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Nederveen, Ruud (author)Faults can both improve producibility and fluid flow in hydrocarbon reservoirs, and cause leakage and instabilities in sealing layers. For this reason it is of importance to create a multiscale understanding of the drivers behind deformation, and how deformation is accommodated. Carbonates have always been of interest to the oil and gas industry...master thesis 2018
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van Wijk, Nina (author)Our housing market is challenged. Housing prices are rising, and the number of single-person households is increasing, which impacts the affordability of housing. Cohousing offers a possible solution to this problem. However, the level of empowerment of cohousing communities to self-organize is troubled by financial or legal barriers, among...master thesis 2019
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Brummelkamp, Judith (author)Ephemeral rivers are common hydrological features in Southern Africa where periods of up to 9 months occur, without significant rainfall. These rivers are important in the Kitui region of Kenya, where water shortage impedes rural and urban development. The seasonal rivers of Kitui provide suitable water for domestic, livestock and agricultural...master thesis 2020
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de Bruijn, Mike (author)The living standard of the people in Alamar<br/>is missing quality. Although many issues,<br/>like drinking water, have been solved locally,<br/>but a stable electricity infrastructure cannot<br/>be provided by the people themselves. The<br/>instability of the electricity is traceable to<br/>the construction period. Alamar was built<br/>on the...master thesis 2017
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Lambert, Pim (author)Dutch real estate developers are being pressured to obtain a more sustainable corporate strategy to guarantee competitiveness and continuity of their firm. Even though this contextual pressure is being recognized by Dutch real estate developers, it is often not translated to practice. This is remarkable because studies over time have proven that...master thesis 2021
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de Viet, Rein (author)Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) is a new concept that is expected to make multi-modal travel more seamless, by integrating a variety of different transport modes on a platform, accessible on demand for which monthly bundles can be bought. The hopes of MaaS are that due to the simplicity of the service, and the plethora of alternatives being offered...master thesis 2019
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Piña Rodriguez, Mariana (author)With the increasing need for more sustainable transportation, the electrification of IWW shipping becomes of great relevance. There are several ways to achieve this, from which the implementation of an exchangeable battery system is discussed in this research. Several challenges arise from the large-scale implementation of such a system. One of...master thesis 2021
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Zwaan, Hugo (author)Driving with Haptic Shared Control (HSC) provides an alternative for traditional traded control in human-controller interaction. Whilst driving, control is shared between the driver and the controller by translating the controller's desired steering input to additional torques on the steering wheel.<br/>Literature provides several guidelines for...master thesis 2018
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Ravenstijn, P. (author)Het United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) heeft in 1998 een openbare aanbesteding gehouden voor de sloop van de huidige en de bouw van de nieuwe stuw 2 in de Monongahela River (Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten) op basis van een door henzelf vervaardigd ontwerp. De nieuwe stuw 2 bestaat in het ontwerp van het USACE uit een vaste drempel aan...master thesis 2001
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Nuijten, G.A. (author)For tunnels it is not only important, how the tunnel and the surrounding rock behave during the life time of the tunnel. It is also very meaningful to understand how the tunnel is behaving, while it is under construction. The basis for this thesis is to understand, how the tunnel behaviour, concerning deformation and stability, is for different...master thesis 1997
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Speksnijder, G.M. (author)In dit onderzoek is de stroming in een laminaire bellenkolom gesimuleerd op basis van het two fluid model. De simulaties zijn uitgevoerd door een drietal Computational Fluid Dynamics codes: de commerciële code Phoenics versie 2.0 en de research codes Tpflow en Tfc2d. In de drie CFD codes wordt gebruik gemaakt van het two fluid model. Essentieel...master thesis 1995
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Vervuurt, A. (author)Anchor bolts are often used in concrete or steel structures. Nevertheless still empirical design procedures are used in order to determine the dimensions of the structure. Non linear fracture mechanics tries to describe fracture of heterogeneous materials like concrete. In the classical representation of concrete fracturing (figure 1.1),...master thesis 1992
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Ruiter, N. (author)Over the last decade, offshore outsourcing of IT services increased in volume every year. Every year new clients start with outsourcing IT services to lower cost countries like India or China. New suppliers start offering offshore outsourcing IT services on a regular basis. Expected is that this trend will continue, despite the fact that...master thesis 2011
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Florez Atehortua, L. (author)A social innovation is a novel solution to a social problem that is more effective, efficient, sustainable for which the value created accrues primarily to society as a whole rather than private individuals. Social innovations come in various forms such as (1) doing something good in/for society; (2) changing social practices and/or structure, ...master thesis 2015
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de Jong, Tobias (author)Enabling mobile robots to autonomously navigate complex environments is essential for real-world deployment in commercial, industrial, military, health care, and domestic settings. Prior methods approach this problem by having the robot maintain an internal map of the world and then use a localization and planning method to navigate through the...master thesis 2019
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Erdem, K. (author)Next to the innovation of products, the innovation of production processes requires attention in order to enhance the competitiveness in shipbuilding. Production improvements are currently of great importance for increasing the efficiency of shipbuilding, which can result in lower cost and reduced lead times. Wei (2012) suggests that the...master thesis 2015
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van den Assem, Daan (author)This thesis discusses forecasting periodic time series using Wavenets with an application in financial time series. Conventional neural networks used for forecasting such as the LSTM and the full convolutional network (FCN) are computationally expensive. The Wavenet uses dilated convolutions which significantly reduces the computational cost...master thesis 2017
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Sewnandan, Jhoties (author)Cyberattacks are a constant threat to organisations worldwide. The uncertainty and difficulty of properly conducting cyber risk management processes do not make it easier for organisations to cope with cyberattacks. Cyber insurance can be a partial solution to the dilemma that organisations face. However, it has not seen the expected growth...master thesis 2018
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Laanes, Mikk (author)Technology improvements and growing maturity of the offshore wind industry have resulted in significant cost reductions and rise in demand. More can be achieved by focusing on improving the understanding of key design areas of an offshore wind turbine (OWT). Since fatigue is one of the main design criteria for offshore structures and little is...master thesis 2021
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Boerrigter, T.J. (author)Coda Wave Interferometry analysis is studied for rocks subjected to brittle deformation which is induced by an Uniaxial Compressive Strength testing machine. Ultrasonic pulses, 1 MHz and 2.25MHz, are sent through rock samples and recorded throughout the loading up-to failure. A novel method is proposed, the rolling cross correlation, which can...master thesis 2017