Decennia lang wordt de veiligheid in het noorden van Israël bedreigd door onder andere beschietingen met Katyusha-raketten vanuit Zuid-Libanon. Vanaf 1982 nam Hezbollah de verzetsstrijd tegen Israël over van de Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO). De Libanese regering werd, en wordt, door Israël …

OPTIRas is een beslissingsondersteunend systeem voor de zetmeelaardappelteelt in Nederland en Duitsland. Het adviseert telers rassenkeuze op basis van nematoden en wratziekte resistentie en toleranties, het berekent plantafstand en voorspelt bewaarverliezen op basis van rooibeschadiging.

Overzicht van de resultaten van het Agrobiokon-EDR project. Deze resultaten zijn ten aanzien van stikstof en kalium bemesting, rooibeschadiging zetmeelaardappelen, bewaartechniek, quarantaine ziekten (nematoden en wratziekte) en het OPTIRas beslissingsondersteunend systeem. Nieuwe vormen van kennisoverdracht …

Assessment of the seismic vulnerability of the building stock in the earthquake-prone Marmara region of Turkey is of growing importance since such information is needed for reliable estimation of the losses that possible future earthquakes are likely to induce. The outcome of such loss assessment exercises …

Potato cyst nematodes (PCN) are in the Northern Netherlands and the Weser-Ems Region in Germany a major issue for farmers. The yearly average damage by PCN is about 100 Euros/hectare for farmers. Infestations of potato cyst nematodes can be controlled in a sustainable way by proper potato variety selection. …

A damage estimation exercise has been carried out using the building stock inventory and population database of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and selected European earthquake loss estimation packages: KOERILOSS, SELENA, ESCENARIS, SIGE, and DBELA. The input ground-motions, common to all models, …

Seismic risk assessment of two real RC multi-story buildings, located on similar soil profile in Kocaeli, is conducted in respect to code-based linear and nonlinear approaches, as well as to P25-v2 Method, a recently suggested method for risk evaluation and preliminary assessment of existing buildings …

DBELA is a Displacement-Based Earthquake Loss Assessment methodology for urban areas which relates the displacement capacity of the building stock to the displacement demand from earthquake scenarios. The building stock is modeled as a random population of building classes with varying geometrical and …

Based on the soil data established previously by a team of researchers at the Technical University of Istanbul, a wave amplification study is conducted for the town of Avcılar, Istanbul, located at about 120 km west of the epicentre of the Kocaeli earthquake of August 17, 1999. It is determined, through …

Field experiments were carried out in 1991 and 1992 on sandy soil highly infested with the potato cyst nematode Globodera pallida. Half the trial area was fumigated with nematicide to establish two levels of nematode density. Three levels of soil compaction were made by different combinations of artificial …