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van den Broeck, Christian (author)Philips Lighting has developed a new technology that allows LED lighting to be embedded into concrete. The goal of this assignment was to find a new business opportunity for this technology. After a thorough research the conclusion was drawn that architects are very interested in this technology, but they see different possibilities and want to...master thesis 2017
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Guo, Jingkun (author)In recent years, cavity optomechanics has attracted lots of attention. In this system, photons inside a cavity interact with a macroscopic harmonic oscillator through the radiation pressure force. Depending on the type of structure, opto-mechanical systems can be used in, for example, precision sensing, including force and acceleration...master thesis 2017
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van Kan, Wesley (author)Experience-based decision making by crew plays a key role in the safe and effective execution of maritime operations. For yachts and naval vessels, common operations can be identified as helicopter operations (take-off and landing), launch and recovery of small craft and (dis)embarkment to and from these small craft. All of these operations are...master thesis 2017
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Thuijs, Jeroen (author)With a changing market for offshore crew transfer systems the current Ampelmann systems are vulnerable for competitors. One of the downsides of the current system is its influence on the ship due to the system mass. A lightweight re-design of the current steel gangway using composites could start an overall weight decrease. A composite gangway...master thesis 2017
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Ortega Ramirez, Mariana (author)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...master thesis 2017
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Bach, Alicia (author)During the extension of a sport complex near Tilburg, The Netherlands, some archeological objects were discovered. Some shreds of pottery seem to confirm that the objects found were originating from the Middle Iron Age.1 Some of the objects were egg-shaped and hollow, with a small opening on the tip. The objects did awaken the thought that they...bachelor thesis 2017
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Kingma, Friso (author)Overfitting is a common problem when learning models from noisy observational data. This problem is especially present in very flexible models, such as Neural Networks, which can easily fit to spurious patterns in the data that are not indicative of true underlying patterns. One technique that conquers the problem of overfitting is Bagging, an...bachelor thesis 2017
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Baaij, Robin (author)Dissimilarities between an active flow control model and the physical system can be accounted for by use of a robust controller. Modeling errors and uncertainty in the parameters cause controller performance to decrease, and, in some cases, can even destabilize the closed-loop system. This paper shows that, whilst H2 optimal control provides...master thesis 2017
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de Goede, Nick (author)Commercially available laparoscopic surgical robots are not currently equipped with force feedback. This may lead to unnecessary tissue damage when gripping tissue in a laparascopic procedure, as shown in a prior literature study. The goal of this MSc thesis project is the implementation of haptic feedback in a prototype of a master-slave...master thesis 2017
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Tang, Tianzhu (author)Steam has been widely used in industrial processes, however, these industrial processes also discharge a huge amount of low quality waste steam, low temperature steam at ambient pressure which is not fit for heat integration with other local processes. As the energy needs and environmental concerns increase, it is desirable to utilize the waste...master thesis 2017
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Gieseler, Gwenda (author)During this project, the possibilities between carbon fibres and glass were explored. It appeared that no significant improvement in mechanical properties can be obtained by reinforcing the glass. Therefore other directions were explored in the kiln, with hot glass, with glue and with electric current, both aesthetic and functional. Eventually a...master thesis 2017
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Slingerland, Geertje (author)The stimulation of citizen participation has led to the upraise of bottom-up citizen communities. These communities grow from idealism but often have a hard time to become a durable initiative when the first challenges arise and the enthusiasm has disappeared. This graduation aims to gather an understanding of how citizen initiatives can be...master thesis 2017
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Hennekes, Stan (author)In this thesis, the Random Energy Model (REM) is applied to the highly complex problem of random heteropolymer folding. The relevance of the REM lies in the fact that it is an analytically solvable model, which makes it possible to learn more about the (thermodynamical) behaviour of folding proteins.<br/>Firstly, a rigorous proof of the...bachelor thesis 2017
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Morgado Martins Filipe, Tiago (author)With increasing usage of fibre-reinforced composites for structural components across the automotive and aerospace industry, it became crucial to understand how this kind of materials behave when subjected to high loading rates, which are encountered in the case of crash events. <br/>The current work presents a study on the effect of the strain...master thesis 2017
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Chavez Abril, Miguel Angel (author)The static liquefaction tank (SL-tank) is a unique large-scale facility that provides a means to simulate the conditions of a submerged soil slope under failure conditions. Static liquefaction (SL) may be defined as a significant loss of soil’s shear strength due to a substantial development of excess pore water pressure under monotonic loads....master thesis 2017
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Mechelse, Eelco (author)Knowledge of the state of stress is of significant importance to have a thorough understanding of subsurface geomechanics. The World Stress Map (WSM) is the main source of present-day stress data in Western Europe and indicates a regional NW-SE maximum horizontal stress (SH) trend for the Netherlands. However, for more local studies the WSM...master thesis 2017
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Chatzikyriakou, Charis (author)The Netherlands is a country primarily developed on coastal zones. Coastal zones are very important, since they are a source of valuable living and non-living resources for its population, and they also act as a natural protection against floods. Notably, the natural dynamics driven by the sea and the man-made actions on the land change them...master thesis 2017
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Dai, Jiying (author)The information of electrical properties of biological tissues within human body can be useful information for diagnosis, tissue characterization, hyperthermia treatment planning and MR safety control.<br/>CSI-EPT is an MR base imaging modality, which reconstructs the electrical properties of the sample. However, this method have not been...master thesis 2017
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Kao, Joe (author)PowerWindow is a luminescent solar concentrator which employs a Tm2+-doped material to strongly absorb sunlight and produce a sharp emission in the near-infrared spectrum for energy-harvesting purposes. The absence of self-absorption and the large spectral overlap with the solar spectrum make it an attractive addition to current building...master thesis 2017