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Paes, Merel (author)More and more people are moving to cities. The general idea is that there is always something to do and there is always someone to meet with in those cities. The truth is different. A lot of those city dwellers are feeling lonely from time to time. They experience a lack of social contacts and relationships. The increase in loneliness is mainly...master thesis 2017
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Banken, Herman (author)Reactive Programming is a way of programming designed to provide developers with the right abstractions for creating systems that use streams of data. Traditional debug tools lack support for the abstractions provided, causing developers to fallback to the most rudimentary debug tool available: printf-debugging. In this work, we design a...master thesis 2017
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Kok, Wim (author), Hoogland, Andy (author)Problem Definition<br/>This bachelor final project was an assignment given by the start up Momo Medical named: "Improving health care with technology". This project was to use their existing technology and ideas to create a system to prevent pressure ulcers. Pressure ulcer are the medical condition that happens when a patient is left too long in...bachelor thesis 2017
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Jansen, Gerben (author)The Westfort Leprosy Colony in Pretoria, South Africa, was built by the <i>Department Publieke Werken</i> of the <i>Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek</i> in 1898-1898 under supervision of the Dutch architect Sytze Wopkes Wierda. It is the only leprosy colony of its kind that is still (almost) intact. It is part of to the national history of South...master thesis 2017
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Zhai, Xueqian (author)Urban highway, as a product of modern city, is one of the most important influencing factors that shape the contemporary urban landscape. It was built to ease the urban traffic pressure. However, the negative impacts on the urban space and the surrounding environment cannot be ignored. In the most cases, highway is widely regarded and treated as...master thesis 2017
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Dingjan, Mitchell (author), Kapel, Rob (author), Sijm, Maarten (author)Muziekweb is the biggest source of music that has been released in the Netherlands. At this moment, all of their data is currently in Dutch. However, Muziekweb wishes their classical music titles to be translated to other languages as well. Since over 250.000 classical music titles exist, it is too much work to be done manually. Therefore,...bachelor thesis 2017
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van der Weijde, Iris (author)Nowadays it is a top priority in the building sector to reduce the energy use and carbon emissions. One of the most important strategies to reduce the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in buildings is by increasing the thermal performance of its envelope. To achieve this, a low thermal transmission should be established. Glazed surfaces typically...master thesis 2017
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Hogeweg, Marijn (author)Looking at performance prediction of small coaxial rotorcraft, it was found that there are no fast methods available for designers. This research was aimed at using a blade element method in combination with the momentum theory to quickly predict the performance at small coaxial rotorcraft. These methods are successfully applied in larger...master thesis 2017
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Klinkenberg, Ruben (author)The MMC was an industrial facility that produced food, uniforms and other goods for the Portuguese Army. During the twentieth century the complex was expanded. Whilst the Portuguese Army reached 200.000 men in the 1960’s, it is now reduced to 20.000 active soldiers. Gradually the factories closed and Manutencao Militar was finally substituted by...master thesis 2017
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Hoogenboezem, Floor (author)The re-development of the MMC site is focused on improving the urban situation for the local residents, both functional and spatial. Many of them belong to the category disadventaged people in terms of education and employment. The new pedestrian lane through the middle of the site, bridges the two local village centres and gives the opportunity...master thesis 2017
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Santokhi, Maniek (author)A world without digital images is unthinkable in this era of information and communication technology. Billions of images are created, shared and ultimately enjoyed by users every day. However, digital images are sensitive to a wide variety of distortions during the delivery mechanism it goes through. Any of the distortions that can arise during...master thesis 2017
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Christia, Ioanna (author)In this industrialized world, technology has invaded our life in such a level where behind every product a complex manufacturing process with high transportation costs being hidden. Designing a product itself is not enough anymore; the whole manufacturing procedure needs to be included in the design.<br/><br/>Especially when product design meets...master thesis 2017
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van Aanholt, Levi (author), aan de Wiel, Christian (author), Yeh, Haoming (author)During the Bachelor End Project we have been tasked with developing a web portal for the Exposure Render. The Exposure Render is able to interactively visualize volumetric data to photo realistic images. This means that the web portal would allow users to view a visualization of their medical data.<br/>The requirements of the web portal have...bachelor thesis 2017
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Otten, Mattijs (author)Within this report is described the process of designing a new Zebro robot for the TU Delft Robotics Institute. Zebro is a six-legged robot specifically intended to become one of the first truly autonomous swarming robots on earth. The specific aim of this project was to design Zebro to become ready for series production, and to become a robotic...master thesis 2017
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Gong, Boning (author), Buckers, Tim (author)Video games have become increasingly more popular, but few focus on physical activity. VRabl, a multiplayer augmented reality sports game, stimulates players to be physically active, while providing similar aspects as video games. It is based on the well-known and popular game dodgeball to reach out to a large possible player community and have...bachelor thesis 2017
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Dewan, Rahul (author)Rapid urbanization triggers in short term or long term highly advanced economy but at the same time create sectors of poor/neglected neighborhoods or communities in our urban environment that faces the hardest challenge to response and recover in the face of climate change variables. The administrative responses to a climate disaster are...master thesis 2017
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Supriya Krishnan, Supriya (author)Conventional spatial planning deals with hazards by bouncing back to the pre-existing situation. Intensifying manifestations of climate risk lead to unforeseen cascading effects that often surpass the level of protection offered by this type of approach (e.g. Hurricane Katrina) . In this thesis. spatial planning approach is developed that...master thesis 2017
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Masmeijer, Daan (author)This master thesis is part of the graduation studio named ‘Disclosing the Military City Lisbon’ as part of the chair Heritage and Architecture at the TU Delft. The studio assignment and project is initiated in collaboration with DOCOMOMO (International committee for documentation and conservation of buildings, sites and neighbourhoods of the...master thesis 2017
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Topcu, Özhan (author)With the rapid development of research and production techniques, the construction industry shifts increasingly towards more demanding and ambitious projects. As a consequence, new types of use for traditional building materials emerge to create more prestigious buildings. As a relatively new product, ultra-thin glass constitutes a promising...master thesis 2017