Correction: Global TALES feasibility study: Personal narratives in 10-year-old children around the world.

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Efficacy, model of delivery, intensity and targets of pragmatic interventions for children with developmental language disorder: A systematic review.

Background: It is widely acknowledged that children with developmental language disorder (DLD) predominantly have difficulties in the areas of grammar and vocabulary, with preserved pragmatic skills. Consequently, few studies focus on the pragmatic skills of children with DLD, and there is a distinct lack of studies examining the effectiveness of pragmatic interventions.

Aims: To carry out a systematic review of the literature on pragmatic interventions for children with DLD.

Telepractice as a Reaction to the COVID-19 Crisis: Insights from Croatian SLP Settings.

Telepractice facilitates services in exceptional settings and situations. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is certainly such a situation. Due to pandemic-related restrictions, speech-language pathologists (SLPs) needed to adopt new approaches to their professional functioning.

Exercise Reveals Proline Dehydrogenase as a Potential Target in Heart Failure.

The benefits of physical activity in cardiovascular diseases have long been appreciated. However, the molecular mechanisms that trigger and sustain the cardiac benefits of exercise are poorly understood, and it is anticipated that unveiling these mechanisms will identify novel therapeutic targets. In search of these mechanisms we took advantage of unbiased RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) technology to discover cardiac gene targets whose expression is disrupted in heart failure (HF) and rescued by exercise in a rat model.

Imageability ratings across languages.

Imageability is a psycholinguistic variable that indicates how well a word gives rise to a mental image or sensory experience. Imageability ratings are used extensively in psycholinguistic, neuropsychological, and aphasiological studies. However, little formal knowledge exists about whether and how these ratings are associated between and within languages.

Trimetazidine does not alter metabolic substrate oxidation in cardiac mitochondria of target patient population.

Background And Purpose: Trimetazidine, known as a metabolic modulator, is an anti-anginal drug used for treatment of stable coronary artery disease (CAD). It is proposed to act via modulation of cardiac metabolism, shifting the mitochondrial substrate utilization towards carbohydrates, thus increasing the efficiency of ATP production. This mechanism was recently challenged; however, these studies used indirect approaches and animal models, which made their conclusions questionable.

Role of KATP Channels in Beneficial Effects of Exercise in Ischemic Heart Failure.

Purpose: Exercise training reduces pathological remodeling and improves cardiac function in ischemic heart failure; however, causal mechanisms underlying the cardiac benefits of exercise are poorly understood. Because opening of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-sensitive K ⁺(KATP) channels protects the heart during myocardial stress, we hypothesized that such a mechanism is responsible for some of the cardiac benefits induced by exercise in postinfarction chronic heart failure (CHF).

Methods: Left ventricular myocytes were isolated from three groups of rats: Sham, CHF Tr (4 wk after myocardial infarction, rats underwent 8 wk of aerobic interval training 5 d·wk⁻¹) and CHF Sed (rats sedentary for 12 wk after infarction).

Gestural development and its relation to a child's early vocabulary.

Gesture and language are tightly connected during the development of a child's communication skills. Gestures mostly precede and define the way of language development; even opposite direction has been found. Few recent studies have focused on the relationship between specific gestures and specific word categories, emphasising that the onset of one gesture type predicts the onset of certain word categories or of the earliest word combinations.

Aerobic interval training attenuates remodelling and mitochondrial dysfunction in the post-infarction failing rat heart.

Aims: Following a large myocardial infarction (MI), remaining viable muscle often undergoes pathological remodelling and progresses towards chronic heart failure. Mitochondria may also be affected by this process and, due to their functional importance, likely contribute to the progression of the disease. Aerobic interval training (AIT) has been shown effective in diminishing pathological myocardial transformation, but the effects of AIT on mitochondrial function in hearts undergoing remodelling are not known.

The influence of varying inspired fractions of O₂ and CO₂ on the development of involuntary breathing movements during maximal apnoea.

The growing urge to breathe that occurs during breath-holding results in development of involuntary breathing movements (IBMs). The present study determined whether IBMs are initiated at critical levels of hypercapnia and/or hypoxia during maximal apnoea. Arterial blood gasses at the onset of IBM were monitored during maximal voluntary breath-holds.

First Croatian transvaginal laparoscopically assisted cholecystectomies.

Background/aims: The aim of this study was to determine the feasibility and technical aspects of a new endoluminal surgical procedure: transvaginal laparoscopically assisted endoscopic cholecystectomy.

Methodology: Three female patients underwent transvaginal laparoscopically assisted endoscopic cholecystectomy (aged 40, 61 and 33 years). Pneumoperitoneum was created through a 5mm supraumbilical incision.

Cardiovascular changes during underwater static and dynamic breath-hold dives in trained divers.

Limited information exists concerning arterial blood pressure (BP) changes in underwater breath-hold diving. Simulated chamber dives to 50 m of freshwater (mfw) reported very high levels of invasive BP in two divers during static apnea (SA), whereas a recent study using a noninvasive subaquatic sphygmomanometer reported unchanged or mildly increased values at 10 m SA dive. In this study we investigated underwater BP changes during not only SA but, for the first time, dynamic apnea (DA) and shortened (SHT) DA in 16 trained breath-hold divers.

Spatial and temporal measurements of eye movement in children with dyslexia.

This paper presents the first reading data in Croatian collected with an eye-tracking device. The eye-tracking method allows for research into two crucial levels underlying reading: the visual and the cognitive. The aim of this paper is to show the differences in eye movements in children with dyslexia using the principles of cognitive-control view.

Laparoscopic transabdominal preperitoneal approach for inguinal hernia repair: a five-year experience at a single center.

Purpose: Laparoscopic hernia repair has emerged as an effective alternative method for treating inguinal hernias. It has several significant advantages over the tension-free open repair now in use. In this report we summarize our laparoscopic hernia repair results and recommendations.

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in Cantonal Hospital Livno, Bosnia and Herzegovina and University Hospital Center Split, Croatia.

Cholecystectomy is the most frequently performed operation in abdominal surgery. The aim of this study was to compare the operative procedure and outcomes of the laparoscopic cholecystectomy in two hospitals, the University Hospital Center Split and the Regional Hospital in Livno. A total of 97 patients who underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy for cholelithiasis at University Hospital Center Split and 86 patients from Regional Hospital in Livno, both groups sampled in 2005 were included in this study.