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Muala, E. (author), Mohamed, Y.A. (author), Duan, Z. (author), Van der Zaag, P. (author)This paper presents the feasibility of estimating discharges from Roseires Reservoir (Sudan) for the period from 2002 to 2010 and Aswan High Dam/Lake Nasser (Egypt) for the periods 1999–2002 and 2005–2009 using satellite altimetry and imagery with limited in situ data. Discharges were computed using the water balance of the reservoirs. Rainfall...journal article 2014
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Boogaard, F.C. (author), Lucke, T. (author), Van de Giesen, N.C. (author), Van de Ven, F.H.M. (author)Permeable pavements are a type of sustainable urban drainage system (SUDS) technique that are used around the world to infiltrate and treat urban stormwater runoff and to minimize runoff volumes. Urban stormwater runoff contains significant concentrations of suspended sediments that can cause clogging and reduce the infiltration capacity and...journal article 2014
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Nadarajah, N. (author), Paffenholz, J.A. (author), Teunissen, P.J.G. (author)Direct geo-referencing is an efficient methodology for the fast acquisition of 3D spatial data. It requires the fusion of spatial data acquisition sensors with navigation sensors, such as Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers. In this contribution, we consider an integrated GNSS navigation system to provide estimates of the...journal article 2014
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Shamiri, A. (author), Chakrabarti, M.H. (author), Jahan, S. (author), Hussain, M.A. (author), Kaminsky, W. (author), Aravind, P.V. (author), Yehye, W.A. (author)50 years ago, Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery of the catalytic polymerization of ethylene and propylene using titanium compounds and aluminum-alkyls as co-catalysts. Polyolefins have grown to become one of the biggest of all produced polymers. New metallocene/methylaluminoxane (MAO) catalysts open...journal article 2014
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Akdim, N. (author), Alfieri, S.M. (author), Habibi, A. (author), Choukri, A. (author), Cheruiyot, E.K. (author), Labbassi, K. (author), Menenti, M. (author)The appraisal of crop water requirements (CWR) is crucial for the management of water resources, especially in arid and semi-arid regions where irrigation represents the largest consumer of water, such as the Doukkala area, western Morocco. Simple and (semi) empirical approaches have been applied to estimate CWR: the first one is called Kc-NDVI...journal article 2014
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Buatois, A. (author), Gibescu, M. (author), Rawn, B.G. (author), Van der Meijden, M.A.M.M. (author)This paper evaluates, for a 2030 scenario, the impact on onshore power systems in terms of the variability of the power generated by 81 GW of offshore wind farms installed in the North Sea. Meso-scale reanalysis data are used as input for computing the hourly power production for offshore wind farms, and this total production is analyzed to...journal article 2014
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Suarez-Mendez, C.A. (author), Sousa, A. (author), Heijnen, J.J. (author), Wahl, S.A. (author)Microorganisms are constantly exposed to rapidly changing conditions, under natural as well as industrial production scale environments, especially due to large-scale substrate mixing limitations. In this work, we present an experimental approach based on a dynamic feast/famine regime (400 s) that leads to repetitive cycles with moderate changes...journal article 2014
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Arifvianto, B. (author), Zhou, J. (author)Bone tissue engineering has been increasingly studied as an alternative approach to bone defect reconstruction. In this approach, new bone cells are stimulated to grow and heal the defect with the aid of a scaffold that serves as a medium for bone cell formation and growth. Scaffolds made of metallic materials have preferably been chosen for...journal article 2014
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Jorda, J. (author), Cueto Rojas, H.F. (author), Carnicer, M. (author), Wahl, S.A. (author), Ferrer, P. (author), Albiol, J. (author)Pichia pastoris has been recognized as an effective host for recombinant protein production. In this work, we combine metabolomics and instationary 13C metabolic flux analysis (INST 13C-MFA) using GC-MS and LC-MS/MS to evaluate the potential impact of the production of a Rhizopus oryzae lipase (Rol) on P. pastoris central carbon metabolism....journal article 2014
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Lousada-Ferreira, M. (author), Krzeminski, P. (author), Geilvoet, S. (author), Moreau, A. (author), Gil, J.A. (author), Evenblij, H. (author), Van Lier, J.B. (author), Van der Graaf, J.H.J.M. (author)Prevention and removal of fouling is often the most energy intensive process in Membrane Bioreactors (MBRs), responsible for 40% to 50% of the total specific energy consumed in submerged MBRs. In the past decade, methods were developed to quantify and qualify fouling, aiming to support optimization in MBR operation. Therefore, there is a need...journal article 2014
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Skupien, E. (author), Berger, R.J. (author), Santos, V.P. (author), Gascon, J. (author), Makkee, M. (author), Kreutzer, M.T. (author), Kooyman, P.J. (author), Moulijn, J.A. (author), Kapteijn, F. (author)Benzyl alcohol oxidation was carried out in toluene as solvent, in the presence of the potentially inhibiting oxidation products benzaldehyde and benzoic acid. Benzoic acid, or a product of benzoic acid, is identified to be the inhibiting species. The presence of a basic potassium salt (K2CO3 or KF) suppresses this inhibition, but promotes the...journal article 2014
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Kalantzi, O.I. (author), Biskos, G. (author)The increasing penetration of materials and products containing engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) to the market is posing many concerns regarding their environmental impacts. To assess these impacts, there is an urgent need of techniques for determining the health-related properties of ENPs and standards for assessing their toxicity. Although a...journal article 2014
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Boogaard, F.C. (author), Van de Ven, F. (author), Langeveld, J.G. (author), Van de Giesen, N. (author)Stormwaters, flowing into storm sewers, are known to significantly increase the annual pollutant loads entering urban receiving waters and this results in significant degradation of the receiving water quality. Knowledge of the characteristics of stormwater pollution enables urban planners to incorporate the most appropriate stormwater...journal article 2014
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Frenzel, P. (author), Hillerbrand, R. (author), Pfennig, A. (author)The vast majority of today’s chemical products are based on crude oil. An attractive and sustainable alternative feedstock is biomass. Since crude oil and biomass differ in various properties, new synthesis pathways and processes have to be developed. In order to prioritize limited resources for research and development (R & D), their economic...journal article 2014
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Mescher, M. (author), Brinkman, A.G.M. (author), Bosma, D. (author), Klootwijk, J.H. (author), Sudhölter, E.J.R. (author), De Smet, L.C.P.M. (author)In this study, we report on the electrical response of top-down, p-type silicon nanowire field-effect transistors exposed to water and mixtures of water and dioxane. First, the capacitive coupling of the back gate and the liquid gate via an Ag/AgCl electrode were compared in water. It was found that for liquid gating smaller potentials are...journal article 2014
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Yakaboylu, O. (author), Harinck, J. (author), Smit, K.G. (author), De Jong, W. (author)The supercritical water gasification process is an alternative to both conventional gasification as well as anaerobic digestion as it does not require drying and the process takes place at much shorter residence times; a few minutes at most. The drastic changes in the thermo-physical properties of water from the liquid state to the supercritical...journal article 2014
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Cao, A. (author), Sudhölter, E.J.R. (author), De Smet, L.C.P.M. (author)Since their introduction in 2001, SiNW-based sensor devices have attracted considerable interest as a general platform for ultra-sensitive, electrical detection of biological and chemical species. Most studies focus on detecting, sensing and monitoring analytes in aqueous solution, but the number of studies on sensing gases and vapors using SiNW...journal article 2013
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Lakerveld, R. (author), Benyahia, B. (author), Heider, P.L. (author), Zhang, H. (author), Braatz, R.D. (author), Barton, P.I. (author)The judicious use of buffering capacity is important in the development of future continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing processes. The potential benefits are investigated of using optimal-averaging level control for tanks that have buffering capacity for a section of a continuous pharmaceutical pilot plant involving two crystallizers, a...journal article 2013
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Kranenburg-van Koppen, L.J.C. (author), Grijpink-van den Biggelaar, K. (author), Drop, S.L.S. (author)Based on educational considerations, the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) e-learning portal has been developed, providing an interactive learning environment for up-to-date information in pediatric endocrinology. From March 2011 to January 2012, five small-scale pilot studies were completed to assess the usefulness of the...journal article 2013
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Wang, J. (author), González-Jorge, H. (author), Lindenbergh, R. (author), Arias-Sánchez, P. (author), Menenti, M. (author)Roads play an indispensable role as part of the infrastructure of society. In recent years, society has witnessed the rapid development of laser mobile mapping systems (LMMS) which, at high measurement rates, acquire dense and accurate point cloud data. This paper presents a way to automatically estimate the required excavation volume when...journal article 2013