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Fravventura, M.C. (author)This research focuses on the investigation of the opto-electronic properties of a variety of organic and inorganic materials of interest for photovoltaics. Fundamental knowledge on the parameters that play an important role in the process of charge photogeneration is achieved by application of a number of experimental methods, the most relevant...doctoral thesis 2014
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Espinha, T. (author), Zaidman, A. (author), Gross, H.G. (author)Web APIs provide a systematic and extensible approach for application-toapplication interaction. Developers using web APIs are forced to accompany the API providers in their software evolution tasks. In order to understand the distress caused by this imposition on web API client developers we perform a semi-structured interview with six such...report 2014
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Mlecnik, E. (author), Supper, S. (author), Trebut, F. (author), Warmuth, H. (author)This report is part of an Intelligent Energy Europe project, entitled “COHERENO - Collaboration for housing nearly zero-energy renovation” (www.cohereno.eu). The main objective of this project is to strengthen the collaboration of enterprises in innovative business schemes to develop nearly Zero Energy Building (nZEB) renovation in owner...report 2014
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Pham Quang, T. (author)This dissertation presents the applications of probabilistic-based frameworks in geotechnical and hydraulic engineering, for the assessment of the Red River dikes in Viet Nam. Dike along rivers often spread over the deltaic environment and its earthen structures are parts of a long civilian history, from hundreds to thousands of years....doctoral thesis 2014
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Boehm, C. (author)One of the most important tools in today's sailing yacht design is the Velocity Prediction Program (VPP). VPPs calculate boat speed from the equilibrium of aero- and hydrodynamic flow forces. Consequently their accuracy is linked to the accuracy of the aero- and hydrodynamic data used to represent a yacht. These data are usually derived from...doctoral thesis 2014
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Ortíz Nicolás, J.C. (author), Aurisicchio, M. (author), Desmet, P.M.A. (author)This study reports quantitative research into two basic dimensions of emotions: pleasantness and arousal. Fifty-nine participants evaluated these two dimensions for a set of twenty-five positive emotions in relation to human-product interactions. Three levels of arousal were iden- tified: ‘exciting’, ‘median’ and ‘calm’. Nine emotions were found...conference paper 2014
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Morales-Espana, G. (author)In recent years, high penetration of variable generating sources, such as wind power, has challenged independent system operators (ISO) in keeping a cheap and reliable power system operation. Any deviation between expected and real wind production must be absorbed by the power system resources (reserves), which must be available and ready to be...doctoral thesis 2014
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Shams Ghahfarokhi, G. (author)Risk and reliability analysis is presently being performed in almost all fields of engineering depending upon the specific field and its particular area. Probabilistic risk analysis (PRA), also called quantitative risk analysis (QRA) is a central feature of hydraulic engineering structural design. Actually, probabilistic methods, which consider...doctoral thesis 2014
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Barnes, E.A. (author), Keys, P.W. (author), van der Ent, R.J. (author), Gordon, L.J. (author)Recent research has revealed that upwind land-use changes can significantly influence downwind precipitation. The precipitationshed (the upwind ocean and land surface that contributes evaporation to a specific location’s precipitation) may provide a boundary for coordination and governance of these upwind–downwind water linkages. We aim to...journal article 2014
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Frey, S. (author), Paragi, Z. (author), Fogasy, J.O. (author), Gurvits, L. (author)The radio-loud AGN J1026+2542 has recently been classified as the second most distant blazar, based on its broad-band spectral energy distribution and X-ray spectrum. The source with a prominent one-sided jet extending to at least ?20 mas was earlier observed with the VLBA at 5 GHz in January 2006. With our new EVN observation (May 2013), we...conference paper 2014
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Anastasopol, A. (author)Reliable and affordable energy storage represents a bottleneck in a scenario where renewable energy sources become prominent on the energy market. With its high potential energy density and the natural abundance of the element, hydrogen gas is an attractive energy storage medium. But its gaseous nature, its high explosive potential and...doctoral thesis 2014
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De Francisco Vela, S. (author), Desmet, P.M.A. (author), Casais, M. (author)The act of saving money can connect one’s present state to a meaningful future state, especially if we consider money not as a direct source of happiness, but as a resource for engaging in meaningful activities. To explore how design can contribute to making the act of saving more meaningful, we conducted two studies. The first consisted of...conference paper 2014
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Shi, H. (author)With the rapid development in wireless devices, applications and networks, radio frequencies have become scarce resources. Therefore, it is critical to make efficient use of the radio frequencies. A promising way to solve this problem is the use of cognitive radio (CR). In CR, radio frequencies are allocated to licensed users, also called...doctoral thesis 2014
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Ozkaramanli, D. (author), Ozcan Vieira, E. (author), Desmet, P.M.A. (author)This workshop is based on the proposition that concern conflicts can be powerful starting points for user-centered design processes. Concern conflicts arise when the user wants to simultaneously fulfill two concerns that require mutually exclusive choice alternatives. Imagine your alarm clock ringing in the morning. You need to attend an early...conference paper 2014
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Lacagnina, C. (author)Clouds are prominent in the climate system, since they play a major role in the way energy and water are cycled through the atmosphere. One of the most relevant impacts of the clouds on the earth's climate is their interaction with the radiative fluxes. Changes in this interaction in response to an external perturbation are known as cloud...doctoral thesis 2014
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Quantum Transport in Indium Antimonide Nanowires: Investigating building blocks for Majorana devicesVan Weperen, I. (author)Recently ideas to engineer Majorana fermions in the solid state have been developed. These Majoranas, quasiparticles that are their own antiparticle, have received much attention, as they are expected to fulfill non-Abelian exchange statistics and could potentially function as fault-tolerant quantum bits. This thesis focuses on a Majorana host...doctoral thesis 2014
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Nienoord, M. (author), Ogink, M. (author), Khakharia, P. (author), Goetheer, E.L.V. (author), De Kler, R. (author)A clear understanding of the dynamic behavior of the whole chain of conventional power generation to CO2 storage is necessary. The rapidly increasing share of renewable energy makes the energy delivered to the grid more fluctuating leading to an impact on the CCS chain as well. A 250 MW scale carbon capture plant with CO2 compression has been...journal article 2014
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Khakharia, P.M. (author), Mertens, J. (author), Vlugt, T.J.H. (author), Goetheer, E. (author)Industrial scale implementation of post combustion CO2 capture (PCCC) can be hindered by solvent emissions due to its impact on the environment and the operating costs. The issue of aerosol based emissions has only been recently reported for a PCCC process and very little fundamental knowledge is available in the scientific community on this...journal article 2014