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Authors: Gerke, M.; Advisor: -; Participants: - (2016) - Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are increasingly used for topographic mapping. Despite the flexibility gained when using those devices, one has to invest more effort for ground control measurements compared to conventional photogrammetric airborne data acquisition, because positioning devices on UAVs are generally less accurate. Additionally, the limited quality of employed end-user cameras asks for self-calibration, which might cause some problems as well. A good distribution of ground control points (GCPs) is not only needed to solve for the absolute orientation of the image block in the desired coordinate frame, but also to mitigate block deformation effects which are resulting mainly from remaining systematic errors in the camera calibration. In this paper recent developments in ...
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Authors: Chong, Tan Yew; Advisor: -; Participants: Noh, MD Nasir Bin Mohd; Poh, Lim Sin; Choong, Micheal Teh Jin (2018) - Water is the core of sustainable development. Water scarcity affects more than 40% of the global population and
this percentage is projected to rise. Malaysia, despite having abundant annual rainfall, experiences water stress
in major cities. In order to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG6), the Malaysian government recognizes the need to harvest water using alternative methods. As a result, Malaysia has recently seen a paradigm shift in water resources development works from traditional upstream reservoirs to downstream reservoirs.
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Authors: Yuan, Jian Zhong; Advisor: -; Participants: Wu, Cai E (2018) - Shanghai has three coastal reservoirs used for drinking water sources in the Yangtze estuary. They are the
Qingcaosha reservoir, the Dongfengxisha reservoir and the Chenhang reservoir. This article discusses why
Shanghai needed to build coastal reservoirs and their evolution. The characteristics of the Shanghai drinking water sources are introduced. The key factors and the experience gained from the research and design of the Shanghai coastal reservoirs have been summarized and explained.
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Authors: Falconer, Roger; Advisor: -; Participants: - (2018) - The world faces considerable water management challenges now and increasingly in the future; primarily brought about by: the predicted impacts of climate change, the increasing need to provide more water, food and energy for a growing global population, and increasing globalisation leading to a wider global wealth distribution and a
corresponding increase in demand for water, associated with the need for more commodities (such as cars, clothes) etc. In addition, in most countries world-wide there is an increasing population shift away from rural
communities to larger urban cities, where there are better employment prospects, and with these cities often being located near the coast.
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Authors: Sitharam, Thallak. G.; Advisor: -; Participants: - (2018) - A solution to the water problem in parts of India along the coast is to conserve the abundant monsoon water bounty, store it in coastal reservoirs, and use this water in areas which have occasional inadequate rainfall, or
are known to be drought-prone, or in those times of the year when water supplies become scarce. Coastal reservoirs are an innovative concept, which offers the potential to store the flood waters of a river near the point
where it flows into the sea and meet the water requirements of water starved cities [1]. Mangaluru city, in Karnataka state, India is blessed with the river Netravati, which carries a great quantity of water during the monsoon and ends up in the sea. The annual runoff at the mouth of the Netravati River is estimated to be 388 thousand cubic met...
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Authors: Sitharam, Thallak. G.; Advisor: Sreevalsa, Kolathayar; Participants: - (2018) - The Thaneermukkom salt water barrier bund was constructed in 1974 to prevent tidal action and intrusion of salt
water into the Kuttanad low land across the Vembanad Lake in Kerala, India. This bund divides the Vembanad
lake into two, Thaneermukkom in the south with fresh water fed by the rivers draining into the lake and Vechur in
the north with brackish water fed by the Arabian Sea. This bund creates a fresh water storage reservoir by storing
river flood water, which has helped the farmers in Kuttanad, where farming occurs below sea level. The gates of
the bund are opened during the monsoon period and are closed after approximately six months. This article
reviews the present status of the Thaneermukkom reservoir and provides suggestions for tackling its environmental and eco...
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Authors: Cantos, Jared Ortiz-Angulo; Advisor: -; Participants: - (2018) - Surfing has been increasing in popularity over the last few decades. In order to have good conditions for surfing,
several factors must simultaneously coincide. These include swell waves, off-shore winds and the optimum bathymetric configuration. Beach profiles and reefs that yield suitable waves for surfing are difficult to find in
nature. This drives coastal engineers to construct reef like artificial submerged structures to improve the interaction between the wave and the sea bed and enhance the quality of the waves for surfing. The design of these reefs is inspired by natural reefs with perfect surfing waves. The aim of this research is to provide a novel numerical approach for the design of submerged structures that improve surfing conditions and to study the economic viabili...
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Authors: Freitag, Bettina; Advisor: -; Participants: Ha ¨ fner, Lukas; Pfeuffer, Verena; U ¨ belho ¨ r, Jochen (2019) - Ongoing digitalization of production accelerates trends like mass customization, ever shorter lead times, and shrinking product life cycles. Thereby, industrial companies face increasingly volatile demand that complicates an appropriate production capacity planning. On the other hand, the comprehensive digitalization of production environments favors, amongst others, the dynamic integration of flexible external on-demand production capacity provided by specialized external capacity providers (ECPs). To enable the usage of on-demand production capacity, industrial companies may require significant upfront investments (e.g., for inter-organizational information systems, planning and organizational processes, employee training). The objective of this paper is to develop a model that eva...
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Authors: Kohlhase, Saskia; Advisor: -; Participants: Pierk, Jochen (2019) - Under a worldwide tax system, firms pay taxes on their domestic income and repatriated foreign income, whereas under a territorial tax system repatriated foreign income is exempt from taxation. We examine whether worldwide tax systems reduce the incentives of multinational corporations to engage in tax management in their foreignsubsidiaries. Usingtwoquasi-natural experiments, we show that multinationals lower the effective tax rates in their foreign subsidiaries after countries switch from a worldwide to a territorial tax system. Thus, multinationals subject to a worldwide tax system face competitive disadvantages compared to competitors from countries with a territorial tax system.
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Authors: Ali, Amjad; Advisor: -; Participants: Yousuf, Sania (2019) - Understanding the antecedents of the entrepreneurial intentions is vital in development of entrepreneurship in a region. Entrepreneurship is considered as one of the important elements of local economic development which can be used to address the issues of poverty and scarcity of livelihood opportunities in rural areas of the world. This study investigates the influence of social capital on entrepreneurial intentions in rural area of Pakistan. For this purpose, a representative sample of 325 respondents has been selected from rural community in Gilgit-Baltistan. The constructed model has been estimated using the partial least square method and the results show that social capital has significant positive impact on entrepreneurial intentions by forming perceived desirability, percei...
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