The Circular Influencer: A research into the impact of incentives in the circular strategic decision-making processes within project management stakeholders

The increasing significance of the circular economy in the real estate construction industry is driven by evolving environmental, social, political, and economic factors. While there is increasing pressure for a national transition to a circular building economy, the sector continues to confront numerous challenges, risks, and uncertainties. To...

The decline of timber construction practices in North-Holland, The Netherlands

In our contemporary quest to live and build more sustainably, the lessons that one can learn from the understanding of vernacular architecture, as well as the use of (engineered) timber in construction are often praised. Like in many other European countries throughout history, timber once was the most important construction material in the...

The Delta Barrier: A climate robust preliminary design of the Delta21 storm surge barrier

The world is heating up quickly. Since 1901, the temperature in the Netherlands has risen about twice as fast as the global average and the effects of climate change seem clearly noticeable. With sea levels rising and peak river discharges increasing an enormous pressure is mounting on the current Flood Protection Programme in the Netherlands...

The impact of spatial resolution and satellite data type characteristics on Automated Damage Assessment using a Convolutional Neural Network

Satellite data, such as optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar imagery, can provide information about the location and level of destruction caused by natural hazards. This information is essential to optimise the rescue mission logistics by humanitarian aid organisations and save people in need. Currently, many Automatic Damage Assessment (ADA)...

Validating a novel set of driving scenarios and measures for assessing driving skill and style: A high-fidelity driving simulator study

Although the capabilities of automated driving systems (ADS) are growing, the human operator remains in charge of driving the vehicle outside the operational design domain and after requests to intervene. The vehicle sensors required for ADS and new regulation for driver availability monitoring systems stimulate the development of systems that...

Novel Transmission Thermal Model

Measuring the impact of government subsidized hire-purchase facilities by starting biotechnology companies.

Over the last decades, biotechnology has become a very promising industry and is seen as a key area for thriving innovation in the future. In order to realize this potential for their economies, many countries including the Netherlands have made special policies containing governmental subsidies and credits aimed to increase the number of...

Design of a Crypto Core for Securing Intra System-on-Chip Communication

Interconnect centric security in multi core System-on-Chip (SoC) is an area of increasing concern. Monitoring and manipulation of the SoC interconnect yields great potential to bypass higher level security mechanisms. This thesis proposes SoC-TLS: a cryptographic hardware solution aimed to protect intra SoC communication against malicious IP and...

Ontwerp van een hardware-simulator van meerwegfading op de kanalen van een mobiel meerkanaals data-overdrachtsysteem

Onderzocht is op welke wijze het effekt van meerwegfading kan worden gesimuleerd op een achttal smalbandige kanalen van een mobiel dataoverdrachtsysteem. Er is een hardware-simulator ontworpen die het effekt van niet-frequentieselektieve meerwegfading op elk van de kanalen kan simuleren, zoals dat door een mobiel station in de 900 MHz-band wordt...

Een snelschakelende frequentiesynthesizer volgens het phaselock principe

In frequency-hopping communicatiesystemen worden de over te dragen boodschappen gecodeerd als reeksen van verschillende frequenties, die aan de ontvangzijde weer moeten worden gedetekteerd en gedecodeerd. Voor het opwekken van de benodigde, verschillende frequenties wordt vaak gebruik gemaakt van phase lock loop synthesizers. In het systeem...