The overall goal of this project is to develop a humane non-human primate model of traumatic spinal cord injury that will facilitate the development and evaluation of therapeutic interventions. The model utilizes neurophysiological techniques to identify the location of the upper motor neuron axons that innervate the lower motor neurons that control tail musculature. This facilitates the placement of a selective lesion that partially disconnects the upper and lower motor neuron supply to the musculature of the tail. An implanted transmitter quantitatively measures electromyography data from the tail. The preliminary data indicates that this model is feasible. The subject was able to tolerate the implantation of the transmitter, without adverse effects. As well, there was no limb impairment, bowel dysfunction or bladder dysfunction. The histopathologic and electromyographic features of the selective experimental lesion were similar to human spinal cord injury.

After the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of ‘Sejdic&Finci vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina’, it is evident that election system of Bosnia and Herzegovina is discriminatory and that it is necessary to conduct systematic reform of this area, in order to satisfy the basic principles of contemporary democratic election systems, and in order to make election system, together with the B&H Constitution, compatible with the European Convention On Protection Of Human Rights And Fundamental Freedoms.

This paper presents the analysis of the infl uence of conventional hot (CH) and high frequency (HF) gluing on relevant physical and mechanical properties of Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) made from beech peeled veneer with the thickness of 2.1 mm. Student’s T-test was applied to determine the signifi cance of differences between mean values of results obtained for the two different treatments. A signifi cant difference has been determined for the thickness loss, density, moisture and bending strength, while no statistically signifi cant difference has been established for the modulus of elasticity and shear strength of gluing between the means of the tested samples.