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den Hartog, Tessa (author)Local referendums are part of the local democracy and give citizens more direct discission power by their votes.The instrument can be used by the citizens to express their resistance towards the municipal plans or used by the municipality to consult their citizens about their plans. In the Netherlands, local referendums are despite their non...master thesis 2023
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Berry, Madison (author)In an increasingly conflict-ridden world, ensuring sustainable access to essential services for vulnerable populations presents a considerable challenge. Existing best practices for sustainable development, including participatory processes and community-led, collaborative governance structures, often overlook applications in conflict settings....master thesis 2023
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Boucherie, Tom (author)The Dutch government is targeting substantial growth within the heating sector, with ambitions to double the number of sustainable heat connections for households by 2030 – from 0.5 to 1 million – and eventually reaching 2.5 million connections by 2050. The proposed institutional design outlined in the new Heat Act, also known as the "Wet...master thesis 2023
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Gasten, Caroline (author)Recent Conflict Early Warning Systems have found little evidence of predictive power of drought indicators for conflict prediction. However, this may result from the context-specificity of the drought-conflict relationship, as stressed in the more recent climate-conflict literature.<br/><br/>The present thesis assesses the local role of...master thesis 2023
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Trân, Maaike (author)The Sahel region has become a focal point of concern due to the alarming escalation of terrorism, culminating in devastating attacks that have claimed numerous lives and disrupted regional stability. Mali, in particular, has experienced a significant surge in terrorist activity. This thesis presents a novel approach of using criticality measures...master thesis 2023
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Labbé, Rafael (author)This paper aims to investigate the effect of conflicting demonstrations on Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL). IRL is a method to understand the intent of an expert, by only feeding it demonstrations of that expert, which may be a promising approach for areas such as self driving vehicles, where there are a lot of demonstrations from experts....bachelor thesis 2023
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Gribnau, Mees (author)A shunting yard is used to store trains between arrival and departure. A conflict arises in a shunting yard when one train obstructs another from leaving. Resolving a conflict is done by re-allocating the trains obstructing the departing train to other tracks in the shunting yard. However, these re-allocations complicate the problem at hand and...bachelor thesis 2023
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Charilaou, Andria (author)The thesis aims to unveil and challenge institutionalized gender hierarchical relations between the military and women in conflict environments. It critically examines the military as an institution inherently intertwined with conflict in periods of war and during periods of conflict. The thesis argues that the military plays a significant role...master thesis 2023
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Lacigová, Tereza (author)In Assam, North-eastern India, the human population has been growing rapidly, which inevitably brings more urbanization and expansion of agricultural lands, leading to deforestation and the disappearance of natural habitats for wild animals. In connection with that, new highways and train tracks are being built, cutting through the already...master thesis 2023
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Santana, Ricardo (author)Low-altitude, high-density air traffic is expected to grow in the coming decades with several companies being certified to initiate urban operations for both freight and passenger transport. However, traditional human-centered Air Traffic Control operations (ATCos) are not scalable to handle the increased demand to maintain safe separation...master thesis 2023
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de Gooijer, Matthijs (author)Policy making and the decision-making process has developed over the past decades to include more (scientific) evidence to support policy construction, such as the Cost-benefit Analysis or Environmental Impact Analysis. However, depending on the perspective of the policymaker as well as the evaluator, successful policies outcomes may be...master thesis 2023
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Herle, Olivier (author)This thesis evaluates the effects of including automated event data for interstate conflict prediction. Automated event data are web-scraped news stories converted into data and they may allow conflict models to increase their performance. Accurate models can then be used for early-warning purposes.<br/><br/>To predict three separate problems,...master thesis 2023
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Ribeiro, M.J. (author)Increasing delays and congestion reported in many aviation sectors indicate that the current centralised operational model is rapidly approaching saturation levels. Air Traffic Control (ATC) system is not expected to keep pace with the ever-increasing demand for air transportation. Its capacity is still limited by the available controllers, and...doctoral thesis 2023
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Vogler, Frieder (author)Scientists observe changes in the registers of our earth, rising Co² levels, changes in methane concentration, acidification of the oceans, and the degradation of soil. These changes in the registers of our earth proliferate environmental catastrophes that destabilize intricate webs of life. The human in the Anthropocene, and with it its...master thesis 2023
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Zhang, Lei (author), Liu, Wenjie (author), Du, Zhe (author), Du, Lei (author), Li, Xiaobin (author)Collision avoidance is a priority task for ensuring the safety of a maritime transportation system. However, for a ship towing system, which is characterized by multiple vessels and physical connections, the research works about collision avoidance is limited. Thus, this paper proposes a speed and heading control-based conflict resolution of...journal article 2023
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Foroughi, M. (author), de Andrade, Bruno (author), Pereira Roders, A. (author), Wang, T. (author)Public participation has been growing in both theory and practice of urban planning, including heritage planning. The reasoning is to facilitate the involvement of a broader group of stakeholders, beyond experts. More specifically, for heritage planning, participation could enable consensus-building on defining the significance of heritage,...journal article 2023
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Aarts, Michiel J.M. (author), Ellerbroek, Joost (author), Knoop, V.L. (author)The traffic density of small aerial vehicles operating within urban environments is expected to increase significantly in the near future. This urban environment is highly constrained due to being limited to the low-altitude airspace directly above the existing road network. Multiple studies have addressed factors influencing the capacity of...journal article 2023
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Liu, Kezhong (author), Wu, Xiaolie (author), Zhou, Y. (author), Yuan, Zhitao (author), Yang, Xing (author), Xin, Xuri (author), Zhuang, Sujie (author)During the process of collision avoidance, especially in a multi-ship encounter situation, the dynamic interactions among individual ships impose a significant impact on collision avoidance decision-making. It is imperative, therefore, that collision avoidance decisions are formulated with a comprehensive consideration of not only the current...journal article 2023
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Yalew, S. G. (author), van der Zaag, P. (author), Tran, N.B. (author), Michailovsky, C. I.B. (author), Salvadore, E. (author), Borgomeo, E. (author), Karimi, P. (author), Pareeth, S. (author), Seyoum, S. D. (author), Mul, M. L. (author)Open-access remote sensing products provide data for transboundary water management. This study presents a comprehensive overview of the applications, uncertainties and implications of these remote sensing data products in the context of transboundary water management. Focusing on different stages within the transboundary cooperation...journal article 2023
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Happee, R. (author), Kotian, V. (author), de Winkel, K.N. (author)Background: To counteract gravity, trunk motion, and other perturbations, the human head–neck system requires continuous muscular stabilization. In this study, we combine a musculoskeletal neck model with models of sensory integration (SI) to unravel the role of vestibular, visual, and muscle sensory cues in head–neck stabilization and relate SI...journal article 2023