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Kalb, Annelotte (author)On January 1st 2024, the Environment and Planning Act (EPA) took effect in the Netherlands. This legislation aims to simplify existing environmental legislation for spatial projects by combining them into one. An important pillar of the EPA, specifically of the environmental permit, is public participation. However, the safeguarding of this in...master thesis 2024
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Hjörvarsdóttir, Soley (author)Concrete is the second most used material in the world after water and recent trends show no slowing down of the concrete use around the world. Concrete is also a huge contributor to CO2 emissions as it makes up 8% of emissions. This study investigates the optimization of concrete structures to reduce environmental impact while maintaining...master thesis 2024
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van Dijk, Mees (author)Algorithms which can effectively detect epileptic seizures have the potential to improve current treatment methods for people who suffer from epilepsy. The current state-of-the-art methods use neural networks, which are able to learn directly from the electroencephalogram (EEG) data without feature extraction. However, neural networks have...master thesis 2024
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Spruit, Anouk (author)The UNEP-SETAC framework is the most well-known framework for including land use and land-use change (LULUC) impacts in life cycle assessment (LCA) in scientific literature. Yet issues regarding the framework’s validity have been recognized by several researchers and the framework has not been implemented in common LCA practices. Due to the need...master thesis 2024
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Bergers, Yara (author)In Dutch hospital construction projects, the project goals are not always met, budgets are overrun, delays in planning, and the progress of the projects do not proceed the way that is expected. The complexity of the hospital construction projects influence the possible outcome of the projects. Project failure is often linked to the hard sides of...master thesis 2024
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Iancu, Alexandru (author)Given the expected increase of automation in the vehicles of the future, touchscreens are expected to be used in a wide variety of scenarios, including the ones that can become safety-critical.<br/>One disadvantage of the direct interaction approach that characterizes touchscreen operation is the feedthrough of accelerations through the human...master thesis 2024
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ten Bosch, Gijs (author), Tian, J. (author), Umasankar, G. (author), Voncken, Christel (author), Zwienink, Leonie (author)Currently, the Southwestern Delta is ill. The inability to produce its essential ecosystem services hinders the Delta from being healthy. Systems that make the Delta economy prosper are the main reasons for this obstruction. If current hazards like salinisation, soil depletion, and nitrogen pollution continue; the livelihood of the peri-urban...student report 2024
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Auerbach, Daniel (author)The human-machine interfaces (HMIs) in passenger cars have become more complex over the years, with touch screens replacing physical buttons and more options becoming available. This can result in multiple layers of menus that have to be navigated to perform simple tasks and therefore increase distraction. In addition to this, there is no...master thesis 2024
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Chin-A-Pauw, Laurens (author)In this thesis, we aim to improve the application of deep reinforcement learning in portfo- lio optimization. Reinforcement learning has in recent years been applied to a wide range of problems, from games to control systems in the physical world and also to finance. While reinforcement learning has shown success in simulated environments (e.g....master thesis 2024
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Bootsma, Sybren (author)Aerodynamic stall has been a critical factor in recent aircraft crashes, leading to revisions in the regulations on the fidelity of stall models in flight simulation training devices. However, the updated regulations still lack a clearly defined accuracy required for effective pilot training. To determine the required accuracy, this research...master thesis 2024
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den Bakker, Yvonne (author)E-mobility, in particular electric vehicles (EVs), play a crucial role in the energy transition. While businesses are increasingly adopting EVs, there is still a lot of opportunity to grow. One aspect of this growth is the way these vehicles are used by companies, especially when it comes to the logistics of EV charging. To encourage companies...master thesis 2024
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Ponsioen, Stijn (author)In the dynamic realm of medical technology, innovation to improve the lives of those with chronic conditions like Parkinson's Disease (PD) is paramount. This graduation report represents the culmination of a project aiming to address prevalent symptoms in individuals with PD.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Client and Objective:</p...master thesis 2024
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van Aalst, Marjolein (author)Land administration is the organized and systematic process of establishing and maintaining information about land. The efficient practice of land administration is anticipated to organize land registers for the provision of cross-sector and cross-border land administration services. Such a system should provide fundamental information regarding...master thesis 2024
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Dinklo, Constantijn (author)Computation Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations are used in a diverse set of fields such as aerodynamics, automotive, biomedical engineering and wind impact. With the advancements in technology the scale of these simulations has increased significantly. This has resulted in \textit{massive} CFD simulations --- simulations that do not fully fit...master thesis 2024
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Ławniczak, Aron (author)Coastal areas face increasing threat from erosion. The use of coastal protection structures is imperative to counter this. Concrete “armouring” is widely used due to durability and cost-effectiveness. Conventional methods of “armouring” result in habitat degradation and loss of biodiversity. ECOncrete developed Coastalock, an armour unit...master thesis 2024
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Bras, Chris (author)Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) open avenues for communication among individuals unable to use voice or gestures. Silent speech interfaces are one such approach for BCIs that could offer a trans- formative means of connecting with the external world. Performance on imagined speech decoding however is rather low due to, amongst others, data...master thesis 2024
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Verburg, Corné (author)This thesis addresses the challenge of segmenting ultra-high-resolution images. Limitations of current approaches to segment these are that either detailed spatial contextual information is lost or many redundant computations are necessary. To overcome these issues, we propose a novel approach combining the U-Net architecture with domain...master thesis 2024
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Andries, Jerom (author)The field of automated vehicles gains more and more attention each year as the effective implementation of such vehicles in real life is imminent. The increasing amount of scientific studies addressing the impact of automated vehicles on the traffic network shows the same trend. While much research focuses on regular intersections, only a few...master thesis 2024
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van der Maarel, Stefan (author)Traditional financial companies play a central role in ensuring financial stability and reliability. However, these companies face institutional problems due to inefficiencies, lack of transparency and limited innovation. For this reason, the use of distributed ledger technology, or blockchain, has been explored as an alternative and its...master thesis 2024
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Dirks, Remco (author)Brachytherapy (BT) is an essential component in the curative treatment of cervical cancer. With commercial BT implant devices, called applicators, the radioactive sources can only be positioned in fixed intracavitary channels or in a fixed array of interstitial needles. Patient-tailored BT applicators containing individualised needle channels...master thesis 2024