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Georgiou, Stefanos (author), Kechagia, M. (author), Louridas, Panos (author), Spinellis, D. (author)Motivation: Even though many studies examine the energy efficiency of hardware and embedded systems, those that investigate the energy consumption of software applications are still limited, and mostly focused on mobile applications. As modern applications become even more complex and heterogeneous a need arises for methods that can accurately...conference paper 2018
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Noori, F. (author), de Jong, W.M. (author)City branding is not only increasingly practiced in cities in established economies, but also among municipal governments in countries, until quite recently, rather closed off from the outside world. One country with a strong drive to engage in urban (re)development in the post-oil era through enhancing its ‘ecological modernization’ is Iran....journal article 2018
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Apostolidis, P. (author), Liu, X. (author), Wang, H. (author), van de Ven, Martin (author), Scarpas, Athanasios (author)Asphaltic mixes are self-healing materials since they have the capacity to close internal microcracks at higher temperatures or under external force. To trigger their self-healing, asphalt mixes modified with inductive agents can be heated and in that way healed through applying alternating magnetic fields with the aid of an induction coil and...conference paper 2018
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Swart, Jac A.A. (author), Zevenberg, Jorien (author), Ho, P.P.S. (author), Cortina, Jordi (author), Reed, Mark (author), Derak, Mchich (author), Vella, Steven (author), Zhao, Heng (author), van der Windt, Henny J. (author)It is widely acknowledged that ecosystems often cannot be considered as separated from social systems, but that they should rather be seen as interacting, cross-scaled, coupled systems operating on multiple temporal and spatial scales. Humans have an increasing impact on ecosystems worldwide, while at the same time ecosystems are of critical...journal article 2018
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Kraan, O. (author), Kramer, G. J. (author), Nikolic, I. (author)Now that renewable technologies are both technically and commercially mature, the imperfect rational behaviour of investors becomes a critical factor in the future success of the energy transition. Here, we take an agent-based approach to model investor decision making in the electricity sector by modelling investors as actors with different ...journal article 2018
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de Visser, H.M. (author), Mastbergen, S. C. (author), Ravipati, S. (author), Welsing, P. M.J. (author), Pinto, F.C. (author), Lafeber, F.P.J.G. (author), Chapman, V. (author), Barrett, D. A. (author), Weinans, Harrie (author)Objective Bioactive oxidised lipids (oxylipins) are important signalling mediators, capable of modulating the inflammatory state of the joint and anticipated to be of importance in joint homeostasis and status of osteoarthritis. The aim of this study was to quantify oxylipin levels in plasma and synovial fluid from rats with experimentally...journal article 2018
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Groeneboom, P. (author), Hendrickx, K. (author)Single-index models are popular regression models that are more flexible than linear models and still maintain more structure than purely nonparametric models. We consider the problem of estimating the regression parameters under a monotonicity constraint on the unknown link function. In contrast to the standard approach of using smoothing...journal article 2018
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Wang, K. (author), Yan, Xinping (author), Yuan, Yupeng (author), Jiang, X. (author), Lin, X. (author), Negenborn, R.R. (author)Nowadays, optimization of ship energy efficiency attracts increasing attention in order to meet the requirement for energy conservation and emission reduction. Ship operation energy efficiency is significantly influenced by environmental factors such as wind speed and direction, water speed and depth. Owing to inherent time-variety and...journal article 2018
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Wang, Y. (author), Cao, G. (author), van Horssen, W.T. (author)In this paper, a modelling method and an accurate numerical procedure are presented to simulate the dynamical responses of a multi-cable driven parallel suspension platform system. For such systems, the cables might become slack due to external excitations and due to the fact that cables can become tensionless when been pushed in longitudinal...journal article 2018
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Anand, N. (author), Vitale, S. (author), Pini, M. (author), Otero Rodriguez, G.J. (author), Pecnik, Rene (author)The stator vane of high-temperature Organic Rankine Cycle radial-inflow turbines operates under severe expansion ratios and the associated fluid-dynamic losses account for nearly two-third of the total losses generated inside the machine. The efficiency of the machine can strongly benefit from specialized high-fidelity design methods able to...journal article 2018
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Coppola, M. (author), McGuire, K.N. (author), Scheper, K.Y.W. (author), de Croon, G.C.H.E. (author)To avoid collisions, Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) flying in teams require estimates of their relative locations, preferably with minimal mass and processing burden. We present a relative localization method where MAVs need only to communicate with each other using their wireless transceiver. The MAVs exchange on-board states (velocity, height,...journal article 2018
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Wang, K. (author), Khodabandeh, A. (author), Teunissen, P.J.G. (author)In PPP-RTK network processing, the wet component of the zenith tropospheric delay (ZTD) cannot be precisely modelled and thus remains unknown in the observation equations. For small networks, the tropospheric mapping functions of different stations to a given satellite are almost equal to each other, thereby causing a near rank-deficiency...journal article 2018
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Gangurde, L.S. (author), Sturm, G.S.J. (author), Valero Romero, M.J. (author), Mallada, Reyes (author), Santamaria, Jesus (author), Stankiewicz, A.I. (author), Stefanidis, G. (author)A series of ruthenium-doped strontium titanate (SrTiO<sub>3</sub>) perovskite catalysts were synthesized by conventional and microwave-assisted hydrothermal methods. The structure was analyzed by X-Ray diffraction (XRD) confirming the formation of the perovskite phase with some TiO<sub>2</sub> anatase phase in all the catalysts. Microwave...journal article 2018
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Polfliet, Mathias (author), Klein, S. (author), Huizinga, W. (author), Paulides, Margarethus M. (author), Niessen, W.J. (author), Vandemeulebroucke, Jef (author)Image registration is an important task in medical image analysis. Whereas most methods are designed for the registration of two images (pairwise registration), there is an increasing interest in simultaneously aligning more than two images using groupwise registration. Multimodal registration in a groupwise setting remains difficult, due to...journal article 2018
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Bai, Ying (author), Ruan, Xiaohong (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author)Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) are pesticides with global scale ubiquity, persistence and bioaccumulation, which leave long-term residuals in the water body. OCPs’ high toxicity poses significant threats to human health and aquatic biodiversity, making assessment of OCPs’ impact on aquatic ecology and human health urgently necessary. In this...journal article 2018
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Vollmer, I. (author), van der Linden, B. (author), Ould-Chikh, Samy (author), Aguilar-Tapia, Antonio (author), Yarulina, I. (author), Abou-Hamad, Edy (author), Sneider, Yuri G. (author), Olivos Suarez, A.I. (author), Hazemann, Jean-Louis (author), Kapteijn, F. (author), Gascon, Jorge (author)The mechanism of methane activation on Mo/HZSM-5 is not yet fully understood, despite the great interest in methane dehydroaromatization (MDA) to replace aromatics production in oil refineries. It is difficult to assess the exact nature of the active site due to fast coking. By pre-carburizing Mo/HZSM-5 with carbon monoxide (CO), the MDA active...journal article 2018
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Shao, Y. (author), Lu, Xingyuan (author), Konijnenberg, A.P. (author), Zhao, C.L. (author), Cai, Yangjian (author), Urbach, Paul (author)The complete characterization of spatial coherence is extremely di cult because the mutual coherence function (MCF) is a complex-valued function of four independent Cartesian coordinates. This di culty limits the ability to control and to optimize the spatial coherence in a broad range of key applications. Here we propose an e cient and...journal article 2018
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Santoni De Sio, F. (author), van den Hoven, M.J. (author)Debates on lethal autonomous weapon systems have proliferated in the past 5 years. Ethical concerns have been voiced about a possible raise in the number of wrongs and crimes in military operations and about the creation of a “responsibility gap” for harms caused by these systems. To address these concerns, the principle of “meaningful human...journal article 2018
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Jamali, S.H. (author), Wolff, L.W.M. (author), Becker, T. (author), Bardow, André (author), Vlugt, T.J.H. (author), Moultos, O. (author)Molecular Dynamics simulations were performed for the prediction of the finite-size effects of Maxwell-Stefan diffusion coefficients of molecular mixtures and a wide variety of binary Lennard-Jones systems. A strong dependency of computed diffusivities on the system size was observed. Computed diffusivities were found to increase with the...journal article 2018
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Bouwmeester, J. (author), van der Linden, S. P. (author), Povalac, A. (author), Gill, E.K.A. (author)Developers experience issues with the compatibility, connector size and robustness of electrical interface standards for CubeSats and PocketQubes. There is a need for a lean and robust electrical interface standard for these classes of satellites. The proposed interface standard comprises a linear data bus which is used for housekeeping data,...journal article 2018