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Hall, Alize (author)A method to help renewables flourish is mitigating the variability that is inherent in natural resources. To do so, we explore the intricacies of the relationship between airborne wind (AWE) and solar energy to uncover the possibilities of future energy-generating hybrid power plants (HPP). Which leads to steering away from fossil fuel reliance,...master thesis 2023
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Oostenbrink, J. (author)Communication networks are critical in business, government, and even our day-to-day life. A prolonged communication outage can have devastating effects, particularly during and after a disaster. Unfortunately, our communication infrastructure is still vulnerable to natural disasters and other events that damage multiple network components...doctoral thesis 2023
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Yan, R. (author)High-strength steel (HSS) has higher strength but lower ductility than mild steel. The cross-section of the structural members may be reduced using HSS instead of mild steel, provided the buckling of elements does not govern the failure. The reduced member size benefits the environment and economy by means of less energy consumption, less carbon...doctoral thesis 2023
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Bon, Thijs (author)Limiting transport poverty is consequential in improving well-being and employment levels, which play meaningful roles in deciding public policy. We analyze how different socioeconomic and built environment factors are related to the transport poverty environment for car and public transport in terms of strength, significance, and direction for...student report 2023
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Tawfek, Abdullah M. (author), Ge, Zhi (author), Yuan, Huaqiang (author), Zhang, Ning (author), Zhang, Hongzhi (author), Ling, Yifeng (author), Guan, Yanhua (author), Šavija, B. (author)The mechanical performance of engineered cementitious composite (ECC) depends greatly on fiber orientation and distribution. In this paper, the effect of fiber orientation on ECC's mechanical properties was investigated using two different casting methods: a flow-induced casting was used to enhance the fiber orientation within ECC mixture and...journal article 2023
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Klein, Julian (author), Song, Zhigang (author), Pingault, B.J. (author), Dirnberger, Florian (author), Chi, Hang (author), Curtis, Jonathan B. (author), Dana, Rami (author), Bushati, Rezlind (author), Quan, Jiamin (author)Atomic-level defects in van der Waals (vdW) materials are essential building blocks for quantum technologies and quantum sensing applications. The layered magnetic semiconductor CrSBr is an outstanding candidate for exploring optically active defects because of a direct gap, in addition to a rich magnetic phase diagram, including a recently...journal article 2023
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Sarker, D. (author), Schinkel, C.V. (author), Portela, L. (author)This study reports the effect of N<sub>2</sub> and CO<sub>2</sub> bubbles on dilute to dense gas-liquid two-phase bubbly flow. A shadowgraph imaging technique captured bubble images at a high spatiotemporal resolution. The recordings of bubble images allow us to compute gas fraction distribution. It requires challenging segmentation and gas...journal article 2023
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Khodabandeh, A. (author), Teunissen, P.J.G. (author), Psychas, D. (author)To obtain single-receiver Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) parameter solutions, the PPP-RTK user-filter combines measurements with time-correlated corrections that are separately computed by the filter of an external provider. The consequence of exercising such double-filtering is that the Kalman filter’s standard assumption of...journal article 2023
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Baciu, Theodor D. (author), Degenhardt, Richard (author), Franzoni, Felipe (author), Gliszczynski, Adrian (author), Arbelo, Mariano A. (author), Castro, Saullo G.P. (author), Kalnins, Kaspars (author)The Vibration Correlation Technique (VCT) is a non-destructive method to predict buckling loads for imperfection-sensitive structures. While successfully used to validate numerical models and predict experimental buckling loads, recommendations for defining the VCT experiment are scarce. Here, its sensitivity towards the number of load steps...journal article 2023
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Hoogstrate, Youri (author), Draaisma, Kaspar (author), Barin, N. (author), Taphoorn, Martin J.B. (author), Weyerbrock, Astrid (author), Sanson, Marc (author), Hoeben, Ann (author), Lukacova, Slávka (author), Lombardi, Giuseppe (author), Hanse, Monique (author), Fleischeuer, Ruth E.M. (author), Watts, Colin (author), Angelopoulos, Nicos (author), Gorlia, Thierry (author), Robe, Pierre A. (author), French, P.J. (author)A better understanding of transcriptional evolution of IDH-wild-type glioblastoma may be crucial for treatment optimization. Here, we perform RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) (n = 322 test, n = 245 validation) on paired primary-recurrent glioblastoma resections of patients treated with the current standard of care. Transcriptional subtypes form an...journal article 2023
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Lee, Minu (author), Mata-Falcón, Jaime (author), Popescu, M.A. (author), Kaufmann, Walter (author)Thin-walled textile-reinforced concrete beams have recently emerged as a promising approach for material-efficient design. However, the increased complexity of the formwork is a major challenge in implementing such elements for broader use in the construction industry. This study presents a novel type of stay-in-place flexible formworks with...journal article 2023
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Torun, Su Guvenir (author), Munoz, Pablo de Miguel (author), Crielaard, Hanneke (author), Verhagen, Hence J.M. (author), Kremers, Gert Jan (author), van der Steen, A.F.W. (author), Akyildiz, A.C. (author)Atherosclerotic plaque rupture in carotid arteries is a major cause of cerebrovascular events. Plaque rupture is the mechanical failure of the heterogeneous fibrous plaque tissue. Local characterization of the tissue's failure properties and the collagen architecture are of great importance to have insights in plaque rupture for clinical...journal article 2023
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Amin, Shashank (author)Kirigami- the Japanese art of paper cutting – is used extensively as a design philosophy for stretchable and morphable structures. An array of cuts on a thin planar sheet creates a structure that can morph into a 3D pattern on applying an in-plane uniaxial load. This type of structure is called a kirigami metasurface. A subset of this type of...master thesis 2022
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Gutierrez Alvarez, J. (author)A big technological leap in Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastics (CFRP's) has brought to the market materials that are able to operate under severe thermomechanical loading conditions and yet remain lightweight. This is of high interest for new developments in aerostructures, such as supersonic airliners or the hydrogen aircraft. A continuous need...doctoral thesis 2022
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Chandran, Godwin Rayan (author)Video Object Detectors (VID) are used in various applications such as surveillance, inspection, etc. Often in these applications there exists a spatial area of interest and a static background. The static backgrounds remain constant throughout the video sequence in the training data establishing an undesirable correlation with the moving object...master thesis 2022
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Lane, R. (author)Multi-modal imaging techniques have become essential for better understanding fundamental questions in cell biology such as disease progression. While individual microscopy methods have rapidly advanced in recent years, the information content of any one imaging technique is limited to the type of contrast that particular technique is sensitive...doctoral thesis 2022
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Li, X. (author)Fatigue damage of composite laminates has attracted considerable attention from research community and industry, in view that laminated structures are inevitable to suffer from fatigue loading during their service life. It is rather complicated to understand and explain, what governs the initiation, accumulation, interaction (synergy or...doctoral thesis 2022
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Hunter, William (author)Atrial fibrillation is a common cardiovascular disease, affecting the regular beating of the heart through chaotic contraction of the heart's upper chambers. On its own, the condition—increasingly prevalent among the elderly—is not life threatening, but it leads to an increased risk of stroke and heart failure. As of yet, there is no consensus...master thesis 2022
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Brouwer, Hans (author)Synthesizing audio-reactive videos to accompany music is challenging multi-domain task that requires both a visual synthesis skill-set and an understanding of musical information extraction. In recent years a new flexible class of visual synthesis methods has gained popularity: generative adversarial networks. These deep neural networks can be...master thesis 2022
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Guan, Zenan (author)Out-of-Domain (OOD) generalization is a challenging problem in machine learning about learning a model from one or more domains and making the model perform well on an unseen domain. Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM), the standard machine learning method, suffers from learning spurious correlation in the training domain, therefore may perform...bachelor thesis 2022