Continuous Multimodal Monitoring of Neonates with a Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia

Introduction: Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is a rare developmental defect of the diaphragm characterised by herniation of abdominal organs into the thoracic cavity during prenatal development. This herniation is usually accompanied by pulmonary hypertension (PH) and cardiac dysfunction (CD). Although several parameters are known to...

Student Living in 2040: A vision for student housing corporation DUWO to stimulate social well-being

DUWO, the largest student housing corporation in the Netherlands, strives to contribute to the best time of a student’s life by offering suitable and affordable housing for both national- and international students. An opportunity here is to explore the wishes and expectations of student housing in the future to build new innovative/ successful...

Defining Dashboards: The degree to which guidelines for designing different dashboard types in a business context are applicable in a non-business context

This thesis presents the research on developing a suitable dashboard for Project ENHANCE following the design guidelines from Few and Eckerson, and the recommendations that follow from this process for dashboard design in a non-business context. Two mock-up dashboards were developed in Python, using the Dash library. this case study shows that...

Smart Start: A Directed and Persistent Exploration Framework for Reinforcement Learning

An important problem in reinforcement learning is the exploration-exploitation dilemma. Especially for environments with sparse or misleading rewards it has proven difficult to construct a good exploration strategy. For discrete domains good exploration strategies have been devised, but are often nontrivial to implement on more complex domains...

Maximum allowable pressures during horizontal directional drillings focused on sand

Horizontal directional drilling (HOD) is a rather simple installation technique for pipes for public infrastructure and it has therefore become increasingly popular. When HOD is started, a pilot drilling is made first; a small borehole is made in the soil along the trajectory. After the pilot drilling the borehole is enlarged with a reamer until...