Researchers of the Services, Cybersecurity and Safety department of the University of Twente have invented an improved reconstruction method for facial recognition based on camera images. This method yields a better score ...
Computer Sciences
Jan 21, 2016
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One hundred primary school pupils will be coming to University of Twente on Monday 11 and Tuesday 12 January to test the creative possibilities of some of our new technologies. During this 'tech test' at the DesignLab, the ...
Social Sciences
Jan 11, 2016
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Nanotechnologists at the University of Twente research institute MESA+ have discovered a new fundamental property of electrical currents in very small metal circuits. They show how electrons can spread out over the circuit ...
Quantum Physics
Jan 6, 2016
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Researchers of the ITC Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation of the University of Twente have developed a unique map of all 250 African bat species on a high-resolution scale (1 km2). There are very few ...
Ecology
Jan 5, 2016
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Since 1 January 2015 municipalities in the Netherlands have been given new tasks in the fields of care, social participation and youth services. In practice, many municipalities are too small to carry out these tasks effectively ...
Social Sciences
Dec 22, 2015
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Plants experience stress as a result of growing under non-optimal conditions. For example, too little water or low temperatures lead to clear responses such as wilting or defoliation. But exposure to milder forms of stress ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 15, 2015
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Twente PhD researcher Emiel Drenth has developed a method to determine the remaining service life of gas and water pipes. His method, which is known as micro hardness indentation, can be used on pipes made of rigid PVC (uPVC). ...
Environment
Dec 15, 2015
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Multi-actor integrated assessment models based on well-being concepts beyond GDP could support policymakers by highlighting the interrelation of climate change mitigation and other important societal problems. That is the ...
Environment
Dec 10, 2015
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When it comes to floods and other crisis situations, the authorities do not always take the right decisions, because they make insufficient use of the technical information currently available. Interactive simulation models ...
Environment
Dec 8, 2015
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Researchers at the University of Twente research institute MESA+ have devised an elegant method for fitting various functional coatings to silicon microwires. The method makes it possible to create relatively easily a wire ...
Materials Science
Dec 8, 2015
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