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Broekman, Jelmar (author)The construction industry is responsible for the emitting carbon, nitrogen, and particulate matter, which is harmful to the environment and contributes to global warming. Municipalities in the Netherlands plan to reduce emissions in inner-city developments to zero before 2030, for which a transformation of the already...master thesis 2024
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Tangelder, Laura (author)This thesis examines how TU Delft could adapt its study places in generic educational buildings to meet current and future demands. This research is done through a literature review and an examination of three<br/>representative cases at TU Delft and in-depth, semi-structured interviews.<br/><br/>Despite the expectations of a pandemic-induced...master thesis 2024
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Kowaltowski, D.C.C.K. (author), Gomes da Silva, V. (author), van Oel, C.J. (author), Granja, A.D. (author), Muianga, E.A.D. (author), Kabisch, S. (author), De Carvalho Moreira, D. (author), Koolwijk, J.S.J. (author), Pößneck, J. (author)Upgrading existing social housing (SH) requires user-centred participatory processes to promote values. Comparative case studies in Brazil, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK are presented. Living Labs (LLs) were conducted for the delivery of user values and to promote an informed decision-making process. Tools and LL activities were tested to...journal article 2024
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Hamida, A.B. (author), Eijkelenboom, A.M. (author), Bluyssen, P.M. (author)Understanding students' preferences of their study place, in particular acoustical and psychosocial preferences, is important to students' health and comfort. This study aimed to identify clusters of students with similar acoustical and psychosocial preferences, and to identify reasons for certain preferences of students in each cluster. A mixed...journal article 2024
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Yartys, Volodymyr A. (author), Denys, Roman V. (author), Akselrud, Lev G. (author), Vajeeston, Ponniah (author), Dankelman, B.J.R. (author), Plomp, J. (author), Block, Theresa (author), Pöttgen, Rainer (author), Wragg, David (author)The work was aimed on reaching a better understanding of the effect of magnesium as a component of the hydride-forming LaMgSn intermetallic compound crystallising with the orthorhombic TiNiSi type of structure on the hydrogenation behaviours, crystal structure and bonding interactions with hydrogen. The LaMgSn structure is significantly...journal article 2024
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Lee, Sueyoon (author), Viola, Irene (author), Rossi, Silvia (author), Guo, Zhirui (author), Reimat, Ignacio (author), Lawicka, Kinga (author), Striner, Alina (author), Cesar, Pablo (author)The latest social VR technologies have enabled users to attend traditional media and arts performances together while being geographically removed, making such experiences accessible despite budget, distance, and other restrictions. In this work, we aim at improving the way remote performances are shared by designing and evaluating a VR...journal article 2024
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Karacaoglu, Merve (author), Peerdeman, Kaya J. (author), Karch, Julian D. (author), van Middendorp, Henriët (author), Evers, A.W.M. (author)Objective: Expectancies are known to shape pain experiences, but it remains unclear how different types of expectancies contribute to daily pain fluctuations in fibromyalgia. This combined experimental and diary study aims to provide insights into how experimentally-derived nocebo hyperalgesia and other, diary-derived, expectancy-related...journal article 2024
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Goss, H. (author), Tromp, N. (author), Schifferstein, Hendrik N.J. (author)In recent years, more designers have been engaging in transitions, for which design expertise is used to develop visions of long-term desirable futures. However, little is known about how design expertise is positioned in transition visioning processes. In this case study, we follow a design agency in envisioning a future food system for a...journal article 2024
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Al Haddad, Christelle (author), Alam, Md Rakibul (author), Papadimitriou, E. (author), Brijs, Tom (author), Antoniou, Constantinos (author)Naturalistic driving studies (NDS) have recently gained attention as a way of instrumenting vehicles in an unobtrusive way and collecting driving data over long periods of time. Aiming at eventually modeling driving behavior, NDS are often a part of larger scale studies. These studies involve several stakeholders who are responsible for...journal article 2024
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van Trigt, B. (author), Goethem, Jeffrey van (author), van den Bekerom, Michel (M P.J.). (author), Veeger, H.E.J. (author), Hoozemans, Marco (M J.M.). (author)Background: In baseball, repetitive pitching leads to medial elbow injuries, particularly to the ulnar collateral ligament (UCL). To prevent pitchers from UCL injuries, it is important to quantify the response to elbow stress. Repetitive elbow external valgus torque and muscular fatigue induced by repetitive pitching could affect markers of...journal article 2024
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Gohari, Savis (author), Castro Silvia, Soutullo (author), Ashrafian, Touraj (author), Konstantinou, T. (author), Giancola, Emanuela (author), Prebreza, Bahri (author), Aelenei, Laura (author), Murauskaite, Lina (author), Liu, Mingming (author)The implementation of Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) is recognized as a promising approach to achieving energy efficiency and reducing the negative environmental impact of climate change through the surplus of local renewable energy generation. However, several barriers to the implementation of PEDs, coupled with the lack of a joint definition...journal article 2024
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Chen, Y. (author), Nijhuis, S. (author), van Dorst, M.J. (author)Numerous studies show the benefits of wilderness to humans and the environment. Therefore, preserving and developing wilderness areas within urban settings are crucial to combat and mitigate challenges like biodiversity decline resulting from urbanization. According to previous studies, human-wilderness interactions can be contradictory, e.g.,...journal article 2024
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Tan, T. (author), Mills, Grant (author), Papadonikolaki, E. (author)Modularity is an approach to simplify systems and reduce complexity. However, existing research suggests that a mono-dimensional modularity strategy, focusing solely on one dimension, such as product, process, or organization, might not fully achieve these goals in design activities. This research investigates how combining strategies from...journal article 2024
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Pelka, S. (author), Preuß, Sabine (author), Stute, Judith (author), Chappin, E.J.L. (author), De Vries, Laurens (author)Households equipped with flexible technologies, such as electric vehicles, can support the energy transition by shifting electricity consumption to times of high renewable supply and by preventing consumption peaks that cannot be covered by existing grid and generation infrastructure. Demand response services support households in performing...journal article 2024
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Diaz, Nicholas D. (author), Lee, Yoonjeong (author), Kothuis, B.L.M. (author), Pagán-Trinidad, Ismael (author), Jonkman, Sebastiaan N. (author), Brody, Samuel D. (author)Floods are consistently ranked as the most financially devastating natural disasters worldwide. Recent flood events in the Netherlands, Caribbean, and US have drawn attention to flood risks resulting from pluvial and fluvial sources. Despite shared experiences with flooding, these regions employ distinct approaches and flood management...journal article 2024
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Kishita, Yusuke (author), Höjer, Mattias (author), Quist, J.N. (author)Backcasting has become a widely applied approach to address sustainability challenges when transformative changes are required. However, dispersed and contextualized knowledge of backcasting methodologies and practices needs to be systematized, codified, and synthesized to support researchers, commissioners, practitioners, and stakeholders in...journal article 2024
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Tišma, M. (author), Kaljević, Jovana (author), Gruber, Stephan (author), Le, Tung B.K. (author), Dekker, C. (author)Bacterial cells require DNA segregation machinery to properly distribute a genome to both daughter cells upon division. The most common system involved in chromosome and plasmid segregation in bacteria is the ParABS system. A core protein of this system - partition protein B (ParB) - regulates chromosome organization and chromosome...review 2024
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Ericson, Petter (author), Dobbe, R.I.J. (author), Lindgren, Simon (author)This article explores the rapidly developing field of Critical AI Studies and its relation to issues of class and capitalism through a hybrid approach based on distant reading of a newly collected corpus of 300 full-text scientific articles, the creation of which is itself a first attempt at properly delineating the field. We find that words...journal article 2024
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Oppenlaender, Jonas (author), Abbas, T. (author), Gadiraju, Ujwal (author)Pilot studies are an essential cornerstone of the design of crowdsourcing campaigns, yet they are often only mentioned in passing in the scholarly literature. A lack of details surrounding pilot studies in crowdsourcing research hinders the replication of studies and the reproduction of findings, stalling potential scientific advances. We...journal article 2024
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Sarkar, Priya (author), Liem, C.C.S. (author)We explore the alignment of organizational representatives involved in hiring processes with five different, commonly proposed fairness notions. In a qualitative study with 17 organizational professionals, for each notion, we investigate their perception of understandability, fairness, potential to increase diversity, and practical applicability...journal article 2024