ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to establish ophthalmic parameters in the Pomeranian dog breed. Schirmer tear test (STT), breakup time (TBUTT), Jones (JT), aesthesiometry, biomicroscopy, tonometry, non-contact specular microscopy (SM), ophthalmoscopy and ultrasonography (US) were carried out 48 eyes 24 male female dogs from a breeding kennel. Descriptive statistics applied for data ana...

A picture is worth a thousand words: an empirical study on the influence of content visibility on diffusion processes within a virtual world Jarosław Jankowski, Piotr Bródka and Juho Hamari Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland; Department of Computational Intelligence, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland...

A 5 years old male Pomeranian dog was referred with a history of having tumor mass in the right front paw and occasional bleeding from the growth. On clinical examination, there was a firm, round, ulcerated and reddish the mass found to be located in the palmar region of the right front paw. The tumor mass was successfully removed surgically and histopathological examination of the tumor mass c...

Hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) is an autosomal recessive disorder that leads to progressive iron accumulation and may cause cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, diabetes, and heart failure. Most cases of HH have been linked to mutations in genes associated with iron homeostasis. There have been three major variants in the high Fe (HFE) gene associated with the disease: C282Y, H63D and S65C. In...

Boulders from the Grūda Moraine, which is associated with the maximum extent of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet (SIS) during the last glaciation, and the Baltija (also referred to as the South Lithuanian), the Middle and North Lithuanian moraines, which are associated with recessional stages of the SIS, were sampled for surface exposure dating using Be. By combining these data with existing radiocar...

INTRODUCTION Co-payment in the health sector operates in most healthcare systems in European countries. The aim of this study was knowledge of Polish citizens' opinions concerning healthcare services co-payment with respect to selected socio-demographic factors. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study was conducted using a diagnostic survey of 636 respondents, representing residents of the West Pomera...

The aim of this study was to describe parasites of three lynx living in an enclosure of Western Pomeranian Nature Society in Jablonowo. During analysis of 3 gram faecal samples eggs of Toxascaris leonina, Toxocara cati, Ancylostoma sp. and oocysts of Cystoisospora felis were found. To our knowledge this is the first report of C. felis infection in lynx from Poland. Presented research show that ...

INTRODUCTION Surgical education has become one of the most important directions in modern surgery evolution. To meet growing need for appropriate training in laparoscopic and, even more importantly, classic surgical skills, a curriculum involving contemporary tuition methods is needed. Advanced, structuralised training, which includes advanced technologies like virtual reality training, video c...