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Senobua, S. (author)This project aims to analyze any factor which influence the security related decision behaviour of the employees at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport security system and analyze the differences between employee categories.master thesis 2013
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Diliou, K. (author)According to the European Commission (2012), RPAS constitute a very promising new sector in the aerospace field in Europe. The emerging technology of RPAS and the variety of their civil applications (corporate, governmental, commercial, non-military) that make them useful for the military as well as the civil sector are related to monitoring...master thesis 2013
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Wang, H. (author)The effect of minimum wage policy on employment and working hours is crucial for assessing the overall effect of this policy. A large number of scholars studied this issue from both the theoretical and empirical perspectives, but still no consensus was reached. Under the background of economic rebalance which is a transition from the export...master thesis 2013
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Vasilopoulos, C. (author)Years of turmoil in the banking sector have revealed the need to assess the performance of banks and explore the resilience of the banking system under adverse futures. Banks are not the safe houses everyone believed them to be, as the recent crisis of 2007 showed. Today, banks are highly uncertain dynamically complex systems that are...master thesis 2013
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K?vári, A. (author)This project’s commissioner, the head of ING’s emerging markets credit trading desk developed a loan structure called Revenue Participation Loan to fit the needs of SMEs in emerging markets. He now wants to combine this new product with innovation in his approach to uncertainty. With these types of loans SMEs agree to pay a fixed percentage of...master thesis 2013
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Matienzo Carcases, Y. (author)Article: Quantitative modeling approaches to support strategic workforce planning Workforce planning is an activity performed by organizations to ensure that investments in human capital lead to effective achievement of organizational goals. At a strategic level, it tries to proactively design strategies to reduce gaps between demand and supply...master thesis 2013
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Gonzalez-Moscoso, J.A. (author)Climate change, population growth and increasing consumption patterns of water and increasing urbanisation are challenges and future uncertainties that place stress upon urban water infrastructures. These urban challenges, along with the complexities of asset-intensive systems and socio-economic structures, make the development of efficient long...master thesis 2013
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Fang, M.G.M. (author)Stadshavens Rotterdam [CityPorts Rotterdam] is a bounded area between the Beneluxtunnel and the Erasmusbrug. This area will undergo a transformation within the next 20 to 40 years. The total area of Stadshavens [CityPorts] encompasses 1,600 hectares and consists of four areas: 1. Rijnhaven-Maashaven; 2. Merwehaven-Vierhavens; 3. Eemhaven...master thesis 2013
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Jansen, P.R. (author)CB&I is experiencing an issue in a new project to be executed in Russia, named NKNK. Despite the rich experience CB&I has with projects, there is a continuous struggle with the sourcing process in projects which it involves financing by multiple export credit agencies. The issue at stake is, CB&I does not know beforehand in which countries it is...master thesis 2013
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Almeida Rodrigues, H. (author)Brazil has an emergent economy, large fresh water resources and is a leading country in food export in several products. While the aquaculture industry has an enormous potential, its production figures are still low when compared to industries such as the meat one. The structural challenges for the sector development can be seen as three types,...master thesis 2013
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Van den Hurk, M. (author)In the complex, adaptive systems of delta regions institutions are needed to arrange the behavior of the parties involved in the system. Institutions are systems of interrelated shared concepts consisting of strategies, rules and embedded norms used by humans to structure situations. When looking at the characteristics of a complex adaptive...master thesis 2013
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De Koning, J. (author)At some point in time all incumbent firms have to decide how to deal with radically new technologies. Due to the high uncertainty of return from such technologies companies might refrain from investing in such technologies early on. The threat of missing out on opportunities forces firms to make poorly based decisions. Within this thesis an...master thesis 2013
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Breeveld, R.R. (author)The Water Board in Lilongwe, Malawi is facing enormous challenges in providing access to urban citizens to safe and affordable drinking water. These challenges includes; keeping production levels up with drinking water demand, reducing the amount of physical and commercial water losses and collecting sufficient revenue to cover operational cost,...master thesis 2013
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Jiang, K. (author)Every five years, China develops a long-term plan called Five Year Plan. In recent fifteen years, China’s rapid economic development with environmental issues is becoming increasingly important. Until China’s 12th Five Year plan in 2010, it explicitly pointed out to promote green energy and develop energy-efficient economy to keep the country’s...master thesis 2012
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Zhang, H.F. (author)Microblog service has been becoming popular all over the world. The number of people owning a microblog account has been exponentially increasing during the last few years. With the development of microblog, more and more enterprises, media and political organizations open the microblog accounts. They make full use of the microblog platform to...master thesis 2012
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Tamayo Holguin, J.P. (author)Transnational transmission presents a possible source of income for power producers and a way to decrease costs for consumers. The difference in neighboring countries' market prices encourages traders to profit from it by selling cheaper electricity in the market that has price it higher. Since the parties that own the transmission (TSOs) lines...master thesis 2012
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Tudorie, A.A. (author)This research performed technology forecasting (TF) of electric vehicles (EV) using data envelopment analysis (DEA) with the purpose to determine to what extent TFDEA can be applied to predict the technological progress of electric vehicles. This study was commissioned by SKF, who is interested in having a useful forecasting tool to analyze EV...master thesis 2012
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Loonen, E. (author)The current European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) in combination with other renewable electricity (RES-E) support schemes such as a premium feed-in tariff (FIT) or tradable green certificates system (TGC) do not guarantee a carbon neutral power sector in 2050. This study shows that many plausible high carbon emissions futures exist when no...master thesis 2012
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Keizer, A. (author)Gas is essential to the functioning of the Dutch energy system, as it covers nearly half of the total primary energy supply in the Netherlands. Biogas obtained by the digestion of wet biomass may become a growing source of green energy for the Netherlands. The Dutch ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation (EL&I) considers biogas...master thesis 2012
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