Publications

U+FEFFU+FEFFEffects of using Research-Based Learning on the development of academic competences of graduate students Currently, there is an increasing interest on the key role of higher education around the world (Stein et al., 2019). However, an appropriate interpretation of this role might be challenging in view of the many changes happening in the last years (Altbach et al., 2010). To a great extent, the role of higher education is linked to ...

IntroductionThere is evidence that research in martial arts and combat sports (MA&CS) has boomed since the late 1990U+2019s [see e.g., Green and Svinth 2010; Gutiérrez-García et al. 2011]. This has led to the birth of several scientific/technical journals specific to MA&CS. These journals are nowadays sharing a common scientific publication space with more traditional scientific field-oriented journals, which also publish studies on ...

Viral variability can be understood as genetic differences between nucleotide sequences. It can be used to define viral taxonomic units (species, genera, class, or family), viral subgroups, strains or life-cycle stages (lytic and latent phases). Viral diversity has been extensively studied, mostly through second-generation sequencing techniques, such as IonTorrent or Illumina sequencing. In the last years, third-generation technologies, such as ...

© Springer International Publishing AG 2016. This work addresses the security and privacy issues in remote biometric authentication by proposing an efficient mechanism to verify the correctness of the outsourced computation in such protocols. In particular, we propose an efficient verifiable computation of XORing encrypted messages using an XOR linear message authentication code (MAC) and we employ the proposed scheme to build a biometric ...

At the end of 2012, approximately 34 million people, including children, were infected worldwide with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the etiological agent of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). Sub-Saharan Africa is the most severly affected region. Especially women are highly susceptible to HIV infection, based on socio-economical and cultural aspects such as religion, polygamy, poverty, rape and war. The transmission rate of ...

The steady development of new (photoactive) materials for organic solar cell applications has led to continuous improvements in the power conversion efficiencies (PCE) of these devices. Additionally, the use of new solar cell configurations (e.g. tandem devices) has allowed to obtain PCEs that nowadays exceed 10%. Having in mind the relatively low production costs, the development of stable materials and the potential advantages in terms of ...

De glycinereceptor (GlyR) vervult een belangrijke rol in de snelle, inhibitorische neuronale signaaloverdracht in het centrale zenuwstelsel van vertebraten. De GlyR is een pentameer dat kan bestaan uit verschillende subeenheden (α1, α2, α3, α4, β). Clustering van de heteropentamere GlyR α1β ter hoogte van het postsynaptisch membraan is essentieel om de signaaloverdracht efficiënt uit te voeren. De regulatie van deze clustering werd lange tijd ...

The emergence of online platforms has radically changed the services sector. In the platform economy for transport services, the 'Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS)' model plays an important role. MaaS strives to offer mobility via an online platform that connects the demand side (passengers) with the supply side (available means of transport). Consumers can choose the quickest, cheapest or least polluting way to get from a to b. MaaS is thus expected ...