One of the most important challenges to be addressed when establishing an integrated smart health environment is the availability of shareable health data and knowledge which standardize the interoperability of components within the environment. Health ontologies are commonly utilized to enable interoperability between applications in such environment. However, the dynamic nature of health know...

Analyzing chemical datasets is a challenging task for scientific researchers in the field of chemoinformatics. It is important, yet difficult to understand the relationship between the structure of chemical compounds, their physico-chemical properties, and biological or toxic effects. To that respect, visualization tools can help to better comprehend the underlying correlations. Our recently de...

Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) and Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) are the standards for lightwave transmission systems, which can accommodate various existing signal types via Tributary Units (TUs) or Virtual Tributaries (VTs). In the SDH standards, Tributary Unit-11 (TU-11) is used to transport the DS1 signal with payload pointer and path overheads. In this paper, asynchronous floati...

Preface This thesis describes the work I have done at Mapper Lithography B.V. in Delft, as a final project for my masters Precision and Microsystems Engineering at Delft University of Technology, faculty 3mE. This project is part of the process of designing a high-precision linear positioning stage for a wafer scanner using electron beam lithography. The first part of my work is focused on the ...

RNA interference (RNAi), mediated by the introduction of a specific double-stranded RNA, is a powerful method to investigate gene function. It is widely used in the Caenorhabditis elegans research community. An expanding number of laboratories conduct genome-wide RNAi screens, using standard libraries of bacterial clones each designed to produce a specific double-stranded RNA. Proper interpreta...

In many distributed computing environments, collections of applications need to be processed using a set of heterogeneous computing (HC) resources to maximize some performance goal. An important research problem in these environments is how to assign resources to applications (matching) and order the execution of the applications (scheduling) so as to maximize some performance criterion without...