Evaluating the need for CT angiography in diagnosing vascular injury in penetrating neck injuries in the Pietermartizburg metropolitan trauma service.

Masters Degree. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.Abstract available in PDF.Prof Jaqueline van Wyk and Dr Van Wyk, consultant surgeon from Port Shepstone Hospital were acknowledged by the author

De vijftiende-eeuwse Sint-Janskerk te Gouda en het Grafboek van 1438-1489

The present St John's church partly dates back to after the fire of 1552. Not much is known about earlier predecessors of this church building. On the one hand, few written sources have been preserved and on the other hand, there has hardly been any research into this matter. At any rate, it is evident from the records that in 1404 a start was made with the new construction of a church which was consecrated in 1413. It concerned a three-aisled hall church with a blunt three-sided choir. In 1438 a large part of the church was burnt down, but in 1443 it could already be consecrated again. Concerning the period 1440-1489 there is a burial book on the basis of which (and with the aid of prosopographical research) the following conclusion can be drawn: after the fire of 1438 the three-aisled hall church was initially restored in its original form. It was only after 1475 that a start was made with the extension of this three-aisled church by means of new side aisles and a non-projecting transept. In view of the fact that simultaneously with this broadening, the old church was extended in eastward direction with the building of a choir with gallery, it is to be concluded that the broadening as well as the extension in eastward direction were part of one single building campaign

De bouw van de monumentale Van Beverninghkapel in Gouda

The Regional Archives ‘Hollands Midden’ has a fairly complete file on the Van Beverningh Chapel, a monumental burial chapel on the south side of the choir aisle of the St Jans Church in Gouda. The file includes a large number of letters, invoices, quotes and specifications regarding the purchase, construction and maintenance of the burial chapel. The client, Gouda citizen Hieronymus Van Beverningh (1614-1690), held important posts in the municipal government of Gouda and became member of the Staten-Generaal (a forerunner of the Dutch parliament) in 1653. In 1655, he married Johanna le Gillon (1635-1706), who came from an influential Amsterdam family.The Van Beverninghs moved in the highest circles of the Republic. In Gouda, Van Beverningh maintained close ties with the municipal government and with the powerful Van der Dussen family. His nephew Jacob van der Dussen held the positions of sheriff, treasurer and mayor several times there. Van Beverningh was also a friend of Johan de Witt and he and his wife maintained friendly relations with Constantijn Huygens. He became one of the most important diplomats for the Republic and successfully undertook many peace missions. The portraits of him and his wife, painted by Jan de Baen in 1670, reflect the standing of the Van Beverninghs. Van Beverningh was portrayed with the Treaty of Aachen of 1668, in the Minisigning of which he had played an important role. The painting also shows vast gardens, a reference to his passion for botany and gardening.The burial chapel in the St-Jans Church was to do justice to the status that Van Beverningh had achieved in his career. With its impressive marble front and carvings, the Chapel is second to none of the other important monuments of the period. Van Beverningh contracted a number of prominent masters and had the chapel built entirely from Carrara marble. The chapel’s facade may well have been designed by Pieter Post. The carvings must have been commissioned already well before August 1668 and their actual realization can be ascribed with certainty to Bartholomeus Eggers. Both these men were working on the Waag in Gouda in that same period. The carvings for the interior were probably designed by Artus Quellinus, but no documents of this have survived. The stone carver Jacob Roman was involved in their realization and local craftsmen that were hired were also involved in other important building projects in Gouda. The transport of the marble blocks – for which warships were deployed – from Carrara to Gouda proved to be a troublesome affair. Van Beverningh went to great lengths to bring the marble to Gouda, which testifies to the great ambitions he had for the chapel.The Regional Archives ‘Hollands Midden’ has a fairly complete file on the Van Beverningh Chapel, a monumental burial chapel on the south side of the choir aisle of the St Jans Church in Gouda. The file includes a large number of letters, invoices, quotes and specifications regarding the purchase, construction and maintenance of the burial chapel. The client, Gouda citizen Hieronymus Van Beverningh (1614-1690), held important posts in the municipal government of Gouda and became member of the Staten-Generaal (a forerunner of the Dutch parliament) in 1653. In 1655, he married Johanna le Gillon (1635-1706), who came from an influential Amsterdam family.The Van Beverninghs moved in the highest circles of the Republic. In Gouda, Van Beverningh maintained close ties with the municipal government and with the powerful Van der Dussen family. His nephew Jacob van der Dussen held the positions of sheriff, treasurer and mayor several times there. Van Beverningh was also a friend of Johan de Witt and he and his wife maintained friendly relations with Constantijn Huygens. He became one of the most important diplomats for the Republic and successfully undertook many peace missions. The portraits of him and his wife, painted by Jan de Baen in 1670, reflect the standing of the Van Beverninghs. Van Beverningh was portrayed with the Treaty of Aachen of 1668, in the Minisigning of which he had played an important role. The painting also shows vast gardens, a reference to his passion for botany and gardening.The burial chapel in the St-Jans Church was to do justice to the status that Van Beverningh had achieved in his career. With its impressive marble front and carvings, the Chapel is second to none of the other important monuments of the period. Van Beverningh contracted a number of prominent masters and had the chapel built entirely from Carrara marble. The chapel’s facade may well have been designed by Pieter Post. The carvings must have been commissioned already well before August 1668 and their actual realization can be ascribed with certainty to Bartholomeus Eggers. Both these men were working on the Waag in Gouda in that same period. The carvings for the interior were probably designed by Artus Quellinus, but no documents of this have survived. The stone carver Jacob Roman was involved in their realization and local craftsmen that were hired were also involved in other important building projects in Gouda. The transport of the marble blocks – for which warships were deployed – from Carrara to Gouda proved to be a troublesome affair. Van Beverningh went to great lengths to bring the marble to Gouda, which testifies to the great ambitions he had for the chapel.

De bouw van de monumentale Van Beverninghkapel in Gouda

The Regional Archives ‘Hollands Midden’ has a fairly complete file on the Van Beverningh Chapel, a monumental burial chapel on the south side of the choir aisle of the St Jans Church in Gouda. The file includes a large number of letters, invoices, quotes and specifications regarding the purchase, construction and maintenance of the burial chapel. The client, Gouda citizen Hieronymus Van Beverningh (1614-1690), held important posts in the municipal government of Gouda and became member of the Staten-Generaal (a forerunner of the Dutch parliament) in 1653. In 1655, he married Johanna le Gillon (1635-1706), who came from an influential Amsterdam family.The Van Beverninghs moved in the highest circles of the Republic. In Gouda, Van Beverningh maintained close ties with the municipal government and with the powerful Van der Dussen family. His nephew Jacob van der Dussen held the positions of sheriff, treasurer and mayor several times there. Van Beverningh was also a friend of Johan de Witt and he and his wife maintained friendly relations with Constantijn Huygens. He became one of the most important diplomats for the Republic and successfully undertook many peace missions. The portraits of him and his wife, painted by Jan de Baen in 1670, reflect the standing of the Van Beverninghs. Van Beverningh was portrayed with the Treaty of Aachen of 1668, in the Minisigning of which he had played an important role. The painting also shows vast gardens, a reference to his passion for botany and gardening.The burial chapel in the St-Jans Church was to do justice to the status that Van Beverningh had achieved in his career. With its impressive marble front and carvings, the Chapel is second to none of the other important monuments of the period. Van Beverningh contracted a number of prominent masters and had the chapel built entirely from Carrara marble. The chapel’s facade may well have been designed by Pieter Post. The carvings must have been commissioned already well before August 1668 and their actual realization can be ascribed with certainty to Bartholomeus Eggers. Both these men were working on the Waag in Gouda in that same period. The carvings for the interior were probably designed by Artus Quellinus, but no documents of this have survived. The stone carver Jacob Roman was involved in their realization and local craftsmen that were hired were also involved in other important building projects in Gouda. The transport of the marble blocks – for which warships were deployed – from Carrara to Gouda proved to be a troublesome affair. Van Beverningh went to great lengths to bring the marble to Gouda, which testifies to the great ambitions he had for the chapel.The Regional Archives ‘Hollands Midden’ has a fairly complete file on the Van Beverningh Chapel, a monumental burial chapel on the south side of the choir aisle of the St Jans Church in Gouda. The file includes a large number of letters, invoices, quotes and specifications regarding the purchase, construction and maintenance of the burial chapel. The client, Gouda citizen Hieronymus Van Beverningh (1614-1690), held important posts in the municipal government of Gouda and became member of the Staten-Generaal (a forerunner of the Dutch parliament) in 1653. In 1655, he married Johanna le Gillon (1635-1706), who came from an influential Amsterdam family.The Van Beverninghs moved in the highest circles of the Republic. In Gouda, Van Beverningh maintained close ties with the municipal government and with the powerful Van der Dussen family. His nephew Jacob van der Dussen held the positions of sheriff, treasurer and mayor several times there. Van Beverningh was also a friend of Johan de Witt and he and his wife maintained friendly relations with Constantijn Huygens. He became one of the most important diplomats for the Republic and successfully undertook many peace missions. The portraits of him and his wife, painted by Jan de Baen in 1670, reflect the standing of the Van Beverninghs. Van Beverningh was portrayed with the Treaty of Aachen of 1668, in the Minisigning of which he had played an important role. The painting also shows vast gardens, a reference to his passion for botany and gardening.The burial chapel in the St-Jans Church was to do justice to the status that Van Beverningh had achieved in his career. With its impressive marble front and carvings, the Chapel is second to none of the other important monuments of the period. Van Beverningh contracted a number of prominent masters and had the chapel built entirely from Carrara marble. The chapel’s facade may well have been designed by Pieter Post. The carvings must have been commissioned already well before August 1668 and their actual realization can be ascribed with certainty to Bartholomeus Eggers. Both these men were working on the Waag in Gouda in that same period. The carvings for the interior were probably designed by Artus Quellinus, but no documents of this have survived. The stone carver Jacob Roman was involved in their realization and local craftsmen that were hired were also involved in other important building projects in Gouda. The transport of the marble blocks – for which warships were deployed – from Carrara to Gouda proved to be a troublesome affair. Van Beverningh went to great lengths to bring the marble to Gouda, which testifies to the great ambitions he had for the chapel.

Allocation of Railway Rolling Stock for Passenger Trains

For a commercially operating railway company, providing a high level of service for the passengers is of utmost importance. The latter requires a high punctuality of the trains and an adequate rolling stock capacity. Unfortunately, the latter is currently (2002) one of the bottlenecks in the service provision by the main Dutch railway operator NS Reizigers. Especially during the morning rush hours, many passengers cannot be transported according to the usual service standards due to a shortage of the ro

Flooding and Phytophthora cinnamomi : effects on photosynthesis and chlorophyll fluorescence in shoots of non-grafted Persea americana (Mill.) rootstocks differing in tolerance to Phytophthora root rot

Please read abstract in the article.The Hans-Merensky Foundation and the National Research Fund (NRF) through the THRIP programme (Department of Science and Technology, South Africa).http://www.elsevier.com/locate/sajbhj201

Level of urbanization and habitat type, and not patch size, influence predacious arthropod diversity patterns of urban grasslands in South Africa

Greyvenstein B, Botha M, van den Berg J, Siebert SJ. 2021. Level of urbanization and habitat type, and not patch size, influence predacious arthropod diversity patterns of urban grasslands in South Africa. Biodiversitas 22: 4078-4094. Predacious arthropods provide a valuable ecosystem service within urban environments by suppressing pest numbers. However, urban ecological studies largely ignore this functional group and its diversity and species composition patterns. Some studies have been published regarding these patterns, however they were mostly done in Australia, Europe and America, thus an African perspective is lacking. Our aim was to address the gap in African literature by quantify the differences in predacious arthropod species richness and diversity within urban green space in varying urbanization intensities, habitat types of grassland and patch sizes in South Africa. Various indices were considered to examine the effect of urbanization on the diversity patterns of Chrysopidae (Neuroptera), Mantodea, Araneae and Coccinellidae (Coleoptera). Study sites included three levels of urbanization represented by population density, two types of urban grasslands (i.e., ruderal and fragmented grassland) and a peri-urban rangeland grassland as control, and a wide range of patch sizes. Our results indicated that an increase in urbanization intensities was associated with increased abundance of predacious arthropod taxa. Also, that urban and peri-urban grasslands had similar predacious arthropod species richness and diversity, but differed in species composition. No relationship was found between patch size and arthropod diversity or composition. Thus, predacious arthropod abundances are influenced by the level of urbanization and their species composition is influenced by the type of urban grassland (ruderal or fragmented), which are important considerations for future urban planning/management and conservation strategies. This study gives a South African perspective and indicates that despite the lack of assigned function of urban green spaces, they sustain diverse and distinct predacious arthropod communities, which in turn fulfil various roles in a functioning ecosystem.https://smujo.id/biodivam2022Plant Production and Soil Scienc

Diagnosis of Guillain–Barré syndrome in children and validation of the Brighton criteria

To describe the key diagnostic features of pediatric Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) and validate the Brighton criteria. Retrospective cohort study of all children (<18 years) diagnosed with GBS between 1987 and 2013 at Sophia Children’s Hospital, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam. Clinical information was collected and the sensitivity of the Brighton criteria was calculated. 67 children (35 boys) were included, with a median age of 5.0 years [interquartile range (IQR) 3.0–10.0 years]. Bilateral limb weakness was present at hospital admission in 93% of children, and at nadir in all patients. Children presented with tetraparesis in 70% or with paraparesis in 23%. Reduced reflexes in paretic limbs were observed at hospital admission in 82% and during follow-up in all children. The progressive phase lasted median 6 days (IQR 3–8 days) and less than 4 weeks in all children. A monophasic disease course was seen in 97%, including 5 children with a treatment-related fluctuation. Two children had a later relapse at 9 weeks and 19 weeks after onset. 77% of the children showed an elevated protein level in CSF. Nerve conduction studies showed evidence for a poly(radiculo)neuropathy in 91% of the children. 46 children had a complete data set, the sensitivity of the Brighton criteria level 1 was 72% (95% CI 57–84) and 96% (95% CI 85–99) for level 2 and 98% (95% CI 88–100) for level 3. The majority of the pediatric GBS patients presented in this cohort fulfilled the current diagnostic criteria