Recently added

DSpace/Manakin Repository

Utrecht University Repository: Recent submissions

  • Alpine rockwall erosion patterns follow elevation-dependent climate trajectories 
    Draebing, Daniel; Mayer, Till; Jacobs, Benjamin; McColl, Samuel T. (Springer Nature, 2022-02-09)
    Mountainous topography reflects an interplay between tectonic uplift, crustal strength, and climate-conditioned erosion cycles. During glaciations, glacial erosion increases bedrock relief, whereas during interglacials ...
  • A modeling framework to quantify the effects of compaction on soil water retention and infiltration 
    Ngo-Cong, Duc; Antille, Diogenes L.; van Genuchten, Martinus Th; Nguyen, Hung Q.; Tekeste, Mehari Z.; Baillie, Craig P.; Godwin, Richard J. (Soil Science Society of America, 2021-11)
    The water retention curve (WRC) of arable soils from the southeastern United States at different levels of compaction (no compaction, and 10 and 20% increases in soil bulk density) was estimated using the van Genuchten-Mualem ...
  • Closed-form hydraulic conductivity equations for multimodal unsaturated soil hydraulic properties 
    Seki, Katsutoshi; Toride, Nobuo; van Genuchten, Martinus Th (Wiley, 2022-01)
    Closed-form expressions of the hydraulic conductivity function for linearly superposed subretention (multimodal) functions were derived for arbitrary sets of the Brooks and Corey (BC), van Genuchten (VG), and Kosugi (KO) ...
  • On Infiltration and Infiltration Characteristic Times 
    Rahmati, Mehdi; Latorre, Borja; Moret‐Fernández, David; Lassabatere, Laurent; Talebian, Nima; Miller, Dane; Morbidelli, Renato; Iovino, Massimo; Bagarello, Vincenzo; Neyshabouri, Mohammad Reza; Zhao, Ying; Vanderborght, Jan; Weihermüller, Lutz; Jaramillo, Rafael Angulo; Or, Dani; Genuchten, Martinus van; Vereecken, Harry (American Geophysical Union, 2022-05)
    In his seminal paper on the solution of the infiltration equation, Philip (1969), https://doi-org.proxy.library.uu.nl/10.1016/b978-1-4831-9936-8.50010-6 proposed a gravity time, tgrav, to estimate practical convergence ...
  • Field-scale assessment of the unsaturated hydraulic properties of residual soils in southeastern Brazil 
    Gomes, Ruan G.S.; Gomes, Guilherme J.C.; Vargas, Eurípedes A.; Van Genuchten, Martinus Th; Pinto, João T.M.G.; Rosa, Felipe A. (Slovak Academy of Sciences, 2022-06)
    Field tests were carried out to estimate effective unsaturated soil hydraulic properties of layered residual soils in Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil. Data of this type are important for understanding the initiation ...
  • Effects of carbonated water injection on the pore system of a carbonate rock (coquina) 
    Silveira, Thaís M.; Hoerlle, Fernanda; Rocha, Adriano S.; Lima, Maira C.O.; Ramirez, Mateus G.; Pontedeiro, Elizabeth M.; Van Genuchten, Martinus Th; Cruz, Daniel O.A.; Couto, Paulo (Slovak Academy of Sciences, 2022-06)
    CO2 injection is a well-known Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) technique that has been used for years to improve oil extraction from carbonate rock and other oil reservoirs. Optimal functioning of CO2 injection requires a ...
  • Improving wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) antioxidative defense mechanisms against salinity stress by exogenous application of potassium silicate 
    Feghhenabi, Faride; Hadi, Hashem; Khodaverdiloo, Habib; van Genuchten, Martinus Th; Pessarakli, Mohammad (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2022-05-04)
    The primary objective of this study was to investigate the beneficial effects of seed priming and foliar spray of potassium silicate on antioxidant activities under different salinity levels, thereby potentially improving ...
  • Stable carbon isotopic composition of biomass burning emissions – implications for estimating the contribution of C3 and C4 plants 
    Vernooij, Roland; Dusek, Ulrike; Popa, Maria Elena; Yao, Peng; Shaikat, Anupam; Qiu, Chenxi; Winiger, Patrik; van der Veen, Carina; Eames, Thomas Callum; Ribeiro, Natasha; van der Werf, Guido R. (Copernicus Publications, 2022-03-03)
    Landscape fires are a significant contributor to atmospheric burdens of greenhouse gases and aerosols. Although many studies have looked at biomass burning products and their fate in the atmosphere, estimating and tracing ...
  • Do Low-density Granulocytes Induce Lymphopenia in Patients with COVID-19? 
    Mortaz, Esmaeil; Garssen, Johan; Adcock, Ian M. (Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, 2022-06-01)
  • Robust estimates for the decadal evolution of Agulhas leakage from the 1960s to the 2010s 
    Rühs, Siren; Schmidt, Christina; Schubert, René; Schulzki, Tobias; Schwarzkopf, Franziska; Bars, Dewi Le; Biastoch, Arne (Springer Nature, 2022-12-14)
    Agulhas leakage, the transport of warm and salty waters from the Indian Ocean into the South Atlantic, has been suggested to increase under anthropogenic climate change, due to strengthening Southern Hemisphere westerly ...
  • Repurposing the Pentameric B-Subunit of Shiga Toxin for Gb3-Targeted Immunotherapy of Colorectal Cancer by Rhamnose Conjugation 
    Liu, Zhicheng; Li, Xia; Lu, Zhongkai; Qin, Xinfang; Hong, Haofei; Zhou, Zhifang; Pieters, Roland J.; Shi, Jie; Wu, Zhimeng (John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2022-10)
    Globotriaosylceramide (Gb3 or CD77) is a tumor-associated carbohydrate antigen implicated in several types of cancer that serves as a potential cancer marker for developing target-specific diagnosis and therapy. However, ...
  • Prevalence of questionable research practices, research misconduct and their potential explanatory factors: A survey among academic researchers in the Netherlands 
    Gopalakrishna, Gowri; ter Riet, Gerben; Vink, Gerko; Stoop, Ineke; Wicherts, Jelte M.; Bouter, Lex M. (Public Library of Science, 2022-02-16)
    Prevalence of research misconduct, questionable research practices (QRPs) and their associations with a range of explanatory factors has not been studied sufficiently among academic researchers. The National Survey on ...
  • Rhamnose-based glycomimetic for recruitment of endogenous anti-rhamnose antibodies 
    Hribernik, Nives; Chiodo, Fabrizio; Pieters, Roland J.; Bernardi, Anna (Elsevier, 2022-06-08)
    Recruitment of natural antibodies towards tumour cells for their elimination by the immune system could be a highly specific and efficacious therapeutic strategy. While natural L-rhamnose has already been explored as a ...
  • Duality between a deterministic cellular automaton and a bosonic quantum field theory in 1+1 dimensions 
    Hooft, Gerard 't (Springer Netherlands, 2013-05)
    Methods developed in a previous paper are employed to define an exact correspondence between the states of a deterministic cellular automaton in 1+1 dimensions and those of a bosonic quantum field theory. The result may ...
  • The Use of Evidence in Evidence-Based Legislation: A Reflection 
    Princen, Sebastiaan (2022)
    This article reflects on the contributions to the Special Issue on evidence-based legislation. It argues that both normative questions about how evidence should be used and factual questions about how evidence actually is ...
  • Peak refreezing in the Greenland firn layer under future warming scenarios 
    Noël, Brice; Lenaerts, Jan T. M.; Lipscomb, William H.; Thayer-Calder, Katherine; Broeke, Michiel R. van den (Nature Publishing Group, 2022-11-11)
    Firn (compressed snow) covers approximately 90% of the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) and currently retains about half of rain and meltwater through refreezing, reducing runoff and subsequent mass loss. The loss of firn could ...
  • A comprehensive overview of the complexity of gender privilege patterns 
    Bacchini, E.A.M. (2022-06)
    Book review of Entitled: How male privilege hurts women by Kate Manne (2020)
  • How serious are we about protecting workers health? The case of diesel engine exhaust 
    Vermeulen, Roel; Portengen, Lützen (BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2022-02-11)
    Objectives: Regulators frequently deviate from health-based recommendations when setting occupational exposure limits, but the impact on workers' health is rarely made explicit. We present a quantitative evaluation of the ...
  • Plasma concentrations of persistent organic pollutants and pancreatic cancer risk 
    Porta, Miquel; Gasull, M.; Pumarega, J.; Kiviranta, Hannu; Rantakokko, Panu; Raaschou-Nielsen, Ole; Bergdahl, Ingvar A; Sandanger, Torkjel Manning; Agudo, Antonio; Rylander, Charlotta; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Aune, Dagfinn; Heath, A.K.; Cirera, Lluis; Goñi-Irigoyen, Fernando; Alguacil, Juan; Gimenez-Robert, Alex; Tjonneland, Anne; Sund, Malin; Overvad, Kim; Mancini, Francesca Romana; Rebours, V.; Boutron-Ruault, Marie Christine; Kaaks, Rudolf; Schulze, M.B.; Trichopoulou, Antonia; Palli, Domenico; Grioni, Sara; Tumino, Rosario; Naccarati, Alessio; Panico, Salvatore; Vermeulen, Roel; Quiros, J.R.; Rodriguez-Barranco, Miguel; Colorado-Yohar, Sandra; Chirlaque, Maria Dolores; Ardanaz, Eva; Wareham, Nick J; Key, Timothy; Johansson, Mattias; Murphy, Neil; Ferrari, Pietro; Huybrechts, Inge; Chajes, V.; González, Carlos A.; Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita; Gunter, M.J.; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Riboli, Elio; Duell, Eric J.; Katzke, Verena; Vineis, Paolo (NLM (Medline), 2022-04)
    Background: Findings and limitations of previous studies on persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and pancreatic cancer risk support conducting further research in prospective cohorts. Methods: We conducted a prospective ...
  • Epigenetic mechanisms of lung carcinogenesis involve differentially methylated CpG sites beyond those associated with smoking 
    Petrovic, Dusan; Bodinier, Barbara; Dagnino, S.; Whitaker, Matthew; Karimi, Maryam; Campanella, Gianluca; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Polidoro, Silvia; Krogh, Vittorio; Tumino, Rosario; Sacerdote, Carlotta; Panico, Salvatore; Lund, Eiliv; Dugué, Pierre-Antoine; Giles, Graham G.; Severi, Gianluca; Southey, Melissa C.; Vineis, Paolo; Stringhini, Silvia; Bochud, Murielle; Sandanger, Torkjel M; Vermeulen, Roel; Guida, Florence; Chadeau-Hyam, Marc (Springer Netherlands, 2022-06)
    Smoking-related epigenetic changes have been linked to lung cancer, but the contribution of epigenetic alterations unrelated to smoking remains unclear. We sought for a sparse set of CpG sites predicting lung cancer and ...