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Hagedoorn, P.L. (author)Metalloproteomics is a rapidly developing field of science that involves the comprehensive analysis of all metal-containing or metal-binding proteins in a biological sample. The purpose of this review is to offer a comprehensive overview of the research involving approaches that can be categorized as inductively coupled plasma (ICP)-MS based...journal article 2015
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Sirmacek, B. (author), Lindenbergh, R.C. (author)Recent technological developments help us to acquire high quality 3D measurements of our urban environment. However, these measurements, which come as point clouds or Digital Surface Models (DSM), do not directly give 3D geometrical models of buildings. In addition to that, they are not suitable for fast 3D rendering. Therefore, detection and 3D...journal article 2015
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Konstantinou, T. (author)Over the next decade investment in building energy savings needs to increase, together with the rate and depth of renovations, to achieve the required reduction in buildingrelated CO2 emissions. Although the need to improve residential buildings has been identified, guidelines come as general suggestions that fail to address the diversity of...journal article 2015
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Yang, Z. (author), Zhou, Y. (author), Wenninger, J. (author), Uhlenbrook, S. (author), Wan, L. (author)Groundwater is the most important resource for local society and the ecosystem in the semi-arid Hailiutu River catchment. The catchment water balance was analyzed by considering vegetation types with the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), determining evapotranspiration rates by combining sap flow measurements and NDVI values,...journal article 2015
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Anderson, C. (author), Malambo, D.H. (author), Gonzalez Perez, M.E. (author), Nobela, H.N. (author), De Pooter, L. (author), Spit, J. (author), Hooijmans, C.M. (author), Van de Vossenberg, J. (author), Greya, W. (author), Thole, B. (author), Van Lier, J.B. (author), Brdjanovic, D. (author)In this research, three faecal sludge sanitizing methods—lactic acid fermentation, urea treatment and lime treatment—were studied for application in emergency situations. These methods were investigated by undertaking small scale field trials with pit latrine sludge in Blantyre, Malawi. Hydrated lime was able to reduce the E. coli count in the...journal article 2015
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Negro, E. (author), Stassi, A. (author), Baglio, V. (author), Arico, A.S. (author), Koper, G.J.M. (author)Carbon graphitic structures that differ in morphology, graphiticity and specific surface area were used as support for platinum for Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR) in low temperature fuel cells. Graphitic supports were first non-covalently functionalized with pyrene carboxylic acid (PCA) and, subsequently, platinum nanoparticles were nucleated...journal article 2015
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Benndorf, J. (author), Yueksel, C. (author), Soleymani, M. (author), Rosenberg, H. (author), Thielemann, T. (author), Mittmann, R. (author), Lohsträter, O.M. (author), Lindig, M. (author), Minnecker, C. (author), Donner, R. (author), Naworyta, W. (author)This contribution presents an innovative and integrated framework for real-time-process reconciliation and optimization (RTRO) in large continuous open pit coal mines. RTRO-Coal is currently developed, validated, tested and implemented as part of a multi-national multi-partner European Union funded R&D project. The key concept is to promote a...journal article 2015
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Fang, K. (author), Heijungs, R. (author), Duan, Z. (author), De Snoo, G.R. (author)Growing scientific evidence for the indispensable role of environmental sustainability in sustainable development calls for appropriate frameworks and indicators for environmental sustainability assessment (ESA). In this paper, we operationalize and update the footprint-boundary ESA framework, with a particular focus on its methodological and...journal article 2015
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Zadpoor, A.A. (author)Investigation of the mechanical behavior of biological tissues and biomaterials has been an active area of research for several decades. However, in recent years, the enthusiasm in understanding the mechanical behavior of biological tissues and biomaterials has increased significantly due to the development of novel biomaterials for new fields...journal article 2015
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Arroyo Ohori, G.A.K. (author), Ledoux, H. (author), Biljecki, F. (author), Stoter, J.E. (author)The various levels of detail (LODs) of a 3D city model are often stored independently, without links between the representations of the same object, causing inconsistencies, as well as update and maintenance problems. One solution to this problem is to model the LOD as an extra geometric dimension perpendicular to the three spatial ones,...journal article 2015
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Mousivand, A. (author), Verhoef, W. (author), Menenti, M. (author), Gorte, B.G.H. (author)Topography affects the fraction of direct and diffuse radiation received on a pixel and changes the sun–target–sensor geometry, resulting in variations in the observed radiance. Retrieval of surface–atmosphere properties from top of atmosphere radiance may need to account for topographic effects. This study investigates how such effects can be...journal article 2015
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Pojani, D. (author), Stead, D. (author)Megacities have frequently received a disproportionate amount of attention over other sizes of cities in recent discourse on urban sustainability. In this article, the authors argue that a focus on smaller and medium-sized cities is crucial to achieving substantial progress towards more sustainable urban development, not only because they are...journal article 2015
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De Kruijff, R.M. (author), Wolterbeek, H.T. (author), Denkova, A.G. (author)This review presents an overview of the successes and challenges currently faced in alpha radionuclide therapy. Alpha particles have an advantage in killing tumour cells as compared to beta or gamma radiation due to their short penetration depth and high linear energy transfer (LET). Touching briefly on the clinical successes of radionuclides...journal article 2015
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Santos, C. (author), Espinosa, F. (author), Santiso, E. (author), Mazo Espinosa, M. (author)One of the main challenges in wireless cyber-physical systems is to reduce the load of the communication channel while preserving the control performance. In this way, communication resources are liberated for other applications sharing the channel bandwidth. The main contribution of this work is the design of a remote control solution based on...journal article 2015
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Loussos, P. (author), Konstantinou, T. (author), Van den Dobbelsteen, A.A.J.F. (author), Bokel, R. (author)The existing building stock has been in the focus of European Union policies for energy savings. Nevertheless, energy certification schemes refer mostly to operational energy and usually do not consider aspects related to the life cycle of the building. To look at the overall energy cost during the lifespan of a building, the energy used to...journal article 2015
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Yaya-Beas, R.E. (author), Ayala-Limaylla, C. (author), Kujawa-Roeleveld, K. (author), Van Lier, J.B. (author), Zeeman, G. (author)This research was conducted to study the anaerobic sludge filtration capacity regarding helminth egg removal in upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactors. Two 25 L lab-scale UASB reactors were operated at an ambient temperature which varied between 17.1 and 28.6 °C. Ascaris suum egg was selected as the model egg considering its similarity...journal article 2015
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Pérez Garza, H. (author), Ghatkesar, M.K. (author), Basak, S. (author), Löthman, P. (author), Staufer, U. (author)To manipulate liquid matter at the nanometer scale, we have developed a robotic assembly equipped with a hollow atomic force microscope (AFM) cantilever that can handle femtolitre volumes of liquid. The assembly consists of four independent robots, each sugar cube sized with four degrees of freedom. All robots are placed on a single platform...journal article 2015
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Yu, Q. (author), Chen, Y. (author), Liu, Z. (author), Van de Giesen, N.C. (author), Zhu, D. (author)Algal blooms have been frequently found at the upper reaches of the Tanglang River, which is downstream from the eutrophic Dianchi Lake. The eutrophic lake upstream is considered to be a potential source of phytoplankton, which contributes to the development of harmful algal blooms in the river downstream and can cause many serious problems for...journal article 2015
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Xu, Y. (author), Peng, Y. (author), Qian, K. (author), Chan, A.P.C. (author)Public-private partnerships (PPP) can be employed to provide public rental housing for young graduates, which has been urgent to achieve social sustainability in China. However, few studies have been conducted to investigate the financing structure of PPPs, particularly the ratio of private investment, which is important in initiating a PPP...journal article 2015
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Ahmadi, S.M. (author), Yavari, S.A. (author), Wauthle, R. (author), Pouran, B. (author), Schrooten, J. (author), Weinans, H. (author), Zadpoor, A.A. (author)It is known that the mechanical properties of bone-mimicking porous biomaterials are a function of the morphological properties of the porous structure, including the configuration and size of the repeating unit cell from which they are made. However, the literature on this topic is limited, primarily because of the challenge in fabricating...journal article 2015