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Societal need for multifunctional flood defenses: Introduction
No full textProf.dr.ir. Matthijs Kok is Professor of Flood Risk at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences at TU Delft; he was Program leader of the ‘Integral and Sustainable Design of Multifunctional Flood Defenses’ research program, funded by the Dutch Science and Technology Foundation STW. Presently, he is Program leader of the STW-Perspectief research program ‘All RISK’, which will study the implementation of new risk standards in the Dutch national flood protection program (2017-2022). Hydraulic Structures and Flood Ris
Multi-actor governance: Making sense and managing sensitivities while developing MFFD
No full textDealing with collaboration challenges in integrated spatial projects Almost everybody agrees that the environmental challenges we are currently facing need to be approached in an integrated manner, from governments to citizens, and from companies to research institutes (Brown 2008; Brown & Farrelly 2009). To create multifunctional flood defenses, innovative integrated solutions are needed so that land use, responsibilities, financing, as well as risk-taking, are all shared. When developing integrated spatial projects, such as multifunctional flood defenses, the focus is increasingly on multidisciplinary cooperation between actors from different institutions, based on the assumption that collaboration allows knowledge to be shared and thus produces integrated spatial developments (BNA 2016; Janssen 2015; Healy 1998, 2006). But the intense collaboration involved in such projects is not as straightforward as it might appear. Policy Analysi
Correction to: CT angiography vs echocardiography for detection of cardiac thrombi in ischemic stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis (Journal of Neurology, (2020), 267, 6, (1793-1801), 10.1007/s00415-020-09766-8)
No full textThe original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. In the author list, the first and last names of two authors, S. Matthijs Boekholdt and R. Nils Planken, were tagged incorrectly. Therefore, author names are abbreviated wrongly in Springerlink. The first and last names should be as follows: First name: S. Matthijs Last name: Boekholdt First name: R. Nils Last name: Planken
"What drives ability peer effects?" Replication Datasets
No full textData repository for replication datasets of "What drives ability peer effects?", Max Coveney and Matthijs Oosterveen, European Economic Review.The archived datasets contain all variables that were available to the researchers and allows for complete replication. Separate datasets are used for the different types of analyses (student level, student-course level, student-pair level). The student and group IDs are anonymized to prevent identification of individuals. Access to the data can be granted by submitting a research request to the corresponding author ([email protected]).The full paper can be found at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2021.103763</div
Sporadic imprinting defects in Prader-Willi-Syndrome and Angelman-Syndrome - implications for imprint-switch models, genetic counseling, and prenatal diagnosis
No full textKarin Buiting, Bärbel Dittrich, Stephanie Groß, Christina Lich, Claudia Färber, Tina Buchholz, Ellie Smith, André Reis, Joachim Bürger, Markus M. Nöthen, Ulli Barth-Witte, Bart Janssen, Dvorah Abeliovich, Israela Lerer, Ans M.W. van den Ouweland, Dicky J.J. Halley, Connie Schrander-Stumpel, Hubert Smeets, Peter Meinecke, Sue Malcolm, Anne Gardner, Marc Lalande, Robert D. Nicholls, Kathie Friend, Astrid Schulze, Gert Matthijs, Hannaleena Kokkonen, Pascale Hilbert, Lionel Van Maldergem, Guillermo Glover, Pablo Carbonell, Patrick Willems, Gabriele Gillessen-Kaesbach, Bernhard Horsthemk
Corrigendum to “The right hemisphere is dominant in organization of visual search—A study in stroke patients” [Behav. Brain Res. 304 (2016) 71–79]((S0166432816300626)(10.1016/j.bbr.2016.02.004))
No full textThe authors regret as the name of the second author was published incorrectly. The correct surname is ‘Biesbroek’ and the correct first names are “J. Matthijs”. The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused
Jeremiah 28:8–9 and the Oracles against the Nations
No full textThis article focuses on Jer 28:8–9, a text commonly considered as proof for the existence of “prophecies against the nations” as a distinct kind of prophecy in the late monarchic era. The author, however, argues that Jer 28 does not testify to a subgenre of prophecy, but rather to the appearance of foreign nations in prophetic oracles in general, in which they figure as “the enemy” who will be trampled down. According to this understanding, it is not Jeremiah, but Hananiah who prophesies “war” – for Babylonia. And it is Jeremiah who prophesies “peace” – again for Babylonia. In 28:1–14*, which belongs to the earliest narrative traditions relating to Jeremiah, the prophet Jeremiah is depicted as announcing Babylonia’s good fortune, thereby implying that Judah’s survival depends on submission. During a much later, redactional stage, Babylonia’s ruination became part of the preaching ascribed to Jeremiah. It is in this redactional sphere that we can situate the Oracles concerning the Nations. Accordingly, they constitute a literary development, not a subclass of oral prophecy
Bootstrapping LPs in Value Iteration for Multi-Objective and Partially Observable MDPs
No full textIteratively solving a set of linear programs (LPs) is a common strategy for solving various decision-making problems in Artificial Intelligence, such as planning in multi-objective or partially observable Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). A prevalent feature is that the solutions to these LPs become increasingly similar as the solving algorithm converges, because the solution computed by the algorithm approaches the fixed point of a Bellman backup operator. In this paper, we propose to speed up the solving process of these LPs by bootstrapping based on similar LPs solved previously. We use these LPs to initialize a subset of relevant LP constraints, before iteratively generating the remaining constraints. The resulting algorithm is the first to consider such information sharing across iterations. We evaluate our approach on planning in Multi-Objective MDPs (MOMDPs) and Partially Observable MDPs (POMDPs), showing that it solves fewer LPs than the state of the art, which leads to a significant speed-up. Moreover, for MOMDPs we show that our method scales better in both the number of states and the number of objectives, which is vital for multi-objective planning.Algorithmic
"What drives ability peer effects?" Replication Datasets
No full textData repository for replication datasets of "What drives ability peer effects?", Max Coveney and Matthijs Oosterveen, European Economic Review. The archived datasets contain all variables that were available to the researchers and allows for complete replication. Separate datasets are used for the different types of analyses (student level, student-course level, student-pair level). The student and group IDs are anonymized to prevent identification of individuals. Access to the data can be granted by submitting a research request to the corresponding author ([email protected]). The full paper can be found at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2021.10376
Control of a Scaled Vehicle in and Beyond Stable Limit Handling
No full textIn this research a controller is developed that can control path-tracking both within and beyond stable limit handling. A controller is developed, based on the equations of motion of the nonlinear bicycle model. The performance of the controller is evaluated in both simulation and on a 1/10 scale radio controlled car. The controller is able to track a path in typical cornering conditions and let the vehicle enter and maintain a drift while remaining close to the desired path.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Cognitive Robotic
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