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Smit, M. (author)A method is developed that deals with uncertainties concerning the possible future train services and to what extent different infrastructure alternatives accommodate these train services. A case study is done for the rail line The Hague - Rotterdam. Amongst other methods, a policy analysis approach, a traffic modeling program and a net present...master thesis 2010
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Jensen, P (author), van der Voordt, Theo (author), Coenen, C (author), von Felten, D (author), Lindholm, A (author)Purpose: This paper aims to present and compare research perspectives and theoretical reflections from a variety of academic fields on the concept of Added Value of Facilities Management (FM).<br/>Theory: The starting point is the so-called FM Value Map, which was presented in a paper by Jensen (2009) at the research symposium at EFMC 2009 in...conference paper 2010
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De Haan, J. (author), Van der Wal, E.B. (author), De Vries, P. (author)The sale price appraisal ratio (SPAR) method has been applied in a number of countries to construct house price indexes. This paper reviews the statistical and index number properties of the SPAR approach. Three types of SPAR indexes are distinguished: a weighted index, which aims at tracking the price change of the stock of owner-occupied...journal article 2009
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Desmet, P.M.A. (author), Hekkert, P.P.M. (author), van Erp, J. (author)This paper reports an experience-driven design project that was commissioned by the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum. The aim was to cause a shift in the relationship between visitors and the art collection from one that is experienced as ‘distant’ to one that is experienced as ‘committed’. In five steps, an online application was conceptualised, developed...conference paper 2009
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Meesters, J. (author)For some decades governments in Europe, the US and Australia promote compact city concepts, to achieve more sustainable patterns of travel and reduce energy use. For over 30 years spatial planning policies of the Dutch government are aimed at implementing compact urbanization in various forms. In contrast to the promoted high density urban...conference paper 2009
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De Vries, P. (author), De Haan, J. (author), Mariën, A.A.A. (author), Van der Wal, E. (author)Within the European Union there has been a push to provide European governments and the European Central Bank with the statistics they need for monitoring the owneroccupied sector. This paper reports on the results of a project to develop a house price index for the Netherlands. From January 2008, Kadaster, the Dutch land registry office, and...journal article 2009
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De Brito, M.P. (author), Laan, E.A. (author)Product returns are characterized by considerable uncertainty on time and quantity. In the literature on inventory management for product return environments best forecasts of future returns are associated with methods that use the most information regarding product return history. In practice, however, data is often scarce and unreliable, while...journal article 2009
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Gielen, M.A. (author)The paper aims at contributing to the professional development of toy design education programs. It draws from the practice of a children’s toy design course at Delft University of Technology. It identifies three major concepts that greatly influence toy quality and that students find difficult to understand and apply: aimlessness, empathy and...journal article 2009
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De Reuver, M. (author)Mobile service innovation requires a broad set of resources and capabilities that are not controlled by one single actor. Equipment manufacturers, operators, content providers and application developers have to work together in so-called value networks in order to develop and offer services to end-users. There is serious debate as to how the...doctoral thesis 2009
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Illes, F.F. (author)Information Technology systems are used to cover many functions and they fulfil various roles within an organization. Corporate IT spending and investments have constantly increased since the plunge it took in 2001, and still there is much uncertainty on how exactly these systems influence the business and impact business performance. The large...master thesis 2009
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Caires, S. (author)In order to assess their relative merits in the context of the determinalion of Hydraulic Boundary Conditions (HBC), the Annual Maxima / Generalized Extreme Value distribution (AM/GEV) and Peaks over Threshold / Generalized Pareto Oislribution (POT/GPO) approaches are compared in terms of Iheir accuracy, as measured by mean square errors, in...report 2009
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Zheng, S. (author), Hendriks, E.A. (author), Lei, B. (author), Hao, W. (author)Under the support vector machine framework, the support value analysis-based image fusion has been studied, where the salient features of the original images are represented by their support values. The support value transform (SVT)-based image fusion approach have demonstrated some advantages over the existing methods in multisource image...conference paper 2009
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Tian, Y. (author)The main aim of the thesis is to formulate a concept of liquidity risk and to incorporate liquidity risk in market risk measurement. We first review two types of liquidity risk and the relation between liquidity risk and market risk. To achieve our aim, we use a new framework of portfolio theory introduced by Acerbi. A novelty of Acerbi’s...master thesis 2009
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Landsbergen, P. (author)Dutch households are responsible for a significant part of the total Dutch energy consumption and CO2 emissions. One option for decreasing household energy consumption and CO2 emissions is to deploy micro-combined-heat-power (?CHP) units. A micro-CHP virtual power plant (VPP) is a cluster of grid connected ?CHP units that is monitored and...master thesis 2009
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Doorn, N. (author)Insights from social science are increasingly used in the field of applied ethics. However, recent insights have shown that the empirical branch of business ethics lacks thorough theoretical grounding. This article discusses the use of the Rawlsian methods of wide reflective equilibrium and overlapping consensus in the field of applied ethics....journal article 2009
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Poletto, F. (author), Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author)The virtual reflector method simulates new seismic signals by processing traces recorded by a plurality of sources and receivers. The approach is based on the crossconvolution of the recorded signals and makes it possible to obtain the Green’s function of virtual reflected signals as if in the position of the receivers (or sources) there were a...journal article 2009
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Van de Kaa, E.J. (author)In Transport Sciences different implementations of Utility Theory are commonly used for the description and prediction of human choice behaviour. Almost 30 years ago Kahneman and Tversky proposed an alternative behavioural-economic model of choice behaviour called Prospect Theory. In contrast to Utility Theory they assumed that preference orders...doctoral thesis 2008
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Jurgens, R.G. (author)Applying architecture implies that it provides added value across an enterprise. Although widely adopted, this claim has only been scarcely investigated, not to mention quantified. This document describes the results of a case study to quantify the effects of applying Enterprise Architecture within a financial institution called FinCom. For...master thesis 2008
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Monasso, T. (author)It is estimated that 3.5 to 12% of Dutch youngsters suffer from severe psychosocial problems: emotional or behavioural problems hampering their social functioning. A large share of this group is currently not recognised by organisations such as schools, youth care, health care or welfare. Of those youngsters who are known, not all problems are...master thesis 2008
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Zwiers, M.H. (author)Met als bijlage: A0 poster. Dit afstudeeronderzoek betreft de onderwerpen 'kwaliteitsplannen' en 'Lean construction'. Dit houdt in dat ik de kaders 'kwaliteitsplannen' en 'Lean construction' beide ontleed heb en duidelijk maak wat dit inhoudt. Omdat ik mij als doel stel om de kwaliteit van bouwwerken te verbeteren richt ik me hier op. Dit houdt...master thesis 2008