Croatian medical journal
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Croatian medical journal · Aug 2004
Historical ArticleCraniometric relationships among medieval Central European populations: implications for Croat migration and expansion.
To determine the ethnic composition of the early medieval Croats, the location from which they migrated to the east coast of the Adriatic, and to separate early medieval Croats from Bijelo brdo culture members, using principal components analysis and discriminant function analysis of craniometric data from Central and South-East European medieval archaeological sites. ⋯ Early medieval Croats seem to be of Slavic ancestry, and at one time shared a common homeland with medieval Poles. Application of unstandardized discriminant function coefficients to unclassified crania from 18 sites showed an expansion of early medieval Croats into continental Croatia during the 10th to 13th century.
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Croatian medical journal · Aug 2004
Free the dinosaurs into butterfly gardens: in a search for changing the profile of the academic professional.
In the present debate about academic medicine in crisis, I argue that the problem is partly the consequence of a global process of alienation and depersonalization. Technology-based medicine is one of the key players which creates unsuitable role models. ⋯ Academic professionals should influence more strongly not only the quality of health care but the whole mentality in our socialized world. Academia itself should also become an arena for advanced ideas, and creative power pervaded by the humanities -- a facet which has been lost.
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Croatian medical journal · Jun 2004
Comparative StudyEpidemiology of adult eye injuries in Split-Dalmatian county.
To determine the incidence of eye injuries, population groups at risk, circumstances and activities at the time of accident, causes, mechanism, type and severity of injury, therapeutic procedures, final outcome, and the incidence of blindness in patients over 18 years of age. ⋯ There was a high incidence of ocular trauma and consequent blindness in Split-Dalmatian County. For the prevention of serious eye injuries, health education and safety strategies should be applied both at home and place of work, where blinding injuries most often occur.