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- Beckers, Bo (author) master thesis 2017
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Edmondson, Ben (author)Over the past years Fibre Reinforced Polymers, or FRP, have started making more of an appearance in civil engineering structures. They have the advantages that they are light-weight, do not corrode and theoretically require little maintenance during their lifespan. Originally they were used to construct reinforcement, cables and small bridges...master thesis 2017
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Sneha, Sneha (author)The cellular environment is characterized by confinement and macro-molecular crowding: both concepts that have been studied separately. To understand kinetics of enzymatic reactions, there is a need to understand how the diffusional encounters of enzyme and substrate proceed in an environment<br/>that is confined and crowded simultaneously. The...master thesis 2017
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den Braber, Tom (author)The goal of this thesis is to learn how exception handling constructs are used by PHP developers. We present an approach for detecting the exception flow of a software system, based on the work of Robillard and Murphy (2003). We show the accuracy of this approach by evaluating the tool on a corpus of three different PHP systems. The approach is...master thesis 2017
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Chaudhary, Aditya (author)A tremendous amount of research in improving the efficiency of the single junction crystalline silicon (c-Si) based solar cells has brought its efficiency (26.6%) close to the theoretical maximum achievable conversion<br/>efficiency (29.43%) [1–3]. Thus to further improve the efficiency, new avenues of reducing losses need to be opened up. One...master thesis 2017
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ter Haar Romenij, Bas (author)In the Netherlands 23% of the population (3.9 million people) has been treated by one of the 21.000 physical or practice therapists, in order to recover from a physical complaint. Of these patients, 80% needs to exercise in order to rehabilitate from their complaint. However, a large problem arises since 50-70% of the patients do not do as they...master thesis 2017
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- Beall, Taylor (author) master thesis 2017
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van den Broeck, Christian (author)Philips Lighting has developed a new technology that allows LED lighting to be embedded into concrete. The goal of this assignment was to find a new business opportunity for this technology. After a thorough research the conclusion was drawn that architects are very interested in this technology, but they see different possibilities and want to...master thesis 2017
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Guo, Jingkun (author)In recent years, cavity optomechanics has attracted lots of attention. In this system, photons inside a cavity interact with a macroscopic harmonic oscillator through the radiation pressure force. Depending on the type of structure, opto-mechanical systems can be used in, for example, precision sensing, including force and acceleration...master thesis 2017
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van Kan, Wesley (author)Experience-based decision making by crew plays a key role in the safe and effective execution of maritime operations. For yachts and naval vessels, common operations can be identified as helicopter operations (take-off and landing), launch and recovery of small craft and (dis)embarkment to and from these small craft. All of these operations are...master thesis 2017
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Thuijs, Jeroen (author)With a changing market for offshore crew transfer systems the current Ampelmann systems are vulnerable for competitors. One of the downsides of the current system is its influence on the ship due to the system mass. A lightweight re-design of the current steel gangway using composites could start an overall weight decrease. A composite gangway...master thesis 2017
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- Arga Jafino, Bramka (author) master thesis 2017
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Ortega Ramirez, Mariana (author)The meaning of what a sustainable fish food product demands can differ among the stakeholders who are knowledgeable in the product system. This thesis applies methods and tools from the field of industrial ecology to understand what sustainability means when it comes to a pelagic fish product from the Northeast Atlantic. The study covers a need...master thesis 2017
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Bach, Alicia (author)During the extension of a sport complex near Tilburg, The Netherlands, some archeological objects were discovered. Some shreds of pottery seem to confirm that the objects found were originating from the Middle Iron Age.1 Some of the objects were egg-shaped and hollow, with a small opening on the tip. The objects did awaken the thought that they...bachelor thesis 2017
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Kingma, Friso (author)Overfitting is a common problem when learning models from noisy observational data. This problem is especially present in very flexible models, such as Neural Networks, which can easily fit to spurious patterns in the data that are not indicative of true underlying patterns. One technique that conquers the problem of overfitting is Bagging, an...bachelor thesis 2017
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Baaij, Robin (author)Dissimilarities between an active flow control model and the physical system can be accounted for by use of a robust controller. Modeling errors and uncertainty in the parameters cause controller performance to decrease, and, in some cases, can even destabilize the closed-loop system. This paper shows that, whilst H2 optimal control provides...master thesis 2017
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de Goede, Nick (author)Commercially available laparoscopic surgical robots are not currently equipped with force feedback. This may lead to unnecessary tissue damage when gripping tissue in a laparascopic procedure, as shown in a prior literature study. The goal of this MSc thesis project is the implementation of haptic feedback in a prototype of a master-slave...master thesis 2017
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Tang, Tianzhu (author)Steam has been widely used in industrial processes, however, these industrial processes also discharge a huge amount of low quality waste steam, low temperature steam at ambient pressure which is not fit for heat integration with other local processes. As the energy needs and environmental concerns increase, it is desirable to utilize the waste...master thesis 2017
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Gieseler, Gwenda (author)During this project, the possibilities between carbon fibres and glass were explored. It appeared that no significant improvement in mechanical properties can be obtained by reinforcing the glass. Therefore other directions were explored in the kiln, with hot glass, with glue and with electric current, both aesthetic and functional. Eventually a...master thesis 2017
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Slingerland, Geertje (author)The stimulation of citizen participation has led to the upraise of bottom-up citizen communities. These communities grow from idealism but often have a hard time to become a durable initiative when the first challenges arise and the enthusiasm has disappeared. This graduation aims to gather an understanding of how citizen initiatives can be...master thesis 2017