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Calderon Franco, D. (author)Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health, food security, and development today, leading to a growing number of difficult-to-treat infections and an economic burden. It can affect anyone of any age and in any country. It is mainly accelerated by the misuse and abuse of antibiotics, poor hygiene, and a lack of...doctoral thesis 2023
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Ribeiro, M.J. (author)Increasing delays and congestion reported in many aviation sectors indicate that the current centralised operational model is rapidly approaching saturation levels. Air Traffic Control (ATC) system is not expected to keep pace with the ever-increasing demand for air transportation. Its capacity is still limited by the available controllers, and...doctoral thesis 2023
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Chang, Z. (author)For some decades now, additive manufacturing has been a revolutionary technology which generates enormous interest in both industrial and academic applications. 3D concrete printing (3DCP), an automated construction method, is able to manufacture the computer-designed model through material deposition. This innovative technique can considerably...doctoral thesis 2023
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Lovato, S. (author)The increasing size of today's ships is a major concern for navigation in confined waters. In order to ensure safe manoeuvres, port authorities prescribe, among others, a minimum under-keel clearance that must be maintained by the ships during navigation. However, the seabed of ports situated at the estuaries or along rivers is often covered by...doctoral thesis 2023
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Praditya, D. (author)The urgent need to improve public services and increase the adoption of cutting-edge technology in public organizations has promoted and encouraged collaboration between private and public organizations, thus allowing for more information to be shared between both parties. However, many issues arise that hinder the implementation of information...doctoral thesis 2023
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Stecca, M. (author)One of the fundamentals of a sustainable society is the production of electricity from renewable sources. Many countries and institutions are investing heavily for reaching this objective. However, the non-controllable nature of most renewable sources brings new challenges to the existing electrical networks. Energy storage systems can help the...doctoral thesis 2023
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Wallner, T.S. (author)Global warming will exceed 1.5-2°C during the 21st century unless greenhouse gas emissions are heavily reduced in the next 30 years. The average carbon footprint of a person living in the European Union amounted to 6.7 tons of CO2 in 2019, of which 70% is related to the way we live, move and consume. The production and use of electronics, is an...doctoral thesis 2023
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Bianchi, M. (author)The topic of this dissertation is the distributed computation of Generalized Nash Equilibria (GNEs) in multi-agent games with network structure. In particular, we design and analyze algorithms in the partial-decision information scenario (also named fully-distributed algorithms), where each agent can only rely on the information received by some...doctoral thesis 2023
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Binti Md Yunus, B. (author)Under service conditions and because of environmental and climate changes, the concrete is at risk due to crack-induced durability problems. The consequences can be even more pronounced when concrete is exposed to specifically aggressive environmental conditions. This has been portrayed by rapid deterioration of relatively young concrete...doctoral thesis 2023
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Kolen, M. (author)Ammonia synthesis via the direct nitrogen reduction reaction mechanism has the potential to be more flexible in production level and scale of operation and may enable cost reductions compared to alternative technologies for green NH3 synthesis. For the research field to advance to higher Technology Readiness Levels selective electrocatalysts...doctoral thesis 2023
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Meijer, D.H. (author)The purpose of this thesis was to develop and demonstrate methods for determining the criticality of elements in networks. The impact failures could have on the network performance was its primary focus. A second objective was to determine whether the developed method could be applied successfully based on network characteristics. To achieve...doctoral thesis 2023
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Phongprueksathat, N. (author)Since the industrial revolution in the 1760s, the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has been rising incessantly driving global warming closer to the point of no return. The world requires urgent actions to not only reduce CO2 emissions but also capture the CO2 for utilization to mitigate the future environmental crisis. CO2 hydrogenation to...doctoral thesis 2023
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Shen, C. (author)This thesis transforms the way we understand and monitor rail infrastructure with a digital twin that merges measurement data and physics-based models to deliver instant insights. This thesis will be of particular interest to professionals in the rail industry seeking to answer the following questions: What are the key features in the...doctoral thesis 2023
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Grazzi, S. (author)Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods are the most popular algorithms used for exact Bayesian inference problems. These methods consist of simulating a Markov chain which converges to a desired Bayesian posterior measure and use the simulated trajectory to approximate expectations of functionals relative to that measure. We consider Monte Carlo...doctoral thesis 2023
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Hopf, Y.M. (author)This thesis describes the design of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for high-frame-rate 3D intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) probes. The work follows the whole process from the analysis of the application to the testing of a prototype with all envisioned functionality. It starts with the evaluation of the main challenges posed...doctoral thesis 2023
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Deng, X. (author)Tidal inlet systems, which consist of back–barrier basins connected to the open sea by one or multiple inlets, are found at many places along sandy coasts. They are valuable for ecology (breeding and feeding areas), economy (gas–mining and sand–mining) and recreation, and are important for coastal safety. But they are also sensitive to external...doctoral thesis 2023
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Blokland, P.J. (author)Safety is crucial for sustainable growth in organisations and vital for societal progress. Yet, when considering “safety”, one is often confronted with the opposite of what safety is, with a focus on events and occurrences that generate bad consequences. Decisions and actions are ever so often based on past experiences of things that went wrong,...doctoral thesis 2023
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Amini Hounejani, R. (author)The past decades have seen the rapid development of many aspects of synthetic biology. For example, attempts to build synthetic cells under controlled conditions in the laboratory have led to significant achievements. Following a bottom-up approach, scientists aim at building a self-reproducing synthetic cell with a minimum number of biological...doctoral thesis 2023
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Villalba, Víctor (author)Imagery collected from space provides very useful information about our planet. Today there are many Earth Observation satellites in orbit which allow us to collect information which is used for environmental monitoring, response to catastrophes, surveillance and security, urban planning, economic analysis and many other applications. Thus,...doctoral thesis 2023