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Aljuffri, A.A.M. (author)The security of electronic devices holds the greatest importance in the modern digital era, with one of the emerging challenges being the widespread occurrence of hardware attacks. The aforementioned attacks present a substantial risk to hardware devices, and it is of utmost importance to comprehend the potential detrimental effects they may...doctoral thesis 2024
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Hompes, Jouke (author)Flexible robotics offers promising solutions for navigating complex environments, and this study contributes to its advancement through innovative methodologies optimizing both flexible robotic arm kinematics and a novel flexible actuator. The first methodology focuses on optimizing kinematics using quadratic programming, enabling the...master thesis 2024
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Wintermans, Marten (author)To align with the objective of the European Green Deal [46] policy of achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the construction sector must transition to a circular built environment. Most of the waste in the Netherlands is related to construction and demolition waste, with the industry accounting for approximately 35% of CO<sub>2<...master thesis 2024
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Malladi, Avyadhish (author)This thesis project focuses on the evaluation of the Extended Finite Element Model (XFEM) for modelling skin-stringer separation in thermoplastic composite stiffened panels. The study uses test results from a reference study in the literature on a PEKK-FC carbon composite panel with three stringers joined to the skin using a short-fibre...master thesis 2024
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Kuhn, Emanuel (author)Existing content-based image retrieval models work well for natural photos, but not for images of architectural floor plans. <br/>Previous work on floor plan retrieval has focused on graph-based methods, rather than image-based floor plans.<br/>Training a CNN-based representation learning framework on segmented floor plan images with standard...master thesis 2024
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Zutt, Kyle (author)To address the increasing housing demand in Europe and simultaneously tackle the challenge of creating a more sustainable construction industry, timber modular buildings present an innovative solution. However, before multi-storey modular buildings become a widespread practice, various engineering challenges need to be addressed. Ensuring...master thesis 2024
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Lentner, Mateusz (author)Hydrogen is one of aviation's most promising fuel alternatives in the coming years. However, to store it, a large and light vessel is needed. <br/><br/>The solution to this problem can be the carbon fibre fuel tank. Composite structures provide significant weight savings, which is crucial in this application. However, despite its superior...master thesis 2024
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Verhagen, Alexandra (author)Accurate capacity planning is essential to ensure uninterrupted services and network stability through peak hours for the transport core network of KPN. This involves a trade-off between minimizing the risks of capacity shortages and costs of capacity expansions. High network loads are occurring more frequently and their magnitude is increasing....master thesis 2024
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Jongejan, Jasper (author)Governments are looking more and more to invest in renewable energy sources due to the energy transition that is currently taking place. One of the many renewable energy sources is wind energy which is increasingly positioned at sea. Wind turbines in deep parts of the ocean can be placed on floating structures which are often moored to the sea...master thesis 2024
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Schrijver, Jelle (author)During a solar eclipse, sunlight incident on the Earth is reduced due to the (partial) shadow of the Moon. Atmospheric trace gas concentrations which are influenced by the amount of available sunlight, such as nitrogen dioxide (NO<sub>2</sub>), may be affected due to the disrupted photolysis processes. Large-scale observations of the increased...master thesis 2024
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Ensink, S.W.H. (author)About 70 prestressed concrete T-beam bridges, constructed in the Netherlands between 1953–1977, are still in use today with many located in the main highway network. This type of bridge consists of prefabricated and prestressed T-shaped beams, with an integrated deck slab, cross-beams and transverse prestressing. Even if these bridges are well...doctoral thesis 2024
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Alwani, Neil (author)This study investigates the application of generative models for synthetic data generation in pathway optimization experiments within the field of metabolic engineering. Conditional Variational Autoencoders (CVAEs) use neural networks and latent variable distributions to generate new, plausible data samples. We adapt this model by conditioning...bachelor thesis 2024
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Schaap, Gert-Jan (author)Although existing work demonstrates that the usage of Scratch strengthens programming skills, little is known about the effect of children encouraging or criticizing each other when programming on the development of their programming skills. To address this gap, we conducted a data analysis to reveal the correlation (or lack thereof) between the...bachelor thesis 2024
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Kiste, Amund (author)Solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) in engineering such as Navier-Stokes is incredibly computationally expensive and complex. Without analytical solutions, numerical solutions can take ages to simulate at great expense. In order to reduce this cost, neural networks may be used to compute approximations of the solution for use during...bachelor thesis 2024
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van der Schoot, Mathijs (author)The Maven ecosystem, with an emphasis on Maven Central, contains a plethora of toy-projects. This paper addresses this problem by formulating a core containing the pillars of the Maven ecosystem, such that it can be exploited for research concerning li- brary quality. The construction of said core is done by analyzing the availability, relevance...bachelor thesis 2024
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Lacombe, Pablo (author)This paper presents a comprehensive exploration of a novel method combining Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Neural Networks (NN) to efficiently solve Partial Differential Equations (PDEs), a fundamental challenge in modeling a wide range of real-world phenomena. Our research extends the work of Bhattacharya et al. by focusing on PCA for...bachelor thesis 2024
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Verlooy, Bas (author)The Alexandria3K library, a versatile Python-based tool, has been expanded to include the integra- tion of the PubMed dataset, enriching its capabil- ities in the analysis of scientific papers. Origi- nally supporting major datasets like Crossref and US patents, and smaller yet significant datasets like ORCID. The addition of PubMed enables in...bachelor thesis 2024
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Reimann, Jesse (author)It was first shown by D. Potapov and F. Sukochev in 2009 that Lipschitz functions are also operator-Lipschitz on Schatten class operators S<sup>p</sup>, 1<p<∞, which is related to a conjecture by M. Krein. Their proof combined Schur multiplication, a generalisation of component-wise matrix multiplication, with the so-called first order...master thesis 2024
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Rębacz, Mateusz (author)Open Source developers typically use Git repositories to transparently store the source code of projects and contribute to the code of others. There are millions of repositories actively hosted on platforms such as GitHub. This presents an opportunity for sharing knowledge between related projects – the so-called digital siblings. Finding...bachelor thesis 2024
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Dujmović, Grga (author)The increasing presence of Machine Learning in all fields of study requires an improvement in how it is taught. Previous research on this topic examined how to teach ML concepts and highlighted the importance of using technology and leveraging relevant pedagogical content knowledge. It did not compare the impact of previous programming knowledge...bachelor thesis 2024