Submissions from 2013
Evaluating progression of liver disease from repeat liver biopsies in children with chronic hepatitis C- a retrospective study., Parvathi Mohan, Bruce A. Barton, Michael R. Narkewicz, Jean P. Molleston, Regino P. Gonzalez-Peralta, Karen F. Murray, Barbara A. Haber, Kathleen B. Schwarz, and Zachary D. Goodman
Autoantibodies and autoimmune disease during treatment of children with chronic hepatitis C, Jean P. Molleston, William Mellman, Michael R. Narkewicz, William F. Balistreri, Regino P. Gonzalez-Peralta, Maureen M. Jonas, Steven J. Lobritto, Parvathi Mohan, Karen F. Murray, Dolores Njoku, Philip Rosenthal, Bruce A. Barton, Monica V. Talor, Irene Cheng, Kathleen B. Schwarz, and Barbara A. Haber
SOX17 is expressed in regenerating oligodendrocytes in experimental models of demyelination and in multiple sclerosis, N. M. Moll, E. Hong, M. Fauveau, M. Naruse, C. Kerninon, V. Tepavcevic, A. Klopstein, D. Seilhean, Li-Jin J. Chew, Vittorio Gallo, and B. N. Oumesmar
Population pharmacokinetic modeling and dosing simulations of nitrogen-scavenging compounds: Disposition of glycerol phenylbutyrate and sodium phenylbutyrate in adult and pediatric patients with urea cycle disorders., John P.R. Monteleone, Masoud Mokhtarani, George A. Diaz, William Rhead, Uta Lichter-Konecki, Susan A. Berry, Cindy LeMons, Klara Dickinson, Dion F. Coakley, Bruce F. Scharschmidt, and Brendan Lee
Transcatheter device closure of atrial septal defects: A safety review, John Moore, Sanjeet Hegde, Howaida El-Said, Robert Beekman, Lee Benson, Lisa Bergersen, Ralf Holzer, Kathy Jenkins, Richard Ringel, Jonathan Rome, Robert Vincent, and Gerard Martin
Implementation of an in situ qualitative debriefing tool for resuscitations, Paul C. Mullan, Elizabeth Wuestner, Tarra D. Kerr, Daniel P. Christopher, and Binita Patel
Rodent brain slice model for the study of white matter injury, Akira Murata, Kota Agematsu, Ludmila Korotcova, Vittorio Gallo, Richard A. Jonas, and Nobuyuki Ishibashi
Low-dose ketamine as a potential adjuvant therapy for painful vaso-occlusive crises in sickle cell disease, Caitlin M. Neri, Sophie R. Pestieau, and Deepika S. Darbari
Fetal surgery for neural tube defects, Nickie Niforatos and Adre J. Du Plessis
The prevalence of traumatic brain injuries after minor blunt head trauma in children with ventricular shunts, Lise E. Nigrovic, Kathleen Lillis, Shireen M. Atabaki, Peter S. Dayan, John Hoyle, Michael G. Tunik, Elizabeth S. Jacobs, David Monroe, Sandra W. Wootton-Gorges, Michelle Miskin, James F. Holmes, Nathan Kuppermann, and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Working Group of the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN)
Zinc deficiency dermatitis in cholestatic extremely premature infants after a nationwide shortage of injectable zinc - Washington, DC, December 2012, Scott A. Norton, Lamia Soghier, June Hatfield, Jeffrey Lapinski, and Wanda D. Barfield
Long-term outcomes for infants with intestinal atresia studied at Children's National Medical Center, Yevgeniya Nusinovich, Mary E. Revenis, and Clarivet Torres
Characteristics of family conferences at the bedside versus the conference room in pediatric critical care, Tessie W. October, Anne C. Watson, and Pamela S. Hinds
Lipoprotein-X accumulation: A mimic of familial hypercholesterolemia, Yinn Khurn Ooi, Michele Mietus-Snyder, Clarivet Torres, Parvathi Mohan, and Ashraf Harahsheh
Global vaccination recommendations and thimerosal, Walter A. Orenstein, Jerome A. Paulson, Michael T. Brady, Louis Z. Cooper, and Katherine Seib
Wound care challenges in children and adults with spina bifida: An open-cohort study, Katherine Ottolini, Amy B. Harris, June K. Amling, Ann M. Kennelly, Leslie A. Phillips, and Laura L. Tosi
Associations between preschoolers' daytime and nighttime sleep parameters by El-Sheikh, Arsiwalla, Staton, Dyer, and Vaughn, Judith A. Owens
Future research directions in sleep and ADHD: Report of a consensus working group, Judith A. Owens, Reut Gruber, Thomas Brown, Penny Corkum, Samuele Cortese, Louise M. O'Brien, Mark Stein, and Margaret Weiss
The impact of ethnic population dynamics on neonatal ECMO outcomes: A single urban institution study, Tolulope A. Oyetunji, Alexandra Thomas, Tara D. Moon, Michael A. Fisher, Edward Wong, Billie L. Short, and Faisal G. Qureshi
Therapeutic interventions and short-term outcomes for infants with severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia born at <32 >weeks' gestation., Michael A. Padula, Theresa R. Grover, Beverly Brozanski, Isabella Zaniletti, Leif D. Nelin, Jeanette M. Asselin, David J. Durand, Billie L. Short, Eugenia K. Pallotto, Francine D. Dykes, Kristina M. Reber, Jacquelyn R. Evans, and Karna Murthy
Association between practice setting and pediatric hospitalist career satisfaction, Laurie A. Pane, Aisha B. Davis, and Mary C. Ottolini
Imaging clinic. Degraded tympanostomy tube in the middle ear, Nitin J. Patel, Joshua R. Bedwell, Nancy Bauman, and Brian K. Reilly
Basilar artery aneurysm: A new finding in classic infantile pompe disease, Trusha T. Patel, Suhrad G. Banugaria, Donald P. Frush, David S. Enterline, Pranoot Tanpaiboon, and Priya S. Kishnani
Clinical correlates of acute pulmonary events in children and adolescents with sickle cell disease, Rabindra Paul, Caterina P. Minniti, Mehdi Nouraie, Lori Luchtman-Jones, Andrew Campbell, Sohail Rana, Onyinye Onyekwere, Deepika S. Darbari, Olaid Ajayi, Manuel Arteta, Gregory Ensing, Craig Sable, Niti Dham, Gregory J. Kato, Mark T. Gladwin, Oswaldo L. Castro, and Victor R. Gordeuk
Results of phase II levetiracetam trial following acute head injury in children at risk for posttraumatic epilepsy, Phillip L. Pearl, Robert J. McCarter, Colleen L. McGavin, Yuezhou Yu, Fabian Sandoval, Stacey Trzcinski, Shireen M. Atabaki, Tammy Tsuchida, John N. van den Anker, Jianping He, and Pavel Klein
Evidence-based medicine comes of age in pediatric cardiology, Gail D. Pearson, Jonathan R. Kaltman, and Michael S. Lauer
Tricuspid atresia with aortopulmonary window: challenges in achieving a balanced circulation, Syed Murfad Peer, Mary T. Donofrio, Lasya Gaur, and Pranava Sinha
Oximetry signal processing identifies REM sleep-related vulnerability trait in asthmatic children, Geovanny F. Perez, Maria J. Gutierrez, Shehlanoor Huseni, Krishna Pancham, Carlos E. Rodriguez-Martinez, Cesar L. Nino, and Gustavo Nino
Hand grip strength and 2-minute walk test in chronic graft-versus-host disease assessment: Analysis from the chronic GVHD consortium, Joseph Pidala, Xiaoyu Chai, Paul Martin, Yoshihiro Inamoto, Corey Cutler, Jeanne Palmer, Daniel Weisdorf, Steven Pavletic, Mukta Arora, Madan Jagasia, David Jacobsohn, and Stephanie J. Lee
Fetal and neonatal atrial arrhythmias: An association with maternal diabetes and neonatal macrosomia, Jodi I. Pike, Anita Krishnan, Jonathan R. Kaltman, and Mary T. Donofrio
Challenges and successes of recruitment in the "angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition in infants with single ventricle trial" of the Pediatric Heart Network., Nancy A. Pike, Victoria Pemberton, Kerstin Allen, Jeffrey P. Jacobs, Daphne Hsu, Alan B. Lewis, Nancy Ghanayem, Linda Lambert, Kari Crawford, Teresa Atz, Rosalind Korsin, Mingfen Xu, Chitra Ravishankar, James Cnota, and Gail D. Pearson
Directional secretomes reflect polarity specific functions in an in vitro model of human bronchial epithelium, Dinesh K. Pillai, Binu-John Sankoorikal, Eric Johnson, Angelo N. Seneviratne, Jessica Zurko, Kristy J. Brown, Yetrib Hathout, and Mary C. Rose
The ideal time interval for critical care severity-of-illness assessment, Murray M. Pollack, J. Michael Dean, Jerry Butler, Richard Holubkov, Allan Doctor, Kathleen L. Meert, Christopher J.L. Newth, Robert A. Berg, Frank Moler, Heidi Dalton, David L. Wessel, John Berger, Rick E. Harrison, Joseph A. Carcillo, Thomas P. Shanley, and Carol E. Nicholson
Activation of human herpesvirus replication by apoptosis, Alka Prasad, Jil Remick, and Steven L. Zeichner
A latent class analysis of external barriers to drug treatment in China, Chang Qi, Brian C. Kelly, Tieqiao Liu, Yanhui Liao, Wei Hao, and Jichuan Wang
Factors affecting acceptance of routine human immunodeficiency virus screening by adolescents in pediatric emergency departments, Natella Rakhmanina, Nicole Messenger, Gregory Phillips II, Stephen J. Teach, Sephora Morrison, Jaclyn Hern, Jun Payne, Kavitha Ganesan, and Amanda D. Castel
Real-time MRI-guided right heart catheterization in adults using passive catheters, Kanishka Ratnayaka, Anthony Z. Faranesh, Michael S. Hansen, Annette M. Stine, Majdi Halabi, Israel M. Barbrash, William H. Schenke, Victor J. Wright, Laurie P. Grant, Peter Kellman, Ozgur Kocaturk, and Robert J. Lederman
The first step to integrating the child's voice in adverse event reporting in oncology trials: A content validation study among pediatric oncology clinicians., Bryce B. Reeve, Janice S. Withycombe, Justin N. Baker, Mary C. Hooke, Jessica C. Lyons, Catriona Mowbray, Jichuan Wang, David R. Freyer, Steven Joffe, Lillian Sung, Deborah Tomlinson, Stuart H. Gold, and Pamela S. Hinds
ISOQOL recommends minimum standards for patient-reported outcome measures used in patient-centered outcomes and comparative effectiveness research, Bryce B. Reeve, Kathleen W. Wyrwich, Albert W. Wu, Galina Velikova, Caroline B. Terwee, Claire F. Snyder, Carolyn Schwartz, Dennis A. Revicki, Carol M. Moinpour, Lori D. McLeod, Jessica C. Lyons, William R. Lenderking, Pamela S. Hinds, Ron D. Hays, Joanne Greenhalgh, Richard Gershon, David Feeney, Peter M. Fayers, David Cella, Michael Brundage, Sarah Ahmed, Neil K. Aaronson, and Zeeshan Butt
VBP15: Preclinical characterization of a novel anti-inflammatory delta 9,11 steroid, Erica K.M. Reeves, Eric P. Hoffman, Kanneboyina Nagaraju, Jesse M. Damsker, and John M. McCall
Elevated acetaminophen concentration measured after nasal insufflation of percocet, Nicole Reid, Maryann Mazer-Amirshahi, Cathleen Clancy, Laura James, and John V. van den Anker
Neuroimaging of lipid storage disorders, Deborah Rieger, Sarah Auerbach, Paul Robinson, and Andrea L. Gropman
Second solid cancers in patients treated with allogeneic haematopoietic cell transplantation using reduced intensity/non-myeloablative conditioning regimens: a Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research study, O. Ringden, R. Brazauskas, Z. Wang, C. Duncan, David Jacobsohn, J. Mattson, M. Sorror, and N. Majhail
Neonatal hyperoxia exposure disrupts axon-oligodendrocyte integrity in the subcortical white matter., Jonathan Ritter, Thomas Schmitz, Li-Jin J. Chew, Christoph Buhrer, Wiebke Mobius, Marzieh Zonouzi, and Vittorio Gallo
Postpartum mothers' napping and improved cognitive growth fostering of infants: Results from a pilot study, Cynthia R. Ronzio, Edward Huntley, and Maureen Monaghan
Deciphering HIC1 control pathways to reveal new avenues in cancer therapeutics, Brian R. Rood and Dominique Leprince
Survey of vaccine beliefs and practices among families affected by autism spectrum disorders, Rebecca E. Rosenberg, J. Kiely Law, Connie Anderson, Carole A. Samango-Sprouse, and Paul A. Law
Impairments in real-world executive function increase from childhood to adolescence in autism spectrum disorders, Michael Rosenthal, Gregory Wallace, Rachel Lawson, Meagan Wills, Eunice Dixon, Benjamin E. Yerys, and Lauren Kenworthy
Hypomorphic mutations of SEC23B gene account for mild phenotypes of congenital dyserythropoietic anemia type II, Roberta Russo, Concetta Langella, Maria Rosaria Esposito, Antonella Gambale, Francesco Vitiello, Fara Vallefuoco, Torben Ek, Elizabeth Yang, and Achille Iolascon
The association between fracture rates and neighborhood characteristics in Washington, DC, children, Leticia Manning Ryan, Mark Guagliardo, Stephen J. Teach, Jichuan Wang, Jennifer E. Marsh, Steven A. Singer, Joseph L. Wright, and James M. Chamberlain
Patient-perceived facilitators in the transition of care for young adult survivors of childhood cancer., Karim T. Sadak, Amanda Dinofia, and Gregory Reaman
Validation of near infrared spectroscopy to measure abdominal somatic tissue oxygen saturation in neonates, Mariam M. Said, Nickie Niforatos, and Khodayar Rais-Bahrami
Evaluation of the new generation dual-lumen catheter for neonatal ECMO, Mariam M. Said, O. Rivera, Gerald T. Mikesell, and Khodayar Rais-Bahrami
SNP-based non-invasive prenatal testing detects sex chromosome aneuploidies with high accuracy, Carole A. Samango-Sprouse, Milena Banjevic, Allison Ryan, Styrmir Sigurjonsson, Bernhard ZImmermann, Matthew Hill, Megan P. Hall, Margaret Westmeyer, Jennifer Saucier, Zachary Demko, and Matthew Rabinowitz
Introduction: Past, present, and future care of individuals with XXY, Carole A. Samango-Sprouse and Andrea L. Gropman
Positive effects of short course androgen therapy on the neurodevelopmental outcome in boys with 47,XXY syndrome at 36 and 72 months of age, Carole A. Samango-Sprouse, Teresa Sadeghin, Francie L. Mitchell, Teresa Dixon, Emily Stapleton, Madison Kingery, and Andrea L. Gropman
Is it all the X: Familial learning dysfunction and the impact of behavioral aspects of the phenotypic presentation of XXY?, Carole A. Samango-Sprouse, Emily Stapleton, Teresa Sadeghin, and Andrea L. Gropman
Is there really a need to adjust gentamicin dosing in neonates treated with hypothermia?, Samira Samiee and John N. van den Anker
Electroencephalography monitoring in critically ill children: Current practice and implications for future study design, Sarah M. Sanchez, Daniel H. Arndt, Jessica Carpenter, Kevin E. Chapman, and plus 17 additional authors.
Pediatric ICU EEG monitoring: Current resources and practice in the United States and Canada, Sarah M. Sanchez, Jessica Carpenter, Kevin E. Chapman, Dennis J. Dlugos, William B. Gallentine, Christopher C. Giza, Joshua L. Goldstein, Cecil D. Hahn, Sudha K. Kessler, Tobias Loddenkemper, James J. Riviello Jr., and Nicholas S. Abend
An explant assay for assessing cellular behavior of the cranial mesenchyme., Anjali A. Sarkar and Irene E. Zohn
Partial manual exchange reduces iron accumulation during chronic red cell transfusions for sickle cell disease, William J. Savage, Shirley Reddoch, Jaime Wolfe, and James F. Casella
Pediatric preparedness of Lebanese emergency departments, Rasha D. Sawaya, Peter Dayan, Martin V. Pusic, Hachem Nazri, and Amin A. Kazzi
Calcium triggers assembly of ESCRT proteins at the cell membrane, Luana Lea Scheffer, Nimisha Sharma, Sushma Medikayala, Kristy J. Brown, and Jyoti K. Jaiswal
The poor performance of RSR' pattern on electrocardiogram lead V1 for detection of secundum atrial septal defects in children, Ofer Schiller, E. Anne Greene, Jeffrey P. Moak, Marcin Gierdalski, and Charles I. Berul
Femoral vein homograft for neoaortic reconstruction in the Norwood stage 1 operation: A follow-up study, Thomas J. Seery, Pranava Sinha, David Zurakowski, and Richard A. Jonas
Percutaneous closure of a prosthetic pulmonary paravalvular leak, Thomas J. Seery and Michael C. Slack
Herpes simplex virus and eosinophilic esophagitis, Sona Sehgal, Anil Darbari, and Ali Bader
Echocardiographic methods, quality review, and measurement accuracy in a randomized multicenter trial of Marfan syndrome, Elif Seda Selamet Tierney, Jami Levine, Shan Chen, Timothy J. Bradley, Gail D. Pearson, and +17 additional authors
Correction of deformational plagiocephaly in early infancy using the plagio cradle orthotic, Mitchel Seruya, Albert K. Oh, Tina M. Sauerhammer, and Jonathan R. Taylor
Helmet treatment of deformational plagiocephaly: The relationship between age at initiation and rate of correction, Mitchel Seruya, Albert K. Oh, Jonathan H. Taylor, Tina M. Sauerhammer, and Gary F. Rogers
Supraclavicular nerve graft interposition for reconstruction of pediatric brachial plexus injuries, Mitchel Seruya, Ketan M. Patel, Robert F. Keating, and Gary F. Rogers
Analysis of routine intensive care unit admission following fronto-orbital advancement for craniosynostosis., Mitchel Seruya, Tina M. Sauerhammer, Deniz Basci, Gary F. Rogers, Michael J. Boyajian, John S. Myseros, Amanda L. Yaun, Robert F. Keating, and Albert K. Oh
Effects of galactose on glomerular permeability and proteinuria in steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome, Kristen Sgambat, Mindy Banks, and Asha Moudgil
Recognition and management of pediatric food allergy in the emergency department, Hemant P. Sharma, Darlene K. Mansoor, Irene J. Mikhail, Cindy Nguyen, and Bruce L. Klein
Hypoglycemia adverse events in PICUs and cardiac ICUs: Differentiating preventable and nonpreventable events, Paul L. Shea, Michael C. Spaeder, Puneet K. Sayal, Brian R. Jacobs, and David Stockwell
Anorexia nervosa in children and adolescents: Diagnosis, treatment and the role of the pediatrician, Tomas J. Silber
Prenatal diagnosis and 47,XXY, Joe Leigh Simpson and Carole A. Samango-Sprouse
EReply. Re: Balancing the pulmonary circulation in tricuspid atresia with an aortopulmonary window, Pranava Sinha, Syed Murfad Peer, and Mary T. Donofrio
Intra/extracardiac fenestrated modification leads to lower incidence of arrhythmias after the Fontan operation, Pranava Sinha, David Zurakowski, Dingchao He, Can Yerebakan, Vicki Freedenberg, Jeffrey P. Moak, and Richard A. Jonas
Real world executive control impairments in preschoolers with autism spectrum disorders, Pontea E. Smithson, Lauren Kenworthy, Meagan C. Wills, Marian Jarrett, Kathleen Atmore, and Benjamin E. Yerys
Ammonia control in children ages 2 months through 5 years with urea cycle disorders: Comparison of sodium phenylbutyrate and glycerol phenylbutyrate, Wendy Smith, George A. Diaz, Uta Lichter-Konecki, Susan A. Berry, Cary O. Harding, Shawn E. McCandless, Cindy LeMons, Joe Mauney, Klara Dickinson, Dion F. Coakley, Tristen Moors, Masoud Mokhtarani, Bruce F. Scharschmidt, and Brendan Lee
An approach to the identification of anomalies and etiologies in neonates with identified or suspected VACTERL (vertebral defects, anal atresia, tracheo-esophageal fistula with esophageal atresia, cardiac anomalies, renal anomalies and limb anomalies) association, Benjamin D. Solomon, Linda A. Baker, Kelly A. Bear, Bridget K. Cunningham, Philip F. Giampietro, Colleen Hadigan, Donald W. Hadley, Steven Harrison, Steven Harrison, Nickie Niforatos, Scott M. Paul, Cathleen Raggio, Heiko Reutter, and Nicole Warren-Mora
Incidence of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus infection in a children's hospital in the Washington metropolitan area of the United States, 2003-2010, Xiaoyan Song, Joanthan Cogen, and Nalini Singh
Improving hand hygiene compliance in health care workers: Strategies and impact on patient outcomes, Xiaoyan Song, David Stockwell, Tara Floyd, Billie L. Short, and Nalini Singh
Reassessment of omalizumab-dosing strategies and pharmacodynamics in inner-city children and adolescents, Christine A. Sorkness, Jeremy J. Wildfire, Agustin Calatroni, Herman E. Mitchell, William W. Busse, George T. O'Connor, Jacqueline A. Pongracic, Kristie Ross, Michelle A. Gill, Meyer Kattan, Wayne J. Morgan, Stephen J. Teach, Peter J. Gergen, Andrew H. Liu, and Stanley J. Szefler
Severe adenoviral respiratory infection in children, Michael C. Spaeder
A multicenter outcomes analysis of children with severe viral respiratory infection due to human metapneumovirus, Michael C. Spaeder, Jason W. Custer, Melania M. Bembea, Devon O. Aganga, Xiaoyan Song, and Susanna Scafidi
Eosinophilic cystitis in the pediatric population: A case series and review of the literature, Stephen Sparks, A. Kaplan, M. DeCambre, G. Kaplan, and N. Holmes
Musculoskeletal anomalies in a large cohort of boys with 49, XXXXY, Courtney Sprouse, Laura Tosi, Emily Stapleton, Andrea L. Gropman, Francie L. Mitchell, Rick Peret, Teresa Sadeghin, Kathryn Haskell, and Carole A. Samango-Sprouse
Lyme chondritis presenting as painless ear erythema., Hemalatha Srinivasalu, Annemarie C. Brescia, and Carlos D. Rose
Whole body magnetic resonance imaging in evaluation of enthesitis in spondyloarhropathy, Hemalatha Srinivasalu, G. A. Montealegre Sanchez, A. D. Brundidge, M. M. Ward, and S. C. Ward
Differences in the sleep states of IUGR and low-risk fetuses: An MCG study, Bhargavi Sriram, Margret A. Mencer, Samantha McKelvey, Eric R. Siegel, Srinivasan Vairavan, James D. Wilson, Hubert Preissl, Hari Eswaran, and Rathinaswamy B. Govindan
Self-reported recent life stressors and risk of suicide in pediatric Emergency department patients, Ian H. Stanley, Deborah J. Snyder, Sarah Westen, Elizabeth D. Ballard, Stephen J. Teach, Suad Kapetanovic, Elizabeth A. Wharff, Jeffrey A. Bridge, Katherine Ginnis, Maryland Pao, and Lisa M. Horowitz
Images in emergency medicine: An adolescent male with a large palatal mass. Pyogenic granuloma, Lauren E. Staple and Mohsen Saidinejad
Automated adverse event detection collaborative: electronic adverse event identification, classification, and corrective actions across academic pediatric institutions, David Stockwell, Eric Kirkendall, Stephen E. Muething, Elizabeth Kloppenborg, Hima Vinodrao, and Brian R. Jacobs
Narrative abilities of children with epilepsy, Amy Strekas, Nan B. Ratner, Madison Berl, and William D. Gaillard
The incidence of urea cycle disorders, Marshall Summar, Stefan Koelker, Debra Freedenberg, Cynthia Le Mons, Johannes Haberle, Hye-Seung Lee, and Brian Kirmse
Elevation of proinflammatory cytokines in patients with Aicardi-Goutières syndrome, Asako Takanohashi, Morgan Prust, Jichuan Wang, Miriam Bloom, Gillian I. Rice, Johanna L. Schmidt, Yanick J. Crow, Pierre Lebon, Taco W. Kuijpers, Kanneboyina Nagaraju, and Adeline Vanderver
Age-related accumulation of T cells with markers of relatively stronger autoreactivity leads to functional erosion of T cells., Zohreh Tatari-Calderone, Milica Stojakovic, Ramita Dewan, Gama L. Bouder, Dragana Jankovic, and Stanislav Vukmanovic