Young pediatric patients who undergo venipuncture or capillary blood sampling often experience high levels of pain and anxiety. This often results in distressed young patients and their parents, increased treatment times, and a higher workload for healthcare professionals. Social robots are a new and …

Conference poster Digitally controlled systems, such as elevators, washing machines, and traffic lights, are ubiquitous in children's present-day world. However, in current educational practice, such systems are hardly being addressed, and little is known about children's initial understandings about …

The Vulkan real estate site in Oslo is owned by Aspelin Ramm, and includes one of the largest parking garages used for EV charging in Europe. EV charging (both AC and DC) is managed for now predominately for costs reasons but also with relevance at further EV penetration level in this car parking location …

Machine learning models have proven to be reliable methods in classification tasks. However, little research has been done on classifying dwelling characteristics based on smart meter & weather data before. Gaining insights into dwelling characteristics can be helpful to create/improve the policies for …

Goal: The goal of this thesis is to study the association between protein intake and the change in lean mass during a cutting and a bulking phase. The term cutting means being in a caloric deficit for a period of time to reduce the amount of body fat and maintain as much muscle mass as possible. The …

Study of an exit dilemma from a defence economic perspective on alliances, more specifically against a background of burden sharing theories on NATO. We consider an international alliance, NATO, to be a community programmed to receive, as once membership has been obtained, no country has ever exited, …

In 2017 Volvo will deliver 100 self-driving cars as part of the Drive Me project. These cars will be able to drive autonomously on the ring road of Gothenburg, without requiring any driver supervision. To realize this vision, the cars need different algorithms to recognize, and be able to react to, different …

In this thesis the research on the automatic constructing of intelligible digitally reconstructed radiographs (DRR’s) of the hips is described. This project was initialized when the Department of Orthopedic surgery, within UMC Utrecht, decided to research the relation between spinopelvic parameters and …

This report provides a concise interpretation of the findings concerning expats as a new target audience for Movies that Matter Festival in The Hague, the Netherlands. For a communication professional in the film industry it is important to have clear objectives - in the case of Movies that Matter Festival, …

A new method to study sudden ankle inversions during human walking and jumping is presented. Ankle inversions of 258wereelicited using a box containing a trap door. During the gait task, subjects walked at a speed of 4 km/h. At a pre-programmed delayafter left heel strike, an electromagnet released the …