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Hammudoğlu, Joren (author)Recommender systems are essential for filtering immense amounts of available digital content. As these quantities keep increasing, the impact of recommendations does so as well. In this work, we address negative impacts current state-of-the-art recommenders have. For the algorithmic filtering of items that are recommended to users, collaborative...master thesis 2019
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van Leeuwen, Lars (author)With the advent of high-bandwidth non-volatile storage devices, the classical assumption that database analytics applications are bottlenecked by CPUs having to wait for slow I/O devices is being flipped around. Instead, CPUs are no longer able to decompress and deserialize the data stored in storage-focused file formats fast enough to keep up...master thesis 2019
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Soni, Gaurav (author)This thesis report helps to identify which business strategies can make product-service systems a feasible business model for cradle-to-cradle certified products. Cradle-to-cradle is a product certification that highlights the material re-utilization and material health of any products. Product-service systems are the business models that...master thesis 2019
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Gross, Shannon (author)Policymakers who work in the public health sector may rely on the help of quantitative models to support their choice of control strategy against a particular infectious disease. While policymakers have a large number of decision support models to choose from, hardly any of these tools are used to design an intervention strategy that can work...master thesis 2019
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Floriana Ayumurti Kukuh, Ayu (author)In drinking water production, natural organic matter (NOM) is sometimes removed using ion exchange (IEX) resin. This treatment method has a limitation based on the exchanging capacity on the resin. Therefore, the resin needs to be regenerated when it is saturated with adsorbed NOM which leads to the production of brine. In general, NaCl is used...master thesis 2019
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Bassem Tarek Abdelraheem Elsayed Safieldeen, Bassem (author)We present a powerful approach for learning about uncomputability and undecidability in informationtheory. Our approach is to use automata from automata theory that have undecidable properties toconstruct channels for which an information-theoretic quantity is uncomputable or undecidable. Wedemonstrate this approach by showing that, for channels...master thesis 2019
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Prabhudesai, Sukanya (author)Global energy demand is on the rise. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), in 2018, the building sector alone constituted 28 % of all energy-related CO2 emissions. In an effort to reduce the carbon footprint of the building sector, the European Union has decreed that every new building from 2021 must be a nearly zero energy...master thesis 2019
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Kras, Etienne (author)Today's coastal zones are densely inhabited as the majority of the world's population lives in these attractive areas. The shorelines in coastal zones are shaped by complex spatial and temporal variable interactions between natural forcings like changes in mean sea-level, tides, wave and wind conditions, and storm surges. Besides, natural...master thesis 2019
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YASAKU, Toshiya (author)The conventional evacuation modelling assumes that that family members are to be together in the face of tsunamis and evacuate as a household or each person evacuate individually. This assumption, however, can cause an inaccurate prediction when taking family gathering behaviour into account, which was reported to have occurred during the 2011...master thesis 2019
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Chrysovergis, Vyron (author)In 2008, the crash of the housing market bubble lead not only to the collapse of the U.S financial system, but also to a Global Financial Crisis. The Eurozone was hurt, and the impact was not uniform. The “sick periphery”, and in particular Greece, still suffer from the consequences of this crisis. After three adjustment programmes and €293...master thesis 2019
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Faber, Roel (author)Societal and political attention to the effects of climate change and possible mitigation and adaptationpolicies has increased sharply in the last decades, resulting partly from increasing awareness about therole of humanity and partly from the ever more noticeable changes in our world caused by climatechange. This societal interest has...master thesis 2019
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Cancrinus, Nick (author)For radar applications, MIMO is often used. The problem is that the amount of available transmit- and receive channels is limited. If each channel is connected to a single antenna element, the effective aperture is small, and therefore the beamwidth is large and the angular resolution is limited. In this thesis, a novel scheme is proposed that...master thesis 2019
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van Schouwenburg, Sietse (author)Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) algorithms provide accurate localization for autonomous vehicles and provide essential information for the path planning module. However, SLAM algorithms as- sume a static environment in order to estimate a location. This assumption influences the pose estimation in dynamic urban environments. The...master thesis 2019
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Johnston, Julian (author)This report has the main aim of comparing the Mixed Finite Element Method to the standard Finite Element Method. The other aim is to let the reader understand what these methods entail. The latter is done by first journeying through the theory behind the FEM. It is first explored in one dimension to keep the setting simple. Next, the Mixed FEM...bachelor thesis 2019
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Michielsen, Frans (author)In dit verslag behandelen we de Extrapolatie Stelling van Yano: een stelling die voor operators van de vorm T : f(x) -> T(f)(x) in bepaalde omstandigheden een afschatting geeft van de absolute integraal over T(f)(x) in termen van f(x) zelf. We zullen zien dat deze afschatting, en meer afschattingen van soortgelijke vorm, onder de juiste...bachelor thesis 2019
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Hebbink, Thomas (author)In recent years, Dutch wage growth has failed to keep up with productivity growth which has resulted in a productivity-wage gap. This suggests that workers have not benefitted proportionately from their increased productivity. This thesis investigates how productivity and wage have developed in the Netherlands during the past 50 years.master thesis 2019
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Pauli, Philippe (author)Subsea pipelines are critical for oil and gas production and transport, more than 100.000kmof subsea pipelines have been laid. These pipelines are laid by specially designed ships which can lay these pipelines at great depth and a high speed. However, designing the supply chain to deliver joints (pipe pieces) to these pipe lay vessels can be...master thesis 2019
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Amanda Castolina Lahiraja, Amanda (author)Developing renewable energy sources entails new challenges which have not been faced previously by the traditional grid. One of the issues is the variability of renewable resources due to their characteristics of weather. The intermittent nature produces uncertainty in generation output, especially in solar and wind power generation. As...master thesis 2019
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Limon De Jesus, Gianluca (author)The Internet of Things (IoT) will soon impact the lives of thousands of people as numerous IoT devices are emerging in the consumer market. Consumers goods consist of products designed for the consumption of final consumers. Even though IoT applications are expected to improve people's lives, security is often lacking in current IoT devices....master thesis 2019
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van Sambeek, Boudewijn (author)The European Union (EU) landfilled and incinerated 600 million tons of waste in 2013, which could have been recycled and returned as raw material to the economy. Resource efficiency can regain this value and bring economic, environmental and social benefits. The EU has therefore adapted the Circular Economy Package with targets to stimulate the...master thesis 2019