"Let's Live Life - Let's Give Life”: Donor Program Improvement as the Key to Transplantation Success in 21<sup>st</sup> Century - A Croatian Experience

Screening program lets Alberta test newborns' hearing.

Self - Regulation as a Key to Success in Life

human behavior' Self-regulation (or the very similar te:rm self-control) can be defined as the ability to alter one's own behavior, incrluding one's thoughts' feelings, actions, and other responses' To put self-regulation in context, iiis useful to step back for a moment and realize how far fryti,otogy cime working with stimulus{esponse models. A great deal of human and animat Uefra-iior is, in...

Constructability of Trip-lets

A trip-let is an object as shown on the cover of Hofstadter’s book Gödel, Escher, Bach: a solid, threedimensional object that, when viewed from three orthogonal directions, shows three different letters. In this paper we consider two problems related to the construction of such objects for a given set of three letters. First, we want to know whether the silhouettes of the object correspond to t...

impact of donor source on the outcome of live donor kidney transplantation: a single center experience

patients and methods from march 1976 to december 2013, the number of patients that underwent living renal transplantation sharing at least one hla haplotype with their donors was 2,485. we divided these patients into two groups: (1) 2,075 kidney transplant recipients (1,554 or 74.9% male and 521 or 25.1% female) for whom the donors were living related, (2) 410 kidney transplant recipients (297 ...

The Leiden Thrombophilia Study (LETS).

Our study grew from an attempt to solve a controversy. In 1987 protein C antigen level was assessed in a large cohort of healthy blood donors (1). Subjects in this cohort who were heterozygous for protein C deficiency did not suffer from venous thromboembolism. Family studies in four of the protein C deficient individuals showed autosomal inheritance of the defect. These findings seemed in cont...