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Halleran, Anna (author)
At the edge of North America lies St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, one of the oldest cities on the continent (Newfoundland & Labrador, Most easterly point in north america, n.d.). In recent decades, this historic city has seen a prevalent trend of institutional architecture within St. John’s being abandoned or demolished with little...
student report 2024
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Hamilton, Thijs (author)
The museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam is currently closed for restoration. The architect Van der Steur made an extensive study of lighting in museum rooms (1930). This resulted in a pitched roof with glass and a layer of horizontal glass panes (legramen) that form the ceiling of the exhibition rooms. Below the glass panes timber blades ...
master thesis 2024
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Wu, Xinyue (author)
In case you feel confused, this is an architecture project based on research which in total took one year. The process was never linear, but the narrative has to be. <br/><br/>For the first six months I studied the essential values of collective housing in post war period, how they prompted to solve housing crisis and how they embraced the...
master thesis 2024
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de Jong, Sjimmie (author)
This paper examines the valuation and perception of de Hoeksteen, a heritage building in the Netherlands. Expert stakeholders, such as the municipality and architecture historian Joop van Stigt, value the building for its aesthetic qualities and historical significance. In contrast, users of the building, particularly the community organization...
master thesis 2023
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Śliwińska, Zuza (author)
Hong Kong is known for its skyline and urban context, interpreted through colonial history. However, its past, present and future are entangled with that of almost 700 villages scattered across the New Territory land and preceding the current Hong Kong population. With recent proposals to further develop the currently ‘rural’ northwest of Hong...
master thesis 2023
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Murzyn, Zuzanna (author)
Unappreciated by the public, and ambiguous with its history, Brutalism has its followers, among designers and architects yet it is still a stylistic outcast. La tour de Droixhe, the high-rise at hand, thus, is seen not only as heritage but also as a lonely giant towering over the city of Liège, Belgium. This brutalist social housing development...
master thesis 2023
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Lodewijks, Emilie (author)
The Maldivian Islands are facing multiple challenges, including sea level rise, coastal erosion, and poor waste management. This research explores the development of a future-proof system using recycled plastic waste in order to protect the islands. The developed system includes an engineered artificial reef design, which is acting as wave...
master thesis 2023
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Groen, Puck (author)
Introduction<br/>The only curative and durable treatment option for patients suffering from end-stage liver disease is liver transplantation. However, there is a shortage of donor grafts of adequate quality, which is a major cause of wait list mortality. Ex situ liver resuscitation, reconditioning or regeneration of sub-optimal donor grafts can...
master thesis 2023
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Temudom, Kulaporn Temudom (author)
Make Scents considers the impact of changing climate conditions on resource extraction by establishing an in-house laboratory that specializes in producing fragrances specific to a region. This contribution captures Berlin’s landscape transitory due to critical climate change. As of 2040 the Linden tree—a significant<br/>longstanding tree with...
master thesis 2023
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van Soolingen, Simon (author)
master thesis 2023
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van Ooijen, Lisanne (author)
In the Netherlands, over 12% of the population has chronic kidney damage resulting in about 2000 patients with renal failure each year. Replacement of the kidney function by transplantation is desired, but due to a shortage of donor kidneys, the waiting list for a transplant is...
master thesis 2022
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Klein, Robin (author)
In this master thesis several novel DEIM formulations are proposed that enable the construction of non-linearly stable hyper-reduced order models (hROMs) of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. The hROMs have the same mass, momentum and energy conservation properties as the previously proposed ROM, but they do not suffer of prohibitively...
master thesis 2022
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Teeuwen, Tom (author)
<b>OBJECTIVE </b>This study aims to compare non-invasive real-time optical imaging and measuring methods for the quantification of microcirculation of organs during normothermic machine perfusion (NMP). This could help to determine which method is most promising for further development towards a clinical objective transplantability assessment...
master thesis 2022
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Memar Zahedani, Armin (author)
Double Auctions are mechanisms to trade commodities such as electricity or parts of the wireless spectrum at optimal prices. Bidders and sellers simultaneously submit quantity-price pairs to an auctioneer, denoting the quantity they want to buy or sell at specific prices. The auctioneer aggregates the offers into demand and supply curves to...
master thesis 2022
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Karahan, Asli (author)
Healthcare recommender systems emerged to help patients make better decisions for their health, leveraging the vast amount of data and patient experience. One type of this system focuses on recommending the most appropriate physician based on previous patient feedback in the form of ratings. Such advice can be challenging to generate for new...
master thesis 2022
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Ökkan, Öykü Su (author)
Departing from the instability of Beirut and the richness of its culture, this thesis aims to investigate if it is possible to preserve the heritage beyond the limitations of physical archiving. Translation of information into a new language; based on dig·i·ts, 0-1 computer code or symbols known as the alphabet, is defined as the process of dig...
master thesis 2022
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Jehee, Wouter (author)
Federated learning (FL), although a major privacy improvement over centralized learning, is still vulnerable to privacy leaks. The research presented in this paper provides an analysis of the threats to FL Generative Adversarial Networks. Furthermore, an implementation is provided to better protect the data of the participants with Trusted...
bachelor thesis 2022
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Gill, Peter (author)
A wall is both a barrier and an opportunity. The ancient walls of Thessaloniki stand as a monument to this. Since their establishment in the 4th century their status and significance in the city has only grown. Thessaloniki was a trading town strategically placed on a hill overlooking the bay below. As it grew, so did the walls with them...
master thesis 2022
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Ştefancu, Iulia (author)
The goal of this research is to delve into and explore the restoration and re-use of the Romanian architectural industrial heritage in the context of denial, seeking possibilities of changing the negative social perception and trying to uncover the appropriation and recognition of these artefacts. The acknowledgement of the heritage at risk and...
student report 2022
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Hendrikx, Roemer (author)
In the past 8 years, Bitcoin has dominated the cryptocurrency markets and drawn attention from academia, developers and legislators alike. Bitcoin has been praised for its impact on decentralizing trust and currencies but also criticized for its volatility and energy-inefficient consensus mechanism. To improve its limitations, in 2016, payment...
master thesis 2022
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