In dit verslag wordt de opbouw voor een kleine compacte regelaar voor in een kas beschreven. In opdracht van Sercom Regeltechniek B.V. is deze regelaar ontwikkeld om door middel van een microcontroller een aantal sensoren uit te lezen en aan de hand van deze meetgegevens externe apparatuur aan te sturen. …

The following dissertation examines the most common natural disasters in Europe and their Early Warning Systems as a countermeasure. The paper will attempt to answer to what extent these Early Warning Systems play a role in the reduction of deaths and damages caused by natural disasters in Europe. Considering …

Om de diagnostiek van infecties met Clostridium difficile en Shigatoxineproducerende Escherichia coli (STEC) te verbeteren, is voor beide bacteriën een real-time PCR ontwikkeld. Dit verslag beschrijft het opzetten van de Clostridium-PCR en het valideren van zowel de Clostridium- als de STEC-PCR.

OBJECTIVES: Mechanical load during patient handling activities is an important risk factor for low back pain among nursing personnel. The aims of this study were to describe required and actual use of ergonomic devices during patient handling activities and to assess the influence of these ergonomic …

The objective of an energy management strategy for fuel cell hybrid propulsion systems is to minimize the fuel needed to provide the required power demand. This minimization is defined as an optimization problem. Methods such as dynamic programming numerically solve this optimization problem. Strategies …

An existing fuel cell hybrid distribution truck, built for demonstration purposes, is used as a case study to investigate the effect of stack (kW) and battery (kW, kWh) sizes on the hydrogen consumption of the vehicle. Three driving cycles, the NEDC for Low Power vehicles, CSC and JE05 cycle, define …

Momenteel is het zo dat door de snelle groei en focus op Nederland als groeimarkt, de kantoorbehoefte en mobiliteit van organisaties verandert. Zo ook bij Johnson Controls (JCI), waarbij een toenemend aantal medewerkers van JCI Nederland veel onderweg is tussen het enige hoofdkantoor dat JCI heeft en …

This report presents the highlights of the 7th European Meeting on Molecular Diagnostics held in Scheveningen, The Hague, The Netherlands, 12-14 October 2011. The areas covered included molecular diagnostics applications in medical microbiology, virology, pathology, hemato-oncology,clinical genetics …

People counting is a challenging task with many applications. We propose a method with a fixed stereo camera that is based on projecting a template onto the depth image. The method was tested on a challenging outdoor dataset with good results and runs in real time.

Western-European consumers have become not only more demanding on product availability in retail outlets but also on other food attributes such as quality, integrity, and safety. When (re)designing food supply-chain networks, from a logistics point of view, one has to consider these demands next to traditional …