The purpose of this report is to assess the relevance of the measurement of the spectrally resolved distribution of radiation in tokamak boundary plasmas. This assessment is important and urgent in view of the recent ambition to design and construct a multi-camera configuration for hyper imaging spectroscopy1 …

Over the last few years, the term “smart cities” has gained traction in academic, industry, and policy debates about the deployment of new media technologies in urban settings. It is mostly used to describe and market technologies that make city infrastructures more efficient, and personalize the experience …

Uit het onderzoek blijkt dat in het iteratieve user experience proces van meten en verbeteren een data-driven design aanpak kan bijdragen aan het optimaliseren van websites. Door data te verzamelen, te categoriseren en te analyseren kunnen problemen met de user experience worden vastgesteld en gefundeerde …

The challenges of tomorrow’s society demand new ways of innovation – a shift in thinking, doing and organising. It requires releasing existing paradigms, changing perspectives and doing things differently. In the current work, we envision a sociable smart city that enables transforming society into a …

The ever increasing technological developments and greater demands from our society for qualitative better, safer, sustainable products, processes and systems are pushing the boundaries of what is possible from an engineer’s perspective. Besides the (local) grand challenges in energy, sustainability, …

Remote maintenance activities in ITER will be performed by a unique set of hardware systems, supported by an extensive software kit. A layer of middleware will manage and control a complex set of interconnections between teams of operators, hardware devices in various operating theatres, and databases …

Dit is de scriptie van de afstudeeropdracht van Tim Linschoten. De afstudeeropdracht is gemaakt voor het bedrijf Sogyo. Een van de werkzaamheden van Sogyo is klanten adviseren over de structuur en architectuur van ICT applicaties. Een van de onderwerpen waarin Sogyo geïnteresseerd is event-driven architecture, …

Letting go of the firm or “my baby” as some entrepreneurs describe their creation, leads to a certain amount of stress (Rahim 1996, Kets de Vries 1999). Dealing with stress in singular events as the transfer of a business, is hardly been subject of research (Uy et al. 2012). Improving coping strategies …