Characteristics Of Dutch Research Articles

Identifikasi Fasade Bangunan Peninggalan pada Rumah Tinggal di Kecamatan Banda Sakti Kota Lhokseumawe

Colonial architecture is an architectural style from a mixture of European architecture and through a process of adaptation to form Dutch architecture during the Indonesian era during the Dutch colonialism. This colonial architecture adapted to the local environment and climate in order to produce buildings that were suitable and comfortable to live in. The research object is the residential house in Banda Sakti District, Lhokseumawe City. This area is a place where there are historical buildings identified as the Dutch Colonial Heritage Area. The aim of this research is to identify the existence of houses in Banda Sakti District, Lhokseumawe City through the building facades which still have the characteristics of Dutch colonial architecture. This research method is a qualitative research method through direct observation at the research location and interviews of home owners. The research focuses on the elements of the outdoor facade that are related to the exterior of the building. The identification resulted that eight residential houses in Banda Sakti District still used the architectural features of the colonial building façade, but 2 of them had adapted to the times.

Will enclosed residential domains affect the public realm of Dutch cities? Three theoretical perspectives

In recent years, enclosed residential domains have emerged in Dutch housing developments. Commentators fear that enclosed residential domains will lead to a loss of the public realm. This article considers such claims. Based on a conceptual analysis, it is argued that the question of how enclosed residential domains imply a loss of public realm should be addressed by distinguishing between three theoretical perspectives: the social perspective, the market perspective, and the civic perspective. It is also argued that the specific morphological characteristics of Dutch enclosed residential domains should be taken into account. Because of the absence of closed gates, for instance, many of the Dutch enclosed residential domains differ from gated communities abroad.

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Corrigendum Siebeling L, Puhan MA, Muggensturm P, Zoller M, ter Riet G. Characteristics of Dutch and Swiss primary care COPD patients – baseline data of the ICE COLD ERIC study. Clin Epidemiol. 2011;3:273–283.Due to two duplicate records, the correct number of patients in the Ice Cold Eric study is 409, not 411. The reported results did not materially change. Those who wish to see the updated tables may contact the corresponding author.Read the original article

Characteristics of Dutch and Swiss primary care COPD patients - baseline data of the ICE COLD ERIC study

IntroductionInternational Collaborative Effort on Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease: Exacerbation Risk Index Cohorts (ICE COLD ERIC) is a prospective cohort study with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients from Switzerland and The Netherlands designed to develop and validate practical COPD risk indices that predict the clinical course of COPD patients in primary care. This paper describes the characteristics of the cohorts at baseline.Material and methodsStandardized assessments included lung function, patient history, self-administered questionnaires, exercise capacity, and a venous blood sample for analysis of biomarkers and genetics.ResultsA total of 260 Dutch and 151 Swiss patients were included. Median age was 66 years, 57% were male, 38% were current smokers, 55% were former smokers, and 76% had at least one and 40% had two or more comorbidities with cardiovascular disease being the most prevalent one. The use of any pulmonary and cardiovascular drugs was 84% and 66%, respectively. Although lung function results (median forced expiratory volume in 1 second [FEV1] was 59% of predicted) were similar across the two cohorts, Swiss patients reported better COPD-specific health-related quality of life (Chronic Respiratory Questionnaire) and had higher exercise capacity.DiscussionCOPD patients in the ICE COLD ERIC study represent a wide range of disease severities and the prevalence of multimorbidity is high. The rich variation in these primary care cohorts offers good opportunities to learn more about the clinical course of COPD.

Imperialism, Colonialism and Genocide. The Dutch Case for an International History of the Holocaust

During the past three decades, the historiography of the persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands has been dominated by attempts to resolve ‘the Dutch paradox’: the contrast between the tolerant reputation of the Netherlands on the one hand, and the large numbers of Dutch Jews that perished on the other. Attempts to resolve this paradox often look for specifically Dutch characteristics, thereby neglecting factors of an international nature that had a particular impact in the Netherlands. Attention is devoted in these contribution to German imperialism, which had special ramifications for the persecution of Dutch Jews; to the implications for population policy of the colonial regime that arose in the Netherlands, and to the social compartmentalisation and propaganda that accompanied these genocidal policies. This international perspective leads to new questions for the Dutch case, while this case sheds new light on the international history of the persecution of the Jews. This article is part of the special issue 'The International Relevance of Dutch History'.

Active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in Dutch nursing homes: patients' characteristics.

We wished to obtain information about the principal and subsidiary diagnoses, sex, age, marital status, religion and background characteristics of Dutch nursing home patients to whom euthanasia/assisted suicide (EAS) was administered. We performed an exploratory, descriptive, retrospective study involving all Dutch nursing home physicians (NHPs) who in September 1990 were members of the Dutch Association of Nursing Home Physicians (NVVA; n = 713). An anonymous printed questionnaire in two parts was used. Part 1 was intended for all respondents and was expected to give insight into the nature and extent of EAS in Dutch nursing homes. Part 2 was intended only for respondents who had indicated in part 1 that they had administered EAS. They were asked to describe their last case of EAS. The study covered the period from 1986 to mid-1990. There was an 86% response. The respondents described 86 cases of EAS. Sixty-nine of these took place in a nursing home. The majority of patients to whom EAS was administered were suffering from a malignant neoplasm (53%). EAS was administered more often to men than to women. The average age of the patients was 70.9 years. When EAS was administered, the patients on average had been in the nursing home for 13.1 months. Dutch nursing home patients who were given EAS differed in various respects from 'the average nursing home patient'. The principal diagnosis for patients who were given EAS was a malignancy, whereas relatively few physically ill nursing home patients die as a result of a malignancy. The patients to whom EAS was administered were younger and more often male. EAS patients had been in the nursing home for a shorter time than the other somatic (physically disabled) patients who died during the study period.