New Formulation towards Healthier Meat Products: L. Essential Oil as Alternative for Sodium Nitrite in Dry Fermented Sausages.

The effect of L. essential oil (JEO) addition at concentrations of 0.01, 0.

Model Driven Approach for Development of Person-Centred Care in Stroke Rehabilitation.

Person-centred care is known as a novel approach which contributes to wellbeing, prevention, care and support of patients. There is little evidence about practising PCC in stroke rehabilitation. In this paper, we develop a novel framework for creation of person-centred services for stroke rehabilitation which supports service configuration adapted to the requirements of each patient.

Multidisciplinary Approach for Education in Healthcare Management: Case Study from Montenegro.

Modern education of healthcare managers is one of key preconditions in making reforms towards increasing quality of care and making the provision of health services more cost-effective and efficient. This paper presents unique multidisciplinary approach for education of healthcare managers developed and accredited in Montenegro with elaboration results of the first year of its implementation. The results confirm the interest of experts of different profiles in multidisciplinary studies, as well as the optimality in using resources at national level in Montenegro.

Using Cellular Automata to Simulate Domain Evolution in Proteins.

Proteins play primary roles in important biological processes such as catalysis, physiological functions, and immune system functions. Thus, the research on how proteins evolved has been a nuclear question in the field of evolutionary biology. General models of protein evolution help to determine the baseline expectations for evolution of sequences, and these models have been extensively useful in sequence analysis as well as for the computer simulation of artificial sequence data sets.

Draft Genome Sequences of Five Enterococcus faecium Isolates from Traditional Montenegrin Brine Cheese.

is a multifaceted bacterial species. It is part of the natural human microbiota, it grows in a variety of traditional foods, and emerging multiresistant clones are a leading cause of nosocomial infections. Here, we present draft genomes of five isolates originating from traditional Montenegrin brine cheeses.

Regional Patterns in Retinal Microvascular Network Geometry in Health and Disease.

The study explores the regional differences in microvascular geometry between the optic disc (O) and the macular area (M) in health and disease. Skeletonized manually segmented vascular networks from 15 healthy, 15 retinas with diabetic retinopathy (DR), and 15 retinas with glaucoma from publicly available High-Resolution Fundus (HRF) image database were used. When visualized by a digital fundus camera, O has a substantial proportion of small arteries and larger arterioles, while M contains smaller arterioles at the periphery and avascular zone in the center.

A Framework for Enhancing and Updating Study Programs in Public Health and Medical Informatics Fields in Montenegro.

Montenegro plans to enhance and modernize the curricula and programs in public health fields in line with EU standards and hence the Erasmus-Phelim project developed a framework to develop, implement, and evaluate the education process. A stepwise approach consisting of three dimensions per step was implemented for workshop development. For the evaluation, a train-the-trainer approach was developed and a self-regulation concept consisting of three phases was applied.

The National Star Model of Medical Informatics Education in Montenegro.

Nowadays, medical informatics is unavoidable topic when talking about health innovations and modern practice. Education of professionals in medical informatics is a challenging issue since they need to be capable to respond to challenges of modern health care systems, heterogeneous health information systems with integrated devices and remote access/controls, rapid development of both technology and the character of applications, etc. However, variety of medical informatics educational programs are established all over the world, and there is no general approach that shall be followed and applied.

Fractal characterization of retinal microvascular network morphology during diabetic retinopathy progression.

Objective: The study aimed to characterize morphological changes of the retinal microvascular network during the progression of diabetic retinopathy.

Methods: Publicly available retinal images captured by a digital fundus camera from DIARETDB1 and STARE databases were used. The retinal microvessels were segmented using the automatic method, and vascular network morphology was analyzed by fractal parametrization such as box-counting dimension, lacunarity, and multifractals.

The Stratified Framework for Enhancement of Study Programs in Public Health in Montenegro.

Montenegro plans to enhance its educational system in the area of health information management, in accordance with well-known EU best practices. Within the Erasmus+ project PH-ELIM, a Stratified Framework was developed to provide education of public health professionals making them highly skilled to support the nation in creating a sustainable and flexible health system, in providing good quality health, in protecting citizens against health threats, all by a cost-effective and straightforward approach. The objective of this presentation is to present the intermediate results of the Framework and lessons learned until now.

Manually segmented vascular networks from images of retina with proliferative diabetic and hypertensive retinopathy.

In this article we present a data set that contains 37 image files obtained by manual vessel segmentation of raw retinal images from Structured Analysis of the Retina (STARE) database ("The STARE Project", 2018) [1]. Our expert segmented 8 images that are associated with the single diagnosis of hypertensive retinopathy and 9 images with the single diagnosis of proliferative diabetic retinopathy (Popovic et al., 2018) [2].

Fractal dimension and lacunarity analysis of retinal microvascular morphology in hypertension and diabetes.

Hypertension and diabetes mellitus represent modifiable risk factors for vascular disease. They cause microvascular remodeling, and ultimately result in end-organ damage. Therefore, development of methods for noninvasive quantification of the effects of hypertension and diabetes mellitus on microvasculature is of paramount importance.

A Moodle-based blended learning solution for physiology education in Montenegro: a case study.

This study evaluates the impact of web-based blended learning in the physiology course at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Montenegro. The two main goals of the study were: to determine the impact of e-learning on student success in mastering the course, and to assess user satisfaction after the introduction of e-learning. The study compared a group of students who attended the physiology course before, with a group of students who attended the physiology course after the Moodle platform was fully implemented as an educational tool.

Lactococci of Local Origin as Potential Starter Cultures for Traditional Montenegrin Cheese Production.

The aim of this study is to characterise and examine the biochemical properties of 40 strains isolated from indigenous Montenegrin dairy products in order to explore their potential to be used as starter cultures for producing typical Montenegrin cheese, such as 'bijeli sir', 'masni sir' and 'njeguški sir'. Their safety regarding the production of biogenic amines, the presence of antimicrobial resistance and the antibacterial activity against relevant pathogens and spoilage microorganisms has also been tested. Based on the characterisation, all strains belong to ssp.

Cadmium in liver and kidneys of domestic Balkan and Alpine dairy goat breeds from Montenegro and Serbia.

Concentrations of cadmium (Cd) were determined in the samples of 144 animals around 1 and of 144 animals around 4 years old. Cd was analysed by inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES), after microwave digestion. Cd concentrations were higher (p < 0.

Cadmium and lead in female cattle livers and kidneys from Vojvodina, northern Serbia.

Concentrations of cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb) were determined in livers (n = 52) and kidneys (n = 52) of female cattle (345-2717 days old) from dairy farms in the region Vojvodina. Cd and Pb were analysed by inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry, after microwave digestion. Cd and Pb concentrations did not exceed the Serbian and European maximum set limits in any sample.

Survival of lactic acid and propionibacteria in low- and full-fat Dutch-type cheese during human digestion ex vivo.

Unlabelled: The survival of selected bacteria in semi-hard experimental cheeses was studied after exposure to human gastric and duodenal juices in an ex vivo model. Experimental cheeses (10 and 28% fat) were supplemented with different strains of Lactobacillus sp. and Propionibacterium sp.