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Frisenda, R. (author)In this dissertation, charge-transport through individual organic molecules is investigated. The single molecules are contacted with two-terminal mechanically controllable break junction gold electrodes and their electrical and mechanical behavior studied at room and low temperature.doctoral thesis 2016
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Lotti, T. (author)Conventional wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), like activated sludge systems, are energy demanding requiring a large electrical energy supply (e.g. 25 kWh PE-1 year-1) which, especially during peak-load periods, may account for an important quote of the grid installed power of the surrounding area. Only across the EU, there are 16000 WWTPs...doctoral thesis 2016
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Mooij, P.R. (author)This thesis deals with selective environments in microalgal cultivation. As explained in Chapter 1 microalgae have changed the course of life on Earth dramatically by performing oxygenic photosynthesis. In oxygenic photosynthesis electrons from water are used to reduce carbon dioxide to carbohydrates or lipids using solar energy. As a waste...doctoral thesis 2016
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Almeida-Silva, M.A. (author)This Thesis focuses on the estimation of the human exposure to air pollutants, and gives special attention to one of the most susceptible groups in the general population - elders. To fulfil the goal the work was conducted following the risk assessment paradigm and, consequently, was divided into 5 tasks: 1) characterization of the indoor air...doctoral thesis 2016
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Ramos, C.A. (author)The context for this thesis is the concern that people who practice physical activity are more susceptible to air pollution. For the studies presented here, three perspectives of physical activity were considered: in indoor, i) physical activity in fitness centers; in outdoor ii) the use of bicycle in cycle paths; and iii) active transportation....doctoral thesis 2016
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Nieuwenhuizen, R.P.J. (author)Localization microscopy is a powerful tool for circumventing the diffraction limit in fluorescence microscopy. In this technique sparse subsets of the fluorophores labeling a sample are switched on and off, and subsequently localized with a precision on the order of several nanometers. A high resolution image can then be built up from the...doctoral thesis 2016
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Bouwes Bavinck, M.H. (author)In the future world of quantum communication and computing, infomation cannot be hacked and computers solve difficult problems, such as factorizing large number or searching in a large databases, much faster than possible with ordinary computers. However, to realize such systems still much research is needed. One of the systems that has gained a...doctoral thesis 2016
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Bolat, I. (author)One of the best guarded secrets of brewers is represented by the brewing yeast employed in beer fermentation, due to its profound impact upon the specific flavour profile of the final product. The current research tackles the genome diversity of lager brewing strains as well as their impact on important phenotypic traits. Furthermore, the...doctoral thesis 2016
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Uyttenhove, W. (author)This thesis provides a methodology and set-up of a reactivity monitoring tool for Accelerator-Driven Systems (ADS). The reactivity monitoring tool should guarantee the operation of an ADS at a safe margin from criticality. Robustness is assured in different aspects of the monitoring tool: the choice of the measurement techniques, the evaluation...doctoral thesis 2016
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Welles, L. (author)Enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) is a biological process for efficient phosphate removal from wastewaters through intracellular storage of polyphosphate by polyphosphate-accumulating organisms (PAO) and subsequent removal of PAO from the system through wastage of sludge. In comparison to physical and chemical phosphorus removal...doctoral thesis 2015
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Agundez, R.R. (author)In this thesis we study quantum transport in several one-dimensional systems with strong electronic interactions. The first chapter contains an introduction to the concepts treated throughout this thesis, such as the Aharonov-Bohm effect, the Kondo effect, the Fano effect and quantum state transfer. It also includes a brief historical...doctoral thesis 2015
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Bezrukavnikov, S.V. (author)Since the first protein structure reported, the understanding of how proteins fold so fast and efficiently into such peculiar shapes has quickly become one of the major problems of biology. Protein folding in the living cell features a new level of complexity due to highly crowded cellular environment. In order to overcome this problem, cells...doctoral thesis 2015
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Junicke, H. (author)Anaerobic digestion is a widely applied process in which close interactions between different microbial groups result in the formation of renewable energy in the form of biogas. Nevertheless, the regulatory mechanisms of the electron transfer between acetogenic bacteria and methanogenic archaea in the final steps of the anaerobic digestion...doctoral thesis 2015
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Hendriksen, W.E. (author)Living creatures exists for an important part out of soft material, such as skin, organs and cells, that are out-of-equilibrium formed by the self-assembly of molecular building blocks. Natural materials are continuously active with dynamic processes occurring, such as growth, shrinkage and transport mechanisms under the consumption of energy....doctoral thesis 2015
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Suarez-Mendez, C.A. (author)Production of chemicals via biotechnological routes are becoming rapidly an alternative to oil-based processes. Several microorganisms including yeast, bacteria, fungi and algae can transform feedstocks into high-value molecules at industrial scale. Improvement of the bioprocess performance is a key factor for making this technology economically...doctoral thesis 2015
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Physiological functions of the respiratory cytochrome bd and the CuA nitric oxide reductase (CuANor)Al-Attar, S. (author)Biological membranes form a binding platform for a variety of proteins vital to the cell. The respiratory chain consists mostly of membrane-bound enzymes. These enzymes form a functional chain in which electrons derived from nutrition successively flow from low potential to high potential redox couples. During this process, the chemical energy...doctoral thesis 2015
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Blok, M.S. (author)Gaining precise control over quantum systems is crucial for applications in quantum information processing and quantum sensing and to perform experimental tests of quantum mechanics. The experiments presented in this thesis implement quantum measurements and real-time feedback protocols that can help to achieve these goals using single electron...doctoral thesis 2015
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Staal, X.R. (author)Seismic imaging projects aim to reveal the structure of the earths crust from seismic data. These projects typically include three separate processing steps, being: attenuation of multiple reflections in the seismic data. estimating seismic wave propagation velocities from the seismic data. mapping the measured reflection data to the...doctoral thesis 2015