Flood defence and the surveyor: what’s new?

Rapid Survey of Wasting and Stunting in Children: Whats New, Whats Old and Whats the Buzz?

Nationwide Rapid Survey on Children (RSoC), conducted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development and UNICEF in 2013-14 showed a marked improvement in the status of the child malnutrition over the third National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) that was conducted in 2005-06. Despite some impressive gains in the anthropometric indicators of malnutrition, the absolute levels remain high, and of c...

A Security and Defence Union in the making: recent developments and whats coming up

Application of reliability-based flood defence design in the UK

Increasing concern about recent and potential impacts of flooding in the UK are leading to the adoption of risk-based methods for planning, appraisal, design and operation of flood defences. Probabilistic methods for assessment and design of flood defences are relatively well developed in the Netherlands because of the potentially devastating impacts of flooding. This paper describes a test app...

Defra/Environment Agency Flood and Coastal Defence R&D Programme

ion/water transfer

Semantic interoperability between topographic data and a flood defence ontology

This paper addresses the problem of integrating a data ontology, exactly describing the database schema of the British national mapping agency, with an application ontology, whose purpose is to identify instances of the concept “Flood Defence”, a term not explicit in the data. We outline some of the compromises necessary to map from a closed-world data model to the openworld OWL-DL data ontolog...