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Lammers, Imke (author), Hoppe, T. (author)Due to the liberalisation of the European Union's (EU) electricity sector, stakeholders' roles and responsibilities in local energy planning and implementation are not well-defined in legislation anymore. To investigate what local energy planning and implementation processes look like in the post-liberalisation era we conduct a systematic...review 2018
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de Winter, J.C.F. (author)Modeling Human–System Interaction: Philosophical and Methodological Considerations, With Examples By Thomas B. Sheridan 2017, 192 pages, $110.00 Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 978-1-119-275268-2review 2018
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Casola, Francesco (author), van der Sar, T. (author), Yacoby, A. (author)The magnetic fields generated by spins and currents provide a unique window into the physics of correlated-electron materials and devices. First proposed only a decade ago, magnetometry based on the electron spin of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) defects in diamond is emerging as a platform that is excellently suited for probing condensed matter...review 2018
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Rasman, Brandon G. (author), Forbes, P.A. (author), Tisserand, Romain (author), Blouin, Jean Sébastien (author)Standing balance relies on the integration of multiple sensory inputs to generate the motor commands required to stand. Mechanical and sensory perturbations elicit compensatory postural responses that are interpreted as a window into the sensorimotor processing involved in balance control. Popular methods involve imposed external...review 2018
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Liu, Jianguo (author), Beard, Matt (author), Isabella, O. (author), Tang, Jianxin (author)The editors introduce the feature issue on “Energy, Light and the Environment (LEE) 2017”, which is based on the topics presented at a congress of the same name held in Boulder, CO, US, from November 6 to November 9. This feature issue presents 13 papers selected from the voluntary submissions by attendees who presented at the progress and...review 2018
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De Ruiter, J. R. (author), Wessels, L.F.A. (author), Jonkers, J. (author)Cancer is a complex disease in which cells progressively accumulate mutations disrupting their cellular processes. A fraction of these mutations drive tumourigenesis by affecting oncogenes or tumour suppressor genes, but many mutations are passengers with no clear contribution to tumour development. The advancement of DNA and RNA sequencing...review 2018
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González, Sergio (author), Laera, Gianluca (author), Koussios, S. (author), Domínguez, Jaime (author), Lasagni, Fernando A. (author)The simulation of long life behavior and environmental aging effects on composite materials are subjects of investigation for future aerospace applications (i.e. supersonic commercial aircrafts). Temperature variation in addition to matrix oxidation involves material degradation and loss of mechanical properties. Crack initiation and growth...review 2018
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Bogaard, T.A. (author), Greco, R. (author)Many shallow landslides and debris flows are precipitation initiated. Therefore, regional landslide hazard assessment is often based on empirically derived precipitation intensity-duration (ID) thresholds and landslide inventories. Generally, two features of precipitation events are plotted and labeled with (shallow) landslide occurrence or...review 2018
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van Manen, T. (author), Janbaz, S. (author), Zadpoor, A.A. (author)Shape-shifting of flat materials into the desired 3D configuration is an alternative design route for fabrication of complex 3D shapes, which provides many benefits such as access to the flat material surface and the ability to produce well-described motions. The advanced production techniques that primarily work in 2D could then be used to...review 2018
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Abbel, Robert (author), Galagan, Yulia (author), Groen, W.A. (author)The production of electronic devices using solution based (“wet”) deposition technologies has some decisive technical and commercial advantages compared to competing approaches like vacuum based (“dry”) manufacturing. Particularly, the potential to scale up production processes to large areas and high volumes by introducing continuous roll-to...review 2018
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Ghosh, Sandeep (author), Manna, L. (author)Over the years, scientists have identified various synthetic "handles" while developing wet chemical protocols for achieving a high level of shape and compositional complexity in colloidal nanomaterials. Halide ions have emerged as one such handle which serve as important surface active species that regulate nanocrystal (NC) growth and...review 2018
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van der Heijden, A.E.D.M. (author)In the domain of energetic nanomaterials, more specifically nano-sized explosives and oxidizers, many small scale production methods have been explored up to now. So far only limited attempts have been made to scale up the production to tens or maximally a few hunderds of grams. This paper provides a review of these small scale production...review 2018
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Langowski, Julian K.A. (author), Dodou, D. (author), Kamperman, Marleen (author), van Leeuwen, Johan L. (author)Tree frogs have the remarkable ability to attach to smooth, rough, dry, and wet surfaces using their versatile toe pads. Tree frog attachment involves the secretion of mucus into the pad-substrate gap, requiring adaptations towards mucus drainage and pad lubrication. Here, we present an overview of tree frog attachment, with focus on (i) the...review 2018
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Sheldon, R.A. (author)The conversion of sugars, derived from waste polysaccharide biomass, to commodity chemicals by fermentation or catalytic hydrogenation, oxidation or dehydration or combinations thereof are reviewed.review 2018
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Restrepo Perez, L. (author), Joo, C. (author), Dekker, C. (author)Proteins are major building blocks of life. The protein content of a cell and an organism provides key information for the understanding of biological processes and disease. Despite the importance of protein analysis, only a handful of techniques are available to determine protein sequences, and these methods face limitations, for example,...review 2018
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van der Kruk, E. (author), van der Helm, F.C.T. (author), Veeger, H.E.J. (author), Schwab, A.L. (author)The quantification of mechanical power can provide valuable insight into athlete performance because it is the mechanical principle of the rate at which the athlete does work or transfers energy to complete a movement task. Estimates of power are usually limited by the capabilities of measurement systems, resulting in the use of simplified power...review 2018
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Buşoniu, Lucian (author), de Bruin, T.D. (author), Tolić, Domagoj (author), Kober, J. (author), Palunko, Ivana (author)Reinforcement learning (RL) offers powerful algorithms to search for optimal controllers of systems with nonlinear, possibly stochastic dynamics that are unknown or highly uncertain. This review mainly covers artificial-intelligence approaches to RL, from the viewpoint of the control engineer. We explain how approximate representations of the...review 2018
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Prewett, Philip D. (author), Hagen, C.W. (author), Lenk, Claudia (author), Lenk, Steve (author), Kaestner, Marcus (author), Ivanov, Tzvetan (author), Ahmad, Ahmad (author), Robinson, A.J. (author), Hari, S. (author), Scotuzzi, M. (author)Following a brief historical summary of the way in which electron beam lithography developed out of the scanning electron microscope, three state-of-the-art charged-particle beam nanopatterning technologies are considered. All three have been the subject of a recently completed European Union Project entitled "Single Nanometre Manufacturing:...review 2018
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Morgan, Steven G. (author), Shanks, Alan L. (author), MacMahan, Jamie H. (author), Reniers, A.J.H.M. (author), Feddersen, Falk (author)Plankton are transported onshore, providing subsidies of food and new recruits to surf-zone and intertidal communities. The transport of plankton to the surf zone is influenced by wind, wave, and tidal forcing, and whether they enter the surf zone depends on alongshore variation in surf-zone hydrodynamics caused by the interaction of breaking...review 2018
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Sharei Amarghan, H. (author), Alderliesten, Tanja (author), van den Dobbelsteen, J.J. (author), Dankelman, J. (author)Guidewires and catheters are used during minimally invasive interventional procedures to traverse in vascular system and access the desired position. Computer models are increasingly being used to predict the behavior of these instruments. This information can be used to choose the right instrument for each case and increase the success rate...review 2018