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Damoni, C. (author), Belletti, B. (author), Lilliu, G. (author)In this paper the behavior of a squat shear wall subjected to monotonic shear loading is investigated. The study fits into the experimental program driven by CEOS.fr on modeling of the behavior of the tested mocks-ups (monotonic and cycling loading-under prevented or free shrinkage). The shear wall has been analyzed with nonlinear finite element...conference paper 2013
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Dambacher, W.M. (author), de Kort, E.H.M. (author), Blom, W.M. (author), Houben, G.F. (author), de Vries, E. (author)Background: Children with cow's milk allergy (CMA) need a cow's milk protein (CMP) free diet to prevent allergic reactions. For this, reliable allergy-information on the label of food products is essential to avoid products containing the allergen. On the other hand, both overzealous labeling and misdiagnosis that result in unnecessary...article 2013
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Lindenburg, P.W. (author), Tempels, F.W.A. (author), Tjaden, U.R. (author), van der Greef, J. (author), Hankemeier, T. (author)Electroextraction (EE) takes place in a two-phase liquid-liquid system, consisting of an aqueous and an organic phase, where an applied electric field causes ions to be extracted from one phase into the other, to be concentrated close after the liquid-liquid interface. The extraction takes place in a wide-bore capillary that is connected to a 2...article 2012
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van der Heiden, M.S. (author), Henken, K.R. (author), Cheng, L.K. (author), van den Bosch, B.G. (author), van den Braber, R. (author), Dankelman, J. (author), van den Dobbelsteen, J.J. (author)Background: The mechanical properties of small minimally invasive instruments are limited and thus must be treated as flexible instruments. Proper functional behavior of these instruments can be significantly enhanced when the instrument is equipped with a shape sensor to track the path of the flexible instrument. MRI compatible instruments, and...conference paper 2012
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Läppchen, T. (author), Vlaming, M.L.H. (author), Custers, E. (author), Lub, J. (author), Sio, C.F. (author), DeGroot, J. (author), Steinbach, O.C. (author)In recent years, [ 18F]gefitinib PET has successfully been employed for a number of applications ranging from oncology to in vivo studies of drug transporter proteins. We here report a reliable, automated procedure for routine synthesis of this radiotracer on an Eckert and Ziegler modular system. The 3-step radiosynthesis followed by preparative...article 2012
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Tutenel, T. (author), Smelik, R.M. (author), Lopes, R. (author), de Kraker, K.J. (author), Bidarra, R. (author)Computer games often take place in extensive virtual worlds, attractive for roaming and exploring. Unfortunately, current virtual cities can strongly hinder this kind of gameplay, since the buildings they feature typically have replicated interiors, or no interiors at all. Procedural content generation is becoming more established, with many...article 2011
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Naus, H.W.L. (author)The Jiles-Atherton effective field theory of ferromagnetic hysteresis is consistently extended to describe the magnetomechanical effect. Whereas Jiles has proposed two such models, one for constant stress and a different one for varying stress, our formalism includes both situations. It is also possible to simultaneously vary applied field and...article 2011
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Toet, A. (author)The predictions of 13 computational bottom-up saliency models and a newly introduced Multiscale Contrast Conspicuity (MCC) metric are compared with human visual conspicuity measurements. The agreement between human visual conspicuity estimates and model saliency predictions is quantified through their rank order correlation. The maximum of the...article 2011
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Liu, J. (author), Hofman, W.J. (author), Tan, Y.H. (author)This chapter highlights the core research methodology, e3-control, that is applied throughout the ITAIDE project for the purpose of control procedure redesign. We present the key concept of the e3-control methodology and its technical guidelines. Based on the output of this chapter, domain experts may carry out step-by-step analysis and redesign...bookPart 2011
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van Wijk, E. (author), van der Greef, J. (author), van Wijk, R. (author)In the present experiment ultra-weak photon emission/ chemiluminescence from isolated neutrophils was recorded. It is associated with the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the "respiratory burst" process which can be activated by PMA (Phorbol 12-Myristate 13-Acetate). Commonly, the reaction is demonstrated utilizing the enhancer...article 2011
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Smelik, R.M. (author), Tutenel, T. (author), Kraker, K.J.de (author), Bidarra, R. (author)With the ever increasing costs of manual content creation for virtual worlds, the potential of creating it automatically becomes too attractive to ignore. However, for most designers, traditional procedural content generation methods are complex and unintuitive to use, hard to control, and generated results are not easily integrated into a...article 2011
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Mioch, T. (author), Mistrzyk, T. (author), Rister, F. (author), TNO Defensie en Veiligheid (author)Currently, the main means of communication between air traffic control and the cockpit is the voice. However, non-auditive datalink communication via the flight management system is increasingly applied for air-ground communication. In this paper, we show that the procedure to handle voice communication with air traffic control is not adequate...conference paper 2010
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Smelik, R.M. (author), Tutenel, T. (author), de Kraker, J.K. (author), Bidarra, R. (author), TNO Defensie en Veiligheid (author)Because of the increasing detail and size of virtual worlds, designers are more and more urged to consider employing procedural methods to alleviate part of their modeling work. However, such methods are often unintuitive to use, difficult to integrate, and provide little user control, making their application far from straightforward. In our...conference paper 2010
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Maljers, D. (author), Stafleu, J. (author), Busschers, F. (author), Gunnink, J.L. (author)The Geological Survey of the Netherlands aims at building a 3D geological property model of the upper 30 meters of the Dutch subsurface. This model, called GeoTOP, provides a basis for answering subsurface related questions on, amongst others, sand and gravel resources. Modelling is carried out per province using a core-database containing...conference paper 2010
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Vos, J. (author), Houben, M.M.J. (author), van der Ploeg, F. (author), Buikema, E. (author)The objective of the present laboratory studies was to enable refinements of the current rating procedure for low frequency sounds. To increase our insight into a relevant spectral issue, groups of adjacent frequency bands around 40, 50, and 63 Hz were presented at various sound level combinations. It was concluded that an energy-based summation...conference paper 2010
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Fleuren, M. (author), Dusseldorp, E. (author), van den Bergh, S. (author), Vlek, H. (author), Wildschut, J. (author), van den Akker, E. (author), Wijkel, D. (author), TNO Kwaliteit van Leven (author)Objective: To determine the effect of the implementation of a shared care guideline for the lumbosacral radicular syndrome (LRS) on unnecessary early referrals and the duration of the total diagnostic procedure. Design: Introduction of shared care guideline in November 2005. Pre-test in 2005 (April to October), a first post-test in 2006 (April...article 2010
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Bakker, G.C.M. (author), van Erk, M.J. (author), Pellis, L. (author), Wopereis, S. (author), Rubingh, C.M. (author), Cnubben, N.H.P. (author), Kooistra, T. (author), van Ommen, B. (author), Hendriks, H.F.J. (author), TNO Kwaliteit van Leven (author)Background: Low-grade chronic inflammation in overweight subjects is thought to play an important role in disease development. Objective: It was hypothesized that specific dietary components are able to reduce low-grade inflammation as well as metabolic and oxidative stress. Design: Dietary products [resveratrol, green tea extract, α-tocopherol,...article 2010
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Vos, J. (author)The annoyance caused by environmental sounds is only in part related to the noise dose. Nonacoustic factors have systematic effects on annoyance also. In the present literature study we explored what nonacoustic factors may be considered as potential tools to reduce the annoyance. Studies designed to test the effect of the nonacoustic factors in...conference paper 2010
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Hamer, H.M. (author), Jonkers, D.M.A.E. (author), Renes, I.B. (author), Vanhoutvin, S.A.L.W. (author), Kodde, A. (author), Troost, F.J. (author), Venema, K. (author), Brummer, R.-J.M. (author), TNO Kwaliteit van Leven (author)INTRODUCTION: The colonic mucus layer plays an important role in the protection of the intestinal epithelium and mainly consists of mucin glycoproteins (primarily MUC2 in the colon) trefoil factor 3 (TFF3) and secretory IgA. Butyrate is a major end product of fermentation of dietary fibres and is associated with beneficial effects on colonic...article 2010
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Bidarra, R. (author), de Kraker, K.J. (author), Smelik, R.M. (author), Tutenel, T. (author)Manual content creation for virtual worlds can no longer satisfy the increasing demand arising from areas as entertainment and serious games, simulations, movies, etc. Furthermore, currently deployed modeling tools basically do not scale up: while they become more and more specialized and complex, they strikingly fail to assist designers in...conference paper 2010