Assessment of the COVID-19 infection risk at a workplace through stochastic microexposure modeling

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has a significant impact on economy. Decisions regarding the reopening of businesses should account for infection risks. Objective: This paper describes a novel model for COVID-19 infection risks and policy evaluations. Methods: The model combines the best principles of the agent-based, microexposure, and...

A global synthesis of the effectiveness of sedimentation-enhancing strategies for river deltas and estuaries

Deltas worldwide are at risk of elevation loss and drowning due to relative sea-level rise. Management strategies to restore or enhance sedimentation on delta plains, Sedimentation-Enhancing Strategies (hereafter SES), are now being pursued in many deltas but there has been limited cross-disciplinary and cross-delta review. Here we compare 21...

Increasing the effect of peer review

Peer review is increasingly used in higher education, also at Delft University of Technology. Unfortunately, the potential of student-student feedback often appears to be undervalued, making it less effective. The quality of the reviews is not as good and they are less constructive than expected. Moreover, not all students take giving and or...

Diversity interventions for a socially sustainable construction industry

Major construction sites in Australia have an above average presence of ethnic minorities. These groups and the interfaces between them require effective management in order to meet the social imperatives of sustainable design and construction. A survey of 1155 workers and 204 managers on Sydney construction sites respectively, found a...

Investigating the effects of neighbourhood restructuring on destigmatization practices and health in a Toronto public housing community: An emerging research agenda

Electron postgrowth irradiation of platinum-containing nanostructures grown by electron-beam-induced deposition from Pt(PF3)4

The material grown in a scanning electron microscope by electron beam-induced deposition (EBID) using Pt(PF3)4 precursor is shown to be electron beam sensitive. The effects of deposition time and postgrowth electron irradiation on the microstructure and resistivity of the deposits were assessed by transmission electron microscopy, selected area...

Designing with Care: The Future of Pervasive Healthcare

Cavitation of JP-8 fuel converging-diverging nozzle: experiments and modelling

Moving beyond heterogeneity and process complexity: A new vision for watershed hydrology

Field studies in watershed hydrology continue to characterize and catalogue the enormous heterogeneity and complexity of rainfall runoff processes in more and more watersheds, in different hydroclimatic regimes, and at different scales. Nevertheless, the ability to generalize these findings to ungauged regions remains out of reach. In spite of...

Investigating a theory of housing, ontological security and self-identity: A qualitative analysis of interview data in a multi-cultural Canadian city

Workshop 1. Session 1.1: Poverty and identity. Abstract: This paper reports the findings of a qualitative study investigating the utility of the theoretical constructs ‘ontological security’ and ‘self-identity’ for understanding the routinized, everyday experience of housing and home. In-depth interviews conducted with 16 households in two inner...

Turbulence at the free surface

High-field calculations of Landau-like shallow donor states: A finite-difference approach

Landau-like states in the magneto-optical spectrum of a shallow donor impurity: Theory versus experiment

Cycles for coal-fired engines for marine applications

Factors influencing the residence time of catchment waters: A virtual experiment approach

Estimates of mean residence time (MRT) are increasingly used as simple summary descriptors of the hydrological processes involving storage and mixing of water within catchment systems. Current understanding of the physical controls on MRT remains limited, and various hypotheses have been proposed to explain its variability between catchments. We...