Het Continentaal Platform van de Noordzee gedurende het Kwartair

After a brief description of the present day North Sea shelf, the paper deals with the main processes of its genesis and evolution: continental river and glacier sediment supply, marine sediment reworking into deposits and shelf landforms, climatic changes with sea level variation and land ice movements, differential soil movement. It advances some evidences

The evolution of the coastal aquifer of Belgium

In the unconfined aquifer below the coastal area of Belgium salt water Occurs under a fresh-water layer at depths that vary from 2 to more than 25 m. Radiocarbon dating of groundwater samples set the seawater encroachment in the deep parts of the aquifer back at least in the Sub boreal period. A working hypothesis concerning the evolution of the aquifer is formulated

ARGOS policy brief on semantic interoperability

Semantic interoperability requires the use of standards, not only for Electronic Health Record (EHR) data to be transferred and structurally mapped into a receiving repository, but also for the clinical content of the EHR to be interpreted in conformity with the original meanings intended by its authors. Accurate and complete clinical documentation, faithful to the patient’s situation, and interoperability between systems, require widespread and dependable access to published and maintained collections of coherent and quality-assured semantic resources, including models such as archetypes and templates that would (1) provide clinical context, (2) be mapped to interoperability standards for EHR data, (3) be linked to well specified, multi-lingual terminology value sets, and (4) be derived from high quality ontologies. Wide-scale engagement with professional bodies, globally, is needed to develop these clinical information standards