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Biomedical Journals in Republic of Macedonia: the Current State

Abstract Several biomedical journals in the Republic of Macedonia have succeeded in maintaining regular publication over the years, but only a few have a long-standing tradition. In this paper we present the basic characteristics of 18 biomedical journals that have been published without a break in the Republic of Macedonia. Of these, more details are given for 14 journals, a particular emphasis being on the journal Prilozi/Contributions of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Section of Medical Sciences as one of the journals with a long-term publishing tra-dition and one of the journals included in the Medline/PubMed database. A brief or broad description is given for the following journals: Macedonian Medical Review, Acta Morphologica, Physioacta, MJMS - Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences, International Medical Journal Medicus, Archives of Public Health, Epilepsy, Macedonian Orthopaedics and Traumatology Journal, BANTAO Journal, Macedonian Dental Review, Macedonian Pharmaceutical Bulletin, Macedonian Veterinary Review, Journal of Special Education and Rehabilitation, Balkan Journal of Medical Genetics, Contributions of the Macedonian Scientific Society of Bitola, Vox Medici, Social Medicine: Professional Journal for Public Health, and Prilozi/Contributions of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Journals from Macedonia should aim to be published regularly, should comply with the Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals, and with the recommendations of reliable organizations working in the field of publishing and research. These are the key prerequisites which Macedonian journals have to accomplish in order to b? included in renowned international bibliographic databases. Thus the results of biomedical science from the Republic of Macedonia will be presented to the international scientific arena.
Difussion of Inovation of Creative Industry Values on the Tenants of Sragen Tehcno Park Trough Business Incubator Model

Currently creative industry in Indonesia is being develops as primary sector in economic development due to its capability to increase the value added of local resources, providing employment, and promoting tourism on the basis of sustainable development principles. Several techno park currently have been being developed by the government in various locations and various sector of economy as the focus of development. Sragen Tecno Park located in Central Java is one of Techno Park which focus on creative industry development trough business incubator model. In 2016 the program was followed by 10 (ten) new entrepreneurs as Tenants. By applying business incubator approach the Tenants were treated through the process beginning from selection, entrepreneurship training, managerial training, technical training, design and creativity training, as well as assistance, consulting, and advocating for marketing activities. Using the participatory action research, this qualitative study finds that business incubator model could improve creative industry values covering entrepreneurship values and art values of the Tenants, beside, supply chain and value chain of creative industry could be developed by the Tenant as well. This resulted in the improvement of business performance of the Tenant. Diffusion of innovation of creative industry values on the tenants trough business incubator model has indicated its effectiveness as an approach to develop Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), so that it has implication for policies of developing SMEs in other local resource based economic sector.
5 Edible Grain Legumes

Edible grain legumes, including dry bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), dry pea (Pisum sativum L.), chickpea (Cicer arientinum L.), and lentil (Lens culinaris Medikus), have served as important sources of protein in the human diet for thousands of years. In the United States, these crops are consumed nationally and produced for export markets. The objectives of this study were to examine yield gains in edible grain legume crops over the past 25 yr. Genetic gain in dry bean during the past 30 yr based on common trials was 13.9 kg ha−1 yr−1 (0.77% yr−1) and 17.4 kg ha−1 yr−1 (0.85% yr−1) for navy and pinto bean cultivars, respectively. Data from national yield trials on research sites indicates that yield gains were 0.4, 0.7, 0.9, and 1.7% for pinto, navy, black, and kidney beans, respectively. The results also suggest that dry bean cultivars have not reached a yield plateau for most market classes. Continued introgression of germplasm from other races of common bean should provide new sources of genetic diversity to enhance yield in the future. Over the past 25 yr, the production of cool season food legumes (pea, lentil, and chickpea) in the United States has increased dramatically; however, yields of dry pea in the United States have decreased by 0.3% per year, lentil yields have increased by only 0.1% per year, and chickpea yields have increased by 2.8% per year. Pea and lentil production has increased dramatically in Montana and North Dakota, but the cultivars grown in this region were originally developed in the U.S. Pacific Northwest (PNW) and Canada and are likely not well adapted for Montana and North Dakota. Several currently grown cultivars are at least 20 yr old, but new cultivars have been released that are superior to these older cultivars.
Insider Status and Outsider Tactics: Advocacy Tactics of Human Service Nonprofits in the Age of New Public Governance

Abstract Policy advocacy is an eminent feature of the activities of non-profit human service organizations (NPHSOs), allowing them to represent their constituencies, in addition to their core activity as providers of social services in welfare states. The article presents findings on the advocacy tactics of 47 NPHSOs in Israel, focusing on the ways in which partnership policies in the age of New Public Governance affect their activities. The findings reveal that the shift towards increased governmental funding and contracting-out to nonprofits, as part of the NPG scheme, increases opportunities for the NPHSOs to influence public policy, using a wide variety of both insider cooperative tactics and more confrontational outsider tactics. NPHSOs are firstly concerned with establishing their insider status, using cooperative tactics. After achieving this goal, they feel confident enough to turn to more aggressive outsider tactics, utilizing their relative power as major providers of social services.
An Efficient Adaptive Beamforming Techniquewith Pattern Control Ability

In this paper, we propose an iterative algorithm, which can achieve beampattern control and adaptive beamforming at the same time. Our proposed algorithm is computationally efficient because it avoids the calculation of matrix inverse which is often required by conventional beampattern synthesis algorithms. Besides this advantage, the new algorithm is superior in being able to shape the sidelobe region which is left uncontrolled by other adaptive beamforming algorithms. Numerical results show that our proposed algorithm has the ability of nulling out interferences and maintaining a well-shaped beampattern simultaneously
Influencer Marketing on Instagram

Date Author(s) Iman Veissi Degree programme International Business Report/thesis title Influencer Marketing on Instagram Number of pages and appendix pages 35+1 This thesis is a desktop study done to explore Influencer marketing on Instagram. The idea for this thesis came up when I was trying to think about a new and innovative marketing method. Having friends who are working to become influencers, this topic seemed to form itself. Instagram was chosen as it is one of the most noticeable platforms for influencer marketing. The introduction gives a more detailed view on the background of this thesis and influencer marketing. In the introduction, keywords, the research question and investigative questions are introduced. The theoretical framework introduces the honeycomb framework, 5P’s of marketing mix and influencer marketing. This chapter explains the meaning of these marketing methods. The research methods explain the methods used for this thesis, how the data was collected and the limitations and trustworthiness of the data. A method used for data in this research was secondary data collection, using research with same topic done in the last year or two. The empirical findings explain the data found through research that other companies have done recently, giving the perspective of the marketing specialists and consumers. It is discussed how Instagram marketing is seen by consumers and how many marketers have taken action towards influencer marketing. In the analysis part, the collected data is introduced through theoretical frameworks and it is explained how the data is applied to the theory frames. Analysis explains how influencer marketing could be used in influencer marketing, focusing on Instagram as a platform. Influencer marketing was applied to 5P’s marketing mix from marketer’s perspective. In the last part, discussion, conclusions are presented, how influencer marketing has a mixed perception, but people find it trust worthier than traditional ads. Further recommendations for future research is made such as exploring the legality and how truly effective this marketing method is in bigger scale. Reflection of the writing process has also included in the last part.
Critical Appraisal for implementation of ERP in manufacturing industry

An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is a packaged business software system that enables a company to manage the efficient and effective use of resources (materials, human resources, finance, etc.) by providing a total, integrated solution for the organization’s informationprocessing needs. It supports a process-oriented view of the business as well as business processes standardized across the enterprise. Among the most important attributes of ERP are its abilities to: automate and integrate an organization’s business processes; share common data and practices across the entire enterprise; and produce and access information in a realtime environment. ERP is an enterprise-wide resources, information, and activities needed to complete business processes such as order fulfillment or billing. ERP systems can cover a wide range of functions and integrate them into one unified database. ERP predicts and balances demand and supply. It is an enterprise-wide set of forecasting, planning, and scheduling tools. Successful ERP implementation (initial stage of ERP) does not necessarily lead to the success of ERP post-implementation. Following the general quality literature, DQ is defined as data that is fit for use by data consumers. Many DQ dimensions have been identified. Commonly identified DQ dimensions are: accuracy, timeliness, completeness, and consistency. Critical factors for successful ERP implementation are clear understanding of strategic goals, commitment by top management, organizational change management, excellent project management, a great implementation team, data accuracy, extensive education and training, focused performance measures, multi-site issues.
Rademacher penalties and structural risk minimization

We suggest a penalty function to be used in various problems of structural risk minimization. This penalty is data dependent and is based on the sup-norm of the so-called Rademacher process indexed by the underlying class of functions (sets). The standard complexity penalties, used in learning problems and based on the VC-dimensions of the classes, are conservative upper bounds (in a probabilistic sense, uniformly over the set of all underlying distributions) for the penalty we suggest. Thus, for a particular distribution of training examples, one can expect better performance of learning algorithms with the data-driven Rademacher penalties. We obtain oracle inequalities for the theoretical risk of estimators, obtained by structural minimization of the empirical risk with Rademacher penalties. The inequalities imply some form of optimality of the empirical risk minimizers. We also suggest an iterative approach to structural risk minimization with Rademacher penalties, in which the hierarchy of classes is not given in advance, but is determined in the data-driven iterative process of risk minimization. We prove probabilistic oracle inequalities for the theoretical risk of the estimators based on this approach as well.
Modelling Small-scale Flashing Propane Jets

Accidental releases of pressure liquefied materials may result in instantaneously vaporising, or flashing, jets which mix with ambient air and disperse. In consequence modelling, it is important to correctly describe the initial jet behaviour as this can influence the subsequent vapour dispersion. Numerous techniques are available for modelling flashing jets and their dispersion and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is a tool that is becoming more widely used. Confidence in model predictions can be gained by comparing them with experimental data as well as with other models. This paper describes the CFD modelling of a small-scale flashing propane jet and comparison with both experimental data and integral model predictions.
Location Privacy in Next Generation Internet Architectures

The locator/identifier–split concept is a much discussed and promising basis for a Next Generation Internet architecture. This addressing scheme solves several of the problematic issues of today’s Internet. In terms of privacy, however, it introduces new tracking possibilities which need to be addressed. This position paper briefly discusses the location privacy problem of a locator/identifier–split architecture and outlines two possible solutions to it. Open topics, like lowering the negative impact of the solutions and calculating its additional costs for the network, are described.
Increased gene expression of adrenomedullin and adrenomedullin-receptor complexes, receptor-activity modifying protein (RAMP)2 and calcitonin-receptor-like receptor (CRLR) in the hearts of rats with congestive heart failure.

Adrenomedullin is a vasodilator peptide produced in various organs, including heart and kidney. A novel adrenomedullin receptor complex has recently been identified, namely the calcitonin receptor-like receptor (CRLR) and receptor-activity modifying protein (RAMP) 2. In the present study, we have examined gene expression of RAMP2, CRLR and adrenomedullin in hearts and kidneys of rats with congestive heart failure caused by coronary artery ligation. Partial cloning was performed to determine the rat RAMP2 nucleotide sequence. Messenger RNA levels were then determined using competitive, quantitative reverse transcription-PCR techniques. Significantly increased expression levels (means+/-S.E.) of RAMP2, CRLR and adrenomedullin mRNA were found in the atrium (1.8+/-0.2-fold, 1. 8+/-0.2-fold and 2.1+/-0.1-fold, respectively, compared with sham operated rats) and in the ventricle (1.4+/-0.1-fold, 1.3+/-0.03-fold and 3.0+/-0.5-fold respectively). On the other hand, expression levels of RAMP2, CRLR and adrenomedullin mRNAs were not significantly changed in the kidney. These findings suggest potential roles of locally-produced and locally-acting adrenomedullin in the failing heart.
Long-term continuation of levetiracetam in patients with refractory epilepsy

The long-term continuation (retention) rate, efficacy, and safety data of the new antiepileptic drug levetiracetam (LEV) was evaluated in all patients with epilepsy exposed to the drug during its developmental program (n = 1,422). The retention rate was estimated to be 60% after 1 year and 32% after 5 years. Thirty-nine percent (512/1,325) of patients had a seizure reduction of ≥50%, and 13% (183/1,422) became seizure-free for at least 6 months. LEV seems an effective and well tolerated new antiepileptic drug.
Disseminating research results to research participants and their communities.

There is wide acknowledgement of the need for community engagement in biomedical research, particularly in developing countries. Today, engaging communities has become a critical aspect of planning and implementing biomedical research. The current international research ethics guidelines talk of community engagement as an ethical requirement for research involving human subjects, particularly marginalized populations.1 It is believed that genuine community engagement offers the hope of enhancing recruitment, retention, and participant satisfaction.2–7 However, there is relatively little published experience of community engagement in practice. Recently, the Centre for Bioethics in Eastern and Southern Africa organized dissemination workshops of results of the Wellcome Trust Bioethics Research Project as part of community engagement. The workshops were organized between the 10th of March and the 17th of April, 2008 in Madziabango, Mpemba, and Bangwe in Blantyre, and Tidziwe Centre (UNC) in Lilongwe. The workshops were attended by 32 health workers/research staff and 128 research participants including community leaders. During the dissemination workshops, participants complained that most researchers do not engage communities in which they conduct research. Yet they feel it is very necessary for researchers to sensitize people in the communities about their research projects before initiating the projects in the communities. They said community engagement would enable community members to be aware of any research project before it is initiated in their communities and this would dispel out rumors and misconceptions that are associated with biomedical research among people. They also felt it would help researchers to work freely in the communities because people would know them and their research in advance. It could also encourage community members to enroll in biomedical research because they would be informed about the research in advance. In this paper, we analyze the issues that came out during the dissemination workshops.
Prevention and therapy of postresuscitation neurologic dysfunction

Purpose of reviewThe majority of cardiac arrest patients die after successful resuscitation. Despite disappointing survival rates, cardiac arrest research mainly focuses on new therapies applied during cardiac arrest in the out-of-hospital setting, but only little attention is given to therapies mitigating the so-called postresuscitation syndrome. Optimized postresuscitation hospital care might have the potential to substantially improve survival rate in patients after cardiac arrest. Recent findingsThe article will review some aspects of optimized postresuscitation care with the main emphasis on temperature control. Various aspects of ventilation strategies, metabolic control, haemodynamic stabilization, and reperfusion therapies will be summarized. SummaryTherapeutic mild hypothermia (32–34°C) is currently the most advanced medical concept to prevent or mitigate the postresuscitation syndrome. Large prospective randomized clinical trials are needed to investigate normoventilation with blood gases within physiologic range, moderately elevated blood glucose levels, a mean arterial pressure above 80 mmHg, and early reperfusion therapy in all cardiac arrest patients.
Nutritional Supplements in Older Adults

Nutritional status has an important impact on a person’s health. Adequacy of nutrients such as vitamins and w-3 fatty acids (w-3FAs) is essential for optimal health maintenance. Aging is associated with changes in the body’s physiologic functions, cognition, and physical changes such as loss of bone mineral density (BMD) and sarcopenia. These changes may result in decreased nutrient intake, impaired nutrient absorption and utilization, and reduced physiological reserve of nutrients. In addition, the presence of chronic diseases such as coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and obesity is associated with systemic inflammation, which can alter nutrient utilization by the body. Optimization of nutrient status is thus a component of the comprehensive management plan for patients, especially older adults. In individuals with insufficient oral intake or high requirements, nutrient supplementation is widely available without a prescription through the benefit of the Dietary Supplement Health Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA). From a legislative standpoint, DSHEA was intended to promote good health without controversy. However, because nutrients must be formulated into oral dosage forms before marketing, the source of the compound for manufacturing, and whether the manufacturing follows good manufacturing processes can introduce uncertainty and safety concerns. In addition, manufacturers can market products containing mega-doses of micronutrients that are supraphysiological. The widespread availability of these nutrient supplements presents new controversies and challenges for clinicians: Are vitamin and nutrient supplements safe for routine use? Is supplementation associated with improved clinical outcomes? What are the optimal regimens? Are specific products superior to others Nutritional Supplements in Older Adults
Comparison of Different Methods of Probiotic Prescription against Salmonella Infection in Hatchery Broiler Chickens

An experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of various methods of probiotic administration in hatchery on prevention of Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) in broiler chickens. A total of 150 one-day-old chicks (Ross 308) were assigned to five experimental groups (30 birds per group) including control and four treatment with different hatchery probiotic administration methods comprised of in ovo injection, oral gavage, spray and vent lip application. All chickens were challenged by 8 Log CFU SE using oral gavage one day after administration of probiotics. At 1 and 7 days post-challenge (PC) 15 birds per experimental group were sampled for SE recovery. Administration of probiotics reduced the number of colonized chicks, compared with control group. Decline was non significant 1 day after PC (P>0.05), but after PC in day 7 was significant (P<0.05). The most number of infected chicks was observed in control group, and the lowest was observed in vent lip method.
Intestinal Parasitic Infections among HIV/AIDS Patients with Diarrhoea at Rural Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital Of Maharashtra.

s: Background and Objective: Opportunistic intestinal parasites usually cause mild and self- limiting infections in immunocompetent individuals but in the case of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) they cause severe, chronic or frequent gastrointestinal disease. The spectrum of intestinal parasites causing infections in PLHA varies from country to country and region to region within the country. Therefore it is very necessary to know the relative frequencies of specific intestinal parasites causing diarrhoea in PLHA in different regions of the country to devise appropriate management strategies. The present study was conducted with an aim to document the prevalence pattern of various intestinal parasites in PLHA in rural tertiary care teaching hospital of Maharashtra. Methods: Stool samples collected from HIV infected individuals with diarrhoea were screened for the presence of intestinal parasites by standard parasitological protocol. Results and Interpretation: The incidence of HIV infection was high in age group 26-35 years followed by 16-25 years age group. The incidence of HIV infection was high in males as compared to females. Out of 124 stool samples screened, 44 (35.48%) showed presence of intestinal parasites. Cryptosporidium parvum followed by Entamoebahistolytica and Isospora belli were the most common intestinal parasite. Conclusion: Opportunistic intestinal parasitic infections still pose as a problem in rural parts of India. This underscores the importance of screening of stool samples of PLHA. It can be also suggested that along with prompt diagnosis and treatment of opportunistic infection, clean potable water supply, improved sanitation and health education is necessary for preventing opportunistic infection in PLHA. (Puri j NJIRM 2014; 5(5):35-37)