Bridging the Knowledge Gap: Improving the Information Provision for Hemophilia Patients

Hemophilia, a bleeding disorder, is divided into types A and B, resulting from coagulation factors VIII and IX deficiencies. The levels of these clotting factors in the body determine the severity of hemophilia. The classification includes severe, moderate, and mild hemophilia. Managing hemophilia involves options like on-demand and prophylactic...

Preferences of visitors of mass events towards travel information messages: Identifying visitor profiles using Latent Class Cluster Analysis

During the influx to mass events in the past, situations have regularly arisen that people experienced as unpleasant or even unsafe. Nowadays, many researchers focus on regulating this influx by influencing travel choices, where only little attention is paid to travellers’ preferences. This research identifies the preferences of different type...

Acquiring insights into the sustainability of future diets: An exploration of the future urban food acquisition practices of Amsterdam residents in 2050 by means of scenario building

Our current food practices cause numerous environmental, social, cultural, and economic externalities. Yet while the challenges arise in these seemingly different dimensions, the solutions to finding a sustainable diet, might be found in the interplay between them. Striking a balance between components of the food system to ensure a future...

Measuring Daylight: the New European Standard and the effect on Green Building Certificates: A study about the effect of EN-17037 on green certificates

In 2018, a new standard was released for daylight in buildings: EN 17037. This is the first standard for daylight in buildings for Europe. In the Netherlands it will replace the NEN 2057. The determination method for daylight provision for EN 17037 is based on internal illuminance. Additional ambitions for the design quality factors: view,...

Finding a balance between meaningful and useful participation by improving information provision: Assessing the effectiveness of information provision approaches in participatory value evaluation on empowering participants to give informed input on urban climate adaptation projects

Participatory Value Evaluation (PVE) is a webtool-based participation method that is used to increase participation by others than the usual suspects. In PVE, respondents are asked to allocate a budget or points to a portfolio of projects that reflect real policy options, therewith evaluating the projects by stating their preferences. However,...

Inspiring confidence in newly diagnosed macular degeneration patients: through information provision via a web-based medium

This graduation project is related to macular degeneration. Macular degeneration affects the macula, a central pit on the retina which is responsible for the highest visual acuity due to the densely packed cone photoreceptors. Symptoms of macular degeneration can vary in the early stage from blurred vision to abnormal dark adaptation (Jager et...

POSUM: A Generic Portfolio Scheduler for MapReduce Workloads

MapReduce ecosystems are (still) widely popular for big data processing in data centers. To address the diverse non-functional requirements arising from many and increasingly more sophisticated users, the community has developed many scheduling policies for MapReduce workloads. Although some individual policies can dynamically optimize for...

Regions: Administrative level or void?: Case study on the emergence and implementation of regional arrangements on housing provision after Wgr-plus

De invloed van vooronderzoek bij herbestemming & transformatie van monumenten: De rol van cultuurhistorisch onderzoek in het vergunningenproces

A major renovation or transforming of a monument in the Netherlands requires an environmental permit. For this permit a cultural-historical research is needed in which contains the values of the object are determined. This examination is usually done by specialized historic research agencies, which results in considerable costs. In addition to...

Project Jackal Final Report

For companies that deliver hardware services, the ability to scale dynamically has many advantages. In a special case, a company may have some computing resources available and desire to scale out when traffic peaks. A periodical budget may then be allocated, which needs to be used efficiently. This can be achieved through a combination of...

Towards a Green Metropolis: Designing a waterfront in Riga, Latvia

The project proposes to develop a recreational space network in the city of Riga which would supply the residents with local daily-use recreational spaces and simultaneously provide access to large seaside, woodland and lake landscapes outside the city. The city centre waterfront which combines the benefits of the ‘green’ and the ‘blue’...

Flexible and Adaptable Service Provisioning for Federated Personal Networks

Personal network and their federations (called Fednet) are considered as one of the promising future concepts regarding the personal communication. In this thesis, we first studies the state of the art of Fednet, from which we know there are two approaches for providing the services in Fednet, one is overlay and the other is proxy-based. Each of...