Correlation between Balance Ability and Speech-Language Development in Children

The longitudinal study was conducted in order to establish whether the success rate of refl exes related to maintaining balance at birth is in correlation with the success rate of maintaining balance in early childhood, as well as to examine the correlation of a certain level of speech and language development with the ability of maintaining balance at birth and at the age of 5. The main study group included 54 children of both genders, aged 5.0 to 5.4, whose balance ability and speech and language status were evaluated based on the battery of standardized tests, whereas the group of refl exes related to the function of the vestibular sense was clinically tested on the 3rd day upon birth, within the same sample of children. The data at birth and at the age of 5 were recorded by means of a digital camera, then scored and statistically and descriptively processed. The research results indicated a statistically signifi cant correlation between the achieved level of balance ability in the newborns and fi ve-year-olds, as well as between balance skills and a certain level of speech and language development in children at the age of 5. The importance of this research lies in new knowledge in the domain of maturation of vestubular function immediately after birth, given that this segment of physiology of a newborn has not so far been processed in such a way, as well as in the recognition of function of the vestibular sense as another parametre of a child’s maturation

Carnal encounters and producing socialist Yugoslavia: voluntary youth labour actions on the newsreel screen

This article explores the role that the newsreel genre played in the production of socialist Yugoslav territory, understood as reshaping the body of the socius. We analyse news reports concerning voluntary youth labour actions, which were one of the most important features of Yugoslav socialist society and which featured heavily in Yugoslav official newsreels. We argue that the newsreel provided a specific liminal space in between the ‘real’/non-cinematic and ‘screened’/cinematic experience, where we locate occurrences of carnal encounters between the body on the cinematic screen and the body of the audience. In this regard, we discuss two characteristic types of frame which were present in the newsreel reports on labour actions: the somatic frame and the machinic-labour frame

SKRIPTOR - program za raščlanjivanje bibliografskih informacija

Skriptor - a program developed for the use in maintaining SocioFact and designed for parsing journals' contents and references is described. By making use of auxiliary databases (e.g. lists containing authors and publishers' names) and simple algorithms for processing Serbian as natural language, the program recognizes the elements of the journals' contents and articles' references (e.g. author name, book title, journal title, page numbers) and assigns a standardized label to each of those elements providing automatic transfer of information into the respective database field. Apart from basic parsing module, the program provides subroutines for conversions of various character sets, word (de)capitalization according to orthographic rules, inversion of author's name and surname position, filling up the missing data, as well as interactive control and correction of the parsed information. Skriptor comes with an installation program and detailed help file which contains specific instructions for the operators explaining ways to effectively use program itself, and defining bibliographic standards used in the process SocioFact maintenance. Skriptor is written in Visual Basic for Applications as an Microsoft Word template

Deux pharmaciens et leur contribution au développement du cinéma

Lefebvre Thierry, Kosanović Dejan. Deux pharmaciens et leur contribution au développement du cinéma. In: Revue d'histoire de la pharmacie, 77ᵉ année, n°280, 1989. pp. 40-42

Serum-derived extracellular vesicles: Novel biomarkers reflecting the disease severity of COVID-19 patients

COVID-19 is characterized by a wide spectrum of disease severity, whose indicators and underlying mechanisms need to be identified. The role of extracellular vesicles (EVs) in COVID-19 and their biomarker potential, however, remains largely unknown. Aiming to identify specific EV signatures of patients with mild compared to severe COVID-19, we characterized the EV composition of 20 mild and 26 severe COVID-19 patients along with 16 sex and age-matched healthy donors with a panel of eight different antibodies by imaging flow cytometry (IFCM). We correlated the obtained data with 37 clinical, prerecorded biochemical and immunological parameters. Severe patients' sera contained increased amounts of CD13(+) and CD82(+) EVs, which positively correlated with IL-6-producing and circulating myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) and with the serum concentration of proinflammatory cytokines, respectively. Sera of mild COVID-19 patients contained more HLA-ABC(+) EVs than sera of the healthy donors and more CD24(+) EVs than severe COVID-19 patients. Their increased abundance negatively correlated with disease severity and accumulation of MDSCs, being considered as key drivers of immunopathogenesis in COVID-19. Altogether, our results support the potential of serum EVs as powerful biomarkers for COVID-19 severity and pave the way for future investigations aiming to unravel the role of EVs in COVID-19 progression