Search Results - "Schaap, M."

Particulate matter, air quality and climate: lessons learned and future needs by Fuzzi, S, Baltensperger, U, Carslaw, K, Decesari, S, Denier van der Gon, H, Facchini, M. C, Fowler, D, Koren, I, Langford, B, Lohmann, U, Nemitz, E, Pandis, S, Riipinen, I, Rudich, Y, Schaap, M, Slowik, J. G, Spracklen, D. V, Vignati, E, Wild, M, Williams, M, Gilardoni, S

“…The literature on atmospheric particulate matter (PM), or atmospheric aerosol, has increased enormously over the last 2 decades and amounts now to some…”
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Source apportionment and spatial variability of PM₂.₅ using measurements at five sites in the Netherlands by Mooibroek, D, Schaap, M, Weijers, E.P, Hoogerbrugge, R

“…The Netherlands is considered one of the hotspot areas in Europe with high concentrations of particulate matter (PM) and may not be able to meet all standards…”
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A review of operational, regional-scale, chemical weather forecasting models in Europe by Kukkonen, J, Olsson, T, Schultz, D. M, Baklanov, A, Klein, T, Miranda, A. I, Monteiro, A, Hirtl, M, Tarvainen, V, Boy, M, Peuch, V.-H, Poupkou, A, Kioutsioukis, I, Finardi, S, Sofiev, M, Sokhi, R, Lehtinen, K. E. J, Karatzas, K, San José, R, Astitha, M, Kallos, G, Schaap, M, Reimer, E, Jakobs, H, Eben, K

“…Numerical models that combine weather forecasting and atmospheric chemistry are here referred to as chemical weather forecasting models. Eighteen operational…”
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Development of Pedotransfer Functions for Estimation of Soil Hydraulic Parameters using Support Vector Machines by Twarakavi, Navin K.C, Simunek, Jirka, Schaap, M.G

“…Modeling flow in variably saturated porous media requires reliable estimates of the hydraulic parameters describing the soil water retention and hydraulic…”
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Image‐based automated Psoriasis Area Severity Index scoring by Convolutional Neural Networks by Schaap, M.J., Cardozo, N.J., Patel, A., Jong, E.M.G.J., Ginneken, B., Seyger, M.M.B.

“…Background The Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI) score is commonly used in clinical practice and research to monitor disease severity and determine…”
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Synergistic use of OMI NO2 tropospheric columns and LOTOS–EUROS to evaluate the NOx emission trends across Europe by Curier, R.L., Kranenburg, R., Segers, A.J.S., Timmermans, R.M.A., Schaap, M.

“…In this study trends in the tropospheric NO2 concentrations during 2005–2010 across Europe were derived from the synergistic use of OMI NO2 tropospheric…”
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Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health in 22 European Countries by Mackenbach, Johan P, Stirbu, Irina, Roskam, Albert-Jan R, Schaap, Maartje M, Menvielle, Gwenn, Leinsalu, Mall, Kunst, Anton E

“…In this study of socioeconomic status and health in 22 European countries, mortality was higher in people with less education and lower income, and the…”
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Illustrating the benefit of using hourly monitoring data on secondary inorganic aerosol and its precursors for model evaluation by Schaap, M, Otjes, R P, Weijers, E P

“…Secondary inorganic aerosol, most notably ammonium nitrate and ammonium sulphate, is an important contributor to ambient particulate mass and provides a means…”
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Performance of European chemistry transport models as function of horizontal resolution by Schaap, M., Cuvelier, C., Hendriks, C., Bessagnet, B., Baldasano, J.M., Colette, A., Thunis, P., Karam, D., Fagerli, H., Graff, A., Kranenburg, R., Nyiri, A., Pay, M.T., Rouïl, L., Schulz, M., Simpson, D., Stern, R., Terrenoire, E., Wind, P.

“…Air pollution causes adverse effects on human health as well as ecosystems and crop yield and also has an impact on climate change trough short-lived climate…”
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Nonrigid registration of dynamic medical imaging data using nD + t B-splines and a groupwise optimization approach by Metz, C.T., Klein, S., Schaap, M., van Walsum, T., Niessen, W.J.

“…Registration results for a synthetic image (left top) using a reference time point method, a consecutive time point method, a groupwise method and the cyclic…”
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Thyroid Lobectomy for Low-Risk 1–4 CM Papillary Thyroid Cancer is not Associated with Increased Recurrence Rates in the Dutch Population with a Restricted Diagnostic Work-Up by Lin, J. F., Rodriguez Schaap, P. M., Metman, M. J. H., Nieveen van Dijkum, E. J. M., Dickhoff, C., Links, T. P., Kruijff, S., Engelsman, A. F.

“…Introduction The 2015 American Thyroid Association guidelines recommend to de-escalate treatment such as Thyroid lobectomy instead of total thyroidectomy for…”
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Exploring the relation between aerosol optical depth and PM2.5 at Cabauw, the Netherlands by G. de Leeuw, R. B. A. Koelemeijer, R. M. A. Timmermans, M. Schaap, A. Apituley

“…Estimates of PM2.5 distributions based on satellite data depend critically on an established relation between AOD and ground level PM2.5. In this study we…”
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Dynamic evaluation of air quality models over European regions by Thunis, P., Pisoni, E., Degraeuwe, B., Kranenburg, R., Schaap, M., Clappier, A.

“…Chemistry-transport models are increasingly used in Europe for estimating air quality or forecasting changes in pollution levels. But with this increased use…”
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Monitoring of socio-economic inequalities in smoking: Learning from the experiences of recent scientific studies by Schaap, M.M, Kunst, A.E

“…Summary Objectives To support policies to tackle socio-economic inequalities in smoking, monitoring systems should include information on smoking according to…”
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A spatially varying coefficient model for mapping PM10 air quality at the European scale by Hamm, N.A.S., Finley, A.O., Schaap, M., Stein, A.

“…Particulate matter (PM) air quality in Europe has improved substantially over the past decades, but it still poses a significant threat to human health…”
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Predictive performance of NEWS and qSOFA in immunocompromised sepsis patients at the emergency department by Boekhoud, Lisanne, Schaap, Helena M. E. A., Huizinga, Rick L., Olgers, Tycho J., ter Maaten, Jan C., Postma, Douwe F., Bouma, Hjalmar R.

“…Purpose Sepsis has a high incidence and a poor prognosis. Early recognition is important to facilitate timely initiation of adequate care. Sepsis screening…”
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Intestinal damage determines the inflammatory response and early complications in patients receiving conditioning for a stem cell transplantation by van der Velden, Walter J F M, Herbers, Alexandra H E, Feuth, Ton, Schaap, Nicolaas P M, Donnelly, J Peter, Blijlevens, Nicole M A

“…Stem cell transplantation (SCT) is still complicated by the occurrence of fever and inflammatory complications attributed to neutropenia and subsequent…”
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Modeling the distribution of ammonia across Europe including bi-directional surface–atmosphere exchange by Wichink Kruit, R. J, Schaap, M, Sauter, F. J, van Zanten, M. C, van Pul, W. A. J

“…A large shortcoming of current chemistry transport models (CTM) for simulating the fate of ammonia in the atmosphere is the lack of a description of the…”
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Sensitivity of air pollution simulations with LOTOS-EUROS to the temporal distribution of anthropogenic emissions by Mues, A, Kuenen, J, Hendriks, C, Manders, A, Segers, A, Scholz, Y, Hueglin, C, Builtjes, P, Schaap, M

“…In this study the sensitivity of the model performance of the chemistry transport model (CTM) LOTOS-EUROS to the description of the temporal variability of…”
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Anisotropic statistical scaling of soil and sediment texture in a stratified deep vadose zone near Maricopa, Arizona by Guadagnini, A., Neuman, S.P., Schaap, M.G., Riva, M.

“…We analyze the statistical scaling properties of vertical and horizontal increments in soil and sediment texture data measured to a depth of 15m over an area…”
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