Publications by authors named "M A Verheijen"

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  • MASLD is often asymptomatic and underdiagnosed, creating a need for non-invasive diagnostic tools to assess liver fat.
  • The study identified and validated specific miRNAs from liver and serum samples that correlate with liver steatosis, using techniques like miRNA sequencing and RT-qPCR.
  • A predictive model was developed using five key miRNAs, demonstrating a low error rate for estimating hepatic steatosis, making it a practical and cost-effective diagnostic method.
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  • Alzheimer's Disease is influenced by genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors, including exercise, diet, education, and early life stress, which can affect its onset and progression.
  • Recent research has identified crucial biological processes, like stress hormones and neuroinflammation, that may link early life stress to an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's Disease.
  • Gaining insights into how early life experiences shape brain health could lead to new prevention and treatment strategies to counteract the impact of stress and reduce dementia risk.
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  • * Researchers used plasma-enhanced ALD to grow large-area MoS and examined how high-κ dielectrics like HfO and AlO impact the electrical properties and doping of these transistors.
  • * Findings indicate that factors such as dielectric stoichiometry, carbon impurities, and surface oxidation significantly influence MoS FET performance, with the optimal setup involving thermal ALD AlO to minimize surface damage while enhancing dielectric characteristics.
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Among the experimental realization of fault-tolerant topological circuits are interconnecting nanowires with minimal disorder. Out-of-plane indium antimonide (InSb) nanowire networks formed by merging are potential candidates. Yet, their growth requires a foreign material stem usually made of InP-InAs.

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  • * Thin films of amorphous MoS demonstrate significant activity improvements after electrochemical activation, with an optimal overpotential range of 210-250 mV, influenced by their initial stoichiometry.
  • * The study reveals that while amorphous MoS undergoes structural changes during activation, crystalline MoS remains stable, with lower hydrogen evolution efficiencies observed in crystalline forms (300-520 mV at 10 mA/cm) correlating with defects in the material.
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