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Automated Analysis of Dairy Cow Drinking Behaviour Using Computer Vision: Developing and Integrating Cow Detection and Drinking Behaviour Classification Components
(2024)Monitoring the drinking behaviour of dairy cows provides valuable insights into their health and welfare. However, establishing the relationship between water intake and factors like milk production has been challenging due ... -
Randstand and regio in the Dutch Parliament: A phantom gap? (preliminary)
(2024)The Netherlands is sometimes perceived as polarized between the urban center named the Randstad including the four main cities Amsterdam, Den Haag, Rotterdam and Utrecht, and the rest of the country, the regio. The gas ... -
Surrogate CFD modelling for simulating wind velocity over coastal dune terrain
(2024)Dunes play a crucial role in protecting coastal areas from flooding, erosion and supporting their fragile ecosystems. Coastal dune management is important to protect these coastal areas. Dunes are formed by various ... -
E32 Verlengen van AI-neerslagnowcasting door blending met weermodellen
(2024)This thesis was done for the company Weather Impact to assess the potential of blending of KNMI harmonie data and DGMR. Linear blending was selected and tested on data from various days. For linear blending, the python ... -
Analyzing Temporal Patterns of ICU Alarms: A Time- Series Clustering Approach
(2024)Objective This study employs a machine learning approach, namely time-series clustering with Dynamic Time Warping (DTW), to empirically identify subgroups of intensive care unit (ICU) patients and examine the relationships ... -
Modelling the airflow in foredune blowouts using Computational Fluid Dynamics
(2024)Due to past coastal management strategies, sediment transport from the beach to the dunes has been severely limited, negatively affecting biodiversity in the backdunes. To amend this, through-like ’depressions’, called ... -
Analysing the Impact of Telegram (Social Media) on the Political Public Sphere: A Study on the Political Public Sphere and Deliberative Democracy
(2024)This study analyses the quality of political discourse on social media by focusing on the Israel-Palestine conflict. It is based on Habermas' (2023) hypothesis, which suggests that individuals who mainly use social media ... -
Unmasking Memorization: Assessing Dutch Language Memorization in mT5 Models
(2024)This study investigates the memorization of Dutch language content in mT5 models, a multilingual variant of the T5 Transformer-based models. A fill-mask evaluation technique is used to assess memorization and how it varies ... -
Pathways to a greener China
(2024)This study utilizes the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to investigate the influence of TPB elements on the adoption of a low-carbon lifestyle among Chinese consumers, covering various aspects including diet, transport ... -
Simulating (Multiple) Imputation in Relational Event History (REH) Data: Missingness in Time, Sender, and/or Receiver.
(2024)Relational event history (REH) data is a specific type of dynamic network data containing the time-stamped interactions between nodes in a network. REH data is characterized by its high resolution compared to regular ... -
The Impact of Avatar Fidelity on Virtual Reality Brainstorming and Room Design Evaluation
(2024)Multi-User Virtual Reality has potential applications for prototyping environments, but questions still exist about how user representations influence brainstorming and evaluation activities. Improvements in avatar fidelity ... -
Individual Development Plans and sustainable employability in sheltered workplaces: from the perspective of sheltered workers
(2024)Introduction: Sustainable employability is an important topic in all workplaces, including sheltered workplaces. Individual Development Plans (IDPs) have been introduced to increase the sustainable employability of sheltered ... -
Moving towards More Second-hand Clothing Consumption: Measuring Anticipated Shame and Pride on Different Types of Concrete Environmental Knowledge
(2024)The rapid growth of fast-fashion companies has led to a significant increase in clothing consumption, resulting in substantial environmental impacts, including high energy and water use, chemical consumption, and CO2 ... -
Ethical Benchmarking in Large Language Models
(2024)This work is a contribution to the field of Machine Ethics (ME) benchmarking, in which tests are developed to measure whether intelligent systems have accurate representations of human values and whether they reliably act ...