Gender, Social Interactions and Interests of Characters Illustrated in Scratch and Python Programming Books for Children

From an early age, girls may opt out of Computer Science (CS) for not fitting the CS stereotypes of being male, asocial and technology-oriented. These stereotypes might be strengthened by children's books on programming, but little is known about this. Therefore, this paper explores the gender, social interactions and interests of characters...

From the Editor’s Desk

The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) is a wonderful place to work. I had the good fortune to be a Research Fellow there from 2010 to 2016 where I used my time to finalise and write up the research for a monograph (based on my PhD thesis, which I defended in TU Delft in 2009). The book, The Shanghai Alleyway House: A Vanishing...

Experimenting with 360° and virtual reality representations as new access strategies to vulnerable physical collections: Two case studies at the KB, National Library of the Netherlands

In the late 1990s, the explosion of electronic resources resulted in large-scale digitisation projects amid the need for the preservation of digital information. The KB, National Library of the Netherlands, has been actively involved in these activities. Now, it is proposing better ways to both preserve physical library materials and improve...

Quantitative assessment of impact and sensitivity of imaging spectroscopy for monitoring of ageing of archival documents

Ageing of historical documents often results in changes in the optical properties of the constituent materials. Imaging spectroscopy (IS) can be a valuable tool for monitoring of such changes, if the method fulfils two important conditions. Firstly, compared to natural ageing, the accumulated light dose from repeated measurements of the...

Model predictive control for simultaneous planning of container and vehicle routes

Transport of containers on a-modal bookings enables transport suppliers to route the containers in accordance with the current state of the synchromodal transport network. At the same time, it enables the transport providers to route their vehicles in real time based on the current need for transportation. The interdependency of the routes of...

The Open Science training handbook: Written by 14 international experts during the FOSTER Book Sprint

In February 2018, FOSTER Plus and TIB organized a book sprint in order to author an Open Science training handbook collaboratively. For one week, we brought together 14 experienced Open Science educators in Hanover to answer a number of questions: What works, what doesn’t? How can you make the most of limited resources? With their help, we are...

An explanatory model approach for the spatial distribution of free-floating carsharing bookings: A case-study of German cities

When the first free-floating carsharing operators launched their business, they did not know if it would be profitable. They often started in highly populated cities without performing extensive target group analysis, and were less concerned about fleet management. Usually, there are two main datasets that can be used to find areas that would...

Dynamic Airline Booking Forecasting

This paper proposes a model for dynamic booking forecasting using a time-inhomogeneous Markov process. The transition probabilities are estimated based on a combination of an empirical and a parametric distribution. This model is applied for flight booking forecasting, where flight forecasts are updated on a daily basis over a time horizon of up...

LADM in the Republic of Croatia – Making and Testing Country Profile

Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) covers basic information related to components of land administration (including elements above and below the earth surface and including water areas). It includes agreements on data about administrative and spatial units, land rights in a broad sense and source documents. The rights may include real and...

Current Situation and Prospect of 3D Cadastre in Croatia

This paper describes method of registering real property and parts of real property (apartments, etc.) in the cadastre and land books. Approach to registering particular structures and corresponding rights is delineated based on existing legislation. For example, tunnels, bridges and other 3D cadastre relevant structures are considered. Bylaw on...

3 Dimensional Property Rights in Denmark 3D Property Design and Registration is Working – Visualization not

In Denmark there is a widespread practice of forming properties as condominiums in complex buildings with several floors and where the formation of properties of buildings with their own cadastral parcel not is possible. Condominiums are a full property with a location, an individual owner, with possibilities for individual rights and...

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