Background: Sublingual immunotherapy with grass allergen tablets may be the future treatment for grass pollen allergy because it reduces symptoms and medication use, improves quality of life and is easy to use. Rhinoconjunctivitis and asthma co-exist and we aimed to fi nd a safe dose range of a self-administered grass allergen tablet (ALK Abello A/S) in patients suffering from rhinoconjunctivit...

Př́ıklad 1.1 (provozováńı loterie). V loterii bude . = 500 000 los̊u po 4 $, z nichž 1 vyhraje 1 M$. Certifikované losovaćı zař́ızeńı s 500 000 výsledky neńı. (Např. ruleta o pr̊uměru 1 km.) Losy oč́ıslujeme a necháme nezávisle vylosovat č́ıslice. Problém: Kolik máme zaplatit za vylosováńı č́ıslic? (1. č́ıslice má jen 5 stejně pravděpodobných hodnot.) Řešeńı: Podle hry věťśı-menš́ı vylosujeme 19 nezávis...

OBJECTIVE To develop and validate a novel comorbidity score (multisource comorbidity score (MCS)) predictive of mortality, hospital admissions and healthcare costs using multiple source information from the administrative Italian National Health System (NHS) databases. METHODS An index of 34 variables (measured from inpatient diagnoses and outpatient drug prescriptions within 2 years before b...

HIS VOICE IS CALM, BUT PSYCHIAtrist Richard Weisler, MD, sounds troubled after reading statistics from a rapid assessment survey of greater New Orleans, La, that was conducted 7 weeks after Hurricane Katrina splintered the homes and lives of hundreds of thousands of Gulf Coast residents. The assessment, prepared for the Louisiana Office of Mental Health by the Centers for Disease Control and Pr...

1 University of Dubrovnik, Department of aquaculture, Ćira Carića 4, 20 000 Dubrovnik, Croatia 2 Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Agios Kosmas, Hellinikon, 16604 Athens, Greece 3 Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, P. O. Box 500, 21 000 Split, Croatia 4University of Dubrovnik, Institute for Marine and Coastal Research, Kneza Damjana Jude 12, 20 000 Dubrovnik, Croatia *Corresponding aut...

Cardiovascular disease is the major cause of death in most European transitional countries. Among these countries, standardised mortality from cardiovascular disease is highest in Hungary (508 per 100 000 population) and Croatia (500/100 000) and lowest in Slovenia (295/100 000) and central European countries (238/100 000). In Croatia, cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death and ac...

The number and approximate molecular weights of extracellular alkaline proteases produced by Vibrio alginolyticus were determined by gelatin-PAGE. Three major bands of protease activity with apparent molecular weights of approximately 28 000, 22 500 and 19 500 (proteases 1, 2 and 3, respectively) and two minor bands of protease activity with apparent molecular weights of approximately 15 500 an...

A coustical characteristics of vocalizations of sows, piglets, and nursery pigs under selected husbandry practices were analyzed with a digital signal processing system. The duration (D) and major energy-resonance frequency (P) for each call were determined as follows: a) processing of piglets (D = 0.81 s and f* = 3 700 Hz); b) food anticipation of breeding-gestation sows (2.50 s and 3 000 Hz);...