The Amazon rainforest is considered one of the Earth’s tipping elements and may lose stability under ongoing climate change. Recently a decrease in tropical rainforest resilience has been identified globally from remotely ...

Although the Japanese government is an early adopter of Circular Economy (CE) policies and developed the concept of the Sound Material-Cycle Society in the early 2000s, its CE policies have nonetheless been poorly researched ...

This special issue of the Netherlands Journal of Geosciences is dedicated to geoscientific research related to geological disposal of nuclear waste. Geological disposal of nuclear waste is generally accepted as the optimum ...

Machine ethics aims to produce moral behaviour in artificial intelligence (AI) systems, by equipping such systems with moral reasoning capacities. One approach within machine ethics is to use deontic logics, i.e. logics ...

Het oppakken van laboratoriummuizen heeft een effect op hun stress- en angstgerelateerde reacties. Ook de manier waarop het dier wordt opgepakt kan grote effecten hebben op het gedrag. In (gedrags-)onderzoek is het daarom ...

In this thesis I aimed to investigate whether CT-optimal touch can ameliorate pain and itch in healthy individuals as well as in Parkinson patients suffering from chronic pain. I created a novel model, used experimental ...

Just like the renal fluid and blood in your kidneys, particle-stabilized bicontinuous emulsions (also known as bijels) consist of two complexly intertwined, but separate fluid networks, with a large liquid-liquid surface ...

Our world contains many ecosystems, from tropical forests to coral reefs to urban parks. Ecosystems help us in important ways, including cleaning our air and water, storing carbon, and producing food. People have been ...

n the wake of numerous propositions to trial, test or up-scale ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) for carbon dioxide removal (CDR), multiple social considerations have begun to be identified. To ensure that OAE research ...

Cost-benefit integrated assessment models (IAMs) inform the policy deliberation process by determining cost-optimal greenhouse gas emission reduction pathways based on economic considerations. These models seek to maximise ...