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Xiao, Rongting Xiao (author)Retro-prospective is an archive of historical costumes in Marseille, which serves as a threshold between the past and the future. It preserves the originals in an optimal state of conservation by the tailored norms in order to create new intellectual works for the future to continue the local fashion culture.<br/>Within the Red Thread, the...master thesis 2023
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Dekhovich, A. (author), Tax, D.M.J. (author), Sluiter, M.H.F. (author), Bessa, M.A. (author)The human brain is capable of learning tasks sequentially mostly without forgetting. However, deep neural networks (DNNs) suffer from catastrophic forgetting when learning one task after another. We address this challenge considering a class-incremental learning scenario where the DNN sees test data without knowing the task from which this...journal article 2023
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Winkelhorst, O.M. (author), Cabau Peinado, O. (author), Straathof, Adrie J.J. (author), Jourdin, L. (author)Microbial electrochemical technologies (METs) employ microorganisms utilizing solid-state electrodes as either electron sink or electron source, such as in microbial electrosynthesis (MES). METs reaction rate is traditionally normalized to the electrode dimensions or to the electrolyte volume, but should also be normalized to biomass amount...journal article 2023
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Martinelli, Cristiano (author), Coraddu, A. (author), Cammarano, Andrea (author)In the industry field, the increasingly stringent requirements of lightweight structures are exposing the ultimately nonlinear nature of mechanical systems. This is extremely true for systems with moving parts and loose fixtures which show piecewise stiffness behaviours. Nevertheless, the numerical solution of systems with ideal piecewise...journal article 2023
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Amoozandeh, A. (author), Herder, J.L. (author), Radaelli, G. (author)Continuously Variable Transmissions (CVT) can serve as subsystems for a variety of machineries and robotic systems. A compliant CVT mechanism based on the warping of twisting beams is presented here. The design works based on the demonstrated fact that the twist on one side of a beam can be transferred via sectional warping and propagate...journal article 2023
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Manivannan, Denesh (author)Socially compliant robot navigation in pedestrian environments remains challenging owing to uncertainty in human behavior and varying pedestrian preferences in different social contexts. Local optimization planners like Model Predictive Control can incorporate collision avoidance constraints, but they can only lead to socially compliant...master thesis 2022
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Almeida Pignatelli de Avillez, Miguel (author)Quasi-satellite orbits (QSOs) are orbits around the smaller primary in three-body systems. The MMX mission (developed by JAXA, to be launched in 2024) will use QSOs to orbit Phobos, before landing on its surface. This work studies the feasibility of using the invariant manifolds of three-dimensional QSOs for designing landing trajectories, using...master thesis 2022
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Supinajaroen, W. (author)This research aims to explore policy venues to encourage the use of data from Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) at a national level or National CORS (NCORS). Thailand, among many countries, has established NCORS to observe and process the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals to improve the accuracy of positional data...doctoral thesis 2022
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YU, Jinqian (author)This thesis focuses on the design of a high input impedance sensor readout system based on a continuous-time sigma-delta modulator with finite-impulse-response digital-to-analog converter feedback.<br/><br/>Both the system-level and circuit-level design techniques of this system are investigated. The concept and design methods of finite-impulse...master thesis 2022
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Pecanins Martínez, Victor (author)Several techniques have been proposed to reduce the swing at the input stage of a CTDSM. One of these is using a simple passive RC input stage. In prior works, this increased in-band quantization noise. In this paper, we use positive feedback to realize complex-conjugate poles with a passive input stage, obtaining the same noise-shaping as an...master thesis 2022
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Florentinus, Guido (author)With the rapid population growth and industrialization, water bodies are being infiltrated by a rising number of contaminants like metals, pharmaceuticals, pesticides and detergents, which requires the need for novel treatment technologies. Electrocoagulation (EC) is a water treatment technology where the coagulant is dosed electrochemically...master thesis 2022
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Usman, Nerine (author)Thanks to increasing computational resources, the grid sizes of global climate and weather prediction models are decreasing to scales at which subgrid processes, especially the evolution of clouds, can become spatially too variable for traditional deterministic parameterization approaches. We propose a stochastic parameterization in which clouds...master thesis 2022
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Lathourakis, Christos (author)An issue of utmost significance constitutes the maintenance of engineering systems exposed to corrosive environments, e.g. coastal and marine environments, highly acidic environments, etc. The most beneficial sequence of maintenance decisions, i.e. the one that corresponds to the minimum maintenance cost, can be sought as the solution to an...master thesis 2022
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Schouten, Aron (author)Context: In astronomy, collision detection is the computational problem of finding when planets, asteroids or satellites collide. Computer simulations make it possible to show very precisely how bodies move through space, which makes it possible to detect collisions. However, these simulations require a lot of computing power if there are many...bachelor thesis 2022
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Liu, H. (author)In the Geomatics domain, a point cloud refers to a data set which records the coordinates and other attributes of a huge number of points. Conceptually, each of these attributes can be regarded as a dimension, representing a specific type of information. Apart from routinely concerned spatio-temporal dimensions for coordinates, other dimensions...doctoral thesis 2022
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Bhanu Prakash, Bhanu Prakash (author)Research and development of thermoplastic composites has been ever increasing owing to the advantages brought by it over conventional materials such as metals and thermoset composites. Higher processing rates, automation, the possibility to recycle, weldability and better mechanical and chemical properties are some of them. Fusion bonding of...master thesis 2022
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Knuyt, Jerry (author)The loss of wildlife due to illegal poaching activity poses threats on both the survival of iconic animal species and the livelihood of local communities. This research proposes a distributed surveillance model in which a UAV swarm autonomously coordinates continuous surveillance in a dynamic environment. The adaptive behaviour of poachers has...master thesis 2022
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Lee, Ka Ho (author)The extraction of natural gas in the northern part of the Netherlands, from the region of Groningen, has been causing human-induced seismic activities for the past several decades. This is a problem since the existing building stock in this region, which consists of mainly unreinforced masonry buildings and historical structures, are not...master thesis 2022
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ter Beek, Kars (author)The International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the European Commission (EC) have stated their desire for the aviation industry to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and in addition these emissions must be reduced by 45% in 2030. In order to reach these goals, all possible contributions to a reduction in carbon emissions are...master thesis 2022
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van der Hulst, Robin (author)To this date, simulating the dynamics of a fluid remain extremely expensive for most practical design prob- lems. The large range of length and time scales to be resolved makes it especially computationally heavy. In engineering applications, the standard is still the RANS approach for CFD modelling. Most commonly the so- called two-equation...master thesis 2022