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van der Werf-Kulichova, Z. (author)The biobased economy is regarded as a possible solution for<br/>addressing the challenges associated with climate change and<br/>the growing human population. Due to progress in science<br/>and technology the biobased economy can provide additional<br/>food and renewable energy to meet the needs of the expected<br/>9 billion people by 2050.<br/...doctoral thesis 2016
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Wan, C. (author)Railway crossings are important operational elements in railway infrastructures. The discontinuity in the rail geometry at the crossings results in high impact loads. These dynamic forces can cause severe damage to the crossings. The goal of the research is to develop a methodology that optimises the vehicle-track interaction at railway...doctoral thesis 2016
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Zhang, W. (author)Multimodal imaging techniques are emerging in medical diagnosis. The synergistic combination of imaging techniques, such as MRI and PET/SPECT, is highly useful to strengthen each of the individual imaging modalities while reducing any of their disadvantages. In recent years, the progress of technical integration of imaging scanners has led to a...doctoral thesis 2016
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Sleenhoff, S. (author)This thesis explores the role of emotions for triggering public engagement in the emerging bio-based economy. Emotions have been found to be important in people’s communication, judgement formation decision making and interactions with our surroundings. In current engagement practises there is hardly any attention for emotions; how they can be...doctoral thesis 2016
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Abdolah Zadeh, M. (author)Inspired by the state of the art and the recent advances in the field of self-healing corrosion protective coatings, the thesis entitled “Self-healing corrosion protective sol-gel coatings” addresses novel routes to self-healing corrosion protective sol-gel coatings via extrinsic and intrinsic healing approaches. The employed approaches aim at...doctoral thesis 2016
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Van Beek, V.M. (author)Backward erosion piping is an internal erosion mechanism during which shallow pipes are formed in the direction opposite to the flow underneath water-retaining structures as a result of the gradual removal of sandy material by the action of water. It is an important failure mechanism in both dikes and dams where sandy layers are covered by a...doctoral thesis 2015
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Physiological functions of the respiratory cytochrome bd and the CuA nitric oxide reductase (CuANor)Al-Attar, S. (author)Biological membranes form a binding platform for a variety of proteins vital to the cell. The respiratory chain consists mostly of membrane-bound enzymes. These enzymes form a functional chain in which electrons derived from nutrition successively flow from low potential to high potential redox couples. During this process, the chemical energy...doctoral thesis 2015
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Keskin, D. (author)Despite the recognition that new ventures are potential candidates of creating innovations necessary for sustainability, little is know on how they actually engage in this journey. Sustainability-oriented new ventures are confronted with high levels of uncertainty that stem from the liabilities of being new and small, as well as demonstrating...doctoral thesis 2015
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Valdesueiro, D. (author)Particles are widely used in the chemical industry as raw material and end product. In many applications of particles, it is advantageous to give them a coating that can either protect the particle from outside influences or give it an additional function. Technologies to provide micron-sized particles with relatively thick coatings (in the...doctoral thesis 2015
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Mangone, G. (author)The design of office buildings can substantially improve the building, social, and ecological performance of office building projects. However, existing research on improving the performance of work environments has primarily focused on identifying and evaluating methods to make work environments less bad, rather than focusing on how to develop...doctoral thesis 2015
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Duz, B. (author)The PhD study focused on two topics. The first topic was energy dissipation in wave propagation. The wave dissipation can be caused by physical and/or numerical phenomena, such as the free surface treatment, physical viscosity and artificial viscosity due to discretization of the momentum equations. Among these the free surface treatment is an...doctoral thesis 2015
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Yang, Z. (author)Corrosion of reinforcing steel is a major culprit to durability and serviceability of concrete structures. This problem is highly relevant for civil engineering structures in the transport sector, such as bridges, tunnels, harbour quays and parking structures. The dominant aggressive external influence is the chloride load from de-icing salts or...doctoral thesis 2015
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Saygili, G. (author)Depth extraction is one of the important steps of $3$D computer vision (CV). Although, it has been researched for many decades and there are variety of methods already that addresses depth extraction, there is no perfect solution that satisfies the needs of all CV algorithms. Stereo vision is implemented in CV as a matching algorithm where an...doctoral thesis 2015
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Wang, Z. (author)Navigation services have gained much importance for all kinds of human activities ranging from tourist navigation to support of rescue teams in disaster management. However, despite the considerable amount of route guidance research that has been performed, many issues that are related to navigation for first responders still need to be...doctoral thesis 2015
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Ghafarian Malamiri, H.R. (author)The soil thermal properties (soil thermal conductivity, soil heat capacity and soil diffusivity) are the main parameters in the applications that need quantitative information on soil heat transfer. Conventionally, these properties are either measured in situ or estimated by semi-empirical models using the fractions of soil constituents. The use...doctoral thesis 2015
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Wang, X. (author)Passive continental margins display a great diversity of seafloor bathymetries induced by gravity driven extensional faulting and compressional folding, as well as diapiric movements of salt or mud. In many diapirically controlled settings, slope bathymetries are complicated and characterized by numerous ridges, trenches and minibasins such as...doctoral thesis 2015