Biophysical mechanisms responsible for ultrasound neuromodulation in bilayer lipid membranes: Enabling the research that uncovers the mysterious interactions between ultrasound and neurons

Medical technology has seen great progress over the last centuries, developing increasingly more specialised therapy to benefit human health. The rise of the pharmaceutical industry and the research it drives are contributors to this success. However, in humanity's attempt to tackle more and more complex health issues, the conventional methods...

Bacteria and viruses removal in slow sand filters

Though slow sand filtration is one of the oldest and effective means of drinking water treatment, the mechanisms contributing to bacteria and viruses removal are not well understood. The lack of understanding of actual removal potential and different mechanisms occurring in the filter bed has limited the development of new filter design and...

Underlying Mechanisms for Managing the Cost of Rework Related to Constructability from a Dutch Design and Engineering Firm Perspective

This research aims to identify the underlying mechanisms of the cost of rework related to constructability in Dutch marine infrastructure projects. Despite extensive previous research on the cost of rework, and constructability, the underlying mechanisms within executed projects in the Netherlands have not yet been observed from research....

Manufacturability in automatic synthesis of planar rigid body spring mechanisms

For more than 130 years there have been efforts to automate human services. One such automation is the use of computer-based solving methods to aid engineers in their search for their ideal goal, such as automated planar mechanism design. Contrary to creating mechanisms manually, automatic methods are able to create and evaluate mechanisms in...

Prototype microwire braiding machine

<br/>Micrometer thin, braided wires, is a niche requirement that has applications in beam instrumentation. Due to the rare use-case of extremely thin braided wires there are no established or industrial braiding methods developed. For this reason, a novel method for braiding thin wires was developed. In order to achieve a repeatable result a...

Trench Siltation near the ETM of a Well-mixed Estuary

To exploit its socio-economic functions, engineering measures are regularly applied in estuaries. Estuaries are, however, known to be very complex systems. Stemming from this complexity is the generation of a so-called estuarine turbidity maximum (ETM), which poses great siltation problems to the engineering measures. An engineering measure,...