A few years ago the Maritime Pilots Institute Netherlands (MPIN) was asked to carry out practical research aimed at developing a simple method to predict wind loads on huge constructions. For practical reasons the method should not be time consuming. Some reasons for the initiative were the following. …

Military operations, whether in the field, in the air or at sea, are characterized by their complexity, the high risks that are involved and the specialized teams who have to reach their goals under these circumstances. The improvement of high-tech equipment and the increasing complexity and uncertainty …

Niet alleen in de media, maar ook op het gebied van onderzoek in binnen- en buitenland wordt veel aandacht besteed aan militaire operaties en alles wat daar mee samenhangt. Zo is op het gebied van de ervaringenvan het thuisfront van uitgezonden militairen al heel wat bekend. In vervolg op voorgaand onderzoek …

In the Navigation Technology Department, a special interaction exists between scientific education and research on the one hand and skill based education on the other. The skill based education consists besides theoretical courses of a lot of practical courses. The NLDA can provide their students with …

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) currently dominate the Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) community and there are no signs that this will change in the near future. But for many years the weeknesses of GNSS have been well known and besides research into GNSS a lot of research into back …

In this article a GPS inspired approach has been developed for TRN systems. The authors investigated whether the acquisition and tracking GPS concept has the potential to be applied in the TRN field with good results. The performance of the proposed system is analyzed using MATLAB simulations.The results …

Description of the evolution of navigation from a restricted field of application (nautical) and executed by a select group of navigators working in almost splendid isolation to a wide field of application (nautical, aeronautical, CRM) executed by groups of people sharing different knowledge and skills …

Het boek Wat veteranen vertellen is ook digitaal als verrijkte publicatie verschenen. Hierdoor is het mogelijk de interviewfragmenten die gebruikt zijn door de onderzoekers en als citaten in de betreffende hoofdstukken gepresenteerd worden, ook te beluisteren. Het horen van de stem, de intonatie en het …

Op 4 september 2009 voerde ISAF in Kunduz een luchtaanval uit op twee door de Taliban gekaapte tankwagens. Via deze casus worden oorlogsrechtelijke kwesties van targeting aangesneden. Het enkele feit dat achteraf blijkt dat bij een aanval (veel) burgerslachtoffers zijn gevallen, betekent op zich geen schending …

Although more common in today‘s globalizing world, little is known about how work affects family life in the course of job-induced separation. The present study tests a model, simultaneously assessing the relations between work-family conflict, psychological distress, relationship satisfaction, and social …