Challenging gender stereotypes: The application of attribution theory for boys and girls when performing a strategic design task

There seems to be a shift in gender stereotypes in general. Concerning school subjects, there are also gender role stereotypes for boys and girls. Boys seem to be more interested in mathematics and natural sciences whereas girls seem to be more motivated for language, arts and writing (Jacobs, 2002). According to the attribution theory (Heider,...

Ecosystem-based port design: An approach for sustainable port development

The world population is growing. Together with the population, the need for resources is growing, as is the need for the transportation of these resources. A significant part is carried out through marine transport, directly relating to the increasing need for port development. All over the world, a shift increasingly occurs towards applying...

Improving Oasis Beach: Creating a sustainable and attractive beach around hotel Oasis in Varadero Cuba

In the North of Cuba, the Oasis beach area is situated. The beach suffers from structural erosion and earlier measures to deal with this have not succeeded. In this project, a solution is offered to reach two goals: foremost, a beach improvement to the Oasis beach sector and second, a halt to the structural erosion in the sector in order to...

Fieldwork coastal engineering: Artificial islands Asparuhovo, Bulgaria

Sirius Beach and Azalea Beach are beaches situated north of Varna in Bulgaria. The beaches have names of hotels situated at the beach. The hotel owners describe large scale erosion at the beaches over the years. Throughout the years groups of students from Delft have measured the waterline (by GPS) and the cross sections. The beaches are...

Validating a short term financial risk model

This thesis project considers validation methods for an existing solvency model for pension funds. The solvency model produces forecasts about the development of financial markets, fund investments, liabilities and, most important, the solvency of the fund. Since the model is a stochastic model, statistical inference is used to compare model...

Risk assessment of flood protection systems in the Red River Delta of Vietnam: Case study: risk assessment of the flood protection system of Gia Lam district

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...

Onderzoek naar digitaal laagdoorlatende filters met zo min mogelijk coëfficiënten

Dit onderzoek naar digitaal laagdoorlatende filters is uitgevoerd met behulp van een computersimulatie en door een hardware experiment van een gesimuleerd filter.