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Kopan, Yaren (author)"The proclivity to unrest and 'culture of conflict' can be linked, in part, to Berlin residents' characteristic tough, combative physiognomy and how they have imagined and represented themselves and their city over time" (Davis, 2007). Berlin has witnessed conflicts on various fronts, including politics, social issues, economics, and culture,...master thesis 2023
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Holster, Rolien (author)Cycling has gained popularity worldwide, but little is known about the choice behaviour of people searching for a bicycle parking spot in the city centre. Formal parking spaces provided in the city centre are currently often underutilised, whilst many people use fly parking, which causes nuisance. This thesis aims to identify the most effective...master thesis 2023
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Charoenchim, Napaskorn (author)As architects encounter challenges when comprehending and fulfilling the requirements of users and other stakeholders involved in the<br/>architectural design project, participatory design, which involves non-architects in the design process, is perceived as one of the solutions. It is a developing practice that can lead to greater engagement of...master thesis 2023
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Westendorp, Janine (author), Geerse, Olaf P. (author), van der Lee, Marije L. (author), Schoones, Jan W. (author), van Vliet, Milon H.M. (author), Wit, Tamara (author), Evers, A.W.M. (author), van Vliet, Liesbeth M. (author)Objective: Issues regarding clinician communication remain an important source of complaints within healthcare. This systematic review aims to determine cancer patients' and their family caregivers' views on which clinicians' communication behaviors can harm (i.e. eliciting negative feelings/consequences for patients/family caregivers)....review 2023
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Holzapfel, L.F.M. (author), Giagka, Vasiliki (author)Implantable devices need to communicate information to the outside world. For deep-seated miniaturized implants ultrasound communication can be favourable. However, implants need to operate during movement, and the selected communication scheme should be assessed accordingly. In this work, we implemented a simple protocol to transfer data...conference paper 2023
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Luopan, Yaxin (author), Han, Rui (author), Zhang, Qinglong (author), Liu, Chi Harold (author), Wang, Guoren (author), Chen, Lydia Y. (author)Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been ubiquitously adopted in internet of things and are becoming an integral of our daily life. When tackling the evolving learning tasks in real world, such as classifying different types of objects, DNNs face the challenge to continually retrain themselves according to the tasks on different edge devices....conference paper 2023
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Holste, Insa (author)Today’s society relies significantly on the use of plastics of all kinds. While the material provides many benefits, plastic pollution poses a heavy threat to the environment. To reduce the environmental impact of plastics while still benefitting from their use, various certifications aim at labelling different plastic...master thesis 2022
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Baijanova, Francien (author)Background. Dutch universities struggle to find effective evidence-based intervention tools to reduce the high prevalence of sexual violence among their students. Reducing sexual violence means a safer student climate and thus better inclusion of women and more diversity in higher education. Interesting approaches to consider for cultural change...master thesis 2022
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Latifi Rostami, S.M.A. (author)Although business model innovation (BMI) can create a firm's competitive advantage and enhance its performance, many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) fail to obtain the expected outcomes when innovating their business model. BMI leads to irreversible fundamental changes in key components of a company's business model, which means it...doctoral thesis 2022
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Verhagen, R.S. (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author), Tielman, M.L. (author)Humans and robots are increasingly working together in human-robot teams. Teamwork requires communication, especially when interdependence between team members is high. In previous work, we identified a conceptual difference between sharing what you are doing (i.e., being transparent) and why you are doing it (i.e., being explainable). Although...journal article 2022
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Li, Qiongxiu (author), Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg, Milan (author), Heusdens, R. (author), Christensen, Mads Græsbøll (author)Both communication overhead and privacy are main concerns in designing distributed computing algorithms. It is very challenging to address them simultaneously as encryption methods required for privacy-preservation often incur high communication costs. In this paper, we argue that there is a fundamental link between communication efficiency...conference paper 2022
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Boddy, Nicholas (author), Barclay, Stephen (author), Bashford, Tom (author), Clarkson, P.J. (author)Background: Poor communication to GPs at hospital discharge threatens patient safety and continuity of care, with reliance on discharge summaries that are commonly written by the most junior doctors. Previous quality improvement efforts have largely focused on adherence to standardised templates, with limited success. A lack of understanding...journal article 2022
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Mooij, Jeanine (author)This report describes the development of the tool PREQUEL, a tangible storytelling tool to build a family culture. The tool is intended to support meaningful conversations between two parents. Through conversation and storytelling, the tool encourages them to explore the world of parenting and everything that comes with that. <br/><br/>Parenting...master thesis 2021
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Bacchi, Giulia (author)The presence of a gap in the relationship between citizens and the political system is a phenomenon that knows no boundaries, which affects governments and political institutions at different scales.Citizens are dissatisfied about the current one-way political interaction held by an elite which is perceived as corrupt and distant. They would...master thesis 2020
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Valentine, David (author)The advent of a society in which autonomous technology coexists with humans is an inevitability. The project focuses on one such autonomous technology in the form of autonomous vehicles or self driving cars. The benefits of such automation is well documented in academia and is supported by the investment by some of the biggest automobile and...master thesis 2020
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Douma, E.T. (author)To identify and improve the communication or information flow for a ship production process, this thesis provides an approach to use a Discrete Event Simulation (DES) model, based on Petri Net technique. By establishing a theoretical framework, the different simulation modelling options are analysed and based on practical requirements, a choice...master thesis 2020
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Gianfranceschi, Giuseppe (author), van Dijk, Robbin (author)This research investigates the feasibility of a sensor patch for newborns. A sensor patch would be a device that is applied to the skin of the newborn. It can monitor the patient's temperature, heart rate, respiration rate, oxygen saturation and asses its general appearance of the skin so that it can check the newborn for jaundice. It should...bachelor thesis 2020
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Hanou, Issa (author), Smitskamp, Gwennan (author), de Schipper, Marijn (author)Raccoon Serious Games develops different kinds of gaming experiences, including escape rooms. In an escape room, a group of players, usually between 2 and 20 people, are locked in a room, where they have to find clues and solve puzzles to escape. When such a room is played, there is always an operator, monitoring the progress of the players and...bachelor thesis 2020
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Kraanen, Sarah (author)Societies are aging. This means the older population is not only growing in size, but also in proportion. Apart from this, generations are changing. The elderly of the future will in all probability not have the same needs as the elderly of today. These changes lead to new challenges for society and ask for new solutions spatially and socially....master thesis 2020
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van der Velden, Hanneke (author)In the future, healthcare becomes more challenging to reach and less personal. The workload for specialists is increasing (Rossen, 2018), the current health path for patients is extended and long (van Tongerloo, 2019) and more general practitioners do not want to have their own practice which results in lower accessibility (Smit, 2019). Besides,...master thesis 2019