Uitbesteden in samenwerkingsverband: Een afwegingsmodel voor een gezamenlijke uitbestedingsstrategie en -beleid

Impact of Wind Generation on Electricity Prices in Day Ahead Market

This master thesis aims at understanding the impact of wind on day-ahead-market (DAM) electricity prices using an integrated engineering-economic model. A realistic case study has been implemented, which is Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) in Texas, U.S. in the month of August, 2014. To address the main research question of wind ?s...

The influence of ‘Unity-in-Variety’ balance ratios on Aesthetic Preference

This study examined the aesthetically preferred balance between perceived unity and perceived variety, by systematically manipulating two different web page designs on design dimensions influencing perceptual unity and variety. The manipulated web page design scoring, conducted from 5 different questionnaires among 112 laymen (aging between 18...

The decision support environment for energy transition: What are the benefits of combining a qualitative serious game and a quantitative decision support tool in order to provide necessary insights for the key stakeholders?

This research proposes a decision support environment to assist the main stakeholders (The Municipality, Consumers, Network operators, Energy providers and Technology enablers) during the energy transition decision making process at city level. The research is a part of the TRANSFORM project’s work package three. The TRANSFORM project develops a...

“Assessing the possibility of cooperation between Amsterdam and Hanoi in the Field of Solid Waste Management”. Study case: Feasibility of transferring Dutch technology of Waste-to-Energy from Amsterdam to Hanoi

Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam, currently faces a price of booming development: pollution from waste. For example, within the last 10 years, the amount of municipal solid waste (MSW) has tripled in the city, from roughly 800,000 tons/year in pre-2007 to 2,400,000 tons/year in 2010. As the result, this situation challenges the home city of 6...

Coastal flooding in Southampton over the 21st century

Sea level is rising across the UK and this is expected to accelerate and to increase coastal flood risk over the 21st century. Southampton is one of the busiest and most important national ports, but coastal flooding has not been studied extensively before. This dissertation aims to investigate the likelihood of coastal flooding in Southampton...

Slimmer Zwanger: An interactive tool for stimulating a healthy diet pattern

This master thesis shows the result of the development of an e-health tool that is targeted to future pregnant couples. The objective was to stimulate a healthy dietary pattern and lifestyle in order to create the optimal circumstances before, during and after conception. The tool is a web application that continues on the current measures for...

Task Scheduling Methods for Composable and Predictable MPSoC

Multiprocessor Systems on a Chip (MPSoCs) are suitable platforms for executing complex embedded applications. To reduce the cost of the hardware platform, applications share resources, which may result in inter-application timing interference due to resource request conflicts. Bounding or prohibiting this interference is crucial, as the timing...

Applying DEMO to Design a Generic Portal for Entrepreneurs in the Netherlands

Becoming an entrepreneur is always attractive but challenging. Consequently, it would be convenient to have a place where entrepreneurs can find enough support to turn their idea into real business. The Generic Portal for Entrepreneurs (Business Portal in short) has been a project using ICT to build this place. To develop this portal, choosing...

Flow over oblique weirs

This report is the conclusion of a comprehensive set of experiments, which were performed on weirs placed obliquely in an open channel. Its purpose is to report on laboratory investigation on the flow over different types of oblique weirs, including behavior and hydraulic characteristic of the flow, different phenomena in the neighborhood of the...

Afzinktunnel 't Groene Hart: Een andere aanpak

Begin 1997 keurde het parlement de Planologische Kernbeslissing HSL-Zuid goed, waarin een 7 km-Iange boortunnel onder het Groene Hart is opgenomen. Het Atelier HSL-Zuid, dat werd opgericht om te kijken waar meer innovatie mogelijk was in het PKB, stelde in "Overstappen" voor om de tunnel te bouwen volgens de afzinkmethode in plaats van de...