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Kadaba Srinivasan, Adarsha (author)Masonry is one of the oldest and popular building materials used world over. The constituent materials are readily available and hence are cheap in most areas. So it serves as an economically viable building material. Though, its load bearing capacity under compression is high, it does not perform well under tensile forces, cyclic and lateral...master thesis 2017
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Zhang, Chengqiu (author)In this thesis, we propose a novel unsupervised clean-noisy datasets adaptation algorithm based on standard deep learning networks. Specifically, we jointly learn a shared feature encoder for two tasks: 1)supervised classification trained on labeled source (clean) dataset, and 2) unsupervised adaptation to map discriminant features from both...master thesis 2017
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Dominguez Ollero, Rocio (author)The oil and gas industry is seeking to improve safety on its current operations procedures (Choudarki, 2012). From all oil and gas operations, Topside Installation Processes (TIP) are the only offshore activity that counters one of the golden safety rules, “do not stand or walk under suspended loads” (Peuscher & Groeneweg, 2012). As a...master thesis 2017
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Lammers, Bas (author)The graduation project, which is recorded in this report, was initiated to explore the possibilities for BeSafe, a long-time manufacturer of child safety seats for (automotive) transport, to become sustainable. As the knowledge regarding the subject within the company was of insufficient, Delft University of Technology was contacted to extend...master thesis 2017
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Barrera Ramirez, Juanita (author)The peace treaty of Colombia has promised to end over fifty years of armed conflict, which has been significantly financed by the cultivation and processing of illicit crops. The treaty contemplates a substitution policy that offers financial incentives and social investment to the coca-growing communities to replace their illicit crops by legal...master thesis 2017
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Verheij, Bob (author)This thesis is concerned with the question of in what way laser cutting can better support the creative design processes of students. Laser cutting has many benefits over other manufacturing options, including high accuracy, aesthetics, consistency and in general high speed, form freedom and repeatability. In creative education, laser cutting...master thesis 2017
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Miao, Yixiong (author)Urban expansion and development are normally guided by road infrastructure.<br/>Such road-oriented development ignores the profits that landscape could bring and it breaks the integrity of natural layer.The thesis researches on how to use landscape (as infrastructure) to “integrate” and guide the future urban development. Integration by...master thesis 2017
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van der Enden, Kian (author)Majorana zero modes have been proposed as building blocks of intrinsically fault-tolerant quantum computers. Currently, externally applied magnetic fields are necessary to induce Majorana zero modes in carefully engineered systems. Topological qubit state readout is realized by parity sensing of Majorana islands. However, fast and high fidelity...master thesis 2017
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van Iersel, Anna Lena (author)This thesis concerns a research process followed by a design project, conducted at the Industrial Design Engineering department for the Design for Interaction master program. The project concerns the reframing of a work ow for web analytics users, in the form of a new system design for web analytics. The project is founded on four studies of the...master thesis 2017
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van den Berg, Lisa (author)Hyperthermia is a clinical cancer treatment method that relies on the principle of selectively heating tumour tissue with temperatures between 40 - 44 °C. For most head- and neck tumours deep hyperthermia treatment (DHT) is applied, in which electromagnetic energy is emitted to tumour tissue located ≥ 4cm below the skin surface. At the Erasmus...master thesis 2017
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Di, Hong (author)At the end of a power transmission line, the cable should be terminated carefully, otherwise it will create problems during the operation. A special equipment called termination is designed to tackle down the problems from cable ends. The main functional part of a termination is a piece of rubber with a cone shape. This rubber cone has a semi...master thesis 2017
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Laan, Rianne (author)Brachytherapy is recommended in the treatment of cervical cancer. In case of a tumour extending lateral to the pelvic wall or more than 0.5 cm from the vaginal surface, current applicators are not sufficient to irradiate the target area. Therefore, the use of extra free-hand needles is required. Free-hand placement of interstitial needles is...master thesis 2017
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Verhoeven, Luuk (author)In the ever changing world we live in, companies have to constantly adapt to stay relevant. More and more large organizations do this by starting up innovation hubs next to their established business. ING is one such company that has started up an hub which they call their innovation studio. ING sees this as a necessity due to developments of...master thesis 2017
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Blokland, Auke (author)From this study can be concluded that using drones equipped with cameras a 3D model van be created of an incident on the rail. From the recordings, a 3D model van be made using photogrammetry. In this model it is possible to measure post distances with an estimated error of less than 1 centimeter. The distances between the laser scanner point...student report 2017
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Saleem, Fouad (author)Decisions surrounding innovations are often made on a project-to-project basis, and therefore lose sight of the overview of projects, i.e. the portfolio, and fall short on their strategic orientation. The research explores how innovation portfolio management can benefit innovation decision-makers in private and public organisations. More...master thesis 2017
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Ravi, Siddharth (author)This project addresses a fundamental problem faced by many reinforcement learning agents. Commonly used reinforcement learning agents can be seen to have deteriorating performances at increasing frequencies, as they are unable to correctly learn the ordering of expected returns for actions that are applied. We call this the disappearing...master thesis 2017
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Roest, Bart (author)The Sand Engine is a new innovation in coastal protection, a mega feeder nourishment. This pilot project was constructed in 2011 along the Delfland coast, which is historically prone to erosion. Since its construction, the Sand Engine is intensively being monitored to track the morphological development.<br/><br/>The objective of this thesis is...master thesis 2017
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Schöffer, Samuel (author)New technologies are being developed to produce electricity cleaner and more efficient. A promising technology among these is the solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC). It electrochemically converts chemical energy into electricity. This process is highly efficient and several types of fuel are suitable. Furthermore, the SOFC operates at a high...master thesis 2017
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van Dolder, Ashwin (author)This graduation report provides an analysis of the strategic positioning of Euretos and the development of a user-centered web platform for life science researchers. The company analysis and market analysis showed that Euretos has an unique positioning compared to its competitors. The Euretos knowledge platform has a large knowledge database...master thesis 2017
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van der Valk, Dirk (author)In the Second World War Dutch New Guinea was a strategic battle front for both the Japanese and the Allied forces in the Pacific War. A lot of airstrips were constructed and bombed during this time, of which at least three (Mongosah, Otowari and Sagan) have never been visited after the war. This provided a great opportunity to find potential war...master thesis 2017