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Arsandrie, Y. (author), Bokel, R.M.J. (author), Van der Linden, A.C. (author), Kurvers, S.R. (author), Cauberg, J.J.M. (author)Technology for the low-income group of people should be as simple as their daily life. Giving recommendations for simple dwelling design and changing people’s behaviour for a better living are the concerns of this research. A field-survey was conducted in November-December 2010 involving 426 respondents from four low-income kampongs in Surakarta...conference paper 2012
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Tambach, M. (author), Meijer, F. (author), Visscher, H. (author)Dutch municipalities are faced with an ageing private housing stock, of which parts show a diversity of quality backlogs, including their energy quality. Dutch municipalities are in the process of developing a combination of communicative and economic policy instruments to seduce private homeowners to invest in their dwellings’ quality....conference paper 2011
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Van Breugel, K. (author)The increasing demand for quality, durability and sustainability requires a critical evaluation of currently used building codes. Although there is no doubt that we need codes, standards, certificates etc., the existence of these documents are no guarantee that the prescribed quality is realized on the building site. In this paper the essential...conference paper 2014
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Straub, A. (author), Van Mossel, H.J. (author)Dutch housing associations develop new procurement methods for maintenance of their housing stock, namely performance-based partnership forms. Partnership forms promise the optimal use of know-how of parties involved. For contractors a performance-based approach means major changes in working processes, methods and need for information. A vital...conference paper 2006
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Moens, E. (author), Meuret, Y. (author), Ottevaere, H. (author), Sarkar, M. (author), San Segundo Bello, D. (author), Merken, P. (author), Thienpont, H. (author)In this paper we discuss the design of a novel miniaturized image sensor based on the working principle of insect facet eyes. The main goals are to design an imaging system which captures a large field of view (FOV) and to find a good trade-off between image resolution and sensitivity. To capture a total FOV of 124°, we split up this FOV into 25...conference paper 2010
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Liu, H. (author), Koonen, J. (author), Fuderer, M. (author), Heynderickx, I. (author)In current magnetic resonance (MR) imaging systems, design choices are confronted with a trade-off between structured (i.e. artifacts) and unstructured noise. The impact of both types of noise on perceived image quality, however, is so far unknown, while this knowledge would be highly beneficial for further improvement of MR imaging systems. In...conference paper 2012
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Cila, N. (author), Ozcan Vieira, E. (author), Hekkert, P.P.M. (author)When generating product metaphors, designers select an entity to associate with the product they intend to design and transfer certain feature(s) of this entity to the product. This transfer, called mapping, can be realized by following different strategies (e.g. implicit-literal, explicit-literal, implicitabstract and explicit-abstract. In this...conference paper 2012
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Van Geenhuizen, M.S. (author), Schoonman, J. (author), Reinders, A.H.M.E. (author)Places of large potentials of sustainable energy production and places of energy consumption are often very different and separated by large distances across the globe. This paper first discusses potentials of solar technology in terms of global availability using PV technology and actual energy production. Solar energy is widely under-used and...conference paper 2012
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De Jong, P. (author)A redefinition of building economics towards sustainability will include the spatial approach of green field investments and most of all necessary intensification of brown field development. For large parts of Western Europe and the US the latter will be, according to economic principles of concentration and revaluation of city life, the main...conference paper 2011
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Huddart Kennedy, E. (author)It is surely beyond doubt that current consumption trends are socially unjust and environmentally unsustainable. Scientists and practitioners who argue for sustainable consumption need not continue to theorize the environmental consequences of overconsumption; rather, emphasis should now be directed towards creating the changes in culture,...conference paper 2010
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Bitenc, M. (author), Lindenbergh, R.C. (author), Khoshelham, K. (author), Van Waarden, A.P. (author)The Dutch coast is characterized by sandy beaches flanked by dunes. Its morphology is essential for the defense against flooding of the hinterland. Therefore it is monitored on a yearly basis by Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS). However, it is recognized that most erosion of the beach and first dune row takes place during storms. To assess the...conference paper 2010
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Pham, T.Q. (author), Van Vliet, L.J. (author), Schutte, K. (author)This paper proposes an example-based Super-Resolution (SR) algorithm of compressed videos in the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) domain. Input to the system is a Low-Resolution (LR) compressed video together with a High-Resolution (HR) still image of similar content. Using a training set of corresponding LR-HR pairs of image patches from the HR...conference paper 2006
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Visscher, H.J. (author), Meijer, F.M. (author)Systems of building control have a long history. Technical regulations and control seems to be the subject of an ongoing debate between, on the one hand, those in favour of deregulation and reducing the administrative burden and, on the other hand, new quality demands that require government intervention. Currently in the Netherlands, both sides...conference paper 2008
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Bakker, M. (author), Verberk, J.Q.J.C. (author), Palmen, L.J. (author), Sperber, V. (author), Bakker, G. (author)Half of all water supply systems in the Netherlands are controlled by model predictive flow control; the other half are controlled by conventional level based control. The differences between conventional level based control and model predictive control were investigated in experiments at five full scale water supply systems in the first half of...conference paper 2011
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Idarraga Alarcon, G.A. (author), Burgelman, N.D.M. (author), Meza Meza, J. (author), Toro, A. (author), Li, Z. (author)This work investigates the energy dissipation in a wheel/rail system through friction work modeling. In order to identify the effect of the friction coefficient on the energy dissipation in the wheel/rail contact, several simulations were performed using a 3D multibody model of a railway vehicle implemented in the software package VI-Rail Adams,...conference paper 2015
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De Vries, P. (author), Boelhouwer, P.J. (author)The literature on housing markets suggest that periods of economic growth are characterised by a demand for better housing quality and increasing prices. The basic principles of the theory are that the short-run price fluctuations occur due to market imperfection, while over the long term, causality with such fundamentals as income will recover....conference paper 2010
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Terwel, K.C. (author), Jansen, S.J.T. (author)From forensic investigation it is known that many structural failures can be attributed to human errors and organizational factors. To provide project leaders with information on the current state of factors in the building process influencing structural safety, we developed a quick assessment tool. Logistic regression was used, based on data of...conference paper 2014
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Sasaki, D. (author), Dhanesekaran, C. (author), Dawes, B. (author), Shahpar, S. (author)Automatic robust unstructured hybrid meshing is indispensable for the success in design optimisation. In addition, it is important to maintain the mesh quality for deformation of geometry throughout the optimisation process for the reliability of optimal design. Mesh adaptation is useful to capture the flow feature which can highly affect flow...conference paper 2006
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Seelen, P.A.G. (author), Vrancken, J.L.M. (author)VERDER, a partnership of different governmental organizations in the Middle Netherlands, initiated different projects for regional traffic management to better use existing road capacity and safeguard mobility in the Middle Netherlands. This active form of traffic management requires traffic data with a certain quality level, although this is...conference paper 2013