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Liver tumors irradiated from inside can be followed live from outside
A Dutch research team from Radboud University Medical Center has visualized the injection of radioactive microspheres during treatment of a patient with liver tumors ‘live on screen’. To our best knowledge, it was the first time microspheres were made visible during the procedure. This opens the way to a more personalized approach to treatment of liver tumors. The technique, which can safely be performed, is published in the journal Cancers.
Higher educated migrants feel less connected with the Netherlands
Western European societies, such as the Netherlands, aim at a rapid integration for migrants. Furthermore, we expect integration to be easier for migrants with a higher socio-economic position. However, these migrants actually feel a lower sense of belonging to the Netherlands than migrants with a lower socio-economic position. In her PhD thesis, Nella Geurts illustrates why this so-called integration paradox is less paradoxical than it seems.
Why dogs are so special
Research reveals the unique capability of dogs to understand humans. One look at our face while carefully listening to our voice and they can make sense of our emotional state.
Banking system reforms lead to new uncertainty
The 2008 financial crisis prompted reforms in the supervision and regulation of the European banking system, with the aim of preventing a new crisis. These reforms led to a greater intertwining of national and European rules and supervision. But ambiguity about where banks can challenge the rules and supervision could lead to new problems and risks. This is the conclusion of research conducted by Mirik van Rijn.
“I emailed professors to see if I could contribute to their research.”
Jordy Thielen has always been fascinated with doing research, especially research regarding how the brain works. Now, as a postdoc at the Donders Institute, he has the possibility to do exciting research on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence and cognitive neuroscience.
Education and society are increasingly interconnected
It’s common for students to do internships. Increasingly, however, students are actually joining forces with people in the field to tackle a project and learn from it. And it’s even better when students and professionals not only learn from each other, but also develop new knowledge together. This is preferably interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary in nature because working together in this way is also a competence for the future. Wietske Kuijer knows all about this and will deliver a keynote speech about it at Education Days 2022.
Making the invisible visible: flat glass in the Netherlands, 1850-1930
No building is conceivable without glass, whether old or new. Art historian Laura Roscam Abbing investigated the background of Dutch flat glass in the period 1850-1930 on the basis of the most important flat glass factory in the Netherlands: the Royal Dutch Glass Factory J.J.B.J. Bouvy in Dordrecht.
Quilting gives better outcomes in breast cancer surgery
Quilting reduces complications after a mastectomy or axillary lymph node dissection and offers many benefits to a patient. With this technique, a surgeon closes the cavity under the wound with needle and thread. A drain is no longer necessary. This has been shown by PhD research conducted by Britt Haghuis-Ten Wolde, in a collaboration between Radboud university medical center and Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital (CWZ).
CO2 utilisation often leads to insufficient emission reductions
Most forms of industrial CO2 utilisation do not reduce emissions sufficiently to comply with the Paris Agreement. And forms that would be able to halve emissions by 2030 are often not market-ready, conclude environmental scientists from Radboud University.
Does Botox make you appear emotionless? It’s not that bad
Research shows that after subtle use of Botox others can still recognise the way you feel.
One in five people is highly sensitive, but what does that mean?
Scientists seem to know very little about high sensitivity. Which is strange, considering that approximately 20% of the population is highly sensitive. This is what prompted Radboud University researchers to carry out the first ever systematic qualitative study on high sensitivity.
Dinosoaring through time
Yesterday is gone, last week no longer exists, and your toddler-self can only be found on old photographs. How can one study the long gone past when that past no longer exists? Come and join me in a time machine, together with Saint Augustine.
Growth charts for the brain help to understand mental illness
Researchers from Radboud university medical center have developed a set of growth charts for the brain. These ‘brain charts’ provide reference models for brain development and ageing across the entire human lifespan, based on a very large data set. These models can be used to make personalized predictions for each individual relevant to many brain conditions, and therefore have a high clinical potential. The software tools and models are available online. The work has been published in eLife.
Most COVID-19 ICU survivors have symptoms one year after ICU admission
75% of the COVID-19 survivors who were treated in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) experience physical, mental and/or cognitive problems one-year post ICU. This shows the large-scale MONITOR-IC study led by Radboudumc, in which the health status of ICU survivors is monitored with questionnaires up to five years after ICU admission.
Damels and cromedaries in Hatra
While repairing a temple damaged by ISIS in Hatra, northern Iraq, archaeologists have discovered images of hybrid camels - the result of a cross between a dromedary and a camel. The scientists draw conclusions from this discovery, which Lucinda Dirven, Professor of Comparative Religious Studies at Radboud University, questions in an interview with antiquarian Jona Lendering.
How we can keep trusting weather forecasts
Information from precipitation radars can help us better predict showers and storms. But the quality of these radars can deteriorate. Iwan Holleman has developed a universally applicable method to monitor their quality.
Looking for an explanation of the increase in transgender care
The Platform Diversity in Sex and Gender (Radboud University and Radboudumc) has received a grant for a new project. With an interdisciplinary team - which also includes communication experts - research will be conducted next year into explanations for the increase in the demand for transgender care. ‘This is not just a medical issue. It is certainly also a social issue.'
Measuring particulate matter in your own home and garden
How clean is the air in and around your own home? The particulate matter detector from start-up AeroCount has the answer. The detector is a result of a project that started as a research assignment for a course at Radboud University's Faculty of Science.
Political change translated into statues of Roman emperors
Between approximately 50 BC and 400 AD, the Roman Empire was ruled by more than fifty emperors. Each emperor had statues and busts made of himself that could be seen all over the Roman Empire. How the emperors were portrayed - in a toga, for example, or with a long beard, with wrinkles, in heroic nude - is representative of political changes, demonstrates historian Sam Heijnen.
To the left – to the leee…right
In our day, we are constantly asked to tell left from right. Why it is so common for people to confuse the two?