Praying for Water: The Mosque as a Catalyst Towards a Decentralized Water Supply System in the Informal Urban Settlements of Bandung, Indonesia

Praying for Water deals with several water related challenges in Bandung’s informal urban areas, first and foremost the lack of safe drinking water and proper sanitation. Although being based on the proposal for a decentralized water supply system, a rather holistic solution approach is followed. Beyond the use of appropriate technical...

Crosslinking of Peri-Prosthetic Fibrous Membrane: An Exploratory Study

Aseptic loosening is a major cause of revision surgery in total hip arthroplasties. To slow down, or reverse loosening, tissue engineering interventions could provide solutions. One possible solution is collagen crosslinking, increasing the stiffness of the tissue. This research is a first investigation into UV-induced crosslinking on tissue...

MRI based Electrical Properties Tomography: Electromagnetic inversion

In magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) the interest in electric properties tomography (EPT) is growing. In current EPT applications the reconstruction is performed based on the Helmholtz equation which relies on the assumption of a homogeneous contrast. The goal of this thesis is to present new approaches to reconstruct the electrical properties...

How contextual innovation management influences time to market: A case study in company X

In the high-tech food industry the speed and rate at which organizations can introduce products into the market are critical for sustaining competitive advantage and market share. Therefore Company X wants to accelerate its time to market. Based on 7 case studies of recently finished innovation projects in COMPANY X, the relationship between...

Houses as energy delivering systems - a conceptual design