26 research outputs found
Being and responsibility
No full textDrawing on Levinas, the author seeks to explore the question of being and responsibility, as a relation between ontology and ethics, from the perspective of a meta-position that would enable a critique of the classical West European ontological tradition with its strongly cosmocentric, anthropocentric, and egocentric character. The main purpose of the paper is to examine whether there is in West European thought a possibility to found the ethics of responsibility on overcoming the ontology of being. More precisely, the author seeks to show that in contemporary Western philosophy the significance and validity of the classical ontological principle are declining when it gets separated from the ethos of philosophy itself. Moreover, a gradual shift from the impersonal being to the ontology of the personality takes place. This ontology of the personality is grounded in the Other. It withdraws from the game of consciousness which represents being. The personality thus understood, in Levinas' words, carries within itself vested responsibility, because in the personality there lie the infinite and transcendence
Povrede jetre - nasa iskustva u tretmanu
No full textBackground: Trauma is one of today's most serious and expensive health care problems, and it is the most common cause of mortality in young population. Non-operative treatment is standard strategy for management of blunt liver injuries in hemodynamically stable patients in last decade. Methods: Retrospective study included patients with liver trauma, admitted in the period december 1995-december 2005, in total 476. Results: 392 of 476 patients presenting with liver trauma had blunt and only 84 had penetrating injury. Isolated liver injury was identified in 27,5% and 72,5% had associated injuries. Average ISS value was 24.06 (SD=14.26). During the operation liver injury in patients was classified according to Moor. In 2% critical patients, due to hemodynamic unstability we performed 'damage control surgery'. Out of 476 patients 87,% were successfully managet, 6,1% died as 'mors in tabula' or during first 24 hours and 6,9% died during hospitalization. Conclusion: Higher proportion of nonoopertively treated is among patients with ISS less than and those with injuries grade I end II.</jats:p
Platinum deposition from hydrogen-ion beam irradiated solid precursor
No full textWe report a particular method of Pt/glassy carbon (GC) surface formation, based on a 15 key H(+/-) ion beam irradiation of thin H(2)PtCl(6)xnH(2)O layer placed over the GC surface. Hydrogen-ion beam irradiation provided an excellent adherence of Pt deposit, unlike to any other Pt-deposition method. Furthermore, the morphology and electrochemical activity of GC/Pt catalyst obtained at the fluence of 5 x 10(17) cm(-2) was found to be sensitive to the sign of charge of hydrogen ions. The electrochemical activity of such obtained Pt/GC surface toward oxygen reduction and ethanol oxidation was compared with the activity of the Pt deposits obtained by other more common reduction procedures. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
Prevention and treatment of progressive multiple organ disfunction in acute pancreatitis
No full textThe role of endoscopic ultrasound(EUS) in differential diagnosis of subepithelial oesophago-gastric lesions
No full textCarbon Monolith Surface Chemistry Influence on the Silver Deposit Amount and Crystallite Size
No full textThe surface of carbon monolith (CM) was chemically treated in order to obtain antibacterial filters with silver deposit for water treatment. The chemical treatment involved submerging the as-received CM in HNO(3), KOH and H(2)O(2) solution. The specific surface area was examined by N(2) adsorption. Silver deposition at the surface of CM samples was performed using cheap and simple procedure of immersing CM samples in aqueous solution of AgNO(3). Temperature programmed desorption method has been used in order to investigate the nature and thermal stability of surface oxygen groups before and after silver deposition. The composition and crystalinity of silver deposits have been examined by X-ray diffraction. Chemical treatment does not cause any drastic changes of CM specific surface area, but increases a total amount of surface oxides. Amount of deposited silver is several times higher for all chemically treated samples. The results show that increasing the amount of CO yielding groups on CM surface leads to increased amount of Ag deposit and decreases its crystallite sizes12th Annual YUCOMAT Conference, Sep 06-10, 2010, Herceg Novi, Montenegr
Stress Degradation Studies on Zolpidem Tartrate Using LC-DAD and LC-MS Methods
No full textThe present study was designed to characterize the possible degradation products of zolpidem tartrate under various stress conditions according to International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) guidelines Q1A(R2). After exposure to light, heat, hydrolysis, and oxidation, the drug significantly degraded under photolytic and acid/base hydrolytic conditions. Degradation resulted in the formation of four key degradants. Degradation products were resolved from each other and the drug by employing an isocratic elution method on Luna C-18 column with mobile phase consisting of methanol-10 mM ammonium acetate (68.4: 31.6, v/v), wherein pH was adjusted to 5.4 with glacial acetic acid. To characterize the degradation products, a method was extended to LC-MS and a mass fragmentation pattern was established using single quad-rupole. The degradants were identified as zolpacid, oxozolpidem, zolpaldehyde, and zolpyridine. Finally, the most possible degradation mechanism of zolpidem tartrate in different environments was proposed
Early warning and epidemic intelligence in the Mediterranean region and Balkan countries: an EpiSouth network challenge
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