The aim of this study was to compare the psychometric properties (normal distribution values, reliabilities and factor structure) of the Zuckerman-Kuhlman-Aluja Personality Questionnaire (ZKA-PQ) and the Temperament and Character Inventory revised (TCI-R). The total sample consisted of 482 subjects (53.1% men and 46.9% women) from diverse age. Results showed somewhat better psychometric propert...

Purpose: Appropriate sedation is required when performing proton radiation therapy on pediatric patients. A target-controlled infusion (TCI) of propofol has recently been used for this purpose. However, there may be safety issues with the use of TCI in pediatric patients, as the initial bolus dose might be excessive for younger patients. To compare the safety and the incidence of adverse events...

The aim of the experiment was to verify the efficacy of the treatment of psoroptic mange in a flock of Churra sheep farmed under organic production conditions, using alternative methods. One group, C Control (N=9), was given no treatment, a second group, TAH Antihomotoxic (N=10), was intramuscularly administered an antihomotoxic preparation every two days, thus receiving a total of seven inject...

Human personality traits have a considerable genetic component. Cloninger et al. were the first to postulate that certain personality traits, such as novelty seeking, are related to the dopamine neurotransmitter system. In this study, we investigated the associations between dopamine receptor D4 (DRD4) exon III and dopamine transporter (DAT1) polymorphisms and personality traits. The DRD4 and D...

BACKGROUND The required dose of anesthetics is generally smaller in patients with low cardiac output (CO). A high CO decreases the blood concentration of anesthetics during induction and maintenance of anesthesia. However, a high CO may also shorten the delivery time of anesthetics to the effect site, e.g. the brain. We assessed the time required for induction of anesthesia with propofol admini...

Penehyclidine hydrochloride (PH), a new anticholinerigic drug associated with few cardiovascular side effects, was used widely as premedication in China. There is no information on the pharmacodynamic interaction between PH and anesthetics for loss of consciousness (LOC). This study was designed to determine the effects of premedicated PH on the propofol dose requirement for LOC and Bispectral ...

Carefully conducted model-based simulation studies have become an important part of studies evaluating control strategies for wastewater treatments plants. During the past four years a consortium of researchers and practitioners developed a standard test methodology called the Benchmark, a simulation procedure defined around a simulation model, a plant layout, realistic influent loads and a tes...

Vera VUČIĆEVIĆ Center for Anesthesiology and Reanimatology Clinical Center of Serbia Višegradska 26 11000 Belgrade Serbia [email protected] SUMMARY Introduction There is an increasing interest in balanced propofol sedation (BPS) for colonoscopy in outpatient settings. Propofol is a potent anesthetic agent for this purpose and has a narrow therapeutic range, which increases a risk of ca...

BACKGROUND The diagnosis of Chagas disease is complex due to the dynamics of parasitemia in the clinical phases of the disease. The molecular tests have been considered promissory because they detect the parasite in all clinical phases. Trypanosoma cruzi presents significant genetic variability and is classified into six Discrete Typing Units TcI-TcVI (DTUs) with the emergence of foreseen genot...

This study was carried out to evaluate the effect of artificial insemination (AI) time and methods on fertilization and delivery rate at onset of estrus cats. Artificial insemination method was used by a transcervical insemination (TCI) or intra-vaginal insemination (IVI) using frozen epididymal sperm (FES) with Norwegian catheter. Semen was collected from epididymal spermatozoa after testis ec...