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Martins Costa, A.R. (author), Azeredo, Joana (author), Pires, Diana Priscila (author)
Recent advances in the synthetic biology field have enabled the development of new molecular biology techniques used to build specialized bacteriophages with new functionalities. Bacteriophages have been engineered toward a wide range of applications, including pathogen control and detection, targeted drug delivery, or even assembly of new...
book chapter 2024
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van Grunsven, J.B. (author), Marin, L. (author), Stone, T.W. (author), Doorn, N. (author), Roeser, S. (author)
Moral (or ethical) sensitivity is widely viewed as a foundational learning goal in engineering ethics education. We have argued in this paper is that this view of moral sensitivity cannot be readily transported from the nursing context to the engineering context on the basis of a care-analogy. The particularized care characteristic of the...
book chapter 2023
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Heurkens, E.W.T.M. (author)
It goes without saying that cities of tomorrow face numerous challenges that will change their appearance drastically. We only now begin to notice a gradual change towards climate-adaptive cities, inner-city renewable energy production, and more healthy urban environments by re-naturing our public realm and buildings as well as accommodating...
book chapter 2023
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Muñoz Sanz, V. (author)
'The architect who proposes to run with technology knows now that he [sic] will be in fast company, and that, in order to keep up, he may have to emulate the Futurists and discard his whole cultural load, including the professional garments by which he is recognized as an architect. If, on the other hand, he decides not to do this, he may find...
book chapter 2023
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Cannatella, D. (author)
In his book, 'The sense of style', the cognitive scientist Steven Pinker argues that the categories of grammar reflect the four building blocks of thought: time, space, causality, and matter. Coincidentally, these building blocks are the same ones that dictate the grammar of spatial design. In them being absolute categories, they describe well...
book chapter 2023
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Vleugel, J (author)
My research career started with a publication about externalities of mass motorization. Academic researchers are producing an endless stream of paper. Unfortunately, only a few of these publications have practical relevance. Even if they do, their recommendations are frequently butchered, mitigated or ignored in the political arena. Such...
book chapter 2023
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Kuijper, J.A. (author)
Not only within the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, but throughout Delft University of Technology, the City of the Future Graduation Lab proves to have a truly unique position. It is a laboratory where students are challenged to think beyond their own discipline, creating an interdisciplinary synergy between different fields...
book chapter 2023
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Abdelgawad, Ahmed A. (author), Comes, M. (author)
Evaluation and testing are significant steps in developing any information system. More attention must be devoted to these steps if the system is to be used in high-risk contexts, such as the response to conflict disasters. Several testing methodologies are designed to guarantee that software fulfills technology requirements; others will assure...
book chapter 2023
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Mooij, E. (author)
Attitude control of conventional launchers is relatively easy and straightforward and gives an adequate performance when applied to the nominal vehicle and mission. However, in the presence of environmental disturbances and vehicle design uncertainties, more robust types of controllers are required to guarantee stable attitudes. This chapter...
book chapter 2023
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Hopster, J. (author), Brey, P. (author), Klenk, M.B.O.T. (author), Löhr, G. (author), Marchiori, S. (author), Lundgren, B. (author), Scharp, K. (author)
This chapter provides a theoretical lens on conceptual disruption. It offers a typology of conceptual disruption, discusses its relation to conceptual engineering, and sketches a programmatic view of the implications of conceptual disruption for the ethics of technology. We begin by distinguishing between three different kinds of conceptual...
book chapter 2023
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Maier, Anka (author), Oehmen, Josef (author), Vermaas, P.E. (author)
Engineering Systems Design is an emerging perspective with a growing community. The preceding chapters in the Handbook of Engineering Systems Design presented the engineering systems perspective, models for describing and methods for designing interventions in engineering systems, as well as reflections on the use of those methods and upcoming...
book chapter 2022
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Bots, P.W.G. (author)
This chapter discusses the threefold challenge of designing effective interventions in engineering systems that are constantly changing: (1) a designed socio-technical artefact should improve system performance not only under present conditions, but it must also be functional when conditions change, be it autonomously or due to interventions...
book chapter 2022
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Oehmen, Josef (author), Kwakkel, J.H. (author)
Uncertainty is the third major perspective in understanding and designing engineering systems, along with complexity and human behaviour. Risk, a corollary of uncertainty, is understood as the effect of uncertainty on objectives. When designing engineering systems, you cannot not manage risk - even ignoring risk equates to a decision to accept...
book chapter 2022
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Coraddu, A. (author), Kalikatzarakis, Miltiadis (author), Theotokatos, Gerasimos (author), Geertsma, R.D. (author), Oneto, Luca (author)
Accurate, reliable, and computationally inexpensive models of the dynamic state of combustion engines are a fundamental tool to investigate new engine designs, develop optimal control strategies, and monitor their performance. The use of those models would allow to improve the engine cost-efficiency trade-off, operational robustness, and...
book chapter 2022
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Mandal, Dipankar (author), Kumar, V. (author), Lopez-Sanchez, Juan M. (author), Rao, Y. S. (author), McNairn, Heather (author), Bhattacharya, Avik (author), Mitchell, Scott (author)
Biophysical parameters are descriptors of crop growth and production estimates. Retrieval of these biophysical parameters from synthetic aperture radar sensors at operational scales is highly interesting given the increase in access to data from radar missions. Vegetation backscattering can be simulated using the water cloud model (WCM). Crop...
book chapter 2022
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Price, R.A. (author), Lloyd, P.A. (author)
The formulation of questions in processes of design is an activity affected by cognitive biases inherent to humans. Cognitive biases, developed through gaining experience, influence how decisions are made during problem solving. When an outcome is predictable, experience provides mental shortcuts or heuristics to enable the problem solver to act...
book chapter 2021
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Ladino, Andres (author), Wang, M. (author)
Lane change maneuvers are main causes of traffic turbulence at highway bottlenecks. We propose a dynamic game framework to derive the system optimum strategy for a network of cooperative vehicles interacting at a merging bottleneck. Cooperative vehicles on the highway mainline seek for optimal strategies (i.e., whether and when to perform...
book chapter 2021
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Tarsi, G. (author), Sangiorgi, C. (author), Varveri, Aikaterini (author), Oliviero Rossi, C. (author)
Environmental protection is also pursued by promoting the saving of oil reserves and the proper management of waste through a circular economy. Following this objective, the present study encourages the use of recycled and by-product materials for the production of bituminous binders. The powdered rubber (R) from end-of-life tyres and the re...
book chapter 2020
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Voorendt, M.Z. (author)
In practice, the disciplines of landscape architecture/urbanism and hydraulic engineering have become more specialized during the last decades, gradually growing apart. The gap between governance and ecology seems to have become even larger. This leads to discussions about who should take the lead in a design; and, if the design approach is not...
book chapter 2016
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Vroom, R.W. (author), Van der Vegte, W.F. (author)
With the rise of smart systems, ubiquitous computing and cyber-physical systems, information-intensiveness of products increases and users become challenged – possibly even overloaded – with expanding options and possible interactions. The number of possible variations of user-operation sequences can rapidly escalate and for designers it becomes...
book chapter 2015
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