Beagle; 'a stimulating quest throughout the hospital'

Beagle; ‘a stimulating quest throughout the hospital’ is a project that focuses on improving the quality of life and the development (physical, emotional and social) of hospitalised adolescents with CF within the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital. This graduation project is positioned within the Meedoen=groeien! project of the Dutch Rehabilitation...

Meaningful interactions for rehabilitation therapy

Motor rehabilitation therapy requires patients to be highly motivated in order to exercise regularly. However, rehabilitation practices are not designed to be motivating and are of repetitive nature. This is why patients are not motivated to exercise frequently and fail to engage with therapy. As a result of that they cannot regain their hand...

Thermal simulation of a dinghy sailor

This paper describes the development of a model to simulate a dinghy sailors’ body temperature during a sailing match. This simulation has been developed as part of the master thesis by the author: “Thermal optimization of competitive sailing gear”. A literature study is done to define the human body heat balance and thermal comfort. Next a...

Design for Obesity

This report describes the process and the results of a project which focuses on designing for obesity. The project starts with fuzzy front end which is to explore the needs of obese people. A thorough literature is carried out to understand obesity in different perspectives. Later on, an internal analysis shows the background and the knowledge...

Heliport Gorinchem - Designing an Aerial Logistic Network

The Dutch city of Gorinchem has great economic growth opportunities for the future, but is limited by its transport system. It is strategically located at a crossroad of two motorways and two rivers, the Boven-Merwede and the Linge. Gorinchem is home to a number of multinationals, among others Damen Shipyards and Van Oord. This sets the right...

Evaluation of a ubiquitous learning system in a design engineering environment

Ubiquitous computing is computing power that is integrated in devices and environments in such a way that they offer optimal support to human daily life activities. For industrial design engineering students, applying ubiquitous technologies offer a great opportunity and challenge for innovating everyday products. To teach the students about...

Efficient pricing of Asian options under Lévy processes based on Fourier cosine expansions. Part II. Early-exercise features and GPU implementation

In this article, we propose an efficient pricing method for Asian options with early–exercise features. It is based on a two–dimensional integration and a backward recursion of the Fourier coefficients, in which several numerical techniques, like Fourier cosine expansions, Clenshaw–Curtis quadrature and the Fast Fourier transform (FFT) are...

Shoulder load during handcycling at different incline and speed conditions

Background The manual wheelchair user population experiences a high prevalence of upper-limb injuries, which are related to a high load on the shoulder joint during activities of daily living, such as handrim wheelchair propulsion. An alternative mode of propulsion is handcycling, where lower external forces are suggested to be applied to reach...

Stimulating Energy Balance: Preventing weight gain among healthy young adults

Obesity is a problem. A problem that is easy to see on the streets and well covered in the media, yet it continues to grow. Why is that people are not able to maintain a healthy balance between diet and exercise and keep a consistent weight? Are it the fast food restaurants or the increasingly passive lifestyles of the Western world, or a...

Challenges and obstacles in sharing and coordinating information during multi-agency disaster response: Propositions from field exercises

Although various scholars have researched issues regarding disaster management, few have studied the sharing and coordinating of information during disasters. Not much empirical data is available in this field and there is sparse insight into the factors that may impede or facilitate information sharing and coordination among stakeholders. In...

Delft Aerospace Design Projects 2006: Design in aeronautics, astronautics, earth observation and related areas