Case management : een zorgverleningsmodel voor hoog-risico bejaarden in de thuiszorg. [Case management : a health care model for high risk elderly in the home care]. Final report, 1998

Report (1998)

Morphological and behavioural diversity in the Carapini (Carapidae, Pisces) : phylogenetic analysis.

Poster (1998)

Cephalic morphology in two commensal fishes of Bivalves : Encheliophis dubius and Onuxodon fowleri (Carapidae, Ophidiiformes)

Conference (1998)

Troubles de voisinage : du fait positif à l'événement accidentel, en passant par l'omission

in Revue de Jurisprudence de Liège, Mons et Bruxelles (1998)

Estimation de la population de buffles de forêt, Syncerus caffer nanus, dans le Parc National d’Odzala, République du Congo

in Cahiers d'Ethologie (1998), 18(2), 295-298

La méiose chez la femelle de mammifère

in Popescu, Paul; Hayes, Hélène; Dutrillaux, Bernard (Eds.) Techniques de cytogénétique animale (1998)

Pathologies métaboliques et du système endocrinien chez le cheval

Learning material (1998)

Seasonal variations in time and space utilization by radio-tagged yellow eels Anguilla anguilla (L.) in a small stream

in Hydrobiologia (1998), 371/372

Seven yellow eels (572–643 mm, 318–592 g) Anguilla anguilla (L.) were tagged with surgically implanted radio transmitters (activity circuit, 1.6–1.7 g) and tracked in the Awirs stream, a small (width <5 m ... [more ▼]

Seven yellow eels (572–643 mm, 318–592 g) Anguilla anguilla (L.) were tagged with surgically implanted radio transmitters (activity circuit, 1.6–1.7 g) and tracked in the Awirs stream, a small (width <5 m, depth from 0.1 to 1.2 m), densely populated (ca. 250 kg of eel ha−1) tributary of the Belgian River Meuse. The eels were positioned daily from late April to mid-August, and their diel activity was studied during twenty four 24-h cycles. During day-time, the eels were resting in rootwads or in crevices inside stone walls or in crevices in between rocks. They became more active in the late afternoon but generally did not leave their residence before sunset, except under overcast weather. Activity peaked during the first part of the night then progressively vanished, and always ended before sunrise. The area exploited during night-time never extended over more than 40 m2, except when the eel changed its residence. The intensity and timing of nocturnal activity and the extent of the daily activity area were dependent on water temperature (respectively P<0.0001, P<0.05 and P<0.0005), with eels showing little or no activity when the diurnal temperature did not exceed 13 _C. Eels showed higher agitation under full moon and maintained their activity later in the night (P<0.05). The eels showed restricted mobility, and occupied small stream areas (from 0.01 to 0.10 ha) in a non sequential mode, except for two fish which were displaced to the River Meuse by a spate in early June and were never recovered. The length and frequency of net daily journeys were higher (P = 0.005) at water temperatures above 16 _C in late May and June, which also corresponded to the period of immigration of eels from the River Meuse. This study thus shows that large yellow eels may adopt a highly sedentary lifestyle in a continental, fast flowing and densely populated environment, even at periods of the year when these stages usually show upstream migrations. [less ▲]

A method for identification of non-linear multi-degree-of-freedom systems

in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers - Part G - Journal of Aerospace Engineering (1998), 212(4), 287-298

System identification methods for non-linear aeroelastic systems could find uses in many aeroelastic applications such as validating finite element models and tracking the stability of aircraft during ... [more ▼]

System identification methods for non-linear aeroelastic systems could find uses in many aeroelastic applications such as validating finite element models and tracking the stability of aircraft during flight flutter testing. The effectiveness of existing non-linear system identification techniques is limited by various factors such as the complexity of the system under investigation and the type of non-linearities present. In this work, a new approach is introduced which can identify multi-degree-of-freedom systems featuring any type of non-linear function, including discontinuous functions. The method is shown to yield accurate identification of three mathematical models of aeroelastic systems containing a wide range of structural non-linearities. [less ▲]

Abdominal aortic aneurysms in octogenarians.

in Acta Chirurgica Belgica (1998), 98(2), 76-84

The decision on whether to operate or not abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) in elderly depends on the relative risk of the operation versus the natural course of the unoperated AAA. From January 1984 to ... [more ▼]

The decision on whether to operate or not abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) in elderly depends on the relative risk of the operation versus the natural course of the unoperated AAA. From January 1984 to December 996, 138 patients, aged 80 years and older, were referred to our department for an aneurysm of 40 mm or more (transverse diameter) of the infrarenal abdominal aorta (95 asymptomatic, 15 painful, and 28 ruptured AAA). For 58 patients with asymptomatic AAA, operation was denied at referral because of transverse diameter less than 50 mm (n = 21), patient refusal (n = 10) or unacceptable operative risk or poor general condition (n = 27). Thirty-four of these observed AAA were ultimately operated after a mean delay of 41 months because of aneurysm enlargement (n = 15), aneurysm tenderness (n = 6) or rupture (n = 13). Overall, 52 patients had immediate (n = 37) or delayed (n = 15) elective repair of their AAA, with an in-hospital mortality of 5.7%. Urgent operation was done for 21 patients with a painful AAA. Six patients died at hospital (28% mortality rate). Emergent surgery was applied to 41 patients with ruptured AAA (including 13 AAA who ruptured during surveillance). The operative mortality in this subgroup attained 68%. Follow-up for the 77 survivors and the 24 non-operative patients averaged 43 months. The 5-year survival (operative mortality included) is 47% for electively operated patients, 30% for urgently and 20% for emergently operated patients. For comparison, the 5-year survival of an age and sex matched Belgian population is 63%. For the 24 medically followed AAA, the 5-year survival was 33%. In six cases, the cause of death was rupture of the AAA. Of the 58 patients for whom operation was initially not considered, 19 (33%) presented AAA rupture (13 operated in emergency and 6 who never came to surgery). The operative outcome of AAA repair in octogenarians is less favourable than in the younger age group (3.6% mortality after elective repair, 44% after operation for AAA rupture, according to our institution data). The authors conclude that AAA surgery should not be denied to octogenarians on the basis of advanced age alone. They recommend a straightforward surgery for otherwise healthy octogenarians with AAA of 50 mm diameter, surveillance up to 60 mm for high-risk patients and no surgery for unfit, bedridden or demented patients. [less ▲]