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Scarano, F. (author), Ghaemi, S. (author), Alp Caridi, G.C. (author), Bosbach, J. (author), Dierksheide, U. (author), Sciacchitano, A. (author)The flow-tracing fidelity of sub-millimetre diameter helium-filled soap bubbles (HFSB) for low-speed aerodynamics is studied. The main interest of using HFSB in relation to micron-size droplets is the large amount of scattered light, enabling larger-scale three-dimensional experiments by tomographic PIV. The assessment of aerodynamic behaviour...journal article 2015
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Vermolen, F.J. (author), Van der Meijden, R.P. (author), Van Es, M. (author), Gefen, A. (author), Weihs, D. (author)A phenomenological model is formulated to model the early stages of tumor formation. The model is based on a cell-based formalism, where each cell is represented as a circle or sphere in two-and three dimensional simulations, respectively. The model takes into account constituent cells, such as epithelial cells, tumor cells, and T-cells that...journal article 2015
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Oyarzun, B. (author), Van Westen, T. (author), Vlugt, T.J.H. (author)The isotropic-nematic phase equilibria of linear hard-sphere chains and binary mixtures of them are obtained from Monte Carlo simulations. In addition, the infinite dilution solubility of hard spheres in the coexisting isotropic and nematic phases is determined. Phase equilibria calculations are performed in an expanded formulation of the Gibbs...journal article 2015
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Chintakayala, K. (author), Sellars, L.E. (author), Singh, S.S. (author), Shahapure, R. (author), Westerlaken, I. (author), Meyer, A.S. (author), Dame, R.T. (author), Grainger, D.C. (author)Curved DNA binding protein A (CbpA) is a co-chaperone and nucleoid associated DNA binding protein conserved in most ?-proteobacteria. Best studied in Escherichia coli, CbpA accumulates to >2500 copies per cell during periods of starvation and forms aggregates with DNA. However, the molecular basis for DNA binding is unknown; CbpA lacks motifs...journal article 2015
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Kim, T.J. (author), Joo, C. (author), Seong, J. (author), Vafabakhsh, R. (author), Botvinick, E.L. (author), Berns, M.W. (author), Palmer, A.E. (author), Wang, N. (author), Ha, T. (author), Jakobsson, E. (author), Sun, J. (author), Wang, Y. (author)It is unclear that how subcellular organelles respond to external mechanical stimuli. Here, we investigated the molecular mechanisms by which mechanical force regulates Ca2+ signaling at endoplasmic reticulum (ER) in human mesenchymal stem cells. Without extracellular Ca2+, ER Ca2+ release is the source of intracellular Ca2+ oscillations induced...journal article 2015
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Bogucki, D.J. (author), Huguenard, K. (author), Haus, B.K. (author), Özgökmen, T.M. (author), Reniers, A.J.H.M. (author), Laxague, N.J.M. (author)Our understanding of temperature dissipation rate ? within the upper ocean boundary layer, which is critical for climate forecasts, is very limited. Near-surface turbulence also affects dispersion of contaminants and biogeochemical tracers. Using high-resolution optical turbulence measurements, scaling laws for ? are investigated under forcing...journal article 2015
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Saeid, S. (author)Energy and its management and environmental impact constitute one of the most important issues in the 21st century. Since fossil fuels are environmentally hazardous and sooner or later are going to be depleted, there is a pressing need for alternatives. Renewable energies, such as solar, wind and geothermal energy are vital sources of energy...doctoral thesis 2015
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He, J. (author)Shanghai, like the other big cities along China’s coastline, has witnessed extraordinary growth in its economy and population with industrial development and rural-to-urban migration generating extensive urban expansion. Shanghai’s GDP growth rate has been over 10 per cent for more than 15 years. Its population in 2013 was estimated at 23.47...doctoral thesis 2015
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Mielonen, T. (author), De Haan, J.F. (author), Van Peet, J.C.A. (author), Eremenko, M. (author), Veefkind, J.P. (author)We have assessed the sensitivity of the operational Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) ozone profile retrieval algorithm to a number of a priori and radiative transfer assumptions. We studied the effect of stray light correction, surface albedo assumptions and a priori ozone profiles on the retrieved ozone profile. Then, we studied how to modify...journal article 2015
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Zhu, Y. (author), Heynderickx, I.E.J.R. (author), Hanjalic, A. (author), Redi, J.A. (author)Recently, a lot of effort has been devoted to estimating the Quality of Visual Experience (QoVE) in order to optimize video delivery to the user. For many decades, existing objective metrics mainly focused on estimating the perceived quality of a video, i.e., the extent to which artifacts due to e.g. compression disrupt the appearance of the...conference paper 2015
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Yuan, J. (author), Hicks, M.A. (author)n this paper, a numerical solution for the electro-osmosis consolidation of clay in multi-dimensional domains at large strains is presented, with the coupling of the soil mechanical behaviour, pore water transport and electrical fields being considered. In particular, the Modified Cam Clay model is employed to describe the elasto-plastic...journal article 2015
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Kraaij, R.C. (author)We consider locally equi-continuous strongly continuous semigroups on locally convex spaces (X,?) that are also equipped with a ‘suitable’ auxiliary norm. We introduce the set N of ? -continuous semi-norms that are bounded by the norm. If (X,?) has the property that N is closed under countable convex combinations, then a number of Banach space...journal article 2015
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Borghi, G. (author), Tabacchini, V. (author), Seifert, S. (author), Schaart, D.R. (author)Monolithic scintillator detectors can achieve excellent spatial resolution and coincidence resolving time. However, their practical use for positron emission tomography (PET) and other applications in the medical imaging field is still limited due to drawbacks of the different methods used to estimate the position of interaction. Common...journal article 2015
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Van Dalen, K.N. (author), Mikesell, T.D. (author), Ruigrok, E.N. (author), Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author)Retrieving virtual source surface waves from ambient seismic noise by cross correlation assumes, among others, that the noise field is equipartitioned and the medium is lossless. Violation of these assumptions reduces the accuracy of the retrieved waves. A point-spread function computed from the same ambient noise quantifies the associated...journal article 2015
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Teferi, E. (author), Uhlenbrook, S. (author), Bewket, W. (author)A long-term decline in ecosystem functioning and productivity, often called land degradation, is a serious environmental challenge to Ethiopia that needs to be understood so as to develop sustainable land use strategies. This study examines inter-annual and seasonal trends of vegetation cover in the Upper Blue Nile (UBN) or Abbay Basin. The...journal article 2015
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Coumou, P.C.J.J. (author)Thin films of superconducting materials with a high resistance in the normal state, such as TiN, NbTiN, NbN and InO, are intensively studied from both an application and a fundamental point of view. A spatially inhomogeneous superconducting state can arise in these materials as a result of the strong disorder. This Thesis provides an...doctoral thesis 2015
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Ruijter, M.J. (author)In this thesis we deal with processes with uncertainties, such as financial asset prices and the global temperature. We model their evolutions by so-called stochastic processes. Many of these stochastic processes are based on the Wiener process, whose increments are normally distributed. Other models may contain jump components, to model, for...doctoral thesis 2015
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Seifert, S. (author), Schaart, D.R. (author)State-of-the-art scintillation detectors for time-of-flight positron emission tomography (TOF-PET) typically employ scintillation crystals with a high aspect ratio (e.g. 4 ×4 ×22 mm3) read out on one of the small crystal surfaces. This single-sided readout (SSR) geometry may be unfavorable in terms of the coincidence resolving time (CRT) that...journal article 2015
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Shayesteh, E. (author)Electrical energy is one of the most common forms of energy these days. Consequently, electric power system is an indispensable part of any society. However, due to the deregulation of electricity markets and the growth in the share of power generation by uncontrollable renewable energies such as wind and solar, power system simulations are more...doctoral thesis 2015
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Doorn, N. (author)The management of water is a topic of great concern. Inadequate management may lead to water scarcity and ecological destruction, but also to an increase of catastrophic floods. With climate change, both water scarcity and the risk of flooding are likely to increase even further in the coming decades. This makes water management currently a...journal article 2015