4 clinical cases of patients in whom the combination of chondroitin and glucosamine should be considered

Osteoarthritis is a chronic disease that affects mainly the elderly. The primary form of therapy is analgesic pharmacotherapy in accordance with the analgesic ladder. Another, still controversial, method is the administration of symptomatic slow-acting drugs for osteoarthritis, the main advantage of which is that they are practically devoid of toxicity. A recent review of papers on the use of this group of drugs has shown that the most potent modifying effect has the combination of glucosamine and chondroitin, which synergistically change the metabolism of the articular cartilage. In this article, we present four clinical cases in which the combination of glucosamine and chondroitin was effective.

Decentralized Security Systems in Hybrid War Conditions with an Emphasis on the Security System in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Combining all hitherto known forms and methods of conventional and unconventional warfare, hybrid warfare is increasingly replacing classical military conflicts and is gradually changing into the primary form of realizing state interests, independently or within military-political alliances. No period in the history of human civilization has been marked by such an intensity of war conflicts as the last century. Apart from the two largest war conflicts in history, in which almost all countries of the world were involved, the last century was also marked by the Cold War.

William H. Whyte Jr.: How the creator of 'groupthink' was forgotten, and why it matters

<p>This thesis examines the presentation of management theories in textbooks, focusing on groupthink as an indicative case. The groupthink theory warns that positive consensus leads to the exclusion of other ideas, with potentially disastrous results. It is credited to the psychologist Irving Janis, but William H. Whyte Jr. used the phrase groupthink in 1952, nineteen years before Janis’ first usage. I ask how this happened - why do most textbooks credit Janis if he did not create the term? To answer this, the study takes a critical view of management’s dissemination of knowledge. A critical study acknowledges that all knowledge is subjective, and no interpretation can precisely represent the past. The primary method was the collection historical data primarily composed of textbooks, academic studies, and journal articles. This data represents the primary work of Whyte and Janis regarding groupthink, and their representation elsewhere. This allows for the construction of a ‘counter-history’ to the accepted version of history where Janis is groupthink’s creator. My findings demonstrate a clear shift within management history, discovering early evidence of Whyte’s groupthink being embraced by prominent writers, followed by a gradual marginalisation of Whyte’s contribution. This was due in part to Janis’ sudden popularity but it is evident that management studies deliberately moved away from questions of conformity asked by Whyte and peers in the 1950s. I also found that Whyte himself moved away from the groupthink terminology, rebadging the same concept as ‘the organization man’. These findings contribute a new case study to the field of management literature calling for the importance of directly embracing history. It also makes a case for textbooks as a study’s primary form of data. Future research can further explore the extent of the continued relevance of William H. Whyte’s ideas in a modern context.</p>

William H. Whyte Jr.: How the creator of 'groupthink' was forgotten, and why it matters

<p>This thesis examines the presentation of management theories in textbooks, focusing on groupthink as an indicative case. The groupthink theory warns that positive consensus leads to the exclusion of other ideas, with potentially disastrous results. It is credited to the psychologist Irving Janis, but William H. Whyte Jr. used the phrase groupthink in 1952, nineteen years before Janis’ first usage. I ask how this happened - why do most textbooks credit Janis if he did not create the term? To answer this, the study takes a critical view of management’s dissemination of knowledge. A critical study acknowledges that all knowledge is subjective, and no interpretation can precisely represent the past. The primary method was the collection historical data primarily composed of textbooks, academic studies, and journal articles. This data represents the primary work of Whyte and Janis regarding groupthink, and their representation elsewhere. This allows for the construction of a ‘counter-history’ to the accepted version of history where Janis is groupthink’s creator. My findings demonstrate a clear shift within management history, discovering early evidence of Whyte’s groupthink being embraced by prominent writers, followed by a gradual marginalisation of Whyte’s contribution. This was due in part to Janis’ sudden popularity but it is evident that management studies deliberately moved away from questions of conformity asked by Whyte and peers in the 1950s. I also found that Whyte himself moved away from the groupthink terminology, rebadging the same concept as ‘the organization man’. These findings contribute a new case study to the field of management literature calling for the importance of directly embracing history. It also makes a case for textbooks as a study’s primary form of data. Future research can further explore the extent of the continued relevance of William H. Whyte’s ideas in a modern context.</p>

Effects of Advertising Through Different Digital Marketing Channels on Consumer Buying Behavior in Bosnia and Herzegovina: A Research Project

Advertising today is different from what is used to be before the revelation of digital marketing channels. The ultimate switch from traditional advertising channels to digital marketing channels has seen a vast expansion, expansion that has been observed in the amount of time users spend on digital devices. We can easily say that advertising is everywhere around us today, with the help of increased usage of technology, smartphones and other electronic devices that are constant during the day-to-day basis of people’s lives. Therefore, it becomes very interesting to research and conclude whether this constant exposure of advertisements on different digital marketing channels have an effect on consumer’s buying behavior towards advertisements of products or services. The main aim of this study is to identify and explain whether through different digital marketing channels advertisements can change the attitude of people regarding products or services and there purchasing behavior from a stand point view of consumers in Bosnia and Herzegovina. To achieve this goal, the analysis of data is based on qualitative data derived from a survey as a primary form of data collection. A research model with three independent variables (social media marketing, email marketing, and mobile phone marketing) and one dependent variable (consumer buying behavior) was developed based on the literature review. The outcomes of this research are going to provide insights of what effects through online advertisement can make changes on the consumer buying behavior.

Physicochemical and Analytical Implications of GATES/GEB Principles

The fundamental property of electrolytic systems involved with linear combination f12 = 2∙f(O) – f(H) of elemental balances: f1 = f(H) for Y1 = H, and f2 = f(O) for Y2 = O, is presented. The dependency/independency of the f12 on Charge Balance (f0 = ChB) and other elemental and/or core balances fk = f(Yk) (k = 3,…,K) is the general criterion distinguishing between non-redox and redox systems. The f12 related to a redox system is the primary form of a Generalized Electron Balance (GEB), formulated for redox systems within the Generalized Approach to Electrolytic System (GATES) as GATES/GEB ⊂ GATES. The set of K balances f0,f12,f3,…,fK is necessary/ sufficient/needed to solve an electrolytic redox system, while the K-1 balances f0,f3,…,fK are the set applied to solve an electrolytic non-redox system. The identity (0 = 0) procedure of checking the linear independency/ dependency property of f12 within the set f0,f12,f3,…,fK (i) provides the criterion distinguishing between the redox and non-redox systems and (ii) specifies Oxidation Numbers (ONs) of elements in particular components of the system, and in the species formed in the system. Some chemical concepts, such as oxidant, reductant, oxidation number, equivalent mass, stoichiometry, perceived as derivative within GATES, are indicated. All the information is gained on the basis of the titration Ce(SO4)2 (C) + H2SO4 (C1) + CO2 (C2) ⇨ FeSO4 (C0) + H2SO4 (C01) + CO2 (C02), simulated with use of the iterative computer program MATLAB.

Technology Solutions for Everyday Barriers Among Deaf Older Adults

American Sign Language (ASL) is the primary form of communication for approximately 250,000 people in the U.S. (Mitchell et al., 2006). As these individuals age, they may experience challenges in their everyday activities. For example, ASL users rely on visual cues, but have age-related change in vision. Moreover, ASL users may need to utilize technology to communicate with non-ASL users, but the technology may not be suitable/usable for older adults. We explored these issues in the Aging Concerns, Challenges, and Everyday Solution Strategies (ACCESS) study, wherein we interviewed Deaf older adults (N=60) in ASL, who provided insights into unique, everyday challenges they encounter. We will focus on the technology solution strategies they incorporate to address and overcome challenges with daily activities. Understanding how participants think about, adapt, and utilize different technologies can inform future technology design to successfully support diverse, aging populations.

Relation of hypertension with episodic primary headaches and chronic primary headaches in population of Rafsanjan cohort study

Headache has a variety of types, such as episodic primary headaches (EPH) and chronic primary headache (CPH) in its primary form. There is a positive correlation between these two types of headaches and hypertension (HTN), but in some works this correlation has been reported negatively. Therefore, we planned to study HTN-CPH as well as HTN-EPH correlation in our population. A sample of Rafsanjan population (10,000 individuals) entered the cohort study, as one of the Prospective Epidemiological Research Studies in Iran (PERSIAN). We compared the frequency of HTN categories in CPH and EPH cases with a normal population. Out of 9933 participants (46.6% males and 53.4% females) about 29% had EPH and 7.5% had CPH. HTN was found in 24.27% of EPH cases and 31.98% of CPH cases. HTN was also found to be associated with EPH and CPH in the crude model. Two Categories of HTN (Long controlled and uncontrolled) were not associated with EPH. On the other hand, CPH showed associations with all of the HTN categories. After included all variables and confounders, EPH and CPH had association with HTN without any considerable changes. There is strong HTN-EPH as well as HTN-CPH correlations in the studied population.

Predictive risk factors for the development of diseases with lymphoproliferative syndrome in children

Background. Harmful environmental factors and negative social trends have an adverse effect on the adaptive resources of the child’s body, which in combination reduces the health index in the child population. An ambiguous epidemiological situation, an increase in morbidity rates in children, a variety of clinical manifestations of Epstein – Barr viral infection, recurrent respiratory diseases, adenovirus infection complicate their differential diagnosis in the early stages. In this regard, the assessment of risk factors and early prognosis of the development of primary form of Epstein – Barr viral infection (EBVI), recurrent respiratory diseases (RRD), adenovirus infection (ADVI) in children is an urgent task.The aim: to study the significance of risk factors influencing the development of diseases with lymphoproliferative syndrome in children.Materials and methods. Clinical and laboratory examination and analysis of case histories of 336 children and adolescents held with diseases with lymphoproliferative syndrome. Data from 30 apparently healthy children and adolescents of the same age were used as a comparison group. The Bayesian method with sequential Wald analysis was used to assess risk factors. ROC-analysis was used to check the adequacy of the forecasting models. The quality of the built models was evaluated by their sensitivity and specificity.Results. It has been established that predictors of diseases with lymphoproliferative syndrome in children are intrauterine fetal hypoxia, low or, on the contrary, high birth weight, neonatal jaundice, low Apgar score, as well as maternal factors (somatic pathology and SARS during pregnancy, gestosis, gestational anemias, young or mature age of the pregnant women). Additional predictors of the development of this pathology can be considered a decrease in the indicator of the cell-phagocytic potential to 337.1 ± 2.3 CU, a decrease in the immune-lymphocytic potential to 237.0 ± 8.2 CU, an increase in the load-erythrocyte coefficient to 0.67 ± 0.03 CU and a decrease in the leukocyte index of intoxication to 0.40 ± 0.05 CU.Conclusion. The combination of clinical and anamnestic factors with indicators of general reactive potential increases the integral general informative value of the prognostic model. The accounting by specialists of the general medical and preventive network of the identified predictors of the development of diseases with lymphoproliferative syndrome will contribute to the timely diagnosis of the primary form of Epstein – Barr viral infection, recurrent respiratory diseases and adenovirus infection in children.

Systematization of the Russian Legislation in the Soviet Period

The paper studies the reasons, forms, and stages of the systematization of the national legislation in the Soviet period. The reasons are of two origins: due to the need to adapt legislation for economic and social improvement and to the general logic of the development of law and its institutionalization by sectors. The author defines the following historical stages in the systematization of legislation: 1918–1920s; 1930 – mid-1950s; late 1950s – 1980s. The first stage included a comprehensive development of codes of the Soviet legislation that defined the legislation system. Drafts of the Soviet codes were developed in the second stage; however, they were not approved. At the third stage all major branches of the Soviet legislation were defined as codes. Codes of the 1920s were replaced by acts with current regulations; for the first time in the Soviet history codes were adopted in a number of sectors. Based on the subjects of joint jurisdiction of the USSR and the Union republics, the fundamentals of the Soviet legislation and republican codes were adopted. Despite the fact that codification was the primary form of systematization of the Soviet legislation, incorporation was widely used as well. Chronological and systematic collections of laws were published. In the late 1920s, the State first attempted to compile a code of laws of the USSR; however, the USSR Code of Laws and the RSFSR Code of Laws were prepared and published only in the 1980s. Throughout the Soviet period, the systematization of legislation was an important area of state legal policy.