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Houben, G. (author)To avoid uncontrollable climate change, the increase of global temperature should not exceed 2 degrees Celsius. Taking this into account, not all fossil fuel reserves can be exploited, which will affect the oil & gas companies and their assets. This not only poses a risk on companies operating in the fossil fuel sector, but also on the financial...master thesis 2017
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Cui, Kairui (author)Efficient repositioning strategies for idle vehicles in ride-sourcing systems help reduce passengers' waiting time and drivers' operational costs, which help platforms attract more passengers and drivers. In this paper, we propose a decentralized repositioning strategy for drivers, in which drivers make individual decisions on where they...master thesis 2023
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Zandstra, A.W. (author)This thesis explores the decision making process about the implementation of a new train safety system at ProRail. ProRail is responsible for the entire rail infrastructure of the Netherlands and faces tasks such as maintaining, optimising and replacing the infrastructure. One of ProRail’s current projects concerns aged train safety systems and...master thesis 2011
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Gevers, L.T.M. (author)Topology optimization is a bio-inspired optimization method based on the growth of bones. With this method, the optimal material distribution with the minimal amount of material for a product can be defined. This could help engineers to create innovative lightweight designs and get rid of benchmark and pervious design on which current designs...master thesis 2016
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Stots, F. (author)This graduation project is conducted for the Seeds crowdfunding platform, a project of ABN AMRO Dialogues Incubator. The platform is one of the first crowdfunding platforms for starting companies within the Netherlands. The starting companies present themselves on the online platform and interested visitors (the crowd) can become investors by...master thesis 2011
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Ranar Taraditya Wahyudhi, Ranar (author)As part of engineering projects, turnaround maintenance (TAM) projects also still suffer the issue of reusing knowledge across projects. Although TAM projects have a recurring character, the TAM projects’ schedule performance is still frequently unmet. It is also revealed that rework is one of the causes of TAM schedule overruns. Hence, this...master thesis 2021
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Bai, Jingyuan (author)With the trend of work-from-home and flexible working arising from the Covid-19 virus pandemic becoming increasingly popular, personal branding will play a growing role in the workplace. Practitioners in a few industries, such as public relations, have been at the forefront of personal branding and will continue to attract people from other...master thesis 2022
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Yip, Henk (author)Currently, technology manufacturing companies are driven by revenue, based on volume sales, cost reduction of supply chains, factories and operations. This is all based on the current linear economy business model. In order to go against the negative environmental impacts, sustainability plays a major role by the aim to achieve sustainable...master thesis 2020
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Oskam, H.P. (author)How can municipalities be helped in choosing their level of involvement in a local sustainable energy company? This research investigates how municipalities can be helped in choosing their level of involvement in a local sustainable energy company. It aims to know which different choices municipalities can make in deciding on their involvement...master thesis 2011
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de Metz, Skip (author)Due to the dynamic and complex nature of the construction industry, it is evident that the integration of processes and groups is more challenging to attain in comparison to other industries (Demirkesen & Ozorhon,2017). Therefore, there is a call for better integration of project participants and processes in construction projects (Franz et...master thesis 2022
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Zhang, S. (author)The huger and huger imbalance of cargo flows between continents or between countries, such as the imbalance trade between East Asia and western world, pushes the repositioning cost of empty containers higher and higher. The problem of reducing the cost of empty repositioning becomes more and more essential in containerization. Among many...master thesis 2011
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Vogelzang, Marco (author)Context – The stricter regulations on energy-efficient developments to prevent climate change and resource depletion, the expected rising energy prices and hence the rising monthly living costs for households, the changing process in urban area development, the demand for housing in the western part of the Netherlands and the increasing...master thesis 2017
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Quan, Yilin (author)Creativity is becoming increasingly essential in today’s workplaces and organisations. However, though everyone is believed to be creative, not everyone feels confident enough to express their creative ideas. The organisational culture plays a remarkable role in shaping the creative climate. If its core cultural value does not support and...master thesis 2023
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Ackermans, S.F. (author)This project aimed to research the perspective of companies on the relationship between sustainability and circular business models. This was done by first looking at how literature describes the relationship between sustainability and the circular economy/circular business models. With this as a basis, thirteen different multinational companies...master thesis 2016
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Selman, H. (author)In recent years there has been an increasing interest in the relation between levels of domain specific knowledge of company executives and their companies' performance. In researching this relation we have chosen to research internet companies during their emerging stages in a high growth industry. We have opted to select a data sample of 411...master thesis 2012
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Stefelmanns, J.M. (author)The research explains the situation of the bad living conditions to which city planners, politicians and tycoons reacted. Both the healing environment (Wesfort) and the healthy environment (Company Towns and Garden Cities) have in common that the intention is to enhance the quality of life in order to increase productivity and community feeling....master thesis 2016
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Zani, Jacopo (author)The graduation work aims to raise a discussion around the future of post-industrial urban centers and communities. A counter-project that, through a critique of conventional urban planning methods, wants to re-imagine the future of those small towns that are facing an economic and demographic crisis caused by the ending of industrial activities....master thesis 2021
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van der Heide, Ruurd (author)Most countries have shown their concern towards global warming and made commitments to decrease carbon emissions. Energy usage will have to become more efficient and generated by an increasing amount of sustainable resources. Hard-to-abate industries will require incentives to decarbonize their processes. Research shows that consumer-facing...master thesis 2020
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Ouwens, Gilles (author)Hereby, you are reading my graduation project for the Master’s program in Strategic Product Design on the TUDelft. The research has been formulated from my interest in both customer-centric design and the automotive industry. <br/><br/>This research started with the aim to introduce short-cycle feedback loops in pre-development departments to...master thesis 2022
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Wortel, M.C. (author)The Master’s programme Industrial Ecology is jointly organised by Leiden University and Delft University of Technology. Sustainable development is a young, developing field in which many standards, certificates, and initiatives are spawning. Companies are expected to work on sustainable development by its customers, investors, and society in...master thesis 2013