Participating in physical fighting and bullying can be a cause of severe injury and death among school-age children. Research evidence can support school and health actors' efforts to improve school-age children's development and health capacity for life. The study aims to assess the prevalence of school-age children's participation in fights and bullying in Serbia, and to examine the relevance of students' socio-demographic characteristics and perceptions of school and relations with other students and professors for participation in fights and bullying.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRecent residential radon survey in Montenegro revealed the national average annual radon activity concentrations: unweighted AM = 110 Bq m-3, GM = 58.3 Bq m-3, and population weighted (AM)w = 100.5 Bq m-3, (GM)w = 92.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe first nationwide indoor radon survey in Montenegro started in 2002 and year-long radon measurements with CR-39 track-etch detectors, within the national grid of 5 km × 5 km and local grids in urban areas of 0.5 km × 0.5 km, were performed in homes in half of the country's territory.
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May 2001
Charles Bonnet syndrome is described as complex visual hallucinations that are known to occur in individuals with impaired vision whose emotional and intellectual functions are within normal range. This paper presents a case of a 82 years old woman who experienced an individual hallucinatory episode during three days: seeing, alert and with her eyes open, different figures and images, static and moving in lovely colors that disappeared with closing her eyes and appeared as new with opening it. The diagnostic procedure comprised EEG and ophthalmologic examination.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe study included 7 patients who were with clinically, laboratory, neurophysiologically and neuroradiologically confirmed associated occurrence of posttraumatic stress disorder of chronic course and disseminated demyelinating disease of the central nervous system. All the examinees were extendedly exposed to war stress, so it could be directly designated as the cause of posttraumatic stress syndrome and indirectly denoted as the trigger of immune disorder that brought to disseminated demyelination of the central nervous system.
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