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De Eyto, A. (author), McMahon, M. (author), Mulder, K.F. (author), Wever, R. (author), De Werk, G. (author), Overschie, M.G.F. (author)
Education for sustainable development fundamentally calls for a change in the way we educate (teaching methodologies), what we teach (the curriculum and subject matter), and why we do it (learning outcomes & professional impact) (Bhamra & Dewberry, 2007). But what should this change look like in Engineering and Design? This paper outlines and...
conference paper 2013
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Serracino Inglott, P. (author)
Do the deviant acts carried out by the collective known as Anonymous qualify as vigilante activity, and if so, can they be justified? Addressing this question helps expose the difficulties of morally evaluating technologically enabled deviance. Anonymous is a complex, fluid actor but not as mysterious as popularly portrayed. Under a definition...
journal article 2013
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Ale, B.J.M. (author), Van Gulijk, C. (author), Hanea, D.M. (author), Hudson, P. (author), Lin, P.H. (author), Sillem, S. (author), Steenhoek, M. (author), Ababei, D. (author)
An integrated model for risk in a real-time environment for the hydrocarbon industry based on the CATS model for commercial aviation safety has been further developed. The approach described in earlier papers required Bayesian Belief Nets (BBN) to be developed for each process unit separately. A much more efficient method for developing the...
conference paper 2013
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Wagner, W. (author), Van Gelder, P.H.A.J.M. (author)
The Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment of The Netherlands and Rijkswaterstaat (RWS) aim to launch a risk-driven maintenance concept named RAMSSHEEP. Engineering and consultancy companies are expected to develop the RAMSSHEEP concept in order to create better maintenance strategies. The objective is to investigate whether RAMSSHEEP...
conference paper 2013
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Swuste, P.H.J.J. (author)
The available literature on Construction Safety is not very optimistic about the chances of evidence-based safety in the construction industry exerting a positive influence. Many articles indicate that the structures and processes that are designed to ensure safety in the industry are poor. Safety management systems do not work, or only...
conference paper 2013
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Jagtman, H.M. (author)
The Netherlands has a new tool to alarm and inform the population in case of crises. NL-Alert can simultaneously draw people’s attention and explain the crisis matter. The use requires determining of both the impact area and the alarm text. This raises questions about required knowledge and expertise to compose messages. Current experiences are...
conference paper 2013
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Jagtman, H.M. (author), Koornneef, F. (author), Akselsson, R. (author), Stewart, S. (author)
Safety culture surveys have been fielded in many different sectors of industrial activities. Many of these surveys consist of a long list of questions which is time consuming for the respondents. As part of the FP6 HILAS project a shorter survey has been developed, which aimed at getting a high response rate. The survey should give insights into...
conference paper 2013
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Odijk, M.A. (author), Van Gelder, P.H.A.J.M. (author)
Let Z1, ..., Zn be i.i.d. standard normal variables, Mn the extreme among their absolute values, and Qn their rooted sum of squares. Here we study the ratio ?n =Mn /Qn. We show that ?(?n ) = ?(Mn )/?(Qn )~ bn / Vn ~ V2log(n)/n, where cn ~ dn denotes that cn /dn ?1 for n??. Moreover, convergence happens in a stable manner, i.e. ?n ~ ?(?n ) in...
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Moorkamp, M. (author), Kramer, E.H. (author), Van Gulijk, C. (author), Ale, B.J.M. (author)
In this paper we present a conceptualization of safety management that is based on the cybernetic concepts of “controllability” and “control capacity”. In particular, we explore what this conceptualization means for safety management of the Dutch Army’s UAV unit that was part of Task Force Uruzgan (TFU) in the years 2006–2007 and 2008–2009. In...
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Van Gulijk, C. (author), Hanea, D.H. (author), Almeida, K.Q. (author), Steenhoek, M. (author), Ale, B.J.M. (author), Ababei, D. (author)
This paper describes the blueprint of a model for calculating the left-hand side of the bow-tie for chemical plants is described. The model is based on Non-Parametric Bayesian Belief Nets so that uncertainties are automatically included. Also, the procedure for constructing the elements for the model is described. The aim is to calculate LoC...
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Lin, P.H. (author), Hanea, D. (author), Ale, B.J.M. (author)
The recent blow-out and subsequent environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico have highlighted a number of serious problems in scientific thinking about safety. Risk models have generally concentrated on technical failures, which are easier to model and for which there are more concrete data. However, many primary cause of the disasters, such...
conference paper 2013
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Ale, B.J.M. (author)
Forty years of development in the science and technology of estimating and quantifying risk, of understanding of human behaviour and human rationale has made decision makers more informed. We are in a much better position now, than forty years ago in estimating probabilities, consequences, and damages, and in estimating and dealing with the...
conference paper 2013
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Ahmed, M.A. (author)
doctoral thesis 2013
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Vermaas, P.E. (author), Eckert, C. (author)
journal article 2013
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Vermaas, P.E. (author)
In this position paper, the ambiguity of functional descriptions in engineering is considered from a methodological point of view. Four responses to this ambiguity are discussed, ranging from defining a single meaning of function and rejecting the different meanings that are currently used in engineering to accepting these meanings as coexisting...
journal article 2013
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Stipdonk, H.L. (author)
Relevance The analyses and forecasts of the annual number of road casualties are relevant for outlining road safety policies. With analyses we try to understand the road safety developments. This involves the relation between the observed annual numbers of casualties and external factors. These are developments in distance travelled, safety...
doctoral thesis 2013
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Vernay, A.B.H. (author)
Today, most cities function linearly. One way to improve their environmental performance is to make a transition from linear to Circular Urban Systems (CUS) so that part of the waste streams becomes valorised locally. This does not only require technical but also organisational and institutional changes. Moreover it implies that links have to be...
doctoral thesis 2013
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Bozdag, V.E. (author), Gao, Q. (author), Warnier, M.E. (author), Houben, G.J.P.M. (author)
Information diversity has a long tradition in human history. Recently there have been claims that diversity is diminishing in information available in social networks. On the other hand, some studies suggest that diversity is actually quite high in social networks such as Twitter. However these studies only focus on the concept of source...
conference paper 2013
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Swuste, P.H.J.J. (author), Jongen, M. (author)
journal article 2013
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De Vlieger, L.E. (author)
The subject of this research is the promotion of social entrepreneurship in Kenya. There are almost no medium-sized businesses in Kenya which indicates that there is a lack of growth of the many micro and small enterprises. The research investigates what the pitfalls and barriers in culture and in the institutional framework for the country’s...
master thesis 2013
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