Rheology of Emulsion Monolayers

Emulsions, characterized as a metastable dispersion of one liquid into a second one in the presence of surface-active agents, have complex rheology that interests both physicists and industries. Depending on the volume fraction of the dispersed phase ($\phi$), emulsions can display both solid-like and liquid-like behavior. Rheometrical...

Animal Farming in Flourishing Foodscapes and Thoughtscapes: Sustainable, nature-inclusive animal farming with attractive recreational qualities in Den Bosch region, Noord Brabant

Animal farming is increasingly getting more attention and debate nowadays because of a lot of environmental issues it caused. Apart from that, the intensive animal factories have made consumers quite separated from food animals. What’s more, the animal welfare in current animal farming is not ensured, especially in those intensive animal...

Analyzing and comparing different self-supervised learning speech pre-trained models in the view of phonetics

In this thesis, we analyzed and compared speech representations extracted from different frozen self-supervised learning (SSL) speech pre-trained models on their ability to capture articulatory feature (AF) information and their subsequent prediction of phone recognition performance in within-language and cross-language scenarios. Specifically,...

Activity and Social Integration: Bridging and Bonding Social Capital

Research about the ideal characters and role of activities in terms of social interaction and people gathering in a culture diverse neighborhood. How to create opportunities for residents to interact and find common activities to improve their relationship is the main intention.

Nonrigid Image Registration using 3D Convolutional Neural Network with Application to Brain MR images

Image registration is a vital tool in medical image analysis with a large number of applications assisting the medical experts. Currently, conventional image registration approach with predefined dissimilarity metric and iterative optimization, is widely used. In this thesis, we proposed a method to solve medical image registration problem using...

Automatic Left Atrial Wall Segmentation from Space MRI via Advanced Two-Layer Level Sets with Distance Constraints

Segmentation of medical images is always a challenge due to complicated anatomical structures and poor image quality. In this paper, aiming to solve dual surfaces segmentation problems, we propose a two-layer levelset method with an efficient distance constraint. With the distance constraint, physical information of wall thickness can be imposed...

Finite element modelling of a shear box experiment on ice rubble

Analytical and numerical analysis of laboratory-scale shear box experiments on ice rubble have been performed. The experiments were done at NTNU in 2010 (Serré et al., 2011 and Repetto and Høyland, 2011). Three phases in the force-time history of the tests were identified (similar to what Serré et al., 2011 did). The first phase lasted about 2...