Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation time of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) is a fast and reliable method for the identification of bacteria from agar media. Direct identification from positive blood cultures should decrease the time to obtaining the result. In this study, three different …

The landfills of the waste department of the municipality of Tshwane will run in a few years time out of capacity. This result will end up in opening new landfills, after the current landfills are out capacity. Opening new landfills is a situation that is far from a sustainable waste disposal and from …

This paper describes an agent-based software infrastructure for agile industrial production. This production is done on special devices called equiplets. A grid of these equiplets connected by a fast network is capable of producing a variety of different products in parallel. The multi-agent-based underlying …

Vanuit de wens om sneller prototypes te kunnen testen en ontwikkelen is een prototyping-board ontwikkeld voor SRON. Aan de ontwikkeling van het prototyping-board is een onderzoek naar de eisen en wensen van SRON vooraf gegaan, en is gekeken naar de mogelijkheden voor het eenvoudig kunnen aansluiten …

This paper is concerned with the governance of geodetic deformation measurements. If we want to know if and how fast a country, or parts of it, are subsiding or rising, who decides that it should be measured and how is the methodology determined? What interests are at stake? How is the proper use and …

Paper prepared for the Future of Journalism Conference, Cardiff, September 2011 Newspapers, particularly in the Western world, have seen paid circulation decline in the last decade. Online news is abundantly available, but at the same time newspapers – in print and online - often serve as sources for …

Zwolle is a fast growing city, surrounded by the “IJssel” and “Zwarte Water”. Staatsbosbeheer wants to investigate what types of recreation are offered in its areas and what the recreational demand of these visitors is. To analyze an area and what kind of recreation facilities are available, Staatsbosbeheer …

The head office of Stiho B.V. decided to make their organization stronger. Now the product specialists of the northern region are spread over two establishments, this results in a longer communication time between the salesmen of the two establishments. Because the specialists are not in the same office …

We investigate whether the automatic generation of questions from an ontology leads to a trustworthy determination of a situation. With our Situation Awareness Question Generator (SAQG) we automatically generate questions from an ontology. The experiment shows that people with no previous experience …

Analysis of the bacterial flora is important for the characterization of fermentation events. They help the further validation of the “prebiotic index“ as fast and cost-effective screening of prebotic action within individuals or selected populations.