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Zhu, P. (author)Questions are critical for information-seeking and learning. Automatic Question Generation (AQG) involves the subjects of Information Retrieval (IR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), and focuses on automatically creating questions for various applications, subjects which have been studied for decades. In this thesis, we study how to create...doctoral thesis 2024
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Brackel, A.K.C. (author)Brackish waters can be found in transition zones between freshwater rivers and saltier seas. These dynamic coastal landscapes harbor multiple functions such as housing, agriculture, nature, and industry. Because of climate change, existing borders between fresh and saline water - and between land and water - are becoming contested. Extreme...doctoral thesis 2024
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Taberna, A. (author)Amid the Anthropocene, the escalating threat of flooding, driven by extreme rainfall and sea-level rise, challenges societies worldwide. In the last two decades, floods have impacted billions and inflicted colossal economic losses. Concurrently, the global trend towards urbanization predicts that by 2050, about 70\% of the global population will...doctoral thesis 2024
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Yarza Perez, A.J. (author)The world is facing global challenges that are dramatically changing the social and physical environments, resulting in cultural confrontation. Rapid urban growth, and gentrification increase urban pressure while jeopardizing social cohesion, multicultural values and local economies. Moreover, environmental factors associated with climate change...doctoral thesis 2024
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Verhelst, H.M. (author)Wrinkles are ubiquitous in the world around us. In our daily lives, we encounter wrinkles in various forms, whether in our clothes or on our skin. Wrinkles emerge as a result of a delicate interplay between bending, membrane, and foundation stiffness contributions within membranes. While experimental investigations provide insights into the...doctoral thesis 2024
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Achterberg, M.A. (author)The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disruptive impact on healthcare systems and everyday life of the majority of the people around the globe. Despite many years of research on network epidemiology, many key aspects of disease transmission and in particular the response of people to the spread of a disease, remain poorly understood. On the basis of...doctoral thesis 2024
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Pezzato, C. (author)In an ever-evolving society, the demand for autonomous robots equipped with human-level capabilities is becoming increasingly imperative. Various factors, such as an aging population and a shortage of labor for repetitive and physically demanding tasks, have underscored the need for capable autonomous robots to assist us in our daily activities....doctoral thesis 2024
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Crosato, A. (author)River morphology can be described at different scales: at the basin scale we distinguish the river network; at the reach scale the planform, the slope and average features, such as the width and bankfull water depth; at the cross-section scale the transverse variations of river bed topography; and at smaller scales we observe bedforms and...abstract 2024
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Mostert, E. (author)In het project Erfgoed onthult; Trekvaarten binnen het waterverband is gekeken naar de toekomstwaarde van trekvaarten voor klimaatadaptatie. Het project richt zich specifiek op het gebied tussen de steden Leiden, Den Haag, Delft, Rotterdam en Gouda met de trekvaarten de Vliet, de Schie, de Gouwe en de Oude Rijn. Tot het jaar 900 was dit gebied...report 2024
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Eleftheroglou, N. (author), Galanopoulos, Georgios (author), Loutas, Theodoros (author)Data-driven methodologies have found increasing usage in the last decade for remaining useful life (RUL) prognostics of composite materials utilizing structural health monitoring (SHM) data. Of particular interest is the reliable RUL prediction in cases where the end-of-life is not in between the extreme values within the testing dataset. For...journal article 2024
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Tacx, Paul (author), Habraken, Roel (author), Witvoet, Gert (author), Heertjes, Marcel (author), Oomen, T.A.E. (author)Next-generation deformable mirrors are envisaged to exhibit low-frequency flexible dynamics and to contain a large number of spatially distributed actuators due to increasingly stringent performance requirements. The increasingly complex system characteristics necessitate identifying the flexible dynamic behavior for design validation and...journal article 2024
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Ruangpan, L. (author), Vojinovic, Zoran (author), Plavšić, Jasna (author), Curran, Alex (author), Rosic, Nikola (author), Pudar, Ranko (author), Savic, Dragan (author), Brdjanovic, Damir (author)Flooding is expected to increase due to climate change, urbanisation, and land use change. To address this issue, Nature-Based Solutions (NBSs) are often adopted as innovative and sustainable flood risk management methods. Besides the flood risk reduction benefits, NBSs offer co-benefits for the environment and society. However, these co...journal article 2024
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van Cranenburgh, S. (author), Meyerhoff, Jürgen (author), Rehdanz, Katrin (author), Wunsch, Andrea (author)Efficient experimental designs aim to maximise the information obtained from stated choice data to estimate discrete choice models' parameters statistically efficiently. Almost without exception efficient experimental designs assume that decision-makers use a Random Utility Maximisation (RUM) decision rule. When using such designs,...journal article 2024
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Tierolf, Lars (author), Haer, Toon (author), Athanasiou, Panagiotis (author), Luijendijk, Arjen (author), Botzen, W. J. Wouter (author), Aerts, Jeroen C.J.H. (author)In this study, we present a novel modeling framework that provides a stylized representation of coastal adaptation and migration dynamics under sea level rise (SLR). We develop an agent-based model that simulates household and government agents adapting to shoreline change and increasing coastal flood risk. This model is coupled to a gravity...journal article 2024
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Oud, Michelle (author), Breedveld, Sebastiaan (author), Rojo-Santiago, Jesús (author), Giżyńska, Marta Krystyna (author), Kroesen, Michiel (author), Habraken, S.J.M. (author), Perko, Z. (author), Heijmen, Ben (author), Hoogeman, M.S. (author)Objective. In head-and-neck cancer intensity modulated proton therapy, adaptive radiotherapy is currently restricted to offline re-planning, mitigating the effect of slow changes in patient anatomies. Daily online adaptations can potentially improve dosimetry. Here, a new, fully automated online re-optimization strategy is presented. In a...journal article 2024
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Yan, Dong (author), Gugushvili, Shota (author), van der Vaart, A.W. (author)We obtain rates of contraction of posterior distributions in inverse problems with discrete observations. In a general setting of smoothness scales we derive abstract results for general priors, with contraction rates determined by discrete Galerkin approximation. The rate depends on the amount of prior concentration near the true function...journal article 2024
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Zoutendijk, M. (author), Mitici, M.A. (author)Taxiing aircraft using electric vehicles is seen as an effective solution to meet aviation targets of climate neutrality. However, making the transition to electric taxiing operations is expected to significantly increase the electricity demand at airports. In this paper we propose a mixed-integer linear program to schedule electric vehicles...journal article 2024
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Fajardo, Sebastian (author), Zeekaf, Jelte (author), van Andel, Tinde (author), Maombe, Christabel (author), Nyambe, Terry (author), Mudenda, George (author), Aleo, A. (author), Kayuni, Martha Nchimunya (author), Langejans, G.H.J. (author)This study explores traditional adhesives using an ethnobiological approach within a multisocioecological context in Zambia. Through semi-structured interviews, videotaped demonstrations, and herbarium collections, we investigated the traditional adhesives people know and use, the flexibility of production processes, resource usage, and...journal article 2024
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Berger, Uta (author), Bell, Andrew (author), Barton, C. Michael (author), Chappin, E.J.L. (author), Dreßler, Gunnar (author), Filatova, T. (author), Fronville, Thibault (author), Lee, Allen (author), van Loon, Emiel (author), Lorscheid, Iris (author), Meyer, Matthias (author), Müller, Birgit (author), Piou, Cyril (author), Radchuk, Viktoriia (author), Roxburgh, Nicholas (author), Schüler, Lennart (author), Troost, Christian (author), Wijermans, Nanda (author), Williams, Tim G. (author), Wimmler, Marie Christin (author), Grimm, Volker (author)Despite the increasing use of standards for documenting and testing agent-based models (ABMs) and sharing of open access code, most ABMs are still developed from scratch. This is not only inefficient, but also leads to ad hoc and often inconsistent implementations of the same theories in computational code and delays progress in the...journal article 2024
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Xiao, J. (author), Wang, L. (author), Qin, Z. (author), Bauer, P. (author)Communication-based distributed secondary control is deemed necessary to restore the state of islanding AC microgrids to set points. As its limited global information, the microgrids become vulnerable to cyber-attacks, which by falsifying the communicating singles, like the angular frequency, can disturb the power dispatch in the microgrids...journal article 2024