Lack of companionship, loneliness, and social isolation are often experienced by older adults diagnosed with clinical depression living independently within the community. Socially assistive robots (SARs), a relatively new concept within recreational therapy, may be one treatment modality that can address each one of these concerns. This exploratory study consisted of interviews with community mental health professionals, including a recreational therapist, to determine if they perceived SARs as an appropriate interdisciplinary clinical intervention for older adults diagnosed with clinical depression. Results indicated that SARs, especially those which can provide companionship and social interaction similar to animal assisted therapy, are an appropriate interdisciplinary intervention for this population and may have an impact on improving overall quality of life by decreasing loneliness and social isolation associated with clinical depression.

Agricultural production in the Republic of Srpska is faced with numerous risks. However, little attention has been paid in the past, to the surveys of the agricultural risk management and insurance. After the general overview of basic risk types and risk management instruments in agriculture, the second part of the paper presents results on significance and acceptance of insurance services in the Republic of Srpska covering a five-year period (2010-2014). Based on the survey results, the authors conclude that although 88% of insurance companies do offer insurance products to farmers and 15% of farmers use the insurance products to manage their risks, this market segment is insignificant compared to the overall insurance market. In conclusion, the authors try to indicate the ways of stronger cohesion between farmers, insurance companies and government which would contribute to the establishment of integrated and sustainable risk management system in the agriculture of the Republic of Srpska.

Introduction: Various types of malocclusions present one of the most common dental problems of today’s population. Planning the implementation of orthodontic therapy, especially preventive and interceptive measures is one of many activities of public sector health, and it requires information regarding the prevalence of malocclusion in different parts of our country. The aim: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of malocclusion of preschool and school children in the city of Sarajevo. Materials and methods: This study was comprised of 373 children out of which 200 preschool and school children were included in the final sample according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria for participation. 100 children were five-year-olds with complete deciduous dentition, and 100 children were 14-year-olds with permanent dentition. The examined variables in the study were: dental status andexistence of caries, overjet, depth of overbite, a presence of premature contacts, a presence of diastemas, crowding of teeth in the dentalarch (for 14-year-olds) and rotation of teeth in the dental arch (for 14-year-olds). Results: The prevalence of malocclusion was 58% in the group of preschool children and 83% in the group of school children. Conclusion: Results of this study demonstrate a need for the implementation of preventive and interceptive orthodontic methods inprimary health care, which would reduce the need for expensive and long term orthodontic therapy.

We consider an active search problem in intensionally specified structured spaces. The ultimate goal in this setting is to discover structures from structurally different partitions of a fixed but unknown target class. An example of such a process is that of computer-aided de novo drug design. In the past 20 years several Monte Carlo search heuristics have been developed for this process. Motivated by these hand-crafted search heuristics, we devise a Metropolis--Hastings sampling scheme where the acceptance probability is given by a probabilistic surrogate of the target property, modeled with a max entropy conditional model. The surrogate model is updated in each iteration upon the evaluation of a selected structure. The proposed approach is consistent and the empirical evidence indicates that it achieves a large structural variety of discovered targets.

Se objetivo identificar las evidencias cientificas disponibles acerca del enfrentamiento religioso/espiritual utilizado por personas con cancer, en quimioterapia. Se trata de revision integrativa de la literatura. Se utilizo los descriptores Quimioterapia y Espiritualidad. Las bases de datos fueron: LILACS, PUBMED, ScienceDirect, EMBASE, CINAHL y BDENF. Los estudios reconocen la religion/espiritualidad como estrategia de enfrentamiento positivo, con el hecho de contribuir para la adhesion al tratamiento y reduccion del estres. El enfrentamiento negativo fue asociado a la incidencia de efectos colaterales, sufrimiento psicologico, ansiedad y depresion. Se concluye que el reconocimiento de la espiritualidad como estrategia de enfrentamiento y la identificacion de las carencias espirituales suministran a los profesionales de enfermeria un mejor objetivo de informaciones para el plan de atenciones y para una asistencia mas integral

The increase in the market for fish motivated the fish industry to intensify its demand, inserting sophisticated equipment in the production systems. But little is known about the real cost of tambaquis producing with the use of these technologies. Therefore, were evaluated the economic viability of semi-intensive cultivation of tambaqui in two tanks, T1 (without aerator) and T2 (with aerator), in each tanks was inserted 275 fish (≈ 40 g), that were monitored weekly during a year, for biometric collections, realized concomitant with limnological samplings. Only dissolved oxygen (≈7.79 and ≈8.30) and total ammonia (≈0.27 and ≈0.16) differed between the tanks. In the economic analysis, the Operational Cost of Production (OCP) was used, which for the T1 was R$ 1,803.35 (dry fishmeal), while in T2 it was R$ 3,552.94 (dry fishmeal + electricity). The zootechnical variables of the tambaquis groups did not differ significantly, resulting in final biomass of 467.67 kg (T1) and 458.15 kg (T2), with an income budge of R$ 2,338.35 and R$ 2,290.75 respectively. The T1 had a gain of 22.87%, while the T2 had a deficit of -55.09%. Therefore, it is concluded that the use of aerator for the semi-intensive cultivation of tambaqui in excavated tanks is not economically achievable.