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Subramani, Surya Natarajan (author)Radiation pattern measurements is a critical step in characterizing antennas before they are used in any system for a specific application. To identify any defects or to acquire the true radiation characteristics of the antenna under test, densely sampled measurements are desired. However, this results in a time and cost expensive measurement...master thesis 2023
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de Waart, Wessel (author)In the pursuit of reducing the climate impact of aviation, there has been an increased interest in the adoption of renewable energy technologies. Examples of revolutionary technologies include hydrogen fuel cell systems and waste heat recovery using the organic Rankine cycle. The design of viable energy conversion systems for aviation poses...master thesis 2023
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Van Steenweghen, Abel (author)Over the past years the size of deep learning models has been growing consistently. This growth has led to significant improvements in performance, but at the expense of increased computational resource demands. Compression techniques can be used to improve the efficiency of deep learning models by shrinking their size and computational needs,...master thesis 2023
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Sochirca, Dan (author)Code generation models have become more popular recently, due to the fact that they assist developers in writing code in a more productive manner. While these large models deliver impressive performance, they require significant computational resources and memory, making them difficult to deploy and expensive to train. Additionally, their large...bachelor thesis 2023
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de Moor, Aral (author)Large language models are powerful because of their state-of-the-art language processing abilities. But, they come at the cost of being extremely resource-intensive, and are steadily growing in size. As a result, compressing such models for resource- constrained devices is an active and promising re- search area. In spite of their current...bachelor thesis 2023
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Hijlkema, Hidde (author)Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death, representing 32% of all global deaths. The mainstay treatments are medical compression stockings (MCS) and physical activity. Although MCS has been shown to positively affect treatment and support disorder control (e.g. leg swelling), research shows incredibly low therapy compliance....master thesis 2023
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Scoccimarro, Antonio (author)Hydrogen fuel cells are set to play an important role in decarbonizing the aviation sector. They operate at higher efficiencies than turbine engines, but their low operating temperature requires a dedicated thermal management system. The added drag, weight and parasitic power of such a system has a high impact on aircraft performance and its...master thesis 2023
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Sigurðsson, Snorri Þór (author)Regular maintenance of civil engineering structures is essential for their safety. Current maintenance regimes involve periodic inspections at regular time intervals. In the time between inspections, there can be a critical development in the structural integrity of a structure, which can be expensive to repair or could even lead to structural...master thesis 2023
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Nedelchev, Hari (author)Recycled aggregate concrete is emphasized more and more nowadays due to its importance towards the construction industry and general welfare of our planet. Being such a significant feature with regard to universal sustainable development, every aspect of its properties should be evaluated, examined and optimized so that there is a well-known,...master thesis 2023
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Kalaichelvi Senthil Kumar, Ganesh ShriRaam (author)Given the desire to construct more structures using sustainable building materials, demand for wood and other bio-based building materials has risen dramatically over the decade. While timber itself is a carbon-neutral material and can sometimes even be carbon-negative, reusing wooden structural members made that have been in service for several...master thesis 2023
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Hartman, Illona (author)In the field of structural and geotechnical engineering, a uniform approach to predict and model foundation settlements during the design phase of a high-rise building appears to be missing. In the Netherlands, pile foundations of tower structures underlain by compressible soil layers are challenging to model due to different stiffness and load...master thesis 2023
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Bokil, Siddharth Rahul (author)The heating and cooling sector is one of the biggest sectors at this moment due to drastic fluctuations in climate parameters. Even though this sector helps in making sure everyone gets comfortable temperatures at the home, office, etc., there are environmental consequences attached to them. These consequences are in terms of emissions of...master thesis 2022
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Lamberti, Lucas (author)Direction of Arrival (DoA) estimation is an important topic in radar application and has significant importance for advanced driver assistant systems in the automotive industry. While there is an increasing need for higher resolution and increased target detection and DoA estimation performance, such improvements often require increased hardware...master thesis 2022
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Yao, Yuanyuan (author)Typically, people search images by text: users enter keywords and a search engine returns relevant results. However, this pattern has limitations. An obvious drawback is that when searching in one language, users may miss results labelled in other languages. Moreover, sometimes people know little about the object in the image and thus would not...master thesis 2022
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Wong, Jing Jing (author)This research consists of two applications of image processing, namely, image compression and image denoising. Image compression aims to reduce the size of an image without losing too many features. This is often used to store a large number of images such as fingerprints. Denoising is a technique for removing noise from an image while...bachelor thesis 2022
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Gómez Ceelen, Pablo (author)Almeria is a geographical point of arrival and passage of African migrants on their migratory route to Europe. The region is home to thousands of migrants seeking work in the agricultural sector. The lack of affordable housing for these collective has led to the creation of several informal settlements around agricultural areas. <br/><br/>This...master thesis 2022
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Vreeken, Joost (author)This research project investigates the potential use of ultrasonic welding as a tool to repair impact damage inside thermoplastic composites to restore the compressive strength. Compared to the already existing method, hot-pressing, ultrasonic welding could offer faster processing times, no need for dedicated tooling, smaller and lighter...master thesis 2022
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Korevaar, Matthijs (author), Hoogland, Lars (author)One of the main problems with Instance-level Image Retrieval in video data is that for longer query videos or large amount of image queries, comparing all of the query images to every extracted frame is time-inefficient. This thesis aims to solve this problem by implementing Nearest Neighbour Search (NNS) algorithms and data compression methods,...bachelor thesis 2022
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Mondeel, Manouk (author)<b>BACKGROUND - </b>The success of the mechanical thrombectomy treatment in acute ischemic stroke is highly dependent on mechanical clot behavior and characteristics like stiffness. This mechanical treatment is tested in clot analogs. Realistic clot analogs could potentially be made in a realistic formation environment. The effects of blood...master thesis 2022
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Westheim, Michael (author)Interest in powered flight on Mars has been growing in recent years, and as such new developments are being made in determining the effects the Martian atmosphere has on the flow physics and performance, specifically with regards to similarity parameters: the Reynolds number & the Mach number. This paper aimed to investigate whether the...master thesis 2022