University of Twente

Viral transport in evaporating sessile model respiratory droplets

Abstract Viral particles, or virions, may remain infectious in the dry residue of respiratory droplets for times as long as hours. This is counterintuitive, since salt concentration increases dramatically as the drop's water evaporates, making the drop a harsh environment for vir...

A decision-support framework for selecting new energy bus technologies: Assessing battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell buses

New energy bus (NEB) technologies, including battery electric buses (BEBs) and hydrogen fuel cell buses (FCBs), offer pathways to support decarbonisation strategies in public transport. Selecting the most suitable technology represents a multi-dimensional decision problem encompa...

Tail risk of Bitcoin and major cryptocurrencies: a distributional and extreme-value analysis

Abstract We study the distributional and tail-risk properties of Bitcoin and the major cryptocurrencies using daily returns from June 2014 to May 2026. For a panel of 10 assets we fit a family of heavy-tailed distributions by maximum likelihood, rank them by the Akaike and Bayesi...

Widespread thermophilization but weak link to climate warming in Europe’s summit plant communities

Abstract Recent changes in alpine vegetation are often attributed to climate warming, particularly community composition shifts towards more warmth-associated species, or thermophilization. Here we assess the link between thermophilization and warming across 53 European mountain...

Modeling the combined effects of the 2023 Türkiye–Syria earthquake and an Atmospheric River event on landslide hazard

Abstract. The 6 February 2023 Türkiye–Syria earthquake doublet triggered thousands of coseismic landslides. On 14–15 March, an Atmospheric River (AR) delivered up to 183 mm of rainfall across the seismically weakened region, triggering hundreds of additional landslides and debris...

Homicide at home: setting the agenda for an international collaboration to improve support for children bereaved due to family violence

Background: Bereavement due to fatal family violence (e.g. intimate partner homicide, filicide, parricide, siblicide) is a profoundly disruptive experience for children, with lifelong psychosocial consequences. Although the need for fatal family violence prevention is increasingl...

Performance Estimation and Ex Vivo Validation of Untethered Magnetic Robots in Soft Tissue

ABSTRACT The navigation and control of untethered magnetic robots (UMRs) within soft brain tissue critically depend on their ability to maintain synchronized rotation under applied rotational magnetic fields. The fundamental upper limit of this magnetic synchronization, known as...

From pixels to vectorized cadastral boundaries: Deep learning-based automated delineation of property boundaries in the Netherlands

Cadastral mapping remains one of the most resource-intensive components of land administration, while large parts of the world still lack complete and up-to-date cadastral information. In this context, remote sensing and deep learning can support the rapid production of initial c...

Bovines, buffers and barriers: A social scientific perspective on rewilding in the Kavango‐Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area

Abstract Rewilding is an increasingly popular nature conservation strategy globally. Originally, the strategy was formulated around the three C's of Carnivores, Cores and Corridors, which captured the ecological aim of rewilding to restore trophic interactions across large connec...

Chained to blockchain: How escalating attachments communicatively constitute failing courses of action

How do multiple possible action trajectories progressively narrow into one failing line of activity? While escalation of commitment scholars have long puzzled over this question, their tendency to conflate escalation with persistence and treat commitment as primarily cognitive co...

Enhanced Ultrasound Transmission Through Aberration Layers Using Space‐Coiling Acoustic Metamaterials

Ultrasound is widely used in medical imaging and therapy. Yet its performance is limited by layers such as the skull or calcified tissue that exhibit an impedance mismatch with the background medium. As a result, wave energy scatters, phase distorts, and overall transmission decr...

A mechanistic model integrating multi‐source data for operational prediction of rice sheath blight at regional scale

Abstract BACKGROUND Rice sheath blight (RSB) is a destructive disease that causes significant yield losses globally. Accurate regional prediction is critical for sustainable disease management; however, existing models suffer from poor generalizability and limited operational app...

Use of neurolytic nerve blocks and mortality in nonoperative management of hip fracture patients

Aims: Nonoperative management may be suitable for very frail hip fracture patients; in these instances, neurolytic nerve blocks with phenol could act as a long-term analgesic, with potentially fewer disadvantages compared with systemic analgesia. While neurolytic nerve blocks are...