While condition-based maintenance (CBM) has been established as an effective maintenance strategy in comparison with time-based maintenance (TBM), it has not garnered popularity in the maritime industry. Instead, TBM has been established as the norm for most maintenance programs on board ships. Research …

This research has been conducted to analyze the current water production process and see if improvements in terms of energy efficiency is possible by using the optimal configuration for different sailing profiles. Water consumption on cruise vessel is higher than on non-passenger vessels. Freshwater …

Content Analysis has been developed within communication science as a technique to analyze bodies of text for features or (recurring) themes, in order to identify cultural indicators, societal trends and issues. And while Content Analysis has seen a tremendous uptake across scientific disciplines, the …

Why is it that we know and still act as if we do not know? SMEs are considered engines of job creation and therefore growth and generation of income but is it really true that the solo self-employed and micro entrepreneurs will become small or medium entrepreneurs, e.g. graduate? We knew in the 80’s …

This thesis gives an overview about how YCall (a VoIP App) can be positioned in the Dutch market. This positioning helps to minimalize information overload in the mind of consumer, and thereby leaving a clear impression and message about the product and brand. Thus, by designing the most suitable market …

In the recent ‘Regional outlook’, the OECD (2014) convincingly argues that cities can be the drivers of national growth and recovery: in principle, their diversity and density makes people and companies more productive and innovative. This is not only a tale of large cities: over the last decade, as …

Tijdens de uitvoer van de afstudeeropdracht is onderzoek uitgevoerd naar optimalisaties op het gebied van HTML en CSS. Als onderdeel van dit onderzoek is een proof of concept gebouwd waarmee de effectiviteit van de gevonden optimalisatie gemeten kon worden.

This study provides an online marketing strategy for the online sushi restaurant guide showmethesushi.nl. This website will include and review all sushi restaurants in Utrecht by means of a star rating system and textual commentaries of both the website owner and visitors. People do not want to spend …

The purpose of this dissertation is to determine how West Papua came to be a province of Indonesia and how the Indonesian government has treated its ethnically and culturally distinct indigenous population, and more specifically the Papuan self-determination movements which it gave rise to, from 1963 …

For the purpose of good and trustworthy management information for the government, our research institute has built a data space system that makes it possible to periodically monitor data flows within as well as between organizations of the justice domain. The aim of this system is to get insight into …