The author studies trends in commuting to the city of Zagreb in Croatia, Yugoslavia. Commuter surveys and bivariate analysis are used to describe the socioeconomic level, occupational status, transportation method, and place of residence of rural and urban residents who commute to the city. (SUMMARY IN ENG AND RUS)

BACKGROUND Approximately 12% of all ureteral stents placed are retained or "forgotten." Forgotten stents are associated with significant safety concerns as well as increased costs and legal issues. Retained ureteral stents (RUS) often occur due to lack of clinical follow-up, communication or language barriers, and economic concerns. METHODS We describe a multiplatform application that facilit...

OBJECTIVES We investigated the outcome of endoscopic retrograde ureteric stenting (RUS) in patients with ureteric obstruction related to malignant lesions. METHODS Data were prospectively collected from patients with ureteric obstruction related to malignant lesions treated at a single urology unit from 1 January 2011 to 30 April 2014. All patients had radiologically significant hydronephrosi...

Fresh water is a key natural resource for food production, sanitation and industrial uses and has a high environmental value. The largest water use worldwide (~70%) corresponds to irrigation in agriculture, where use of water is becoming essential to maintain productivity. Efficient irrigation control largely depends on having access to reliable information about the actual plant water needs. T...

PurposeWe aimed to compare the efficacy of percutaneous nephrostomy (PCN) versus retrograde ureteric stent (RUS) for acute upper urinary tract obstruction with urosepsis.Materials and methodsWe performed a random study, comparing PCN RUS, treatment patients requiring emergency drainage due urosepsis between January 2019 March 2020. Data collected included patient characteristics, stone material...

The generalized regular expressions were introduced by I. Gruska [2]. We can find similar results in [1], [3], [4] and [7]. Using the given by results T. Rus [6], we define in this paper the generalized regular expressions of conditions. Key-Words: generalized regular expression, generalized regular expression of conditions, language specification, lexicon specification, lexeme, universal lexeme.

Nudibranchs that exclusively eat scleractinian corals provide a rare opportunity to study specialist predation in the marine environment. To measure the diet breadth of 4 Phestilla species on Guam, we offered the nudibranchs different corals in choice and no-choice feeding assays. Larval preferences were determined by measuring the percent metamorphosis in response to different coral species. W...

Collapsibility of the upper airways has been identified as an important pathogenic factor in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Objective measures of collapsibility are pharyngeal critical pressure (Pcrit) and resistance of the upstream segment (Rus). To systematically determine the effects of sleep stage and body position we investigated 16 male subjects suffering from OSA. We compared the measure...

Collapsibility of the upper airways has been identified as an important pathogenic factor in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Objective measures of collapsibility are pharyngeal critical pressure (Pcrit) and resistance of the upstream segment (Rus). To systematically determine the effects of sleep stage and body position we investigated 16 male subjects suffering from OSA. We compared the measure...

With the aging population and lifestyle changes, the number of hemodialysis (HD) patients increases year by year. The arteriovenous fistula (AVF) is the gold standard vascular access used to access the blood for HD treatment. Since the status of stenosis affects HD efficiency, current clinical practices usually use a Doppler ultrasound imaging system to assess the parameters of the stenosis, su...