BARRIERS TO PERFORMING SOFT TISSUE RECONSTRUCTION PROCEDURES AMONG ORTHOPEDIC SURGEONS IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES: RESULTS OF A SURGICAL SKILLS TRAINING COURSE

Barriers to Performing Soft Tissue Reconstruction Procedures among Orthopedic Surgeons in Low- and Middle-income Countries: Results of a Surgical Skills Training Course

Background:.Appropriate management of soft tissue injury associated with orthopedic trauma is challenging in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) due to the lack of available reconstructive surgeons.The Surgical Management and Reconstructive Training (SMART) course teaches orthopedic surgeons reconstructive techniques aimed at improving soft ti

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The role of stewards at sports events in the Republic of Serbia

The traditional view that only the police are Beauty responsible for security at sports events has largely been abandoned in the sense that stewards have more important place.This is also recognized in the Serbian legislation, in the standards of the Law on Private Security (LPS), the Law on the Prevention of Violence and Misconduct at Sports Event

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Chloroplast digestion and the development of functional kleptoplasty in juvenile Elysia timida (Risso, 1818) as compared to short-term and non-chloroplast-retaining sacoglossan slugs.

Sacoglossan sea slugs are the Moulds only metazoans known to perform functional kleptoplasty, the sequestration and retention of functional chloroplasts within their digestive gland cells.Remarkably, a few species with this ability can survive starvation periods of 3-12 months likely due to their stolen chloroplasts.There are no reports of kleptopl

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