Een orakelstaafje is een staafje van min of meer cilindrische vorm en meestal voorzien van één of twee markeringen op de kopse kant(en) en soms markeringen op de lange zijde. Over de functie van het staafje is een lange tijd discussie geweest. In het verleden zijn de staafjes uiteenlopend geïnterpreteerd …

On the 11th of March, just a few days aheadof COVID – 19, the team working on the ELISEUse Case “Comparative analysis of differentmethodologies and datasets for EnergyPerformance Labelling of buildings” organizedthe 2nd European SimStadt workshop atSaxion University of Applied Sciences inEnschede, hosted …

The interaction between physical drivers from oceanographic, hydrological, and meteorological processes in coastal areas can result in compound flooding. Compound flood events, like Cyclone Idai and Hurricane Harvey, have revealed the devastating consequences of the co-occurrence of coastal and river …

Background: Burden of disease estimates are an important resource in public health. Currently, robust estimates are not available for the burn population. Our objectives are to adapt a refined methodology (INTEGRIS method) to burns and to apply this new INTEGRIS-burns method to estimate, and compare, …

Studying images on social media introduces several challenges that relate to the size of datasets and the different meaning-making grammars of social visuality; or as aptly pointed out by others in the field, it means ‘studying the qualitative on a quantitative scale’. Although cultural analytics provides …

For the ‘Rotterdam Project’, a large amount of historical data on patrons of Rotterdam’s main theatres during the ‘long’ 19th century (1773–1914)was collected, digitally registered and statistically analysed. The data was gathered from the theatre archives of the city of Rotterdam and included data on …

Rapid changes in the urban environment due to growth puts the urban water cycle out of balance, hence, affecting other surface and subsurface processes, such as subsidence and surface water management. Subsidence of the ground is causing risk and hazard, as well as unexpected costs. This newly, November …

Dit onderzoek is uitgevoerd in het kader van het Erfgoedportalproject, in opdracht van de archeologische dienst van de gemeente Zutphen. Het doel van dit project is het beschikbaar maken van het culturele erfgoed van de stad Zutphen aan bewoners en andere belangstellenden. Één van de beoogde onderdelen …

Rijkswaterstaat is de uitvoeringsorganisatie van het Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat. Zij beheren binnen Nederland de rijkswegen, -vaarwegen en –wateren en ontwikkelen deze ook. Dit maakt dat Rijkswaterstaat in het bezit is van een breed scala aan infrastructurele assets, zoals bruggen en …

Since it is insufficiently clear to urban planners in the Netherlands to what extent design measures can reduce heat stress and which urban spaces are most comfortable, this study evaluates the impact of shading, urban water, and urban green on the thermal comfort of urban spaces during hot summer afternoons. …