Modern Medival Monasteries: Two Modern Dutch Monasteries compared to the Benedictine Ideal

In the 19th century the interest in monasteries and monastic life returned, leading to the design of the Abbey of Egmond by architect A.J. Kropholler in 1929 and the design of St. Benedictusberg in Vaals by architect Dom Hans van der Laan.<br/>This research investigates how the architects A.J. Kropholler and Dom Hans van der Laan incorporated...

Evaluating the Use of Frequency Masking on a Hybrid Automatic Speech Recognizer for Transitional Dutch Accent of JASMIN-CGN Corpus

There are many experiments conducted with Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems, but many either focus on specific speaker categories or on a language in general. Therefore, bias could occur in such ASR systems towards different genders, age groups, or dialects. But, to analyze and reduce bias, the models require significant amounts of data...

Collaboration on Safety of Dutch Chemical clusters

This project aims to answer the question of how cross-plant safety can be improved in a general way, including the prevention of domino effects. The main research question is: How do we improve collaboration between companies in a chemical cluster, in so that an overall safety gain is achieved? From the literature review and the interviews a...

Centraal Wonen Delft: Evaluation of an Experimental Dutch Cohousing Project

Alternative forms of dwelling, and collaborative housing models in particular, are again gaining an increasing amount of interest in the architectural discourse. Although not a new topic, there is a noticeable lack of research on how existing cohousing projects, that were established decades ago, have developed in practice. Among other counties...

Dutch and American mental health hospitals in the reconstruction years (1945 - 1970)

This research has focused on the similarities and differences in the relevant socio-cultural influences and the organization of characteristic mental healthcare facilities for the Netherlands and the United States in the period from 1945 to 1970. Starting with the socio-cultural changes from this period for the Netherlands and the United States,...

Phon Times: Improving Dutch phoneme recognition

In this research, Dutch phoneme recognition (PR) is researched and improved. The last research on Dutch PR dates back to 1995. This research presents Dutch PR in modern daylight by researching state-of-the-art techniques found in research on other languages and implementing them on Dutch PR. The goal of this research is to find the current best...

Finding the optimal set of parking locations for maintenance trains in the Dutch railway network: An optimisation approach using a combination of discrete-event simulation and simulated annealing

The Dutch railway system is subject to maintenance, which is carried out by a group of rail contractors who need parking space to park and prepare trains in between projects. The objective of this study is to minimise the total costs as a result of the distance travelled by maintenance trains and the preservation of the included parking...

The nurturing city

Increasing ground prices are displacing the middle class families from Amsterdam. The available housing is either too expensive or simply unfit for families. They are therefore forced by the circumstances to move to the suburbs, away from their job, family and friends in the city. In the process, the city loses valuable middle class workers and...

To the benefit of the common: A study towards housing for socially vulnerable target groups in Amsterdam

External venturing in the Dutch aviation industry

Startups are a major source of innovation and are capable of doing things where larger firms are not capable of. Many corporates are therefore looking at opportunities to collaborate with startups, also called external venturing, and to capture their value. Although working with startups has many benefits and great opportunities for corporates,...

Optimising the Input Filter of Traction Installations in DC Railway Power Systems

In the world of DC railway trains nowadays, asynchronous-traction machine with traction controllers, i.e. an inverter with variable output frequency, is implemented. This controller changes the incoming DC voltage into an AC voltage of a variable frequency and RMS amplitude. The disadvantages of switching inverters, compared to a pure sine wave...

The Ideal Electric Bicycle for Commuters

This thesis represents a graduation project that was done for the early stage startup: Spaac. The alternative title is: A Design Intervention to Stimulate E-Bike Acceptance. A bicycle was designed to appeal to young commuters that currently do not ride e-bikes because of the social stigma. The Cultural Strategy of Douglas Holt was used to come...

Stedenbouwkundige Invulling van het Stationsgebied te Apeldoorn

From Emptiness to Japanese Space: Designing from a Japanese Perspective

The research on space in Japanese architecture resulted in a number of spatial characteristics. These were then used as starting points for the design of a housing block in Dutch context.

The Dream Greenhouse for Chinese Growers

The original goal of this project is to design a win-win solution: boosting Chinese growers’ businesses, by matching their needs with Dutch know-how, then naturally establishing potential market in China for Dutch horticulture technology companies, for instance, Codema. After early research and 2-month field research, the researcher discovered...