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Beumer, Mees (author)The mini optical ground station (MISO), on top of the Aerospace Engineering faculty, serves the purpose of demonstrating Free Space Optical Communication technology. A downlink from low earth orbit imposes pointing requirements beyond what can be achieved by the telescope mount. A Fine Pointing Assembly (FPA), the topic of this thesis, aims to...master thesis 2024
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Zegeling, Jesse (author)In the upcoming years more train passengers are expected and with more trains on the tracks railway systems require greater resilience. Switches can play a major role during disruptions as they enable trains to be rerouted onto other tracks, allowing them to bypass the disruption but switches also facilitate overtaking, meet-pass operations at...master thesis 2024
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Ketelaar, Bas (author)Artificial intelligence has a strong need for faster and more energy-efficient solutions, especially for computation performed at the sensor edge. On-chip photonic neural networks (PNNs) offer a promising solution for high speeds and energy efficiency. A less explored side of PNNs is their application to time-series data, which is often the case...master thesis 2024
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Kalpoe, Arvind (author)Currently, one of the biggest challenges humanity faces is climate change. Reduction of fossil fuels is demanded in the future, hence an energy transition is required. A promising potential alternative fuel is the energy carrier NaBH<sub>4</sub> which contains hydrogen (H<sub>2</sub>). Handling and storing NaBH<sub>4</sub> provides challenges...master thesis 2024
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Mathoera, Winand (author)Amsterdam Airport Schiphol characterises itself as a major hub in Europe. Its network is not sustainable with only the Dutch catchment area. Instead, it relies on transfer passengers. When new tax regimes and policies are implemented to combat the environmental impacts of the airport, a change in passenger flows could affect Schiphol’s network...master thesis 2024
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Oldenhuis, Job (author)The drilling industry faces the challenge of moving away from conventional maintenance strategies to maximise operational efficiency. This thesis introduces a holistic approach to land drilling rig Predictive Maintenance (PdM), integrating component maintenance into system-level decision-making. By taking the operations of the whole system into...master thesis 2024
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Kraakman, Frank (author)The state-of-the-art teleimpedance command interfaces used to command the robot stiffness configuration are either too complex to set up, such as those that use physiological signals and other tracking methods or cannot configure the stiffness appropriately for 3d environments.<br/>To mitigate these issues, a novel teleimpedance interface is...master thesis 2024
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Vermeulen, Mark (author)Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is an important imaging modality, since it can create high-resolution cross-sectional images of the human body. In MRI scanners, the nuclear spin magnetization is excited using radio-frequency pulses. Images are created based on the time-evolution of this magnetization, which is characterized by relaxation times ...master thesis 2024
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Lee, Y. (author)E-learning has shifted the traditional learning paradigms in higher education, offering more flexible, ubiquitous, and personalized learning experiences. The previous years COVID-19 pandemic required a re-calibration of education to accommodate virtual learning environments from the traditional classroom-based education. Widespread learning...doctoral thesis 2024
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Verhagen, Alexandra (author)Accurate capacity planning is essential to ensure uninterrupted services and network stability through peak hours for the transport core network of KPN. This involves a trade-off between minimizing the risks of capacity shortages and costs of capacity expansions. High network loads are occurring more frequently and their magnitude is increasing....master thesis 2024
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Zhang, M. (author)Food and medicines are two of the most essential categories of goods for human beings, providing vital nourishment and healthcare. However, as these products are commercialized and distributed on a global scale, consumers face the threat of counterfeit and deteriorated products. In response, this dissertation presents four prototypes consisting...doctoral thesis 2024
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Caranti, Leonardo (author)This Master Thesis investigates the possible improvements to the Target Time Management concept to optimize the arrival flows for SWISS International Airlines. The aim is to improve operational performance based on the current model used, as well as prove that Target Time Management constitutes a valuable system to improve operations in a...master thesis 2024
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Trip, Kenrick (author)With the introduction of autonomous vehicles on public roads, their performance in emergency situations has become a strong focus. Collision Imminent Control (CIC) concerns the planning and control of aggressive evasive maneuvers for collision avoidance of automated vehicles. CIC is implemented using adaptive Nonlinear Model Predictive Control ...master thesis 2024
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van der Kraan, Frenk (author)Gaining insights into anticipated future expenses is essential for both the planning and construction phases of a project. A significant factor in future costs, particularly over extended periods, is the variability of material and labor prices. the change in costs over time, known as ’cost escalation,’ has been the focus of numerous research...master thesis 2024
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Fotis, Konstantinos (author)The Landing Platform Dock vessel is mainly designed to support amphibious operations in which landing operations play an important role. For operating landing craft the vessel has a well dock at the stern, designed to station several landing craft. Landing operations are restricted by the motions of the Landing Platform Dock vessel and by the...master thesis 2024
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Skoulas, Vasileios (author)Long truck queues and congestion around terminals is a common sight, however they come with many negative externalities for all the stakeholders involved. Truck Appointment System (TAS) is the most commonly used system to face these problems, but it still has some drawbacks and limitations. Consequently, in this research an extension of the...master thesis 2024
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Katona, Misha (author)Through several contractions, stiff competition, and increasing passenger expectations, airports must evolve continually. One of the main avenues for this has been improving the efficiency of the security check- points, which are airports’ primary bottlenecks. Operational optimisation methods, such as resource and task scheduling are relatively...master thesis 2024
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Veerhoek, Evy (author)<i>"First-time buyer has a chance to buy only 3 percent of owner-occupied dwellings in the Netherlands”</i> (NOS, 2023). </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;...master thesis 2024
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Zhang, H. (author)In recent decades, dielectric lens antennas have been more and more adopted and developed for sensing and imaging applications at sub-millimeter (sub-mm) wavelengths because they can achieve high gain while keeping their physical size and weight acceptable at these wavelengths. More recently, as low-loss and low-cost lens materials have become...doctoral thesis 2024
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Wolfkamp, Wouter (author), Meijer, Joyce (author), van Hoeve, Jolanda C. (author), van Erning, Felice (author), de Geus-Oei, L.F. (author), de Hingh, Ignace (author), Veltman, Jeroen (author), Siesling, Sabine (author)Background: In the Netherlands, the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a temporary halt of population screening for cancer and limited hospital capacity for non-COVID care. We aimed to investigate the impact of the pandemic on the in-hospital diagnostic pathway of breast cancer (BC) and colorectal cancer (CRC). Methods: 71,159 BC and 48,900 CRC...journal article 2024