The introduction of augmented reality: At the Oral & Maxillofacial Department of the University Medical Center Utrecht

The complexity and interdependency of hospital activities make it challenging to seamlessly integrate new technologies into clinical routines, especially with various stakeholders involved. Considering contextual factors when implementing innovations has been recognized as critical to success. This highlights the significance of an approach that...

The Hydraulic WILMER Tweezer: Design and Development of a Hydraulic Voluntary Closing Mechanism within a Body Powered Split-Hook Prosthesis

Background Despite its high demand, prostheses are too often abandoned because they fail to meet the main requirements control, comfort and cosmesis. Body-powered hook prostheses provide good control due to their proprioceptive feedback but are in general not efficient nor appealing. The WILMER group has developed an appealing voluntary-opening...

The Transformation Game: A research into the municipal boundaries and means of development optimisation of transformation projects

In transformation projects the land-use needs to be changed. Developers must therefore apply for a change in the land-use plan or environmental permit to deviate from the land-use plan. Municipalities set all kinds off requirements for planning participation, these requirements can jeopardise the feasibility of the transformation plan. The...

Place for Prosperity: fostering environments for children

The first interactions of the child with its environment can already have long-lasting impacts on its worldview (weltanschauung) and psychoanalytical state. This makes the architecture of housing, especially in poor regions, such as Nalasopara in Mumbai, a critical key point for the development of the next generations. However, after the...

Dynamic Adaptive Development Pathways: A participatory planning approach to support sustainable development under uncertain future conditions

Rural communities in drylands of low-income countries represent highly vulnerable societies that are<br/>often strongly affected by the increased climate variability (UNDP, 2007/2008). Additionally to climatic<br/>uncertainty, local households have also to cope with strongly fluctuating political and economic<br/>conditions, which are difficult...

The Ring Screw: Modelling, Development and Evaluation of a Novel Screw Transmission

Rotational electric actuators are the most popular choice for actuation in modern day automation. These actuators are commonly used in combination with a transmission system. In this paper, the development of a new rotational to linear transmission technology, called the ring screw, is described, and its real-world performance is evaluated...

The Opportunity in the Vacancy: The Effects of Automobile Dependence in U.S. Cities

Automobile dependence and suburban sprawl have a cyclical compounding relationship. Automobiles require a large amount of space and infrastructure in order to be an effective means of transit. This prompts constructing the urban environment at a lower density, which generates suburban sprawl. The low-density development then requires an...

Product design for effective development aid

During my master thesis, I developed a method for designers to establish self-sustaining product systems in third world countries. This journey started off with the quest to fight plastic waste pollution of the rural areas in Kenya. After thorough field- and technological research, I developed a toolset that allows locals to transform plastic...

Development of a Ship Performance Monitoring System and Data Analysis of Spliethoff Vessels

Spliethoff is a ship-operating company with around 120 cargo vessels under management.<br/>The vessels of Spliethoff are generating a lot of operational data as they sail around the globe. To make better decisions based on this data, a system is required that takes operational data and translates it to useful information, accessible in the offce...

Exploring the Innovation Phase of Radically-New High-Tech Products: An Investigation of Two Historical Cases of AIDC Technologies

The transformation of a new technological principle into a marketable product usually signifies a long and risky route for organizations engaged in the commercialization of radically new high-tech products. New products often fail to make it to the market, are delayed for their market introduction, or are withdrawn shortly after their market...

HipHop: A New Perspective for Garfield Park, Chicago.

Garfield Park is a neglected neighborhood in between the city center and the suburbs of Chicago. During the 60s the white middle class moved out to the suburbs to live the “American Dream”. Poor black people moved in and at the same time crime started to rise. Right now the citizens are suffering a live full of poverty and are suppressed by...

Key Requirements for the Successful Development of Resource Exchanging Clusters

The objective of this research project was to develop a set of requirements for the successful development of resource sharing business parks. In this research resource sharing business parks differ from EIPs in that there is no closed loop condition for materials and energy for resource sharing business park as this condition creates extra...

Shifting trajectories: Construct Urban Strategies to Restructure Mumbai’s Main Centralities and their Functional Relationships to Facilitate the Development of Metropolitan Hinterlands

The project attempts to develop a strategic proposal through urban framed technique which structurally address the scalar increase of Mumbai megacity and its unequal opportunities. The result is to establish an integration of urban-business environments through Hi-speed infrastructures and therefore, reconfigure development towards hinterlands...

Q13a Amstel Field Development

The Amstel oil field is located in block Q13a in the Dutch southern North Sea about 13 km off the coast of Scheveningen. The oil is trapped in an Early Cretaceous reservoir which is informally named Amstel Sandstone. At present, the production license of the field is held by Gaz de France Suez, TAQA Energy has a 10% share. The Amstel field is...