University of Groningen

Schizophrenia research in 2026: report from the annual meeting of the Schizophrenia International Research Society

Abstract SIRS 2026, held under the theme “Schizophrenia Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence,” brought together researchers, clinicians, and persons with lived experience to take stock of a field whose tools for measuring, predicting, and intervening in psychosis have e...

Brief video-feedback training enhances childcare professionals’ interaction skills: A cluster randomized controlled trial

High-quality caregiver–child interactions are central to children’s development in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings. Professional development programs have been shown to improve caregivers’ interactional skills, but evidence from large randomized controlled tria...

Tracing the Cosmic Origins: Machine Learning Reconstruction of the Primordial Density Field from EoR Observations

Abstract Reconstructing the initial conditions of the Universe from late-time tracers would unlock cosmological information buried by non-linear structure formation and astrophysics. We reconstruct the initial density field corresponding to z = 300, with its linear amplitude extr...

Sustainable Routes Toward Amino Acid‐Based Surfactants: Borrowing Hydrogen Catalysis and Beyond

Amino acid‐based surfactants combine renewable head groups with tunable amphiphilic functional groups and are therefore attractive candidates for the development of more sustainable surfactants. However, bio‐based building blocks alone cannot guarantee sustainability. Moreover, i...

A Living Laboratory Producing Agroecological Knowledge Since the 1960s: The Comarca Andina of North Patagonia, Argentina

Living Labs (LLs) are often described as top-down, formally designed innovation spaces, and literature about LL research highlights scarce reports of LLs in Latin America. However, grassroots territorial-innovation spaces exist in Latin America, and we hypothesized that some of t...

Substantial improvement in short-term survivorship in patients receiving robotic arm-assisted medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty

Aims Robotic arm-assisted unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (R-UKA) has been shown to improve alignment and accuracy of component placement compared with conventional unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (C-UKA). Despite this, there is conflicting evidence for whether this has an...

Extended Technical and Reproducibility Report for ``From Product Evidence to Access Rights: Auditing and Routing Non-Firm Grid Connections''

This report documents the data, formulations, numerical experiments, andreproducibility checks underlying the main paper. The main paper states theresearch question and principal findings; the purpose here is to make eachstep of the evidence-to-access pipeline inspectable and rep...

Conceptualising family as a politicised multi-scalar space: family language policymaking in Iran’s Kurdistan province

The renewed interest in Family Language Policymaking (FLP) studies seeks to explore and revisit the notion of family through alternative lenses and contribute to our understanding of complexities associated with FLP decision-making processes of family members. In this paper we ar...

Sensory processing sensitivity strengthens the relationship between impactful negative work events, hypervigilance, and daily fatigue

In their daily work, employees encounter negative work events that evoke negative emotions and can disrupt functioning. This study investigates how the perceived impact of daily negative work events relates to employees’ daily fatigue, focusing on hypervigilance as a potential co...

Beyond the Lockdown: Long-Term Impact of COVID-19 on Registered Domestic Violence in the Netherlands

Domestic violence is a pervasive societal issue impacting millions of people worldwide. While numerous studies have examined the short-term impact of the COVID-19 restrictions on domestic violence, research on its long-term effects remains limited. This study aims to explore the...

Model-based pupil deconvolution reveals latent attentional dynamics

Changes in pupil size have been widely used as an indirect measure of attention. However, attention engages on a faster timescale than the pupillary response. Therefore, the slow time course of the pupil response makes it difficult to distinguish attentional responses to stimuli...

Nonionic Pyrene-Based Amphiphiles Forming Wormlike Micelles: Synthesis and Characterization

Abstract Wormlike micelles are elongated, flexible supramolecular assemblies whose dynamic structure and anisotropic morphology have attracted considerable interest as functional soft materials. The self-assembly of amphiphilic molecules into anisotropic supramolecular nanostruct...

Urine Ammonium During Normothermic Machine Perfusion as a Marker of Donor Kidney Function

Background. Optimizing graft selection remains a central priority, and normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) provides a potential platform for pretransplant organ assessment. Kidney ammonium excretion quantifies proximal tubular and interstitial function. This study investigated u...

Engineered MspA Nanopores for Real-Time Detection of Insulin, Its Pharmaceutical Analogues, and Degradation Products

Abstract Nanopore sensors have demonstrated single-molecule resolution for nucleic acids and small molecules, yet the discrimination and detection of folded proteins in complex biological matrices remains a challenge. Insulin is a demanding test case: it circulates in blood at pi...

Density-dependent aggregation underlies spatial self-organization in coastal dunes

Across coastal ecosystems, habitat-forming organisms interact with wind and water to generate biogeomorphic feedbacks that produce spatially patterned landscapes. Such spatial patterns can emerge through different self-organizing mechanisms, with contrasting implications for ecos...

“If you talk to someone under eighteen in the UK, you go to jail”: Exploring chronotopic identities of transnational Iranians on live streaming apps

Abstract This study examines how Iranians engage in identity work on live-streaming apps across geographical, political, and cultural borders. Drawing upon nexus analysis and ‘chronotope’ as an analytical tool and employing discourse analysis of a twenty-minute conversation betwe...

Seigneurial institutions and Holland's seventeenth‐century miracle

Abstract This article revisits the claim that Holland owed much of its seventeenth‐century efflorescence to the absence of feudal constraints on its economy. Because Holland was relatively late to develop in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, it supposedly missed the European Fe...

Cyclic Nanoindentation of Clay Minerals: Micromechanical Insights Into Caprock Integrity for Subsurface Energy Storage

Abstract Clay minerals are key constituents of subsurface caprocks and play a critical role in the long-term containment performance of underground energy storage systems. However, their cyclic mechanical response remains insufficiently understood, despite repeated pressure fluct...

Bony labyrinth taxonomic identification and long-term evolution of livestock in the Southwest and Central Asia

Abstract Southwest and Central Asia were pivotal regions for the domestication and dispersal of domestic herbivores. Here we investigate long-term variation in bony labyrinth morphology of domestic bovids (sheep, goats and cattle) across the last 10 000 years. We focused on the o...

Concurrent synchronization and covariation in upper extremity joint angles during a reciprocal aiming task

Abstract The ecological-dynamical approach holds that movement is self-organized, implying a circular causality between the kinematics of the end-effector and the coordination of degrees of freedom (DOF) into synergies. Yet, how this circular causality manifests itself in redunda...