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Zheng, Fangfang (author), van Zuylen, H.J. (author), Liu, Xiaobo (author)Urban travel times are rather variable as a result of a lot of stochastic factors both in traffic flows, signals, and other conditions on the infrastructure. However, the most common way both in literature and practice is to estimate or predict only expected travel times, not travel time distributions. By doing so, it fails to provide full...journal article 2017
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van den Eijnden, A.P. (author), Hicks, M.A. (author)For analyzing low probability slope failures, a modified version of subset simulation, based on performance-based subset selection rather than the usual probability-based subset selection, is combined with the random finite element method. The application to an idealized slope is used to study the efficiency and consistency of the proposed...journal article 2017
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Kleinherenbrink, M. (author), Riva, R.E.M. (author), Frederikse, T. (author), Merrifield, Mark (author), Wada, Yoshihide (author)The mass and steric components of sea level changes have been separated in the Tropical Asian Seas (TAS) using a statistically optimal combination of Jason satellite altimetry, GRACE satellite gravimetry, and ocean reanalyses. Using observational uncertainties, statistically optimally weighted time series for both components have been...journal article 2017
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Bracher, J.M. (author), de Hulster, A.F. (author), Koster, C.C. (author), van den Broek, M.A. (author), Daran, J.G. (author), van Maris, A.J.A. (author), Pronk, J.T. (author)Biotin prototrophy is a rare, incompletely understood, and industrially relevant characteristic of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains. The genome of the haploid laboratory strain CEN.PK113-7D contains a full complement of biotin biosynthesis genes, but its growth in biotin-free synthetic medium is extremely slow (specific growth rate [μ] ≈ 0.01...journal article 2017
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Chen, B. (author), Liu, Hui (author), Zeferino Ribeiro De Souza, F. (author), Liu, Lan (author)Chiral cyclic β-hydroxy ketones represent key motifs in the production of natural products of biological interest. Although the molecules are structurally simple, they require cumbersome synthetic steps to get access to them and their synthesis remains a challenge in organic chemistry. In this report, we describe a straightforward approach to...journal article 2017
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Wada, Yoshihide (author), Bierkens, Marc F.P. (author), de Roo, A (author), Dirmeyer, Paul A. (author), Famiglietti, James S. (author), Hanasaki, Naota (author), Konar, Megan (author), Liu, Junguo (author), Schmied, Hannes Möller (author), Oki, Taikan (author), Pokhrel, Yadu (author), Sivapalan, Murugesu (author), Troy, Tara J. (author), Van Dijk, Albert I J M (author), van Emmerik, T.H.M. (author), Van Huijgevoort, Marjolein H.J. (author), Van Lanen, Henny A.J. (author), Vörösmarty, Charles J. (author), Wanders, Niko (author), Wheater, Howard (author)Over recent decades, the global population has been rapidly increasing and human activities have altered terrestrial water fluxes to an unprecedented extent. The phenomenal growth of the human footprint has significantly modified hydrological processes in various ways (e.g. irrigation, artificial dams, and water diversion) and at various...journal article 2017
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Esposito, R. (author), Hendriks, M.A.N. (author)The assessment of concrete structures affected by alkali–silica reaction (ASR) is a complex problem due to the multiscale nature of this long-term phenomenon. The reaction starts within the concrete constituents and developed at aggregate level by inducing swelling and deterioration of concrete material, which eventually affect the capacity of...journal article 2017
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Cristiano, E. (author), ten Veldhuis, Marie-claire (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author)In urban areas, hydrological processes are characterized by high variability in space and time, making them sensitive to small-scale temporal and spatial rainfall variability. In the last decades new instruments, techniques, and methods have been developed to capture rainfall and hydrological processes at high resolution. Weather radars have...journal article 2017
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Hosseini Nasab, S.M. (author), Zitha, P.L.J. (author)The objective of this study is to discover a synergistic effect between foam stability in bulk and micro-emulsion phase behaviour to design a high-performance chemical system for an optimized alkaline–surfactant–foam (ASF) flooding for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). The focus is on the interaction of ASF chemical agents with oil in the presence...journal article 2017
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Vahid Belarghou, A. (author), Saric, Andela (author), Idema, T. (author)Cellular membranes exhibit a large variety of shapes, strongly coupled to their function. Many biological processes involve dynamic reshaping of membranes, usually mediated by proteins. This interaction works both ways: while proteins influence the membrane shape, the membrane shape affects the interactions between the proteins. To study these...journal article 2017
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Hailu, T.G. (author), Mackay, L.J. (author), Ramirez Elizondo, L.M. (author), Ferreira, Jan Abraham (author)This paper describes the behavior of voltage weak DC distribution systems. These systems have relatively small system capacitance. The size of system capacitance, which stores energy, has a considerable effect on the value of fault currents, control complexity, and system reliability. A number of potential definitions of voltage weak DC...journal article 2017
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Mackay, L.J. (author), van der Blij, N.H. (author), Ramirez Elizondo, L.M. (author), Bauer, P. (author)AbstractDue to an increasing number of power generation units and load devices operating with direct current (DC) at distribution level, there is a potential benefit of leading efforts toward building a DC distribution system. However, the implementation of DC distribution systems faces important challenges, including the market inertia of AC...journal article 2017
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Deutz, D.B. (author), Mascarenhas, N.T. (author), van der Zwaag, S. (author), Groen, W.A. (author)Composites of aligned (K,Na,Li)NbO<sub>3</sub> (KNLN) piezoceramic particles in a PDMS polymer matrix are presented as promising materials for flexible sensors and energy harvesters. Their ease of processing is matched with a relatively high damage tolerance and piezoelectric performance at low dielectric loss. To maximize piezoelectric...journal article 2017
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Šavija, B. (author), Zhang, H. (author), Schlangen, E. (author)Excessive cracking can be a serious durability problem for reinforced concrete structures. In recent years, addition of microencapsulated phase change materials (PCMs) to concrete has been proposed as a possible solution to crack formation related to temperature gradients. However, the addition of PCM microcapsules to cementitious materials...journal article 2017
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Lantsoght, E.O.L. (author), Koekkoek, R.T. (author), Hordijk, D.A. (author), de Boer, A. (author)Proof load tests of bridges can be very useful for structures with a lack of information, or for structures of which the effect of material degradation is difficult to assess. Contrary to diagnostic load testing, proof load testing is not well-defined in current standards in terms of required load and analysis of measurements. The risk...journal article 2017
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Sachdeva, S. (author), Koper, S.J.H. (author), Sabetghadam, A. (author), Soccol, Dimitri (author), Gravesteijn, Dirk J. (author), Kapteijn, F. (author), Sudhölter, Ernst J. R. (author), Gascon, Jorge (author), de Smet, L.C.P.M. (author)Affinity layers play a crucial role in chemical sensors for the selective and sensitive detection of analytes. Here, we report the use of composite affinity layers containing Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) in a polymeric matrix for sensing purposes. Nanoparticles of NH<sub>2</sub>-MIL-53(Al) were dispersed in a Matrimid polymer matrix with...journal article 2017
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Pasquariello, Vito (author), Hickel, S. (author), Adams, Nikolaus A. (author)We analyse the low-frequency dynamics of a high Reynolds number impinging shock-wave/turbulent boundary-layer interaction (SWBLI) with strong mean-flow separation. The flow configuration for our grid-converged large-eddy simulations (LES) reproduces recent experiments for the interaction of a Mach 3 turbulent boundary layer with an impinging...journal article 2017
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van Schaijk, Oscar R.P. (author), Visser, H.G. (author)In this paper we present a novel method to improve the robustness of solutions to the Flight-to-Gate Assignment Problem (FGAP), with the aim to reduce the need for gate re-planning due to unpredicted flight schedule disturbances in the daily operations at an airport. We propose an approach in which the deterministic gate constraints are...journal article 2017
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Koster, Randal D. (author), Betts, Alan K. (author), Dirmeyer, Paul A. (author), Bierkens, Marc (author), Bennett, Katrina E. (author), Déry, Stephen J. (author), Evans, Jason P. (author), Fu, Rong (author), Hernandez, Felipe (author), Ruby Leung, L. (author), Liang, Xu (author), Masood, Muhammad (author), Savenije, Hubert (author), Wang, Guiling (author), Yuan, Xing (author)Recent research in large-scale hydroclimatic variability is surveyed, focusing on five topics: (i) variability in general, (ii) droughts, (iii) floods, (iv) land-atmosphere coupling, and (v) hydroclimatic prediction. Each surveyed topic is supplemented by illustrative examples of recent research, as presented at a 2016 symposium honoring the...journal article 2017
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de Bakker, P.F. (author), Tiberius, C.C.J.M. (author)Precise Point Positioning (PPP) is a popular Global Positioning System (GPS) processing strategy, thanks to its high precision without requiring additional GPS infrastructure. Single-Frequency PPP (SF-PPP) takes this one step further by no longer relying on expensive dual-frequency GPS receivers, while maintaining a relatively high...journal article 2017