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The goal of the Wenger Eskimo Database Project is to develop a full-text database of early and primary written ethnographic sources in English on Inuit/Eskimo peoples and to make it available on CD-ROM, both to northern residents and to students and researchers dealing with northern topics. This paper describes the dat…

India is becoming one of the hubs of clinical research. Commensurate with these advances, the government funding for biomedical research in thrust areas is also increasing. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Department of Science and Technology (DST) are some of the govern…

Invited for this month's cover are collaborators from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Nanyang Technological University, and Politecnico di Milano. The cover picture shows the 2 D layered nature of lead-free perovskite having a functional organic cation. Read the full text of the article at 10.1002/cplu.2016…

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study is to review a single-institutional experience gained over one decade, to assess late neuropsychological outcome in patients as well as to determine Norwood operation risk factors that are related to patient and procedure and influence these results. BACKGROUND: The reports of fir…

An unusual case of early nephrotic syndrome without hypertension which slightly resolved after delivery is documented. Renal biopsy was performed postpartum and the diagnosis was focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis with moderate chronic renal changes. It is questioned whether the case was due to preeclampsia or was…

The original histological investigation that forms the basis of our present understanding of tooth movement was carried out on dogs by the Swedish dentist Carl Sandstedt at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. His findings were published in 1901 as a monograph in Swedish, and shortly after his death in 1904, as three a…

Arterial hypertension belongs to the most important factors of origin and lasting of tinnitus. We have studied 18 subjects suffering from tinnitus without the history of diagnosed or treated arterial hypertension. ABPM method was used for diagnosing arterial hypertension. 12 patients (66%) fulfilled the criteria for ar…

Electronic publishing has changed the landscape for broadcasting scholarly information. Now Open Access is globalizing scholarly work. Open Access facilitates lifelong learning habits; enhances dissemination and distribution of information; impacts the informatics curriculum; supports active learning; and provides area…

OBJECTIVE: The aim of the presented study was to analyse the types and quantity of inquiries received at Drug Information Centre in Bratislava during the period from May 1997 to May 2006. The study analyses also the profile of the users of the latter centre with focus on the perception of drug risk, adverse drug reacti…

Spontaneous remission of simple renal cyst or complex renal cyst Bosniak III or IV class is a rare phenomenon. Our report describes a spontaneous partial regression of complex renal cyst Bosniak IV during the observation of complex cystic renal masses. A 66 year old male high risk patient (ASA score 3-4) refused all su…

MOTIVATION: Wnt signaling is a very active area of research with highly relevant publications appearing at a rate of more than one per day. Building and maintaining databases describing signal transduction networks is a time-consuming and demanding task that requires careful literature analysis and extensive domain-spe…

We present a case report of a 41-year-old man with an acute headache and hydrocephalus caused by the dermoid cyst. The dermoid cyst of the third brain ventricle caused an acute hydrocephalus and an increased intracranial pressure (with neurological signs such as nausea, vomiting, oedema papilae n. optici) and, conseque…

UNLABELLED: Aim of the study was to evaluate the results of the patients with "congenital pseudartrosis of tibia" treated by vascularized fibular graft transferred from the contralateral calf. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The cohort consist of four patients (2 boys and 2 girls) aged 5.75 y (range 4-8 years) in the time of th…

Statistical results of a study monitoring the occurrence of obesity in the Czech population between 1985 and 2000 were published by the Czech Society of General Practice, in the recommended diagnostic and treatment guidelines for general practitioners under the heading 'Obesity'. In these recommended guidelines, a coll…

Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma (FDCS) is a rare tumor, derived from antigen-presenting cells that normally form meshworks in lymphoid follicles. FDCS in general recapitulate the immunophenotypic profile of follicular dendritic cells (FDCs). This tumor affects mainly the lymph nodes, but may arise at a variety of ext…

Hierarchical classification of biotechnology R&D projects is critical for strategic planning and national R&D resource allocation, yet remains challenging due to fine-grained hierarchical taxonomies, severe class imbalance, and the cost of large language model (LLM) inference at scale. We propose EnergyRoute, an uncert…

Nowadays more and more foreign students come to Slovakia to study medicine at Slovak universities. Besides specialized subjects studied in English they have to learn Slovak. The authors of this article have focused their attention to the most serious problems, the Slovak language causes to foreign students studying med…

The advent of Open Access (OA) has changed the landscape of accessing digital information globally. OA offers valuable free, full-text, online resources for all health-related professionals, regardless of the practice setting. Because much scholarly information may now be accessed without charge, nurses worldwide can r…

Endoscopic mucosal resection or piece meal polypectomy are the methods of choice for the treatment of unifocal visualized lesion. Thermal ablative techniques are indicated for flat adenomas as a adjunct therapy after an imcomplete EMR or piece meal polypectomy. Photodynamic therapy using ALA photosensitisation is effec…

BACKGROUND: Infra-red photocoagulation is used as an instrumental treatment for bleeding hemorrhoids. During this procedure the tissue is coagulated by infrared radiation. For treatment, mechanical pressure and radiation energy are applied simultaneously to ablate the blood supply to the hemorrhoidal mass. MATERIAL AN…