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Job Schepens

Postdoctoral fellow, University of Cologne
Verified email at uni-koeln.de
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[HTML][HTML] Protein tyrosine phosphatases in glioma biology

AC Navis, M van den Eijnden, JTG Schepens… - Acta …, 2010 - Springer
Gliomas are a diverse group of brain tumors of glial origin. Most are characterized by diffuse
infiltrative growth in the surrounding brain. In combination with their refractive nature to …

Distributions of cognates in Europe as based on Levenshtein distance

J Schepens, T Dijkstra, F Grootjen - Bilingualism: Language and …, 2012 - cambridge.org
Researchers on bilingual processing can benefit from computational tools developed in
artificial intelligence. We show that a normalized Levenshtein distance function can efficiently …

[HTML][HTML] The gender gap in second language acquisition: Gender differences in the acquisition of Dutch among immigrants from 88 countries with 49 mother tongues

FWP Van Der Slik, RWNM Van Hout, JJ Schepens - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Gender differences were analyzed across countries of origin and continents, and across mother
tongues and language families, using a large-scale database, containing information on …

L1 and L2 distance effects in learning L3 Dutch

JJ Schepens, F Van der Slik, R Van Hout - Language Learning, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Many people speak more than two languages. How do languages acquired earlier affect the
learnability of additional languages? We show that linguistic distances between speakers’ …

[HTML][HTML] Cross-language distributions of high frequency and phonetically similar cognates

J Schepens, T Dijkstra, F Grootjen, WJB Van Heuven - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
… In a previous study [24], Schepens et al. constructed a language similarity ordering by
automatically comparing the semi-complete lexicons of six European languages. The method …

Cell migration through three-dimensional confining pores: speed accelerations by deformation and recoil of the nucleus

…, P Isermann, J Schepens… - … of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Directional cell migration in dense three-dimensional (3D) environments critically depends
upon shape adaptation and is impeded depending on the size and rigidity of the nucleus. …

Impaired mammary gland development and function in mice lacking LAR receptor-like tyrosine phosphatase activity

…, JTG Schepens, GW Robinson, J Attema… - Developmental …, 1997 - Elsevier
The LAR receptor-like protein tyrosine phosphatase is composed of two intracellular tyrosine
phosphatase domains and a cell adhesion molecule-like extracellular region containing …

Big data suggest strong constraints of linguistic similarity on adult language learning

J Schepens, R Van Hout, TF Jaeger - Cognition, 2020 - Elsevier
… We utilize big data from a state-administered exam (abbreviated as STEX, Schepens, 2015)
with about 50,000 participants to assess the effect of 62 different L1s on Ln Dutch speaking …

Structure, dynamics and binding characteristics of the second PDZ domain of PTP-BL

…, CAEM Spronk, M Tessari, J Aelen, J Schepens… - Journal of molecular …, 2002 - Elsevier
The PDZ domains of the protein tyrosine phosphatase PTP-BL mediate interactions by binding
to specific amino acid sequences in target proteins. The solution structure of the second …

[HTML][HTML] Developmental expression of the cell adhesion molecule-like protein tyrosine phosphatases LAR, RPTPδ and RPTPσ in the mouse

…, JTG Schepens, D Bächner, J Attema… - Mechanisms of …, 1998 - Elsevier
Using RNA in situ hybridization we compared the expression patterns of the cell adhesion
molecule-like receptor-type protein tyrosine phosphatases LAR, RPTPδ and RPTPσ during …