Globalization as a worldwide process has significant implications in the area of education. In relation to this trend, the main challenge is to prepare students for the role of competent global citizens. Thus, we tested selected group of students of chemistry in attempt to measure their understanding of global trends in education. Results show positive attitudes towards student mobility, but no vision to develop competence and capacity that will make them quality applicants for international mobility programs. Scarce examples of students engagement in global educational trends only magnifies the need for well researched and organized approach in this area.

Svetomir P. Ivanovic (editor), Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, Podgorica, 2010,598 pages; ISBN 978-86-7215-254-8; COBISS.CG-ID 16794896

Objective: To report an uncommon method of managing pancreatic fistulas and retroperitoneal abscess. Clinical Presentation and Intervention: A 50-year-old man was admitted with fever, abdominal pain, periumbilical fistula and pus in stool. Five months before admission, he underwent urgent necrosectomy (7 days after onset of pain) and subsequently two more surgeries for necrotizing pancreatitis. Ultrasound revealed fluid collection in the retropancreatic space. After evacuation of pus, contrast medium instilled through a catheter showed a retroperitoneal abscess cavity, retroperitoneal-periumbilical and retroperitoneal-sigmoidal fistulas. After percutaneous drainage and iodine irrigation, the abscess collection and fistulas disappeared. Conclusion: In this case, percutaneous drainage was a successful option in the management of pancreatic fistulas and a retroperitoneal abscess.

This paper describes the results of an experimental study in which older adult participants interacted with three monitoring technologies designed to support their ability to age in place in their own home - a camera, a stationary robot, and a mobile robot. The aim of our study was to evaluate users' perceptions of privacy and their tendencies to engage in privacy enhancing behaviors (PEBs) by comparing the three conditions. We found that privacy concerns lead older adults to change their behavior in a home environment while being monitored by cameras or embodied robots. We expected participants to engage in more PEBs when they interacted with a mobile robot, which provided embodied cues of ongoing monitoring; surprisingly, we found the opposite to be true - the camera was the condition in which participants performed more PEBs. We describe the results of quantitative and qualitative analyses of our survey, interview, and observational data and discuss the implications of our study for human-robot interaction, the study of privacy and technology, and the design of assistive robots for monitoring older adults.

A study was conducted to evaluate the requirement of digestible lysine and nutrition plans for broilers with high genetic potential. Four hundred and ninety five one-day-old Cobb chicks with initial average weight of 45.6g±0.3g were used, allotted in a completely randomized design with three diets containing different levels of lysine, nine replicates, and 11 birds per experimental unit, to determine the best lysine level for the pre-starter phase (1 to 7 days old) and the best nutritional plan for the total period (1 to 21 days of age). Lysine levels did not influence broilers' feed intake. The digestible lysine intake increased linearly with increasing levels of this amino acid in the diet. Weight gain and feed conversion improved quadratically by increasing dietary levels of lysine. Digestible lysine requirement of 1-to-7-day-old male broilers is 1.30 and 1.29% for best weight gain and feed conversion, respectively, corresponding to intakes of 2.68 and 2.64g digestible lysine. The nutritional plan PN3 meets the nutritional needs of male broilers from 1 to 21 days of age.

Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) makes up almost 15% of all cases of lung cancer and occurs almost exclusively in individuals with a history of smoking (Blackhall & Faivre-Finn, 2011; Meyerson et al., 2004; Tamasi and Muller, 2011; Walenkamp et al., 2009). However, SCLCs differ significantly from NSCLCs in specific genetic alterations that occur. Moreover, smoking-damaged bronchial epithelia accompanying SCLCs appears to have undergone significantly more acquired genetic damage than is frequently found in NSCLCs. Two subtypes of SCLC exist: homogeneous small cell carcinoma and combined SCLC (mixture of any non-small cell type) (Meyerson et al., 2004; Tamasi and Muller, 2011). SCLC in its advanced stage has an aggressive clinical course and is commonly accompanied by paraneoplastic syndromes. Autocrine growth factors, such as neuroendocrine regulatory peptides (e.g. bombesin/gastrin-releasing peptide), are prominent in SCLC. SCLC is categorized as limited stage disease (LS) when confined to the ipsilateral hemithorax and within a single radiation port, while extensive stage disease (ES) includes metastatic disease outside the ipsilateral hemithorax (Blackhall & Faivre-Finn, 2011; Meyerson et al., 2004; Tamasi and Muller, 2011; Walenkamp et al., 2009). SCLC is sensitive to chemotherapy; response rates to front-line agents are often in the range of 60%, with approximately 10% of patients achieving a complete response, even in the setting of metastatic disease (Brambilla et al., 2009 Jemal et al., 2006). Despite this, the relapse rates are quite high and survival with currently available salvage therapy is quite modest. With current therapy, patients with LSSCLC have a median survival of 17 months and a 5-year overall survival rate of 12% , while patients with ES-SCLC have a median survival of 8.9 months, and a 5-year survival rate of approximately 2%. (Brambilla et al., 2009 Jemal et al., 2006; Tamasi and Muller, 2011). This article will review the molecular targeted agents, the genetic abnormalities, and therapeutic efficacy in SCLC.

Ibrahim Omerhodzic1, Samir Avdakovic2, Amir Nuhanovic3, Kemal Dizdarevic1 and Kresimir Rotim4 1Clinical Center University of Sarajevo, Department of Neurosurgery, Sarajevo 2EPC Elektroprivreda of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo 3Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Tuzla, Tuzla 4University Hospital “Sisters of Charity”, Department of Neurosurgery, Zagreb 1,2,3Bosnia and Herzegovina 4Croatia

In 2012, Health/Medical informatics profession celebrates five jubilees in Bosnia and Herzegovina: a) Thirty five years from the introduction of the first automatic manipulation of data; b) Twenty five years from establishing Society for Medical Informatics BiH; c) Twenty years from establishing scientific and professional journal of the Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia and Herzegovina „Acta Informatica Medica“; d) Twenty years from establishing first Cathdra for Medical Informatics on biomedical faculties in Bosnia and Herzegovina and e) Ten years from the introduction of “Distance learning” in medical curriculum. All of the five mentioned activities in the area of Medical informatics had special importance and gave appropriate contribution in the development of Health/Medical informatics in Bosnia And Herzegovina.