Cilj je ispitati učestalost teškoća pri dojenju i učestalost isključivog dojenja u rodilištu s obzirom na stupanj samoefi kasnosti dojenjamajki. U ovoj kohortnoj studiji su sudjelovale 772 majke koje su rodile u Kliničkoj bolnici “Sveti Duh” u Zagrebu u razdoblju od listopada 2010. do siječnja 2011. godine. Majke su u rodilištu ispunile upitnik koji je sadržavao pitanja o demografskim podatcima iteškoćama pri dojenju tijekom prvih 48 sati nakon porođaja te Skalu za mjerenje samoefi kasnosti dojenja (BSES-SF). Podatci o načinu prehrane novorođenčeta prikupljeni su iz medicinske dokumentacije. U statističkoj obradi podataka primijenjeni su χ2 test,Mann-Whitneyev test i Spearmanov koefi cijent korelacije. Teškoće pri dojenju izvijestilo je 450 (58,3%) majki. Nađena je značajnanegativna korelacija između broja teškoća i broja bodova ostvarenih na BSES-SF skali (rs= -0,33, p<0,001). Majke s niskom samoefi kasnošću dojenja češće su imale teškoće pri njemu (64,4% vs. 36,5%, p<0,001) i češće su djelomično dojile u usporedbi s majkamačija je samoefi kasnost visoka (69,5% vs. 30,5%, p<0,001). Zastupljenost pojedinih teškoća pri dojenju (teškoće s tehnikom dojenja,bolne i oštećene bradavice, zastoj mlijeka, percepcija nedovoljne količine mlijeka) bila je značajno češća u majki s niskom samoefi kasnošću dojenja. Rezultati pokazuju da majke s niskom samoefi kasnošću dojenja imaju povećan rizik za pojavu teškoća primjemu i odustajanje od isključivog dojenja tijekom boravka u rodilištu. Ova studija dodatno potvrđuje da je samoefi kasnost dojenjaznačajan čimbenik ranog ishoda dojenja.

This paper focuses on dimensions of the perceived service quality measurement for business schools. We propose an adapted SERVQUAL measure of expected and perceived quality, where employees at business schools are split into two groups: faculty and administrative staff, and assessed separately. This measure represents a tool for comparable service quality assessment at business schools. Empirical data were collected among undergraduate students in a developing economy. A total of 282 respondents were used to assess the overall fit of the proposed model and to test the differences between the expectations and the perceptions of service quality in a business school. The results support usability of the proposed adapted SERVQUAL measure. Therefore, the study contributes to the existing literature reporting the findings on service quality in an educational context.

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Lekari opste medicine se cesto susrecu sa hitnim stanjima u svojoj praksi. Da bi se lekar brzo snasao u takvoj situaciji i primenio odgovarajucu terapiju pravovremeno, neophodno je da pri sebi ima pripremljenu odabranu kolekciju lekova koji mogu resiti sva ili gotovo sva hitna stanja. U lekarskoj torbi bi trebalo da se nađu sledeci lekovi: paracetamol (za blage do umerene bolove i povisenu temperaturu), morfin (za jake bolove), nalokson (za lecenje trovanja heroinom), ceftriakson (za meningokokni meningitis), salbutamol (za prekid napada bronhijalne astme), hidrokortizon (za prekid napada bronhijalne astme), glukagon (za tesku hipoglikemiju), glukoza (za blagu do umerenu hipoglikemiju), diazepam (za prekid febrilnih konvulzija ili epileptickog statusa), adrenalin (za anafilaksu i zastoj srca), atropin (za simptomatsku bradikardiju), hlorpiramin (za akutne alergijske reakcije), aspirin (za akutni infarkt miokarda), nitroglicerin (za akutni koronarni sindrom), metoklopramid (za mucninu i povracanje), haloperidol (za delirijum), metilergometrin (za krvarenje posle porođaja ili pobacaja), furosemid (za akutni edem pluca) i flumazenil (za trovanje benzodiazepinima). Za svaki od navedenih lekova lekar treba dobro da poznaje preporucene doze, indikacije, kontraindikacije i najvažnija upozorenja. Svi navedeni lekovi su dostupni na domacem tržistu ili putem specijalnog uvoza, tako da lekar opste prakse može da popuni svoju torbu svim potrebnim lekovima i efikasno i bezbedno zbrine svako od hitnih stanja.

In this paper we consider modulus of noncompact convexity ΔX,φ associated with the strictly minimalizable measure of noncompactness φ. We also give some its properties and show its continuity on the interval [0, φ(BX)).

The main aim of this study was to determine the correlation of motor knowledge of acrobatic elements with successful performance of parallel turns in alpine skiing. An additional aim was to determine whether there is a difference between groups divided on the basis of knowledge of alpine skiing. The research was conducted on a sample of 27 students enrolled in the third year of study at the Faculty of Sport, by the chronological age of 21-23 years. The sample of variables consisted of 14 variables to assess knowledge of acrobatic elements and one variable to assess the performance of the ski element parallel turns. The results indicate a statistically significant correlation between some acrobatic elements (e.g. with roll forward r= .438) with performance of parallel turns at the level of significance (p<0.05). Students, who have acquired the technique of acrobatic elements on the higher level or on the level of stabilization and automation with minor mistakes, achieve better results when learning the element of skiing technique – parallel turns. Based on the analysis of results we can conclude that some elements of acrobatics and skiing can interconnect according to the requirements for the motor abilities required for successful performance of acrobatic elements and we can say that the learning of acrobatic elements on higher level have a positive influence on the learning of element of alpine ski technique.

Candidate variant association studies have been largely unsuccessful in identifying common breast cancer susceptibility variants, although most studies have been underpowered to detect associations of a realistic magnitude. We assessed 41 common non-synonymous single-nucleotide polymorphisms (nsSNPs) for which evidence of association with breast cancer risk had been previously reported. Case-control data were combined from 38 studies of white European women (46 450 cases and 42 600 controls) and analyzed using unconditional logistic regression. Strong evidence of association was observed for three nsSNPs: ATXN7-K264R at 3p21 [rs1053338, per allele OR = 1.07, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.04–1.10, P = 2.9 × 10−6], AKAP9-M463I at 7q21 (rs6964587, OR = 1.05, 95% CI = 1.03–1.07, P = 1.7 × 10−6) and NEK10-L513S at 3p24 (rs10510592, OR = 1.10, 95% CI = 1.07–1.12, P = 5.1 × 10−17). The first two associations reached genome-wide statistical significance in a combined analysis of available data, including independent data from nine genome-wide association studies (GWASs): for ATXN7-K264R, OR = 1.07 (95% CI = 1.05–1.10, P = 1.0 × 10−8); for AKAP9-M463I, OR = 1.05 (95% CI = 1.04–1.07, P = 2.0 × 10−10). Further analysis of other common variants in these two regions suggested that intronic SNPs nearby are more strongly associated with disease risk. We have thus identified a novel susceptibility locus at 3p21, and confirmed previous suggestive evidence that rs6964587 at 7q21 is associated with risk. The third locus, rs10510592, is located in an established breast cancer susceptibility region; the association was substantially attenuated after adjustment for the known GWAS hit. Thus, each of the associated nsSNPs is likely to be a marker for another, non-coding, variant causally related to breast cancer risk. Further fine-mapping and functional studies are required to identify the underlying risk-modifying variants and the genes through which they act.

ABSTRACT The performance of the new Bio-Rad Geenius HIV-1/2 confirmatory assay was compared with that of the Chiron RIBA HIV-1/HIV-2 strip immunoblot assay using 166 samples from HIV-1-, HIV-2-, or HIV-1/2-positive and HIV-negative individuals and two quality control panels. Our results indicate that the Geenius assay is a suitable alternative for confirmatory HIV testing.

We study implications of large lepton-quark-leptoquark couplings for direct leptoquark searches at Large Hadron Collider. We present all existing flavor constraints on the strength of these couplings assuming that leptoquarks under consideration interact exclusively with charged leptons and quarks of the same generation. We find that these leptoquarks can have sizeable couplings to the Standard Model fermions. This insures a self consistency of our study. We discuss the leptoquark production mechanisms at LHC and demonstrate the importance of inclusion of a t-channel pair production and, in particular, a single leptoquark production through a recast of an existing CMS search at LHC for the second generation leptoquark. Our recast yields the best direct limit on Yukawa coupling of the second generation leptoquark that couples to a muon and a strange quark to date.