We developed a robust approach for real-time levee condition monitoring based on combination of data-driven methods (one-side classification) and finite element analysis. It was implemented within a flood early warning system and validated on a series of full-scale levee failure experiments organised by the IJkdijk consortium in August-September 2012 in the Netherlands. Our approach has detecte...

Integrating formal management training into library school curriculum has been a topic of discussion for years, with varying progress. And in our experience, librarians are rarely given on the job before becoming managers. We need to find ways support new managers, helping them acquire skills handle interpersonal, economic, and political challenges. Human Resources departments can provide valua...

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, amplified by Russian–Ukrainian military conflict, have had a significant impact on economies and industries around world, with serious implications for activities companies, including start-ups. In this context, paper aims to examine challenges critical issues faced managers start-ups during crises, identify solutions increasing resilience companies moving ...

BACKGROUND An interactive web tool has been developed for facilitating shared decision-making in dementia-care networks. The DecideGuide provides a chat function for easier communication between network members, a deciding together function for step-by-step decision-making, and an individual opinion function for eight dementia-related life domains. The aim of this study was to gain insight in t...

The concept of adaptive management has, for many ecologists, become a foundation of effective environmental management for initiatives characterized by high levels of ecological uncertainty. Yet problems associated with its application are legendary, and many of the initiatives promoted as examples of adaptive management appear to lack essential characteristics of the approach. In this paper we...