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Vleugels, Jef (author)In the Netherlands, the Delta Programme aspires to adjust spatial planning climate-proof and water-resilient, in order to be prepared for extreme weather in 2050. To achieve this ambition, municipalities, provinces, regional water authorities and central governments conduct stress tests to map out the vulnerabilities in their areas of authority...master thesis 2019
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Verheul, Stefan (author)Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) are extremely sensitive radiation detectors based on superconducting resonators that can be combined in large arrays on a single readout line within a limited frequency bandwidth. This makes MKIDs ideal detectors for the ultimate far-infrared observatory: a future space-based actively cooled...master thesis 2019
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van Amerongen, Michiel (author)This paper presents the development of a simulation model for airline cockpit crew rostering. The developed simulation model supports airlines in performing comparative analyses of different crew rostering scenarios. The model was developed in collaboration with a major European airline, leveraging actual historical pairing, crew and roster data...master thesis 2019
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Evers, Willem (author)The aim of this thesis is to increase retention for Picnic by creating a habit-forming store. Currently, conversion rates are suboptimal. In areas where Picnic is active roughly half of all households downloads the app and registers. However, the conversion of this group to active customers is sub-optimal, meaning that not...master thesis 2019
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Flipsen, Maartje (author)To address complex societal issues, cross-sector partnerships are needed that specifically aim to create value to address such challenges. Data collaboratives are initiatives that encourage and promote such partnerships, by the collection, sharing, or processing of data. Data collaboratives are faced with barriers that complicate collaboration...master thesis 2019
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Diab Montero, Hamed (author)The study of Gravitational Waves (GWs) opened a new window of possibilities to improve our understanding of the Universe. GWs provide suitable astronomical messengers for studying events that were not possible before through electromagnetic radiation, or in other cases complementing their observations. Ground-based interferometers like LIGO have...master thesis 2019
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Eppenga, Eric (author)The multi-pole PML (MPML) is tested on models that simulate seismic waves traveling through the subsurface. Using a recursive integration technique a stretching function consisting of the sum of multiple stretching functions is implemented in the velocity-stress finite difference time domain wave equations. The MPML is implemented in both the...master thesis 2019
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Stolz, Tobias (author)The position of installed submarine power cables is often not accurately known for several reasons. The precise knowledge of the cable position is important for the maintenance process and necessitates the need for cable tracking systems. Current systems are in many cases imprecise and have a short sensing distance, limited to a few meters. A...master thesis 2019
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Mohammad Riftadi, Adi (author)Switches that can be (re)programmed through the network programming language P4 are able to completely change – even while in the field – the way they process packets. While powerful, P4 code is inherently static, as it is written and installed to accommodate a particular network requirement. Writing new P4 code each time new requirements arise...master thesis 2019
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van der Heijden, Omar (author)This report is the result of a self-initiated design graduation project that regarded positive design in a strategic design context. The goal of the project was to design and develop a tool or method that integrates positive design knowledge into strategic design processes. To get to the bottom of this, desk research and user research into the...master thesis 2019
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Wang, Ruocha (author)Adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer, aged from 15 to 39 years, are making the transition from childhood to adulthood. When the burden of cancer is added, it becomes part of this extraordinary and challenging time in their growth and development. Cancer affects the psychosexuality of AYAs as well as intimate relationships, which in...master thesis 2019
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Ledzian, Patrick (author)Decentralized control and estimation are both active research areas in the field of systems and control. A new approach to these topics utilizes graph theory to characterize inter-agent communication as a graph that, in this thesis, can have time-varying topology. This approach has been named "network-decentralized" and the use of network...master thesis 2019
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Thomas, Arun (author)UnmannedAerial Vehicles(UAVs) have multi-domain applications and fixed-wing UAVs are a widely used class. There is ongoing research on topics in view to optimize the control and guidance of UAVs. This work explores the design, implementation and Software-in-the-Loop validation of an autopilot using adaptive guidance laws with emphasis on...master thesis 2019
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Lagrand, Jaap (author)Investigations into mechanotransduction in connective tissue extracellular matrix (ECM) have demonstrated that collagen networks show cell-independent mechanosensitive behavior. It has been suggested that mechanical strain could lead to conformational changes in the molecular structure of collagen, thereby influencing the susceptibility to other...master thesis 2019
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Snoodijk, Alain (author)This thesis is the documentation of a design proposal for a 2035 envisioned concept for Volkswagen Escapism mobility that responds to a rapidly changing mobility demand. The rapidly growing population is changing the urban landscape and how we move around in our cities. Technological developments are giving us more control over smart systems and...master thesis 2019
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Verhagen, Mathijs (author)Cancer metastasis, the spread of cancer to distant organs, is the major cause of cancerrelated mortality. Hence, understanding the mechanisms underlying cancer metastasis is crucial to improve clinical interventions. Despite intensive efforts, the driving mechanisms remain ill-understood due to the difficulties posed by studying the different...master thesis 2019
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Roy, Nirmal (author)With the increasing popularity of mobile and voice-assisted, extracting short and precise answer passages to open-domain questions is becoming an increasingly important information retrieval (IR) task. The recently released large-scale corpus for answer passage retrieval—WikiPassageQA—was shown to be challenging for both traditional retrieval...master thesis 2019
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Seerden, Maarten (author)In an environment in which Public Transport plays an ever growing role in urban areas and passenger experience. In-depth knowledge on customer satisfaction is key in improving passenger experience. Crowding has shown to be an important aspect of route and mode choice, but its impact on customer satisfaction has not yet been quantitatively...master thesis 2019
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Jiang, Kun (author)Open-domain question answering (QA) is an important step in Artificial Intelligence and its ultimate goal is to build a QA system that can answer any question posed by humans. The majority of the open-domain QA system is the retrieval-based open-domain QA system, which enables the retrieval component to retrieve relevant documents from a large...master thesis 2019
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van den Hoek, Martijn (author), Houwing, Krijn (author), Vollebregt, Frank (author)Nowadays, entering into a contract with an overseas company still relies on postal services to send a printed contract, which is signed on paper. Lizard Global is developing an online platform for constructing, reviewing and signing digital contracts for one of their clients. In the original system, when a signee signed a contract, his personal...bachelor thesis 2019