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Wiss, Josse (author)Freshwater is becoming an increasingly scarce resource globally. The chemical industry is the second largest freshwater consuming industry and the largest wastewater producer. To reduce the freshwater consumption sustainable measures are introduced within the industrial sector, of which Industrial Symbiosis (IS), has gained prominence....master thesis 2023
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Van Houdenhoven, Robyn (author)The intellectual disability population increased from 65.545 people in 2011 to 116.200 people in 2020. In other words, the population almost doubled in less than ten years' time. Interventions are required to be able to make sure everyone receives the needed care. Therefore, the causes for the growth should be further examined before any...master thesis 2023
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Li, Wanda (author), Xu, Zhiwei (author), Sun, Yi (author), Gong, Qingyuan (author), Chen, Y. (author), Ding, Aaron Yi (author), Wang, Xin (author), Hui, Pan (author)Outstanding users (OUs) denote the influential, 'core' or 'bridge' users in online social networks. How to accurately detect and rank them is an important problem for third-party online service providers and researchers. Conventional efforts, ranging from early graph-based algorithms to recent machine learning-based approaches, typically rely on...journal article 2023
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Huawei Knowledge Transfer in Africa: Corporate Communication and Users’ Responses on Social NetworksCalzati, S. (author)This article focuses on the launch by the Chinese company Huawei of ICT academies in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and Kenya especially. Existing literature shows contrasting findings concerning the impact of such formation and recruitment centres. Through high-level thematic and sentiment analyses, this article examines various Huawei accounts on...journal article 2023
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DAI, Yuxin (author)Smart City has become one of the most popular topics in recent years due to the emergence of innovative digital technologies. Start-ups have been active in an innovation system defined as Smart City Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (SCEE) in this study, where stakeholders in the Smart City industry are involved and interact with each other, including...master thesis 2022
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STROUMPOULIS, KONSTANTINOS (author)Projects are becoming larger and more complex, resulting in work being done more in a team environment. Among other industries, the construction industry is project-based as well. For the successful completion of construction projects, inter-organizational teams consisting of representatives from the owner, designer, contractors and other...master thesis 2022
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Wagenblast, Thorid (author)Climate is changing. It is widely accepted that irrespective of the emission reductions efforts, adaptation to the already committed climate change is a must in the coming decades. Flooding is one of the most devastating climate-induced hazards, calling for adaptation across scales: from government-led adaptation (e.g. dikes), to personal...master thesis 2022
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Zhang, Zhiyue (author)The rapid growth of the Internet use has allowed social networks to become the most effective means for marketing, leading to the emergence of "viral marketing" as a business model. The biggest challenge that is facing "viral marketing" is selecting seed users from the whole user set to form a "seed-set" to spread the influence and maximize the...master thesis 2022
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Liu, Xinhan (author)Opinion dynamics models study how the interaction among people influences the opinion formation process. In most opinion dynamics models, only one opinion could exist in the steady state, which is different from the real-life opinion formation process. In 2009, Shao \emph{et al.} introduced a non-consensus opinion (NCO) model, which allows...master thesis 2022
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de Metz, Skip (author)Due to the dynamic and complex nature of the construction industry, it is evident that the integration of processes and groups is more challenging to attain in comparison to other industries (Demirkesen & Ozorhon,2017). Therefore, there is a call for better integration of project participants and processes in construction projects (Franz et...master thesis 2022
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Soleymani, A. (author), Itard, L.C.M. (author), de Laat, Maarten (author), Valle Torre, M. (author), Specht, M.M. (author)Learning and educational challenges in the field of indoor climate and building services like energy systems are mainly due to the transformation of professional practices and learning networks, a big shift in the way in which people work, communicate, and share their knowledge and the need for additional workforce, either juniors or coming from...conference paper 2022
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Teodoro Morales, J.D. (author), Baird, Julia (author), Otung, Idorenyin (author)Farmer peer networks have been identified as a key way to increase adoption of beneficial management practices to minimize negative environmental impacts of intensive agriculture. We studied the social processes that contribute to beneficial management practice adoption. We administered two questionnaires to participants of a farmer community of...journal article 2022
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Marin, L. (author)This paper proposes a conceptual framework for evaluating how social networking platforms fare as epistemic environments for human users. I begin by proposing a situated concept of epistemic agency as fundamental for evaluating epistemic environments. Next, I show that algorithmic personalisation of information makes social networking platforms...journal article 2022
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Dubey, S.K. (author), Sharma, Ishant (author), Mishra, Sabyasachee (author), Cats, O. (author), Bansal, Prateek (author)Due to the unavailability of prototypes, the early adopters of novel products actively seek information from multiple sources (e.g., media and social networks) to minimize the potential risk. The existing behavior models not only fail to capture the information propagation within the individual's social network, but also they do not...journal article 2022
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Styczen, MacIej (author), Chen, Bing Jyue (author), Teng, Ya Wen (author), Pignolet, Yvonne Anne (author), Chen, Lydia Y. (author), Yang, De Nian (author)When spreading information over social networks, seeding algorithms selecting users to start the dissemination play a crucial role. The majority of existing seeding algorithms focus solely on maximizing the total number of reached nodes, overlooking the issue of group fairness, in particular, gender imbalance. To tackle the challenge of...conference paper 2022
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Yang, Dingqi (author), Qu, Bingqing (author), Yang, J. (author), Wang, Liang (author), Cudre-Mauroux, Philipe (author)Graph embeddings have become a key paradigm to learn node representations and facilitate downstream graph analysis tasks. Many real-world scenarios such as online social networks and communication networks involve streaming graphs, where edges connecting nodes are continuously received in a streaming manner, making the underlying graph...journal article 2022
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Oorschot, Tom (author)The role of information flows increased over the last decades and has become more important within construction companies as they deal with complicated projects. Multiple recent studies state that enhancing the information flows can result in a better functioning organisation.<br/><br/>Research description<br/>The information flow between the...master thesis 2021
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Timmers, Samuel (author)The IPCC report of August 2021 calls for an immediately reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Without changing the world’s diets, even if we stop all fossil fuel emissions today, we would still not be able to maintain global warming below 1.5°C. The EU has set out their strategy for reducing agricultural emissions in the Farm to Fork Strategy,...master thesis 2021
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Meenakshi Sundaram, Aarthi (author)With increasing urbanization it has become increasingly important to focus on reducing emissions at a residential level. Decisions of households to adopt emissions reducing technologies are influenced not just by economic factors, but by the type of social networks they are embedded in. There is however little insight into the relationship...master thesis 2021
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Kollár, Eniko (author)Globally, it is estimated by the UN that 2% - 5% of the annual GDP is lost to money laundering. Cur-rent anti-money laundering efforts are hindered by both the lack of trust between financial institutions internationally and the presence of local privacy regulations like GDPR. This makes it unfeasible to share plain transaction data between...bachelor thesis 2021