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Development and experimental testing of a collaborative design rationale method for early-stage ship layout design

le Poole, J.J. (author), Duchateau, E.A.E. (author), Hopman, J.J. (author), Kana, A.A. (author)

Design rationale is a promising way of capturing design decisions and considerations for later retrieval and traceability to improve collaborative design decision-making. To achieve these perceived benefits for early-stage complex ship design, this paper first elaborates on the development of a proof-of-concept design rationale method. The...

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Quantitative evaluation of large corporate climate action initiatives shows mixed progress in their first half-decade

Ruiz Manuel, I. (author), Blok, K. (author)

Corporate climate initiatives such as the Science-Based Targets initiative and RE100 have gained significant prominence in recent years, with considerable increases in membership and several ex-ante studies stating how they could bring substantive emissions reductions beyond national goals. However, studies evaluating their progress are scarce,...

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Photochromic samarium oxyhydride thin films

Chaykina, D. (author), Colombi, G. (author), Schreuders, H. (author), Dam, B. (author)

Photochromism has been reported for several rare-earth (RE) metal oxyhydride thin films and is characterized by a reversible darkening of the sample when exposed to light with energy greater than its optical bandgap. Here, we extend the range of known photochromic RE-oxyhydrides to include samarium oxyhydrides. These SmH3−2xOx thin films are...

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Chimera: An atlas of regular vines on up to 8 nodes

Morales Napoles, O. (author), Rajabi-Bahaabadi, Mojtaba (author), Torres Alves, G.A. (author), 't Hart, C.M.P. (author)

Vine copulas have become the standard tool for modelling complex probabilistic dependence. It has been shown that the number of regular vines grows extremely quickly with the number of nodes. Chimera is the first attempt to map the vast space of regular vines. Software for operating with regular vines is available for R, matlab and Python....

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Computational 3D resolution enhancement for optical coherence tomography with a narrowband visible light source

de Wit, J. (author), Glentis, George Othon (author), Kalkman, J. (author)

Phase-preserving spectral estimation optical coherence tomography (SE-OCT) enables combining axial resolution improvement with computational depth of field (DOF) extension. We show that the combination of SE-OCT with interferometric synthetic aperture microscopy (ISAM) and computational adaptive optics (CAO) results in high 3D resolution over...

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Topological properties and organizing principles of semantic networks

Budel, G.J.A. (author), Jin, Y. (author), Van Mieghem, P.F.A. (author), Kitsak, M.A. (author)

Interpreting natural language is an increasingly important task in computer algorithms due to the growing availability of unstructured textual data. Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications rely on semantic networks for structured knowledge representation. The fundamental properties of semantic networks must be taken into account when...

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Active-feedback quantum control of an integrated low-frequency mechanical resonator

Guo, J. (author), Chang, J. (author), Yao, X. (author), Groeblacher, S. (author)

Preparing a massive mechanical resonator in a state with quantum limited motional energy provides a promising platform for studying fundamental physics with macroscopic systems and allows to realize a variety of applications, including precise sensing. While several demonstrations of such ground-state cooled systems have been achieved, in...

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Monitoring of Tidal Variation and Temperature Change-Induced Movements of an Immersed Tunnel Using Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors (DOFSs)

Zhang, X. (author), Broere, W. (author)

The short-term deformation behavior of immersed tunnels due to daily or monthly temperature changes and tidal variations is often not monitored but forms important input for a structural health assessment of the tunnel. In this study, distributed optical fiber sensors (DOFSs) are used to monitor the short-term (daily and monthly) deformation...

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A framework for subsurface monitoring by integrating reservoir simulation with time-lapse seismic surveys

van IJsseldijk, J.E. (author), Hajibeygi, H. (author), Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author)

Reservoir simulations for subsurface processes play an important role in successful deployment of geoscience applications such as geothermal energy extraction and geo-storage of fluids. These simulations provide time-lapse dynamics of the coupled poromechanical processes within the reservoir and its over-, under-, and side-burden environments...

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Ex ante analysis of circular built environment policy coherence

Bucci Ancapi, F.E. (author)

As European governments adopt new circular built environment policies to cope with the socio-ecological crisis, the need for evaluating such policies gains in urgency. Ex post evaluation is, however, difficult as these policies have not been in place long enough to have had significant effects. Nonetheless, ex ante policy evaluation may be...

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Increased temporal binding during voluntary motor task under local anesthesia

Driller, K.K. (author), Fradet, C.A.S. (author), Mathijssen, Nina (author), Kraan, G.A. (author), Goossens, R.H.M. (author), Hayward, Vincent (author), Hartcher-O'Brien, J. (author)

Temporal binding refers to a systemic bias in the perceived time interval between two related events, most frequently voluntary motor actions and a subsequent sensory effect. An inevitable component of most instrumental motor actions is tactile feedback. Yet, the role of tactile feedback within this phenomenon remains largely unexplored. Here...

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Inflicted head-injury by shaking-trauma in infants: the importance of spatiotemporal variations of the head’s rotation center

Schiks, L.A.H. (author), Dankelman, J. (author), Loeve, A.J. (author)

Inflicted head injury by shaking trauma (IHI-ST) in infants is a type of abusive head trauma often simulated computationally to investigate causalities between violent shaking and injury. This is commonly done with the head’s rotation center kept fixed over time. However, due to the flexibility of the infant’s neck and the external shaking...

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Mastery and social position: Factors in negotiating urban social resilience

Benitez Avila, C.A. (author), Schuberth, Florian (author), Copeland, S.M. (author)

The pragmatic view of urban resilience has re-framed long-lasting social issues as chronic social stresses that can be addressed by building strong social networks in urban environments. This practice, inspired by disaster management, is problematic because it presupposes a community whose members share the same fate. Conversely, social...

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Non-invasive current collectors for improved current-density distribution during CO₂ electrolysis on super-hydrophobic electrodes

Iglesias van Montfort, H.P. (author), Li, Mengran (author), Irtem, I.E. (author), Abdinejad, M. (author), Wu, Yuming (author), Pal, S.K. (author), Sassenburg, M. (author), Ripepi, D. (author), Subramanian, S.S. (author), Biemolt, J. (author), Rufford, Thomas E. (author), Burdyny, T.E. (author)

Electrochemical reduction of CO₂ presents an attractive way to store renewable energy in chemical bonds in a potentially carbon-neutral way. However, the available electrolyzers suffer from intrinsic problems, like flooding and salt accumulation, that must be overcome to industrialize the technology. To mitigate flooding and salt...

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A multibody kinematic system approach for the design of shape-morphing mechanism-based metamaterials

de Jong, P.H. (author), Schwab, A.L. (author), Mirzaali, Mohammad J. (author), Zadpoor, A.A. (author)

Shape-morphing structures have the ability to adapt to various target shapes, offering significant advantages for many applications. However, predicting their behavior presents challenges. Here, we present a method to assess the shape-matching behavior of shape-morphing structures using a multibody systems approach wherein the structure is...

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The relevance of reducing Veress needle overshooting

Horeman, T. (author), Postema, R.R. (author), Fischer, T. (author), Calleja-Agius, J. (author), Camenzuli, C. (author), Alvino, L. (author), Hardon, S.F. (author), Bonjer, H. J. (author)

Safe insertion of the Veress needle during laparoscopy relies on the surgeons’ technical skills in order to stop needle insertion just in time to prevent overshooting in the underlying organs. To reduce this risk, a wide variety of Veress needle systems were developed with safety mechanisms that limit the insertion speed, insertion depth or...

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Physiological and stoichiometric characterization of ethanol-based chain elongation in the absence of short-chain carboxylic acids

Allaart, M.T. (author), Fox, B.B. (author), Nettersheim, I.H.M.S. (author), Pabst, Martin (author), Sousa, Diana Z. (author), Kleerebezem, R. (author)

Hexanoate is a valuable chemical that can be produced by microorganisms that convert short-chain- to medium-chain carboxylic acids through a process called chain elongation. These microorganisms usually produce mixtures of butyrate and hexanoate from ethanol and acetate, but direct conversion of ethanol to hexanoate is theoretically possible....

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Membrane-based microfluidic solvent extraction of Ga-68 from aqueous Zn solutions: towards an automated cyclotron production loop

Trapp, S. (author), Lammers, Tom (author), Engudar, Gokce (author), Hoehr, Cornelia (author), Denkova, A.G. (author), Paulssen, E. (author), de Kruijff, R.M. (author)

Background: The radionuclide Ga-68 is commonly used in nuclear medicine, specifically in positron emission tomography (PET). Recently, the interest in producing Ga-68 by cyclotron irradiation of [⁶⁸Zn]Zn nitrate liquid targets is increasing. However, current purification methods of Ga-68 from the target solution consist of multi...

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Finding shortest and nearly shortest path nodes in large substantially incomplete networks by hyperbolic mapping

Kitsak, M.A. (author), Ganin, Alexander (author), Elmokashfi, Ahmed (author), Cui, Hongzhu (author), Eisenberg, Daniel A. (author), Alderson, David L. (author), Korkin, Dmitry (author), Linkov, Igor (author)

Dynamic processes on networks, be it information transfer in the Internet, contagious spreading in a social network, or neural signaling, take place along shortest or nearly shortest paths. Computing shortest paths is a straightforward task when the network of interest is fully known, and there are a plethora of computational algorithms for...

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High entropy liquid electrolytes for lithium batteries

Wang, Q. (author), Zhao, C. (author), Wang, Jianlin (author), Yao, Zhenpeng (author), Wang, Shuwei (author), Kumar, Sai Govind Hari (author), Ganapathy, S. (author), Eustace, S.J. (author), Wagemaker, M. (author)

High-entropy alloys/compounds have large configurational entropy by introducing multiple components, showing improved functional properties that exceed those of conventional materials. However, how increasing entropy impacts the thermodynamic/kinetic properties in liquids that are ambiguous. Here we show this strategy in liquid electrolytes...

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