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Effects of specific allergen immunotherapy on biological markers and clinical parameters in asthmatic children: a controlled-real life study
No full textAbstract Background Allergen-specific immunotherapy (AIT) is the only treatment able to change the natural course of allergic diseases. We aimed at investigating the clinical efficacy of SLITOR (Serbian registered vaccine for sublingual allergen specific immunotherapy). Methods 7–18 years old children with allergic asthma and rhinitis were enrolled and addressed to the active (AIT plus pharmacological treatment) or control (standard pharmacological treatment only) group. Clinical and medications scores, lung function and exhaled FeNO were measured at baseline and at every follow-up. Results There was a significant improvement in both nasal and asthma symptom scores as well as in medication score in SLIT group. SLIT showed an important influence on lung function and airway inflammation. Conclusions Our data showed that SLITOR was effective not only in terms of patient reported outcomes but an improvement of pulmonary function and decrease of lower airway inflammation were also observed
Ivan Filipovic : Founding Father of Croatian Teachers' Societies
No full textTema ovog diplomskog rada je Ivan Filipovic, ucitelj, pedagog i književnik. Ivan
Filipovic bio je jedna od najistaknutijih osoba koja je utjecala na razvoj školstva u Hrvatskoj.
Živio je i radio u 19. stoljecu kada je Hrvatska bila u sastavu Austro - Ugarske Monarhije. U
vrijeme kada je položaj ucitelja bio veoma težak, zbog provoenja germanizacije u školama,
Filipovic je krenuo u organizaciju hrvatskih ucitelja i reorganizaciju puckog školstva. Cilj mu
je bio moralno podici ucitelje i potaknuti ih da krenu u borbu protiv nacionalnog ugnjetavanja
i crkvenog nadzora nad školama. Želio je da ucitelji poucavaju u samostalnim i slobodnim
školama. Njegovom zaslugom utemeljena su mnoga uciteljska društva poput Uciteljske
zadruge, najstarijeg uciteljskog društva, Saveza hrvatskih ucitelja i Hrvatsko pedagoško -
književnog zbora. Filipovic je organizirao i prve opce hrvatske uciteljske skupštine na kojima
se raspravljalo o problemima hrvatskih ucitelja. Sudjelovao je u dononošenju prvog hrvatskog
školskog zakona 1874. godine kojim Hrvatska prvi puta samostalno i autonomno ureuje
svoje školstvo.
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Normative Qualitätsansprüche an algorithmischen Journalismus
No full textDie fortschreitende Digitalisierung und Automatisierung im Journalismus stellt auch professionsethisches Handeln unter Druck. Dabei erzeugen die automatisierte Textproduktion und deren Verbreitung ethische Fragen auf individueller, organisatorischer und gesellschaftlicher Ebene. Bezogen auf normative Qualitätsansprüche diskutiert der Beitrag Fragen der journalistischen Verantwortung und der Transparenz. Es zeigt sich, dass die Technologie die Dimensionen der Verantwortung vor, während und nach der Nachrichtenproduktion maßgeblich beeinflusst. Neue Akteure spielen dabei ebenso eine zentrale Rolle wie die normativen Ansprüche im Umgang und bei der Kennzeichnung algorithmisch generierter Inhalte
Portfolio of recorded performances and exegesis: Messiaen’s musical language for the jazz pianist - an exploration through performance.
No full textMoving beyond Gunther Schuller’s Third Stream amalgamation of classical and jazz, this study explores whether the musical language of Olivier Messiaen can make a valid contribution to jazz piano performance. Initially, my project sought to answer such questions as: What elements of the musical language of Messiaen already exist in the jazz vocabulary? Am I able to extend this further? What are the timbral structures and pianistic effects within Messiaen’s musical language? What will be the most effective application of Messiaen’s musical language to jazz piano performance? Endeavouring to answer the final question led me to consider such aspects as whether the project should be limited to quoting Messiaen motifs, arranging Messiaen melodies, replacing jazz harmonic structures on standards with examples from Messiaen’s musical language or whether it would be better to approach the research conceptually. The work of Hubert Nuss provided encouraging reassurance that this was not an impossible task. In order to articulate this conception, the initial challenge was to decide how the classical and jazz worlds might meet in a ‘Messiaen’ technique. The approach adopted was similar to that used for undergraduate jazz study, namely, immersion in the piano scores and recordings of Messiaen’s music as well as by live performances. This was followed by the development and assessment of a contrived approach when specific techniques, such as tonal colourings or harmonic structures, were developed through prepared exercises and consciously included in my performance. It was then compared with an intuitive approach when no such precise parameters were established. This submission consists of CD recordings of two public recitals and an exegesis. It documents the development of this Messiaen technique and discusses its application in my performances. It also demonstrates the ways that Messiaen’s musical language can be used within jazz piano performance to provide a colour that distinguishes jazz piano performance in a competitive field.Thesis (M.Mus.) -- University of Adelaide, Elder Conservatorium of Music, 201
Trajectories and single-particle tracking data of intracellular vesicles loaded with either SNAP-Crb3A or SNAP-Crb3B
No full textAbstractUsing a combined approach of pulse chase labeling and single-particle tracking of Crb3A or 3B loaded vesicles we collected trajectories of different vesicle population in living podocyte cells and evaluated statistically their different mobility patterns. Differences in their intracellular mobility and in their directed transport correspond well to the role of Crb3A and 3B in renal plasma membrane sorting (Djuric et al., 2016) [1]
Technologies of gender: Soviet literature and film in the 1920s and 1930s
No full textMy dissertation, “Technologies of Gender: Soviet Literature and Film in the 1920s and 1930s,” examines the vital role technology and machines – both actual and imagined – play in defining the ‘new Soviet man’ and ‘new Soviet woman’ in early Soviet culture. As I argue in my dissertation, the period of the 1920s and 1930s witnesses a radical change in the perception of physicality brought about by new technology. My project elucidates how the rise of technology and technological discourse in Soviet culture remakes the body and reconfigures traditional gender roles, producing a Soviet cyborg (in Donna Haraway’s terms), first male, then female.
In the twenties, in order to combat mortality and render the body perfect, male authors engage in writing about sophisticated technologies based on experimental scientific and medical research (as in Pilnyak’s 1928 A Matter of Death and Platonov’s 1927 The Ethereal Tract). These technocratic utopian imaginings introduce the cyborg that has overcome all mortal constraints, including biological procreation (Platonov). While in the predominantly male avant-garde culture women’s role and access to technology are reduced, I show that in socialist realist texts and films of the 1930s, the reverse takes place: women instead of men now have a privileged relationship to machines. Women artists and workers contest the hyper-masculinist culture and through female cyborgism remap their bodies and consciousness to create their own feminist politics (Shaginian’s 1931 novel The Hydroelectric Plant, Shub’s 1932 film K.Sh.E., and Pasha Angelina’s all-female tractor brigade). The official culture of the thirties refashions itself in the feminine idiom to demonstrate that the never-ending advancement under Stalin exceeds the revolutionary achievements of the 1920s. This obsession leads to the creation of the Soviet heroine of labor, the female cyborg embodied in the image of the woman at the tractor wheel riding into the bright future, the ultimate symbol of transformed Stalinist technocratic society (as in Eisenstein’s General Line (1929), Pyriev’s Tractor Drivers (1939), and Alexandrov’s Bright Path (1940). The project considers both well-known and lesser-known writers/texts and films. At stake is a new way of looking at both literature and cinema of the 1920s-1930s from the point of view of gender technologies and technologies of gender.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2021-08-01The student, Marina Filipovic, accepted the attached license on 2019-07-02 at 14:00.The student, Marina Filipovic, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2019-07-02 at 14:20.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2019-07-02 at 17:03.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #14131 on 2019-11-26 at 13:04:20Made available in DSpace on 2019-11-26T20:49:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Trauma of the frontal region is influenced by the volume of frontal sinuses. A finite element study
No full text© 2017 Pajic, Antic, Vukicevic, Djordjevic, Jovicic, Savic, Saveljic, Janovic, Pesic, Djuric and Filipovic. Anatomy of frontal sinuses varies individually, from differences in volume and shape to a rare case when the sinuses are absent. However, there are scarce data related to influence of these variations on impact generated fracture pattern. Therefore, the aim of this study was to analyse the influence of frontal sinus volume on the stress distribution and fracture pattern in the frontal region. The study included four representative Finite Element models of the skull. Reference model was built on the basis of computed tomography scans of a human head with normally developed frontal sinuses. By modifying the reference model, three additional models were generated: a model without sinuses, with hypoplasic, and with hyperplasic sinuses. A 7.7 kN force was applied perpendicularly to the forehead of each model, in order to simulate a frontal impact. The results demonstrated that the distribution of impact stress in frontal region depends on the frontal sinus volume. The anterior sinus wall showed the highest fragility in case with hyperplasic sinuses, whereas posterior wall/inner plate showed more fragility in cases with hypoplasic and undeveloped sinuses. Well-developed frontal sinuses might, through absorption of the impact energy by anterior wall, protect the posterior wall and intracranial contents
L'au-delà de la guerre dans l'ex-Yougoslavie : la réconciliation après le conflit
No full textBeyond War in ex-Yugoslavia : Reconciliation After the Conflict, by Ivan Djuric
According to the author, principles without which solution to the Yugoslav crisis makes no sense are the following : a Yugoslav space, recognition of former frontiers between the ex-Yugoslav reput lies, and the search for a universal solution in Belgrade (between Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Serbia). It is also necessary to take into account that no one is innocent in this conflict. Before implementing any proposed solution, fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina must stop. At the military level, the role of the United States is decisive ; while at the political level, that of the EC will be very significant, not to mention the importance of Russia. It is essential to liberate Sarajevo, Tuzla and Mostar, three cities symbolic of the successes and failures of the belligerents. Solution lies in territorial and personal autonomy for the Serbs in Croatia and in the refederalisation of the Serbian Republic. Regarding Bosnia-Herzegovina it should embrace institutional rather than geographic federalisation, which would include two-chambered parliament and veto rights for each national delegation (Muslim, Serb, Croat, etc.)Selon l'auteur, les axiomes, sans lesquels une solution à la crise yougoslave n'a aucun sens, sont les suivants : l'espace yougoslave, la reconnaissance des anciennes frontières entre les Républiques ex-yougoslaves, la recherche d'une solution globale (Croatie, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Serbie) qui réside à Belgrade. Il faut prendre aussi en compte le fait que nul n'est innocent dans ce conflit. Avant l'application d'une proposition de solution, les combats en Bosnie-Herzégovine doivent cesser. Sur le plan militaire, le rôle des Etats-Unis est décisif, sur le plan politique, celui de la CE devra être très important, sans oublier le poids de la Russie. Il est essentiel de libérer Sarajevo, Tuzla et Mostar, trois villes-symboles des succès et des échecs des belligérants. La solution repose principalement sur l'autonomie territoriale et personnelle pour les Serbes en Croatie, sur la refédéralisation de la République de Serbie. Quant à la Bosnie-Herzégovine, elle doit être soumise à la fédéralisation institutionnelle et non géographique (Parlement à deux chambres, droit de veto réservé à chacune des délégations nationales - musulmane, serbe et croate, etc.).Djuric Ivan. L'au-delà de la guerre dans l'ex-Yougoslavie : la réconciliation après le conflit. In: Politique étrangère, n°4 - 1993 - 58ᵉannée. pp. 919-931
Development and in vitro characterization of chitosan based microspheres for nasal delivery of promethazineDrug Development and Industrial Pharmacy,
No full textConventional and composed promethazine-loaded microspheres
were prepared by spray drying of chitosan solution systems and double water-inoil-
in-water (W/O/W) emulsion systems, respectively. Double emulsions were
prepared in two different feed concentrations, with chitosan dissolved in both
water phases, and ethylcellulose dissolved in oil phase. Swelling and bioadhesive
properties of the microspheres depended on the chitosan content, type
and the feed concentration of spray-dried system. Results obtained suggested
that better ethylcellulose microcapsules with promethazine in the chitosan
matrix were formed when less concentrated emulsion systems were spray-dried.
Thus, in case of such a system, with ethylcellulose/chitosan weight ratio of
1:2, prolonged promethazine release was obtaine
Lek och lustfyllt lärande i undervisningen under grundskolans tidiga år
No full textAbstract
Titel: Lek och lustfyllt lärande i undervisningen under grundskolans tidiga år.
Författare: Karolina Gryckiewicz och Ruzica Filipovic
Syftet med denna studie är för att få en djupare förståelse och kunskap om hur pedagoger använder och talar om leken i undervisningen i grundskolans tidiga år. Vår frågeställning består därför av två frågor; Hur använder pedagogerna leken i undervisningen i grundskolans tidiga år? Hur talar pedagogerna om leken i undervisningen i grundskolans tidiga år? För att ta reda på detta använde vi oss av underfrågor som; Hur definierar pedagogerna lek respektive lärande? Eftersom begreppet lek är svårt att definiera anser vi att det vore spännande och se hur olika pedagoger definierar begreppet. För att få svar på våra frågeställningar använde vi oss av observationer och intervjuer, där vi först observerade lektionerna för att sedan intervjua de berörda pedagogerna. Det som vi anser ha varit intressant och som flera av pedagogerna nämnde var hur viktig kreativiteten och fantasin är för ett lekfullt lärande. En annan viktig aspekt i resultatet var hur olika men ändå lika pedagoger tänker kring lek och lärande. Trots att pedagogernas definition på lek varierade kunde vi konstatera att alla de berörda pedagogerna har en positiv inställning till lek och att den bör användas mer i undervisningen än vad den kanske gör idag.
Studien gjordes på ett antal andraklasser på tre olika skolor i Malmö, där vi avgränsade till vilka ämnen vi skulle genomföra observationerna på. Dessa ämnen blev svenska och matematik eftersom vi anser att det är dessa som fokus främst ligger på i skolår två.
Nyckelord: lek, undervisning, kreativitet, fantas
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