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Xiong, Qing (author), Zhu, Qing (author), Du, Zhiqiang (author), Zlatanova, S. (author), Zhang, Yeting (author), Zhou, Yan (author), Li, Yun (author)Intelligent navigation and facility management in complex indoor environments are issues at the forefront of geospatial information science. Indoor spaces with fine geometric and semantic descriptions provide a solid foundation for various indoor applications, but it is difficult to comprehensively extract free multi-floor indoor spaces from...journal article 2016
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Zhang, J. (author), Hendriks, R.C. (author), Heusdens, R. (author)Auto-localization in wireless acoustic sensor networks (WASNs) can be achieved by time-of-arrival (TOA) measurements between sensors and sources. Most existing approaches are centralized, and they require a fusion center to communicate with other nodes. In practice, WASN topologies are time-varying with nodes joining or leaving the network,...conference paper 2016
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Wang, Haifeng (author), Lin, Jian (author), Zhang, Dawei (author), Wang, Yang (author), Gu, Min (author), Urbach, Paul (author), Gan, Fuxi (author), Zhuang, Songlin (author)We present a concealing method in which an anti-point spread function (APSF) is generated using binary optics, which produces a large-scale dark area in the focal region that can hide any object located within it. This result is achieved by generating two identical PSFs of opposite signs, one consisting of positive electromagnetic waves from...journal article 2016
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Zhang, Xueqing (author), Sciacchitano, A. (author), Pröbsting, S. (author)The present study investigates the feasibility of high-lift devices noise prediction based on measurements of time-resolved particle image velocimetry (TR-PIV). The model under investigation is a NACA 0015 airfoil with Gurney flap with height of 6% chord length. The velocity fields around and downstream the Gurney flap are measured by PIV and...conference paper 2016
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Brück, E.H. (author), Yibole, Hargen (author), Zhang, L. (author)After almost 20 years of intensive research on magnetocaloric effects near room temperature, magnetic refrigeration with first-order magnetocaloric materials has come close to real-life applications. Many materials have been discussed as potential candidates to be used in multicaloric devices. However, phase transitions in ferroic materials...journal article 2016
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Zhang, W. (author), Arends, I.W.C.E. (author), Djanashvili, K. (author)Lanthanide oxysulfates have the ability to store and release large volumes of oxygen under oxidizing/reducing conditions, rendering them interesting as automotive catalysts. Herein we demonstrate a remarkable improvement of both processes by utilization of nanoparticles compared to the bulk materials. A further improvement of the catalytic...journal article 2016
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Zhang, W. (author)Multimodal imaging techniques are emerging in medical diagnosis. The synergistic combination of imaging techniques, such as MRI and PET/SPECT, is highly useful to strengthen each of the individual imaging modalities while reducing any of their disadvantages. In recent years, the progress of technical integration of imaging scanners has led to a...doctoral thesis 2016
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Zhang, S. (author), Zeng, X. (author), Matthews, D. T A (author), Igartua, A. (author), Rodriguez-Vidal, E. (author), Contreras Fortes, J. (author), Saenz de Viteri, V. (author), Pagano, F. (author), Wadman, B. (author), Wiklund, E. D. (author), van der Heide, E. (author)This review gives a concise introduction to the state-of-art techniques used for surface texturing, e.g., wet etching, plasma etching, laser surface texturing (LST), 3D printing, etc. In order to fabricate deterministic textures with the desired geometric structures and scales, the innovative texturing technologies are developed and extended....journal article 2016
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Zhou, Yan (author), Zlatanova, S. (author), Wang, Zhe (author), Zhang, Yeting (author), Liu, L. (author)Video surveillance systems are increasingly used for a variety of 3D indoor applications. We can analyse human behaviour, discover and avoid crowded areas, monitor human traffic and so forth. In this paper we concentrate on use of surveillance cameras to track and reconstruct the path a person has followed. For the purpose we integrated video...journal article 2016
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Ashuri, T. (author), Zaaijer, M B (author), Martins, JRRA (author), Zhang, J (author)Wind energy has experienced a continuous cost reduction in the last decades. A popular cost reduction technique is to increase the rated power of the wind turbine by making it larger. However, it is not clear whether further upscaling of the existing wind turbines beyond the 5–7MW range is technically feasible and economically attractive. To...journal article 2016
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Zhang, G. (author), Heusdens, R. (author)Recently, the primal-dual method of multipliers (PDMM) has been proposed to solve a convex optimization problem defined over a general graph. In this paper, we consider simplifying PDMM for a subclass of the convex optimization problems. This subclass includes the consensus problem as a special form. By using algebra, we show that the update...conference paper 2016
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Xu, T. (author), Hu, Y. (author), Zhang, Bingbing (author), Leus, G.J.T. (author)Since the global positioning system (GPS) is not applicable underwater, source localization using wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is gaining popularity in oceanographic applications. Unlike terrestrial WSNs (TWSNs) which uses electromagnetic signaling, underwater WSNs (UWSNs) require underwater acoustic (UWA) signaling. Received signal strength ...conference paper 2016
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Zhang, M. (author)Large-scale agent-based social simulation is gradually proving to be a versatile methodological approach for studying human societies, which could make contributions from policy making in social science, to distributed artificial intelligence and agent technology in computer science, and to theory and modeling practice in computer simulation...doctoral thesis 2016
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Singh, N. (author), Zhang, K. (author), Angulo-Pachón, C.A. (author), Mendez Sevillano, D. (author), van Esch, J.H. (author), Escuder, B. (author)By equipping mutually incompatible carboxylic acid and proline catalytic groups with different self-assembling motives we have achieved self-sorting of the resulting catalytic gelators, namely SucVal8 and ProValDoc, into different supramolecular fibers, thus preventing the acidic and basic catalytic groups from interfering with each other. The...journal article 2016
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Li, X. (author), Wei, L. (author), Poelma, René H. (author), Vollebregt, S. (author), Wei, J. (author), Urbach, Paul (author), Sarro, Pasqualina M (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)This paper presents a tuneable binary amplitude Fresnel lens produced by wafer-level microfabrication. The Fresnel lens is fabricated by encapsulating lithographically defined vertically aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) bundles inside a polydimethyl-siloxane (PDMS) layer. The composite lens material combines the excellent optical absorption...journal article 2016
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Sloof, W.G. (author), Pei, R. (author), McDonald, S.A. (author), Fife, J.L. (author), Shen, L. (author), Boatemaa, L. (author), Farle, A.S. (author), Yan, K. (author), Zhang, X. (author), Van der Zwaag, S. (author), Lee, P.D. (author), Withers, P.J. (author)MAX phase materials are emerging as attractive engineering materials in applications where the material is exposed to severe thermal and mechanical conditions in an oxidative environment. The Ti2AlC MAX phase possesses attractive thermomechanical properties even beyond a temperature of 1000 K. An attractive feature of this material is its...journal article 2016
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Silvestri, C. (author), Riccio, M. (author), Poelma, R.H. (author), Morana, B. (author), Vollebregt, S. (author), Santagata, F. (author), Irace, A. (author), Zhang, G.Q. (author), Sarro, P.M. (author)Thermal material properties play a fundamental role in the thermal management of microelectronic systems. The porous nature of carbon nanotube (CNT) arrays results in a very high surface area to volume ratio, which makes the material attractive for surface driven heat transfer mechanisms. Here, we report on the heat transfer performance of...journal article 2016
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Liu, G. (author), Ling, F.Q. (author), Van der Mark, E.J. (author), Zhang, X.D. (author), Knezev, A. (author), Verberk, J.Q.J.C. (author), Van der Meer, W.G.J. (author), Medema, G.J. (author), Liu, W.T. (author), Van Dijk, J.C. (author)This study assessed the characteristics of and changes in the suspended particles and the associated bacteria in an unchlorinated drinking water distribution system and its reservoirs with different water sources. The results show that particle-associated bacteria (PAB) were present at a level of 0.8–4.5?×?103 cells ml?1 with a biological...journal article 2016
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Zhang, H. (author), Rutherford, E.S. (author), Mason, D.M. (author), Breck, J.T. (author), Wittmann, M.E. (author), Cooke, R.M. (author), Lodge, D.M. (author), Rothlisberger, J.D. (author), Zhu, Z. (author), Johnson, T.B. (author)Nonindigenous bigheaded carps (Bighead Carp Hypophthalmichthys nobilis and Silver Carp H. molitrix; hereafter, “Asian carps” [AC]) threaten to invade and disrupt food webs and fisheries in the Laurentian Great Lakes through their high consumption of plankton. To quantify the potential effects of AC on the food web in Lake Erie, we developed an...journal article 2016
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Van der Zwaag, S. (author), Zhang, S. (author), Fang, H. (author), Bruck, E. (author), Van Dijk, N.H. (author)We report the main findings of our work on the behaviour of binary Fe-Cu and Fe-Au model alloys designed to explore routes to create new creep resistant steels having an in-built ability to autonomously fill creep induced porosity at grain boundaries. The alloying elements were selected on the basis of their ability to be brought in...conference paper 2016