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Weng, Haoxin (author)Loneliness, as a social problem, has drawn wide attention of the academic and public. Moreover, loneliness among the elderly is significant. Up to 32% of adults older than age 55 report feeling lonely at any given time. Millions of euro have spent to identify the lonely elderly. With a great interest in social design, the author is intrigued by...master thesis 2019
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Dekker, Lennart (author)Gouda deals with land subsidence and groundwater problems. A solution to these challenges is the application of Drainage-Infiltration-Transport (DIT) sewers, on which research is lacking. This thesis provides provides infiltration and drainage capacity values on DIT sewers and helps to understand the governing processes.master thesis 2019
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Clerx, Miriam (author)Facing the age of digitalisation, inspectorates are changing their way of working using a risk-oriented and data-driven approach. Social Network Analysis (SNA) seems to be promising in detecting fraud and simultaneously contributing to increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of inspection work. SNA emphasises the structural aspects of...master thesis 2019
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Jonker, Hendrik (author)Since the liberalization of the energy markets, the storage of energy is decoupled from the production and sales. In Western-Europe the storage of natural gas becomes more and more important because production fields get depleted and governments force companies to slow down their production because of tremors in the ground. Natural gas needs to...master thesis 2019
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Tamaro, Simone (author)The addition of porous material to the trailing edge of airfoils was studied numerically and experimentally. The purpose of this work is to inspect whether the penalization method can be successfully used to describe flows through porous media. In the numerical study, the penalization method was applied to the incompressible Navier-Stokes...master thesis 2019
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Ding, Min (author)With the increase in the number of radar systems/radio applications, FMCW radars currently face various interference problems which lead to wider noise band, rise in noise floor level and masking of weak targets. This thesis aims to eliminate different types of interference for FMCW radars.<br/>In this thesis, we propose a interference...master thesis 2019
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Li, Wan (author)Electrical motors have been widely used in various fields for hundreds of years. The asynchronous motor is always an interesting topic due to its advantage of the simple structure, robustness, low maintenance cost and long lifetime. In this research, a special structure rotor is used instead of the classical squirrel cage rotor. To understand...master thesis 2019
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Indriana, Ingrid Rosalyn (author)Due to its archipelagic nature, Indonesia enforces to make substantial investments in its maritime sector, especially port infrastructure, in order to promote trade, economic growth, and ease disparity among Indonesia’s island regions. The challenge, of course, is that Indonesia has many ports to invest in and a limited budget; it must...master thesis 2019
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Verhellen, Saranne (author)In order to efficiently accommodate the future, continuously growing air traffic demands at Brussels National Airport (EBBR), as well as to avoid an impending saturation of the terminal airspace, the concept of point merge has been identified as a potential solution. The characteristics of point merge that made it at first glance an interesting...master thesis 2019
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Yeh, Chia-Lun (author)News is the main source of information about events in our neighborhood and around the globe. In an era of digital news, where sources vary in quality and news spreads fast, it is critical to understand what is being consumed by the public. Partisan news is news that favors certain political parties or ideologies. It is undesirable because news...master thesis 2019
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Das, Aurojyoti (author)Biosignals such as electoencephalogram (EEG), electrocorticogram (ECoG), atrial electrogram (AEG) etc. are being recorded from multiple channels simultaneously to improve the spatial resolution of the signals. Conventional multichannel synchronous Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) are used to convert the analog continuous time signals into...master thesis 2019
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Badu-Sampene, Malcolm (author)It is no secret that (asset)managers are currently dealing with a difficult task to maintain and improve the quality of their assets. The main reason for this urgency is the change of use and the end of lifespan of these assets. This is especially the case regarding the inner-city quay walls. These quay walls are usually owned and managed by...master thesis 2019
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Matzorou, Violetta (author)The dietary habits changed drastically since 1980 and the chemical composition of a lot of processed foods was altered to meet new requirements. This nutrition shift along with the industrialisation and the rise of the sedentary lifestyle, led to the spread of the obesity epidemic which still manifests in many countries, including European....master thesis 2019
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Shastry, Aishwarya (author)With the advent of Internet and resulting data boom, Recommender Systems have come to rescue by filtering the information available on the internet by providing us with relevant information. These systems come handy when one wants to listen to songs, watch movies or even buy products on the Internet. Primarily, these recommender systems used...master thesis 2019
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Booms, Elise (author)This research investigated in which ways the material environmental impact of the main load-bearing structure of a high-rise building can be reduced. To determine this material environmental impact, the shadow price for each material and product has been determined by using ten environmental impact categories. One of these categories is global...master thesis 2019
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Mohamed Gomaa Abdulfattah Tolba, Mohamed (author)The use of fiber-reinforced composites in the aerospace industry has increased over the past couple of decades thanks to their high specific properties. Fiber-reinforced composites also enable engineers to tailor the stacking sequence to satisfy the required stiffness or strength requirements. However, locally optimizing the stacking sequence of...master thesis 2019
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Cao, Yufan (author)Semiconductor lifetime and power density are considered to be two important development directions of power converter design in the future. Especially in some high dynamic application, the operation condition is changing frequently causing the temperature swing of semiconductor, and it leads to thermal expansion and contraction which affects the...master thesis 2019
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Andreas Yunus, Andreas (author)A nation’s main port is a crucial component that contributes to the economic development of a country. Therefore, the role of the port becomes more critical nowadays. However, due to the existing hub-and-spoke structure of the European multimodal transportation network, polarisation and regionalisation are visible in the network. The increasing...master thesis 2019
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Reinbergen, Hugo (author)The analysis of lawfully intercepted traffic is a key part of many investigations of criminal activity. This makes it vitally important that the intercepted data is correct and that issues with the configuration of the network or interception solution do not contain errors. A late discovery of a problem in either the network setup or the traffic...master thesis 2019