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Wu, J. (author)The microstructural aspects of rolling contact fatigue in rails were studied. The rail track is a critical component of the railway system and its long-term performance contributes crucially to the sustainable development of the railway system. The increasing demands of trains with a higher speed/capacity impose more severe load conditions on...doctoral thesis 2018
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Ren, S. (author)Next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have transformed the landscape of genomic research. With the significant advances in NGS technologies, DNA sequencing is more affordable and accessible than ever before. Meanwhile, many DNA sequence analysis tools have been developed to derive useful information from the raw sequencing data produced...doctoral thesis 2018
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van Ruijven, L.C. (author)This dissertation is about improving performance of projects delivering complex systems. Examples of such systems are ships, infrastructure systems and process plants. Mostly these systems are one of a kind, so called ‘one-offs’ and are the ‘product’ of one or more coherent projects each executed by a consortium of enterprises. The lifecycle of...doctoral thesis 2018
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Cai, J. (author)The research investigates How can the morphological approach in combination with the pattern language approach assist urban designers to achieve historical continuity in urban design both on theory and application levels.<br/>This research overviews the developments and applications of the two approaches worldwide with a special emphasis on the...doctoral thesis 2018
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Fakhredin, F. (author)The topic of this thesis is design for recycling (DfR) of electronic products. More than ever before, electronic products are intruding into our everyday life, both in the household and in industry, resulting in increasing numbers of electronic products ending up in waste streams (also known as electronic waste, or e-waste). Electronic products...doctoral thesis 2018
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Westra, J.M. (author)Generation of electricity using renewable energy sources is becoming an integral part of the electrical energy mix. A substantial fraction of the electrical energy is foreseen to be generated by photovoltaic (PV) solar cells that directly convert light into electricity. Large scale application of building integrated PV is envisaged to aid the...doctoral thesis 2018
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- Steenkamp, A.S.A. (author) report 2018
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Ma, Y. (author)Nowadays, wheel-rail (W/R) interfaces are suffering from the practical problems (e.g. wear, rolling contact defects) with the increase of train speed and traffic density. For accurate prediction of wear and/or growth of rolling contact defects, rapid determination of detailed contact responses (i.e. contact stresses & strains) using...doctoral thesis 2018
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Le, T.B. (author)Rivers have been trained for centuries by series of transverse groynes. This generally results in damages to their ecosystems as well as in undesirable longterm morphological developments. We analyze here the possibility to train rivers in a new way by subdividing their channel in parallel channels with specific functions with longitudinal...doctoral thesis 2018
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Janic, M. (author)This paper deals multidimensional examination of performances of a trunk line/route of liner container-shipping network serving an intercontinental supply chain by the conventional (Panamax Max) and mega (ULC - Ultra Large Container) ships. The trunk line/route of the network includes the supplier and the customer seaport of freight shipments...journal article 2018
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Vuik, A. (author)Nowadays, quantum computers, a promising direction of computer hardware development, suffer too much from errors caused by disturbance of qubits to compete with the state-of-the-art classical computers. Topological phases in condensed matter physics offer a solution: the topological edge states emerging in such a phase are spatially separated by...doctoral thesis 2018
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Menicucci, A. (author), Malatesta, F. (author), Di Capua, Francesco (author), Campajola, Luigi (author), Casolaro, Pierluigi (author), Furano, Gianluca (author), Di Mascio, S. (author), Ottavi, Marco (author)The tolerance to the cumulative effects of ionizing radiation is one of the most important parameters to keep into account when selecting an EEE component for space applications. TID sensitivity is normally investigated measuring changes induced by gamma rays from 60Co sources to nominal parameters of a component or to its expected functional...conference paper 2018
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de Angelis, L. (author)In this thesis, we explore the physics of optical singularities. We investigate them in light waves propagating randomly in a planar nanophotonic chip. With a custom-built nearfield microscope, we map the electromagnetic field resulting from the interference of these light waves. Our technique gives access to the full vectorial and complex...doctoral thesis 2018
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Farahani, H. (author)Steels are still, and probably will remain in future, the primary choice for applications as structural materials. This is not only because of the reasonable ratios of properties over production costs, but also owing to the versatile properties realisable via variety of microstructures achieved by controlling the solid-state phase...doctoral thesis 2018
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Forgaci, C. (author)The issue of urban resilience concerns a multitude of urban systems and spaces. This thesis focuses on Urban River Corridors (URCs)—that is, urban spaces where the overlap between the urban systems (carrying the ’social-‘) and the river system (carrying the ‘-ecological’) is at the highest intensity—as strategic spaces with a potentially high...doctoral thesis 2018
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van Beinum, A.S. (author)In the vicinity of motorway ramps, multiple manoeuvres are performed by drivers that are entering or exiting the motorway, and by drivers that anticipate on, or cooperate with, the other entering and exiting vehicles. These manoeuvres involve lane-changes, changes in speed, and changes in headways. This results in changes in lane flow...doctoral thesis 2018
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- Plas, L.A. van der (author) report 2018
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Koutrouvelis, A. (author)The paramount importance of good hearing in everyday life has driven an exploration into the improvement of hearing capabilities of (hearing impaired) people in acoustic challenging situations using hearing assistive devices (HADs). HADs are small portable devices, which primarily aim at improving the intelligibility of an acoustic source that...doctoral thesis 2018
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Trull, A.K. (author)Disease model systems, such as the zebrafish, play an important role in understanding the onset of diseases like cancer and monitor the efficacy of new drugs. In the past, non-invasive methods for screening, diagnostics and treatment monitoring were intrinsically from the outside. In the past decades, there has been a strong drive to look inside...doctoral thesis 2018
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Liu, Q. (author), Van Mieghem, P.F.A. (author)To shed light on the disease localization phenomenon, we study a bursty susceptible-infected-susceptible (SIS) model and analyze the model under the mean-field approximation. In the bursty SIS model, the infected nodes infect all their neighbors periodically, and the near-threshold steady-state prevalence is non-constant and maximized by a...journal article 2018