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Burcksen, Maud (author)The post-war reconstruction of the Sint Laurens Church in Rotterdam after World War II marked a pivotal moment in the city’s history. This abstract provides an overview of the comprehensive examination of the reconstruction process, exploring the architectural resilience, renovation discussions, and the culmination of renovation efforts. Through...student report 2024
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Asia, Jowel (author)The Citadel of Aleppo is one of the oldest and largest castles in the world, and the greatest landmark of Aleppo. Located on top of a hill in the middle of the city, it stands as a symbol of resilience, having faced many challenges during various historical events through the centuries. This thesis analyses the architectural trajectory of Aleppo...student report 2024
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Wiers, Christiaan (author)With the current transition towards renewable and high-tech solutions, the world is becoming increasingly complex. Consequently, the challenges faced by firefighters also intensify. For that reason, firefighting robots are rising in popularity despite being far from perfect. An important area of improvement is the perception capabilities of...master thesis 2024
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Cools, Liam (author)Counter-acting image quality degradation caused by phase aberrations through physical correction requires the phase field to be known. As imaging hardware captures real-valued intensity, defined as the wave amplitude squared, obtaining this lost phase information is known as the phase retrieval problem and is a non-linear and non-convex...master thesis 2023
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Verseput, Marien (author)Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive tool to image the body’s anatomy and physiology, but suffers from long scan times. Compressed Sensing (CS) is used to accelerate MRI scans by incoherently taking fewer measurements and using a nonlinear optimization algorithm to image the undersampled data. Convex optimization techniques are...master thesis 2023
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Sitaram, Arnish (author)Unsteady numerical simulation has been proven to be an essential tool for research. The quality of the results can be improved by using mesh adaptation. Mesh adaptation uses error indicators to refine the mesh in regions with high errors. The error indicators used are output errors with the most accurate output error estimation method being...master thesis 2023
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Bron Jacobs, Joachim (author)A Tomographic Background-Oriented Schlieren (TBOS) technique is developed to aid in the visualization of compressible flows. An experimental setup was devised around a sub-scale rocket nozzle, in which four cameras were set up in a circular configuration with 30° angular spacing in azimuth. Measurements were taken of the overexpanded supersonic...student report 2023
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Talsma, Maaike (author)Osteoarthritis (OA) is a progressive joint degeneration disease resulting in joint pain, stiffness, and loss of mobility. Among patients with anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR), OA incidence is increased. Articular cartilage (AC) degeneration is irreversible, therefore prevention and early detection are essential. Specifically, the...master thesis 2023
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Berning, Max (author)Flood defense will have to be strengthened all over the world as sea level rise poses great challenges for the safety of coastal settlements. Strengthening traditional hard flood defenses is becoming increasingly more difficult due to limited space in the coastal zone and large costs inflicted with renovation. Adaptive ‘soft solutions’ pose an...master thesis 2023
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Zheng, Quan (author)Image reconstruction from neural activation data is a field that has been growing in popularity with developments such as neuralink in the brain-machine interface space. To make better decisions when collecting data for this purpose, it is important to know what qualities to optimize for. The present paper investigates the relation between...bachelor thesis 2023
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Smolin, Nikita (author)This study aims to investigate the impact of various denoising algorithms on the quality of visual stimulus reconstructions based on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. While fMRI provides a valuable, noninvasive method for assessing brain activity, the reliability of this data can be impaired by multiple noise types, including...bachelor thesis 2023
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Mercier, Arthur (author)Reconstructing seen images from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scans has been a growing topic of interest in the field of neuroscience, fostered by innovation in machine learning and AI. This paper investigates the possible presence of personal features allowing the identification of subjects from their reconstructed images....bachelor thesis 2023
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El Coudi El Amrani, Nafie (author)Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in photo-realistic 3D reconstruction. NeRFs often take as input posed images where the camera poses come from either off-the-shelf S\textit{f}M or online optimization together with NeRFs. However, we find that both strategies yield suboptimal results in recovering camera...master thesis 2023
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Moes, Iris (author)<b>Introduction: </b>Breast reconstruction after a mastectomy is crucial to improve a patient’s quality of life. The Deep Inferior Epigastric artery Perforator (DIEP) flap procedure is considered the golden standard for breast reconstruction. Three-dimensional (3D) visualization methods have shown promise in providing a better understanding of...master thesis 2023
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den Hertog, Hanna (author)<i><b>Background </b></i>Dynamic SPECT scanning provides a non-invasive way to image the time-dependent distribution of radio-labelled tracers inside living tissue. Beside human medicine, dynamic SPECT also finds its applications in pre-clinical research on small animals. In pre-clinical research, multi-pinhole collimators are used to enable...bachelor thesis 2023
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Kurzacz, Klaudia (author)As a result of the war, the city center of Gdańsk was almost destroyed. The degree of its destruction was estimated at nearly 90%. With the war’s end, a new stage in the history of Gdańsk began. New inhabitants appeared; some came from other regions of former Poland, e.g., Vilnius and Lviv. It is hard to imagine, but the decision to rebuild the...student report 2023
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Zeilinger, Luisa (author)This thesis seeks to understand how the architecture of embassies has changed since the 19th century. Historically, it was not the building but the ambassador that reflected the state. With the focus moving toward permanent buildings that can undertake the vast bureaucracy of modern diplomacy, the representation of the state has moved from...student report 2023
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Englmann, Elena (author)Sep Ruf (1908-1982) was one of the most significant architects of German post-war modernism and played a key role in the rebuilding of several cities after World War II, particularly Munich. Along with other German modernist architects and supporters of the New Building movement, Ruf sought to initiate an intellectual renewal of architecture as...student report 2023
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Awad, Dana (author)Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, similar to many war destructed cities, has undergone major transformations post-civil war. Lebanon today is very much a result of the differences between different religions and religious sects the country witnesses on a political and social level. These disagreements made way in every decision making process...student report 2023
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Zhou, Longyi (author)Through both the lens of sustainability and current events, particularly the pandemic, there is an increasing awareness of the importance of adaptability and intensive use of buildings. In the Netherlands, one form of adaptability and intensive use emerged in the second half of the 20th century in school buildings. One of the main ideas is that...student report 2023