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Intriago Zambrano, J.C. (author)Recently, there has been a growing need for sustainable agriculture to increase food security, alleviate poverty, and contribute to climate change mitigation. Smallholder farmers (SFs) play a key role in this endeavor as they are a considerable segment of the global farming population. Despite their relevance, SFs face several challenges that...doctoral thesis 2024
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Jungbauer, Alois (author), Satzer, Peter (author), Duerauer, Astrid (author), Azevedo, Ana (author), Aires-Barros, Raquel (author), Nilsson, Bernt (author), Farid, Suzy (author), Goldrick, Stephen (author), Ottens, M. (author)The main objectives of bioprocesses are to reliably deliver drugs in a relatively short time frame with high quality within a tight regulatory framework. Bioprocesses are highly complex, the level of automation is moderate, and there is constant pressure to improve efficiency and costs. In addition, climate change and resource scarcity...review 2024
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Langer, J.K.A. (author)Indonesia has been dependent on its abundant coal reserves to meet its increasing electricity demand. The Indonesian government is aware of the negative environmental effects of coal combustion and pledged to become carbon neutral by 2060 or earlier by transitioning towards renewables. In principle, it is known that Indonesia has large renewable...doctoral thesis 2024
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Shang, Y. (author)Transition zones in railway tracks, which occur at changes in track form and or substructure properties, are known to cause issues with track degradation. Examples can be found where a track section, usually a ballast track, transits to a slab track to cross a roadway or waterway through supporting structures such as bridges, level crossings,...doctoral thesis 2024
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Rinaldi, Lorenzo (author), Golinucci, Nicolò (author), Guerrieri, Giulia (author), Sanvito, F.D. (author), Rocco, Matteo Vincenzo (author), Colombo, Emanuela (author)Investing in low-carbon technologies, including light-duty vehicles, is a strategy to decarbonize the residential sector and private mobility. This work aims to assess the parameters driving the economic convenience of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) for a household, and what are the economic implications of BEV adoption on the total cost of...journal article 2024
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Puiman, L. (author)One of the major challenges mankind faces nowadays is combating climate change. A substantial fraction of greenhouse gases are released by industrial processes, as steelmaking, (oil)refinery and waste processing. Emissions from these processes can partly be prevented with a recently developed technology called gas fermentation. Within this...doctoral thesis 2024
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Zoutendijk, M. (author)This dissertationmarks the end of four years of research into improving the sustainability and efficiency of airport operations. I have enjoyed being introduced into this part of the aerospace world, which fortunately has a big dash of mathematics mixed in. During my time as a PhD candidate I’ve been granted the opportunity to meet many...doctoral thesis 2024
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Bouwmeester, D. (author)This dissertation centers around two topics: graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) and superconductors. The aim of this thesis is to work towards combine these two topics, in order to study how superconducting correlations interact with magnetic correlations within graphene nanoribbons, such as the magnetic edge states present in the zigzag edges of...doctoral thesis 2024
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Zivari, A. (author)Recently, quantum networks have emerged as a focal point of research and discussion due to their promise in overcoming the limitations of classical networks, offering unparalleled capabilities in secure communication, quantum computation, and distributed quantum information processing. Simply speaking, a quantum network is a network in which the...doctoral thesis 2024
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Sousamli, M. (author)There is a very popular fable, dating back to the early 1800s, about three little pigs that build their houses of different materials and a wolf that tries to catch them by blowing down their houses. From the three houses built from straws, sticks or bricks, only the house made out of bricks withstands the blow of the wolf. Although the moral of...doctoral thesis 2024
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Alfrink, Kars (author)This thesis investigates the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in public policy execution. To contribute to preserving citizen autonomy, it introduces the concept of ‘contestability’—a system quality that ensures citizens retain control over their lives in the face of AI systems and can influence AI system development. The central research aim...doctoral thesis 2024
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Subramanian, S.S. (author)Carbon dioxide (CO2) electrolysis is an attractive technology for the production of valueadded products and hydrocarbons, establishing a route for leveraging renewable energy sources in the synthesis of fuels and chemicals. Considerable progress has been made in the past decade in advancing CO2 electrolyzers towards commercial scales, however...doctoral thesis 2024
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Keulen, D. (author)Vaccination is a strong and effective way to prevent spreading of infectious diseases and promotes global health. In the future, the importance of vaccines is expected only to increase, driven by factors such as increased international traveling, higher healthcare expenditures, and a growing population. To meet the growing demands, it is...doctoral thesis 2024
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Câmara, Arthur (author)At the core of Search-as-Learning (SAL), as a sub-field of Interactive Information Retrieval (IIR), is exploring how people use search engines to acquire knowledge. Inherently interactive, the knowledge acquisition process via a search system involves learners posing queries, analyzing content, and incorporating novel knowledge. Being this...doctoral thesis 2024
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Yu, W. (author)We are surrounded by all kinds of sounds at all times. What we hear varies with the physical environment and our position. Room impulse responses (RIRs) characterize the effect of the environment on a sound produced by a source. A first goal of this dissertation is to analyze RIRs and investigate how to extract environmental information from...doctoral thesis 2024
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Hejderup, J.I. (author)Developers strategically reuse code to expedite project development and lower maintenance costs. With the advent of software supply chains, integrating open-source libraries into projects has transitioned from a cumbersome, manual task to an automated, streamlined process. However, this ease of integration has downsides; adding just one library...doctoral thesis 2024
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Siebinga, O. (author)Automated driving technologies offer significant societal benefits but face challenges, particularly in interactions between automated and human-driven vehicles during lane changes and merging on highways. This thesis addresses this issue by focusing on joint driver efforts and proposes a new Communication-Enabled Interaction (CEI) model...doctoral thesis 2024
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Pasini, M. (author)A large-scale quantum network, where many nodes are connected via entanglement and can share and process quantum information, will allow applications that are now unattainable. While some are known, ranging from distributed quantum computing to enhanced quantum sensing and quantum communication, the full potential of such a fundamentally new...doctoral thesis 2024
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Ali, W. (author)Deep-sea mining Industry and academia are presently investigating the potential of deep-seamining for valuable resources such as poly-metallic nodules. Nevertheless, the process of manoeuvring, excavating, and processing these resources poses a threat to the deep-sea environment through the generation of plumes of suspended fine-grained solids,...doctoral thesis 2024
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Haaksman, V.A. (author)The development of the aerobic granular sludge (AGS) technology for the retrofit of existing continuous-flow reactors (CFRs) of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) using conventional activated sludge (CAS) has garnered increasing interest over the past decade, following the worldwide adoption of AGS technology in sequencing batch reactors (SBRs)...doctoral thesis 2024