LET THEY BE FORGOTTEN… ABOUT AUTHORS FROM THE ADRIATIC COAST OVERSEAS

In leaving for distant destinations in search of a better life, Croats carried with them memories of the old country that they handed down to their children, and many of them did not wish to see the memories fade so they wrote them down. In this way they incorporated them into the literature of distand countries. Although distand from home, this literature is still a part of the Croatian cultural heritage. The first written accounts from the emmigrant community were letters written to Juraj Kapić, the founder of the “Pučki list” periodical from Split, in which emmigrants described the life in new lands, and they were regularly published in newspapers in Split at the end of the 19th century. We can consider the authors of the letters to be the Þ rst correspondents. The exhibition “Lest they be forgotten” speaks about all those that left the Adriatic coast and took up the pen, regardless of the extent to which they were successful, which does not have a literary value nevertheless has an emotional or documentary value. The largest number of writers from the Adriatic coast wrote from South America, and in Chile alone there were some two hundred of them, including as many as nine academy members. In cases where they did not write poetry, novels or stories, our emmigrants in most cases described the history of the arrival of Croats to the place where they lived or wrote professional literature dealing with their profession. Unfortunately, only rarely did they write in Croatian since they forgot it soon after leaving because of assimilation

CITIZENS OF SPLIT BEYOND SPLIT

Tijekom 19. i 20. stoljeća u prekomorske se krajeve osim stanovnika dalmatinskih otoka i Zagore često iseljavalo i gradsko stanovništvo. Autorica donosi spoznaje o iseljenim Splićanima na osnovi postojećih popisa hrvatskih iseljenika širom svijeta i splitskih matica rođenih.Emigration from Croatia began in the 19th c. for economic reasons. It was most intense in Dalmatia, which from 1899-1920 saw an exile of 40,000 people. Those who left were mostly farmers or unskilled workers, 18-30 years old who exiled to South and North America, Australia and New Zealand. Most of them were from the Dalmatian islands or villages and it was long considered that only individuals emigrated from urban centers. There are truly very few citizens of Split in South America, Australia and New Zealand but there are very many of them in the United States. As all boats coming to North America landed at Ellis Island in front of New York City where systematic evidence was kept from 1892 to 1924, we are able to learn about the number of citizens of Split arriving there. The lists were made by hand and many errors occurred. Also, not all who were entered on the list as citizens of Split were found in the Register of Birth in Split. Some claimed to be born in Spalato, Spljet or Split while others claimed Veli Varoš or Lučac as their place of birth. Split was most often referred to as being in Austria, rarely Hungary, and later in the SHS or Yugoslavia. The year of 1907 was unsurpassable by the number of citizens who exiled from Split. Most of them were born in 1880, they were between 20 and 30 years old while one third of them were women

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

According to the papers published in this special issue, NAFLD is a serious problem, which each author from their own aspect tried to clarify. Regarding the fact that NAFLD is rarely isolated and that it is correlated with obesity, diabetes type 2, polycystic ovarian syndrome, obstructive sleep apnea, and some cognitive deficits, its pathophysiology and clinical development require more investigations. Suggestions for the treatment by the implantation of the intragastric balloon must be considered as one of the treating solutions in the future

Celiac disease diagnosed after uncomplicated pregnancy in a patient with history of bulimia nervosa

Introduction. The association between celiac disease and eating disorders has been very rarely reported. This is the first report on celiac disease associated with bulimia in this part of Europe. Case report. An adult female patient with history of bulimia and one uncomplicated pregnancy was admitted to the Gastroenterology Department, due to long lasting dyspeptic symptoms, constipation, major weight loss and fatigue. After positive serological screening, the diagnosis of celiac disease was confirmed with histopathology examination of duodenal biopsy specimen. Conclusion. Complicated interactions between celiac disease and bulimia can make them difficult to diagnose and treat. It is important to consider the presence of celiac disease in patients with bulimia and gastrointestinal symptoms

Oslobađanje celekoksiba iz mukoadhezivnih diskova s polimerima poliaspartamidnog tipa

A series of mucoadhesive disks with celecoxib as a model drug of very low aqueous solubility were prepared and characterized. Two polymers of polyaspartamide type, poly,-(N-2-hydroxyethyl-DL-aspartamide) (PHEA, 1) and its thiolated analogue poly[α,β-(N-2-hydroxyethyl-DL-aspartamide)]-poly[α,β-(N-2-thioethyl-DL-aspartamide)] copolymer (PHTA, 2a,b), and two commercially available polymers Carbopol 934P and hydroxypropylmethyl cellulose 4000 were used as excipients. Disks containing a mixture of equivalent amounts of thiomer 2b and Carbopol 934P as an excipient exhibited the highest dissolution rate.Pripravljeni su i karakterizirani mukoadhezivni diskovi s celekoksibom kao lipofilnom modelnom supstancijom. Kao ekscipiensi uporabljena su dva polimera poliaspartamidnog tipa, poli[α,β-(N-2-hidroksietil-DL-aspartamid) (PHEA, 1) i njegov tiolirani analog poli[α,β-(N-2-hidroksietil-DL-aspartamid)]-poli[α,β-(N-2-tioetil-DL-aspartamid)] kopolimer (PHTA, 2a,b), te dva komercijalno dostupna polimera Carbopol 934P i hidroksipropilmetilceluloza 4000. Najbolji profil oslobađanja celekoksiba postignut je iz diskova sastavljenih od tiomera 2b i Carbopola 934P u masenom omjeru 1:1

Comparison of RISK-PCI, GRACE, TIMI risk scores for prediction of major adverse cardiac events in patients with acute coronary syndrome

Aim To compare the prognostic performance of three major risk scoring systems including global registry for acute coronary events (GRACE), thrombolysis in myocardial infarction (TIMI), and prediction of 30-day major adverse cardiovascular events after primary percutaneous coronary intervention (RISK-PCI). Methods This single-center retrospective study involved 200 patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) who underwent invasive diagnostic approach, ie, coronary angiography and myocardial revascularization if appropriate, in the period from January 2014 to July 2014. The GRACE, TIMI, and RISK-PCI risk scores were compared for their predictive ability. The primary endpoint was a composite 30-day major adverse cardiovascular event (MACE), which included death, urgent target-vessel revascularization (TVR), stroke, and non-fatal recurrent myocardial infarction (REMI). Results The c-statistics of the tested scores for 30-day MACE or area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) with confidence intervals (CI) were as follows: RISK-PCI (AUC = 0.94; 95% CI 1.790-4.353), the GRACE score on admission (AUC = 0.73; 95% CI 1.013-1.045), the GRACE score on discharge (AUC = 0.65; 95% CI 0.999-1.033). The RISK-PCI score was the only score that could predict TVR (AUC = 0.91; 95% CI 1.392-2.882). The RISK-PCI scoring system showed an excellent discriminative potential for 30- day death (AUC = 0.96; 95% CI 1.339-3.548) in comparison with the GRACE scores on admission (AUC = 0.88; 95% CI 1.018-1.072) and on discharge (AUC = 0.78; 95% CI 1.000- 1.058). Conclusions In comparison with the GRACE and TIMI scores, RISK-PCI score showed a non-inferior ability to predict 30-day MACE and death in ACS patients. Moreover, RISK-PCI was the only scoring system that could predict recurrent ischemia requiring TVR

Institutional trust, political participation, and corruption: A European comparative perspective

Despite the theoretical and political importance of the relationship between institutional trust and different forms of political participation in Europe, theoretical and empirical focus on post-industrial economies leave the literature wanting of explanations of cross-national variation in political participation. In this article, we test whether levels of corruption influence the relationship between institutional trust and participation. We rely on the 9th wave of the European Social Survey results for an in-depth analysis of the relationship between institutional trust, political participation, and perceived corruption in 27 countries. The multilevel regression analysis results show that the effect of institutional trust on institutionalised political participation (including voting) is moderated by corruption. However, corruption does not moderate the relationship between institutional trust and non-institutionalised forms of participation