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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
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Vos, Amber (author)In this MSc thesis it is investigated how the first version of concrete armour unit Xbloc<sup>+</sup>, Xbloc<sup>+ v1</sup>, acquires its stability. The stability mechanisms are investigated by conducting two type of physical model tests. First, 23 dry pull-out tests are done to obtain insights into the aspects and mechanisms that influence the...master thesis 2017
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Shi, Yixin (author)This thesis presents a Low-Power Area-Ecient SAR-Assisted Hybrid ADC for ultra-<br/>sound imaging systems. This ADC combines a 5-bit SAR ADC per channel with a 4-bit single-slope ADC that produces the converter's LSBs and is implemented using shared hardware. The number of unit capacitors of the proposed ADC is about 1/16th of that of a 9-bit...master thesis 2017
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Rognvaldsdottir, Margret (author)A distribution network is the pathway that all products and services go through before reaching the end consumer. It consists of interdependent institutions which perform tasks such as inventory carrying, generation of demand and physical distribution. The physical distribution has direct impact on both supply chain costs and customer service...master thesis 2017
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Burdzy, Marcin (author)Musculoskeletal modeling and simulation has become a prominent tool in clinical gait analysis with the ability to provide insight into the underlying mechanisms of human movement. However, generic cadaver-based models have been shown to poorly reflect live subjects, especially those with pathologies such as cerebral palsy (CP). The main purpose...master thesis 2017
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Deckers, Joeri (author)A medium size Dutch insurance company with third-party car insurance products initiated questions on whether the premium can be based on a statistical analysis where the expected future liabilities are taken into account. These questions are as follows:<br/>• Which statistical models can be used to base the premiums on expected future...master thesis 2017
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Bhowal, Abhranil (author)A Reinforcement Learning (RL) agent learns about its environment through exploration. For most physical applications such as search and rescue UAVs, this exploration must take place with safety in mind. Unregulated exploration, especially at the beginning of a run, will lead to fatal situations such as crashes. One approach to mitigating these...master thesis 2017
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van den Broek, Floris (author)In this work, a novel subspace-based algorithm is presented for automated random noise reduction in online recorded music. Musical signal enhancement is a separate issue from the well-studied speech enhancement problem due to the particularly wide range of signal characteristics encountered, and thus requires a very general approach. Because...master thesis 2017
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van der Togt, Edmée (author)Years after the peak of the Global Financial Crisis, Europe as a theatre of business remains exposed to considerable pressures from uncertainties in the development of national economies. One key element to sustainable success in corporate venturing is the capacity of enterprises to sense and seize an opportunity to grow value through investment...master thesis 2017
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Boerboom, Menno (author)Ghana as a developing country has some challenges for the future. These challenges include an energy crisis, a high dependence on firewood and high levels of poverty. Biogas technology has the potential to make a contribution in solving these challenges, but is not yet widely implemented in Ghana. For this reason, the aim of this thesis was to...master thesis 2017
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Calabrese, Chiara (author)The project under analysis is about the development and qualification of a demonstrator for a miniaturized foam rheology experiment performed in microgravity environment. The thesis is part of a larger feasibility study to evaluate the possibility of implementing such experiment on the International Space Station as an internal payload of the...master thesis 2017
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Sifaki, Charikleia (author)In recent years, urban inundation modelling has been stimulated by technological advancements and an increase in data availability and quality. Diminution of modelling restrictions allowed for detailed methodologies, yet escalated the number of required parameters, leading to higher complexity and predictions’ uncertainty issues. In the present...master thesis 2017
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Shoaie, Srosh (author)DIMITRI is a tool that has been developed for monitoring the radiometric performance of optical instruments onboard Earth observation satellites. It includes a reflectance model through which a calibration coefficient is computed which is used for performance monitoring. In this thesis, the uncertainty that is associated with this coefficient is...master thesis 2017
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Woofenden, George (author)Current Port of Rotterdam procedure is to define the nautical depth based on the density of a fluid-mud layer, that settles at the bottom of the port. Rheological parameters could be an improved indicator for nautical depth and decrease the frequency and cost of dredging. I investigate the use of reflected seismic waves to derive in situ...master thesis 2017