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Du, Ximing (author)At present, many studies have begun to focus on evaluating urban accessibility and livability, which can be a series of great guidance for future urban planning considering residents’ personal perceptions of various living aspects. It can be observed from the existing literature that urban accessibility has a mature evaluation system,...student report 2023
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Bontje, Floor (author)When a person makes a decision, it is automatically accompanied by a subjective probability judgement of the decision being correct, in other words, a (local) confidence judgement. Confidence judgements have, among other things, an<br/>effect on justifications of future decisions and behaviour. A better understanding of the metacognitive...master thesis 2023
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van der Pol, Coen (author)Decentralised solar electricity generation on a large scale is a relatively new phenomenon. In the State of New York, the adoption of this form of renewable electricity generation has seen a surge over the last decade. However, policies that have been implemented over the last year, prompted experts to question the future of the market. The...master thesis 2023
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Chen, Qianqian (author)American option pricing has been an active research area in financial engineering over the past few decades. Since no analytic closed-form solution exists, various numerical approaches have been developed. Among all proposed methods, the least square Monte Carlo(LSMC) approach is the most successful and popular. The LSMC utilizes linear...master thesis 2023
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Ren, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Gao, Y. (author), Jing, R. (author), Lin, P. (author), Erkens, S. (author), Wang, H. (author)This study aims to multiscale investigate the effects of rejuvenator type, temperature, and aging degree of bitumen on the diffusion behaviors of rejuvenators (bio-oil BO, engine-oil EO, naphthenic-oil NO, and aromatic-oil AO) in aged binders. The molecular dynamics (MD) simulation method is performed to detect the molecular-level diffusion...journal article 2023
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Yang, G. (author), Gram, Remon (author), Procel Moya, P.A. (author), Han, C. (author), Yao, Z. (author), Singh, M. (author), Zhao, Y. (author), Mazzarella, L. (author), Zeman, M. (author), Isabella, O. (author)Passivating contacts based on poly-Si have enabled record-high c-Si solar cell efficiencies due to their excellent surface passivation quality and carrier selectivity. The eventual existence of pinholes within the ultra-thin SiOx layer is one of the key factors for carrier collection, beside the tunneling mechanism. However, pinholes are usually...journal article 2023
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Blake, J.W. (author), Konderla, V. (author), Baumgartner, L.M. (author), Vermaas, D.A. (author), Padding, J.T. (author), Haverkort, J.W. (author)The use of gas diffusion electrodes that supply gaseous CO<sub>2</sub> directly to the catalyst layer has greatly improved the performance of electrochemical CO<sub>2</sub> conversion. However, reports of high current densities and Faradaic efficiencies primarily come from small lab scale electrolysers. Such electrolysers typically have a...journal article 2023
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Polat, H.M. (author), de Meyer, Frédérick (author), Houriez, Céline (author), Coquelet, Christophe (author), Moultos, O. (author), Vlugt, T.J.H. (author)We investigated the effect of temperature and monoethanolamine (MEA) concentration on the self-diffusivity of acid gases, CO<sub>2</sub>, and H<sub>2</sub>S in aqueous MEA solutions. For this purpose, we computed densities of pure MEA and 30 wt% MEA/water solutions while scaling the LJ energy (ϵ) parameter and point charges of MEA. Results...journal article 2023
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Grothaus, Martin (author), Sauerbrey, M. (author)We construct and analyze the Jacobi process – in mathematical biology referred to as Wright–Fisher diffusion – using a Dirichlet form. The corresponding Dirichlet space takes the form of a Sobolev space with different weights for the function itself and its derivative and can be rewritten in a canonical form for strongly local Dirichlet forms...journal article 2023
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Duivenvoorden, Jorien R. (author), Kramer, Rick P. (author), van Eikema Hommes, M.H. (author), Iedema, Piet D. (author), Hermans, Joen J. (author), Keune, Katrien (author)Oil paintings are complex, multi-layered systems that are prone to chemical degradation. While it is increasingly recognised that water plays an important role in these degradation reactions, little is known about moisture concentrations in oil paint systems and their temporal variation in response to fluctuating ambient air humidity. This...journal article 2023
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Ding, Z. (author), Brouwer, J.C. (author), Kwakernaak, C. (author), Hermans, M.J.M. (author), Popovich, V. (author), Quadakkers, Willem J. (author), Sloof, W.G. (author)Mo(Al<sub>x</sub>Si<sub>1-x</sub>)<sub>2</sub> alloy with x in the range of 0.35–0.65 were prepared by a one-step spark plasma sintering. To study the exclusive formation of an α-Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> scale, oxidation experiments were conducted in low and high oxygen partial pressure ambient at 1373 K; viz.: 10<sup>−14</sup> and 0.21...journal article 2023
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Cui, Z. (author), Fan, X. (author), Zhang, Y. (author), Vollebregt, S. (author), Fan, J. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)This paper presented integrated electromigration (EM) studies through experiment, theory, and simulation. First, extensive EM tests were performed using Blech and standard wafer-level electromigration acceleration test (SWEAT)-like structures, which were fabricated on four-inch wafers. Second, a molecular dynamics (MD) simulation-based...journal article 2023
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van den Boom, S.J. (author), Abedi, Reza (author), van Keulen, A. (author), Aragon, A.M. (author)Phononic crystals can be designed to show band gaps—ranges of frequencies whose propagation is strongly attenuated in the material. In essence, their working principle is based on destructive interference of waves reflecting from the periodic arrangement of material interfaces (i.e., Bragg scattering). Consequently, capturing accurately the...journal article 2023
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Nespeca, V. (author), Comes, M. (author), Brazier, F.M. (author)Qualitative research is a powerful means to capture human interactions and behavior. Although there are different methodologies to develop models based on qualitative research, a methodology is missing that enables to strike a balance between the comparability across cases provided by methodologies that rely on a common and context...journal article 2023
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Joewondo, Nerine (author), Garbin, V. (author), Pini, Ronny (author)The dissolution of bubbles confined in porous media is relevant to applications such as carbon sequestration and soil remediation. Recent numerical work indicates that a rich variety of collective dissolution behaviors can be obtained depending on the initial solute concentration, the size distribution of bubbles and the structure of the...journal article 2023
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Zou, Yingxue (author), Xu, Haiqin (author), Xu, S. (author), Chen, Anqi (author), Wu, Shaopeng (author), Amirkhanian, Serji (author), Wan, Pei (author), Gao, Xiang (author)Moisture erosion is one of the key factors leading to asphalt pavement damage, and the erosion depth indicates the moisture damage level but it is usually neglected. In order to study the moisture erosion and the erosion depth, this study characterized the chemical structure, rheological property and adhesion property of asphalt at different...journal article 2023
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Xu, Z. (author), Ye, G. (author)One of the key problems that affect the durability of reinforced concrete structures is the corrosion of rebar induced by chloride. Despite the complicated transport mechanism of chloride ions in cementitious materials, diffusion is still the key mechanism of chloride ingress. The determination of the chloride diffusion coefficient will help to...journal article 2023
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Teh, Irvin (author), Shelley, David (author), Boyle, J.H. (author), Zhou, Fenglei (author), Poenar, Ana Maria (author), Sharrack, Noor (author), Foster, Richard J. (author), Yuldasheva, Nadira Y. (author), Parker, Geoff J.M. (author)Purpose: Tensor-valued diffusion encoding can probe more specific features of tissue microstructure than what is available by conventional diffusion weighting. In this work, we investigate the technical feasibility of tensor-valued diffusion encoding at high b-values with q-space trajectory imaging (QTI) analysis, in the human heart in vivo....journal article 2023
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Moultos, O. (author), Tsimpanogiannis, Ioannis N. (author)Available data from experiments and molecular simulations for the intra-diffusivities of H (Formula presented.) and O (Formula presented.) in H (Formula presented.) O, and for the self-diffusivity of pure H (Formula presented.) O (at pressure and temperature conditions in which the solvent is in the vapour phase) are compared against...journal article 2023
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Gu, Siwen (author), Wang, Jiaan (author), You, X. (author), Zhuang, Yu (author)Improving mass transfer in gas diffusion layers is critical to achieving high-performance proton-exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). Leaks through the interface between the gas and the membrane electrode assembly frame have been widely investigated, and the controllability of the cathode gas diffusion has not been achieved in most studies....journal article 2023