http://dx.doi.org/10.3415/VCOT-15-02-0038 The authors of papers submitted for publication in Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and Traumatology are required to confirm that the manuscript has been submitted solely to this journal, and it is not published, in press, or submitted elsewhere. It is essential that the paper is an original contribution, and that it does not contain data that ha...

During the last decades the country has witnessed a noteworthy expansion and consolidation of graduate studies in Public Health. This expansion has been followed by the emergence of new research groups and lines of research, many of which deal fundamentally with the numerous challenges posed by public health at the regional level. Depending on a set of factors (research theme, methodological ap...

The Croatian Medical Journal (CMJ) is a bimonthly scientific journal, that publishes mostly original articles. It is indexed in the Index Medicus/MEDLINE, Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, and the Science Citation Index Expanded. Since the CMJ's 15th anniversary in 2007, our aim has been to assess the importance of the Journal through its impact factor (IF) and immediacy index, with a particu...

one of the main requirements for providing software security is the enforcement of access control policies, which is sometimes referred to as the heart of security. the main purpose of access control policies is to protect resources of the system against unauthorized accesses. any error in the implementation of access control policies may lead to undesirable outcomes. hence, we should ensure th...

This study explores how democracy—often understood as an abstract concept or a location- transcending, intangible phenomenon—is produced, shaped and continuously reshaped through local library practices in certain places under conditions at specific point time. To better understand potential conflicts and/or tensions that might arise between the three levels of Swedish policy time when values e...