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Huizing, Zoé (author)Social enterprises play a significant role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Measuring the social impact of social enterprises presents several challenges, including the complexity of social issues, the need for standardized metrics, and the limited resources available. Obtaining funding is crucial for social enterprises to...master thesis 2023
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Hovestad, Harmen (author)Military decision-making involves art and science and aims to translate strategic goals into tactical actions for achieving specific outcomes. It relies on a commander’s capacity to navigate complex and sometimes ambiguous situations to develop detailed plans and actionable orders. At the military tactical level, decisions focus on executing...master thesis 2023
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Frazer, Timo (author)This research focuses on optimizing the performance of a hybrid warehouse system that combines automation with manual picking processes. The study utilizes a case study of an online grocer, Picnic, and investigates the allocation of orders within a buffer and the configuration of the manual picking process.<br/><br/>The research identifies the...master thesis 2023
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Tutuarima, Willemijn (author)When a crime is committed, the task of the regional control rooms is to use the available situational information to identify the possible movements of a fugitive suspect to use in positioning police units. Currently, the methods to do this rely heavily on the intuition and experience of the control room employees and the speed of technology and...master thesis 2023
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Aslan, Yaren (author)Inland Waterway Transport (IWT) is an untapped resource that can be mobilised to achieve a more sustainable transport system without compromising competitiveness. It outperforms rail and road alternatives in terms of low emissions, costs, high capacity, energy efficiency, freight safety, and security. Waterway locks are ageing assets in IWT...master thesis 2023
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Schuring, Roman (author)A monopile installation project consists of the whole process of loading monopiles to vessels, transporting monopiles to the wind farm and drilling monopiles in the seabed. Each installation project has different characteristics as the weather at the installation location, the distances to the suppliers and the vessels that are available differ...master thesis 2023
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van Velzen, Lisa (author)The city of Amsterdam is facing various challenges in managing urban freight transport within its historic and densely populated inner city. With a rapidly growing population and increasing number of trips to, from, and within the city, Amsterdam is facing pressure on accessibility, road safety and quality of life. Furthermore, Amsterdam needs...master thesis 2023
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Aerden, Veronica (author)The Port of Rotterdam is the biggest port in Europe and with its great location an important place for trade between Europe and other continents. Record numbers of intercepted illegal goods show that criminals use this port to traffic illegal goods. A lot is still unknown about the criminal supply chain in the Port of Rotterdam and about the...master thesis 2023
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Post, Hanneke (author)The pressure on healthcare systems is increasing all over the world. With an ageing world population, the costs for healthcare and the shortages in medical staff are continually increasing. In the Netherlands, out-of-hours general practitioner departments, or ‘huisartsenposten’, suffer from this increasing pressure in their telephone triage...master thesis 2021
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Salome, Stefan (author)In the military field, detailed simulation models are often used to get insight in the consequences of choices regarding the composition of a force and the extent to which it can be kept deployable. With detailed models, the main idea is to capture all real-world complexity relevant for decision-making processes. However, detailed models tend to...master thesis 2021
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van Baarle, Ilmo (author)Covid-19 has proven how uncertain the future can be. However, traffic models fail to fully acknowledge this uncertainty. Therefore, decisions made based on these models are not very robust. In this research, Robust Decision Making (RDM) method is applied on a macro-level traffic model made for the municipality of Groningen. This method,...master thesis 2021
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Westerveld, Julian (author)The duration of protection that COVID-19 vaccines provide is still uncertain (Murray & Piot, 2021). Therefore, a possible future scenario is that the entire population will need an extra dose of a vaccine. Yearly recurring flu vaccinations take place at general practices (GP), so this might also be the case for COVID-19 vaccinations. General...master thesis 2021
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Kuipers, Lucas (author)Being able to timely access and share accurate information to all stakeholders that can influence a supply chain is referred to as <i>supply chain visibility</i>. Supply chain visibility is crucial for increasing the resilience of a...master thesis 2021
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Ditewig, Bor (author)Technology has an increasing role in the modern day health care system. Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) is an area of biomedical engineering including the domains of planning, needs assessment, selection, procurement, donations, inventory, installation and maintenance of medical equipment (WHO, 2017). This thesis deals with HTM in Dutch...master thesis 2021
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Kim, Tess (author)The Airport Coordination Netherlands monitors the conformity of airlines to the allocated slots in cooperation with the relevant authorities. ACNL discovered the non-conformity behaviour of slot usage in Schiphol Airport of the Netherlands, and among nine types of misuses, this paper will discuss the one type of misuses: a flight operated at a...master thesis 2021
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Fecondo, Federica (author)From a practical perspective, the UK, like so many other countries, is struggling to have a complete HTM implementation. The sources suggest that British health care managers face financial and personnel availability pressures, and this makes it difficult to follow the instructions provided by the various organizations for the implementation of...master thesis 2021
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Miron, Bogdan (author)With healthcare systems being regarded as one of the critical infrastructure sectors, evaluated as a multi-trillion-dollar industry, and with 5 % to 10 % of total health expenditures allocated to medical devices, it is important to pay special attention to what and how technologies are brought into hospitals. This is heavily influenced by good...master thesis 2021
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aan het Rot, Harmen (author)A mixed-methods research to study the effect of a mediated environment on player experience and the result of the game Cue Kitchen, that aims to increase awareness about the invisible symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease in the social environment of people with Parkinson’smaster thesis 2021
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Buist, Declan (author)Modern supply chain and procurement departments are faced with a lot of challenges. Supply chains have become global, resulting in complex networks. With access to more information customers have access and have become more demanding on issues such as quality or sustainability. This has led to an increased interest among different companies in...master thesis 2020
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Macquart, Laurane (author)Persuasive games for complex systems have subtle messages they want to convince stakeholders of the complex system of in question of in order to help them solve certain problems. However, there currently is little known about the persuasive game design principles used in those games to convey the persuasive message, especially how people with...master thesis 2019