NACA Profile: Anna Mieke van Tienhoven

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In-vitro chondrocyte expansion is required for several cell-based approaches for the repair of chondral lesions. During expansion, loss of chondrogenic phenotype takes place (dedifferentiation). The objective of this study was to investigate calcineurin as a potential target to improve chondrocyte phenotype for cartilage repair purposes. Calcineurin activity in human articular chondrocytes was ...

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So far studies on language comprehension adopting the embodied and grounded perspective have underlined the similarities between language and action. In line with the idea of neural re-use, this chapter shows that language reflects some characteristics of action organization, but also that it builds on these characteristics, and modifies them in sophisticated ways. In the first part evidence is...

Anna Pajor

Multivariate models of asset returns are very important in financial applications. Asset allocation, risk assessment and construction of an optimal portfolio require estimates of the covariance matrix between the returns of assets (see e.g. Aguilar and West (2000), Pajor (2005a, 2005b)). Similarly, hedges require a covariance matrix of all the assets in the hedge. There are two main types of vo...

Neurophysiol Martin J . Lankheet and Richard J . A . van Wezel Anna Oleksiak , P . Christiaan Klink , Albert Postma , Ineke J . M . van der Ham

produce cultural universals Anna

Looking across human societies reveals regularities in the languages that people speak and the concepts that they use. One explanation that has been proposed for these “cultural universals” is differences in the ease with which people learn particular languages and concepts. A difference in learnability means that languages and concepts possessing a particular property are more likely to be acc...