Identifying the merits of bottom-up urban development: theory-based evaluation using a value map model

Comprehensive understanding of the merits of bottom-up urban development is lacking, thus hampering and complicating associated collaborative processes. Therefore, and given the assumed relevancies, we mapped the social, environmental and economic values generated by bottom-up developments in two Dutch urban areas, using theory-based evaluation...

Message from the BotSE 2022 Organizers BotSE 2022

An anthropomorphic deformable phantom of the vaginal wall and cavity

Brachytherapy is a common treatment in cervical, uterine and vaginal cancer management. The technique is characterised by rapid developments in the fields of medical imaging, dosimetry planning and personalised medical device design. To reduce unnecessary burden on patients, assessments and training of these technologies should preferable be...

A typology of social entrepreneurs in bottom-up urban development

The emergence of organic planning practices in the Netherlands introduces new, non-conventional, local actors initiating bottom-up urban developments. Dissatisfied with conventional practices and using opportunities during the 2008 financial crisis, these actors aim to create social value, thus challenging prevailing institutions. Intrigued...

Fast and fully-automated multi-criterial treatment planning for adaptive HDR brachytherapy for locally advanced cervical cancer

Purpose: To develop and evaluate a fast, automated multi-criterial treatment planning approach for adaptive high-dose-rate (HDR) intracavitary + interstitial brachytherapy (BT) for locally advanced cervical cancer. Methods and materials: Twenty-two previously delivered single fraction MRI-based HDR treatment plans (SF_clin) were...

Resilience in practice: Five principles to enable societies to cope with extreme weather events

The concept of resilience is used by many in different ways: as a scientific concept, as a guiding principle, as inspirational ‘buzzword’, or as a means to become more sustainable. Next to the academic debate on meaning and notions of resilience, the concept has been widely adopted and interpreted in policy contexts, particularly related to...

Dealing with Uncertainties in Fresh Water Supply: Experiences in the Netherlands

Developing fresh water supply strategies for the long term needs to take into account the fact that the future is deeply uncertain. Not only the extent of climate change and the extent and nature of its impacts are unknown, also socio-economic conditions may change in unpredictable ways, as well as social preferences. Often, it is not possible...

Analyse van systeemrobuustheid: Een toepassing op de IJssel

In dit rapport is de systeemrobuustheid en het overstromingsrisico van de IJsselvallei (dijkringen 48 t/m 53) gekwantificeerd. Systeemrobuustheid staat voor de mate waarin een systeem kan blijven functioneren bij (onzekere) externe verstoringen. De volgende twee vragen zijn geadresseerd: 1) Welke inzichten levert de robuustheidsanalyse over het...

Begrippen rondom onzekerheid

Dit document geeft een overzicht van de belangrijkste concepten op het gebied van onzekerheid. Het uitgangspunt hierbij is het belang van deze concepten voor werkpakket 5 van het Kennis voor Klimaat consortium ‘climate-proof fresh water supply’ (Thema 2). Voor veel van deze concepten worden verschillende en soms tegenstrijdige definities gegeven...

Frameworks for flood event management

FLOODsite (task 19). The objective was to link knowledge and models from FLOODsite theme 1 (risk analysis) and theme 2 (risk management) in a Decision Support System (DSS) in support of flood event management planning and practice. The specific objectives were: 1. To obtain insight into the different types of decision support systems that have...

Water balance Maxau-Rhine branches phase 3: Sensitivity analysis of possible sources of errors in the water balance

Water balance Maxau-Rhine branches phase 2: Water balance analyses between the main hydrometric stations

Applying and combining three different aspect mining techniques

Understanding a software system at source-code level requires understanding the different concerns that it addresses, which in turn requires a way to identify these concerns in the source code. Whereas some concerns are explicitly represented by program entities (like classes, methods and variables) and thus are easy to identify, crosscutting...

Water balance Maxau-Rhine branches phase 1: Data collection and description of methods