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Swuste, P.H.J.J. (author), Zwaard, Walter (author), Groeneweg, J. (author), Guldenmund, F.W. (author)The origin of occupational safety, as an area of main interest of the government, the industry, the unions, and scientists starts in the Netherlands at the end of the 19th century. Roughly in the same period occupational medicine becomes a separate domain. Only just after World War II are safety professionals organised in associations....journal article 2019
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van de Kaa, G. (author), Fens, T.W. (author), Rezaei, J. (author), Kaynak, D. (author), Hatun, Z. (author), Tsilimeni-Archangelidi, A. (author)The world is faced with various societal challenges related to e.g. climate change and energy scarcity. To address these issues, complex innovative systems may be developed such as smart grids. When these systems are realized challenges pertaining to renewable energy and sustainability may, in part, be solved. To implement them, generally...journal article 2019
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Jansen, E. (author), Pereira Machado, J.D. (author), Blanter, Y.M. (author)We consider an electromechanical system in which a microwave cavity is coupled to a mechanical resonator, with a mechanical frequency twice the microwave frequency. In this regime, the effective photon-phonon interaction is equivalent to that of a degenerate parametric amplifier, instead of the typical radiation pressure interaction. If the...journal article 2019
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Duives, D.C. (author), Wang, Guangxing (author), Kim, Jiwon (author)Currently, effective crowd management based on the information provided by crowd monitoring systems is difficult as this information comes in at the moment adverse crowd movements are already occurring. Up to this moment, very little forecasting techniques have been developed that predict crowd flows a longer time period ahead. Moreover, most...journal article 2019
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Karatsu, K. (author), Endo, A. (author), Bueno Lopez, J. (author), de Visser, P.J. (author), Barends, R. (author), Thoen, David (author), Murugesan, V. (author), Tomita, T. (author), Baselmans, J.J.A. (author)For space observatories, the glitches caused by high energy phonons created by the interaction of cosmic ray particles with a detector substrate lead to dead time during observation. Mitigating the impact of cosmic rays is therefore an important requirement for detectors to be used in future space missions. In order to investigate possible...journal article 2019
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Anisimov, A. (author), Serikova, Mariya G. (author), Groves, R.M. (author)Shearography is a non-destructive testing technique that provides full-field surface strain characterization. Previous inspection of flat objects or simple geometric shapes has been reported. However, real-life objects especially in aerospace, transport, or cultural heritage are not flat, but their inspection with shearography is of interest for...journal article 2019
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Onencan, A.M. (author), Enserink, B. (author), van de Walle, B.A. (author)The Kenyan government has made significant advances in water resources management at the local authority (county) level with little or no cooperation at the drainage basin level. Research on critical determinants of cooperation amongst transboundary water negotiation teams is limited. In this paper, we assess whether personal attribute...journal article 2019
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Cieraad, I.G. (author)In the light of a newly discovered source of thousands of seventeenth-century Dutch letters found in the English National Archive a case is made for a radical reinterpretation of seventeenth-century Dutch paintings. These so-called “homescapes” feature in the historiography of the modern home as proof of the fact that seventeenth-century Holland...journal article 2019
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de Almeida Sousa, E. (author), van Gent, Marcel R.A. (author), Hofland, Bas (author)In order to design reliable coastal structures, for present and future scenarios, universal and precise damage assessment methods are required. This study addresses this need, and presents improved damage characterization methods for coastal structures with rock armored slopes. The data used in this study were obtained from a test campaign...journal article 2019
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Dai, T. (author), Hein, C.M. (author), Zhang, Tong (author)This paper argues that a gap exists between the marketing of shore excursions and cruise tourists’ expectations of ‘local flavor’ experiences. The paper first establishes that this discrepancy exists, then aims to refine the focus of marketing and promotion, and finally proposes strategies for improving cruise tourists’ satisfaction....journal article 2019
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Kwon, M. (author), Remøy, H.T. (author), van den Dobbelsteen, A.A.J.F. (author), Knaack, U. (author)Personal control is one of the influential factors for user satisfaction and environmental comfort due to its physical and psychological impacts. This paper aims to identify the relationship between the degree of personal control over indoor environmental conditions and user satisfaction with thermal and visual comfort. Trying to answer the...journal article 2019
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Alquaimi, B. (author), Rossen, W.R. (author)Gas is used in petroleum reservoirs to displace oil for enhanced oil recovery. The microscopic displacement efficiency of gas is very good, but at the reservoir scale the process suffers from poor sweep efficiency, especially in naturally fractured reservoirs. Foam can improve the sweep. There have been considerable scientific contributions...journal article 2019
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Pasquinelli, Alice (author), Agugiaro, G. (author), Tagliabue, Lavinia Chiara (author), Scaioni, Marco (author), Guzzetti, Franco (author)Smart management of urban built environment relies on the availability of data supporting sound policy making and guiding city renovation processes toward more sustainable and performant models. Nevertheless, public managers are unlikely to have comprehensive information on the existing building stock. In addition, tools providing effective...journal article 2019
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Schröder, Patrick (author), Vergragt, Philip (author), Brown, Halina Szejnwald (author), Dendler, Leonie (author), Gorenflo, Neal (author), Matus, Kira (author), Quist, J.N. (author), Rupprecht, Christoph D.D. (author), Tukker, Arnold (author), Wennersten, Ronald (author)Urban consumption patterns and lifestyles are increasingly important for the sustainability of cities today and in the future. However, considerations of consumption issues, social norms, behaviour and lifestyles within current urban sustainability research and practices are limited. Much untapped potential for the reduction of the...journal article 2019
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Abebe, Y.A. (author), Ghorbani, Amineh (author), Nikolic, I. (author), Vojinovic, Zoran (author), Sanchez, Arlex (author)In this paper, we describe a modelling framework that allows the integration of human and physical components of flood risk. Within this framework, flood risk management is conceptualized as a coupled human-flood system. The human subsystem includes individuals and their behaviour and institutions that shape human-flood interaction. The...journal article 2019
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Naastepad, C.W.M. (author), Houghton Budd, C.J. (author)Unless we direct technology, technology will increasingly direct us, with mass un(der)employment and a possible atrophying of the human soul (i.e. human thinking, feeling and will) as likely consequences. The root of such problems is a failure to understand capital fully, itself a consequence of a failure to understand fully the human...journal article 2019
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van Gelder, Jean-Louis (author), de Vries, Reinout E. (author), Demetriou, A.M. (author), van Sintemaartensdijk, Iris (author), Donker, Tara (author)Objectives: This study proposes an alternative hypothetical scenario method capitalizing on the potential of virtual reality (VR). Rather than asking participants to imagine themselves in a specific situation, VR perceptually immerses them in it. We hypothesized that experiencing a scenario in VR would increase feelings of being “present” in...journal article 2019
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Dialynas, G. (author), Happee, R. (author), Schwab, A.L. (author)With the resurgence in bicycle ridership in the last decade and the continuous increase of electric bicycles in the streets a better understanding of bicycle rider behaviour is imperative to improve bicycle safety. Unfortunately, these studies are dangerous for the rider, given that the bicycle is a laterally unstable vehicle and most of the...journal article 2019
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Vollmer, I. (author), Kosinov, N. (author), Szécsényi, Ágnes (author), Li, G. (author), Yarulina, I. (author), Abou-Hamad, Edy (author), Gurinov, Andrei (author), Ould-Chikh, Samy (author), Aguilar-Tapia, Antonio (author), Hazemann, Jean Louis (author), Pidko, E.A. (author), Hensen, Emiel (author), Kapteijn, F. (author), Gascon, Jorge (author)The active sites on the methane dehydroaromatization (MDA) catalyst Mo/HZSM-5 are very hard to characterize, because they are present in various geometries and sizes and only form under reaction conditions with methane at 700 °C. To address these issues an experimental strategy is presented that enables distinguishing different active sites...journal article 2019
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Fang, H. (author), Szymanski, N. (author), Versteylen, C.D. (author), Cloetens, P. (author), Kwakernaak, C. (author), Sloof, W.G. (author), Tichelaar, F.D. (author), Balachandran, S. (author), Herbig, M. (author), Brück, E.H. (author), van der Zwaag, S. (author), van Dijk, N.H. (author)When metals are mechanically loaded at elevated temperatures for extended periods of time, creep damage will occur in the form of cavities at grain boundaries. In the present experiments it is demonstrated that in binary iron-tungsten alloys creep damage can be self healed by selective precipitation of a W-rich phase inside these cavities. Using...journal article 2019