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Beelen, E.P.R. (author)Lifeguard is a company which offers vitality programmes for business service companies. One of these programmes is called the ‘Energy Challenge’ and is targeted at an employee level. This graduation project aimed at improving the effectiveness of this programme as it is experienced as a fragmented programme. The concept which is designed to...master thesis 2012
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Volkers, W. (author)This project is an initiative of SPIN: Sustainable Product Innovation in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. The aim of this project is to improve the competitiveness and sustainability efforts of Ly Ly Food, a middle-sized company with 200 employees based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. This company produces packaged snacks for the low end children's market...master thesis 2012
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Pingen, R.A. (author)A lack of cohesion is often associated with bad software quality, and could lead to more changes and bugs in software. In this thesis the impact of cohesion on the change-proneness of Java interfaces is investigated. Showing the existence of a relation between these concepts can lead to better change prediction models that can support software...master thesis 2012
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Root, B.C. (author)The Cryosat-2 mission is an European Space Agency mission with the main objective to measure and monitor the variation in sea-ice and main ice sheets on Earth, located at Greenland and Antarctic. The satellite's main instrument is a state of the art altimeter, which can measure the distance between the satellite and the ice surface with extreme...master thesis 2012
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Van der Meij, M.L. (author)Een prefab bouwmethode is afhankelijk van verticaal transport. Daarnaast neemt de windsnelheid toe op hoogte. In de scriptie is kwantitatief bepaalt hoe groot de invloed van het transportsysteem is op het bouwproces van prefab betonnen hoogbouw boven de 200 meter. Hiervoor is onderzocht hoe de verticale transporttijd de cyclustijd beïnvloedt en...master thesis 2012
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Arkesteijn, R.T. (author)Samenvatting is verwerkt in document, hoofstukken omvatten: - gevoeligheidsanalyses - betontechnologische aspecten - gebruik van 2D-rekenmodel - toetsing in BGT en UGT - constructieve veiligheide in geval van paaluitval - bepaling axiale veerstijfheid - bepaling normaaldrukkracht - staalvezelversterkt beton Summary in English is included in...master thesis 2012
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Watson, D. (author)This thesis contains the research of the development of an agent-based model (ABM) for the City logistics domain in the Java-based Repast Simphony modeling platform. It was part of the City logistics research at the TU Delft faculty TPM section Transport, logistics and Organization. City logistics is the research domain concerned with the study...master thesis 2012
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Bagree, R. (author)In 2009, Department of Water Management (DWM) at TU Delft conceptualized the design of a low-cost disdrometer suitable for large scale, remote deployment. But, being a novel idea, its electrical characteristics were not well researched. Also, the system was not sensitive enough to measure the raindrops of diameter less than 0.9mm. Furthermore,...master thesis 2012
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Verschoor, L.J.A. (author)Over the last decades, biotechnology has become a very promising industry and is seen as a key area for thriving innovation in the future. In order to realize this potential for their economies, many countries including the Netherlands have made special policies containing governmental subsidies and credits aimed to increase the number of...master thesis 2012
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Van Doorn, R. (author)Research into hydraulic loads by a bow thruster. The hydraulic loads on the slope at an open quay construction on piles is investigated. The propeller (bow thruster) jet induces hydraulic loads on the bed, which could result in scour holes and damage to the quay construction. Performed scale model tests provide details about the hydraulic loads...master thesis 2012
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Florentie, Liesbeth (author)Modelling of fluid-structure interactions (FSI) plays a key role in many engineering applications. However, due to the interaction between fluid and structure the computational cost related to high fidelity models (especially for strongly coupled systems) limits the direct use of current FSI simulation techniques in industry. Since a thorough...master thesis 2012
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Van den Berg, R. (author)This report presents the results of a thesis research project executed at Tata Steel IJmuiden at the technical quality department of the Basic Oxygen Steel plant. This department wanted to reduce the rejection of their produced steel slabs within the internal supply chain of Tata Steel. For this project the Basic Oxygen Steel plant wanted to use...master thesis 2012
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Mutapcic, O. (author)Introduction of a new product in the market brings new opportunities to a company but also involves many risks. Many companies cease to exist in this turbulent period, even before the technology reaches mass-diffusion. In this study we look at the processes in the period of pre-diffusion and in particular in the market adaptation phase. With...master thesis 2012
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Van Giessen, A. (author)Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a type of dementia which is difficult to diagnose based on clinical observations. Many automated classification algorithms are being developed to aid in the diagnosis. In such algorithms, principal components analysis (PCA) is a popular tool to reduce the dimension of data, get rid of noise and redundancy and thereby...master thesis 2012
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Shirokov, V.A. (author)In this project a challenge in the field of minimally invasive surgery is addressed. Contemporary minimally invasive instruments usually consist of a rigid beam with an end effector on one side and a controlling mechanism on the other. These instruments work well for cases when the body can be entered in such a way that the target, on which to...master thesis 2012
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De Jonge, A.P. (author)A too small optical accessible area of the old Measurement Section of the Cavitation tunnel made monitoring the upcoming experiments, with for instance high speed cameras, impossible. This was its main imperfection. A proper amount of optical accessible area needed lead too this conversion. The new Measurement Section designed has an optical...master thesis 2012
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Valk, M. (author)In this paper I present a novel method to determine the time of occurrence of tidal slack with a GPS receiver mounted on an anchored buoy commonly used to delineate shipping lanes in estuaries and tidal channels. Slack tide occurs when the tide changes direction from ebb to flood flow, or from flood to ebb. The determination of this point in...master thesis 2012
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Raes, J.A.N. (author)Conventional search techniques are limited at solving complex queries because they work on the basis of word computations and link analysis. Semantic search promises to extend the paradigm of traditional IR from mere document retrieval to entity and knowledge retrieval by looking at the meaning of words. This MSc-thesis proposes a semantic...master thesis 2012
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Van Schaijk, A. (author)In July 2011, the Volans2 was introduced on the market. It is a single skull, recreational rowing boat designed for a wide public to make the rowing sport more accessible. The design is compact and light, challenging for rowers of variable levels. The implementation of a sliding rigger system (in which the rigger slides instead of the seat)...master thesis 2012
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Boessenkool, W. (author)Epidural anesthesia is a commonly used anesthesia method during surgery or giving birth to a child. During the insertion of the needle in the back of the patient, the anesthetist has to interpret the different forces which requires extensive skills. To obtain these skills the residents train on patients, which is not without risk. Due to a lot...master thesis 2012