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This thesis explores the measurement of low sediment concentrations in pipeline flows, a critical issue in deep-sea mining. The study aims to identify and validate a continuous measurement method capable of accurately detecting suspended sediment concentrations between 10-75 g/L. ...

SMURF: a Methodology for Energy Profiling Software Systems

Simulate and Measure to Understand Resource Footprints

Understanding the energy profile of a complex, multi-faceted software system is difficult. In this thesis, we present a novel methodology, called SMURF, a five-step methodology that gives insights into the energy consumption of a complex system. The methodology is broadly applica ...
This study investigates how genre preferences and sentiment influence fanfiction popularity across multiple languages, focusing on English, Mandarin, Russian, and Spanish datasets. Leveraging advanced natural language processing techniques, including multilingual sentiment analys ...
The Shallow Water Equations (SWEs) for ocean applications can be discretized using finite differences, resulting in a system of time-dependent ordinary differential equations (ODEs). These ODEs can then be solved on a GPU using various time-integration schemes, which can be categ ...
Citizen science, an approach where the general public collaborates with academic researchers to contribute to scientific research, offers significant benefits for both science and society. Despite its potential, the field faces significant challenges that limit its impact, partic ...

The impact of emotional journeys on fanfiction popularity

A computational analysis of linear correlations between emotional behavior and popularity

Fanfiction writers always look for ways to make their stories more engaging. Analyzing what influences the popularity of fanfiction provides insights into readers' preferences and allows writers to tailor to these. This paper attempts to find linear correlations between fanfictio ...

What if fan-fiction, but also coding

How does fan-fiction differ in style to its original canon and does it affect its success?

Natural language processing, specifically style, is not explored significantly in the context of fan-fiction. By using function word frequency analysis, this paper explores the similarity in style between original works and fan-fictions derived from them as well as the impact of ...
The healthcare sector, while dedicated to promoting human well-being, is also a major contributor to declining environmental conditions, paradoxically adversely affecting health through resource-intensive and waste-generating practices. Laparoscopic surgeries using single-use ins ...

Women in Transit

Considerations for Kitchen Design for Formal Settlements in Bangladesh

This project, Women in Transit: Considerations for Kitchen Design for Formal Settlements in Bangladesh, explores the challenges and key factors in designing kitchens for women in informal settlements. The focus is on women who have migrated from rural to urban areas, driven by ra ...
One of the challenges in modern ports is upgrading existing quay walls. Dutch contractor Hakkers BV has developed a device to install underwater grout anchors as a support for sheet pile walls. This technology was successfully tested during a pilot project in the Seinehaven for t ...

What if fanfiction, but also coding: Investigating cultural differences in fanfiction writing and reviewing with machine learning methods

Fine Tuning a BERT-based Pre-Trained Language Model for Named Entity Extraction within the Domain of Fanfiction

The introduction of Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) has revolutionised the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and paved the way for many new, exciting large-scale studies for various areas of research. One such field presents itself in the emerging digital literary corp ...
Impact pile driving is the predominant foundation technique for offshore wind turbines. The pressure waves generated during pile driving produce high noise levels that can harm marine life. To protect marine mammals, regulations have been established to limit underwater noise. Re ...
The recent growth of the size of wind farms highlights the need for a deeper understanding of the mesoscale phenomena in a stably stratified atmosphere, such as atmospheric gravity waves, as the effect on the power generation can be significant. This thesis is a numerical study o ...
In the last decade, the new functional neuroimaging technique functional ultrasound (fUS) has emerged as a potential new tool for clinical and neuroscientific applications. Unlike several conventional methods for functional brain imaging, fUS offers an unparalleled combination of ...

What if fanfiction, but also coding: Investigating cultural differences in fanfiction writing and reviewing with machine learning methods

How has the portrayal of female characters in fanfiction evolved in response to the #MeToo movement and fourth-wave feminism, as analyzed with the help of NLP techniques?

This paper explores how the portrayal of female characters in fanfiction evolved in response to the #MeToo movement and fourth-wave feminism, with the aim of assessing whether the impact of the awareness of the campaign was broad enough to visibly alter how the average author por ...
Tiltrotor aircraft combine the vertical takeoff and landing capabilities of helicopters with the speed and range of fixed-wing airplanes. Modeling their transitional flight dynamics, particularly the role of rotor flapping, remains a challenge. This paper develops an analytical f ...
JUICE will measure tidally-induced variations in Ganymede's gravitational field with unprecedented accuracy. Previous research focused on studying tides with a spherically-symmetric interior allowing to constrain the mean shell thickness and subsurface ocean. The presence of late ...
This research investigated the application of electrical thrusters within the Attitude Determination and Control System (ADCS) of the European Space Agency’s LUMIO mission, a 12U CubeSat set to op- erate in a quasi-periodic halo orbit around the Earth-Moon L2 point. While CubeSat ...
Muscle-tendon paths vary between individuals, and musculoskeletal models show sensitivity to these variations when estimating muscle and joint forces. Accurate estimations of these internal forces allow for a more comprehensive approach to researching debilitating musculoskeletal ...
Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites are used in various engineering applications due to their many advantageous properties, but predicting failure remains challenging due to complex failure behavior. The Computational Mechanics group at TU Delft uses an inter-element cohesi ...