Glasnik Antropološkog društva Srbije
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ISSN 1820-7936
prethodni naslov Glasnik Antropološkog društva Jugoslavije (ISSN: 0351-1480) do 2007
eISSN 1820-8827
izdavač(i) Antropološko društvo Srbije, Niš i Univerzitet u Nišu - Prirodno-matematički fakultet, Niš
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periodičnost godišnje
početna godina 2008
glavni urednik Perica Vasiljević, Univerzitet u Nišu, Prirodno-matematički fakultet, Departman za biologiju i ekologiju
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adresa uredništva Bulevar dr Zorana Đinđića, 81-III-170,18000 Niš
osoba za kontakt Perica Vasiljević
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- The influence of the morphological characteristics on the precision of football players
- On the sample of 104 juniors - football players of the First and the Second Federal League in the Republic of Srpska the research was conducted with the aim to define the influence of morphological characteristics on the precision of the football shooting into the horizontal and the vertical target. There have applied 13 anthropometrical measures and 2 situational - motor tests of precision. By means of the regressional analysis there have been defined on the multivariate level statistically significant influence of the morphological characteristics on the results obtained in the football shooting and scoring precision on the horizontal and vertical target from the 15 meters distance. In the manifest area anthropometrical measures such as chest, thigh and shine diameter have shown statistically significant influence on the precision results obtained in football shooting and scoring for the horizontal target and thigh and shine diameter have influenced the precision of vertical target shooting and scoring. .
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- The intercusp patterns on the mandibular M1 and M2 teeth
- The existence and contact types between MB and DL cusps (Protoconid-Entoconid contact), as well as the reduction of cusp numbers and their interrelationship, determine the shape of intercusp patterns. According to Hellman, there are three shapes (types) of patterns: 'y', '+' and 'x'. This research was conducted on 552 orthodontic patients study models at the Clinic of Stomatology of Niš, with the aim of determining the frequency of shapes (types) of intercusp patterns on the permanent mandibular M1 and M2 teeth. The lower M1 teeth of the examined patients are characterized by the 'y' shape (70,11%) and the lower M2 teeth by the '+' shape (90,76%). The second frequent on M1 is the '+' shape (27,35%) and the 'x' shape on M2 (4,89%). On the mandibular M1 teeth, the most frequent type is the 'y 5' type (69,75%) , then the '+ 4' type (23,35%). For M2, the '+ 4' type is characteristic in 89,85%, while the 'y 5' type is found only in 3,44%.
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- The mechanical causes and consequences of statics disorders of motor and sensory functions
- Human body acts according to the laws of physics, as well as each thing in the space. The effects of mechanical force on the living thing can be noticed the most obviously within human's motor and sensory functions. The force of gravity constantly influences human body, with a tendency to pull certain parts of human body towards the earth. Active and passive powers of human organism oppose it, trying to keep the parts of human body within physiological limits. The muscles are the only active power in human organism, while bones, joints, and ligaments are the passive power. All powers that maintain normal upright posture should be in balance. Prevailing of the muscular power leads to upright posture and movement, while the prevailing of the forces of gravity leads to immobility, rest and the disturbance of body posture, as well as to the appearance of definite body deformities. .
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- The mental foramen
- The mental foramen is an important anatomic landmark not only in dentistry but also in forensics, and the knowledge about its accurate location is important in receiving local anesthesia, during surgical and endodontic procedures. The purpose of this study was to determine the most common position and shape of the mental foramen in the Southeast Serbian population. Three hundred panoramic radiographs were analyzed and the horizontal position of the mental foramen was determined according to the reference lines drawn at the longitudinal axes of the first and the second premolar and the mesial root of the first molar. In 62% of the cases mental foramen was between longitudinal axes of the first and the second premolar, in 21% it was in line with the second premolar, in 9% in line with the first premolar, in 8% between the axes of the second premolar and the first molar. The most common shape was round (54%). The horizontal position and shape were asymmetrical in 26% and 32% of the cases, respectively. The most common position of the mental foramen was between the first and the second premolar, while the most common shape was round. Knowledge about variable positions of the mental foramen is important in establishing diagnosis and clinical procedures in the region of the mandible.
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- The motive of blood in the artistic works
- Blood is a specific connective tissue with a liquid intercellular substance where the cells don't have a permanent position. It is consisted of blood plasma and formed cellular elements. The formed elements are the blood cells (erythrocytes and leucocytes) and the cellular fragments platelets (thrombocytes). Blood is a part of a body and it is supposed to have certain magical powers. In almost all traditional cultures blood is considered to be the power of life, its principle as well, and it identified with a genuine life conception (that is why the blood takes an oath, prophesies, cures, protects from evil powers and influence the fertility). Summarizing of the historical, ethnological and anthropological interpretation of blood could be defined with the following formula: blood=power of life=creating=universal cure=life itself. The blood motive was frequently the central part of world art from the prehistory to the pop art. Would Sophocles' tragedies, Shakespeare's plays or Russian classics' epopees be so common in the reading literature of the people of 21st century, if their characters hadn't been signed with their own blood? Blood was the favorite color of the anonymous painter from Altamira, the olden masters Goya and Velasquez but also the contemporary artists De Kirk and Oscar Kokoscha. In the region of former Yugoslavia we were growing up and becoming mature people with Goran Kovacic and Desanka Maksimovic's verses, learning how to love with Branko Miljkovic and Izet Sarajlić; becoming rebels with Živojin Pavlović and Saša Petrović's movies where all of these always had a pungent flavor of warm human blood. Therefore we are obliged not only because of our profession, but also because of the ethical, biomedical and cultural reasons to take care of blood as an existential element. .
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- The nail's morphological and metrical characteristics
- More anthropological researches are dealing with young people of North Serbia. Their objects are mostly qualitative (genetic, physiological). Even though our body parts differ - partly because of genetic reasons, in this work the morphological characteristics of the nail is described. A Subotician example is taken: the back of the hand, the fingers, and the nails' build (shape). Each of the fingernails' absolute, and relative measures, and the coefficient of these numbers are taken, too.
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- The relation between the BMI (level of nourishment) and the bad kyphotic posture of the elementary school students
- This paper is aimed at establishing the Body Mass Index (BMI), on the population of elementary school students aged 11 ± 6 months, and the level of correlation with bad kyphotic body posture. The survey was carried out on 428 respondents (219 male and 209 female), on the territory of the city of Kragujevac. In order to estimate the kyphotic bad body posture a somatometry method was used (the sinker, ruler and dermograph), and the level of nourishment was established by using Body Mass Index (BMI) which were compared with the table made in percentiles. The existence and the level of correlation between the researched spaces was made by using the Pearsonžs Chi square test and the contingency coefficient as a correlation measure based on the Chi square test. The greatest number of respondents have normal weight (75,58 %), followed by a much smaller number of those prone to gaining weight (11,29 %), whereas the number of over-weight and undernourished respondents is very small (5,30 %; 6,45 %). The biggest number of cases of the kyphotic body posture was found in the group of over-weight students (60.87 %), followed by a group of students prone to gaining weight 48.98 % and 43.90 % have normal weight; lastly the number of undernourished students amount to 28.57 %. The kyphotic body posture of the male respondents is highest in the group of over-weight students (80%), followed by the undernourished respondents with 71.43%, then those prone to gaining weight with 66.67%, and lastly the respondents with normal weight with 56.91%. The female respondents show the biggest number of kyphotic body posture in the over-weight group too (46.15%), followed by the group of those prone to gaining weight with 35.71%, whereas the smallest number of bad body posture can be found in the group of under-nourished respondents (14.29%). The values of the Pearsonžs Chisquare and Conlingency coefficient, on the level of significance of 0.12, indicates that there is no statistically significant correlation of the kyphotic body posture and the BMI as the research on the population has shown. .
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- The relations between foveolae palatinae and frontal line of soft palate flexion
- Authors measured the distance between frontal vibration line (VL-frontal line of soft palate flexion) and foveolae palatinae (FR-palatinal pit at transition from hard into soft palate). Antropometric measurements performed on 382 patients required construction of measurement equipment of gracile dimension and high precision. The results of the study were presented in tables and analyssed by routine statistical methodology. In most cases (92, 3%) VL presented in front of palatal pits at the average distance of 1, 79 mm. In 38, 7% of the cases, absolute or partial coexistence of these parameters was found, which suggest conditional acceptance of FP during VL localization. The significance of observed relationships between VL and FP is particularly prominent in the cases where it is difficult to determine possible pharyngeal border of medial part of complete denture. Covering of FP with 0, 5-1 mm medial part of pharyngeal edge represents reconciliating and biologically justifiable view between two extreme conceptions of pharyngeal extension of complete denture. .
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- The research of morphological variations and sexual dimorphism of primary grooves on the medial side of brain hemispheres in humans
- Morphological studies of the various parts of the brain show certain morphological and morphometric differences in correlation with sex, so-called sexual dimorphism of the brain. Our research has been done on the cerebral hemispheres, taken from cadavers of both sexes and different age without pathological processes in the brain. The sample comprised 26 male brains and 16 female brains. We studied three primary grooves (sulcus cinguli, sulcus parietooccipitalis and sulcus calcarinus) of the medial surface of the human cerebral hemispheres. We conducted morphological typology of grooves and morphometric measurements of primary brain grooves length in relation to sex and side of hemisphere. The results showed a statistically significant sex difference in the cingulate sulcus length (p<0,05). Morphometric differences in sulcus parietooccipitalis and sulcus calcarinus were not statistically significant in relation to sex (p>0,05). Determined morphometric sexual dimorphism in cingulate sulcus length is significant because it implies the correlation between morphology and function of the explored areas of the cerebral cortex.
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- The role of diagonal earlobe crease (Frank's sign) in clinical evaluation of coronary risk
- The association between the presence of diagonal earlobe crease (ELC) and coronary artery disease (CAD) was first reported by Fank 1973 (positive ear lobe sign). This connection still remains controversial. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between bilateral ELC, preauricular creases (PAC) to CAD and other coronary risk factors. A total of 150 patients were examined (aged 30-80) grouped by age and sex .70 of them were diagnosed with CAD. The control group included 80 patients (asymptomatic) with normal ECG. Bilateral ELC and preauricular creases were significantly and positively correlated with CAD, hypertension, age(>40), male gender and cigarette smoking. Positive predictive value of the ELC and PAC for CAD was 60%. The bilateral ELC and PAC were an important dermatological indicators of CAD and they might be a useful diagnostic tool in clinical examination of patients. .
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- The role of the trefoil shape of the lumbar vertebral canal in low back pain
- The shape of the lumbar spinal canal in its upper part is almost circular, and it changes gradually in a triangular shape in its lower part. The term trefoil refers to a triangular shape of lumbar vertebral foramen. It means that the angles of the foramen are twisted inside and can be seen only when the posterolateral sides are concave and protrude into the foramen. The trefoil shape of the lumbar canal is commonly seen on CT or MRI in adults with low back pain and radicular symptoms. The aim of this study was to determine the role of the trefoil shape of the lumbar spinal canal in the symptomatic adult males and females with low back pain. The study involved 32 patients with clinical evidences of lumbar canal stenosis confirmed by MRI. The trefoil configuration was found consistently at the L5 level (78%) and additionally at the L4 (22%). The trefoil shape was seen in 590% in men and 73% in women. Each patient with trefoil shape had a central and subarticular stenosis. The clinical relevance of the trefoil configuration was in a possible predisposition to compression of lumbar and sacral nerve roots. The correlation between clinical symptoms and radiographic images was necessary to make the clinical diagnosis of lumbar spinal stenosis. Our findings indicated that the trefoil shape is a common non-pathological condition at the L4 and L5 level. It was probably a developmental variation (sui generis) of spinal canal anatomy.
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- The static magnetic field
- Numerous benefits of magnets for leaving tissues are well known in medicine. The most popular are: inhibition of bacterial and fungal growth, anti-inflammatory effect, increase of metabolic process in the inflamed tissue, increase of elimination of inflammatory mediators, analgetic effect, osteogenetic and healing effect. The benefit of magnetic stimulation are also numerous. However, the most important thing is that magnetic stimulation is very simple and non-invasive method. There is a great interests in stomatology for this kind of therapy. The magnets have been applied in prosthetic dentistry, orthodontics and parodontology. The magnets have a very long tradition in removable prosthetic dentistry. They have been mostly used in retention of removable dentures. However, their osteogenetic effect are also interesting in prosthetic dentistry. The regenerative processes stimulated by static magnetic field are very similar in the human long bones and jaw ones. Therefore, the positive effects of magnetic field in healing of the long bone fractures can be applied in the prosthetic therapy of patients with the last remaining teeth. Magnets which are used for these purposes should be compatible with the oral tissues and resistant to the corrosive processes in the oral environment.