Freedom Project

Project: Local Degree of Freedom Ductility Demand

Ductility demand during an earthquake has long been known to be a good measure of structural damage in buildings during earthquakes. For design purposes it is considered a priori according to some rules that may or may not apply to each building. Such ductility parameters are mostly based on the response of a single degree of freedom system to ground motions. However, it has been probed that th...

Freedom and Responsibility in Synthetic Genomics: The Synthetic Yeast Project

First introduced in 2011, the Synthetic Yeast Genome (Sc2.0) PROJECT is a large international synthetic genomics project that will culminate in the first eukaryotic cell (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) with a fully synthetic genome. With collaborators from across the globe and from a range of institutions spanning from do-it-yourself biology (DIYbio) to commercial enterprises, it is important that a...

Balancing Freedom and Supervision in a Real-life Educational Project

The practicum course Information System Development, offered by the faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Vrije Universiteit, has two main goals: (1) to give students hands-on experience with different aspects of working on a ‘real-life’ IT project, and (2) to let them apply previously learned techniques and methodology in a rationalized and integrated way. These goals imply a proj...

Freedom and Human Dignity

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Freedom of Association and Freedom of Expression