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van Lent, Jard (author)The industry devoted to keeping us healthy is also one of the largest contributors to climate change: one of the greatest threats to our well-being. Medical devices and services are often designed in and for high-income countries. However, they are also used in low- and middle-income countries. Due to this mismatch of context, they are often not...master thesis 2021
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Vester, Indy (author)Plastics that originate from renewable sources, such as potatoes or fungi, are called biobased plastics. Because of their origin, biobased plastics pose as sustainable alternative to traditional plastics, which are made from oil, a fossil substance. CoffeeBased is a small company that manufactures biobased plastic products, using their own...master thesis 2021
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de Vos, Jerry (author)Plastic pollution is a well-known problem worldwide, and is still growing. It negatively affects humans and wildlife through animal death, groundwater pollution and incorporation of micro plastics in our digestive system. There are many initiatives focusing on reducing the negative effects of plastic pollution, but the amount of plastic consumed...master thesis 2021
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Mucha, Asja (author)In Low-to-Middle-Income Countries more than 95% of the medical equipment are devices donated by NGOs, usually second hand, refurbished devices from High Income Country Hospitals. However, the lack of consumables and spare parts and infrastructural limitations lead to 70% of that equipment not working, or working improperly shortly after being...master thesis 2020
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Guo, Cheng (author)In Bangladeshi rural areas, the groundwater may get contaminated with chemical contaminants. Aiming at removing chemical contaminants, piped water supply(PWS) systems were built. However, due to insufficient water quality tests, a lack of households' participation with the monitoring and maintenance of the PWS system, together with a lack of an...master thesis 2020
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THOMAS, NAYANTARA (author)When we think about the fact that 70% of the earth is covered by water, it may be easy to assume that water is abundant and that it would never have to be an issue in terms of having a constant supply to drink. In reality, it is a very complex matter for everyone to be able to access and drink safe water. Water is essential to maintain life on...master thesis 2020
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Malage, Girish (author)Access to safe and affordable surgery is nothing short of a basic human right and people from all walks of life are entitled to it. But, five people from resource-constrained low and middle-income countries are vulnerable and left to fend for themselves when the need for surgery is a life governing event. Inhabitants of these regions are...master thesis 2020
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de Vries, Celia (author)This graduation project focusses on the circular economy as a broader topic and stimulating specific circular behaviour within adolescents as a scope. The municipality has a specific division called Rotterdam Circulair tasked with the assignment of accelerating the city of Rotterdam towards a circular economy. The designer of this project has...master thesis 2020
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Jager, R.J. (author)The context of disaster response is incredibly complex due to its chaotic nature and the large number of variabilities per disaster. This complexity makes it difficult for developers of digital tools for disaster response to understand the context of the products they develop. However, a lack of understanding of the use context can result in the...master thesis 2020
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Verweij, Peter (author)In this report, the design process of a high precision positioning system for Ghana is described. The system consists of two devices, a base station and a user operated rover. These devices provide precision positioning, using dual frequency receivers and the principle of differential positioning. The high precision positioning system can be...master thesis 2020
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Hoeboer, Max (author)Urinary schistosomiasis is with over 110 million infected people one of the most common parasitic infections worldwide, most commonly found in Sub-Saharan Africa. Urinary schistosomiasis is caused by the Schistosoma Haematobium (SH) parasite. The most common diagnostic method is manual microscopy, in which urine is manually examined to see...master thesis 2019
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Salarić, Petra (author)In India, there is an existing taboo of menstruation which has an impact on the well-being of women in different ways - from education, economics, health, religion to different personal aspects. Many activities are happening in India towards improving the situation around menstruation - from governmental activities and plans, provision of...master thesis 2019
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Conversano, Irene (author)One in four people in the world will be affected by mental or neurological disorders at some point in their lives (WHO, 2001). Around 450 million people currently suffer from such conditions, placing mental disorders among the leading causes of ill- health and disability worldwide, in particular in low-income countries, where many barriers to...master thesis 2019
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Parmar, Hardikkumar (author)The concept of Venturedam was developed to solve societal challenges in India by nurturing the strength of the innovations made in the Netherlands. For Dutch startups to expand to a new market like India that has a considerable difference in the context, it is first required to redefine the value proposition and the business model specific to...master thesis 2019
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Oyekan, I.M. (author)This graduation project focuses on the process of developing a Women’s Empowerment programme for aspiring female entrepreneurs in the Gambia. The goal of this programme is to create an opportunity for women to start and develop their own sandals company, with sandals made from natural/ consumer waste materials, freely or cheaply obtainable in...master thesis 2017
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de Boer, J.T. (author)In the graduation project of Remmerswaal, N. (2015), a concept for a new building system for the Indonesian kampung was developed: The CAST formwork system. The development of the concept was based on several identified problems of the Indonesian construction sector. The project concluded with a first design of the CAST formwork system, in this...master thesis 2017
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Oomes, R. (author)This integrated master thesis presents the outcomes of a conducted research to obtain a double master degree of the masters Strategic Product Design and Science Communication. This research focused on brand development in technical start-ups before product launch. Both a practical and a theoretical study has been conducted, which resulted in a...master thesis 2017
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den Heeten, Thomas (author)1.3 billion people in the world lack access to electricity (International Energy Agency (2013). The largest share of this group is poor and lives in the developing world, and has to deal with unmet basic needs. Having the possibility to use reliable and clean energy is seen as a driver for social development and environmental sustainability....master thesis 2017
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Vaendel, T.M.A. (author)Within the scope of ‘circular economy in emerging markets’ the aim of this exploratory graduation project is to design a local application for educational purposes with the recycled PET filament that will be developed by Urban Mining in Colombia. A major issue in Colombia is the problem of plastic waste that often ends up in landfill as well as...master thesis 2017
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de Witte, S. (author)The challenge Around 2.5 billion people in the world still don’t have access to clean and safe cooking facilities. Improved cook stoves are designed in order to change this situation. This thesis is about the further development of the ACE-1 stove. Aim is to increase the chance of successful adoption in the contexts of rural South Africa, Uganda...master thesis 2016