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The transition to a circular and low-carbon economy calls for new, sustainable materials and cleaner production methods. Mycelium-based bio-composites—materials grown from fungal networks and agricultural waste—offer a biodegradable alternative to ...
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The RAAK Pro MARS4Earth project focuses on the question of whether it is possible to develop a prototype of a modular and autonomous aerial manipulator (drone + robot arm) that can physically interact with a realistic outdoor environment, and what ...
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Environmental nano- and micro-plastics (NMPs) are highly diverse [2]. Accounting for this diversity is one of the main challenges to develop a comprehensive understanding of NMPs detection, quantification, fate, and risks [3]. Two major issues ...
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The climate change and depletion of the world’s raw materials are commonly acknowledged as the biggest societal challenges. Decreasing the energy use and the related use of fossil fuels and fossil based materials is imperative for the future. ...
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"Rising Tides, Shifting Imaginaries: Participatory Climate Fiction-Making with Cultural Collections," is an transdisciplinary research project that merges information design, participatory art, and climate imaginaries to address the pressing ...
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Skin cancer incidence is rising globally, while topical chemotherapies suffer from poor skin penetration and limited cellular drug uptake, often relying on harmful penetration enhancers. This project explores a bio-inspired alternative using plant ...
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The Netherlands is one of the most densely populated countries in Europe. Despite the excellent road network, The Netherlands is confronted with this density on a daily basis: the negative impact of traffic jams and incidents on travel times is ...
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Vulnerable pregnant women are an important and complex theme in daily practice of birth care professionals. Vulnerability is an important risk factor for maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity. Providing care for these women is often complex. ...
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The increasing amount of electronic waste (e-waste) urgently requires the use of innovative solutions within the circular economy models in this industry. Sorting of e-waste in a proper manner are essential for the recovery of valuable materials and ...
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The hydrogen sector is advancing at an unprecedented pace, driven by urgent decarbonization goals and the growing need for sustainable energy solutions. The sector has a clear presence in the Brainport area, an area well-known for its ecosystems for ...
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Every year in the Netherlands around 10.000 people are diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer, commonly at advanced stages. In 1 to 2% of patients, a chromosomal translocation of the ROS1 gene drives oncogenesis. Since a few years, ROS1+ cancer ...
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Designing with the Sun is a KIEM-GoCI explorative research project on the theme Energy Transition and Sustainability. The project is aimed at network and agenda building and design research that explores new (cultural) practices of renewable energy ...
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Various studies suggest that the fashion and textile industry need to move away from traditional, extractive leadership models. Dreier et al. (2019) show how traditional top-down, hierarchical leadership approaches are not effective in fostering ...
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In the Dutch National Environmental Vision the societal challenge of building sustainable 1 million homes by 2035, is associated to the energy and mobility transitions. New living and working locations are mapped on existing urbanized sites - mainly ...
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The reclaiming of street spaces for pedestrians during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as on Witte de Withstraat in Rotterdam, appears to have multiple benefits: It allows people to escape the potentially infected indoor air, limits accessibility for ...
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Fashion has become inextricably linked with digital culture. Digital media have opened up new spaces of fashion consumption that are unprecedented in their levels of ubiquity, immersion, fluidity, and interactivity. The virtual realm continuously ...
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Climate change has impacted our planet ecosystem(s) in many ways. Among other alterations, the predominance of long(er) drought periods became a point of concern for many countries. A good example is The Netherlands, a country known by its channels ...
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Hate speech poses serious threats to both its immediate targets and democratic societies across Europe, especially with recent AI-driven technologies increasing its reach and impact. Despite the technical progress in the detection and analysis of ...
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The denim industry faces many complex sustainability challenges and has been especially criticized for its polluting and hazardous production practices. Reducing resource use of water, chemicals and energy and changing denim production practices ...
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Laif & Nuver, a retail business in Groningen, have asked the Research Center for Built Environment at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences and House of Design for assistance with one of their waste streams: EPS – Ex-panded Polystyrene packaging (...
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Small-scale fisheries have a long heritage in the Wadden Sea area, working flexibly with traditional practices that adapt and respond to the changing natural environment (Geintegreede Visserij, 2018). Through their constant presence on the Wadden Sea,...
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