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...

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...