Staay, Franz Josef; Nordquist, Rebecca (Frontiers Media, 2023-05-31)
    Stress is an important factor in animal welfare. Hair or wool cortisol concentrations are considered to be potential long-term indicators of stress experienced by an animal. Using Swifter sheep, we investigated whether ewe ...
  • Dissecting cellular organization using innovative microscopy 
    Damstra, Hugo Geert Jan (Utrecht University, 2023-06-20)
    Understanding the structural organization of cells is essential to elucidate their biological function in health and disease. In the first part of this thesis, we develop Expansion Microscopy (ExM) approaches to visualize ...
  • Closing the Circular Economy Loophole: On fair governance for European waste exports 
    Thapa, Kaustubh (Utrecht University, 2023-06-21)
    The circular economy has gained recognition as a transition model in the European Union (EU) and worldwide, with the implementation of policies like the Circular Economy Action Plans. The main goal is to reduce waste and ...