scholarly journals From Matched Certificates to Related Persons

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 49-68
Author(s):  
Rick Mourits ◽  
Ingrid K. Van Dijk ◽  
Kees Mandemakers
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Occupational Status ◽  
Relational Information ◽  
Quality Checks ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Life Courses ◽  
Demographic Behaviour ◽  
Seven Generations ◽  
Near Future

For the Netherlands, a rich new data source has become available which contains indexed civil certificates for multiple generations of individuals: LINKS. The current version of the dataset contains information on 1.7 million demographic events for the province of Zeeland in the 19th and early 20th centuries and will be extended to other provinces in the Netherlands in the near future. To be able to study demographic behaviour, life courses and family relations need to be reconstructed from the civil certificates. This paper describes the steps that are taken to move from the LINKS database, which contains digitised birth, marriage, and death certificates and relational information between individuals on these certificates, to LINKS-gen, which contains over six hundred thousand life courses, family reconstructions for up to seven generations, and fertility, marital, mortality, and occupational status information, ready for analysis. We present procedures for variable construction and data cleaning. Furthermore, we give a short overview of the LINKS database, discuss quality checks, and give advice on selection of relevant cases necessary to move from LINKS to LINKS-gen. The paper is accompanied by R-scripts to convert and construct the datafiles.

scholarly journals Getting the Numbers Right on China's Actual Overseas Investment: The Case of the Netherlands

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piter De Jong ◽  
Mark J. Greeven ◽  
Haico Ebbers
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Data Quality ◽  
Chinese Firms ◽  
Chamber Of Commerce ◽  
Overseas Investment ◽  
Data Source

This study assesses the quality of Chinese outbound FDI data. In our case study of the Netherlands, we checked the data quality of the often-used Orbis/Amadeus database and its data source, the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (Kamer van Koophandel, KVK), which has one of the oldest and, arguably, one of the better databases within Europe. We analysed Chinese investments in the Netherlands and show that six adjustments are necessary to clean up the data. We also show that not making these adjustments can significantly impact the outcome of research. The cleaned-up data show that sampled Chinese firms are young, small, and private.

scholarly journals Building a new life and (re)making a family

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3-2019) ◽  
pp. 287-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ada Ruis
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Career Goals ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Family Reunion ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
New Situation ◽  
Occupational Career

This article presents results of a qualitative analysis based on biographic narratives of three young, well-educated women from Syria. They arrived in the Netherlands between 2015 and 2017 in the context of family reunion. The central question is how young Syrian women navigate between two major projects that ask for their agency, being family and work. It is argued that both occupational career development and the building of a family are ‘agentic projects’ that aim to contribute to the establishment of a new life and to regain continuity. The analyses demonstrate that both projects are closely intertwined. Agency emerges as highly relational and intersecting with the women’s position in the life course, timing of life events, ability to adapt career goals to the new situation, and impact of social contexts on family relations.

Outdoor Seating Design to Facilitate Social Interaction Among Older Adults

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thamar Swart ◽  
Johan Molenbroek ◽  
Lau Langeveld ◽  
Martin Van Brederode ◽  
Brecht J. Daams
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Literature Search ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Usability Test ◽  
Public Meeting ◽  
Near Future

AT A GLANCE: The number of older adults who like to meet each other in public spaces in the Netherlands is increasing. For this article, older adults were surveyed regarding their wants and needs for public meeting spaces. By means of a literature search on ergonomics, interviews, observations, and discussions with experts and older adults, a list of needs and preferences was created and used to guide a design for an outdoor meeting space for older adults, dubbed “The Oud-door.” Older adults were engaged in the design process by asking them questions, discussing the ideas and concepts with them, and, finally, conducting a usability test. Manufacturer Jan Kuipers Nunspeet will develop this design further, and “The Oud-door” will be available on the market in the near future.

scholarly journals Nederland(s) en sy (Suid-) Afrikaanse metafore

Literator ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
H. Viljoen
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
South African ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
The South ◽  
Popular Imagination ◽  
Descriptive System ◽  
Postcolonial Literatures

Afrikaans metaphors for Dutch and the NetherlandsThere seems to be an irrepressible urge to metaphorize the relation between the Netherlands and South Africa in the Afrikaans popular imagination, perhaps in order to bridge the growing separation between the two countries. Four complexes of such metaphors, window, family relations, root and landscape, are briefly analysed, with most emphasis on the last category. From a handful of Afrikaans poems since 1950, and especially from poems by Elizabeth Eybers, Lina Spies and Marlene van Niekerk, it seems possible to reconstruct a descriptive system that underlies poems contrasting the Netherlands (represented by Amsterdam in particular) as a safe, protected space with the South African landscape as open and exposed. These poems also clearly show up the dialectic of abrogation and appropriation and the anxiety about land and identity so typical of postcolonial literatures.

scholarly journals Quitting behaviours and cessation methods used in eight European Countries in 2018: findings from the EUREST-PLUS ITC Europe Surveys

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_3) ◽  
pp. iii26-iii33
Author(s):  
Sophia Papadakis ◽  
Paraskevi Katsaounou ◽  
Christina N Kyriakos ◽  
James Balmford ◽  
Chara Tzavara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Past ◽  
Quit Attempt ◽  
Younger Age ◽  
Quit Attempts ◽  
Intentions To Quit ◽  
Near Future ◽  
European Union Member States

Abstract Background We examined quit attempts, use of cessation assistance, quitting beliefs and intentions among smokers who participated in the 2018 International Tobacco Control (ITC) Europe Surveys in eight European Union Member States (England, Germany, Greece, Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Spain). Methods Cross-sectional data from 11 543 smokers were collected from Wave 2 of the ITC Six European Country (6E) Survey (Germany, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Spain—2018), the ITC Netherlands Survey (the Netherlands—late 2017) and the Four Countries Smoking and Vaping (4CV1) Survey (England—2018). Logistic regression was used to examine associations between smokers’ characteristics and recent quit attempts. Results Quit attempts in the past 12 months were more frequently reported by respondents in the Netherlands (33.0%) and England (29.3%) and least frequently in Hungary (11.5%), Greece (14.7%), Poland (16.7%) and Germany (16.7%). With the exception of England (35.9%), the majority (56–84%) of recent quit attempts was unaided. Making a quit attempt was associated with younger age, higher education and income, having a smoking-related illness and living in England. In all countries, the majority of continuing smokers did not intend to quit in the next 6 months, had moderate to high levels of nicotine dependence and perceived quitting to be difficult. Conclusions Apart from England and the Netherlands, smokers made few quit attempts in the past year and had low intentions to quit in the near future. The use of cessation assistance was sub-optimal. There is a need to examine approaches to supporting quitting among the significant proportion of tobacco users in Europe and increase the use of cessation support as part of quit attempts

scholarly journals India’s Civil Registration System: a potentially viable data source for reliable subnational mortality measurement

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chalapati Rao ◽  
Mamta Kansal
Keyword(s):  
Cause Of Death ◽  
Civil Registration System ◽  
Registration System ◽  
Civil Registration ◽  
Medical Certification ◽  
Sample Registration System ◽  
Reliable Source ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Near Future

ABSTRACTIntroductionThe Indian national Civil Registration System (CRS) is the optimal data source for mortality measurement, but is yet under development. As an alternative, data from the Sample Registration System (SRS) which covers less than 1% of the national population is used. This article presents a comparative analysis of mortality measures from the SRS and CRS in 2017, and explores the potential of the CRS to meet these subnational data needs.MethodsData on population and deaths by age and sex for 2017 from each source were used to compute national and state level life tables. Sex specific ratios of death probabilities in five age categories (0-4, 5-14, 15-29, 30-69, 70 -84, 85+) were used to evaluate CRS data completeness, using SRS probabilities as reference values. The quality of medically certified causes of death was assessed through hospital reporting coverage and proportions of deaths registered with ill-defined causes from each state.ResultsThe CRS operates through an extensive infrastructure with high reporting coverage, but child deaths are uniformly under reported, as well as female deaths in some states. However, at ages 30 to 69 years, CRS death probabilities are higher than the SRS values in 15 states in males and 10 states in females. SRS death probabilities are of limited precision for measuring mortality trends and differentials. Medical certification of cause of death is affected by low hospital reporting coverage.ConclusionsThe Indian CRS is more reliable than the SRS for measuring adult mortality in several states. Targeted initiatives to improve the recording of child and female deaths, to strengthen the quality of medical certification of cause of death, and to promote use of verbal autopsy methods are necessary to establish the CRS as a reliable source of sub national mortality statistics in the near future.KEY MESSAGESThe Sample Registration System (SRS) is currently the main source of mortality statistics in India, since the Civil Registration System (CRS) is yet under developmentLimitations in sample size as well as problems with quality of causes of death result in considerable uncertainty in population level mortality estimates from the SRSThis research evaluated the quality of the sex and age specific mortality risks from the CRS, using the SRS values in each state as reference valuesThe CRS has high levels of reporting coverage for death registration, and also measures higher levels of mortality at ages 30 to 69 years in several states, with high precisionInterventions are required to improve child death registration, strengthen medical certification of cause of death in hospitals, and introduce verbal autopsy for home deathsThese interventions will establish the CRS as a routine and reliable source for national and subnational mortality measurement in India in the near future

Vitrification of Bottom Ash From AVR MSW Incinerators

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Xiao ◽  
M. Oorsprong ◽  
Y. Yang ◽  
J. H. L. Voncken
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Fly Ash ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Bottom Ash ◽  
Efficient Utilization ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Soil And Water

During incineration of municipal solid waste (MSW), various environmentally harmful elements and heavy metals are liberated either into bottom ash, or carried away with the off-gases and subsequently trapped in fly-ash. If these minor but harmful elements are not properly isolated and immobilized, it can lead to secondary environmental pollution to the air, soil and water. The stricter environmental regulations to be implemented in the near future in the Netherlands require a higher immobilization efficiency of the bottom ash treatment. In the present study, MSW incinerator bottom ash was vitrified at higher temperatures and the slag formed and metal recovered were examined. The behaviour of soluble elements that remain in the slag is evaluated by leaching extraction. The thermodynamics of slag and metal formation is discussed. The results obtained can provide a valuable route to treat the ashes from incinerators, and to make recycling and more efficient utilization of the bottom ash possible.

scholarly journals Behoud in situ, of wat doen we als alles op is?

Paleo-aktueel ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 73-81
Author(s):  
Froukje Veenman
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
To Come ◽  
Near Future

Out of Archaeology. Even if we may still hope to decrease our ecological footprint in the years to come, our archaeological footprint has increased rapidly over the past years. We still discover, map and excavate archaeological sites and patterns, but at the same time our archaeological ‘stock’ will decrease dramatically. Maybe all that we will have left in the near future in the Netherlands will be restricted to some archaeological reserves, which will be strictly protected areas, with no possibilities for excavation. A picture of the future (2054) is outlined in this article. We have strived to reserve (preserve?) archaeological resources since 2007, but what was actually happening in the field in the first quarter of the 21st century? And what if we run out of archaeology?

Recent Developments in Automatic Steering of Ships

1986 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. van Amerongen ◽  
H. R. van Nauta Lemke
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Control ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Digital Computer ◽  
Computer Systems ◽  
Fuel Savings ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Automatic Steering ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Control Theories

This paper describes modern autopilots for ships. The development of modern optimal and adaptive control theories, together with the availability of inexpensive and fast digital computer systems, makes possible the design of more sophisticated controllers, which achieve better steering and save fuel. Autopilots which simultaneously control the yaw and roll motions are now being developed. In the near future it is to be expected that advanced track-prediction and track-keeping systems will facilitate the navigation and further contribute to fuel savings. The paper was presented at a Workshop held by the Netherlands branch of the Institute on 21 February 1986.

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