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Venturi, Laura (author)In a world marked by rapid technological advancements and environmental concerns, clean technology clusters have become hubs of innovation. Attracting investment in these clusters has gained significant attention from scholars and industry professionals, which aim at understanding which activities companies can undertake in order to increase the...master thesis 2023
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Puh, Maurizia (author)Ecosystem services (ES), the benefits humans receive from nature, increasingly come under pressure in Stockholm, one of the fastest growing capitals in Europe. To enhance the amount of eco-efficient area, Stockholm developed the Green Space Index (GSI). It is not known which areas in Stockholm might be particularly vulnerable in terms of ES...master thesis 2023
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Zhang, Manning (author)Searchable symmetric encryption (SSE) is an encryption scheme that allows a single user to perform searches over an encrypted dataset. The advent of dynamic SSE has further enhanced this scheme by enabling updates to the encrypted dataset, such as insertions and deletions. In dynamic SSE, attackers have employed file injection attacks, initially...master thesis 2023
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Roeleven, Iris (author)In today’s world, the transport system is essential in helping people reach the activities they want or need to attend. However, like in many other fields, inequality can exist in access to various opportunities based on personal characteristics. Little is known about how gender and intersectional factors impact people's perceived accessibility....master thesis 2023
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de La Vega Bayma de Oliveira, Luisa (author)Accessibility is a fundamental concept concerning urban and transport planning as it is the elementary basis for socio-economic development in cities. It can be described as the potential to reach spatially distributed opportunities. Recent research has identified that excluding person-based features from this analysis might cause inaccurate...master thesis 2023
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Tao, Jack (author)With the development of 5G/6G communication technology, an increasing number of communication protocols for data transmission are created and implemented. At the same time, the redundancy of packet headers has become a matter to be optimized when transferring packets across different protocol layers, which causes high resource occupancy, low...master thesis 2023
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Barnard, Mia (author)Namibia has been home to some of the world’s oldest ethnic groups since the dawn of civilization. One of these cultures is the Himba, often referred to as ‘the last true pastoral nomads’ of Africa. They are known for inhabiting the water scarce desert region of Kunene in Namibia for centuries. Now, various factors, including climate change and...master thesis 2023
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de Waal, Olaf (author)Train stations are developed by rail companies, for the benefit of travellers. Choices and trade-offs must be made. However, there are no guidelines on how to approach these trade-offs. This study aims to find out to what extent consulting train travellers from the station developer’s perspective contributes to making trade-offs in the...master thesis 2023
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Schreuder, Julia (author)The housing shortage in the Netherlands has been a pressing issue, particularly affecting starters and middle-income households who struggle with high prices and limited access to affordable housing. In response, there have been interventions and policies aimed at stimulating starters to access the housing market, but the supply of adequate and...master thesis 2023
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Alhamad, Alaa (author)This project aims to transform an old vacant office former tax building in Leeuwarden into a healthy living community, enhancing the health and well-being of its residents. By creating a welcoming environment with green spaces and amenities, the project promotes physical and mental well-being, community engagement, and high quality of life. The...master thesis 2023
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van Os, Thijmen (author)The 15-minute city is an urban planning concept which seeks to enhance social sustainability by improving accessibility. In this master thesis accessibility in Amsterdam Nieuw-West is explored to better understand the link between the 15-minute city concept and social sustainability to answer the research question: To what extent is the 15...master thesis 2023
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Ibrahim, Ahmed (author)This systematic review investigates the practices and implications of human annotations in machine learning (ML) research. Analyzing a selection of 100 papers from the IEEE Access Journal, the study explores the data collection and reporting methods employed. The findings reveal a prevalent lack of standardization and formalization in the...bachelor thesis 2023
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Muisers, Deanne (author)The Netherlands has been in a serious housing crisis for the past few years. The current housing shortage is estimated at 315.000 units and house prices have increased significantly. Especially first-time buyers experience a decrease in accessibility to the Dutch owner-occupied housing market, and their position on the housing market...master thesis 2023
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Zweers, Loraine (author)- There is increasing attention in the Netherlands in the topic of transport<br/>poverty and accessibility, with several publications discussing the need for accessibility standards to indicate injustice in the transportation system. Numerous case studies can be found where accessibility has been measured and assessed for fairness in the...master thesis 2023
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Chen, Wen-Yu (author)Transport decision-making determines people’s level of accessibility and deeply influences an individual’s access to social and economic opportunities and the quality of life. Socially vulnerable populations are highly dependent on yet often more likely to have less access to transport services and experience lower accessibility. This creates...master thesis 2023
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Vollebregt, Frank (author)There are an estimated 253 million blind and visually impaired people in the world. To grant them access to text publications that contain images, experts are employed to write image descriptions. There is both a societal and a legislative pressure to supply image descriptions to all new and archived publications within a number of years, yet...master thesis 2023
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Lund, Alexia Marie (author)Historically, our society has demonstrated tendencies of exclusion towards those who misfit the norms. While there may be innumerable factors that come into play in these scenarios, such tendencies of marginalization seem to hold a strong connection to aspects of the built environment. As one of the many standardized systems in our world, design...master thesis 2023
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van Wee, G.P. (author), de Jong, Tom (author)This paper explores to what extent inequalities in travel times, measured via the Gini index, depend on the spatial scale at which (average) travel times are measured. By using the new concept of Dedicated Accessibility Points, for the Netherlands we calculated average travel times at four spatial levels, ranging from virtually individual...journal article 2023
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Pera, M.S. (author), Wright, Katherine Landau (author), Kennington, Casey (author), Fails, Jerry Alan (author)In this vision paper, we spotlight children as often underserved users in the digital ecosystem. With online search as a use case, we discuss the need for a multi-perspective approach to designing interactive interfaces and technologies that can enable information access systems to better respond to children's requirements while respecting...journal article 2023
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This open access book offers a multidisciplinary and comprehensive perspective regarding the immediate and long-term effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on coworking spaces in the European Region. The current pandemic has imposed several effects on work and spaces for work. Some are immediate effects and will last for a short time (such as the...book 2023