A Recommender System for a Legal Search Engine

Bluetick offers a juridical research platform that enables lawyers to search for cases and jurisprudence efficiently. Most Dutch legal alternatives are still old-fashioned search engines. Bluetick wants to move towards a zero-search-based approach where the system learns about the user's preference and provides them with recommendations. For the...

Improved modeling of propeller-wing interactions with a lifting-line approach: Investigation of a suitable correction method to account for the finite slipstream height

Propellers have a high propulsive efficiency and can help in the reduction of fuel consumption of aircraft. For propellers which are mounted in front of the wing, the interaction of the slipstream with the lifting surfaces can alter the lift distribution significantly. In the use of modern optimization tools, fast and accurate analysis of the...

Towards Resilient Urban Stormwater Management in a Tsunami Reconstruction: A Scenario Discovery Study on Ötsuchi Town, Japan

In the face of climate change, urban stormwater management practices are subject to an uncertain context. More frequent and extreme rainfall events are expected in many urban areas. The extent how climate change will affect weather patterns is however uncertain. This challenges contemporary stormwater management practices. A post-disaster...

Water productivity assessment of rice paddies in Indonesia

IHE-Delft in cooperation with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) conducts a pilot project on assessing Crop Water Productivity in Asia, aiming to contribute to sustainable development in Asia’s irrigation sector, and create more value from scarce water resources. Indonesia is one of the 6 pilot countries where advanced technologies to measure...

Analyzing web applications: An empirical study

Due to the increased usage of JavaScript in web applications and the speed at which web technologies and browsers are evolving, web applications are be- coming ever more complex. Our hypothesis is that these applications contain severe errors, take unnecessary performance penalties, and violate accessibility standards. This study analyzes such...

Inversion strength and low cloud amount: A sensitivity study on stratocumulus clouds in DALES

Modelling of a data broadcasting system using a full television channel with teletext data format

Considering the growing interest in data broadcasting, a full television channel may be used for these services. In this report such a system is described as an extension of the current teletext system. The different types of data that can be transmitted are distinguished and grouped, after which a model is set up for calculating the performance...