18 research outputs found
Espace en creux
Dharavi est un bidonville qui prĂ©sente une remarquable rĂ©silience au sein de Mumbai, Inde. Interrogeant cette pĂ©rennitĂ©, lâarticle â condensĂ© dâun mĂ©moire de fin dâĂ©tude en architecture â met en valeur la structure des espaces en creux, son Ă©volution, ses morphologies, et donne vie aux vides. Il brosse le portrait dâun lieu riche et multiple oĂč vivre et travailler sâimbriquent et se chevauchent
Recording Permanence and Ephemerality in the North Quarter of Brussels: Drawing at the Intersection of Time, Space, and People
Lying in the Senne River Valley, the North Quarter of Brussels is a physical record of spatial transformations unevenly distributed over time. Waves of developments and unfinished plans colonized its original landscape structure, erasing, writing, and re-writing it with large-scale metropolitan projects and transportation systems, around which an industrial and urban fabric developed. Accumulated expansions left an assemblage of incomplete infrastructures in which a multi-faceted and highly identifiable quarter lies punctuated by weakly defined morphological mismatches. At the center of this diverse and mutilated fabric, Maximilien Park stands as pars pro toto. From a combination of research methods that includes ethnographic fieldwork and interpretative mapping, three drawings are overlaid with the moving dimensions of space, time, and people, and assembled in a reinterpreted triptych to investigate the production of that public space. The first panel âTracesâ overlaps lost urban logics and remaining traces on the urban tissue. The second panel âCyclesâ traces the uneven deconstruction of the North Quarter during the last century, identifying scars of its past. The third panel âResignificationsâ focuses on recent events in the area, examining how people have appropriated and transformed the park since 2015. With this triptych, the article aims to re-interpret the palimpsest of the North Quarter, represent the areaâs transforming character, and unravel a spatial reading of the lived experiences of the place through time
Colorectal anastomotic leakage:a call for a different approach
Patients with colon cancer often undergo surgery in which the affected piece of intestine is removed and the two remaining ends are reconnected, creating an anastomosis. Anastomotic leakage occurs in about 10% of cases and the reasons for that remain unclear. It has been shown that certain medications and bacterium can influence the healing of such an anastomosis, partly by affecting the intestineâs mucous layer. In addition, new techniques make it possible to view the anastomosis at the molecular level and thus to unravel the mystery of seam leakage. This is necessary to reduce the long-term burden of the disease and the risk of death after bowel surgery
2 days versus 5 days of postoperative antibiotics for complex appendicitis:a pragmatic, open-label, multicentre, non-inferiority randomised trial
Background: The appropriate duration of postoperative antibiotics for complex appendicitis is unclear. The increasing global threat of antimicrobial resistance warrants restrictive antibiotic use, which could also reduce side-effects, length of hospital stay, and costs. Methods: In this pragmatic, open-label, non-inferiority trial in 15 hospitals in the Netherlands, patients with complex appendicitis (aged â„8 years) were randomly assigned (1:1) to receive 2 days or 5 days of intravenous antibiotics after appendicectomy. Randomisation was stratified by centre, and treating physicians and patients were not masked to treatment allocation. The primary endpoint was a composite endpoint of infectious complications and mortality within 90 days. The main outcome was the absolute risk difference (95% CI) in the primary endpoint, adjusted for age and severity of appendicitis, with a non-inferiority margin of 7·5%. Outcome assessment was based on electronic patient records and a telephone consultation 90 days after appendicectomy. Efficacy was analysed in the intention-to-treat and per-protocol populations. Safety outcomes were analysed in the intention-to-treat population. This trial was registered with the Netherlands Trial Register, NL5946. Findings: Between April 12, 2017, and June 3, 2021, 13 267 patients were screened and 1066 were randomly assigned, 533 to each group. 31 were excluded from intention-to-treat analysis of the 2-day group and 30 from the 5-day group owing to errors in recruitment or consent. Appendicectomy was done laparoscopically in 955 (95%) of 1005 patients. The telephone follow-up was completed in 664 (66%) of 1005 patients. The primary endpoint occurred in 51 (10%) of 502 patients analysed in the 2-day group and 41 (8%) of 503 patients analysed in the 5-day group (adjusted absolute risk difference 2·0%, 95% CI â1·6 to 5·6). Rates of complications and re-interventions were similar between trial groups. Fewer patients had adverse effects of antibiotics in the 2-day group (45 [9%] of 502 patients) than in the 5-day group (112 [22%] of 503 patients; odds ratio [OR] 0·344, 95% CI 0·237 to 0·498). Re-admission to hospital was more frequent in the 2-day group (58 [12%] of 502 patients) than in the 5-day group (29 [6%] of 503 patients; OR 2·135, 1·342 to 3·396). There were no treatment-related deaths. Interpretation: 2 days of postoperative intravenous antibiotics for complex appendicitis is non-inferior to 5 days in terms of infectious complications and mortality within 90 days, based on a non-inferiority margin of 7·5%. These findings apply to laparoscopic appendicectomy conducted in a well resourced health-care setting. Adopting this strategy will reduce adverse effects of antibiotics and length of hospital stay. Funding: The Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development.</p
Mapping the undocumented: recording ephemerality in the Northern Quarter of Brussels
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Homing social housing in Brussels : engagements in architectural anthropology through three visualisations
Orbitally forced hyperstratification of the Oligocene South Atlantic Ocean
Pelagic sediments from the subtropical South Atlantic Ocean contain geographically extensive Oligocene ooze and chalk layers that consist almost entirely of the calcareous nannofossil Braarudosphaera. Poor recovery and the lack of precise dating of these horizons in previous studies has limited the understanding of the number of acmes, their timing and durations, and therefore their likely cause. Here we present a highâresolution, astronomically tuned stratigraphy of Braarudosphaera oozes (29.5â27.9 Ma) from Ocean Drilling Program Site 1264 in the southeastern Atlantic Ocean. We identify seven episodes with highly abundant Braarudosphaera. Four of these acme events coincide with maxima and three with minima in the ~110âky and 405âky paced eccentricity cycles. The longest lasting acme event corresponds to a pronounced minimum in the ~2.4âMy eccentricity cycle. In the modern ocean, Braarudosphaera occurrences are limited to shallow marine and neritic settings, and the calcified tests of Braarudosphaera probably represent a resting stage in its life cycle. Therefore, we hypothesize that the Oligocene acmes point to extensive and episodic (hyper)stratified surface water conditions, i.e., a shallowly situated pycnocline that may have served as a virtual sea floor, which (partially) prevented the tests from sinking in the pelagic realm. We speculate that hyperstratification was either oceanâbasinâwide, through the formation of relatively hyposaline surface waters, or eddyâcontained through strong isopycnals at the base of eddies. Astronomical forcing of atmospheric and/or oceanic circulation could have triggered these conditions through either sustained rainfall over the open ocean and adjacent land masses or increased Agulhas Leakage