Bookreviews of Anders Ericsson & Robert Pool. Peak: How All of Us Can Achieve Extraordinary Things and of Cal Newport. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World. Human beings are unique among all living organisms in that their primary adaptive specialization does not require some …

Een uitdaging binnen radiotherapie van longtumoren is het feit dat deze gedurende de ademhaling bewegen. De mate van tumorbeweging heeft invloed op de grootte van het Planning Target Volume (PTV) en op de dosis in omliggende organs at risk (OARs). Een mogelijke oplossing voor het beperken van beweging …

Bankrupting Nature: Denying our Planetary Boundaries by Andres Wijkman and Johan Rockström emerges from the original report of The Club of Rome’s The Limits to Growth authored by Meadows and colleagues in 1972. This book demonstrates that an economy built on the …

After the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia, a flourishing cultural scene was established in Croatia’s capital Zagreb. The scene calls itself: independent culture. In this book, Sepp Eckenhaussen explores the history of Zagreb’s independent culture through three questions: How were independent cultures …

Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents (NADES) represent a green chemistry alternative to utilization of common hazardous organic solvents. They were introduced by Abbott et al. [1], and were found to have a wide range of compositions and favorable properties. NADES are typically obtained by mixing hydrogen-bond …

Low heart rate variability (HRV) is related to health problems that are known reasons for sick-leave or early retirement. A 1-minute-protocol could allow large scale HRV measurement for screening of health problems and, potentially, sustained employability. Our objectives were to explore the association …

Nowadays “facts” and thus “truth” seems inescapable: there 's hardly any room for imagination, let alone for myths. However, we must not confuse facts with truth. Newton, for example, would never have come to his deep knowledge if he had not looked past the facts. There are never enough facts, if you …

Panel discussion on big data, algorithmic profiling, filter bubbles and political populism with Florian Cramer, Daniel Irrgang, Matteo Pasquinelli, Vesselin Popov, Peter Weibel and Siegried Zielinski. In: The political economy of data: on psychometrics, deep learning and net populism. Daniel Irrgang, …

Er wordt de laatste jaren steeds vaker gesproken over predictive maintenance, het voorspellen van onderhoud aan apparatuur waarbij die voorspelling is gebaseerd op de staat van dat apparaat. Er wordt continu gemeten en pas ingegrepen als de metingen aangeven dat het fout gaat. Om deze metingen te kunnen …

Het verbeteren van de inzetbaarheid van de Texas Instruments CC 1350 MCU chipset (TICC17) voor Phact. Het operating systeem van deze chipset mist bepaalde functionaliteiten. Deze functionaliteiten zijn het mogelijk maken van deep sleep en het maken van een mesh netwerk. Dit project gaat over een softwarelaag …