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Arifvianto, B. (author)Loss of function and impaired life quality as a result of large bone defects remain a serious problem in the society. Basically, the bone tissue has the capability of healing by itself when fractured. However, impaired healing may occur, leading to delayed union or even non-union when a bone segment is excised above a critical size. In recent...doctoral thesis 2017
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Sun, X. (author)The production of most industrially important chemicals involves catalysis. Depending on the difference in phases between the catalysts and reactants, one distinguishes homogenous catalysis and heterogeneous catalysis, with the latter being more attractive in real applications, due to the easy separation of products from catalysts and reusing...doctoral thesis 2017
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Tummers-Mueller, L.C. (author)Following the UN world summits on Climate Change (Paris 2015) and Habitat (Quito 2016), most European cities assume an active role to implement internationally agreed goals related to climate change, translated in the so-called New Urban Agenda. At the same time, the urban housing market is increasingly inaccessible for low- and middle-income...doctoral thesis 2017
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Falco, E. (author)Land value recapture has always been a controversial subject. In many countries there have been and there are different experiences that deal with the common objective of sharing with the wider community the benefits that derive from the development of land. Different approaches are the consequence of diverse private property regimes, planning...book 2017
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Araújo, M. (author), van Tittelboom, K (author), Feiteira, J. (author), Gruyaert, Elke (author), Chatrabhuti, S. (author), Raquez, J. M. (author), Šavija, B. (author), Alderete, N. (author), Schlangen, E. (author), de Belie, N (author)Polymeric healing agents have proven their efficiency to heal cracks in concrete in an autonomous way. However, the bottleneck for valorisation of self-healing concrete with polymeric healing agents is their encapsulation. In the present work, the suitability of polymeric materials such as poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), polystyrene (PS)...conference paper 2017
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Hu, Y. (author)Wireless communications and networking are gradually permeating our life and substantially influencing every corner of this world. Wireless devices, particularly<br/>those of small size, will take part in this trend more widely, efficiently, seamlessly and smartly. Techniques requiring only limited resources, especially in terms of hardware, are...doctoral thesis 2017
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Sun, Y. (author)Geocenter motion and changes in the Earth’s dynamic oblateness (J2) are of great importance in many applications. Among others, they are critical indicators of largescale mass redistributions, which is invaluable to understand ongoing global climate change. The revolutionary Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite mission...doctoral thesis 2017
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Schuetz, M. J.A. (author), Knörzer, J. (author), Giedke, G (author), Vandersypen, L.M.K. (author), Lukin, M. D. (author), Cirac, J. I. (author)We propose and analyze a solid-state platform based on surface acoustic waves for trapping, cooling, and controlling (charged) particles, as well as the simulation of quantum many-body systems. We develop a general theoretical framework demonstrating the emergence of effective time-independent acoustic trapping potentials for particles in two...journal article 2017
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Hosseini Aria, S.E. (author), Menenti, M. (author), Gorte, B.G.H. (author)One of the main steps in hyperspectral image classification is the selection of bands that provide the best separability among classes. It is usually understood that the selected bands for classification must contain a large amount of information, and the correlation among selected bands should be small to avoid redundancy. At the same time...conference paper 2017
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Kalogianni, Eftychia (author), Dimopoulou, Efi (author), Quak, C.W. (author), van Oosterom, P.J.M. (author)Standardization in land administration domain has been expanded to 3D and even 4D representations, adopting a multipurpose character, in order to become the foundation of a sustainable and smart economic development. At the moment, although the potential benefits of 3D Cadastre is argued to be enormous and there are plenty of standards...conference paper 2017
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Hartog, Niels (author), Stuyfzand, Pieter Jan (author)Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) is a promising method of increasing water availability in water stressed areas by subsurface infiltration and storage, to overcome periods of drought, and to stabilize or even reverse salinization of coastal aquifers. Moreover, MAR could be a key technique in making alternative water resources available, such as...journal article 2017
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Rocha, I.B.C.M. (author), Raijmaekers, S (author), van der Meer, F.P. (author), Nijssen, R. P.L. (author), Fischer, H. R. (author), Sluys, Lambertus J. (author)A combined experimental and numerical investigation is conducted on the anisotropic water diffusion behaviour of unidirectional glass/epoxy composites. Experimental diffusivity values are obtained by immersing thin material slices for each of its planes of orthotropy extracted from a thick composite panel and interphase measurements are...journal article 2017
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Liu, Quantao (author), Li, Bin (author), Schlangen, E. (author), Sun, Yihan (author), Wu, Shaopeng (author)In this paper, steel slag/steel fiber composite asphalt mixture were prepared. The effects of the addition of steel slag and/or steel fibers on the mechanical, thermal, induction heating and healing properties of asphalt mixture were investigated. The results showed that adding steel slag and/or steel fibers improves the water stability,...journal article 2017
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Azcarate Aguerre, J.F. (author), den Heijer, A.C. (author), Klein, T. (author)The Circular Economy (CE) attempts to realign business incentives, across all fields of human industry, to support the preservation of raw materials within closed economic loops. Within this conceptual frame, Product-Service Systems (PSS) combine the use of tangible products such as building technologies, with intangible maintenance and...journal article 2017
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Wang, W. (author)Throughout the history of power electronics, main driving force of developments is attribute to innovations in power semiconductor technology. With continuous technical improvements in the past 30 years, Si devices, being the most widely used power semiconductor technology, are approaching physical limits e.g. breakdown field, thermal...doctoral thesis 2017
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Luo, H. (author)In this thesis, two different charge carrier trapping and detrapping processes are<br/>investigated: (1) electron trapping and electron release; (2) hole trapping and hole<br/>release. Both of these two processes can be used to “deliberate design” afterglow<br/>phosphors or storage materials.doctoral thesis 2017
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da Fonte Lameiras, F. (author), Ras, C. (author), ten Pierick, A. (author), Heijnen, J.J. (author), van Gulik, W.M. (author)In its natural environment, the filamentous fungus Aspergillus niger grows on decaying fruits and plant material, thereby enzymatically degrading the lignocellulosic constituents (lignin, cellulose, hemicellulose, and pectin) into a mixture of mono- and oligosaccharides. To investigate the kinetics and stoichiometry of growth of this fungus...journal article 2017
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Hosseini Nasab, S.M. (author), Zitha, P.L.J. (author)Strong foam can be generated in porous media containing oil, resulting in incremental oil recovery; however, oil recovery factor is restricted. A large fraction of oil recovered by foam flooding forms an oil-in-water emulsion, so that costly methods may need to be used to separate the oil. Moreover, strong foam could create a large pressure...journal article 2017
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Gül, Önder (author)The dissertation reports a series of electron transport experiments on semiconductor nanowires towards realizing the hypothesized topological quantum computation. A topological quantum computer manipulates information that is stored nonlocally in the topology of a physical system. Such an operation possesses advantages over the current quantum...doctoral thesis 2017
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Lutz, S.R. (author), Van Der Velde, Ype (author), Elsayed, Omniea F. (author), Imfeld, Gwenal (author), Lefrancq, Marie (author), Payraudeau, Sylvain (author), van Breukelen, B.M. (author)Compound-specific stable isotope analysis (CSIA) has proven beneficial in the characterization of contaminant degradation in groundwater, but it has never been used to assess pesticide transformation on catchment scale. This study presents concentration and carbon CSIA data of the herbicides S-metolachlor and acetochlor from three locations ...journal article 2017