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Minimally invasive surgery is one of the most promising trends in medicine. Despite of its obvious advantages - the use of small incisions reducing trauma and risk of infection - it still represents a great challenge for the surgeon, as visual guidance and dexterity are severely impaired. In the case …

Over the last decade we have been witnessing rapid development of telecommunication networks and services, in particular in the filed of new wireless network technologies. On different markets users are able to communicate using different wireless technologies. The first two generation of mobile networks (i.e. NMT and GSM) were developed …

With the advent of System-on-Chip (SoC), intense research efforts are being carried out in order to find efficient practical solutions for testing deeply embedded, mixed-signal cores. Due to restricted access, a built-in self-test (BIST) of mixed-signal cores is in many cases a preferred alternative to a conventional test using external …

The thesis presents experimental studies of colloidal interactions and novel colloidal structures in confined nematic liquid crystal using optical tweezers. Liquid crystal colloids are a novel class of composite materials with well-controlled periodic structures in the nanometer and micrometer ranges. Moreover, they also posses novel mechanical, optical and rheological properties, …

Selenium (Se) has been demonstrated to be an essential trace element for maintenance of animal and human health. Se is incorporated into proteins to make selenoproteins, which are important antioxidant enzymes. The antioxidant properties of selenoproteins help to prevent cellular damage caused by radicals. Radicals are natural by-products of oxygen …

Simulation models are a widely used tool for modelling and simulating systems for which it is hard to obtain real data. However, the simulation models are usually complex and it is not an easy task to induce new knowledge and find relationships and dependencies among different parts (parameters, processes, modules) …

The toxicity, biological availability and mobility of aluminium (Al) depend on its chemical form. In order to understand toxicity and transport of Al in human body it is important to identify and quantify Al species present in human serum. This led to the development of sensitive and selective analytical methods …

Proteases are responsible for enzymatic cleavage of peptide bonds, which is a basic requirement for completion of diverse biological processes.The proteolytic activity of proteases must be rigorously controlled to avoid inappropriate degradation of proteins. Imbalance in regulation of proteolytic activity can be found in a wide range of diseases. Degradation …

The presence of pharmaceutical residues in surface waters is an emerging environmental issue that provides a new challenge to treatment systems for potable water, wastewater and water reuse. Their principle pathways into the sewerage system are twofold: first, after being administered to patients they are normally excreted as various metabolites …

Data analysis with machine learning methods, when applied to large collections of text data, enables us to discover new knowledge. This knowledge, once put together, might describe the still unknown connections among phenomena and thus contribute to the formation of new hypotheses in different fields, medicine including. Also, connectivity and …