Merit Vrije Universiteit Brussel
MERIT consists of 3 main phase
The purpose of a switch, relay or circuit breaker is to open and close an electrical circuit as desired by the user and sometimes in order to safeguard the application from failures like overload and short circuit. The circuit breaker is an essential part of the protection system of every electrical network, from common household to automotive and industrial networks. The electrical contact material is an indispensable ...
In the agro-food industry, there is an increasing demand for non-destructive quality inspection tools that allow to inspect every individual product. This is the result of an increased focus on food safety and quality over the past decades. Several fast, non-destructive and contactless technologies have been studied for food quality inspection, many of them based on the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with the food product. ...
Increased consumer awareness of potential health benefits of consumption of fruits and vegetables resulted in growing demand for fresh or minimally processed juices. In this context, food sector stakeholders are constantly looking into possible alternatives for thermal processing, aiming to better maintain food quality attributes while at the same time delivering the required level of safety. Among many alternative technologies, two ...
Since May 2010, the directive 2010/31/EU of the European Parliament compels its Member States to drastically decrease the energy use of buildings, to increase their energy efficiency and to increase the relative amount of renewable energy they use. One of the technologies recommended by the directive is the heat pump which efficiently uses electricity to extract thermal energy from a heat or cold source. In this work, buildings equipped with ...
Even though the heyday of postmodernism is behind us, its legacy still persists in contemporary American fiction. This dissertation discusses the complex relationship between the politics and poetics of postmodernism and Michael Chabon's novels. Every chapter consists of a theoretical framework on an aspect of postmodern literature and a reading of one of Chabon's novels in the light of that theoretical framework.
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Patrick McGrath (1950) was born and raised in England. As a child, he lived on the grounds of Broadmoor Hospital, an institution for the criminally insane, as the son of the residing Medical Superintendent. He now lives mainly in New York.
Most literary criticism hails McGrath as a Gothic – or even a New Gothic – writer and enumerates a whole list of intertextual links to Gothic texts. McGrath’s own attitude towards that stamp has ...