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Pathak, Chinmay (author)Anomaly detection is a task of interest in many domains. Typical way of tackling this problem is using an unsupervised way. Recently, deep neural network based density estimators such as Normalizing flows have seen a huge interest. The ability of these models to do the exact latent-variable inference and exact log-likelihood calculation with...master thesis 2019
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Neeli, Abhishek (author)In today’s fast growing and competitive environment, keeping up with changing trends has become a necessity for firms to beat the competition. A relatively new form of innovation with a growing community of people have stated that Business Model Innovation is essentially the key to successful organizations nowadays. Several companies are failing...master thesis 2019
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Hablé, Jesse (author)Research context<br/><br/>Open government data (OGD) publication and use is an important feature of an open government. However, In Dutch municipalities, the presumed created value from municipal OGD fails to live up to its potential, despite various OGD initiatives. Furthermore, there is a lack of knowledge about how value creating mechanisms...master thesis 2019
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Mittal, Aashna (author)The city of Kolkata in India is undergoing rapid urbanization and expansion. As the city expands and engulfs its neighboring areas, it threatens the sustainability of natural resources in peri-urban areas – spaces that are gradually transitioning from rural to urban areas. One such natural resource, groundwater, forms the lifeline of peri-urban...master thesis 2019
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Gu, Nien-Hua (author)The thesis addresses the implementation challenges of Machine Learning (ML) for merchandisers in the scenario of digitalization of retailing, and proposes a product-service design as the solution. The digitalization of retailing is defined as an on-going process to integrate Internet-connected digital technologies into interfaces between...master thesis 2019
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Rath, Vineet (author)Corrosion on the car underbody can damage critical parts, which poses safety risks. The current corrosion protection methods such as wax, sealers and coatings are not effective enough and an advanced form of corrosion protection is desired. Implementation of smart coatings containing corrosion inhibitors can be an effective solution. These...master thesis 2019
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Kotoudi, Anastasia (author)Today’s project complexity is constantly increasing leading to multidisciplinary project teams. Building a truly integrated team in projects where a partnership is necessary in order to achieve the desired outcome isn’t a one-off process that can occur automatically. It’s a procedure that has to be built up over a certain period of time (mostly...master thesis 2019
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Anwari, Sherzad (author)The oceans, which cover nearly 70% of the earth’s surface, can be considered as an inexhaustible energy source for renewable electricity due to its size and predictability. One way to capture ocean energy is by harnessing the energy produced by waves at sea, by means of devices called wave energy converters (WECs).<br/><br/>Delft University of...master thesis 2019
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van Bergen, Chris (author)Tradable Peak Credits (TPC) is a new instrument to reduce congestion. It is expected to have a higher public support than traditional road pricing. So far, research has mainly been conducted into behavioral effects and effects on the road network of implementing such systems. This study investigates the public support for TPC and how this...master thesis 2019
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Karanth, Pranav (author)Metal anode based batteries, considered the ideal upgrade to Lithium ion batteries in terms of energy density, are currently held back by the non-homogeneous deposition phenomenon that leads to the formation of dendrites that short circuit the cell. The solution to this problem is twofold: while it is important to come up with solutions that...master thesis 2019
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Storm, Rosa (author)Over the past decades, multiple HR constructs have emerged that organizations strived to adopt and integrate into their daily businesses. The most recent development is Employee Experience (EX). EX is essentially a framework for creating engaged employees. Engaged employees have been linked to multiple desirable business outcomes, such as...master thesis 2019
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Broderick, Cathy (author)This project investigates the needs of diabetic and vascular amputees to establish design criteria for a new lower-limb prosthesis liner specifically for diabetes and vascular patients. Initially, a literature review was conducted to investigate liner material properties and outcomes during use, as well as how often diabetic and older amputees...master thesis 2019
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Bascunan Chaparro, Sebastian (author)Monopiles are commonly used as foundations for offshore wind turbine generators (WTGs). Due to the rapid growth of the offshore wind energy sector, there is increasing demand for WTGs of larger capacities which evidently leads to demand for monopiles with larger diameter. An industry standard approach for assessing pile lateral response is the p...master thesis 2019
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Sanders, Nick (author)For the offshore market an increase in renewable projects can be observed. The technological innovations are continuously decreasing the costs of renewable projects. Especially offshore wind is getting more cost effective, and is receiving a lot of attention. However, with the growth of the sector, new challenges arise. Water depths are...master thesis 2019
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Janbroers, Joris (author)Nowadays, growing up is quite different from what it was before. Around the globe the larger part of children engage in inordinate time looking at screens (Bucksch et al., 2016). The smartphone enables children to have more screen time, leading to negative consequences. Nevertheless, children still prefer this type of entertainment due to the...master thesis 2019
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Rueda Arjona, Antonio (author)Embedded control systems are processor-based systems that need to run an application for an extended amount of time, such as months or years. Typically, they implement a realtime function to control a system. Embedded systems are implemented using hardware and software to perform an specific task. This is why they can be optimized to reduce its...master thesis 2019
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Janzen, Pieternel (author)Liner shipping companies engage in strategic cooperation to deal with the market’s overcapacity, capital intensiveness and volatile freight rates. However, these partnerships do not reach their full potential and have lowered the level of service in the industry. To identify how carriers would be able to realise further synergies, this study has...master thesis 2019
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Jones, Cyrille (author)The structural evolution, phases and amount of deformation, and the strain distribution of the sedimentary cover of a geologically complex area of 270 km2 in the French subalpine chains (Southeast of France; in the surroundings of the village La Motte-Chalancon) were deduced from the modelling of two folded and faulted competent layers ...master thesis 2019
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Musters, Ferry (author)The recent development of commercial phased array antennas for 5G at mm-wave frequencies (20 GHz to 60 GHz) introduces new challenges for radiation pattern characterization. Since these systems aim to employ active beamforming to steer the datastream to specific users, a single base station should be capable of deploying multiple beams...master thesis 2019
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Wang, Yizhou (author)In the past few years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely utilized and shown state-of-the-art performances on computer vision tasks. However, CNN based approaches usually require a large amount of storage, run-time memory, as well as computation power in both training and inference time, which are usually used on GPU based...master thesis 2019