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Renal disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with biological therapy
Authors: Hanzu-Pazara Loredana , Muflic L. , Dusa Daniela , Pana Camelia , Tudorache Monica , Suta Maria , Tuta Liliana 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
The use of biological therapies may have positive impact on chronic renal disease associated with rheumatoid arthritis.
The study evaluates retrospectively renal function in 57 patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with different types of biological therapy, comparative with 62 RA patients treated conservatively with DMARDs.
Patients treated with biological therapies presented a lower mean value for serum creatinine measured both at baseline and after 6 months of treatment, statistically significant compared with the subgroup treated with DMARDs (0.69 ± 0.17 mg/dL vs. 1.18 ± 1.01 mg/dL, p = 0.003). Results for estimated filtration rate were significantly increased in biologically treated cohort (100.36 ± 16.76 mL/min/1.73 m2 vs. 63.49 ± 21.60 mL/min/1.73 m2, p < 0.00001). Rituximab presented a better estimated filtration rate compared with other biological tharapies (eGFR 97.037 mL/min/1.73 m2 vs. 90.933 mL/min/1.73 m2).
The positive effect of potent biological anti-inflammatory therapies sustains the need of further exploring the risk of reduced kidney function in immune-mediated diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis.
Nursing’s approach and rehabilitation in a severe case of miliary tuberculosis complicated with stroke.
Authors: Dantes Elena , Hancu Anca , Iliescu Madalina , Balasa Ionela , Busuioc Alina , Cambrea Claudia , Fildan Ariadna Petronela 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
Background: Miliary tuberculosis is a haematogenuous dissemination of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) witch involves especially lungs, central nervous system and lymph node. It is a very severe disease with an increased risk of respiratory failure, extensive neurologic sequelas and high mortality. A rapid diagnosis and specific treatment is tremendous important for outcome. Association of strokeis common in tuberculous meningitis (MTB) and could delay the diagnosis and worse the prognosis.
Case presentation: We present a case of 24 years old male, who present asthenia and 20 kilo weight lossduring the last 2 years before admission in hospital. He came in hospital, directly in Intensive CareUnit (ICU) for left hemiplegia followed within hours of fever, repeated focal seizures and coma, reaching a Glasgow score of 6 about 48 hours after admission. Patient requiredorotracheal intubation. The Chest radiograph reveal micro-nodular opacities compatible with miliary TB and the cerebrospinal fluid (CFS) examination led to suspicion of TB meningitis. The Tb etiology was bacteriologically confirmed in sputum and cerebrospinal fluid. After 24 hors, theCT and angio-MRI detected the ischemic lesion in the middle cerebral arterial territory. The injectable antituberculous treatment with 4 drugs was immediately initiated. Parenteral cortichosteroids, anticoagulant, symptomatictreatments were associated. The patient received a very complex and prolonged nursing intervention followed by neurologic and pulmonary rehabilitation in ICU and in the Pneumophtisiology Department. The rehabilitation team identifies the all subjective and objective demands and plan the nursing process of care. When patient gains consciousness the neurologic and pulmonary rehabilitation were started. The evolution was slow, but favorable, after 6 moths of treatment the impairment of left hand movement being the only remaining sign of the past disease.
Conclusions: Collaboration medical team consisting of a neurologist, pulmonologist, infection disease specialist and physiotherapist increased the success rate, diminish the sequelas and improve the quality of life of the patient.
A Review of the Characteristics of Modern Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Authors: Hristov Georgi Valentinov , Zahariev Plamen Zlatkov , Beloev Ivan Hristov 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
The main aim of this article is to present the modern unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and the possibilities for real-time remote monitoring of flight parameters and payload data. In the introduction section of the paper we briefly present the characteristics of the UAVs and which are their major application areas. Later, the main parameters and the various data types for remote control and monitoring of the unmanned aerial vehicles are presented and discussed. The paper continues with the methods and the technologies for transmission of these parameters and then presents a general hardware model for data transmission and a software model of a communication system suitable for UAVs.
Influence of Bellows Setting on Its Spring Rate and on Temperature Adjustment of Electromechanical Thermostats
Authors: Haas Peter , Kadnár Milan , Tóth František , Rusnák Juraj , Nógli Dušan 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
The precision and stability of adjusted temperatures are critical requirements for electromechanical thermostats. The key element in meeting the requirement is a thermostat bellows. It is a convertor of pressure into force that actuates the mechanical system of the thermostat. Convolutions enabling the axial movement of the bellows cause that the bellows is partly behaving as a spring. Therefore, the bellows has its own spring rate. The setting of the bellows spring rate influences the critical parameters of the thermostat. The aim of the article is to find the difference between the setting done by bellows producer and setting done by thermostat producer and its influence on the thermostat adjustment.
Using 3 × 3 Matrix to Evaluate the Manufacturing Technology in Food Company
Authors: Ingaldi Manuela , Kotus Martin , Škůrková Katarína Lestyánszka 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
In order to produce goods of sufficient quality finding buyers in the market, a company must have an adequate knowledge of their production technology. Technologies and finished products at the same time will affect the position of the company in the market and hence its existence in this market. Therefore, it is so important for every company to determine the appropriate technological strategy. The 3 × 3 matrix is a very useful tool to do so. This matrix shows the relation between technological possibilities of the company and its position in the market. However, that requires changing the scale used in the matrix. In practice, this means that both those that have a positive impact on the company and those that have a negative impact on it can be included in the factors. The research was conducted in a food industry company. It turned out that the research company was located in field of the matrix marked as ‚Improve marketing’. It means that the company should put more emphasis on improving the factors related to its position in the market.
Icings and their role as an important element of the cryosphere in High Arctic glacier forefields
Authors: Sobota Ireneusz 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
This study investigates icings and their role as an important element of the glacier forefields observed in the Kaffiøyra region in Svalbard. The emergence or disappearance of icings is one of the effects of changes observed in the area of a glacier and its catchment in the High Arctic. Icings were observed both in summer and spring in 1996–2015. The main objective was focused on the location and surface changes of the icings, as this is important for their responses to changes which occur across the cryosphere. In the forefields of most glaciers in the Kaffiøyra region, a generally declining trend is observed in the size of icing fields, with only occasional periods in which it increased. During the last five years, they have not been so large as they were in the preceding years. The degradation of High Arctic icings mainly occurs in summer, generally as a result of surface and mechanical ablation. The reach of icings is rather variable and their surface and thickness tend to change year by year, depending on hydrological conditions in the glacier’s system. Regardless of the causes of icings’ formation, their size, range and reach are related to the intensity of melting during a given season, which is conditioned by the weather, and especially by the winter outflow from a glacier.
CDH1 (E-cadherin) expression independently affects clinical outcome in acute myeloid leukemia with normal cytogenetics
Authors: Zhang Ting-juan , Zhou Jing-dong , Ma Ji-chun , Deng Zhao-qun , Qian Zhen , Yao Dong-ming , Yang Jing , Li Xi-xi , Lin Jiang , Qian Jun 
Published: June 2016

Abstract

Background:
Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a critical process which involves in tumor metastasis. As an important EMT marker gene, CDH1 (E-cadherin) expression and its clinical implication in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) remain largely elusive.

Methods:
Real-time quantitative PCR (RQ-PCR) was carried out to examine CDH1 transcript level in 123 de novo AML patients and 34 controls.

Results:
Compared with controls, CDH1 was significantly downregulated in AML (p<0.001). The median level of CDH1 expression divided total AML patients into CDH1 low-expressed (CDH1
1ow) and CDH1 high-expressed (CDH1
high) groups. There were no significant differences between the two groups in age, peripheral blood cell counts, complete remission (CR) rate, and the distribution of FAB/WHO subtypes as well as karyotypes/karyotypic classifications (p>0.05). However, CDH1
1ow group tended to have a higher bone marrow (BM) blasts (p=0.093). The spearman correlation analysis further illustrated a trend towards a negative correlation between CDH1 expression level and BM blasts (r=–0.214, p=0.052). CDH1
low group had a tendency towards a lower frequency of N/K-RAS mutations (p=0.094). Furthermore, CDH1
low patients had markedly shorter overall survival (OS) time in cytogenetic normal AML (CN-AML) (p=0.019). Both univariate and multivariate analyses confirmed the prognostic value of CDH1 expression in CN-AML patients (p=0.027 and 0.033, respectively).

Conclusions:

CDH1 downregulation acted as an independent prognostic biomarker in CN-AML patients.
Decompositions of the higher order polars of plane branches
Authors: García Barroso Evelia R. , Gwoździewicz Janusz 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
In [1] Casas-Alvero found decompositions of higher order polars of an irreducible plane complex analytic curve generalizing the results of Merle.
We improve his result obtaining a finer decomposition where we find out a kind of branches that we call threshold semi-roots. The existence of threshold semi-roots is a new phenomenon observed for the higher order polars. The topological type and the number of these branches is determined by the topological type of the original curve.
Empirical methods of reducing the observations in geodetic networks
Authors: Kadaj Roman 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
The paper presents empirical methodology of reducing various kinds of observations in geodetic network. A special case of reducing the observation concerns cartographic mapping. For numerical illustration and comparison of methods an application of the conformal Gauss-Krüger mapping was used. Empirical methods are an alternative to the classic differential and multi-stages methods. Numerical benefits concern in particular very long geodesics, created for example by GNSS vectors. In conventional methods the numerical errors of reduction values are significantly dependent on the length of the geodesic. The proposed empirical methods do not have this unfavorable characteristics. Reduction value is determined as a difference (or especially scaled difference) of the corresponding measures of geometric elements (distances, angles), wherein these measures are approximated independently in two spaces based on the known and corresponding approximate coordinates of the network points. Since in the iterative process of the network adjustment, coordinates of the points are systematically improved, approximated reductions also converge to certain optimal values.
On the use of IT investment assessment methods in the area of spatial data infrastructure
Authors: Zwirowicz-Rutkowska Agnieszka 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
One of the important issues concerning development of spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) is the carrying out of economic and financial analysis. It is essential to determine expenses and also assess effects resulting from the development and use of infrastructures. Costs and benefits assessment could be associated with assessment of the infrastructure effectiveness and efficiency as well as the infrastructure value, understood as the infrastructure impact on economic aspects of an organisational performance, both of an organisation which realises an SDI project and all users of the infrastructure. The aim of this paper is an overview of various assessment methods of investment as well as an analysis of different types of costs and benefits used for information technology (IT) projects. Based on the literature, the analysis of the examples of the use of these methods in the area of spatial data infrastructures is also presented. Furthermore, the issues of SDI projects and investments are outlined. The results of the analysis indicate usefulness of the financial methods from different fields of management in the area of SDI building, development and use. The author proposes, in addition to the financial methods, the adaptation of the various techniques used for IT investments and their development, taking into consideration the SDI specificity for the purpose of assessment of different types of costs and benefits and integration of financial aspects with non-financial ones. Among the challenges are identification and quantification of costs and benefits, as well as establishing measures which would fit the characteristics of the SDI project and artefacts resulting from the project realisation. Moreover, aspects of subjectivity and variability in time should be taken into account as the consequences of definite goals and policies as well as business context of organisation undertaking the project or using its artefacts and also investors.
Analysis of surveying and legal problems in granting right-of-way and expropriation for the purpose of locating technical infrastructure
Authors: Trembecka Anna 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
A condition which determines the location of technical infrastructure is an entrepreneur holding the right to use the property for construction purposes. Currently, there are parallel separate legal forms allowing the use of a real property for the purpose of locating transmission lines, i.e. transmission easement (right-of-way) established under the civil law and expropriation by limiting the rights to a property under the administrative law.
The aim of the study is to compare these forms conferring the right to use real properties and to analyze the related surveying and legal problems occurring in practice. The research thesis of the article is ascertainment that the current legal provisions for establishing legal titles to a property in order to locate transmission lines need to be amended.
The conducted study regarded legal conditions, extent of expropriation and granting right-of-way in the city of Krakow, as well as the problems associated with the ambiguous wording of the legal regulations. Part of the research was devoted to the form of rights to land in order to carry out similar projects in some European countries (France, Czech Republic, Germany, Sweden). The justification for the analysis of these issues is dictated by the scale of practical use of the aforementioned forms of rights to land in order to locate technical infrastructure. Over the period of 2011-2014, 651 agreements were concluded on granting transmission right-of-way for 967 cadastral parcels owned by the city of Krakow, and 105 expropriation decisions were issued, limiting the use of real properties in Krakow.
On Consensus Strings in Text Analysis
Authors: Zörnig Peter , Altmann Gabriel 
Published: June 2016

AbstractThe present paper is a pilot study introducing a concept of computational biology – the closest string problem (CSP) – into linguistics. In quantitative studies, texts can be represented as sequences, and for any given set of sequences one can solve a CSP. The solution is called a consensus string (CS), which is a sequence that is „as close as possible to all the given strings“. In this article we solve some CSP’s resulting from the study of a Hungarian poem and illustrate possible interpretations.
„ich schreib das mal hier rein ähm“Modality-taking – Schreibhinweise in professionellen mündlichen Interaktionssituationen
Authors: Ullrich Anna Valentine , Jakobs Eva-Maria , Eraßme Denise 
Published: June 2016

ZusammenfassungDer Beitrag fokussiert Formen von Modalitätsinterdependenzen (MID) in professionellen Kontexten. MID sind dabei definiert als Zusammenspiel komplexer Ausdrucksressourcen wie z. B. Sprechen, Schreiben und Visualisieren. Bisher fehlen Ansätze, Methoden und Tools für die systematische Beschreibung und Analyse der Formen und Funktionen von MID. Die vorliegende Untersuchung setzt an dieser Stelle an. Sie gliedert sich ein in Forschungen zur Multimodalität von Kommunikation. Ziel ist es, ein Modell für die Beschreibung und Analyse von MID vorzustellen. Ein Aspekt wird hier herausgegriffen und fallbeispielbezogen diskutiert: das
Importance of Results Obtained from Geotechnical Monitoring for Evaluation of Reinforced Soil Structure – Case Study
Authors: Drusa M. , Vlcek J. 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
In the case of realized geotechnical monitoring (GTM) of reinforced retaining wall in difficult geological conditions is demonstrated the important role at realisation of transport infrastructures, which are often realized in insufficient quality due to inappropriate geotechnical parameters from survey works or not fitted well design of structure at certain conditions. This can result in large deformations of structure, or losing stability or structure life-time is very limited and remediation work is complicated and expensive. There was built on the modernized railway line Bratislava – Trenčín, closed to Zlatovce, overpass and connected road embankments on the route of first class I/61. Structure was designed as a bridge over the railway track before the northern portal of the railway tunnel Turecký vrch was open. A part of the embankment and overpass was a retaining wall reinforced by geosynthetics. The results of the geotechnical monitoring of this wall were afterwards simulated using finite element method (FEM) and results of this comparison are the scope of this article.
A phonetic inquiry into Dagbani vowel neutralisations
Authors: Hudu Fusheini 
Published: June 2016

AbstractPrevious researchers differ on what the feature specifications of Dagbani vowels are, what the vowel inventory is, which vowels are contrastive and how phonological processes affect the surface realisation of Dagbani vowels. This study provides experimental results on Dagbani vowel features from acoustic and perceptual psycholinguistic inquiries with the goal of better defining the vowel features and inventory. Basic formant frequencies of the vowels in different phonological contexts support the view that (1) vowels of all height specifications (including /a/) have [ATR] variants; (2) /i/ and /ɨ/ neutralise in harmonic contexts; and (3) mid vowels surface as low in non-final positions. Results of a perceptual psycholinguistic investigation of the neutralisation between mid and low vowels also show that in certain contexts, speakers are unable to perceive any distinction between different words with these vowels. The paper discusses the implications of these results on the Dagbani vowel inventory, evaluating the merits of different possible approaches in the process.
Word tone and tonal overwriting in Kabiye nouns
Authors: Roberts David 
Published: June 2016

AbstractThis paper presents a re-analysis of the tone of Kabiye nouns. It focuses on two tonal phenomena that have apparently not been reported elsewhere in Gur languages: root melodies associating to whole words and tonal overwriting. All singular suffixes are analyzed as being underlyingly toneless and receiving their surface tone by means of the root melody associating to the entire word, as though blind to the morpheme boundary. Association of tones to trimoraic words is dealt with by positing that the OCP is inactive. The non-singular (plural, collective and liquid) suffixes – with one exception – are underlyingly HL. The analysis of these forms distinguishes between non-overwriting suffixes, in which the word level tone is merely the sum of its parts, and overwriting suffixes, in which the tone of the suffix overwrites the final tone(s) of the root melody.
Digital Camera as Gloss Measurement Device
Authors: Mihálik A. , Ďurikovič R. 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
Nowadays digital cameras with both high resolution and the high dynamic range (HDR) can be considered as parallel multiple sensors producing multiple measurements at once. In this paper we describe a technique for processing the captured HDR data and than fit them to theoretical surface reflection models in the form of bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF). Finally, the tabular BRDF can be used to calculate the gloss reflection of the surface. We compare the captured glossiness by digital camera with gloss measured with the industry device and conclude that the results fit well in our experiments.
ACTH, Cortisol and IL-6 Levels in Athletes Following Magnesium Supplementation
Authors: Dmitrašinović Gordana , Pešić Vesna , Stanić Dušanka , Plećaš-Solarović Bosiljka , Dajak Marijana , Ignjatović Svetlana 
Published: June 2016

SummaryBackground:Physical exercise activates the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and induces the body’s inflammatory response. Due to contemporary dietary habits and increased energy expenditure, athletes are susceptible to depletion of magnesium ions. The aim of our study was to investigate, through assessment of plasma ACTH, serum IL-6, and salivary/serum cortisol levels, if chronic magnesium supplementation might reduce damaging stress effects in amateur rugby players.Methods:Rugby players (N=23) were randomly assigned to intervention and control group. Basal samples were collected before intervention group started a 4-week-long supplementation with magnesium (500 mg Mg/d). Blood and saliva sampling were done a day before the match (Day-1), on the morning of competition (Game), and during a six-day-long recovery period (Day1, Day3 and Day6). ACTH, serum/salivary cortisol, IL-6 and total/differential leukocytes counts were determined at each time point.Results:There was a statistically significant increase in ACTH concentration in intervention group compared to control group, while reductions in cortisol concentrations between the two groups were the greatest at Day-1 (p<0.01) and at the day of competition (Game) (p<0.01). Our results revealed that magnesium completely abolished the increase in IL-6 level noted in control group on Day1 and Day3 vs. Day-1 (p<0.01) and also diminished the rise in neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio in intervention group vs. control group (p<0.01).Conclusions:These results suggest the possibly important influence magnesium supplementation might have on the change of parameters of HPA axis activity and reduction of immune response activation following strenuous physical exercise such as a rugby game.