The effect of China’s plastic waste import ban on plastic waste leakage into the aquatic environment

Many higher-income countries export plastic waste to lower and middle-income countries where treatment facilities are often less advanced, which therefore comes with greater environmental consequences. China was the largest importer of plastic waste until it issued the Prohibition of Foreign Garbage Imports (referred to as "the China import ban"...

Feasibility study on small-scale Pumped Hydro Storage for isolated mini-grids in a low-resource setting

A large portion of the global population, mostly in the Sub-Saharan African region, still has no access to electricity. Due to the remoteness and limited accessibility of some communities, off-grid solutions such as mini-grids are required to electrify these regions. An essential part of such an isolated mini-grid is the energy storage system....

Digital Colour Reconstruction of the Background of The Jewish Bride: Reconstruction of Smalt and Yellow Lake in the background of The Jewish Bride by Rembrandt

Rembrandt was a unique painter of his era, and one of his most outstanding pieces is The Jewish Bride. He mastered the art of manipulating pigments to create unique paint mixtures and textures. This can be seen in his painting, The Jewish Bride.<br/>In the background of The Jewish Bride, Rembrandt mixed five pigments together: bone black, red...

Gaming an Oligopoly: A Game-Theoretic Computational Modeling Approach on the Dutch Secondary Reserve Capacity Market

This thesis is written in the context of a world in which renewable energy assumes an ever growing share within the Dutch electricity sector. Given the fluctuating output of renewable energy sources, the importance of the Dutch secondary reserve capacity market is expected to increase considerably in upcoming years. Its architecture, a monopsony...

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Identification and Elucidation of Expression Quantitative Trait Loci (eQTL) and their regulating mechanisms using Decodive Deep Learning

Motivation: Identification and elucidation of eQTL has long been an active area of research. Finding cis-eQTL has been a manageable problem because of the limited number of candidates. Finding transeQTL has on the other hand been much more challenging because of the issue of multiple hypothesis testing. It has been suggested that additional...

Onderzoek naar de mogelijkheid tot hybriede simulatie van een jacketlancering

Onderzoek naar de mogelijkiheid tot hybriede simulatie van een jacketlancering

Onderzoek naar de mogelijkheid tot hybriede simulatie van een jacketlancering