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Ayaydin, Suzan (author)Food safety inspections play an important role in the safety of consumers of food products. Even though food safety regulations have disciplinary power over food-related businesses, inspections are needed to ensure that regulations are followed for the well-being of consumers. Traditionally inspections did not have a goal of targeting higher...master thesis 2023
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Prakash, Sawan (author)Emotions and moral values have gained attention in recent researches in philosophy and ethics of engineering. This is due to its usefulness in assessing the technological risks imposed towards its user or society. Furthermore, moral emotions assist in reflection of moral values and research stress upon involving emotions in design practices....master thesis 2020
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Develi, Ali (author)Building failure incidents are occurring within the Netherlands and these incidents can be a valuable source of technical data regarding improvements in structural safety. This research has attempted to utilize this information gained to develop a tool to aid the building construction sector in identifying hazards during building construction...master thesis 2020
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Mokhov, Peter (author)In this thesis we statistically analyze violent conflicts. The main focus lies on the risk of occurrence of large wars. We collected data that provides the total amount of casualties, for every known war, in the time span 768CE - 2019. The distribution of the data suggests a presence of a long right tail. We have used different graphical tools...bachelor thesis 2019
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Verschuur, Jasper (author)Sandy beaches comprise large parts of the world's shorelines and act as a natural buffer for many exposed people and assets that are concentrated in the coastal zone. Many coastal communities are vulnerable to the impact of sea-level rise (SLR) that can amplify the episodic erosion from storms and drive structural erosion. The way communities...master thesis 2018
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Westhoff, Arlette (author)The investment characteristics of wind parks have been analysed, the different risks to which a wind park investor requires compensation, the different models that can translate risk into returns, and finally the returns have been calculated with this model for different wind parks.master thesis 2018
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Flierman, M.W.T. (author)River systems are vastly changing environments, not only due to natural process, but also human intervention plays an important role. With the many different river functions at play, large amounts of maintenance budgets are associated with river management. For decision makers it is important to know expected costs or losses and the spread...master thesis 2017
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Stenfert, J.G. (author), Rubaij Bouman, R.M. (author), Tutein Nolthenius, R.C. (author), Joosten, S. (author)Despite several researches about the hydrological and hydrodynamic system of the Guayas region, elementary insight of the total system was lacking. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to create a general overview regarding floods. Besides, basic solutions are proposed for preparing Guayaquil against floods which might be present in the...student report 2017
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Bhatt, K. (author)To an observer, it might appear that anchor handling is a fairly simple straightforward and profit making business. However, with deep-water drilling and fluctuations in price of oil, the operation is becoming riskier than ever before. Besides, operational and environmental constraints, the crew also has to deal with pressures of time and money....master thesis 2015
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Tempel, K.S. (author)Large investments in renewable energy lead to new possibilities for industries. Such technologically and economically sound projects can be limited by non-optimal ownership settings. The Risk Ownership Assessment(ROA) is developed to integrate the ownership aspect with the technical system. ROA compares different ownership configurations with...master thesis 2015
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Bhatt, K. (author)Report written for the course of Project Safety Science under the supervision of Dr.ir. F. Koornneef.student report 2015
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Ferrier, E. (author)The liberalization of the energy sector transformed this sector into a dynamic and competitive environment. To cope with this transformation and to build competitive advantage, energy companies expand their businesses through downstream customer interfacing businesses in energy-related markts. These new markets are not the core business of...master thesis 2013
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Rupke, T. (author)Civil structures, especially hydraulic structures, are subject to influences from the environment around the structure. As a result of these influences the structure degrades, which lowers the strength of the structure. Several actions are available to lower the speed of degradation and/or restore the structure to a certain condition. Within the...master thesis 2013
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Mahaffey, Y.G. (author)Models assets as gambles. Develops objective measure for riskiness. Provides full mathematical proofsbachelor thesis 2012
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Duijndam, L.R. (author)The main research objective of this study is to gain more insight into the uncertainties that are occurring in maintenance projects. A lot of research has already been performed on the subject of budget overruns in large scale new development infrastructure projects, however, information on budget overruns in maintenance projects is lacking....master thesis 2012
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Hoss, F. (author)Multilayered Safety (MLS) is seen as the next step in Dutch flood risk management. In the last decades the idea that only flood defenses can prevent floods gave way to the realization prevention can also be implemented along other lines, e.g. giving the rivers more space. The next thought was that next to preventing floods it should be possible...master thesis 2010
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Fory?, M.B. (author)This thesis concerns grey cast iron gas pipelines in Amsterdam managed by the regional gas and electricity grid operator Liander. Due to brittle nature and ageing process of grey cast iron, probability of explosion in this type of pipelines seems to be increasing. A model for the gas explosion probability is proposed. Multiple factors are taken...master thesis 2010
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Van Leeuwen, G.G. (author)The conclusions of this research are based on a combination of the literature on the subject of business cases and projects and of 50 responses (of which 26 complete), primarily by members of two professional organisations, to a questionnaire that was created for this research. The respondents have indicated to blame many budget and time...master thesis 2009
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Van de Wiel, G.F. (author)A probabilistic model for calculating oil spill volume in sea tanker accidents is presented. Accidents are specified as either collisions or groundings. Based on existing accident data, damage size is estimated given an accident. Using damage size a probability of rupture is calculated. Finally, outflow volume is determined.master thesis 2008
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Vrolijk, J.W. (author)Floods are a continuous threat to a large part of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The country has suffered from several flood disasters in the past. A great part of the total length of dykes in Vietnam is located in the north of the country, in the densely populated Red River Delta. Flood protection works in the Red River Delta provide safety...master thesis 2002