Dirty Entity Resolution starring Locality-Sensitive Hashing on Incoherent and Incomplete Distributed Big Data: A Feasibility Study

In real-world scenarios, users provide invaluable data; however, this data is inherently incoherent, incomplete, and duplicated, i.e., different data rows refer to the same real-world object. Merging duplications to a single entry broadens the knowledge of a given real-world object represented within a data set. Applying a straightforward cross...

Driving Toward Sustainability: Large-Scale Electric Road Systems for Road Freight - an optimization model for ERS Network Planning

As societies worldwide grapple with the urgent need to mitigate carbon emissions, one domain where substantial strides can be made is heavy-duty road freight transport. Electrification has emerged as a practical and technologically mature solution to address this challenge. However, the widespread adoption of electrification in this sector is...

Identifying Stakeholder Perceptions of Overhead Catenary Electric Road Systems

Heavy-duty trucks (HDTs) are a significant contributor to global anthropogenic carbon emissions. In contrary to passenger cars, HDTs have to cope with decarbonization complications due to range and weight characteristics. Overhead catenary electric road systems (ERS-OC) can aid in decarbonizing this sector. Here, trucks are equipped with a...

Single-cell transcriptomics links loss of human pancreatic β-cell identity to er stress

The maintenance of pancreatic islet architecture is crucial for proper β-cell function. We previously reported that disruption of human islet integrity could result in altered β-cell identity. Here we combine β-cell lineage tracing and single-cell transcriptomics to investigate the mechanisms underlying this process in primary human islet...

Estimation of wintertime Arctic sea ice thickness with satellite scatterometers

Accurate information on Arctic sea ice thickness has been historically limited both spatially and temporally to spare submarine sonar measurements until the advent of satellite altimeters such as ICEsat (operating from 2002 to 2008) and CryoSat-2 (operating from 2011 to present day). This study aims to use the historical record of normalized...

Novel approaches for using dehydrogenases and ene-reductases for organic synthesis

Oxidation of alcohols is a reaction of major interest for organic chemistry. However, the most common chemical routes developed so far involve the use of toxic or hazardous reagents or catalysts that often lack good chemoselectivity. In this respect, alcohol dehydrogenases (ADHs) represent a very valuable biocatalytic alternative, as they can...

The rise of the zzp'er (self-employed professional) in the Dutch construction industry

55% of all carpenters are self-employed (zzp’er), 37% of plasterers and wall-/floor finishers is zzp’er, and 28% of the bricklayers and interpolators is zzp’er. Of all the work in the construction sector, zzp’ers now do 15%. Is there something special about these people or the construction industry and where do these characteristics originate in...

Veldstudie naar TBT verontreiniging in de Noordzee en risico's voor het mariene milieu

In dit rapport worden de resultaten gerapporteerd van drie jaar monitoring van intersex bij alikruiken in Nederlandse kustwateren en havens in relatie tot TBTgehalten in de milieucompartimenten water, zwevend stof, sediment en baggerspecie en in biota. De alikruik is een alternatief voor bekende tributyltin(TBT)-gevoelige soorten als purperslak...

A decade of ERS satellite orbits and altimetry

The First European Remote Sensing Satellite, ERS-1, was launched in July 1991, fol- lowed by ERS-2 in April 1995. Both satellites carry a radar altimeter to serve oper- ational applications and scientific research in the fields of geodesy, oceanography, glaciology and meteorology. Together, the satellites have now been operating for over twelve...

Studie naar de opzet van een nationaal ERS-1 datacentrum - Phase-A/B study of a national ERS-1 data centre

Within the framework of the National Remote Sensing Programme and under contract with the Netherlands Remote Sensing Board (BCRS), the National Aerospace Laboratory NLR has carried out a Phase-A/B study of a national ERS-1 data and information centre. The first European Remote Sensing Satellite (ERS-1) is due to be launched by the European Space...

Impact of ERS-1 observations on wave forecasting in the North Sea

A rather large number of conventional observations is available for the North Sea. Yet a comparison with the coverage of ERS-1 shows that its data will be a valuable addition to the existing data, especially in the north. The wave forecasting methods in use for swell forecasting in the southern North Sea suffer from a lack of data from the...

Dissemination of ERS-a low bitrate data and the use od L-band receiving stations

The dissemination of ERS-1 real-time thematic products via the Global Telecommunication System, the ECS satellite telecom system or the Eiuronet packet switching network is analysed and evaluated against the use of direct-receive L-band stations as used for NOAA weather image reception.