Eindhoven University of Technology

Understanding Stress Levels in ICU Residents: The Role of Baseline Psychological State and Personal Characteristics

BACKGROUND: Intensive care unit (ICU) residents work in highly stressful environments characterized by clinical uncertainty and critically ill patients. During residency, physicians need to adapt to demanding workplace conditions while also navigating stressors related to their s...

Undesired body orientations in competitive pedestrian evacuations

We report time-resolved experimental measurements of human body orientation in extremely dense crowds during highly competitive evacuations. By comparing different scenarios, we find that as competitiveness increases and contact forces among pedestrians build up, orientational or...

A Unified Force Density Framework for Plasma Confinement: Integrating Navier-Stokes with Local Interaction Field Equilibrium (LIFE)

Achieving stable magnetic confinement in nuclear fusion plasmas remains a profound theoretical and engineering challenge. Fundamentally, plasma confinement is a problem of macroscopic force density equilibrium. However, standard Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) models treat mechanical f...

A Unified Force Density Framework for Plasma Confinement: Integrating Navier-Stokes with Local Interaction Field Equilibrium (LIFE)

Achieving stable magnetic confinement in nuclear fusion plasmas remains a profound theoretical and engineering challenge. Fundamentally, plasma confinement is a problem of macroscopic force density equilibrium. However, standard Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) models treat mechanical f...

A zero-dimensional global conservation model to determine non-ideal nozzle conditions for gas injections

To reduce computation times of simulations involving gas fueled internal combustion engines (ICEs), a model is developed that determines non-ideal nozzle exit conditions to spare expensive simulations of internal injector flows. The model, to which we will refer as the Global Con...

A Storage Process with Alternating Lévy Input

In this paper, we study a queueing process for which the dynamics are changed once the workload in the queue exceeds a predefined threshold, and these new dynamics stay in force until the queue is emptied, at which point the previous dynamics are again reinstalled. For general sp...

A Comprehensive History of μCRL and mCRL2

This article gives a historical overview of the background, motivation and development of \mu CRL and its successor mCRL2, from the inception to the present. Both mCRL2 and \mu CRL are similar, compact, but very expressive formalisms based on process algebra, term rewriting, and...

Macroscopic Self-Confinement of Orthogonally Intersecting Laser Beams: A Maxwell Stress Tensor and Force-Density Analysis

The spatial modulation and dynamic self-confinement of intersecting electromagnetic fields present a complex challenge in macroscopic electrodynamics. This work introduces the Localized Intrinsic Field Equilibrium (LIFE) framework, which models these interactions through a determ...

Volumetric and functional connectivity alterations of the thalamus and thalamic nuclei groups in drug-resistant focal epilepsy: A 7T MRI study

Abstract Purpose Through its global and extensive connections with multiple brain structures, the thalamus can play an important role in seizure propagation. This study investigated volumetric and functional connectivity alterations of the thalamus and more specifically the thala...

Designing group music improvisation systems: A decade of design research in education

In this article we discuss Designing Group Music Improvisation Systems (DGMIS), a design education activity that investigates the contemporary challenge design is facing when we go beyond single-user single-artefact interactions. DGMIS examines how to design for systems of interd...

Chlor-alkali electrolysis for battery grade lithium hydroxide production as a pathway towards low-carbon lithium refining

Lithium hydroxide (LiOH) is a critical precursor for nickel rich lithium-ion battery cathodes, with demand projected to grow rapidly over the next decade. Conventional LiOH production relies on multi-step chemical refining, which is energy intensive, reagent intensive and generat...

Transition from mandatory to discretionary nurse-measured MEWS assessment in a continuously monitored surgical ward: Diagnostic performance of wearable-derived early warning scores

Abstract Early detection of clinical deterioration on surgical wards is vital to prevent adverse outcomes. Conventional ward monitoring using the Modified Early Warning Score (MEWS) relies on intermittent nurse-measured vital signs, but its role may change when continuous wearabl...

Stress‐induced trained immunity—A key mechanism linking psychosocial stress, atherosclerosis, and cardiovascular disease

Although chronic psychosocial stress is a well-established independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD), the underlying mechanisms linking stress to CVD remain incompletely understood. Here, we review clinical and preclinical research documenting how stress can activa...

‘Like a light switch that is on and off at the same time’. A content analysis of signaled metaphors for quantum science and technology in Dutch newspapers

Quantum science and technology is an emerging field of research expected to have a transformative impact on society. Its inherent complexity and counterintuitive nature, however, may pose a barrier to communication with general audiences. Metaphors can play an important role in b...

An Iterative Block Matrix Inversion (IBMI) Algorithm for Symmetric Positive Definite Matrices with Applications to Covariance Matrices

Abstract. Obtaining the inverse of a large symmetric positive definite matrix [Formula: see text] is a continual challenge across many mathematical disciplines. The computational complexity associated with direct methods can be prohibitively expensive, making it infeasible to com...

Crafting Across Domains: Enhancing Crafting Behaviour Among Entrepreneurs Through a Face-to-face Intervention

This article examines the effectiveness of a face-to-face intervention aimed at encouraging entrepreneurs to use crafting strategies, including seeking resources, optimising demands, network crafting, and leisure crafting. Using a quasi-experimental design (i.e., intervention gro...

Growth Plate Morphogens as Potential Modulators of Cellular Tissue Remodeling by Annulus Fibrosus Cells

ABSTRACT Background Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS) is a spinal deformity of unknown etiology that begins in the intervertebral disc and emerges during pubertal growth. In the vertebral growth plate, adjacent to the disc, powerful growth plate morphogens (GPMs) modulate thi...

Protein LanguageModel Decoys for Target Decoy Competitionin Proteomics: Quality Assessment and Benchmarks

Abstract Large-scale proteomics relies heavily on target–decoy competition for false discovery rate estimation in peptide identification, and the performance of this strategy depends strongly on the design of the decoy database. Classical generators such as reversal and shuffling...

Signal-induced recruitment and dispatchment in reconfigurable phase-separated protocell networks

Abstract The construction of protocell networks with self-regulated spatial dynamics and functions is an important challenge in the emerging field of colloidal systems chemistry. Existing strategies predominantly produce protocell networks with fixed or randomly distributed spati...

Delivering building demand flexibility for grid-interactive operation: from perception and cognition to decision, execution, and verification

As both buildings and power systems undergo rapid decarbonization, demand flexibility (DF) in buildings has emerged as a key enabler for renewable energy integration, grid reliability, energy resilience, and efficient and low carbon operation. By dynamically adjusting building en...