Inherently balanced spherical pantograph-based mechanisms

Dynamic balancing can offer significant benefits to applications where moving parts are present. It aims to reduce the reaction forces and moments due to inertia of the parts, thereby reducing vibrations. Dynamic balancing receives significant academic interest for planar and spatial applications, but limited attention for spherical mechanisms....

Evolution of automated weakness detection in Ethereum bytecode: a comprehensive study

Blockchain programs (also known as smart contracts) manage valuable assets like cryptocurrencies and tokens, and implement protocols in domains like decentralized finance (DeFi) and supply-chain management. These types of applications require a high level of security that is hard to achieve due to the transparency of public blockchains....

SmartBugs 2.0: An Execution Framework for Weakness Detection in Ethereum Smart Contracts

Smart contracts are blockchain programs that often handle valuable assets. Writing secure smart contracts is far from trivial, and any vulnerability may lead to significant financial losses. To support developers in identifying and eliminating vulnerabilities, methods and tools for the automated analysis of smart contracts have been proposed....

Robotic swarm control through artificial pheromone trails: The case of curious ants

The extraordinary capability of swarming ant species in route finding and foraging efficiency through trail trail development has been studied for many years. Scientists have been able to capture the behavior of individual ants in control algorithms and used the resulting artificial swarm of ants to solve difficult problems. These problems...

Cambodian Delights: A multi-cultural exploration into the acceptation of insects as ingredients

This master thesis project describes the process of the designing of a model that offers a way to improve the acceptation of insects as ingredients.<br/>The final designs show an answer to the assignment: a product or product service combination, which contributes to increasing (multi contextual) insect consumption by improving the acceptation ...

Exploring the use of artificial neural network based subgrid scale models in a variational multiscale formulation

De stabiliteit van de Slufter op Texel

Door Rijkswaterstaat wordt de laatste jaren steeds meer aandacht besteed aan de natuurlijke processen die in de kustzone plaatsvinden. Daar waar mogelijk wordt de ontwikkeling van de kust overgelaten aan zijn natuurlijke dynamiek. Door dit beleid krijgen duinvalleien en slufter langs de Nederlandse kust weer een kans zich te ontwikkelen. Een...

A pc-based display for anesthesia monitoring