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Van der Marel, F. (author)Within the field of Product Design is an increasing interest in designing with emerging markets. Considering how long people have already been concerned with increasing global living standards it is surprising how little has been achieved. This suggests our current methods are insufficient. The Capability Approach (CA) by Amartya Sen offers a...master thesis 2012
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Zhang, Ziru (author)E-bike sharing has gradually gained popularity in recent years, while the research in this field is still quite limited. This study applies data-driven methods, mainly demand pattern analysis, to facilitate the development of operational strategies in a cost-effective and operator-friendly way. Demand pattern is analysed in an innovative spatial...master thesis 2021
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Sripathy, Kiran (author)Commercial FSI solvers employ partitioned FSI, wherein CFD and CSM solvers are used sequentially to resolve the coupling of interface displacement and stress/force. For strongly coupled problems, multiple sub-iterations of both the solvers are required for a stable and accurate solution. IQN-ILS framework requires fewer sub-iterations for...master thesis 2021
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Mezger, W.W. (author)During the last decade shale formations have been successfully explored in the United States and both oil and gas is currently produced from them. This successful development led to a global interest in shale formations. To assess the worldwide shale oil and gas potential, the Energy International Agency (EIA) investigated the shale formations...master thesis 2014
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Spiegeler, Jap (author)The current practice of bridge maintenance decision-making is informed by subjective visual inspection data with a long time interval between measurements, which creates inefficiencies and possible loss of value in the maintenance entity’s capabilities. New opportunities from technology-related innovations for measurement devices are available...master thesis 2017
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Aldea, Anna (author)This master’s thesis reports on the development of a tool intended to support the evaluation of a Human-Machine-Interface (HMI) through the use of Virtual Reality Technology. The project was initiated and supervised by SWOV, the Dutch Institute for Road Safety Research, as part of the MEDIATOR Project, which tackles the challenge of developing a...master thesis 2021
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Van Zelm, L.F. (author)Worldwide rising gas demand is creating new opportunities for low-permeability gas reservoirs to be exploited with large hydraulic fracturing campaigns. These so-called tight gas reservoirs have been subject of much research over the past three decades, primarily because it is difficult to optimize recovery. In this thesis, post-fracture...master thesis 2010
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Andringa, Sybe (author)With what objectives do policymakers make transport policy? This fundamental question is subject to a paradigm shift within transport policymaking in the Netherlands. There is an increasing call to let go of the predominant focus on economic well-being and consider a broader notion of well-being instead. However, how exactly this 'broad...master thesis 2023
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Bakker, Paul (author)For real-world problems even the most complex machine learning models can only achieve a certain accuracy. This makes it important to understand why a specific prediction is made. Explanations can provide human decision support by allowing human experts to assess the reasoning of the model as well as the correctness. Specifically, in this thesis...master thesis 2020
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van Dijk, Sanne (author)The applicability of the Sellmeijer design rule to Limburg dike sections near Well, Hout-Blerick, Buggenum, and Thorn was investigated in this thesis. This was accomplished by building a finite element numerical model, in COMSOL Multiphysics, to assess the piping in the hydrogeological systems of the research locations. The proposed model is...master thesis 2023
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Albayrak, C. (author)The main topic that is researched in this study is: what performative architecture is and its role in the design process and product. In the scope of performative architecture the aim is to focus what a building does rather than what it is and the fact that architecture should have the capability of being adaptable to changing time, conditions...master thesis 2011
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van der Hout, J.R.T.E. (author)Image2Speech is the relatively new task of generating a spoken description of an image. Similar to Automatic Image Captioning, it is a task focused on describing images, however it avoids the usage of textual resources. An Image2Speech system produces a sequences of phonemes instead of (written) words which makes the Image2Speech task applicable...master thesis 2020
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Emmen, Jelle (author)Many important life cycle assessment elements are left out of current energy energy transition evaluation methods, making it impossible to conduct a neutral and long-term assessment of the highly complicated energy transition. Consequently, chosen strategies cannot truly ensure long-term sustainable development due to the emergence of new...master thesis 2022
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Hafkemeyer, Linus (author)As more and more aspects of our society and economy rely on software, security vulnerabilities in programs have become an increasingly significant threat. One such class of vulnerabilities are out-of-bounds writes, which are still one of the most widespread and dangerous types of security bugs in memory-unsafe programming languages five decades...master thesis 2022
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Ammerlaan, P.R.M. (author)After Katrina flooded New Orleans, California was identified as the next area where such a major disaster could happen. Situated between the Sierra Nevada and coastal mountain ranges Californias Central Valley is characterized by its flatness and dominated by agriculture as well as large cities as Sacramento. The Sacramento River and San Joaquin...master thesis 2007
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Hafsteinsdóttir, Gudrun Birta (author)The popularity of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) has been growing rapidly over the past years, where more and more cities add BRT to their public transport systems. Roundabouts are also growing and are popular intersection designs because they are one of the safest types of intersections and improve traffic flow. It is, therefore, likely that in some...master thesis 2022
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van Delft, Selma (author)To be able to solve the increasingly complex problems, governments need to collaborate with various parties. This way of policy development is called interactive policy making. Citizen participation is a specific form of interactive policy making and focusses on involving citizens in the policy making process. A relatively new online...master thesis 2021
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Vranas, Georgios (author)The need of image (frame) acquisitions within short time intervals is of major importance for preclinical SPECT imaging. The short frame times enable higher temporal resolution which is required in bio-distribution and pharmacokinetic studies where fast dynamic imaging is performed. The present study evaluates and compares the performance of two...master thesis 2017
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Nouws, Sem (author)Participatory Value Evaluation (PVE) is a webtool-based participation method that is used to increase participation by others than the usual suspects. In PVE, respondents are asked to allocate a budget or points to a portfolio of projects that reflect real policy options, therewith evaluating the projects by stating their preferences. However,...master thesis 2020
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Radojević, Jovana (author)A lot of attention has recently been focused on possible benefits of the cooperation between machines and humans. Taking the best from machines and humans and joining them together can produce results which exceed each collaborating partner performing separately. A common belief is that the<br/>key for good cooperation is an excellent...master thesis 2017