Fighting Malaria Using Gene Drives: Worthy Tool or Waste of Time?: A Safe-by-Design Assessment for Gene Drive Organisms

Malaria is both an economically and medically burdensome disease taunting people worldwide. Treatments for the disease – transmitted by malarial Aedes and Anopheles mosquitoes infected with Plasmodium – are either temporary or in developmental stages, while rising insecticidal resistance and mosquitoes’ behavioral changes call for a lasting...

The order structure and topology of the space of measurable functions

In probability theory, Lp spaces for p &gt; 0 together with the topology of conver-<br/>gence in probability have been widely applied. However, in that case we restrict<br/>ourselves to only a part of all the measurable functions and to an underlying prob-<br/>ability space. One of the main aims of this thesis is to generalize this concept to<br...

Jerusalem: Dynamic Planning and Decolonization: Transportation Infrastructure in Conflictual Territory

In the past two decades, two big processes have changed the urban configuration of Jerusalem: The construction of the West Bank separation barrier, leaving the majority of the Palestinian neighborhoods of the city completely cut out from their hinterland and neighboring Palestinian cities, and the ongoing planning and construction of the light...

Heliport Gorinchem - Designing an Aerial Logistic Network

The Dutch city of Gorinchem has great economic growth opportunities for the future, but is limited by its transport system. It is strategically located at a crossroad of two motorways and two rivers, the Boven-Merwede and the Linge. Gorinchem is home to a number of multinationals, among others Damen Shipyards and Van Oord. This sets the right...

User experience as a method for reducing consumption in domestic buildings

The thesis presents a use of a domestic building's automation system with a serious game embedded in it, as a method to motivate inhabitants to conserve resources.

Power from the people: Implementing microCHP in The Netherlands

Video-derived Observations of Longshore Currents

Longshore currents drive changes of coastal morphology and also embody a potential threat for swimmer safety. This explains the interest of coastal managers and scientists in costefficient techniques to quantify alongshore flow patterns. Traditional in-situ methods like Electro Magnetic (EMF) flow meters are expensive, time-consuming, dangerous...

Gevoeligheidsonderzoek met een numeriek getijmodel voor nauwkeurige reproductie van de waterbeweging in het Haringvliet: Toetsing met metingen uit 1997 bij gewijzigd beheer Haringvlietsluizen

Rijkswaterstaat overweegt enkele sluizen in de Haringvlietdam ook bij hoogwater te openen. De dam is een onderdeel van de Deltawerken die als hoogwaterkeringen zuidwest-Nederland bescherrnen tegen overstromingen. De aanleiding van dit plan vorrnen de effecten van de aanleg van de dam op het ecosysteem in het Haringvliet en in de Voordelta. Door...

Performance Analysis of the Modified Circuit Reservation Multiple Access Protocol with Signalling Traffic aspects

The modified Circuit Reservation Multiple Access (CRMA) protocol is a new wireless communication protocol that has been proposed for the use in a cellular environment. CRMA is a hybrid Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) / Slotted ALOHA protocol. The protocol controls the activity of the Time Division Duplexing (TDD) channel and it is able to...