Publications by authors named "Siska V"

Background: Stereotactic irradiation is one of the treatment modalities for intraocular uveal melanoma. The study's purpose was to describe the background of stereotactic one-day session radiosurgery, how the comparison in the difference between the tumor volume measured values from the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) method and the ultrasound method was related to it, and which method was more precise to be used for tumor regression after irradiation.

Methods: The group of 147 patients with choroidal melanoma was treated by stereotactic irradiation on the linear accelerator with a single dose of 35.

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Background: Despite the available diagnostics and treatment, tuberculosis (TB) is a serious infectious disease currently occurring. Even some high-income countries in the world do not fully control it at this time. The reason for this situation is the lack of elimination programs to address the situation.

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  • The Neolithic transition in Europe was led by Near Eastern farmers who gradually spread agriculture across the continent over 3,500 years.
  • This expansion was uneven, particularly slowing down in northern regions due to climatic challenges affecting food production.
  • The study revealed that farming and hunter-gatherer groups likely interacted more in these difficult climates, as poor crop yields may have encouraged cooperation.
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Ancient DNA genome-wide analyses of Neolithic individuals from central and southern Europe indicate an overall population turnover pattern in which migrating farmers from Anatolia and the Near East largely replaced autochthonous Mesolithic hunter-gatherers. However, the genetic history of the Neolithic transition in areas lying north of the European Neolithic core region involved different levels of admixture with hunter-gatherers. Here we analyse genome-wide data of 17 individuals spanning from the Middle Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age (4300-1900 BCE) in order to assess the Neolithic transition in north-central Poland, and the local impacts of hunter-farmer contacts and Late Neolithic steppe migrations.

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The transition from hunting and gathering to farming involved profound cultural and technological changes. In Western and Central Europe, these changes occurred rapidly and synchronously after the arrival of early farmers of Anatolian origin [1-3], who largely replaced the local Mesolithic hunter-gatherers [1, 4-6]. Further east, in the Baltic region, the transition was gradual, with little or no genetic input from incoming farmers [7].

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Ancient genomes have revolutionized our understanding of Holocene prehistory and, particularly, the Neolithic transition in western Eurasia. In contrast, East Asia has so far received little attention, despite representing a core region at which the Neolithic transition took place independently ~3 millennia after its onset in the Near East. We report genome-wide data from two hunter-gatherers from Devil's Gate, an early Neolithic cave site (dated to ~7.

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The agricultural transition profoundly changed human societies. We sequenced and analysed the first genome (1.39x) of an early Neolithic woman from Ganj Dareh, in the Zagros Mountains of Iran, a site with early evidence for an economy based on goat herding, ca.

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We extend the scope of European palaeogenomics by sequencing the genomes of Late Upper Palaeolithic (13,300 years old, 1.4-fold coverage) and Mesolithic (9,700 years old, 15.4-fold) males from western Georgia in the Caucasus and a Late Upper Palaeolithic (13,700 years old, 9.

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Characterizing genetic diversity in Africa is a crucial step for most analyses reconstructing the evolutionary history of anatomically modern humans. However, historic migrations from Eurasia into Africa have affected many contemporary populations, confounding inferences. Here, we present a 12.

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  • The study investigates whether technical surgical skills are primarily determined by innate "aptitude" or can be developed through practice in minimally invasive procedures among medical students.
  • It involved 68 fifth-year medical students who underwent initial assessments of psychomotor and visual-spatial aptitude, followed by a hands-on training and optional practice period.
  • Results revealed that both aptitude and voluntary practice significantly impacted performance, but students with higher aptitude were more likely to pursue surgical careers, despite no initial correlation between aptitude and interest in surgery.
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Aim: The aim of the retrospective study was to establish the frequency of the posterior lens capsule opacification after the cataract surgery and artificial intraocular lens (IOL) Acri.Smart 46S (Acri.Tech Zeiss) implantation.

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Purpose Of The Study: Although surgical treatment of meniscus injuries has made great progress, meniscectomy remains the most frequently indicated intervention. The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the long-term radiological results of isolated subtotal and total meniscectomies and compare them with the clinical results.

Material: The assessed group included 22 men and 8 women at an average age of 35 years; nine and 21 knees, respectively, were treated by isolated subtotal and total meniscectomy in the period from 1987 to 1989.

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