Rotor morphing has been investigated in the past for improvement of rotor performance, either for reduction of rotor power demand or for vibratory load alleviation. The present study investigates the application of camber morphing for improvement of rotor performance in hover and vertical flight conditions, …

This chapter critically examines how the UN builds resilience in the Sahel region. After providing an overview of the UN approach to the region, the analysis focuses on the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali (MINUSMA), showing that the mission focuses primarily on providing security rather than enhancing …

A strong process view on business networks takes ‘becoming’ as a starting point for understanding business networks and innovation. This view tends to leave the role of strategic content implicit and underdeveloped. Yet, embracing content from a process angle is important to obtain insight in the role …

This study addresses the theme of airpower in irregular warfare, more specifically information age airpower in modern irregular conflict. It uses the scase study of airpower application in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2016. Its central research quastion is: what was the role of airpower during the conflict, …

Dit proefschrift gaat over militaire educatie, over de ambitie van militaire academies met betrekking tot vorming en over de relatie tussen vorming en de militaire praktijk. In het bijzonder heeft dit proefschrift betrekking op de opleiding van infanterie officieren aan de Nederlandse Defensie Academie …

Het humanitaire oorlogsrecht heeft zich gedurende vele jaren ontwikkeld tot het systeem van gecodificeerde en gewoonterechtelijke regels zoals we dat nu kennen. Het heeft geresulteerd in een balans tussen de twee voornaamste grondbeginselen van het humanitair oorlogsrecht: militaire noodzaak en humaniteit …

"Samenvattend laat het onderzoek zien dat operationele leden van de Nederlandse krijgsmacht, die opereren in nationale en Europese crisisbeheersing, actief organisatiepolitiek bedrijven met hun leidinggevenden om lokaal relevant beleid te bewerkstelligen, wat uiteindelijk civiel-militaire samenwerking …

Fibre Bragg grating sensors have gained a lot of attention in damage detection and strain measurement applications in the past few decades. These applications include matrix crack detection and delamination tip monitoring in composite structures, crack detection in concrete and civil engineering structures …

Factor analysis is a popular tool in multivariate statistics, applied in several areas of study such as psychology, economics, chemistry and signal processing. Given a set of observed random variables, factor analysis aims at explaining and analyzing the correlation between these random variables. This …

Dynamic time warping (DTW) is a distance measure to compare time series that exhibit similar patterns. In this paper, we will show how the warping path of the DTW algorithm can be interpreted, and a framework is proposed to extend the DTW algorithm. Using this framework, we will show how the dynamic …