Wenken, herinneringen en aanteekeningen uit de dagen van Nederlands herstelling.

Includes bibliographical references.

Nederlands eerste betrekkingen met Oostenrijk toegelicht uit de correspondentie der keizerlijke gezanten te 's Gravenhage, 1658-1678.

Signatures marked: Letterk. verh. der Koninkl. akademie, deel v.

Filip van Marnix, heer van St. Aldegonde, bijzonder aan de hand van Willem I : ter inleiding Margareta van Parma en Katharina de Medicis, Willem I en Hendrik IV /

Mode of access: Internet.

Die Landwirtschaft auf der hamburgischen Geest : Beitrag zur Kenntnis der vorstadtischen Wirtschaft.

Thesis (doctoral)--Vereinigte Friedrichs-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg.

Verslag der handelingen der Staten-Generaal.

1846/47-1875/76: "Bijblad tot de Nederlandsche Staats-Courant."

Quantitatief onderzoek over het bromeeren van toluol.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universitat Van Amsterdam.

De dubbelzouten van kalium- en magnesiumsulfaat : schoniet en Kaliumastrakaniet /

Thesis (doctoral)--Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1893.

Zur kenntniss der dichlorbernsteinsauren und ihrer derivate.

Thesis (doctoral)--

Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis van het natuurgevoel in de middeleeuwsche nederlanden /

Includes bibliographical references (p. 146-153).

Flora batava, afgebeeld door en van wegens J.C. Sepp en zoon; /

Accompanied by "Naamlijst der Nederlandsche gewassen. Afgebeeld en beschreven in deel 1-XXV der Flora batava, door L.Vuyck en H.C. van de Pavord Smits. Met vervolg op deel XXVI en XXVII." (131, 16 p.) Published: s'Gravenhage, M. Nijhoff, 1930.

Catalogue raisonné de la précieuse collection de dessins et d'estampes, au nombre de pres̀ de 30,000, formant le cabinet de M. Ch. van Hulthem ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Masculinity-femininity as a national characteristic and its relationship with national agoraphobic fear levels: Fodor's sex role hypothesis revitalized

Hofstede's dimension of national culture termed Masculinity-Femininity [Hofstede (1991). Cultures and organizations: software of the mind. London: McGraw-Hill] is proposed to be of relevance for understanding national-level differences in self-assessed agoraphobic fears. This prediction is based on the classical work of Fodor [Fodor (1974). In: V. Franks & V. Burtle (Eds.), Women in therapy: new psychotherapies for a changing society. New York: Brunner/Mazel]. A unique data set comprising 11 countries (total N = 5491 students) provided the opportunity of scrutinizing this issue. It was hypothesized and found that national Masculinity (the degree to which cultures delineate sex roles, with masculine or tough societies making clearer differentiations between the sexes than feminine or modest societies do) would correlate positively with national agoraphobic fear levels (as assessed with the Fear Survey Schedule-III). Following the correction for sex and age differences across national samples, a significant and large effect-sized national-level (ecological) r = +0.67 (P = 0.01) was found. A highly feminine society such as Sweden had the lowest, whereas the champion among the masculine societies, Japan, had the highest national Agoraphobic fear score. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

Development of PCR-based markers for detection of Leifsonia xyli subsp. xyli in fibrovascular fluid of infected sugarcane plants

DNA of Leifsonia xyli subsp. xyli (Lxx), the causal agent of ratoon stunting disease of sugarcane, was detected in the fibrovascular fluid of sugarcane plants using random amplified polymorphic DNA PCR-based amplification using two 10-mer oligonucleotide primers. The primers OPC-02 and OPC-11 produced Lxx-specific markers of approximately 800 bp and 1000 bp, respectively. A cloned DNA fragment from the 800 bp PCR product (pSKC2-800) hybridised to a single genomic DNA fragment from Lxx when used as a probe in Southern hybridisation. This cloned fragment did not hybridise to L. xyli subsp. cynodontis (Lxc), or L. xyli-like bacteria isolated from grasses in Australia, indicating the usefulness of this DNA fragment as a specific probe for Lxx. A cloned fragment from the 1000 bp PCR product ( pSKC11-1000) hybridised to three genomic fragments in Lxx isolates, one genomic fragment in two of the four isolates of L. xyli-like bacteria, and in two of the four isolates of Lxc isolated from the USA. These results indicate that L. xyli-like bacteria are more likely to be related to Lxc than Lxx. These probes did not hybridise to the DNA from strains of the species of Clavibacter, Rathayibacter, Acidovorax, Ralstonia, Pseudomonas and Xanthomonas tested. Two oligonucleotide primers (21-mer) designed from the pSKC2-800 sequences specifically amplified template DNA from Lxx and detected as few as 5 x 10(4) cells/mL in fibrovascular fluid from sugarcane plants infected with Lxx.

"Only a GP?'': is the solution to the general practice crisis intellectual?

General practice is suffering a crisis of status, as shown by financial, power and intellectual markers. This is serious as a strong general-practice workforce is important to deliver cost-effective, high-quality healthcare. We argue that strengthening the intellectual aspects of general practice (particularly critical thinking) is essential. Most strategies to achieve this centre on research, with many initiatives in Australia and overseas to enhance research by general practitioners; there is still insufficient clinical research in general practice. Other ways to improve critical thinking include promoting use of evidence-based medicine, provided it is not implemented only via cook-book guidelines. Other innovations are desperately needed.