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Bouwens, MAJ (author), Maas, D (author), van der Donck, JCJ (author), Alkemade, P.F.A. (author), van der Walle, P (author)To qualify tools of semiconductor manufacturing, particles unintentionally deposited in these tools are character-ized using blank wafers. With fast optical inspection tools one can quickly localize these particle defects. An ex-ample is TNO's Rapid Nano, which operates in optical darkfield. The next step is defect review for further...journal article 2016
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Aldewereld, H.M. (author), Dignum, V (author), Vasconcelos, W (author)Normative multi-agent systems offer the ability to integrate social and individual factors to provide increased levels of fidelity with respect to modelling social phenomena, such as cooperation, coordination, group decision making, and organization, in both human and artificial agent systems. An important open research issue refers to group...journal article 2016
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Gallagher, Edith (author), Wadman, Heidi (author), McNinch, Jesse (author), Reniers, A.J.H.M. (author), Koktas, Melike (author)Grain size on the surface of natural beaches has been observed to vary spatially and temporally with morphology and wave energy. The stratigraphy of the beach at Duck, North Carolina, USA was examined using 36 vibracores (~1-1.5 m long) collected along a cross-shore beach profile. Cores show that beach sediments are finer (~0.3 mm) and more...journal article 2016
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de Reuver, Mark (author), Nikou, S. (author), Bouwman, W.A.G.A. (author)Smartphones are finding their way into our daily lives. This paper examines the domestication of smartphones by looking at how the way we use mobile applications affects our everyday routines. Data is collected through an innovative quantitative mixed-method approach, combining log data from smartphones and survey (perception) data. We find that...journal article 2016
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van Assen, Jan Jaap R. (author), Wijntjes, M.W.A. (author), Pont, S.C. (author)Gloss perception strongly depends on the three-dimensional shape and the illumination of the object under consideration. In this study we investigated the influence of the spatial structure of the illumination on gloss perception. A diffuse light box in combination with differently shaped masks was used to produce a set of six simple and complex...journal article 2016
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den Besten, N.I. (author), Pande, S. (author), Savenije, Hubert (author)Maharashtra is one of the States in India that has witnessed one of the highest rates of farmer suicides as proportion of total number of suicides. Most of the farmer suicides in Maharashtra are from semi-arid divisions such as Marathwada where cotton has been historically grown. Other dominant crops produced include cereals, pulses, oilseeds...journal article 2016
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Ali-Eldin, Ahmed (author), Ilyushkin, A.S. (author), Ghit, B.I. (author), Herbst, Nikolas (author), Papadopoulos, Alessandro (author), Iosup, A. (author)Rapid elasticity is one of the essential characteristics of cloud computing identified by NIST. Elasticity allows resources to be provisioned and released to scale rapidly out ward and in ward according to demand. Tens -- if not hundreds -- of algorithms have been proposed in the literature to automatically achieve elastic provisioning. These...conference paper 2016
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Potters, M.G. (author), Bombois, X (author), Mansoori Habib Abadi, M. (author), van den Hof, PMJ (author)Estimation of physical parameters in dynamical systems driven by linear partial differential equations is an important problem. In this paper, we introduce the least costly experiment design framework for these systems. It enables parameter estimation with an accuracy that is specified by the experimenter prior to the identification experiment,...journal article 2016
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Van Hoek, Mattijn (author), Jia, Li (author), Zhou, J. (author), Zheng, Chaolei (author), Menenti, M. (author)The time lag between anomalies in precipitation and vegetation activity plays a critical role in early drought detection as agricultural droughts are caused by precipitation shortages. The aim of this study is to explore a new approach to estimate the time lag between a forcing (precipitation) and a response (NDVI) signal in the frequency...journal article 2016
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Loriaux, J.M. (author), Lenderink, G. (author), Siebesma, A.P. (author)Research on relations between atmospheric conditions and extreme precipitation is important to understand and model present-day climate extremes and assess how precipitation extremes might evolve in a future climate. Here we present a statistical analysis of the relation between large-scale conditions and hourly precipitation at midlatitudes,...journal article 2016
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Lin, N.M. (author), Rutten, M.M. (author)Due to the effects of climate change and population growth, reservoirs play a more and more important role in water resources management. The management of a multi-reservoir system is complex due to the curse of dimensionalities, nonlinearities and conflicts between different objectives. The optimal operation of a multi-reservoir system...journal article 2016
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Popp, Thomas (author), De Leeuw, Gerrit (author), Bingen, Christine (author), Brühl, Christoph (author), Capelle, Virginie (author), Chedin, Alain (author), Clarisse, Lieven (author), Dubovik, Oleg (author), Grainger, Roy (author), Griesfeller, Jan (author), Heckel, Andreas (author), Kinne, Stefan (author), Klüser, Lars (author), Kosmale, Miriam (author), Kolmonen, Pekka (author), Lelli, Luca (author), Litvinov, Pavel (author), Mei, Linlu (author), North, Peter (author), Pinnock, Simon (author), Povey, Adam (author), Robert, Charles (author), Schulz, Michael (author), Sogacheva, Larisa (author), Stebel, Kerstin (author), Zweers, Deborah Stein (author), Thomas, Gareth (author), Tilstra, Lieuwe Gijsbert (author), Vandenbussche, Sophie (author), Veefkind, j. Pepijn (author), Vountas, Marco (author), Xue, Yong (author)Producing a global and comprehensive description of atmospheric aerosols requires integration of ground-based, airborne, satellite and model datasets. Due to its complexity, aerosol monitoring requires the use of several data records with complementary information content. This paper describes the lessons learned while developing and...journal article 2016
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Huang, H. (author), Ye, G. (author)In this research, self-healing due to further hydration of unhydrated cement particles is taken as an example for investigating the effects of capsules on the self-healing efficiency and mechanical properties of cementitious materials. The efficiency of supply of water by using capsules as a function of capsule dosages and sizes was...journal article 2016
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Misconel, A. (author), Ballerini, M. (author), van de Kuilen, J.W.G. (author)Double-shear steel-to-timber joints of beech laminated veneer lumber (LVL) with slotted-in steel plates using very high strength steel (VHSS) dowels have been investigated. Tensile tests on full-scale joints with one, two, three and six dowels have been carried out, using both VHSS and mild steel dowels. The goal...conference paper 2016
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Cenedese, Claudia (author), Gatto, V.M. (author)Idealized laboratory experiments have been conducted in a two-layer stratified fluid to investigate the leading-order dynamics that control submarine melting and meltwater export near a vertical ice-ocean interface as a function of subglacial discharge. In summer, the discharge of surface runoff at the base of a glacier (subglacial discharge)...journal article 2016
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Korkas, Christos D. (author), Baldi, S. (author), Michailidis, Iakovos (author), Boutalis, Yiannis (author), Kosmatopoulos, Elias B. (author)Microgrids equipped with small-scale renewable-energy generation systems and energy storage units offer challenging opportunity from a control point of view. In fact, in order to improve resilience and enable islanded mode, micro-grid energy management systems must dynamically manage controllable loads by considering not only matching energy...conference paper 2016
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Baldi, S. (author), Kosmatopoulos, Elias B. (author), Pitsillides, Andreas (author), Lestas, Marios (author), Ioannou, Petros A. (author), Wan, Y. (author)An adaptive decentralized strategy for active queue management of TCP flows over communication networks is presented. The proposed strategy solves locally, at each link, an optimal control problem, minimizing a cost composed of residual capacity and buffer queue size. The solution of the optimal control problem exploits an adaptive...conference paper 2016
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Baldi, S. (author), Valmorbida, Giorgio (author), Papachristodoulou, Antonis (author), Kosmatopoulos, Elias B. (author)This work proposes an online policy iteration procedure for the synthesis of sub-optimal control laws for uncertain Linear Time Invariant (LTI) Asymptotically Null-Controllable with Bounded Inputs (ANCBI) systems. The proposed policy iteration method relies on: a policy evaluation step with a piecewise quadratic Lyapunov function in both the...conference paper 2016
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Polevoy, G. (author), de Weerdt, M.M. (author), Jonker, C.M. (author)People often interact repeatedly: with relatives, through file sharing, in politics, etc. Many such interactions are reciprocal: reacting to the actions of the other. In order to facilitate decisions regarding reciprocal interactions, we analyze the development of reciprocation over time. To this end, we propose a model for such interactions...conference paper 2016
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Bladt, P. (author), Van Steenkiste, G. (author), Ramos-Llordén, G. (author), den Dekker, A.J. (author), Sijbers, J. (author)Quantification of the spin-lattice relaxation time, T<sub>1</sub>, of tissues is important for characterization of tissues in clinical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In T<sub>1</sub> mapping, T<sub>1</sub> values are estimated from a set of T<sub>1</sub>-weighted MRI images. Due to the limited spatial resolution of the T<sub>1</sub>...conference paper 2016