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Völker, Willem (author)Recent research on the Flying V - a flying-wing long-range passenger aircraft - shows that its airframe design is 25% more aerodynamically efficient than a conventional tube-and-wing airframe. The Flying V is therefore a promising contribution towards reduction in climate impact of long-haul flights. However, some design aspects of the Flying V...master thesis 2022
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Everingham, Dylan (author)The development of optical metamaterials in recent years has enabled the design of novel optical devices with exciting properties and applications ranging across many fields, including in scientific instrumentation for space missions. This in<br/>turn has led to demand for computational methods which can produce efficient device designs....master thesis 2022
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Scholten, J.S.M. (author)A Visually Grounded Speech model is a neural model which is trained to embed image caption pairs closely together in a common embedding space. As a result, such a model can retrieve semantically related images given a speech caption and vice versa. The purpose of this research is to investigate whether and how a Visually Grounded Speech model...master thesis 2020
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Pujahari, Abhinav (author)Sound spatialization is a natural, intuitive but sparsely researched topic in multi-track audio mixing. Although a lot of research has been devoted to the automatic fader gain settings, addition of dynamic range equalization and related effects, delay and Reverb have taken a backseat. The dichotomy in the artistic and engineering approaches to...master thesis 2017
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Zhang, Ruiling (author)Lighting systems are attracting many researchers and companies to investigate the potential of light beyond illumination, by creating new smart illumination systems or developing indoor positioning methods. The main challenge in realizing novel systems is to process light information in such a way that new insights are discovered. There are...master thesis 2017
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Feenstra, C.J. (author)At the VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, a new process for total ear reconstruction is being developed. The current ear reconstruction process involves the sculpting of a scaffold which will be wrapped in skin to form the shape of the new ear. This requires the harvesting of large amounts of rib cartilage needed for construction of the...master thesis 2014
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Nieuwendijk, J. (author)Body powered prostheses have many advantages: They are reliable, lightweight and relatively cheap. The disadvantage is the need of a shoulder harness, which causes discomfort, pain and trouble donning and doffing the prosthesis. The goal of this thesis is to develop a body-powered prosthesis without the need for a shoulder harness. This is...master thesis 2010
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Sulzer, Raphael (author)The seismic building structural type (SBST) reflects the main load-bearing structure of a building and therefore its behaviour under seismic load. For numerous areas in earthquake prone regions this information is outdated, unavailable, or simply not existent. Traditional methods to gather this information, such as building-by-building...master thesis 2018
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Albeda, J. (author)Affect-adaptive systems are dependent on their ability to automatically recognize a user’s affective state. This study aims to contribute to the creation of an affect-adaptive system that can recognize negative moods of elderly in care homes from a video feed, and improve it by adapting the lighting in the room. An affective database of videos...master thesis 2016
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Brijl, B.R. (author)Vertigo Flight Simulation is a company located in The Netherlands with its mission being to design, produce and sell low cost flight simulation devices to all levels of the flight training market. One of the products which is developed by Vertigo Flight Simulation is the Vertigo P-2 Trainer. The P-2 Trainer is a fixed-base flight simulator...master thesis 2003
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Wang, Yabin (author)The scientific community recognizes the critical role played by ptychography in nanoscale imaging. Compared with the conventional imaging, which has high requirements on the manufacturing of optical elements, ptychography, as a computational imaging technique, uses a set of measured intensities of the diffraction patterns to reconstruct the...master thesis 2022
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Buurmans, Kristijn (author)Railways are facing the challenge to simultaneously increase the capacity and the operational performance of their network. Automatic train operation (ATO) can be one of the technologies to increase the capacity of the railway network. The specifications for ATO over the European Train Control System (ETCS) automatic train protection system have...master thesis 2019
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Garcia Manso, A. (author)In the oil and gas industry a crucial step for detecting and developing natural resources is to drill wells and measure miscellaneous properties along the well depth. These measurements are used to understand the rock and hydrocarbon properties and support oil/gas field development. The measurements are done at multiple times and using different...master thesis 2020
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Westerhuis, Gijsbert (author)The number of operational rail corridors equipped with ERTMS is increasing throughout Europe. The implementation of this critical safety system is planned to take several decades. However, ERTMS is a complex system that evolves continuously increasing the risk of using outdated parts and components. Therefore, adaptability is required for an...master thesis 2020
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Schupp, Eleen (author)When a person suffers from severe to profound hearing loss, a cochlear implant (CI) can aid in restoring auditory perception and speech comprehension. To obtain good speech comprehension, fitting of a CI to the user’s specific characteristics is crucial. Fitting can be a time-consuming process which requires the cooperation of a CI user and is...master thesis 2023
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Van Winden, K.B.A. (author)There are many applications that use maps, and more detailed the maps are, more applications can benefit from the map. Many maps are still manually created and also the underlying attributes are informed in a manual process. This thesis presents a method to automatically derive and update attribute road data by mining and analyzing movement...master thesis 2014
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Krishnakumari, P.K. (author)Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease which is hard to diagnose objectively and may vary based on the surgeon. This disease is usually diagnosed by measuring several characteristic features of Hip X-rays mainly the joint distance between the femoral head and acetabular cup. Hip joint distance reduction is a clear symptom of...master thesis 2015
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Gale Dewo, Gale (author)An upper limb prosthesis, i.e. a hand prosthesis, is a device to replace the function of an upper limb on upper limb amputees. In developing countries, amputees’ access to the device is scarce to unavailable. In addition to the absence of experts in those areas, currently there are no automatic measurement methods for upper limb amputees...master thesis 2018
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Arroyo Ohori, G.A.K. (author)Planar partitions (subdivisions of the plane into polygonal areas) constitute one of the most important data representations in GIS. They are used to model concepts as varied as land use, administrative units, natural features and cadastral parcels, among many others. However, since polygons are often stored separately, different errors and...master thesis 2010