551 research outputs found
Nederland veilig, nu en later
No full textDe Jonge Deltacommissie is een open en onafhankelijk netwerk dat bestaat uit alle jonge professionals die ideehebben ingezonden om Nederland waterveilig te houden. De Jonge Deltacommissie zal na het uitbrengen van het advies van de Deltacommissie een vervolg krijgen. De Jonge Deltacommissie wil dat Nederland de komende eeuwen goed beschermd is tegen overstromingen en wateroverlast en meent dat, dat ook kan. De Jonge Deltacommissie wil dat er voldoende zoet water in Nederland beschikbaar blijft. De Jonge Deltacommissie wil een bestuurder met lef en visie! Ieder bestuurlijk organisatorisch model kent zijn beperkingen een bestuurder met lef stapt over deze beperkingen heen. De Jonge Deltacommissie meent dat leven met water risicos met zich meebrengt en dat deze in zekere mate beheersbaar en voorspelbaar moeten blijven Helaas lukt dit bij water niet altijd. Wij menen dat de onvoorspelbaarheid van water en de risicos die dit met zich meebrengt geen inrichtingsvoorwaarden voor ons leven in Nederland moet zijn, maar juist een kans moet zijn voor de inrichting van water in Nederland. De Jonge Deltacommissie heeft in korte tijd 64 ideeverzameld. Deze ideezijn tijdens een druk bezocht symposium aangeboden aan de Deltacommissie. Op eigen initiatief hebben jonge professionals ideeuitgewerkt, ingestuurd en gepresenteerd aan elkaar, aan een raad van Oude Wijzen en aan de Deltacommissie. De Jonge Deltacommissie voorziet in een behoefte als een platform maar ook als een denktank. Het thema waterveiligheid leeft bij jonge professionals. Wat opvalt is dat de jonge professionals kijken naar meerdere oplossingsrichtingen. Ze kijken niet alleen naar technische oplossingen, maar juist ook ruimtelijke, economische, educatie en bestuurlijke oplossingsrichtingen. De ingediende ideegeven zo een goed beeld van de breedte van het tegenwoordige debat over water en waterveiligheid. Voor al deze oplossingsrichtingen wordt uitgegaan van een bepaalde mate van bescherming hoewel dat in de ideeniet altijd voorop staat. Zo staan ook randvoorwaarden als extreme neerslag en droogte centraal. Ook worden radicale plannen niet geschuwd, zoals gedeeltelijke terugtrekking. Deze plannen lijken vaak onhaalbaar, en zullen dat misschien ook zijn, maar verdienen wel aandacht te krijgen. Geen enkel idee bevat de absolute oplossing. Sterker nog, enige mate van restrisico zal er altijd zijn. Aandacht voor dit restrisico is noodzakelijk. Zo bevat een groot aantal ideeook aandacht voor gevolg beperkingen van een ramp als een overstroming in Nederland en het omgaan met de gevolgen, bijvoorbeeld door evacuatie en verzekeringsconstructies. Dat er meerdere problemen kunnen zijn in een gebied waarvoor er ook andere oplossingen nodig zijn. Onze ideezijn bouwstenen voor het maken van plannen. Per probleemgebied, en per probleem, kunnen combinaties van ideevan jonge professionals en andere ideesamen worden uitgewerkt en vergeleken met andere alternatieven. Tijdens het symposium is gebleken dat de inzenders van de ideehier aan kunnen werken, aandacht hebben voor de voor- en de nadelen en ideeleiden tot bijstellen en combineren. De inbreng van jonge professionals is belangrijk en wordt gewaardeerd. Zowel de Deltacommissie, overheid als de provincie Zuid-Holland, Innovatieprogrammas als Leven met Water, Netwerk Deltatechnologie, en het Innovatieplatform hebben zich uitgesproken voor een voortzetting van de Jonge Deltacommissie. De organisaties van de inzenders (universiteiten, bedrijfsleven, overheid, onderzoeksinstituten) hebben deze jonge professionals de ruimte geboden om zich te organiseren, en ideeuit te werken en te delen. Ook de bedrijven en universiteiten die de leden van het kernteam beschikbaar hebben gesteld hebben tijd en ruimte geboden aan deze mensen om alles te organiseren. Wat we zien is dat ook bij deze organisaties het belang van frisse ideeen ontwikkeling van young professionals wordt herkend. De ideevan jonge professionals zijn opgesteld om NU al te gebruiken. De ideegeven een impuls om verder na te denken over oplossingsrichtingen en innovaties. We kunnen hiermee invulling geven aan de aanbevelingen van de Deltacommissie. Voor de genoemde probleemgebieden kunnen we plannen maken en alternatieven eerlijk, helder en transparant beoordelen en afwegen. We hebben hiervoor een pamflet opgesteld met als motto: Aan de slag, we zijn er klaar voor.Civil Engineering and Geoscience
Author accepted manuscript: Putting Action into Testing: Enacted Retrieval Benefits Long-Term Retention more than Covert Retrieval.
No full textKubik V, Jonsson F, de Jonge M, Arshamian A. Author accepted manuscript: Putting Action into Testing: Enacted Retrieval Benefits Long-Term Retention more than Covert Retrieval. Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006). 2020
Dear is Durable: Liber amicorum for Hans de Jonge
No full textThis book presents a huge number of contributions on corporate and public real estate management, urban development management, design and construction management and housing. These topics correspond with the names of the four sections of the Department of Management in the Built Environment at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft, the Netherlands. The book is a Liber Amicorum for prof. Hans de Jonge to mark his farewell as professor of real estate management and development. Due to the special role Hans de Jonge has had for over 25 years in our department the book includes many other contributions as well, from his former and current PhD candidates, university managers, and academic and professional colleagues from inside and outside the faculty. It offers a diversity of words of praise, personal memories, solid pieces of academic work, and reflections on the present, past and future of real estate management and development. As such the book presents a very interesting story of twenty five years of teaching and conducting research being started, guided and/or influenced by Hans de Jonge. It shows the contribution that Hans, his team and others have made to the growing body of knowledge on how to match the demand and supply of real estate and how to contribute to an efficient and effective building stock that evokes interesting experiences.Real Estate ManagementUrban Development Managemen
La travée alternée dans l’architecture italienne de la Renaissance : origines et développement
No full textThe alternated span in the Italian Renaissance architecture.
The instructions for use of the five orders have so far been paid less attention than the origin of the system. The “serlienne” pattern and that of the rythmical span appear as special applications of a style of patterns which the author studies in detail and suggests to name “the alternated span’’. This pattern has its sources in medieval and antique examples (triumphal arches) but is not exact copy. The author shows how these different types have influenced each other and been combined, the evolution of the small scale architecture into the monumental architecture, and the rich and original Venetian solutions.De Jonge Krista. La travée alternée dans l’architecture italienne de la Renaissance : origines et développement. In: Histoire de l'art, N°1-2, 1988. Architecture. pp. 21-30
Adsorption sequencing as a rapid method to link environmental bacteriophages to hosts
No full textAn important viromics challenge is associating bacteriophages to hosts. To address this, we developed adsorption sequencing (AdsorpSeq), a readily implementable method to measure phages that are preferentially adsorbed to specific host cell envelopes. AdsorpSeq thus captures the key initial infection cycle step. Phages are added to cell envelopes, adsorbed phages are isolated through gel electrophoresis, after which adsorbed phage DNA is sequenced and compared with the full virome. Here, we show that AdsorpSeq allows for separation of phages based on receptor-adsorbing capabilities. Next, we applied AdsorpSeq to identify phages in a wastewater virome that adsorb to cell envelopes of nine bacteria, including important pathogens. We detected 26 adsorbed phages including common and rare members of the virome, a minority being related to previously characterized phages. We conclude that AdsorpSeq is an effective new tool for rapid characterization of environmental phage adsorption, with a proof-of-principle application to Gram-negative host cell envelopes
Designing from Heritage: Strategies for Conservation and Conversion
No full textThis book – the third in the Rondeltappe series – reflects the philosophy and didactic approach of Heritage and Architecture (H&A) section of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment (Delft University of Technology). H&A has three chairs: Design, Cultural Value and Technology. They work in close cooperation to lay the foundations for the preservation and continuity of use of built heritage.Designing from Heritage is strongly connected to the first book in the Rondeltappe series which deals with durability and sustainability of monuments, and with the second which advocates freedom in heritage based design. It contains the contribution of Prof. Wessel de Jonge – the Chair of Heritage and Design and principle at Wessel de Jonge Architects – and Prof Marieke Kuipers – Chair of Culural Heritage in particular of the Architecture of the Twentieth Century and senior specialist of Twentieth Century Built Heritage at the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE).This book is meant as a tool for architectural education and conservation for which research is as integral part of the design strategy.Heritage & ValuesHeritage & Desig
Private Sector-led Urban Development Projects: Management, Partnerships & Effects in the Netherlands and the UK
No full textSubject of study is Private Sector-led Urban Development Projects. Such projects involve property developers taking a leading role and local authorities adopting a facilitating role in the management of the development of an urban area, based on a framework of public requirements and a formal contractual public-private role division. Such a development strategy is quite common in Anglo-Saxon urban development practices but is less known in Continental European practices. Nonetheless, since the beginning of the millennium such a development strategy also occurred in the Netherlands in the form of 'concessions'. However, remarkably little empirical knowledge is available about how public and private actors collaborate on and manage such projects and what the effects of their actions are. This dissertation provides a conceptual and empirical understanding of the various characteristics of private sector-led urban development projects by conducting empirical case study research in the Dutch and UK planning context. Important conclusions are that private sector-led urban development requires various complementary types of public-private management, and additional informal forms of public-private collaboration besides the formal contractual role division, and results in positive effects in terms of effectiveness and spatial quality. Besides this the research contains specific organisational and managerial recommendations for practice and science. Private sector-led urban development is a promising development strategy for spatial projects in the Netherlands at a time in which governments focus their attention towards facilitating private sector initiatives and investments in the city.Real Estate & HousingArchitectur
Mapping Landscapes in Transformation
No full textInnovation in mapping methods for historical landscape research is flourishing,largely because this type of research is situated at the very fertile intersection ofongoing technological development and sustained critical reflection. On the onehand, the development of digital tools for data capturing, data analysis and datastructuring has revolutionised our ability to extract and plot out data of all sortsand to combine, mix and re-mix these data in order to discover spatio-temporalrelationships that have previously remained hidden. On the other hand, thehumanities’ sustained interest in spatiality as well as its growing involvement with the new digital tools make for a continuous critical reflection accompanied by ongoing methodological experiments that stretch, morph and bend these digital tools in order for them to reflect context and source specificity, to include different theoretical perspectives on landscape, to enable narrative formats, etc.Landscape Architectur
Private investment in hospitals: A comparison of three healthcare systems and possible implications for real estate strategies
No full textSubject/Research problemHealthcare is both important and expensive, and is likely to become even more expensive in the future. To keep healthcare affordable in the future, the Dutch government is currently in the process of changing legislation in order to move from a centrally directed system into a so-called regulated market system. Although Dutch healthcare providers have always been private organisations, until recently there was tight central governmental control on quality and investment cost of health care real estate. Once the brief and design had been approved by the Netherlands Board for Health Care Institutions, the government guaranteed the financing of the capital costs. The deregulation of real estate investment that comes with the new healthcare delivery system gives healthcare organisations new opportunities, but at the same time also more responsibility and a higher risk on investments. As a consequence, healthcare organisations have to find new ways of financing. Private capital investment is one of the options. Probably this will require a review of both corporate strategies and corporate real estate strategies.Research QuestionWhat are the experiences and lessons from private investment in hospitals in different countries and what might be the implications for healthcare organisations’ real estate strategies?ApproachBased on a literature review and analysis of documents the healthcare systems in the Netherlands, UK and Germany have been studied in relation to different approaches of private investment in hospitals.ResultThe analysis of three health care systems with a different proportion between private and public investment in hospitals has been used to explore strengths and weaknesses of different care systems and possible implications for real estate strategies of healthcare organisations.ApplicationThis paper provides a better understanding of the opportunities and risks of private investment in healthcare real estate and consequences for real estate strategies. The paper is part of a PhD research project that investigates the scope, context, theories and tools of Corporate Real Estate Management in hospitals.Real Estate Managemen
Molecular and Evolutionary Determinants of Bacteriophage Host Range
No full textThe host range of a bacteriophage is the taxonomic diversity of hosts it can successfully infect. Host range, one of the central traits to understand in phages, is determined by a range of molecular interactions between phage and host throughout the infection cycle. While many well studied model phages seem to exhibit a narrow host range, recent ecological and metagenomics studies indicate that phages may have specificities that range from narrow to broad. There is a growing body of studies on the molecular mechanisms that enable phages to infect multiple hosts. These mechanisms, and their evolution, are of considerable importance to understanding phage ecology and the various clinical, industrial, and biotechnological applications of phage. Here we review knowledge of the molecular mechanisms that determine host range, provide a framework defining broad host range in an evolutionary context, and highlight areas for additional research
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