Datasets at different scales can be obtained and maintained by two main approaches that differ considerably. The first option is the vario-scale approach that offers the possibility to derive a map at an arbitrary map scale (hence its name) by performing once a fully automatic generalisation process on the input data set. This sounds as the optimal situation. However, since fast and fully autom...

We have applied the methods of classical statistical mechanics to derive the inviscid equilibrium states for oneand two-layer nonlinear quasi-geostrophic flows, with and without bottom topography and variable rotation rate. In the one-layer case without topography we recover the equilibrium energy spectrum given by Kraichnan (1967). In the two-layer case, we find that the internal radius of def...

The relationship between topography, land use, and topsoil moisture storage is investigated for a small catchment with undulating deep loess hilslopes in the south of the Netherlands. For a period of 10 months, soil moisture profiles have been measured weekly at 15 locations throughout the catchment. A Generalized Additive Model was employed to find relationships between the various factors inf...

This presentation is about (i) formal, (ii) synchronic, (iii) epistemic (iv) coherence (v) requirements. (i) Formal coherence is to be distinguished from other sorts of coherence discussed in contemporary epistemology (e.g., in some empirical, truth/knowledge-conducive sense [1]). Ideally, whether a set of judgments is coherent (in the present sense) should (in principle) be determinable a prio...

the relationship between topography, land use, and topsoil moisture storage is investigated for a small catchment with undulating deep loess hilslopes in the south of the netherlands. for a period of 10 months, soil moisture profiles have been measured weekly at 15 locations throughout the catchment. a generalized additive model was employed to find relationships between the various factors inf...

Postmodernism is a very ambiguous term. It attracted many researchers from different fields of knowledge in the late 1960s. This article explains intertextuality as a critical means to derive its concepts and components in order to understand the hidden layers of meaning in postmodern pluralist ideology. Variable thoughts of postmodern architecture have been divided into two categories—Hi...