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Sosin, S. (author)Flexible systems can be found in many fields such as automotive electronics, computers and peripherals (hard drives, image scanners, ink-jet print-head cables), aerospace, consumer electronics (mobile phones, cameras etc), medical (hearing aids, pacemakers) and many others. Further reduction in size and new properties such as reversible...doctoral thesis 2011
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Zhao, L. (author)In this thesis, we present an automatic polyp detection approach that integrates knowledge from flow visualization techniques. Our primary goal was to compute additional characteristic polyp features that improve the CAD performance of existing polyp detection approaches by eliminating found false-positive polyp candidates. We found that surface...doctoral thesis 2011
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Kim, N.S. (author)This dissertation aims to evaluate environmental and economic performances of an intermodal freight transport system and to estimate the trade-off between CO2 emissions, wich is epresented as an indicator of environmental performance, and freight costs, which ndicate the economic performance of the intermodal freight system. The truck-only...doctoral thesis 2010
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Tuan Trinh, M. (author)Knowledge of excited electronic states in semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) is of fundamental scientific interest and is important for application in lasers, optical detectors, LEDs, solar cells, photocatalysis, biomedical imaging, photodynamic therapy etc. In the past few years, carrier multiplication (CM) in QDs has received particular...doctoral thesis 2010
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Volker, L. (author)In the past few years the image of tender procedures in which Dutch public clients selected an architect has been dominated by distressing newspaper headlines. Architects fear that the current tender culture will harm the quality of our built environment due to a potential lack of diversity, creativity and innovation in architectural design. Due...doctoral thesis 2010
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Meenderinck, C.H. (author)In pursuit of ever increasing performance, more and more processor architectures have become multicore processors. As clock frequency was no longer increasing rapidly and ILP techniques showed diminishing results, increasing the number of cores per chip was the natural choice. The transistor budget is still increasing and thus it is expected...doctoral thesis 2010
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Kroon-van Loon, P.S. (author)About 30% of the increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) are related to land use changes and agricultural activities. In order to select effective measures, knowledge is required about GHG emissions from these ecosystems and how these emissions are influenced by management and...doctoral thesis 2010
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Feldman, A.B. (author)Model-based diagnosis is an area of abductive inference that uses a system model, together with observations about system behavior, to isolate sets of faulty components (diagnoses) that explain the observed behavior, according to some minimality criterion. This thesis presents greedy approximation algorithms for three problems closely related to...doctoral thesis 2010
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Guldenmund, F.W. (author)The match between safety and culture was made around 1986, when the INSAG delivered its initial report on the Chernobyl accident. Whether the marriage is a happy one is still a matter of debate, but it is most definitely a fruitful one. In the past twenty years, many researchers have devoted much effort to both the theoretical development of the...doctoral thesis 2010
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Zhang, L. (author)There was an explosive growth in the bioprocess industry market during the last decade. The tight control of these processes is often very critical in order to optimize the process efficiency or even achieve the right product. Capillary electrophoresis (CE) system is a good option for process monitoring and controlling, since it has already been...doctoral thesis 2009
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Bodoky, F. (author)The goal of this thesis is to investigate theoretically the generation and behaviour of multipartite entanglement for solid-state nanosystems, in particular electron spin quantum bits (so-called 'qubits') in quantum dots. A quantum dot is a tiny potential well where a single electron can be trapped. A quantum bit can be implemented in this...doctoral thesis 2009
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Wang, H. (author)Our society depends more strongly than ever on large networks such as transportation networks, the Internet and power grids. Engineers are confronted with fundamental questions such as “how to evaluate the robustness of networks for a given service?”, “how to design a robust network?”, because networks always affect the functioning of a service....doctoral thesis 2009
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Vrijdag, A. (author)Off design conditions can have a severe impact on ship propulsion system behaviour. Resistance increase for instance leads to a higher engine loading, and can also easily lead to a decrease of cavitation inception speed with respect to calm water conditions. Wakefield variations due to ship motions, waves and manoeuvres also have effect on...doctoral thesis 2009
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Cornelissen, S.G.M. (author)Program comprehension is an essential part of software development and software maintenance, as software must be sufficiently understood before it can be properly modified. One of the common approaches in getting to understand a program is the study of its execution, also known as dynamic analysis. While many such approaches have been proposed...doctoral thesis 2009
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Van Eekeren, A.W.M. (author)In many applications, such as observation systems, it is important to detect and identify a possible threat as early as possible. Especially the approaching ones are of interest. Such moving threats/objects are often at a very large distance and are observed as very small and unrecognizable objects at the image plane of a camera. In this...doctoral thesis 2009
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Li, H. (author)Transportation systems are stochastic and dynamic systems. The road capacities and the travel demand are fluctuating from time to time within a day and at the same time from day to day. For road users, the travel time and travel costs experienced over time and space are stochastic, thus desire reliable travel times and low travel costs by...doctoral thesis 2009
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Markovinovic, R. (author)This thesis is concerned with low-order modelling of heterogeneous reservoir systems for the purpose of efficient simulation and optimization of flooding processes with multiple injection and production (smart) wells. Typically, one is initially equipped with a physics-based ('white-box') model consisting of O(103-106) equations and parameters...doctoral thesis 2009
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Van Rij, H.E. (author)Dutch city dwellers take accessible green areas for granted. They might easily forget that considerable resources and regulations have been applied to protect and improve these areas. This dissertation considers the implications if, in line with the neo-liberalization of the state, this approach changes. A multi-theory approach based on Grounded...doctoral thesis 2008
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Jamakovic, A. (author)This thesis focuses on the topological characterization of complex networks. It specifically focuses on those elementary graph measures that are of interest when quantifying topology-related aspects of the robustness of complex networks. This thesis makes the following contributions to the field of complex networks. Firstly, the thesis analyses...doctoral thesis 2008