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M. Yıldırım, A. Argon, S. Tan, A. Cekic

Acinar cystic transformation (ACT) or acinar cell cystadenoma is a rare benign tumor of the pancreas. Their clinical presentation is nonspecific, thus hampering their detection and frequently leading to misdiagnosis. In this report, we present a case of ACT of the pancreas in a 54-year-old man that was vague abdominal symptoms. A magnetic resonance imaging was shown a well-defined cystic mass located in the head of the pancreas, measuring 57×47×23 mm. Our patient was treated by pancreaticoduodenectomy. In the macroscopic examination of the mass, a multicystic lesion was found in cream-colored pancreatic tissue. Histological and immunohistochemical studies examination revealed a cystic mass containing multiple cysts at varying sizes, lined by epithelial cells without atypia and positive staining of CK7, CK8/18, and CK19. A high index of clinical suspicion is required to diagnose this tumor. The surgical approach is to ensure accurate diagnosis and to avoid complications

Sibela Zvizdić, Amela Dautbegović

School in the modern society should provide an environment for students to feel safe and motivated for learning. There should be an optimal student workload with the schoolwork as well as with the homework. Unfortunately, student overload at all levels of education has been evident. Their overloaded schedule presents a significant challenge and may cause fatigue, exhaustion, distraction, mope, high levels of stress, apathy, superficially and campaign learning, and general lack of motivation. Due to the topicality of the issue, the authors of this paper have tried to offer a review of the sources of the student overload. Different sources, as well as negative consequences of student overload have been determined based on a significant number of empirical works so far. The article also suggests measures to relieve students. Psychologists, in cooperation with the students’ parents and experts from other branches of the education sector, can contribute in finding a way to prevent and reduce consequences of the overload. Empirical studies about sources of student overload are also necessary to determine evidence based guidelines for the education reform.

Amela Šehović, Merima Osmankadić

Book Review: Bakšić, Sabina, Bulić, Halid, 2019. Pragmatika. Sarajevo: Bookline.

Inclusion should be an important value of every society. Education institutions are the place for developing universal values that should enable every individual to express their needs in a unique and different way, which will prompt an inclusive environment that values diversity. Forming an inclusive environment fosters opportunity for developing creativity. Although inclusive education and creativity are rarely perceived as related, this paper aims to present the values and creativity opportunities of inclusive education. A chorus of criticism directed at the education system shows that creativity is not recognized enough, especially when it comes to students with disabilities whose creativity is often not seen as one of their abilities, even when it is developed. That happens as a result of perceiving the students through the prism of their disability. The emphasis should be on developing the values during the preschool period, which is the most significant period of a child’s development as that is the time when the foundations of the personality development are set. The subject of this research is focused on identifying the values and creativity opportunities of inclusive education, while the intention is to recognize the possible ways of developing creativity in an inclusive environment. The aim of the research was to examine the educators’ opinions on values and creativity opportunities of inclusion. As of recently, preschool institutions have been now facing an increasing number of children with disabilities enrolling in. Therefore, new challenges are posed on the preschool education when it comes to providing the children with the conditions for a development that meets their needs and abilities. The purpose of the paper is to offer strategies that will ensure the development of core values while respecting the creative potential of each child in an inclusive environment.

In the present paper, the authors analyse attitudes of students (N=91) studying at the Department of English Language and Literature toward distance learning launched at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo, during the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. The study is designed as action research containing elements of both qualitative and quantitative research. The key instrument for collecting data was a survey designed by the authors of the present paper. The Google Forms survey was delivered to 1st-5th year students at the Department of English Language and Literature by e-mail. The collected data were processed by means of SPSS software (descriptive statistics). Results of the analysis show that students do not consider “distance learning’’ to be of better quality when compared to “learning in the classroom’’ but also that students, in the period of returning to a “new normal’’, openly express their preference for blended learning. At the same time, results of the analysis reveal that it is necessary to modernise teaching practices by means of introducing a more representative version of the distance learning system that would not only significantly improve the quality of the teaching practices, but also assist in maintaining competitiveness of the Faculty of Philosophy as a higher education institution.

Amela Džubur, Maida Koso-Drljević, Delila Lisica

BACKGROUND Cognitive failures impair the quality of life. Students are often exposed to stressful situations, struggle to make a balance in life, have time management issues and tend to procrastinate, feel too much pressure to succeed, and find it difficult to cope with study and exam anxiety. In this study, we investigated cognitive failures through psychosocial variables in daily life of students and relationship between anxiety and cognitive failures. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 175 students (78.29 % female and 21.71 % male). Medical students comprised 52.57 % of the sample (n = 92), while 47.43 % were psychology students (n = 83). All students were in the first year of education at University of Sarajevo. The survey used the sociodemographic questionnaire, State-Trait Anxiety (Form Y), Cognitive Failures Questionnaire CFQ. Results were obtained by independent sample test and Pearson’s correlation coefficient (r). 26) students, 130 %) statistically significantly the total of cognitive failures, forgetfulness, distractibility, and false subscales. largest total CFQ 0.453, and anxiety could cause cognitive failures. Student life in addition to the obligations and pressures created by academic engagement itself involves many changes and just thinking about it can cause anxiety symptoms. Accordingly, the undesirable outcomes that cognitive failures can cause maladaptive student habits and anxiety. It should be a treated as a critical public health issue.

Selection of Sustainable Suppliers is a key term in sustainable supply chain management. This is the reason to choose the supplier who will support the company to implement sustainability in its business, especially in the supply chain. The aim of this paper is to establish a new innovative model for decision-making based on a fuzzy approach. This decision-making problem is solved by applying multi-criteria decision-making since there are several criteria according to which a decision should be made: economic, social, and environmental. In order to make the final decision on the supply chain better and safer, the social criteria were modified in this paper, adding ethical criteria. The example with modified social criteria in this paper was shown on the example of the company "Voćar" Brčko, which deals with the production of food products. In this paper, the fuzzy Measurement Alternatives and Ranking, according to the Compromise Solution Method, was used. The findings have shown that supplier A1 has the best results, which were confirmed with the first sensitivity analysis. However, the second sensitivity analysis has shown that supplier A5 was better than supplier A1 in 14 scenarios. Due to these findings, no unanimous decision can be made about which supplier among the two, in this case, would contribute more. This paper has shown that the selection of sustainable suppliers is crucial for any company focused on the principles of sustainability in business. Moreover, this paper has shown that it is sometimes very difficult to select just one supplier.

Public servants responsiveness and administrative responsibilities to their constituents in local communities are identified through the set of ethical standards predominantly resulting in good governance. Some researchers and practitioners in the field of integrity and ethics concur with the premise of administrative responsibility and responsiveness operating under holistic approaches to understanding climate resilience. This analysis contends with the traditional views of the theory of social choice and administrative burden to stipulate a suitable ethical framework and understanding of ethics in considering climate resilience. The research takes into consideration the principles and structure of moral expectations and measurable outcomes related to climate resilience through the Quadruple Bottom Line lens. The good governance in resilience is explored using an exploratory data analysis of local governments through resilience planning supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, which funded 100 Resilient Cities initiative. The sample size consisted of thirty cities with the obtainable resilience or climate actions plans and a review of their governance efforts through those documents and detailed plans. The research offers a preliminary report of the ongoing efforts in cities and regions to combat climate change, coupled with the ethical considerations and administrative responsibility to frame the administrators’ role in deliberation to climate resilience. The research findings assert a prototype ethical framework for review by administrators to augment administrative responsiveness to climate change threats and increase climate resilience.

F. Ricklefs, Ines Stevic, C. Mende, J. Welsh, Jennifer C. Jones, M. Westphal, K. Lamszus, S. Eicker

BACKGROUND: Extracellular vesicles (EVs) play an important role in cell-cell communication in different types of tumors, carrying multiple layers of biological functional molecules, including proteins, RNA, DNA and lipids. We previously demonstrated that extracellular vesicles (EV) from central nervous system tumors reflect the molecular subtype of the original tumor and mediate an exchange of pro-oncogenic signals. Their implication as biomarkers in tumor disease is under current investigation. It is unclear, however, to what extent cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) EVs from intraspinal tumors are utilizable for diagnostical purposes and how their marker profiles overlap with EVs derived from non tumorous EVs. We analyzed CSF EVs of intraspinal tumors to define CSF EV profiles that allow tumor subtype classification. METHODS: EVs were isolated from CSF of patients suffering from intraspinal meningioma (n=5), ependymoma (n=7) and neurinoma (n=5). Patients suffering from normal pressure hydrocephalus were used as controls (n=5). EVs were analyzed by multiplex bead based assay, immunoblotting, electron microscopy and NTA. RESULTS: CSF EVs were 97.21 ± 3.37nm (intraspinal tumor patients) and 101.6 ± 3.68nm (controls) in sizes and showed vesicular structures by electron microscopy. Particle number were not significantly different between both groups (p = 0.103). Using our 37 protein mutliplex EV profiling kit we found 29 proteins to be expressed in a sufficient manner on CSF EVs. CSF EVs of intraspinal meningioma showed elevated CD62P, HLA-DR, CD40, CD42a and CD45 expression levels, while ependymoma showed decreased levels of CD9, CD63, CD81, whereas neurinomas had elevated levels of SSEA-3 and CD25. CONCLUSION: This is the first comprehensive analysis of CSF EV of intraspinal tumor patients. CSF EV display distinct subpopulations that may allow tumor classification and long-term surveillance. However as tumor-specific EVs may be rare, there is still the need to identify markers that can enrich tumor-specific EVs for molecular profiling.

Alberto Turri, E. Čirgić, Furqan A. Shah, M. Hoffman, Omar Omar, C. Dahlin, M. Trobos

This clinical randomized study aimed to evaluate the early plaque formation on nonresorbable polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) membranes having either a dense (d‐PTFE) or an expanded (e‐PTFE) microstructure and exposed to the oral cavity.

Ana Luiza Muccillo-Baisch, Cristiane Guimarães Fonseca Dos Santos, Fernando Corrêa Senna, Gicelda Mara Ferreira Da Silva, Liziane Göebel Casarin Jaekel, Maria Cristina Flores Soares, M. D. Cunha, Maria Silveira et al.

Este trabalho pretende mostrar como foi idealizado e como funciona na atualidade o Centro Regional de Estudos, Prevencao e Recuperacao de Dependentes Quimicos (CENPRE), um programa de extensao permanente da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG). O CENPRE surgiu a partir das atividades extensionistas desenvolvidas pelo antigo Departamento de Ciencias Fisiologicas (DCF), hoje Instituto de Ciencias Biologicas (ICB), e foi idealizado para cumprir os objetivos das diretrizes de prevencao ao uso de substâncias psicoativas. Inserido no contexto do Hospital universitario da FURG, o CENPRE conduz suas atividades utilizando uma abordagem interdisciplinar, composta pelo trabalho de um psiquiatra, tres psicologos, duas enfermeiras, um terapeuta familiar, uma assistente social e uma farmaceutica. Adicionalmente, este centro de pesquisas se mantem integrado a comunidade academica e a populacao em geral, com vistas a promocao da saude, a prevencao e ao tratamento de transtornos relacionados ao uso de substâncias psicoativas. O CENPRE se consolidou como um centro de referencia e apoio a formacao de recursos humanos por meio de acoes educativas e atividades de ensino; alem de fomentar a pesquisa por intermedio de estudos epidemiologicos em comunidades locais e regionais.

Janis H. Zickfeld, Niels van de Ven, O. Pich, Thomas W. Schubert, J. Berkessel, José J. Pizarro Carrasco, Andree Hartanto, T. Çolak et al.

Tearful crying is a ubiquitous and likely uniquely human phenomenon. Scholars have argued that emotional tears serve an attachment function: Tears are thought to act as a social glue by evoking social support intentions. Initial experimental studies supported this proposition across several methodologies, but these were conducted almost exclusively on participants from North America and Europe, resulting in limited generalizability. This project examined the tears-social support intentions effect and possible mediating and moderating variables in a fully pre-registered study across 7,007 participants (24,886 ratings) and 41 countries spanning all populated continents. Participants were presented with four pictures out of 100 possible targets with or without digitally-added tears. We confirmed the main prediction that seeing a tearful individual elicits the intention to support, d = .49 [.43, .55]. Our data suggest that this effect could be mediated by perceiving the crying target as warmer and more helpless, feeling more connected, as well as feeling more empathic concern for the crier, but not by an increase in personal distress of the observer. The effect was moderated by the situational valence, identifying the target as part of one’s group, and trait empathic concern. A neutral situation, high trait empathic concern, and low identification increased the effect. We observed high heterogeneity across countries that was, via split-half validation, best explained by country-level GDP per capita and subjective well-being with stronger effects for higher-scoring countries. These findings suggest that tears can function as social glue, providing one possible explanation why emotional crying persists into adulthood.

1968 was a watershed year not only for the new left but even more so for the rise of the New Right. It turns out that, if 1968 “prepared” 1989 as the next turning point in European and world history, it was probably more through the new right’s forging of ideas that would eventually provide ideological justification for illiberal democracies in Central and Eastern Europe. Yugoslavia is an important site in this history not only because of its early exposure to the ideas of the new right through the work of the painter and publicist Dragoš Kalajić but also because in his seminal book The Philosophy of Parochialism (1969), Radomir Konstantinović anticipated the rise of the new right and offered a penetrating critique of its fundamental premises.

M. Pišev, B. Žikić, M. Stajić

In this paper we analyze the different ways in which COVID-19 is used as a carrier of cultural communication, whereupon it appears as a signifier of other socio-cultural phenomena and as a conveyer of messages of such communication. Accordingly, this paper will not observe health plan of COVID-19, nor the accompanying sociological phenomena of the epidemic in the strict sense of the word, but will focus instead on the cultural dimension of the infection. As a cultural phenomenon, the process of the planetary spread of COVID-19 infection – and hence the virus itself – can be viewed as an ambiguous symbol through which the collective experience of reality is constructed and communicated, perceived and interpreted. By relying on the decades-long tradition of Serbian ethnology and anthropology in the modified application of structural-semantic analysis, we define the use of COVID-19 as a symbolic means of cultural communication, here seen as indexical. This means that the said communication is organized on the principle that “A indicates B”, where the signifying A refers to the metaphorical and metonymic use of the disease, and B refers to various social phenomena related to it. As a metonymy, the considered phenomenon can be seen in the light of the classical binary division of purity and danger, whereupon the virus, in the cultural sense, divides the whole social reality into pure (still unpolluted) and impure aspects, one corresponding to the “normal” condition of things, and the other indicating a sense of explicit danger – not only from infection, but from the collapse of the social system and the disintegration of public health and community as well. As a metaphor, we observe the virus in relation to the official political instrumentalization of the discourse of warfare, which – depending on who employs it, and why – generates different notions on the “invisible enemy”, war victims (deceased as a consequence of infection) and “(super) heroes” (primarily, health workers, but also state officials and other public figures). COVID-19 is, however, peculiar because it can also play the role of an inverse sign, by which common cultural concepts and representations are perverted, destabilizing the shared sense of “real” and “normal”.

Nusret Salkica, Halil Čorović, Safet Hadžimusić, Adel Brčaninović

18F-FDG PET/CT is the most widely used diagnostic modality for detection of malignant disease. Beside the visual insight of FDG pathways into the human body, PET/CT can give valuable information based on the SUV values. The SUV is a quantitative parameter of metabolic activity. FDG application has 2 major impacts on PET/CT: qualitative aspect (visual insight of FDG in the body) and quantitative aspect (degradation of the SUV values). Based on the literature, FDG extravasation incidence is 31% for all PET/CT studies and in 8% of all cases extravasation has been visually confirmed since the application place has been in the field of view. By constantly developing the technique, work methodology and increasing the quality control of the staff in the PET/CT department, the incidence of extravasation can be significantly reduced based on the results from the literature. In the case when paravenous injection is present on PET/CT images we can use certain software procedures to improve image quality and SUV quanitification.

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