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Pelka, S. (author)The potential of households to adapt their energy use to the conditions of the energy system remains largely untapped due to shortcomings in consumer governance (i.e., the organization of household energy use). A lack of price signals and services leads to uncoordinated household energy use. Various proposals exist for updating consumer...doctoral thesis 2024
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van Heijst, S.E. (author)Two-dimensional (2D) layered materials have attracted the interest of the scientific community following the discovery of graphene and its extraordinary properties. Of particular interest is a class of materials called transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). The materials within this class were discovered to show similarly...doctoral thesis 2024
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Ali, W. (author)Deep-sea mining Industry and academia are presently investigating the potential of deep-seamining for valuable resources such as poly-metallic nodules. Nevertheless, the process of manoeuvring, excavating, and processing these resources poses a threat to the deep-sea environment through the generation of plumes of suspended fine-grained solids,...doctoral thesis 2024
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Noom, J. (author)The complexity of automated systems has grown considerably during the past decades. This convolutes the observation of possible faults in these systems. If not being revealed timely, such faults can lead to catastrophic failures. As a result, there is a continuous interest in sophisticated fault diagnosis techniques. Since it is generally...doctoral thesis 2024
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Tramontini, L.M. (author)The thesis, titled ‘Towards the Integration of Additive Manufacturing for Freeform Steel and Glass Façade Construction,’ explores the transformative role of additive manufacturing (AM) in enhancing the design and construction of Freeform Steel and Glass Façades (FFSGF). These façades involve intricate components, necessitating collaborative...doctoral thesis 2024
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Chen, L. (author)Microbial drinking water quality is of great importance to human health. Drinking water distribution systems (DWDSs) are designed as the final barriers for delivering and maintaining the biosafety of drinking water. Though the drinking water produced is usually safe and clean, it is common that the water quality deteriorates during the...doctoral thesis 2024
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Puiman, L. (author)One of the major challenges mankind faces nowadays is combating climate change. A substantial fraction of greenhouse gases are released by industrial processes, as steelmaking, (oil)refinery and waste processing. Emissions from these processes can partly be prevented with a recently developed technology called gas fermentation. Within this...doctoral thesis 2024
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Câmara, Arthur (author)At the core of Search-as-Learning (SAL), as a sub-field of Interactive Information Retrieval (IIR), is exploring how people use search engines to acquire knowledge. Inherently interactive, the knowledge acquisition process via a search system involves learners posing queries, analyzing content, and incorporating novel knowledge. Being this...doctoral thesis 2024
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Zoutendijk, M. (author)The aerospace industry annually provides transport for billions of passengers along trillions of kilometers. The industry is continuously aiming to provide these services in a more efficient and sustainable way. One possibility is to consider improving airside airport operations, both current types and those expected in the near future....doctoral thesis 2024
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Janssen, D. (author)The dissertation explores the use of emergency measures, particularly the BresDefender, to prevent or delay levee failure and mitigate the impacts of floods, focusing on the Netherlands' flood protection systems. Levees are vital for protecting low-lying areas, but there's always a risk of failure, leading to significant societal and material...doctoral thesis 2024
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Liu, X. (author)Deep learning is the core algorithmic tool for automatically processing large amounts of data. Deep learning models are defined as a stack of functions (called layers) with millions of parameters, that are updated during training by fitting them to data. Deep learning models have show remarkable accuracy gains on visual problems in video and...doctoral thesis 2024
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Wu, D. (author)Cardiovascular disease is currently one of the biggest threats to health. Specific types of cardiovascular disease include, but are not limited to, coronary artery disease, cardiac valve disorders, or peripheral arterial disease. The current gold standard for managing these conditions incorporates the use of catheters and guidewires for...doctoral thesis 2023
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van Duivendijk, J. (author)The dissertation focussed on the kind of closure methods used, in the past and at present, to repair breached dikes and to close tidal channels by simple means. By simple means one must think about the application by (mainly) manual labour of local materials and small-scale tools and equipment. The closure of tidal channels is also required in...doctoral thesis 2024
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França de Mendonça Filho, F. (author)Building materials generally perform poorly in a high temperature environment. Residential fires and fires in road tunnels are common occurrences. Furthermore, some factories have no option besides exposing their infrastructure to very high temperatures due to the nature of their operation logistics. Therefore, there is a clear need for...doctoral thesis 2024
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Novikov, A. (author)Safe and sustainable exploitation of geo-energy resources requires not only a comprehensive evaluation of the performance and economics of the corresponding projects but also the assessments of the associated risks, including the risk of induced seismicity. Indeed, seismic events may arise from the reactivation of natural faults and fractures...doctoral thesis 2024
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Pavez Jara, J.A. (author)This thesis research investigated the dynamics of nutrient release and the formation of melanoidins during thermal hydrolysis processes (THP) of waste activated sludge (WAS) preceding mesophilic anaerobic digestion (AD). In Chapter 2, a fractionation of THP-sludge allowed for researching the distribution of nutrients and melanoidins over the...doctoral thesis 2024
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van der Maden, W.L.A. (author)The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), from <i>curatorial</i> AI in YouTube to <i>generative</i> AI in ChatGPT, demonstrates both potential for progress and risks of harm. Adopting a Positive Design approach aimed at directly enhancing human wellbeing, this dissertation develops the concept of...doctoral thesis 2024
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Shang, Y. (author)Transition zones in railway tracks, which occur at changes in track form and or substructure properties, are known to cause issues with track degradation. Examples can be found where a track section, usually a ballast track, transits to a slab track to cross a roadway or waterway through supporting structures such as bridges, level crossings,...doctoral thesis 2024
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Sousamli, M. (author)There is a very popular fable, dating back to the early 1800s, about three little pigs that build their houses of different materials and a wolf that tries to catch them by blowing down their houses. From the three houses built from straws, sticks or bricks, only the house made out of bricks withstands the blow of the wolf. Although the moral of...doctoral thesis 2024