Between Tradition and Modernity: Western urban planning and street improvement projects in Hankou (1889-1937)

This article examines street improvement projects in Hankou's case for unearthing the contribution of Chinese political elites and planers in exchanging planning concepts and technologies from the West to China. Aiming to realize the Modern Metropolis, which Sun Yat-sen proposed in the fundamentals of national reconstruction, Chinese political...

WhiskEras 2.0: Fast and Accurate Whisker Tracking in Rodents

Mice and rats can rapidly move their whiskers when exploring the environment. Accurate description of these movements is important for behavioral studies in neuroscience. Whisker tracking is, however, a notoriously difficult task due to the fast movements and frequent crossings and juxtapositionings among whiskers. We have recently developed...

Design-Relevant Factors Affecting the Patient Experience in Digital Health: Preliminary Results of an Umbrella Systematic Review

Since Covid-19, digital health interventions (DHIs) have been embraced as never before. The pandemic led to many new challenges, including the patient experience in digital health care delivery. In this literature study, we identified and synthesized factors that impact patient experience in digital health (dPEx), and reviewed the methods and...

Preliminary assessment of the freeze-plug melting behavior in the Molten Salt Fast Reactor

This paper focuses on the freeze-plug, a key safety component of the Molten Salt Fast Reactor, one of the six Generation IV nuclear reactors that must excel in safety, reliability, and sustainability. The freeze-plug is a valve made of frozen fuel salt, designed to melt when an event requiring the core drainage occurs. It must melt passively,...

Improvement of erodibility of a sand (sandy soils) treated by microbially induced urea-based carbonate precipitation: (Abstract)

Effectiveness of energy renovations: a reassessment based on actual consumption savings

Energy renovations offer unique opportunities to increase the energy efficiency of the built environment and for the existing housing stock, they are the most important solution. Usually, energy savings are based on modelling calculations. However, recent research has shown that the predicted energy consumption differs largely from the actual...

Containing urban sprawl: An integrated improvement of space-tranport strategies to reduce air pollution emission

Diverse effective strategies have been designed to minimize the phenomenon of urban sprawl. Previous research focused on the link between spatial and transport development strategies to achieve this goal, with the intention of increasing mobility, reducing commuting time and travel costs. However, a side effect of urban sprawl is an increase of...

Design guidelines and empirical evaluation tools for inland ships

For inland ships, state-of-the-art hull form design is to a large extent based on experience, common sense, or adjusting previous designs. The idea therefore arises that further optimization is possible if the right knowledge is available. This knowledge is insufficiently available due to two main reasons. First, research into inland ship...

The application of Value Improving Practices: Team integration pays off!

Submitted paper to: EURAM 2011 Track 30: Project Organizing

Between marketing and financial support: Dutch municipal policy instruments to improve the quality of private housing stock

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....

Between marketing and financial support: Dutch municipal policy instruments to improve the quality of private housing stock

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....

Real-time reduced basis techniques for Navier-Stokes equations: Optimization of parametrized bypass configurations

The reduced basis method on parametrized domains is applied to approximate blood flow through an arterial bypass. The aim is to provide (a) a sensitivity analysis for relevant geometrical quantities of interest in bypass configurations and (b) rapid and reliable prediction of integral functional outputs ( such as fluid mechanics indexes). The...

SUBSTITUTION OF TRAVEL DEMAND BETWEEN CAR AND PUBLIC TRANSPORT: A DISCUSSION OF POSSIBILITIES

HOE KAN DAT NOU? DE DISCUSSIE OVER DE SUBSTITUTIEMOGELIJKHEDEN TUSSEN AUTO EN OPENBAAR VERVOER.; HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? THE DISCUSSION ON THE SUBSTITUTION OF TRAVEL DEMAND BETWEEN CAR AND PUBLIC TRANSPORT.