Two Worlds Merge: Economic integration to empower livelihood

Mumbai is one of India’s most heavily populated cities, ranking as the biggest metropolitan region in the country. As a result, a design for a new city called Navi Mumbai was presented in 1964. It was originally planned to further extend the urbanization of Mumbai to the mainland instead of any further northwards. This satellite town needed to...

Online Caching through Optimistic Online Mirror Descent

The advent of wireless networks such as content distribution networks and edge computing networks calls for more effective online caching policies. Traditional policies lose performance since these new networks deal with highly non-stationary requests and frequent popularity shifts. Consequently, a new framework called Online Convex Optimization...

Design of a Deep Sea LiDAR System: Laser Pulse Reception and LiDAR Control Logic

Current subsea LiDAR implementations are inherently depth limited, and make LiDAR applications in the deep-sea costly. To this end, the SLiDAR project aims to develop a pressure tolerant LiDAR system for use at any ocean depth. This thesis elaborates the high-level system design of the LiDAR system, as well as the design and implementation of...

Buried Heritage: Transformation of Het Stedelijk

Het Stedelijk is a highschool which is situated in Zutphen, at the northern border of the neighborhood Nieuwstad. Due to its height, shape and materialisation, the building stands out of its contexts and function as a border between the neighborhood and the park, which is behind the building. More highschools are situated in this area, which...

Decentralized sewage treatment by ceramic Microfiltration: A study in the RINEW project concept

The increase in greenhouse gas emissions change the precipitation behaviour causing either extreme wet- or dry weather. This impacts the fresh water supply for clean water production. Evides B.V., one of the Dutch water companies, anticipates to these changes with the sewer mining concept called ‘RINEW’ (Rotterdam Innovative Nutrients and Energy...

The Arsenic Project: A multidisciplinary Project in Nicaragua

In Nicaragua, active research for arsenic started in 1996, after the first case of arsenic poisoning was reported in a rural community. Arsenic concentrations present in drinking water cause chronic poisoning, which depending on the exposure, lead to several life-threatening long term effects. It is however unknown to what extent this...