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Van Eijk, S. (author)Gated Anonymity vs Ungated Community Overcoming social, functional and physical borders through strategic spatial planning in Baishizhou, China.master thesis 2014
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Koppendraaier, D.A. (author)The assignment of the graduation studio of Complex Projects is the rehabilitation and redesign or strategy of the now empty South Chicago (Illinois, USA) South Works site. The U.S. Steel’s South Works which was located there used to provide for work in the area, but after closure in 1992, the area started to decay. The lack of programmatic and...master thesis 2014
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Van der Kooi, M.J. (author)Business premises for governmental and non-governmental business supporting green development of Paris + Information centre for the Parisien inhabitants. Redesign of an old warehouse next to Canal Saint Martin, which contributes to the plan to make Paris a greener and healthier city.master thesis 2014
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Doe, M.F.A. (author)Through the analysis of historic cases high-tech innovations, a selection process has been devised to accelerate sustainable innovations to large-scale adoption. The niche strategy selection process has been applied to, and validated with, the case of kite-based Airborne Wind Energy, resulting in an overview of its barriers and guidance to...master thesis 2014
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Grootelaar, G.G.J.F. (author)The Graduation Studio of Complex Projects deals with the design of an emptied former industrial site in South Chicago. After the closure of the factory in 1992, the site became inactive and the adjacent neighborhood started to decay due to lack of programmatic and spatial diversity. The building will focus on different socio-geographical levels...master thesis 2014
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Driver, J. (author)This RMIT graduation project is located in the north-east of Paris. Characteristic for this industrial area are the canal and the railroads. The company Pouchard Tubes is located on a unique location of Pantin, in between the canal and the railroads. The site of Pouchard is becoming available for redevelopment, providing an interesting design task.master thesis 2014
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Teijl, T.L. (author)A qualitative case study on success and failure factors of implementing innovative sustainable technologies in a competitive industry in the region of Rotterdam - Drechtstedenmaster thesis 2014
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Klompenhouwer, M.G.M. (author)Graduation studio New directions for the Public Interior (2013/2014) is concerned with NS Station Amsterdam Zuid as a major and infrastructural node. While the main entrance of the station is mainly focused on businesspeople and corporate Zuidas, the Parnassusweg entrance gives stage to the other users of Zuidas: to VU students, residents and...master thesis 2014
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Bos, F. (author)The aviation sector has suffered a big blow from the series of recent economic depressions. Airlines are struggling to stay in business and are looking for multiple ways to cut on expenses. This has led to the initiation of studies to find strategies which will reduce an airline’s overall fuel consumption. One of these methods is to initiate...master thesis 2014
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Jansen, J. (author)Insects can be alternative source of nutrients in various parts of the food-chain, as feed for livestock but also human consumption. However, the acceptation of insects as a source of nutrients is low. Insects are in no way a part of western culture except when they are a pest. Insects do play a vital role in upcoming developments such as urban...master thesis 2014
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Fierinck, E. (author)The city of Hoboken, New Jersey, suffers from flood risk by sea level rise, storm surge and storm water. Due to its position it is well connected to the metropolitan network, but also cut off from its direct surroundings. This has led to both spatial and social segregation. This project uses the Dutch approach towards flood risk, where water has...master thesis 2014
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Smitshuijzen, J.S.J. (author)A model describing simultaneous growth and adsorption of COD in the A-stage, using a limited set of variables, has been developed. The agreement between the real data and the simulations is remarkably good for both steady-state conditions and dynamic simulations mimicking the seasonality of one whole year of operation of the A-stage in Dokhaven....master thesis 2014
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Könnemann, F.L. (author)This thesis deals with traffic forecasts of Airspace Users for Air Navigation Service Providers. Currently there is a high amount of uncertainty in the traffic forecast. Air Traffic Flow Managers anticipate for unforeseen traffic by increasing the forecasted maximum capacity threshold by more than 10%. The European ATM research program SESAR...master thesis 2014
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Reimert, Z. (author)In structural design there is a tendency towards more slender and challenging architectural structures. Footbridges become more slender with an increasing high ratio live load to dead weight. A consequence of this increased slenderness of footbridges in an increased susceptibility to human-induced vibrations. The evaluation of the serviceability...master thesis 2014
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Bekker, R. (author)PV prosumers could have a significant contribution to the 20/20/20 goals, but the Dutch electricity system is not equipped for this. The current net metering policy has an uncertain future and net metering takes away the time dependent, system critical, component of the balance of demand and supply for prosumers. An integrated transaction cost...master thesis 2014
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Fabels, C.E. (author)Despite the growing interest in the business world as well as the academic world for serious gaming, significant knowledge gaps remain to be researched; one of which concerns the development of unified formalized methods to analyze serious games in order to explain the nature of the impact they promise in organizational change processes. For...master thesis 2014
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Schouten, P.F. (author)The goal of this project was to develop a new type of vehicle that shows a fit in smart’s future product portfolio. The idea of developing a vehicle smaller than the existing smart fortwo arose from developments in the market and society. Throughout the whole automotive industry it is agreed that there is an increasing mismatch between existing...master thesis 2014
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Hofste, R.W. (author)Following the success of open access rainfall products based on earth observation data, similar global products are now under development for actual evapotranspiration. In this research, seven prototype evapotranspiration products based on MODIS and geostationary satellites were compared for the Nile basin. They include the special MOD16 version...master thesis 2014
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McGuire, K.N. (author)Summary: The need for vision guided mobile robotics is becoming more apparent, however it is proven to be troublesome to stabilize its vision. For two legged robots, it is, during motion, even more difficult than for wheeled robots to be able to perceive the world around it. Finding a stabilization method which is able to reduce the motion blur...master thesis 2014