Evaluation of Fresh Frozen Plasma Usage at the University Hospital Center Rijeka

The aim of this investigation was to assess the rate and appropriate use of fresh frozen plasma (FFP) at the Clinical Hospital Center Rijeka in two six-month periods, at an interval of 5 years, before and after introducing clinical standards for transfusion practice and hemovigilance, and to evaluate the results of applied measures. We studied 315 patients transfused with 1341 doses of FFP in two six-month periods from September to February of 1999/2000 and 2004/2005. The first period (1999/00) of the study was retrospective and 226 patients were transfused with 928 FFP units. The second period (2004/05) was prospective and we studied 89 patients transfused with 413 units. In the first period blood bank records were retrospectively reviewed and in the second period all FFP requests, performed coagulation tests and transfusion episodes were prospectively analyzed. The number of inappropriate transfusions decreased from 39.8% to 23.6%. In most patients (85.1%), coagulation tests were made prior to FFP transfusion. The number of patients transfused with one and two FFP doses decreased, while those transfused with three or more doses increased. Most of the appropriately transfused patients were those with active bleeding due to coagulation factor deficiency and massive transfusions. The least were those requiring reversal of warfarin effect. Our results demonstrated a decrease in the number of patients treated with FFP in the second period. The introduction of clinical standards of good transfusion practice and hemovigilance showed positive effects. Considering that there was a number of inappropriately transfused patients continued education of all health personnel engaged in transfusion treatment is evidently necessary

Implementation of embedded assistive device for disabled people

In this paper we present an embedded assistive device for disabled people that is intended to be used as both keyboard and mouse replacement. Assistive device consists of two main parts: an Arduino compatible board, preferably an Arduino UNO R3 as used in this paper, or an Arduino Leonardo, and a simple analog thumb-stick joystick. Presented device is connected to a computer trough a USB port trough which it sends its input data. Special software\ud collects the received input data and triggers various events in order to execute various actions. Primary goal of presented assistive device is to simulate mouse movements and a single mouse click and in that manner replace majority of moue functions thus enabling users to perform various mouse based tasks such as navigating through menus, drag and drop actions etc., as well as to enable an input and control over a virtual onscreen keyboard thus enabling users to type

Separation of Players in Teams during Basketball Matches

This paper represents a framework for automatic player separation in teams during basketball matches. Separation is made in images broadcasted via television stations. In them, we have view from only single camera in particular point of time. This makes detection of players and their separation much more difficult. The player detection is based on mixture of non-oriented pictorial structures. After detection we extract image parts that represent player’s jersey. Over that area we calculate histogram on S value from HSV color system. According to top five picks, we cluster players in teams. This approach give us accuracy of 92.38%. Its main advantages are robustness and applicability on the large number of footages from different basketball games without need for additional training and algorithm changes

INFLUENCEOF PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY ON WATERMELON YIELD IN SOUTHWEST HERZEGOVINA

Područje Hercegovine pod značajnim je utjecajem mediteranske klime što ga čini konkurentnim u uzgoju ranog povrća. Klimatski uvjeti ovog područja s dovoljno topline i velikim brojem sunčanih dana pogoduju uzgoju lubenica i omogućuju postizanje visokih prinosa i kvalitete. Nažalost prosječni prinosi lubenica još uvijek su niski kao posljedica ne pridržavanja plodoreda, korištenja necijepljenih presadnica, te niske razine agrotehnike. Cilj provedenih istraživanja bio je istražiti i uvesti u proizvodnju nove tehnologije uzgoja koje će rezultirati višim prinosom i ranijim dospijevanjem lubenica na tržište kada su cijene značajno više. Tijekom 2008. godine na lokalitetu Hodbina kod Mostara postavljen je dvofaktorijalni poljski pokus s hibridom lubenicama Fantasy. Varijante istraživanja su bile uzgoj na crnoj polietilenskoj foliji bez prekrivanja usjeva, uzgoj na crnoj polietilenskoj foliji s prekrivanjem usjeva agrotekstilom, uzgoj na crnoj polietilenskoj foliji s prekrivanjem usjeva prozirnom polietilenskom folijom i kao kontrola uzgoj na golom tlu bez prekrivanja. U svakoj varijanti su bile posađene obične i cijepljene presadnice. Pokus je postavljen po metodi slučajnog bloknog rasporeda u četiri ponavljanja. Jednogodišnjim istraživanjem utvrđeno je da su cijepljene presadnice dale veću prosječnu masu ploda i veći prinos, dok u broju plodova i sadržaju suhe tvari nisu utvrđene statistički značajne razlike. Statistički visoko opravdano najveći broj plodova po biljci i najveću prosječnu masu ploda dala je varijanta kod koje su biljke do početka cvatnje bile prekrivene prozirnom folijom, dok su najniže vrijednosti dobivene kod varijante uzgoja na golom tlu. Implementacijom rezultata provedenih istraživanja u komercijalnu proizvodnju rezultirat će ranijom proizvodnjom i većim prinosom što će dati veću ekonomsku dobit proizvođačima.Area of Herzegovina is by strong influence of Mediterranean climate what gives them competitiveness in early vegetable production. Warm climate with plenty of sunny days is suitable for watermelon production what can result in high yield and quality. Unfortunately average yield of watermelon in Herzegovina is still pretty low as consequence of bad crop rotation, low production technology and use of ungrafted transplants. Aim of this work was to research and implement in production the new watermelon production technology which can result with higher yield and earlier production when the price on the market is higher. During the 2008 at location Hodbina near Mostar field trials with watermelon hybrid Fantasy were done. Four production technologies were tested; growing on the black polyethylene mulch without cowering, cowering with transparent film and agrotextile and as a control variant growing on the uncowered soil. In each technology grafted and ungrafted transplants are tested. Field trial was designed as random blocks with four replications. One year research using the grafted transplants has shown statistically significant higher average fruit weight and total yield, while fruit number and dry matter content didn’t shown any differences. Statistically significantly the highest number of fruits per plant and average fruit weight was obtained in growing technology in which watermelon was grown on black polyethylene mulch with transparent film cower, while the all obtained values was the lowest in growing without cowering. Implementation of obtained results in commercial watermelon production will resulted by earlier production and higher yield what can improve the farmer’s profitability

INFLUENCEOF PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY ON WATERMELON YIELD IN SOUTHWEST HERZEGOVINA

Područje Hercegovine pod značajnim je utjecajem mediteranske klime što ga čini konkurentnim u uzgoju ranog povrća. Klimatski uvjeti ovog područja s dovoljno topline i velikim brojem sunčanih dana pogoduju uzgoju lubenica i omogućuju postizanje visokih prinosa i kvalitete. Nažalost prosječni prinosi lubenica još uvijek su niski kao posljedica ne pridržavanja plodoreda, korištenja necijepljenih presadnica, te niske razine agrotehnike. Cilj provedenih istraživanja bio je istražiti i uvesti u proizvodnju nove tehnologije uzgoja koje će rezultirati višim prinosom i ranijim dospijevanjem lubenica na tržište kada su cijene značajno više. Tijekom 2008. godine na lokalitetu Hodbina kod Mostara postavljen je dvofaktorijalni poljski pokus s hibridom lubenicama Fantasy. Varijante istraživanja su bile uzgoj na crnoj polietilenskoj foliji bez prekrivanja usjeva, uzgoj na crnoj polietilenskoj foliji s prekrivanjem usjeva agrotekstilom, uzgoj na crnoj polietilenskoj foliji s prekrivanjem usjeva prozirnom polietilenskom folijom i kao kontrola uzgoj na golom tlu bez prekrivanja. U svakoj varijanti su bile posađene obične i cijepljene presadnice. Pokus je postavljen po metodi slučajnog bloknog rasporeda u četiri ponavljanja. Jednogodišnjim istraživanjem utvrđeno je da su cijepljene presadnice dale veću prosječnu masu ploda i veći prinos, dok u broju plodova i sadržaju suhe tvari nisu utvrđene statistički značajne razlike. Statistički visoko opravdano najveći broj plodova po biljci i najveću prosječnu masu ploda dala je varijanta kod koje su biljke do početka cvatnje bile prekrivene prozirnom folijom, dok su najniže vrijednosti dobivene kod varijante uzgoja na golom tlu. Implementacijom rezultata provedenih istraživanja u komercijalnu proizvodnju rezultirat će ranijom proizvodnjom i većim prinosom što će dati veću ekonomsku dobit proizvođačima.Area of Herzegovina is by strong influence of Mediterranean climate what gives them competitiveness in early vegetable production. Warm climate with plenty of sunny days is suitable for watermelon production what can result in high yield and quality. Unfortunately average yield of watermelon in Herzegovina is still pretty low as consequence of bad crop rotation, low production technology and use of ungrafted transplants. Aim of this work was to research and implement in production the new watermelon production technology which can result with higher yield and earlier production when the price on the market is higher. During the 2008 at location Hodbina near Mostar field trials with watermelon hybrid Fantasy were done. Four production technologies were tested; growing on the black polyethylene mulch without cowering, cowering with transparent film and agrotextile and as a control variant growing on the uncowered soil. In each technology grafted and ungrafted transplants are tested. Field trial was designed as random blocks with four replications. One year research using the grafted transplants has shown statistically significant higher average fruit weight and total yield, while fruit number and dry matter content didn’t shown any differences. Statistically significantly the highest number of fruits per plant and average fruit weight was obtained in growing technology in which watermelon was grown on black polyethylene mulch with transparent film cower, while the all obtained values was the lowest in growing without cowering. Implementation of obtained results in commercial watermelon production will resulted by earlier production and higher yield what can improve the farmer’s profitability

Evaluation of D-dimer test in patients on chronic hemodialysis.

Determining the value of D-Dimer is a routine test in case of suspecting thromboembolic event. In patients on chronic dialysis, baseline concentrations for biomarkers have changed in widespread clinical use, which prompted us to measure the concentration of D-dimer, due to disorders of hemostasis in chronic kidney failure. From the evaluation of the findings of D-dimer in 67 patients and the available literature we can conclude that the value of the test in the diagnosis of thromboembolic events has significantly decreased

Evaluation of D-dimer test in patients on chronic hemodialysis.

Determining the value of D-Dimer is a routine test in case of suspecting thromboembolic event. In patients on chronic dialysis, baseline concentrations for biomarkers have changed in widespread clinical use, which prompted us to measure the concentration of D-dimer, due to disorders of hemostasis in chronic kidney failure. From the evaluation of the findings of D-dimer in 67 patients and the available literature we can conclude that the value of the test in the diagnosis of thromboembolic events has significantly decreased

Single Photon Eigen-Problem with Complex Internal Dynamics

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