A circular economy for plastics: lets turn challenges into opportunities Netherlands

With this brochure Holland Circular Hotspot and TNO bring their insights to the international level and share best practices with the hope that it will inspire everyone around the world to take action and kickstart circular development.

Initial solidification dynamics of spreading droplets

When a droplet is brought in contact with an undercooled surface, it wets the substrate and solidifies at the same time. The interplay between the phase transition effects and the contact-line motion, leading to its arrest, remains poorly understood. Here we reveal the early solidification patterns and dynamics of spreading hexadecane droplets....

Kinkhoestvaccinatie tijdens de zwangerschap: wensen voor informatievoorziening en organisatie

Introduction. We studied the information and care need of pregnant women regarding maternal pertussis vaccination (MPV). Methods. We conducted a cross-sectional study using an online survey among 202 pregnant women. They were asked what kind of information they would want to receive about the vaccination, at which moment and from whom, as well...

Verspil het niet: pak de schaduwzijde van plastics met urgentie aan! [don't waste it! solving the dark side of today's plastic]

Plastics (bulk, coatings, and glues), like many other commodities, including metal, wood, glass, and ceramics, are of essential importance to the wellbeing of today’s society. This will not be any different in the decades to come. We expect plastics to remain important due to their unique properties and the possibilities for mass production...

Mothers’ Perceptions of their Daughters’ Susceptibility to HPV-related Risk Factors: An Experimental Pretest Comparing Narrative and Statistical Risk Information

Background: In order to promote HPV-vaccination acceptability among mothers of invited girls, we developed a web-based, tailored intervention. This study reports on an experimental pretest for the component of this intervention targeting mothers’ perceptions of their daughters’ susceptibility towards HPV-related risk factors. Statistical versus...

Factsheet Hpvkeuzehulp.nl helpt ouders bij hpv-vaccinatie

TNO en de Universiteit Maastricht hebben een nieuwe, persoonlijke manier van communiceren ontwikkeld over de HPV-vaccinatie. Dit is een online keuzehulp waarin ouders advies-op-maat krijgen van twee virtuele assistenten.

Disease detection or public opinion reflection? content analysis of tweets, other social media, and online newspapers during the measles outbreak in the Netherlands in 2013

Background: In May 2013, a measles outbreak began in the Netherlands among Orthodox Protestants who often refuse vaccination for religious reasons. Objective: Our aim was to compare the number of messages expressed on Twitter and other social media during the measles outbreak with the number of online news articles and the number of reported...

Direct measurement of the triplet exciton diffusion length in organic semiconductors

We present a new method to measure the triplet exciton diffusion length in organic semiconductors. N,N′-di-[(1-naphthyl)-N,N′-diphenyl]-1,1′-biphenyl)-4,4′-diamine (NPD) has been used as a model system. Triplet excitons are injected into a thin film of NPD by a phosphorescent thin film, which is optically excited and forms a sharp interface with...

Retrospective detection of exposure to organophosphorus anti-cholinesterases: Mass spectrometric analysis of phosphylated human butyrylcholinesterase

In this paper a novel and general procedure is presented for detection of organophosphate-inhibited human butyrylcholinesterase (HuBuChE), which is based on electrospray tandem mass spectrometric analysis of phosphylated nonapeptides obtained after pepsin digestion of the enzyme. The utility of this method is exemplified by the positive analysis...