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Introduction/Objective. COVID-19 pandemic has changed the rehabilitation practice across the globe. A sudden transition from in person therapy at the center to remote therapy challenged the mangers and multi-disciplinary team members providing pediatric rehabilitation. The main objective of this research was to assess the provision of services for children with disabilities during COVID 19 in the UAE. Methods. Two surveys were developed by the research team, one for the center managers and the others for multidisciplinary team members. Both surveys were validated through experts followed by a pilot study. The final versions of the survey were sent to all the pediatric rehabilitation centers within the United Arab Emirates in September 2020. A total of 44 managers and 434 multidisciplinary team members completed the survey. Results. The accessibility of the pediatric rehabilitation services was reported to be very high with 77%. Regarding the cost for running the services almost half 46% of managers reported to be costlier than the normal. Telerehabilitation was the most common approach utilized with synchronized live video calls (86%), YouTube video clips (88%) and created own video (65%). Conclusion. Telerehabilitation appeared to be the most efficient model used for pediatric rehabilitation during the pandemic. The future investments for the continued use of telerehabilitation require planning, budgeting, investing and creating supportive environments for parents, children and multidisciplinary team members. There is a need for sharing platforms for educational and therapeutic resources created during the pandemic with ongoing research on telerehabilitation.

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New fossils from the Late Cenomanian-Turonian locality in the Bileca area are reported. The fossils include a diverse assemblage of snakelike reptile remains, fishes and plants. While fossil snakes have already been found in this area, the remains of fish and plants are reported for the first time. Based on the state of fossil preservation, the following were identified: the snake Pachyophis (Simol iophiidae), the pychnodont fish Coelodus sp., and plant remains of the flowering plants groups Magnoliidae exc. Lilianae, Arecaceae (palm trees), and Cycadopsida.

This paper presents the first Upper Cretaceous remains of fish in Serbia, discovered near the village of Struganik. This is also the first described find of Mesozoic fish in Serbia. A stone slab with visible contours of an almost complete fish, with a total body length of about 20 cm, was excavated from the Struganik quarry. Most bones are preserved as imprints. The number of vertebrae, the shape and position of the cranial bones, the type of teeth, and the position of the first dorsal fin all indicate that the studied specimen belongs to the genus Enchodus known from several Upper Cretaceous localities in the Tethys domain.