The attitude of anesthesia assistants towards Artificial Intelligence-assisted patient monitoring in the Operating Room: Using the knowledge on their attitude and motivation to create an educational module that supports anesthesia assistants in their awareness and understanding of the impact of AI-assisted monitoring

Research on the possibilities to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the Operating Room (OR) is rising, although there is no implementation yet. AI-assisted monitoring could provide support to anesthesia assistants in their task of patient monitoring, by making predictions on the future occurrence of deviating events in the vital parameter...

Piloted Assessment of the Lateral-Directional Handling Qualities of the Flying-V

Flying wings are known for their limited lateral-directional stability and handling qualities. This study aims at assessing the lateral-directional handling qualities of a conceptual flying wing aircraft currently in development at TU Delft, the Flying-V. It focuses on two aspects: First assess the lateral-directional handling qualities of the...

Passive Autonomy: Hygromorphic Rotational Actuators: Design & Evaluation

Inspired by phenomena in the plant world, a<br/>meteoro-sensitive rotational actuator is developed. The design<br/>uses a hygro-active shell, whose water-based swelling is restricted<br/>at selective locations to form a helicoid structure. The influence<br/>of geometrical parameters on the performance is investigated<br/>using a numerical...

Compliant Shell Deformation in Plants: A Designer's Toolbox

The mechanisms that move plants can serve as biological role models for engineers, designers and architects. This practice is slowly being implemented in various engineering fields, with architects often being pioneers. Various methodologies have been written about the subject, but often only from an architectural point of view.<br/>The...

Analysis of the quantity of CPTs in relation to the inner slope stability

The introduction of the new 'Waterwet' led to the retesting of a lot of primary flood defences within the Netherlands, sequentially certifying a lot of levees as unsafe regarding inner slope stability. To test or design a levee an adequate amount of soil investigation is required to indicate the presence of different soil types, stratification...

Tooling as a Service: Agent Based Scenario Development for IT Services Delivery

Information Technology [IT] is increasingly being integrated into the modern society. Novel IT solutions are Cloud based. Cloud solutions from Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS are examples of services which offer the benefits of cloud computing. For IT providers, leveraging novel IT artefacts may require the development of a new service model. IT...

Flood Risk Guayaquil: A critical analysis on inundations

Despite several researches about the hydrological and hydrodynamic system of the Guayas region, elementary insight of the total system was lacking. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to create a general overview regarding floods. Besides, basic solutions are proposed for preparing Guayaquil against floods which might be present in the...

Interferometric scattering of light by an ensemble of flowing spherical particles: Extracting a heartbeat from a pulsatile flow

Due to the increasing problem of cardiovascular diseases, the demand for diagnosing measurements is also increasing. These measurements should be cheap, nondestructive, accurate and real-time. Measurements like these already exist in the form of photoplethysmography (PPG). However, these measurements make use of a scalar quantity which throws...

Printing a stainless steel bridge: An exploration of structural properties of stainless steel additive manufactures for civil engineering purposes

The potential of additive manufacturing is great: highly complex and efficient structures can be manufactured with hardly any waste material. While high-tech industries such as aviation and medicine have already embraced additive manufacturing, civil engineering is lagging behind. Research on the structural properties of additive manufactures in...

Een woonomgeving voor het leven: Middels de transformatie van een voormalige serviceflat in Groot-IJsselmonde

Het ontwerp is een transformatievoorstel voor 'Woongebouw De Kreek' in Groot-IJsselmonde in Rotterdam. Waar het onderzoek vooral op de woonbehoeftes van (kwetsbare) ouderen is gericht, is het ontwerp een woonomgeving voor verschillende doelgroepen.

Dwarskracht in zinktunnels

With the introduction of the Eurocode, different formulas are used for shear tests in concrete structures than the previous Dutch standard.These formulas are often used in new building designs. If the result compared with the Dutch standard is either favorable or unfavorable, the design should be modified. It is interesting to research the...

Preliminary study of river- and beach processes in the Matina region of Costa Rica

The starting point for this project are the severe erosion problems at the Pacuare Nature Reserve, situated on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. The Reserve’s installations are situated next to a lagoon which is separated from the open sea by a barrier beach. The lagoon is connected on the landward side to local river? and channel system....