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Scharenborg, O.E. (author)For most languages in the world and for speech that deviates from the standard pronunciation, not enough (annotated) speech data is available to train an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system. Moreover, human intervention is needed to adapt an ASR system to a new language or type of speech. Human listeners, on the other hand, are able to...conference paper 2019
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Plugge, A.G. (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author)Due to the convergence of rapid business developments and digitization challenges firms need to become more agile. A service-oriented enterprise (SOE) strategy is an approach that decomposes an enterprise into business services that are modular, accessible, and interoperable, in which parts can be provided in-house, or outsourced to the...conference paper 2019
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Gama, Fernando (author), Marques, Antonio G. (author), Leus, G.J.T. (author), Ribeiro, Alejandro (author)Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) restrict the, otherwise arbitrary, linear operation of neural networks to be a convolution with a bank of learned filters. This makes them suitable for learning tasks based on data that exhibit the regular structure of time signals and images. The use of convolutions, however, makes them unsuitable for...conference paper 2019
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Prasse, B. (author), Van Mieghem, P.F.A. (author)The majority of research on epidemics relies on models which are formulated in continuous-time. However, processing real-world epidemic data and simulating epidemics is done digitally and the continuous-time epidemic models are usually approximated by discrete-time models. In general, there is no guarantee that properties of continuous-time...journal article 2019
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Castro do Amaral, G. (author), Temporão, G. P. (author)Depolarization is one of the most important sources of error in a quantum communication link that can be introduced by the quantum channel. Even though standard quantum process tomography can, in theory, be applied to characterize this effect, in most real-world implementations depolarization cannot be distinguished from time-varying unitary...journal article 2019
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Klein, Patrick (author), van der Vegte, Wilhelm Frederik (author), Hribernik, Karl (author), Klaus-Dieter, Thoben (author)By applying data analytics to product usage information (PUI) from combinations of different channels, companies can get a more complete picture of their products' and services' Mid-Of-Life. All data, which is gathered within the usage phase of a product and which relates to a more comprehensive understanding of the usability of the product...journal article 2019
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Gama, F. (author), Isufi, E. (author), Ribeiro, Alejandro (author), Leus, G.J.T. (author)Controllability of complex networks arises in many technological problems involving social, financial, road, communication, and smart grid networks. In many practical situations, the underlying topology might change randomly with time, due to link failures such as changing friendships, road blocks or sensor malfunctions. Thus, it leads to...journal article 2019
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Chen, Xiaomin (author), Xu, Gaohong (author), Zhang, Wanshun (author), Peng, Hong (author), Xia, Han (author), Zhang, Xiao (author), Ke, Q. (author), Wan, Jing (author)The Three Gorges Project (TGP) has greatly enhanced the heterogeneity of the underlying surface in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area (TGRA), thereby affecting the hydrologic processes and water quality. However, the influence of the differences of underlying surfaces on the hydrologic processes and water quality in the TGRA has not been studied...journal article 2019
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Rostampour, Vahab (author), Ter Haar, Ole (author), Keviczky, T. (author)This paper presents a framework to carry out multi-area stochastic reserve scheduling (RS) based on an AC optimal power flow (OPF) model with high penetration of wind power using distributed consensus and the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). We first formulate the OPF-RS problem using semidefinite programming (SDP) in...journal article 2019
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Zhang, Weizhao (author), Bostanabad, Ramin (author), Liang, Biao (author), Su, Xuming (author), Zeng, Danielle (author), Bessa, M.A. (author), Wang, Yanchao (author), Chen, Wei (author), Cao, Jian (author)Carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRPs) are attracting growing attention in industry because of their enhanced properties. Preforming of thermoset carbon fiber prepregs is one of the most common production techniques of CFRPs. To simulate preforming, several computational methods have been developed. Most of these methods, however, obtain...journal article 2019
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Gebremicael, T.G. (author), Abbas Mohamedali, Y. (author), van der Zaag, P. (author)Understanding the relationship between hydrological processes and environmental changes is important for improved water management. The Geba catchment in Ethiopia, forming the headwaters of Tekeze-Atbara basin, was known for its severe land degradation before the recent success in integrated watershed management. This study analyses the...journal article 2019
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Luo, X. (author), Ziliotto Salamon, N. (author), Eisemann, E. (author)Motion blur in a photo is the consequence of object motion during the image acquisition. It results in a visible trail along the motion of a recorded object and can be used by photographers to convey a sense of motion. Nevertheless, it is very challenging to acquire this effect as intended and requires much experience from the photographer....journal article 2019
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Elkhuizen, W.S. (author), Dore-Callewaert, T.W.J. (author), Leonhardt, Emilien (author), Vandivere, Abbie (author), Song, Y. (author), Pont, S.C. (author), Geraedts, Jo M.P. (author), Dik, J. (author)A seventeenth-century canvas painting is usually comprised of varnish and (translucent) paint layers on a substrate. A viewer’s perception of a work of art can be affected by changes in and damages to these layers. Crack formation in the multi-layered stratigraphy of the painting is visible in the surface topology. Furthermore, the impact of...journal article 2019
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van Ginkel, G.J. (author), Redig, F.H.J. (author)We consider the symmetric exclusion process on suitable random grids that approximate a compact Riemannian manifold. We prove that a class of random walks on these random grids converge to Brownian motion on the manifold. We then consider the empirical density field of the symmetric exclusion process and prove that it converges to the...journal article 2019
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Eskafi, Majid (author), Fazeli, Reza (author), Dastgheib, Ali (author), Taneja, P. (author), Ulfarsson, Gudmundur F. (author), Thorarinsdottir, Ragnheidur I. (author), Stefansson, Gunnar (author)Multiple stakeholders with a wide range of objectives are engaged in a port system. Ports themselves are faced with many uncertainties in this volatile world. To meet stakeholder objectives and deal with uncertainties, adaptive port planning is increasingly being acknowledged. This method offers robust planning, and thereby, a sustainable and...journal article 2019
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Oliveira Rodrigues, F.J. (author), Ribeiro, J.F. (author), Anacleto, P.A. (author), Fouchard, A. (author), David, O. (author), Sarro, Pasqualina M (author), Mendez, P.M. (author)OBJECTIVE: As electrodes are required to interact with sub-millimeter neural structures, innovative microfabrication processes are required to enable fabrication of microdevices involved in such stimulation and/or recording. This requires the development of highly integrated and miniaturized systems, comprising die-integration-compatible...journal article 2019
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Gugushvili, Shota (author), Mariucci, Ester (author), van der Meulen, F.H. (author)Suppose that a compound Poisson process is observed discretely in time and assume that its jump distribution is supported on the set of natural numbers. In this paper we propose a nonparametric Bayesian approach to estimate the intensity of the underlying Poisson process and the distribution of the jumps. We provide a Markov chain Monte Carlo...journal article 2019
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Valdez Banda, Osiris A. (author), Goerlandt, Floris (author), Salokannel, Johanna (author), van Gelder, P.H.A.J.M. (author)A safety management system (SMS) is the common means used by organizations to assess organizational performance with respect to the safety and well-being of people, property and the natural ecosystem. A SMS provides confidence to diverse stakeholders that organizational safety is at an appropriate level and fulfils the applicable regulatory...journal article 2019
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Tsalidis, G.A. (author), Korevaar, G. (author)Social life cycle assessment (SLCA) was developed to complement the environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) and economic assessment. Contrary to LCA, SLCA is not yet standardized, and the consequential approach is little discussed in literature. This study aims to perform a consequential SLCA and investigate the applicability of the method...journal article 2019
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Wang, W. (author), Munro, D.P. (author), Wang, C.C. (author), van Keulen, A. (author), Wu, J. (author)The design of optimal structures and the planning of (additive manufacturing) fabrication sequences have been considered typically as two separate tasks that are performed consecutively. In the light of recent advances in robot-assisted (wire-arc) additive manufacturing which enable addition of material along curved surfaces, we present a...journal article 2019