University of Osijek

Decoding the causes of ischemic stroke despite ongoing oral anticoagulation and their clinical impact: the ASPERA-R study

BACKGROUND: Oral anticoagulants (OACs), including vitamin K antagonists and direct OACs, reduce stroke risk in atrial fibrillation (AF), yet breakthrough ischemic stroke still occurs in 1-2% of patients annually despite adequate therapy. The mechanisms underlying these events rem...

Quality Tourism Supply and Destination Competitiveness: The Sequential Mediating Roles of Local Resource Integration and Authenticity

This study investigates how quality tourism supply contributes to destination competitiveness through the sequential mediating roles of local resource integration and perceived authenticity within a sustainability-oriented tourism framework. Building upon the Resource-Based View...

Candidate Biological Indicators of Occupational Stress in Healthcare Workers: Heart Rate, Free Triiodothyronine and HDL Cholesterol—A Cross-Sectional Study

Background/Objectives: Healthcare staff, especially nurses, face high occupational stress, yet objective biological indicators that complement self-report are not well established. We examined whether metabolic, hormonal and physiological markers act as indicators of stress and r...

The Zooplankton International Geospatial dataset: A global repository of spatiotemporal freshwater zooplankton community composition data from lakes and reservoirs to support ecological research

Abstract Zooplankton transfer substantial energy in aquatic food webs and are used as indicators of environmental change. Syntheses of zooplankton community dynamics globally require datasets that span a wide range of environmental gradients; however, these datasets are limited d...

Continuous reference curves for hematology and biochemistry analytes in pregnancy – a prospective study

OBJECTIVES: Pregnancy involves dynamic metabolic changes that cannot be accurately interpreted using population reference intervals (RI). The aim was to develop continuous reference curves for common hematology and biochemistry laboratory analytes in pregnancy and to assess their...

Zinc Biofortification to Enhance Soybean Seed Quality and Lower Cadmium Under Alkaline Conditions: The Role of Genotypes

Zinc (Zn) biofortification is a promising agronomic approach for improving crop nutritional quality and reducing the accumulation of toxic elements in edible plant parts. The aim of the present study was to evaluate differences in Zn and Cd status and accumulation among Zn-biofor...