Publications by authors named "A van der Meij"
Plant-microbe communication involves a rich language of chemical signals. Among these signals are plant hormones such as auxins, which are primarily recognized for their roles in plant development. However, they also function in modulating plant-microbe interactions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFor air quality management, while numerical tools are mainly evaluated to assess their performances on absolute concentrations, this study assesses the impact of their settings on the robustness of model responses to emission reduction strategies for the main criteria pollutants. The effect of the spatial resolution and chemistry schemes is investigated. We show that whereas the spatial resolution is not a crucial setting (except for NO), the chemistry scheme has more impact, particularly when assessing hourly values of the absolute potential of concentrations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThroughout the world, ambient fine particulate matter (PM) is the environmental factor that poses the greatest risk to health and most European citizens continue to be exposed to PM levels well above World Health Organization guidelines. Here we present a comprehensive PM modelling-based source allocation assessment in 708 urban areas in Europe. The results show that urban cores, together with their commuting zones, contribute an average of 22% to urban PM concentrations levels.
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- About one-third of depression patients don’t respond well to existing treatments, prompting a study on generic oral esketamine for those with treatment-resistant depression (TRD).
- The study involved a six-week low-dose treatment, a wash-out period, and an optional individual dose adjustment phase, focusing on changes in depressive symptoms using the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS).
- Results indicated that low-dose oral esketamine showed no significant benefits compared to placebo, but higher individually adjusted doses during the extended phase resulted in notable improvements in depressive symptoms.
Introduction: To improve our understanding of the relatively poor outcome after endovascular treatment (EVT) in women we assessed possible sex differences in baseline neuroimaging characteristics of acute ischemic stroke patients with large anterior vessel occlusion (LVO).
Patients And Methods: We included all consecutive patients from the MR CLEAN Registry who underwent EVT between 2014 and 2017. On baseline non-contrast CT and CT angiography, we assessed clot location and clot burden score (CBS), vessel characteristics (presence of atherosclerosis, tortuosity, size, and collateral status), and tissue characteristics with the Alberta Stroke Program Early Computed Tomography Score (ASPECTS).