Efficient On-chip Voice Activity Detector Exploiting Temporal Sparsity

Voice activity detection (VAD) is the prevailing approach to extracting meaningful speech information from the pervasive noise found in the physical environment. Presently, deep neural networks (DNN) are widely employed as the classifier component in Voice Activity Detection (VAD) systems. However, conventional deep neural networks, like fully...

Cyclic Shear Response of Fine-Sand Tailings Using Cyclic Direct Shear Test

The extraction and processing of mineral and metal ores in the mining industry comes paired with large amounts of mine waste, also known as tailings. This waste consists of various chemicals, acids, and heavy metals which are used during these extraction processes. The tailings are usually stored off in tailings storage facilities (TSF) in a...

Corporate social responsibility in the Indian footwear industry: Exploring the managerial perception on CSR and its effect on company’s performance

In today's fast-paced corporate climate, Corporate Social Responsibility as a theme has become critical. One of the major obligation of any business is it’s contribution towards economic sustainability. The notion of corporate social responsibility is a very age-old practice. With the passage of time, CSR has seen shifts in corporate practices...

Overcoming the ethical challenges of cause marketing:: A qualitative exploration in the Dutch services sector

Nowadays, it is not enough for companies to only focus on their business operations and financial performance. ‘Doing good’ needs to be part of the business strategy as they must do their part in addressing the grand societal challenges. Cause related marketing (CRM) is one such strategy set to address this. CRM is a powerful tool used to...

Impact First Development: an explorative study into (urban) development with the specific intention to create positive social impact

The world is experiencing climate change. Environmental problems are substantial and it's known that economic growth contributes to them. In addition, social inequality in society has grown. As a response, the concept of sustainable development has come up, but to date businesses find this hard to implement in their ways of working. As societal...

Approaches to sustainability in the fishing sector: The case of Cornelis Vrolijk's pelagic fisheries from the Northeast Atlantic

The meaning of what a sustainable fish food product demands can differ among the stakeholders who are knowledgeable in the product system. This thesis applies methods and tools from the field of industrial ecology to understand what sustainability means when it comes to a pelagic fish product from the Northeast Atlantic. The study covers a need...

Exploration of an Open ICT Platform for Energy Monitoring towards a Sustainable Economy

There are two important perspectives in Green ICT (Green Information & Communication Technology). First, is the Primary Level Segment (PLS) which deals with minimizing the negative impact of ICT use on environment and greening the ICT infrastructure of an organization [4]. Second, is the High Level Segment (HLS) which uses ICT as an enabler to...

Capability Maturity Model of Corporate Social responsibility

The development of a CSR capability maturity model to assess an organization's CSR performance, based on the actions and expectations that are given by the ISO26000 guideline. The research includes a study to view CSR as an organizational innovation, which has been established theoretically and validated through interviews. The development of...

Corporate Socially Responsible - Real Estate Management: Understanding how a corporate real estate object interacts with society

The possibility to introduce Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR), into the Corporate Real Estate Management (CREM) decision making process, provided the basis for this thesis. Both theoretic and field research distinguished the demand for empirical guidance on this subject rather than empirical justification. Subsequently a Corporate...