This paper presents the realization of a smart home automation using Siemens PLCs. The smart home interface is realized using the HMI Weintek eMT3070a touchscreen, which shows the window for controlling and monitoring the lighting, room temperature, irrigation systems, swimming pool, etc. By using PLCs, the smart home can be controlled via Ethernet and it can be programmed to the needs of tenants.

The models of biological systems that we find on Earth can be the subject of research to develop a few mechatronic systems. Such models are offered by bees, ants, crows, cranes, etc. Article aims to investigate these models and their manifestations. Imitating this behavior and studied him offer ideas for develop models that can be integrated into mechatronic systems. They can be integrated into mechatronic system as algorithms for finding local optimum, to search, to detect an optimal way travel on a network, to find best decision, etc.

AIM To examine the presence of depressive symptoms in patients with multiple sclerosis relapse and its relation to disability and relapse severity. METHODS This study included 120 patients who were assessed during the acute relapse of multiple sclerosis according to Mc Donald criteria. Depression was assessed using Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II) calculating both affective and somatic symptom scores. The Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) measured disability. Relapse severity was graded according to the difference between the EDSS score during relapse and EDSS score before the onset of the attack as mild, moderate or severe. RESULTS There was statistically significant difference between patients with different level of depression considering age (p<0.001), disability (p<0.001), relapse severity (p=0.005) and disease duration (p=0.032). Significant moderate positive correlation of depression with age (rho=0.43) and disability (rho=0.46) was confirmed. There was moderate correlation between disability and somatic symptoms of depression (rho=0.54, p<0.001) with only weak correlation between disability and affective symptoms of depression (rho=0.31, p<0.01). Multiple regression analysis showed that patient's age and relapse severity (p<0.05) were independently related to depression in these patients while disability did not. CONCLUSION Correlation between disability and depression was mostly due to somatic symptoms of depression. Although highly correlated, depression during multiple sclerosis relapse was not independently predicted by disability. Depression should be recognized and treated independently from disability treatment, especially in the group of older patients with more severe relapse.

Introduction: Meningiomas are slow-growing benign tumors that arise at any location where arachnoid cells reside. Although meningiomas account for a sizable proportion of all primary intracranial neoplasms (14.3–19%), only 1.8 to 3.2% arise at the foramen magnum. Their indolent development at the craniocervical junction makes clinical diagnosis complex and often leads to a long interval between onset of symptoms and diagnosis. Case report: We report a case of a 79-year-old male patient, presented with ataxia and sense of threatening fainting during verticalization. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed the presence of meningioma in the right side of craniospinal junction.

We investigate laser-assisted electron-ion recombination (LAR), high-order harmonic generation (HHG) and above-threshold ionization (ATI) of argon atoms by a bicircular laser field, which consists of two coplanar counter-rotating circularly polarized fields of frequencies rω and sω. The energy of soft x rays generated in the LAR process is analyzed as a function of the incident electron angle and numerical results of direct recombination of electrons with Ar+ ions are presented. We also present the results of HHG by a bicircular field and confirm the selection rules derived earlier for inert-gas atoms in a p ground state. We show that the photoelectron spectra in the ATI process, presented in the momentum plane, as well as the LAR spectra exhibit the same discrete rotational symmetry as the applied field.

We present a complete local dynamics and investigate the global dynamics of the following second-order difference equation: , where the parameters , and are nonnegative numbers with condition , , and the initial conditions , are arbitrary nonnegative numbers such that

MARSDEN S. BLOIS (1919–1988) Marsden Scott Blois Jr., was an internationally recognized physician and scientist – professor of Dermatology and professor of Medical information science, visionary in Health Informatics. Scott Blois was Professor and Chairman of the Section on Medical Information Science at the University of California in San Francisco (1-4). Also, he was Professor of Dermatology and founder and Director of the Melanoma Clinic in San Francisco. Scott was born in San Antonio, Texas, January 5, 1919. He lived in various areas of California during his early schooling, including the Central Valley and San Francisco. He enrolled in the United States Naval Academy in 1938 and because of World War II he graduated a year early in 1941 and immediately assigned as a line officer on a destroyer escort in the South Pacific. Scott spent the remaining years of the war conducting classified work for what was to become the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Washington, D.C. where he continued to carry out research in the Navy as Director of Research at the naval facilities in Corona, California. When he resigned from the Navy he studied physics at Stanford University where he worked under Professor Paul Kirkpatrick on the physical and magnetic properties of deposited metallic thin films. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Stanford in 1952. After receiving his degree in physics, Scott joined with some other physics graduates interested in physical approaches to biology, to help found the Biophysics Laboratory on the Stanford campus as part of the Hansen Laboratories of Applied Physics. Scott later served as Director of the Biophysics Graduate Program, while developing his research on the electron spin resonance of biopolymers, including melanins. He observed the presence of free radicals trapped in melanin, and was one of the first investigators to suggest that free radicals were an integral part of biological systems. Scott began his medical studies at Stanford Medical School while he was Director of the Biophysics Laboratory, a position he left to begin a dermatology residency at Department of Dermatology at Stanford, chaired. by Dr. Eugene Farber, sometimes worked very hardly and more than 10-15 hours daily on his research and as physician with patients. The Melanoma Clinic at UCSF began because of Scott’s recognition of the fragmentation of care for melanoma patients. In 1971 dermatologists and family physicians were seeing the initial lesions, and surgeons were rather radically performing “definitive therapy.”(4). At that point many patients were left on their own without any coherent or recognizable followup. Scott Blois organized, Together with physicians at Temple University (Dr. Wallace H. Clark Jr.), New York University (Dr. Alfred Kopf) and Massachusetts General Hospital (Dr. Thomas B. Fitzpatrick), the Melanoma Clinical Cooperative Group. Purpose of this Group was assembling a data base of clinical information. Dr. Wallace Clark called it the “natural history of neoplasia.” (4). It was visionary idea–the early attempts to collect large numbers of attributes about one important “clinical entity”. After a period of several years the Melanoma Cooperative Group was no longer funded, but the institutions continued on their own. At UCSF, because of Dr. Blois’ expertise in medical computing as well as his interest in patient care, the Melanoma Data Base grew and the computer science prospered. The Melanoma Clinic, organized and managed by Scott’s grew from seeing a handful of patients in the first year to more than 250 per year at the time of his death in 1988. He established a non-profit organization, The Melanoma Foundation, to further the teaching, research and service aspects of patients with melanoma. In honor of these and his many other efforts, the UCSF Melanoma Clinic has been renamed the Marsden Scott Blois Jr. Melanoma Clinic. Despite his considerable clinical responsibilities during the 1970s and early 80s, Scott made fundamental contributions to the evolving field of Medical Informatics during this period. He founded and chaired the Section on Medical Information Science at UCSF, a department among the first of such programs to receive a training grant from the National Library of Medicine. One of Scott’s early successes in medical computing was the development and evaluation of the diagnostic prompting program called RECONSIDER(2, 4). Concerned that then exemplary programs in medical computing contained “knowledge” which was not understandable by physicians, Scott proposed to develop “prompting” programs based on the notion of structured text. Structured text was simply text which was easier to process computationally than narrative text, but which was still easily understood by people. Later, with support from a writing grant from NLM, Scott wrote the landmark volume entitled Information and Medicine; The Nature of Medical Descriptions. A sequel to some of the ideas in this book appeared recently. At the time of his death, Scott’s Informatics research was supported by both a grant (the “Lexicon Grant”) and a contract (the “UMLS Project”) from the NLM. Both awards were fitting recognition of work begun more than 15 years before on medical informatics. Scott has received both national and world-wide recognition for the work that has come from his establishment of the Melanoma Clinic and the Medical Information Science program at the University of California. However, it should not be forgotten that he also had a distinguished career at Stanford, and that his early work on the magnetic properties of metallic thin films, i.e. information storage, which resulted in a U.S. patent, and on free radicals in biological systems, was in each case years ahead of the field. Scott’s interest in metallic thin films arose from his recognition of their potential for information and data storage, which he viewed to be a major problem during his war years in the Navy. Scott’s early interest in information processing and storage was a contributing factor in his selection to head the Medical Information Sciences Section at UCSF. His continued interest in information processing and tireless efforts for the National Library of Medicine (NLM) led to his election as Chairman of the NLM’s Biomedical Library Review Committee a few months before his death. Blois remained devoted to medicine, which he judged to be “the enterprise offering us the greatest opportunity for describing the nature of man in all the interrelated levels of his complexity.” Some of his work includes: „Information and medicine: the nature of medical descriptions”, „Free Radicals in Biological Systems: Symposium by Marsden S. Blois” and „The integration of hospital information subsystems” (3). A part of this text was written by his colleague and friend Richard W. Sagebiel in his obituary and published at Wikipaedia (4).

Introduction: Currently in Bosnia and Herzegovina there are 25 journals in the field of biomedicine, 6 of them are indexed in Medline/PubMed base (Medical Archives, Materia Socio-Medica, Acta Informatica Medica, Acta Medica Academica, Bosnian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences (BJBMS) and Medical Glasnik), and one (BJBMS) is indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)/Web of Science base. Aim: The aim of this study was to show the scope of work of the journals that were published by Academy of Medical Sciences of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Medical Archives, Materia Socio-Medica and Acta Informatica Medica. Material and Methods: The research presents a meta-analysis of three journals, or their issues, during the calendar year 2015 (retrospective and descriptive character). Results: During 2015 calendar year a total of 286 articles were published (in Medical Archives 104 (36.3%), in Materia Socio-Medica 99 (34.6%), and in Acta Informatica Medica 83 (29%)). Original articles are present in the highest number in all three journals (in Medical Archives 80.7%, in Materia Socio Medica 77.7%, and in Acta Informatica Medica 68.6%). In Medical Archives, 90.3% of the articles were related to the field of clinical medicine. In Materia Socio-Medica, the domain of clinical medicine and public health was the most represented. Preclinical areas are most frequent in Acta Informatica Medica. The period of 50-60 days for a decision on the admission of article is most common in all three journals, with trend of shortening of that period. Articles came from 19 countries, mostly from Bosnia and Herzegovina, then from Iran, Kosovo, Saudi Arabia and Greece. Conclusion: In Medical Archives original articles in the field of clinical medicine (usually internal and surgical disciplines) are most often present, and that is the case in last four years. The number of articles in Materia Socio-Medica and Acta Informatica Medica is growing from year to year. In Materia Socio-Medica there is a trend of growth of articles in the field of public health, while the most common articles in Acta Informatica Medica are about medical informatics.