The relationship between race and biology is complex. In contemporary medical science, race is a social construct that is measured via self-identification of study participants. But even though race has no biological essence, it is often used as variable in medical guidelines (e.g., treatment recommendations …

Export shipments arriving late at the freight building of KLM Cargo at Schiphol Airport is a trigger to deviations in the standard acceptance process. These Late Shows are currently handled ad-hoc making it difficult to plan and predict these events. In addition, shipments arriving on time is currently …

Machine Learning techonology is used to recognize piano note based on audio. Thesis descibes progress on research of ML techonlogyitself and the way how model can be develoepd and trained. Specificaly one architecture is described, that is CNN. Note recongition is based model trained on Nsynth3 database. …

Volgens een nieuw akkoord dient de Rotterdamse haven een emissievrije haven te zijn in het jaar 2050. Dit betekent dat alle scheepvaart die zich binnen het havengebied bevindt hieraan moet voldoen. Om aan deze nieuwe wetgeving te voldoen worden brandstofcellen door de opdrachtgever gezien als een mogelijk …

For this thesis, an immersive 2D painting experience was developed that uses an intuitive interface with trackable painting equipment in Virtual Reality. For the immersion, the standard HTC Vive Controllers needed to be replaced with painting equipment. Through the use of desk research, interviewing …

This thesis project has been carried out at VHL (Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences) and consists of three different parts; the first part is an experiment in which during 20 days of cultivation the optimum nitrate concentration for protein production in Ulva lactuca is sought. U. lactuca …

De Leidse Schouwburg – Stadsgehoorzaal, hierna te noemen LS-SGZ, zet ruim 50.000 euro van haar marketingbudget in omtrent de promotie van de voorverkoopperiode. 48.500 euro van dit budget gaat naar het maken en verzenden van de seizoensbrochure. Echter, 46% van de brochureontvangers doet geen aankoop …

Uit onderzoek van Denninson, Stewart en Hurren (2006) blijkt dat het geven van waarschuwingen (reprimandegesprek), de meerderheid (69% van 14572 jeugdigen) van jonge delinquenten die een waarschuwing hebben gekregen minder snel opnieuw in contact komen met justitie voor hun 17e levensjaar dan jeugdigen …

To find out what is needed to speed up the adoption of open sharing and reuse of learning materials and open online courses in publicly funded Dutch institutions of Higher Education, a qualitative research study was conducted in fall 2016. This study examined issues of willingness of educators and management, …

The coral reefs around the world have been under very big pressure. In some places up to 95% coral coverage is already gone. For this big decrease there are many different causes, ranging from natural disasters to predation and sickness. Even humans have a big influence on the coral reefs. To protect …