Green roofs received increased scientific attention with respect to climate adaptation in urban environments for their hydrological, biodiversity and insulative capacities. Yet, the thermal properties of roofs with an additional water layer underneath the vegetation substrate (blue-green roofs) are not …

Klimaatverandering is een wereldwijd probleem. Om verdere klimaatverandering tegen te gaan moet er minder worden uitgestoten. Daarvoor zijn veranderingen nodig. Sedum is een soort vetplantje dat op matten wordt geteeld. Deze matten worden veelal op daken geïnstalleerd. Een voordeel van sedum is dat het …

In a society with increasingly unequal access to opportunities and an expanding pressure on youngsters to perform, safe spaces where socially vulnerable youngsters are allowed to learn and develop valuable skills are highly important. In the Youngsterdam project, professional youth workers support these …

Renewable energy sources have an intermittent character that does not necessarily match energy demand. Such imbalances tend to increase system cost as they require mitigation measures and this is undesirable when available resources should be focused on increasing renewable energy supply. Matching supply …

Animal burrows create discontinuities on the body of earthen levees that under certain circumstances can threaten their structural integrity through hydraulic alteration and surface erosion. Although it is a virtually established fact that discontinuities can undermine the structural integrity of levees, …

The days where memes were plain image macros (an image that consists out of an imagecombined with text) are long behind us. New meme formats, some more obscure than others,are popping up like weeds. Memetic logics are also moving beyond the image into ‘the realworld’ (whatever that may be), but that’s …

De biodiversiteit neemt wereldwijd af. Als er naar Europa gekeken wordt, gaat dit proces in Nederland nog sneller dan in andere Europese landen. Dit komt voornamelijk doordat Nederland een dichtbevolkt land is in vergelijking met andere EU-landen. Biodiversiteit is belangrijk voor het gezond houden van …

Assessing the umami taste of seaweed on a chemical level can inform the use and selection of seaweed in European cuisine. Accordingly, we developed a method for the simultaneous extraction, separate clean-up and analysis of 21 free amino acids and 10 free nucleotides by reversed phase and mixed-mode …