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The Need to Include a Fluorine Mass Balance in the Development of Effective Technologies for PFAS Destruction

Smith, S.J. (author), Lauria, Mélanie (author), Higgins, Christopher P. (author), Pennell, Kurt D. (author), Blotevogel, Jens (author), Arp, Hans Peter H. (author)

journal article 2024

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A Categorization of Resilience: A Scoping Review

Nieuwborg, A.B.D. (author), Hiemstra-van Mastrigt, S. (author), Melles, M. (author), Zekveld, Jan (author), Santema, S.C. (author)

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the existential public health and economic fragilities of the civil aviation industry. To prevent future public health disruptions, the civil aviation industry is gaining interest in becoming more “resilient” but rarely elaborates on its meaning, hampering decision-making and strategy development. When looking into...

review 2023

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Balancing bricks, bytes and behavior: Lessons learned from inpatient wards with 100% single occupancy rooms

van Heel, M.E. (author), van Oel, C.J. (author)

The design of a new hospital is typically used as a catalyst for change, redesign, and the implementation of new work processes to improve health services. Perceived outcomes after relocation may be linked to the success of co-design and stakeholder engagement processes. Especially in striking the right balance between the building (bricks),...

journal article 2023

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Wondrous darkness: mediating the real and the imaginative in rendering

Ronner, E.I. (author)

book chapter 2022

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Theorizing Participatory Control Systems: an organizational control concept for enabling and guiding adaptivity in complex situations

Nikolic, I. (author), Kolk, W.P.H. (author), Paape, Leen (author), de Korte, Ron (author)

This paper presents a theoretical framework for a new concept of organizational control, that stimulates organizational change and adaptation. It introduces Participatory Control Systems (PCS) as a distinct type of control based on the complex adaptive system literature. These control systems are fundamentally different from the traditional...

journal article 2022

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A second life for school buildings by atelier PRO architects

Oorschot, L.M. (author)

Many educational buildings still do not have proper ventilation systems, are not sustainable in use, and contribute to the spread of Covid-19 viruses. The biggest challenge for the future is to provide attractive, useable, healthy, and sustainable educational buildings in the Netherlands. But is this challenge realistic? Old buildings are...

journal article 2022

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Inclusion through proactive public services: Findings from the Netherlands: Classifying and designing proactivity through understanding service eligibility and delivery processes

Bharosa, Nitesh (author), Oude Luttighuis, S.F. (author), Spoelstra, Flori (author), van der Voort, H.G. (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author)

The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the dependence on digital public service delivery in many nations. The intensified use of digital public services also shifted the spotlight to accessibility and reactive design of digital public services. Inspired by the high level of proactivity provided in commercial digital services, policy-makers are looking...

conference paper 2021

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The consequences of blockchain architectures for the governance of public services: A case study of the movement of excise goods under duty exemptions

Allessie, David (author), Janssen, M. (author), Ubacht, J. (author), Cunningham, S. (author), van der Harst, G. (author)

Blockchain technology has the potential to provide public services directly to the public. This challenges the need for public organizations, who traditionally provided these services. Much of the current work is focused on the technology, whereas the influence on public administration structure has gained less attention. The goal of this paper...

journal article 2019

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Adapting Traditional Machiya to a Contemporary Lifestyle

Spoormans, L.G.K. (author)

This chapter presents an analysis of adaptations of machiya, traditional Japanese townhouses, in Kyoto. The study aims to develop models for future reuse of machiya that combine contemporary lifestyles and traditional characteristics, in order to present possibilities for the preservation of machiya. The models for reuse are based on an...

book chapter 2018

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Conversion Meter: A new tool to assess the conversion potential of vacant office buildings into housing

Geraedts, Rob P. (author), van der Voordt, Theo (author), Remøy, H.T. (author)

Building owners and other stakeholders can adopt different strategies to cope with vacancy, such as consolidation, rent reduction, selling the building, renovation, transfor-mation and conversion to adapted reuse, or demolish and build a new building. This paper dis-cusses a new developed tool to cope with vacancy by adaptive reuse. It presents...

conference paper 2017

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The collaborative realization of public values and business goals: Governance and infrastructure of public-private information platforms

Klievink, A.J. (author), Bharosa, N. (author), Tan, Y. (author)

The scale of society's evolving challenges gradually surpasses the capacity of the public sector to address them. Coping with these challenges requires budget-short governments to look for innovative ways to transform and improve their operations and service provisioning models. While in many cases transformation starts from the inside-out ...

journal article 2015

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Developing Multi-Layer Information Infrastructures: Advancing Social Innovation through Public–Private Governance

Klievink, A.J. (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author)

Information infrastructures of businesses and government are increasingly interwoven and highly dependent on each other. Though often referred to as sociotechnical innovations, the development of these information infrastructures often has a technological focus. The related and even concurrent development of new social practices is understudied....

journal article 2014

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The double focal transformation and its application to data reconstruction

Kutscha, H. (author)

Many seismic data processing and imaging processes require densely and regularly sampled data, whereas the actual measurements are mostly irregularly and sparsely sampled. Therefore, seismic data reconstruction methods are utilised as a pre-processing step. Within the class of transformation-based reconstruction techniques, observed seismic data...

doctoral thesis 2014

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Transition and transformation: A bibliometric analysis of two scientific networks researching socio-technical change

Chappin, E.J.L. (author), Ligtvoet, A. (author)

Sustainability policy in the early 2000s is based on and therefore influenced by scientific literature on ‘transition’. The importance of this link has inspired the authors to explore the structure of cooperating authors and citation networks in the field. In order to understand ‘transition’ literature, we compare it with an alternative term for...

journal article 2013

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A Stakeholder Analysis of Business-to-Government Information Sharing: The Governance of a Public-Private Platform

Klievink, A.J. (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author), Tan, Y.H. (author)

ICT enables business-to-government (b-to-g) information exchange, which can be used to enhance control and compliance by businesses. However, sharing information can cause resistance by businesses, as for them information is key to competitive advantage, whereas governments need this information to conduct their tasks at lower costs. In this...

journal article 2012

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Benefits, Adoption Barriers and Myths of Open Data and Open Government

Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author), Charalabidis, Y. (author), Zuiderwijk, A.M.G. (author)

Although a significant number of public organizations have embraced the idea of open data, many are still reluctant to do this. One root cause is that the publicizing of data represents a shift from a closed to an open system of governance, which has a significant impact upon the relationships between public agencies and the users of open data....

journal article 2012

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IT-induced public sector transformation

Van Veenstra, A.F.E. (author)

IT-induced public sector transformation investigates the organizational changes that are undertaken to transform public administrations using information technology (IT). While IT made governments more efficient, it is unclear whether it will also make them more effective in creating public value for citizens and businesses. This study...

doctoral thesis 2012

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Dutch strategies for the historic urban core, the historic inner city, faded glory or core business

Van der Toorn Vrijthoff, W. (author)

This article is about the strategies of Dutch cities for the historic urban core, based on empirical research done on the policy reports of twenty Dutch cities. In addition to the policy reports plans for spatial and functional interventions, initiated by the local government, were analyzed. The analysis were made in the years 2006, 2007 and...

conference paper 2011

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Barriers and impediments to transformational government: Insights from literature and practice

Van Veenstra, A.F. (author), Klievink, B. (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author)

Transformational government (t-government) has been introduced as a new stage of e-government aimed at realising structural changes and greater benefits in the public sector. Yet, there are many impediments blocking transformation, and there is limited insight in these barriers. In this paper, impediments for t-government are investigated by...

journal article 2011

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A Research on the Transformation of Urban Form And Dynamics of Xiguan Area, Guangzhou

Tai, Y. (author), Liu, Y. (author)

This paper mainly uses the method of Urban Morphology to study the transformation process of urban form of Xiguan historical district in Guangzhou, P.R.China. The paper tries to analyze the transformation process through studying the background of politics, economy, society, culture and natural condition of Xiguan area. It further discusses the...

conference paper 2010