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Kahler, Friso (author)<br/>Organ-on-Chip (OoC) is a technology that aims to increase the efficiency of drug development processes and organ models by engineering well-defined cell culture environments. Physiological relevant mechanical, chemical, or electrical cues provide in vivo-like microenvironments for realistic cell maturation. Biodegradable technologies have...master thesis 2024
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Fischer, Lucca (author)The office architecture of the 1970s and 1980s makes up a large part of Dutch office building stock, at about 30%. Most buildings are now in need of major renovation and often no longer correspond to today's aesthetic perception. In addition, the function of the buildings must be adapted to today's needs and technological standards. This is not...master thesis 2022
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Solbes Ferri, Irene (author)The objective of this master project is to improve the current SHM techniques for global damage identification of beam-like composite structures. The studied damage diagnosis method is based on structural vibrations from which the modal parameters are obtained. The literature study provides an overview of the most common vibration-based damage...master thesis 2022
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Siupik, Michał (author)Food and agricultural land become scarce, additionally farming industry’s water consumption, carbon emissions and land use are growing. Currently, the consumption of animal and processed products is high. This has a negative influence on public health and the environment. In parallel, the growing vacancy in Dutch cities creates an opportunity to...master thesis 2021
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Ham, Rutger (author)Vibration energy harvesting has proven to be a durable source of energy for a wide variety of applications, however not all of the positions these applications are placed at are suitable for conventional vibration energy harvesting. For some of these applications a frequency up-converted energy harvester could increase the power harvested. These...master thesis 2021
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Kindervater, Frederic (author)How does business traveling look like in the future? This master project examines the todays travel landscape and uncovers issues business travelers are experiencing during their trips. With the stakeholder Embraer - an aircraft manufacturer from Brazil - the context of this project is very intentionally set to a door-to-door journey with...master thesis 2019
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van Batenburg, Kimberley (author), van Heijningen, Boudewijn (author), Hoogendoorn, Hugo (author), Klarenbeek, Lara (author), Ridderinkhof, Geert (author)Growth of world population, sea level rise, land subsidence and climate change gives new challenges for the present and the future. A new innovative approach of engineers is needed to reach socio-economic development with care for the environment. In the Netherlands, an EcoShape consortium is initiated where multiple experts came together from...student report 2019
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Brooijmans, Sophie (author), Franken, Mathijs (author), de Iongh, Zilver (author), de Jong, Ward (author), van Marsbergen, Annemiek (author)Indonesia is one of the largest ocean pollutants in the world in terms of plastic emissions. The country has many tourist areas, including the island of Bali, which is the main tourist hub. The plastic problem is large around and on Bali, which has negative consequences for both the environment and the tourism sector. NGOs and the government are...student report 2019
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Dicker, Sjors (author)Peat is formed by biochemical processes and the accumulation of the soil depends on the aerobic and anaerobic conditions. The soil covers five to eight percent of the land surface of the earth. For this thesis a peat coming from a site called Markermeeer, which is a lake between the provinces Noord-Holland and Flevoland in the Netherlands, is...master thesis 2019
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Flores Herrera, Emma (author), Gori, Antoine (author), Ozcan, Aylin (author), Panayi, Zoe (author), Prida Guillén, Álvaro (author), Nimmi Sreekumar, Nimmi (author), van Unnik, Eline (author)The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake had a devastating impact on the town of Otsuchi in Iwate Prefecture, resulting in 1,234 immediate deaths and 59.6% of residential houses being fully damaged amongst other severe consequences. The post-disaster Reconstruction Plan (2011-2018) of this town focused on rebuilding the previously existing town with...student report 2019
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Kuipers, Titia (author)The frequency and severity of natural disasters is increasing worldwide, leading to a growing number of people struggling to survive. While climate related natural disasters affect large portions of the world, communities who are already struggling to survive due to conflict, insecurity or poverty are hit the most. In fragile states, slowly...master thesis 2019
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Cantoni, Irene (author), Gaido, Camila (author), Jonker, Tessa (author), van Gijzen, Laurie (author)Erosion of the cliffs at the Point Grey Peninsula threatens important infrastructure and buildings at UBC. In order to tackle this problem, UBC launched a comprehensive project called Living Breakwaters. This project is part of Living Breakwaters and aims to act as a transversal element among different expertise, integrating these...student report 2019
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Meijering, Jasper (author)In an emergency, humanitarian organisations share information to prevent redundant data collection and avoid gaps and overlap in the relief activities that they undertake. An analysis of hygiene kit distribution in the Bangladesh-Myanmar displacement crisis and consultation of both literature and humanitarian professionals led to the...master thesis 2019
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Schaffers, Nicholas (author)The Dutch yacht builder Zeelander Yachts is working on a new brand Dutchcraft wherefore they want to follow the transition from combustion drive-trains to electric drive-trains by creating a 25-feet electric tender. The company never built a tender or electric tender before. Causing, that the company has no knowledge about electric drive-trains...master thesis 2018
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Izma Rindamelia Effendi, Izma (author)More than ever, there is a growing importance of renewable energy technology (RET) as a part of the global energy source. With the increasing need of a cleaner energy and abundance incentives from the government, the evolution of innovating firms who are developing radical innovations related to RET products has been expanding, especially in the...master thesis 2018
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Botman, Paul (author), Gerritsma, Isabel (author), Laurens, Florian (author), Kievits, Servaas (author), Algufaili, Aisha (author), Albadi, Salima (author)This paper is the result of the first collaboration project between Delft University of Technology and Sohar University. The project team consisted of 6 core- members from both Sohar University and TU Delft along with 5 more students, together appointed to help find an answer for a problem stated by Sohar Industrial Port Company and Majis...student report 2018
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van der Linde, Lisa (author), Leclercq, Vincent (author), Wopereis, Ligaya (author)The United States of America have a safety standard for flood protection of 1/100 year. However the flood protections in the Washington D.C. do not comply with this requirement. During this study the levees in Washington D.C. area were analysed and it was found, that in order to comply with the 1/100 safety standard the levees in the...student report 2018
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Arias Arias, Maria (author)When looking at the world around us, most of our surroundings are artificially constructed. These constructions have persuasive power and affect human behaviour, whether intended or not (Tromp & Hekkert, 2018). The industrial design discipline is responsible for configuring our environment, and therefore, for the influence that they might...master thesis 2018
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Bosch, Paul (author)This graduation project contains the process and design of a dynamic modular sleep system. This system is a solution for problems caused by existing static beds. People change positions during their sleep and static beds do not adjust to these changes which may result in bad spinal alignment. This could be the cause of sleep- or medical...master thesis 2018
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Richards, Mick (author), Zaalberg, Piet (author), Vonck, Tim (author), Koster, Piebe (author), Kok, scipio (author), Lanphen, stephanie (author)The cities of Tenggarong and Samarinda in East Kalimantan are in need of a new source of drinking water, since their current source, the Mahakam river, is said to be polluted. The client of this project, Arsari Enviro Industri, owns a large concession named ITCI of a partly degraded forest 90 kilometers East of Samarinda. This report suggests...student report 2017