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van den Berg, Paulien (author)The dynamic and fast-changing environment brings challenges for generating long-term visions of the future; scenarios. Outdated scenarios will result in future pathways that are no longer achievable and therefore reduces their relevance and usefulness for making decisions. As some uncertainty is resolved over time, while other uncertainties...master thesis 2019
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van den Berg, Mario (author)Design criteria for the stability of rock filters on river beds (i.e. rock bed protection) are extensively researched and successfully applied in practice. The most common stability criteria are the Izbash and Shields criteria. These methods define a critical flow (Izbash) or parameter (Shields). Rijkswaterstaat (RWS) wants to explore a more...master thesis 2019
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van den Berg, Sander (author)We present a novel DC motor driven soft robotic fish and optimization based on experimental, numerical and theoretical investigation into oscillating propulsion for primarily speed and secondarily efficiency. Our system outperforms the previously fastest soft robotic fish Zhong et al. 2017 by a significant margin of 27%, with speeds up to 0.85m...master thesis 2019
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van den Berg, Ronald (author)The majority of cardiovascular clinical events, which are the main causes of mortality and morbidity worldwide, are caused by atherosclerotic plaque rupture. This biomechanical event occurs when the local plaque stresses exceed its strength. The plaque stresses can be assessed by computational models to predict these events. Current approaches...master thesis 2019
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van den Berg, Mary Lou (author)The main objective of this master's thesis is to revitalize a district in Bandung by means of the adaptive reuse of shared heritage and passive climate systems. Furthermore, the ambition is to empower the local culture of fashion craftsmanship and create a sustainable alternative for shopping in the city centre of Bandung. Designing both a...master thesis 2019
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van den Berg, Charlotte (author)In this paper, we study the effect of a low parking requirement in combination with dedicated carsharing at a residential building on car ownership and use of carsharing. This paper aims to develop a conceptual model to describe these effects. Comparable to customary theories in transport geography, this conceptual model includes socio...master thesis 2019
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van den Berg, Stijn (author)This research focuses on the unofficial neighbourhoods on the boarders of South African Cities. The informal settlements are quickly built by unskilled hands on foreign land without any form of planning, supervision or legislation. The self-constructed houses lack of daylight, ventilation and water tightness. This results in poor, unsafe and...master thesis 2019
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van den Berg, Nadine (author), Hendriks, Onno (author), Boertje, Laurens (author)Houston, TX is known for being flood prone. Recent disasters such as Hurricane Harvey (2017) severly damaged this city. Houston’s flooding problem is caused by urban sprawl, the flatness of the city and the lack of policy. The urban sprawl increases the amount of concrete and limits the city’s natural drainage, the flatness of the city means the...student report 2019
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van den Berg, Jelle Jacobus (author)In this thesis the equilibrium cross-sectional areas of a tidal inlet are investigated. The most common used methods to study cross-sectional stability are the Escoffier method (Escoffier, 1940) and the Modified Escoffier method (Van de Kreeke, 2004). The Escoffier methods are mainly empirical and lack physical justification. Therefore, in this...master thesis 2018
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van den Berg, Nick (author)In the Netherlands, a new assessment method for the required safety level of primary flood defences is introduced in the Water Act. It is estimated that currently roughly 1900 kilometres of flood protection does not meet the safety requirements for the future (Jonkman, Jorissen, Schweckendieck & Van den Bos, 2017). Past flood defence...master thesis 2018
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van den Berg, Mario (author)Wood can be used to rehabilitate degraded water bodies (lakes and rivers). However wood has historically been removed from river systems to improve flood protection, inland navigation and drink water quality. These actions reduced and degraded the aquatic habitat of the effected river systems. Rijkswaterstaat is interested in reintroducing wood...student report 2018
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van den Berg, Seb (author)In April 2018, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) agreed upon the target to reduce the CO<sub>2</sub> emissions from international shipping in 2050 by 50 percent with respect to 2008 levels. The strategy to reach this target consists of the ambition to reduce CO<sub>2</sub> emissions per transport work, as an average across...master thesis 2018
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van den Berg, Rens Willem (author)This master thesis analyses and proposes a design for a direct air capture (DAC) unit as part of a small scale, solar powered methanol synthesis plant. This project analyses the existing process and design by ZEF BV and explores solutions for mass manufacturing a direct air capture unit. As a result a concept design solution is found and...master thesis 2018
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van den Berg, Rob (author)A definitional interpreter is an interpreter which uses the semantics of its own host language to define those of its object language. Traditionally, a seperate type safety proof is used for such an interpreter. Using a "typesafe-by-construction" approach, where the typesafety is proven by expressing the type system of the object language in the...bachelor thesis 2018
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van den Berg, Max (author)Harsh market conditions make optimising the performance in shipping more and more important. Shipping companies are becoming more and more data driven due to developments in data systems and these harsh market conditions. The goal of this research is to determine how and how much added value can be realised through shipping performance...master thesis 2018
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van den Berg, Ileen (author)The Xbloc<sup>Plus</sup> is a new type of single layer armour unit for breakwaters. The key difference between earlier single layer armour units is that the unit is not only placed in a regular grid, but also with a regular orientation. The main benefit of this is that it can directly be seen whether the unit is placed correctly. Additionally,...master thesis 2018
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van den Berg, Jay (author)Lifting an object by capillary forces is mostly done with a single liquid bridge which connects the target object to a probe. In this work the potential of capillary forces for soft-tissue manipulation is investigated; not only a single liquid bridge is used, but multiple bridges as well since capillary forces can be enhanced by contact...master thesis 2018
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Frijns, Ruben (author), Kool, Thijs (author), Ramsey, Ashley (author), Rasmioen, nathaniel (author), Sonneveld, Michelle (author), van den Berg, Mario (author)All around the world floods are a growing problem. Dealing with high water levels in residential areas is of great importance. The delta area of Macabebe, in the Manila Bay, has to cope with daily flooding, caused by the river and the sea. Groundwater is pumped and used for local industry, causing land subsidence and worsening the problems....student report 2018
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van den Berg, Arjan (author)Ever since the attacks on the World Trade Center, airport security has been a topic of interest. The United States was caught by surprise and the attacks triggered a renewed interest in aviation security. It was well recognized that airport security was one step behind on intelligent attackers and this created the need to developed better risk...master thesis 2018
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van den Berg, Tim (author)The online grocery retail industry is rapidly growing and has to improve order picking activities which is one of the most costly and labor-intensive activities of their supply chain. Gamification has been promised to increase the motivation and productivity of order pickers, but empirical findings in real world work environments are still...master thesis 2017