Bewogen Ruimte: architectuur door de ogen van een filmmaker

Hoewel ik tijdens mijn opleiding leerde ontwerpen, voelde ik dat ik maar weinig grip kreeg op de dynamiek waarmee we dingen beleven. We ontwerpen gebouwen van steen en hout, die stilstaan; toch lijkt alles wat zich tussen de muren van onze huizen en steden afspeelt bewegelijk en tijdelijk. We nemen de materiële wereld allemaal ongeveer hetzelfde...

Product Life Extension Strategies for PV in the Netherlands: Theory and Practice

The EU has set out to reduce negative impacts from electricity generation on the environment, human health and towards our dependence on fossil fuels. As the fastest growing renewable source of electricity, photovoltaics plays an important role in the energy transition. The manufacturing of photovoltaic modules requires materials classified as...

Building Blockchains: A Thesis about how we will Work in the Future

Work in The Netherlands seems to evolve along the line of technological inventions as a result of increased productivity rates. Because of its increasing productivity, the earliest technologies are quickly adopted in spaces of economic activity. Traditionally, the place to work was centralized so employers could keep an eye on their employees...

"In between hopes and fears": Exploring moral emotions and perceptions around genetically modified micro-organisms (GMMs)

Solving the world food problem, health, and sustainability issues have become principal objectives of modern biotechnology. With the help of genetic engineering, the DNA of micro-organisms can be altered to produce value-added products (e.g., enzymes, vitamins, and alternative proteins) efficiently and sustainably. There has been lots of...

Designing Repair Processes by Introducing a Return Quality Control Model: A Method for Sustainable Initial Repair Process Design

An increasingly dynamic and competitive market forces MRO businesses to improve on efficiency and sustainability of remanufacturing processes. Present research focus on current process states and recovery, improvement and control of process phases beyond initial design without inclusion of return quality. This research addresses a method for...

Lyapunov Stable Path Planning and Control for Autonomous Vehicles

In modern society cars are one of the most important means of transportation. Unfortunately, many people die in car accidents around the world. Research shows that the number of fatal casualties in car accidents has been increasing for the past decade and that the largest cause of these accidents is the human driver. For this reason, research on...

Towards a Governance Structure for the Data-Driven Prioritization of Humanitarian Aid: A data ecosystem approach

The incidence of natural disasters worldwide is increasing. As a result, there is a growing number of people in need, whereas limited resources to help these people are available. It is therefore important to effectively and efficiently prioritize the most vulnerable people in the preparedness phase, and the most affected people in the response...

smart FOR China 2025

China is the biggest car market worldwide in which smart is operating for six years now, it is also the biggest market for smart. The assignment is to Design a new mobility device for the Chinese megacities of 2025. The context of the Chinese megacity environment is analyzed (e.g. using input from a three week field study in China). In the...

De veranderende ontwikkelaar: Succes door innovatie

De afgelopen jaren heeft de Nederlandse vastgoedsector enkele grote veranderingen en trends te verduren gekregen met veelal crisis en neergang als gevolg. Nederlandse ontwikkelaars zullen op de voorgenoemde veranderingen in moeten spelen om voort te kunnen blijven bestaan. Hier is een zekere mate van flexibiliteit en innovatie voor vereist....

Verkeerskundige effecten- en financiele haalbaarheidstudie voor vrachtbanen

Port Central: Ontwerp van een zeehaven in Algerije

Dit rapport beslaat het ontwerp van een zeehaven in Algerije. Het bestaat uit vier delen. Voor alle delen zijn drie afstudeerhoogleraren in totaal. Deel a: Vooronderzoek naar de economische randvoorwaarden van een nieuwe haven in Algerije Deel b: Lokatie en lay-out haven Deel c: Optimalisatie van de geuldiepte van van de havengeul van Port...

Een apparaat voor het testen van strategieën voor pauzeonderdrukking bij packetized voice communicatie

This paper describes a system designed to transmit human speech over a packet-switching network.<br/> Silence periods in the speech are regarded as white noise and transmitted in a compressed form. This compressed form of the silence period is merely a coding of the noiselevel during the silence period.<br/> Upon receiving the packetized voice,...