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Zhu, Haoyu (author)Due to the developments of microfluidics, Organ-On-Chip (OOC) technology is developing rapidly in recent years. Microflow plays a vital role in OOC applications, thus a microfluidic platform that can generate high-quality flow is always needed. However, the existing OOC systems contain bulky peripheral components, incompact design and low...master thesis 2020
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Ling, Chenyang (author)Nowadays, video surveillance and motion detection system are widely used in various environments. With the relatively low-price cameras and highly automated monitoring system, video and image analysis on road, highway and skies becomes realistic. The key process in the analysis is to separate the useful information such as moving foreground...master thesis 2020
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Jabeen, Ilma (author)The Netherlands has the vision to be completely circular by 2050 cutting its raw material consumption to half by 2030. To reduce the raw material consumption, materials in use must be reused and nothing should be wasted. However, the construction industry is far from reaching this goal. It is traditional in the EOL treatment of the building. The...master thesis 2020
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Nguyen, T.P.K. (author)Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a mathematical instrument beneficial for its dimension reduction whilst keeping the most important data. Due to its advantages, PCA is chosen to handle a substantial amount of data. In this thesis two questions are answered: what variables influence a pupil's attainment test score using linear regression and...bachelor thesis 2020
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Hahury, Milco (author)Explicit rules for safety verification of open cold-formed lightweight beam-to-tubular column joints are missing in the current EC3-1-8. By developing economical detailing, with design guidance based on Eurocodes, the market share for new buildings, renovation and for additional storeys on existing buildings will increase. Within the...master thesis 2020
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Öcalan, N.Y. (author)With the increasing amounts of data generated from various sources, companies are now aware of the data-driven applications more than ever. In the built environment, building or infrastructural projects are handed over as end-product and these projects are complex. Thus, this data disturbance requires multiple ways of project management...master thesis 2020
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Meijers, Lotte (author)The environmental pressure on the planet and its limited capacities has resulted in the need for new building methodologies that respect this limited capacity. Building methods based on the principles of the Circular Economy could pose an answer to this problem. However, limited knowledge and tools are available to bring this into practice. This...master thesis 2020
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Mandat, Max (author)To cope with the climate crisis, sustainable and eco-friendly buildings are a necessity. To achieve this, we need to change the way we build, this accounts as well for construction materials. For thousands of years, humans have lived in clay and timber hybrid constructions. These hybrids are made of sustainable, possibly circular, highly...master thesis 2020
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Wei, Mengya (author)Root zone storage capacity Sr is a significant variable for hydrology and climate studies, as it strongly influences the hydrological behaviour of a catchment. A climate-derived method (water-balance between precipitation and transpiration) was applied for estimating Sr values for 113 catchments in Australia. Various climate, hydrological and...master thesis 2020
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Tabak, U. (author)In this thesis, we present numerical techniques for analyzing vibro-acoustic problems that emerge from the coupling of elastic structures with fluid domains. The main analysis tool used for numerical modelling is the Finite Element Technique (FEM). By using FEM, the goal of our research was to either improve the already available techniques or...doctoral thesis 2020
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Bakker, Floor (author)To exploit its socio-economic functions, engineering measures are regularly applied in estuaries. Estuaries are, however, known to be very complex systems. Stemming from this complexity is the generation of a so-called estuarine turbidity maximum (ETM), which poses great siltation problems to the engineering measures. An engineering measure,...master thesis 2020
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Cai, Miao (author), Cui, Peng (author), Qin, Yikang (author), Geng, Daoshuang (author), Wei, Qiqin (author), Wang, Xiyou (author), Yang, Daoguo (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Understanding the defect characterization of electronic and mechanical components is a crucial step in diagnosing component lifetime. Technologies for determining reliability, such as thermal modeling, cohesion modeling, statistical distribution, and entropy generation analysis, have been developed widely. Defect analysis based on the...review 2020
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Dronkers, Maaike (author)The combination of the building sector as one of the largest consumers of natural resources with the changing needs and standards of the Dutch population aks for a transition in building methods. This thesis showcases the potential of reusing local resources in architectural design. On the one hand, the Harvest Hub facilitates the logistic...master thesis 2020
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Truong-Hong, Linh (author), Lindenbergh, R.C. (author)Defects in a construction site is inevitable and these defects must be inspected and reported timely to minimize extract cost due to repair the defects. However, in practice, quality of structural elements is often inspected by a site supervisor with traditional tools (e.g. measuring tapes, total stations or levelling) at only specific locations...conference paper 2020
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Badizad, Mohammad Hasan (author), Koleini, Mohammad Mehdi (author), Hartkamp, R.M. (author), Ayatollahi, Shahab (author), Ghazanfari, Mohammad Hossein (author)HYPOTHESIS: The saltwater-oil interface is of broad implication in geochemistry and petroleum disciplines. To date, the main focus has been on the surface contribution of polar, heavy compounds of crude oil, widely neglecting the role of non-polar hydrocarbons. However, non-polar compounds are expected to contribute to characteristics of oil...journal article 2020
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Yu, R. (author), Bristogianni, T. (author), Veer, F.A. (author), Nijsse, R. (author)It is not obvious to talk about glass recycling when we realize that a mature recycling procedure for glass bottles is already working well. However, apart from glass bottles, unfortunately, that a large amount of glass will disappear into landfills. This large quantity of unrecycled glass indicates that there is a large potential in upgrading...conference paper 2020
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Nagtegaal, M.A. (author), Koken, Peter (author), Amthor, Thomas (author), Doneva, Mariya (author)<br/>Purpose<br/><br/>To develop an efficient algorithm for multi‐component analysis of magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) data without making a priori assumptions about the exact number of tissues or their relaxation properties.<br/>Methods<br/><br/>Different tissues or components within a voxel are potentially separable in MRF because of...journal article 2020
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Liu, W. (author), Liu, Zhigang (author), Nunez, Alfredo (author), Han, Z. (author)With the rapid development of deep learning technologies, researchers have begun to utilize convolutional neural network (CNN)-based object detection methods to detect multiple catenary support components (CSCs). The literature has focused on the detection of specified large-scale CSCs. Additionally, CNN architectures have faced difficulties in...journal article 2020
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Abebe, Wubneh B. (author), Tilahun, Seifu A. (author), Moges, Michael M. (author), Wondie, Ayalew (author), Derseh, Minychl G. (author), Nigatu, Teshager A. (author), Mhiret, Demesew A. (author), Steenhuis, Tammo S. (author), Camp, Marc Van (author), Walraevens, Kristine (author), McClain, M.E. (author)The sustainable development of water resources includes retaining some amount of the natural flow regime in water bodies to protect and maintain aquatic ecosystem health and the human livelihoods and wellbeing dependent upon them. Although assessment of environmental flows is now occurring globally, limited studies have been carried out in...journal article 2020
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Abate, Pietro (author), Di Cosmo, Roberto (author), Gousios, G. (author), Zacchiroli, Stefano (author)Dependency solving is a hard (NP-complete) problem in all non-trivial component models due to either mutually incompatible versions of the same packages or explicitly declared package conflicts. As such, software upgrade planning needs to rely on highly specialized dependency solvers, lest falling into pitfalls such as incompleteness - a...conference paper 2020