bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Prediction of diabetic protein markers based on an ensemble method
Authors: Qu Kaiyang , Zou Quan , Shi Hua
Published: July 2021

Introduction: A diabetic protein marker is a type of protein that is closely related to diabetes. This kind of protein plays an important role in the prevention and diagnosis of diabetes. Therefore, it is necessary to identify an effective method for predicting diabetic protein markers. In this study, we propose using ensemble methods to predict diabetic protein markers. Methodological issues: The ensemble method consists of two aspects. First, we combine a feature extraction method to obtain mixed features. Next, we classify the protein using ensemble classifiers. We use three feature extraction methods in the ensemble method, including composition and physicochemical features (abbreviated as 188D), adaptive skip gram features (abbreviated as 400D) and g-gap (abbreviated as 670D). There are six traditional classifiers in this study: decision tree, Naive Bayes, logistic regression, part, k-nearest neighbor, and kernel logistic regression. The ensemble classifiers are random forest and vote. First, we used feature extraction methods and traditional classifiers to classify protein sequences. Then, we compared the combined feature extraction methods with single methods. Next, we compared ensemble classifiers to traditional classifiers. Finally, we used ensemble classifiers and combined feature extraction methods to predict samples. Results: The results indicated that ensemble methods outperform single methods with respect to either ensemble classifiers or combined feature extraction methods. When the classifier is a random forest and the feature extraction method is 588D (combined 188D and 400D), the performance is best among all methods. The second best ensemble feature extraction method is 1285D (combining the three methods) with random forest. The best single feature extraction method is 188D, and the worst one is g-gap. Conclusion: According to the results, the ensemble method, either the combined feature extraction method or the ensemble classifier, was better than the single method. We anticipate that ensemble methods will be a useful tool for identifying diabetic protein markers in a cost-effective manner.
Improved prediction of drug-target interactions based on ensemble learning with fuzzy local ternary pattern
Authors: Zhao Zheng-Yang , Huang Wen-Zhun , Zhan Xin-Ke , Huang Yu-An , Zhang Shan-Wen , Yu Chang-Qing
Published: July 2021

Introduction: The prediction of interacting drug-target pairs plays an essential role in the field of drug repurposing, and drug discovery. Although biotechnology and chemical technology have made extraordinary progress, the process of dose-response experiments and clinical trials is still extremely complex, laborious, and costly. As a result, a robust computer-aided model is of an urgent need to predict drug-target interactions (DTIs). Methods: In this paper, we report a novel computational approach combining fuzzy local ternary pattern (FLTP), Position-Specific Scoring Matrix (PSSM), and rotation forest (RF) to identify DTIs. More specially, the target primary sequence is first numerically characterized into PSSM which records the biological evolution information. Afterward, the FLTP method is applied in extracting the highly representative descriptors of PSSM, and the combinations of FLTP descriptors and drug molecular fingerprints are regarded as the complete features of drug-target pairs. Results: Finally, the entire features are fed into rotation forests for inferring potential DTIs. The experiments of 5-fold cross-validation (CV) achieve mean accuracies of 89.08%, 86.14%, 82.41%, and 78.40% on Enzyme, Ion Channel, GPCRs, and Nuclear Receptor datasets. Discussion: For further validating the model performance, we performed experiments with the state-of-art support vector machine (SVM) and light gradient boosting machine (LGBM). The experimental results indicate the superiorities of the proposed model in effectively and reliably detect potential DTIs. There is an anticipation that the proposed model can establish a feasible and convenient tool to identify high-throughput identification of DTIs.
Key toolkits of non-pharmacological management in COPD: during and beyond COVID-19
Authors: Alqahtani Jaber S. , Alghamdi Saeed M , Aldhahir Abdulelah M , Althobiani Malik , Oyelade Tope
Published: July 2021

Individuals with COPD are at higher risk of severe disease and mortality if they contract COVID-19. Shielding and social distancing have negatively impacted the delivery of routine care for COPD patients, which should be maintained to avoid further deterioration. We aimed to review the literature about the key toolkits of non-pharmacological treatments of COPD patients before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, we focused on smoking cessation, pulmonary rehabilitation, and telehealth delivery approaches during the COVID-19 crisis. Smoking cessation services are important to mitigate the spread of the virus, especially in people with chronic lung disease; the pandemic, in one way or another, has helped to enhance people’s motivation to quit smoking. Also, tele-rehabilitation is considered as effective as conventional pulmonary rehabilitation in controlling symptoms of disease, promoting physical activity, and enhancing self-management of COPD. Tele-rehabilitation offers flexibility and it could be the dominant mode for providing a pulmonary rehabilitation programme. Finally, the use of telehealth (TH) modes has trended during the pandemic. Consensus about the effectiveness of TH in reducing exacerbation events is still inconclusive. In the context of COPD, further clinical research must concentrate on understanding attitudes, behaviours, and motivations towards smoking cessation. Further recommendations include gauging the feasibility of a long-term tele-rehabilitation programme in large COPD populations, designing more COPD-related mobile apps, and evaluating the feasibility of tele-rehabilitation in clinical practice.
Hermitian Toeplitz determinants for the class S of univalent functions
Authors: Obradović Milutin , Tuneski Nikola
Published: July 2021

Introducing a new method, we give sharp estimates of the Hermitian Toeplitz determinants of third order for the class S of functions univalent in the unit disc. The new approach is also illustrated on some subclasses of the class S.
A Typological Inquiry into Asian Undead Beings, or, Why There Are No Vampires in the East
Authors: Ng Andrew Hock Soon
Published: July 2021

Investigating four East and Southeast Asian undead entities, this essay attempts to demonstrate why the practice of labeling non-Western undead beings as vampires observable in both popular culture (particularly on the Internet in the twenty-first century) and academia is shortsighted and reductive because it fails to account for the uniqueness associated with any undead being, whether Eastern or Western, that is determined by its respective cultural-historical and cosmological contexts.
Tindak Tutur Ilokusi dalam Sinetron Tukang Ojek Pengkolan di Stasiun Televisi RCTI
Authors: Muliawan Pondra
Published: July 2021

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan tindak tutur ilokusi yang terdapat pada percakapan sinetron “Tukang Ojek Pengkolan” dan mengidentifikasi fungsi tuturan ilokusi yang terdapat dalam percakapan sinetron “Tukang Ojek Pengkolan”. Jenis penelitian ini bersifat deskriptif dengan menggunakan metode kualitatif berdasarkan pendekatan prgmatik. Penelitian yang berjenis kualitatif ini memaparkan jenis tindak tutur ilokusi dan konteks tuturan dalam sinetron Tukang Ojek Pengkolan yang ditayangkan di stasiun televisi RCTI. Berdasarkan analisis, ditemukan adanya tindak tutur ilokusi yang terdiri dari empat jenis tindak tutur, yaitu tindak tutur representatif yang digunakan dalam konteks menyatakan, melaporkan, dan mengeluh. Tindak tutur ilokusi direktif digunakan dalam konteks menasihati memesan, dan memohon. Tindak tutur ilokusi komisif digunakan dalam konteks menawarkan. Tindak tutur ilokusi ekspresif digunakan dalam konteks mengucapkan terima kasih dan meminta maaf.
The Impact of COVID-19 on the Internationalization of Higher Education
Authors: Kanjera Simon
Published: July 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed new challenges to global higher education, and higher education institutions have made innovations in teaching methods, student management and evaluation mechanisms. At a time when huge efforts have been made to transform and improve higher education in Africa, the COVID-19 pandemic could destabilize the higher education sector with serious consequences. This paper focuses on some of these implications in order to enable higher education leaders, decision makers, and other stakeholders to reflect and prepare adequately to address these issues.
Promover la igualdad mediante el uso de storytelling: aproximación al estado de la cuestión a través del palmarés del festival publicitario El Sol (2018-2019)
Authors: Menéndez Menéndez María Isabel
Published: July 2021

El uso del storytelling en publicidad se está imponiendo en la creatividad contemporánea por su capacidad para conectar emocionalmente con los públicos y su potencial para provocar la empatía. Es por ello que este artículo se interesa por el papel de estas estrategias creativas en la transmisión de valores relacionados con la igualdad entre sexos. Se analiza una muestra del palmarés del festival El Sol para descubrir si la publicidad narrativa más reciente ha dejado atrás el tradicional sexismo publicitario y adopta propuestas explícitas sobre igualdad y/o empoderamiento de las mujeres.
Flexibility of the hamstring muscles and the position of thetrunk in boys training football
Authors: Smoła Eliza , Wódka Katarzyna , Bibro Marta A. , Jankowicz-Szymańska Agnieszka
Published: July 2021

Introduction: The objective of the study was to assess the flexibility of the hamstring muscles and their relationship with the position of the spine, shoulder and pelvic girdles in individual planes in boys training football.
Material and methods: The study included 28 boys aged 10-14, training football 3 times a week for at least 2 years. The subjects were divided into two groups: correct bilateral flexibility of the hamstring muscles, bilateral shortening of the hamstring muscles. Body height and weight were measured and BMI was calculated. The three-dimensional position of the trunk was examined using the Zebris pointer ultrasound system. The passive straightleg- raising test was used to assess the flexibility of the hamstring muscles.
Results: 32% of people were diagnosed with the correct length of both hamstring muscles, 57% had shortened muscles in both limbs. Mean values determining the depth of thoracic kyphosis indicated its deepening in each of the groups, however, lower values were recorded in boys with reduced flexibility of the hamstring muscle mass. This group was also characterised by a better balance of the trunk in the sagittal plane. The average depth of lumbar lordosis in both groups was within the normal range. In the frontal plane, in both groups of footballers there was a tendency to lift the left shoulder (more frequent in the group with normal flexibility), the pelvis on the left side and shift the trunk to the right.
Conclusion: Shortening of the hamstring muscles is common in boys who train football, but no evidence of a relationship between the limited flexibility of these muscles and the position of the trunk was found.
Tropical infections as occupational diseases – labor inspectorate physicians’ aspects of a complex problem
Authors: Jansing Paul J. , Morrison Audry , Heggie Travis W. , Küpper Thomas
Published: July 2021

Background: Occupational physicians work directly with individual employees regarding diseases that has been caused or exacerbated by workplace factors. However, employees are increasingly required to travel for their work, including to tropical countries where they risk exposure to diseases they would not normally encounter at home (i.e., malaria). Such disease/s may also take days to months to incubate before becoming symptomatic, even after their return home, thus delaying and complicating the diagnosis. Proving this was an occupational disease with respective sick leave entitlement or compensation can be challenging. There is a lack of data concerning occupational diseases caused by tropical infections.
 Material and methods: Employee case records for the period 2003-2008 from the State Institute for Occupational Health and Safety of North-Rhine Westphalia in Germany were analysed and assessed within Germany’s regulatory framework. These records included Germany’s largest industrial zone.
 Results: From 2003-2008the suspected cases of “tropical diseases and typhus”, categorized as occupational disease “Bk 3104” in Germany, have decreased significantly. A high percentage of the suspected cases was accepted as occupational disease, but persistent or permanent sequelae which conferred an entitlement to compensation were rare.
Conclusion:  There is scope to improve diagnosis and acceptance of tropical diseases as occupational diseases. The most important diseases reported were malaria, amoebiasis, and dengue fever. Comprehensive pre-travel advice and post-travel follow-ups by physicians trained in travel and occupational health medicine should be mandatory. Data indicate that there is a lack of knowledge on how to prevent infectious disease abroad.
Water disinfection in the mountains – an update of the recommendation of the Medical Commission of the Union Internationale des Associations d’Alpinisme (UIAA)
Authors: Albanus C. , Timmermann L. , Schoeffl Volker , Hillebrandt David , Milledge Jim , Küpper Thomas
Published: July 2021

Safe water is still a major problem for travellers in many countries worldwide. In the last decade several new technical developments were made and more data exist about traditional procedures to produce safe water. This update includes such data with special regard to UV-C and held devices and SODIS.
La relación de identidad de los cristianos del norte de África con la ejercitación espiritual, en las cartas de Agustín
Authors: Kamimura Naoki ,   Order of Augustinian Recollects
Published: July 2021

In contributing to the debate on the transformation of late Roman world, some scholars have claimed that the boundaries between religious groups were fluid with external and internal factors. Christian identity was not characterised by clear indications of religious belief, observance, and practice. Some intriguing surveys have shown that the difference between Christians and pagans can be seen as part of a discursive binary. While the North African evidence of their identity allows us to consider the question of what it means to be a Christian, it is noteworthy that there is a comprehensive framework for the understanding of human behavior and thought: the ‘spiritual exercises’ in the Greco-Roman tradition. In the fourth and fifth centuries, Christian thinkers began to pursue the matter in question as being linked with the context of his concern for Christianness in late North Africa, the correlation still remains in question. In this article, therefore, first I examine how he referred to the Christian code of behavior in his letters. In particular, focusing my attention on epistolary correspondence of Augustine with two seemingly ‘pagans’, I show how he tried to impose the idea of ehe Christian norms of behavior on his correspondence –with Dioscorus (epp. 117 and 118) and with Volusianus (epp. 132, 135, and 137). Then I ask what Augustine understood by spiritual training. For the sake of clarity, I have divided the letters along he thematic line into three groups –the intellectual and therapeutic (ep. 26, 37, 56, 102, 162, 193, 202A, and 2*), the religious and eschatological (ep. 92, 130, 131, 137, and 157), and the exegetical aspect (ep. 28, 137, 149, 199, and 213). In each group I consider them chronologically as far as possible. Finally, I consider the principal feature of spiritual training, thereby coming to the enhancement of spiritual affinities, and mutual relationships of which he made use in speaking about Christian identity.
¿Griego o hebreo? Agustín y Jerónimo sobre la traducción bíblica
Authors: Kato Teppei ,   Order of Augustinian Recollects
Published: July 2021

This article elucidates the main topic in the discussion between Augustine and Jerome about biblical translation, by focusing on their views about the language of the source text of translation. According to the historical study of translation, translators at the time of Cicero were allowed to show their creativity, since they presupposed the reader’s ability to compare the Greek text with the Latin translation. Cicero, accordingly, chose free translation as his own principle. Augustine expected the readers of the Bible to compare the source text with the translation, claiming that the source text should be the Greek Bible, namely, the LXX. However, Augustine preferred literal translation, for he estimated the reader’s comprehension of the source text to be low. Jerome, on the other hand, anticipated the readers at a high level, so that he basically adopted free translation as a translation method of any kind of literary work, including the Bible. Moreover, since Jerome accepted the Hebrew text as the original text, rejecting the authority of the LXX, he recommended the non-Hebrew readers ask the Hebrews to examine the accuracy of his translation. In addition, as Augustine and Jerome have different attitudes towards translation, they also have different views on the ideological state of the LXX: Augustine allowed the LXX to be a free translation, while Jerome strictly demanded it to be a literal translation, even though their own translation theories are opposite, respectively.
Beati mundicordes (Mt 5, 8). Conciencia, conocimiento y Visio Dei en Agustín antes del 411
Authors: Bizzozero Andrea ,   Order of Augustinian Recollects
Published: July 2021

This article examines the link between the purity of the heart, conscience, knowledge and uisio dei. In Mt. 5:8 the vision and knowledge of God derive from a particular situation of the human heart. The vision-heart pair invites one to reflect on the anthropological structure and the conditions of possibility of the process of knowledge. The main questions here would be: How can one know God? Which faculties does one need in order to know Him? Which are the roles of the mind, the heart and the will in this knowledge? Why Augustine uses Mt. 5:8 to speak about the knowledge of God? At the same time, the expression beati mundicordes invites one to reflect on the qualities of the human condition in order to see-know God. In other words: Which features must the heart have in order to see God? If, on the one hand, it is necessary to know the starting point of this knowledge, on the other hand, it is important to show why it is in human nature to want to see God. This article will analyze the occurrences of the quotation of Mt. 5:8 in Augustine’s works before 411 in order to understand the meaning of the expression beati mundicordes and the conditions of possibility of the uisio dei. This study will investigate the Mt. 5:8 references particularly in De fide et symbolo, De sermone domini in monte, Contra Adimantum, De diuersis quaestionibus octoginta tribus, Contra epistulam Manichaei, De agone, Contra Faustum, Contra Felicem, Sancta uirginitate, ep. 92, ep. 130 and Sermo 88.
Conscientia (…) itineribus (...) in sapientiam. Conscientia en las primeras obras de san Agustín (388-395)
Authors: Eguiarte Enrique A. ,   Order of Augustinian Recollects
Published: July 2021

The article deals with the use of the term conscienta in S. Augustine’s early writings (388-395), namely the third book of De libero arbitrio, the first 32 enarrationes in Psalmos and De sermone Domini in monte, to trace the development of the idea of conscientia, and the shift from an anthropological concept of conscientia (coscientia mortalitatis/ conscientia itineribus) to a Theological and Moral dimension (conscientia bona/mala) in St. Augustine’s first works as a young Priest at Hippo, namely in De sermone Domini in monte, where the Moral aspects of conscientia are underlined.
Hofbauer Cells and COVID-19 in Pregnancy
Authors: Schwartz David A. , Baldewijns Marcella , Benachi Alexandra , Bugatti Mattia , Bulfamante Gaetano , Cheng Ke , Collins Rebecca R.J. , Debelenko Larisa , De Luca Danièle , Facchetti Fabio , Fitzgerald Brendan , Levitan Daniel , Linn Rebecca L. , Marcelis Lukas , Morotti Denise , Morotti Raffaella , Patanè Luisa , Prevot Sophie , Pulinx Bianca , Saad Ali G. , Schoenmakers Sam , Strybol David , Thomas Kristen , Tosi Delfina , Toto Valentina , van der Meeren Lotte E. , Verdijk Robert M. , Vivanti Alexandre J. , Zaigham Mehreen
Published: July 2021

Context.—

SARS-CoV-2 can undergo maternal–fetal transmission, heightening interest in the placental pathology findings from this infection. Transplacental SARS-CoV-2 transmission is typically accompanied by chronic histiocytic intervillositis together with necrosis and positivity of syncytiotrophoblast for SARS-CoV-2. Hofbauer cells are placental macrophages that have been involved in viral diseases, including HIV and Zika virus, but their involvement in SARS-CoV-2 is unknown.

Objective.—

To determine whether SARS-CoV-2 can extend beyond the syncytiotrophoblast to enter Hofbauer cells, endothelium, and other villous stromal cells in infected placentas of liveborn and stillborn infants.

Design.—

Case-based retrospective analysis by 29 perinatal and molecular pathology specialists of placental findings from a preselected cohort of 22 SARS-CoV-2–infected placentas delivered to pregnant women testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 from 7 countries. Molecular pathology methods were used to investigate viral involvement of Hofbauer cells, villous capillary endothelium, syncytiotrophoblast, and other fetal-derived cells.

Results.—

Chronic histiocytic intervillositis and trophoblast necrosis were present in all 22 placentas (100%). SARS-CoV-2 was identified in Hofbauer cells from 4 of 22 placentas (18.2%). Villous capillary endothelial staining was positive in 2 of 22 cases (9.1%), both of which also had viral positivity in Hofbauer cells. Syncytiotrophoblast staining occurred in 21 of 22 placentas (95.5%). Hofbauer cell hyperplasia was present in 3 of 22 placentas (13.6%). In the 7 cases having documented transplacental infection of the fetus, 2 (28.6%) occurred in placentas with Hofbauer cell staining positive for SARS-CoV-2.

Conclusions.—

SARS-CoV-2 can extend beyond the trophoblast into the villous stroma, involving Hofbauer cells and capillary endothelial cells, in a small number of infected placentas. Most cases of SARS-CoV-2 transplacental fetal infection occur without Hofbauer cell involvement.
The turning point in tourist facilities in Sarajevo Bazaar at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century
Authors: Obralić Ahmed , Ćorović Adi
Published: July 2021

The purpose of the study is to present the buildings and sites in Sarajevo Bazaar that stand for the touristic area during the period of power transition between the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Many commercial buildings, shops, warehouses and dairies, as well as larger buildings that were used for trade – "bezistan" were built in the area of the Sarajevo Bazaar in the 15th and 16th centuries. Gazi Husrev-beg played a significant role in the development of Sarajevo together with his properties and goods that are today the endowed properties of a Gazi Husrev-beg Waqf. Sarajevo was a very important and central point of economy and trade in that time. Nowadays tourists are attracted to a city by the natural beauty of its surroundings, architectural and historical monuments, cultural and educational institutions, industry and trade, yet in earlier times the visitors were mainly the traveling merchants coming for trade who used to stay longer, buying and selling various goods. There were many inns including 4 big caravanserais in Sarajevo built for guests from abroad. During the Austro-Hungarian occupation, the first hotels and cafes of the European type were opened in the city. Almost all caravanserais were out of use at the time of power transition, replaced with newly built hotels which brought a new cultural scope to Sarajevo. There is only one caravanserai that survived until now. All the aforementioned confirm the thesis that from today's perspective, the transition of power between the Ottoman Empire and Austro-Hungarian monarchy was not smooth in terms of architecture and tourism.
ECB monetary policy during COVID-19
Authors: Momirović Dragan , Simonović Zoran , Kostić Aleksandar
Published: July 2021

This paper aims to point out the monetary policy measures that the European This paper aims to point out the monetary policy measures that the European Central Bank has taken since the outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis. In the Eurozone, at the start of the COVID-19 crisis, financial conditions deteriorated sharply, potentially threatening to worsen the economic outlook, deepen market fragmentation, jeopardize monetary policy transmission, encourage a downward inflationary trajectory, weaken prices and undermine public and private stability. Aware of the new situation of the ECB, it responded quickly and efficiently with coordinated and ambitious measures to alleviate the perceived financial and economic difficulties. To maintain a flexible monetary policy stance, the ECB adopted an interim non-standard measured COVID-19 Asset Purchase Program (PEPP) to mitigate and improve financial conditions and restart an earlier Asset Purchase Program (APP) aimed at inflation expectations. At the same time, other measures have been strengthened and expanded, such as Targeted Long-Term Refinancing Operations (LTROs, TLTRO III, and PLTRO) aimed at providing liquidity ampleness to the real sector and collateral standards. The implementation of the adopted measures has influenced the stabilization of the economic and financial system of the EU and improved lending to corporate and household banks.
Various 'faces' of Stevan Mokranjac at the Mokranjčevi dani festival in the 21st century
Authors: Arnautović Jelena
Published: July 2021

The discourses on Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac, as one of the most significant composers in the history of Serbian music, reflect not only our attitude towards the composer, but also toward ourselves and the community to which we belong. The objects of analysis in this item are the discourses on Mokranjac in the 21st century, particularly at the festival Mokranjčevi dani in Negotin. A deconstruction of the narratives which are an integral part of the festival, primarily keynote addresses, as well as articles about the festival in printed media and on websites, shows that Mokranjac is interpreted as an important symbol of Serbian identity. Since Mokranjac is mythologized as an original artist, a genius who sang 'from the very soul of the Serbian people, the glorification of Mokranjac, traditional folklore, and Eastern Orthodoxy grows into a large-scale glorification of the entire Serbian nation. In some other narratives, Mokranjac is understood as a cosmopolitan, a manager, and a potential brand that may help us make a better showing on the international stage and be used for building an identity based on 'European civic values'. These various 'faces' of Stevan Mokranjac reflect different ways in which music tradition, as a powerful means of identification, can be utilized, invented, selectively remembered, or in fact forgotten.
The opera question in Belgrade as 'staged' by Milan Grol
Authors: Nikolić Sanela
Published: July 2021

Writer, politician, and dramaturge Milan Grol can be credited with the most important contribution of an individual to the modernization of the National Theatre in Belgrade. A reformer, legislator, organizer of international theatre cooperation, and manager of the National Theatre, he also played a key role in defining 'the opera question' in Belgrade during the first two decades of the 20th century. Commendable as his activities were in terms of the institutional organization and advancement of South Slavic theatres, it must also be noted that owing to his unfavorable attitude towards the performance of opera at the National Theatre, the development of its opera ensemble and establishment of an artistically worthy opera repertoire at this theatre came to a halt in the first decade of the 20th century. Grol's views about opera at the National Theatre reflect a striking ambivalence in his dual professional personality of a politician and writer. As a member of the Independent Radical Party, he supported a pro-European orientation and cultural elitism, which were meant to serve democratic and educational goals. However, when it came to the question of opera at the National Theatre, he abandoned his guiding principles devoted to modern European standards. Grol thus reinterpreted his firm political basis in the field of partisan clashes and appropriated the power to regulate the repertoire of the National Theatre; yet, for all that, he never gave up his primary vocation of a writer and dramaturge, who saw the presentation of the highest aesthetic achievements of national and European literature as the sole purpose of the institution he managed.
A 'quiet African episode' for the Serbian army in the Great War: The Band of the Cavalry Division and Dragutin F. Pokorni in North Africa (1916-1918)
Authors: Vasiljević Maja
Published: July 2021

In the context of this year's centenary of World War I, the focus of this text is the music activities of the Serbian army in North Africa (1916-1918), where they recuperated from their retreat across the mountains of Albania. This paper is a result of an extensive archival research of the National Library of Serbia's collections and periodicals published during the Great War in North Africa. The daily news bulletin Napred/En avant published during the war in Africa deserves special attention, along with the personal archives of conductor and Serbian army captain Dragutin F. Pokorni (1868-1956). The paper sheds light on the work of a Serbian military orchestra, officially called the Band of the Cavalry Division (BCD, in Serbian: Muzika Konjičke divizije) and their leader Pokorni, hitherto little known in Serbian musicology. More importantly, the paper critiques official Serbian historiography and its primary concern with glorifying the 'heroism' and sacrifice of Serbian soldiers, whilst keeping silent on the 'quiet African episodes' in the activities of the Serbian army from January 1916 to December 1918. This paper also highlights key points in the fruitful encounter between Serbian military musicians and the multi-layered cultures of the Maghreb and examines the importance of the BCD's promotion of Serbian culture overseas as a type of cultural diplomacy. By placing the activities of this Serbian military orchestra in the broader context of Serbian cultural diplomacy in the Great War, this paper offers an answer to the current debates in the humanities regarding new approaches to, and interpretations of, this year's global anniversary, mentioned above.
Svetlana Savić: Soneti "La Douce Nuit", "Looking on Darkness", "La vita fugge"
Authors: Popović Branka
Published: July 2021

Soneti [Sonnets] by Svetlana Savić were composed between 2008 and 2012. The cycle comprises three pieces: "La Douce Nuit" for violoncello, piano, and electronics, as well as "Looking on Darkness" and "La vita fugge" for a female voice, violoncello, piano, and electronics. Here, the work is analysed from the perspective of the author's modernist orientation towards sound as a specific tool of music as a medium, which defined multiple poetic aspects in creating this work and had repercussions on the treatment of the text, the ensemble - both its acoustic and electronic layers - the forming and relationship between individual layers of texture, as well as the choice of music material. Dealing with sound, searching for a specific acoustic quality is revealed already in the title, Soneti, because the term sonnet, which refers to a 13th-century Italian poetic form, comes from the Italian word sonetto, derived from the Latin word sonus, meaning sound. However, although Savić looks for particular acoustic qualities and sound is her main material, the resulting work is full of associations, musical and extramusical alike, and reaches out to other kinds of artistic expression. The composer never loses sight of her extramusical content and thus her composition generates a peculiar sort of interference between the acoustic and the verbal - the music absorbs the verbal, turning words into sounds and sound into words. At certain moments, this is joined by the visual component.
Methodology for selection of the variant for opening the deeper parts of the Toranica mine
Authors: Despodov Zoran , Doneva Nikolinka , Mijalkovski Stojanče , Hadži-Nikolova Marija
Published: July 2021

Opening an underground mine or part of it presents complex and responsible issue, which affects the economy and effectiveness of the mine operation. This paper presents a methodology for selecting the optimal variant for opening, the lead-zinc ore mine Toranica, Macedonia. Six variants of opening and haulage of ore and waste rocks in the deeper parts of the ore deposit have been considered. After the performed analysis, the optimal variant for opening and haulage for the Toranica mine was determined.
Disclosure duties in insurance contract
Authors: Ivančević Katarina
Published: July 2021

In this paper, the author considers issues related to the pre-contractual obligation of the insurance policyholder to report to the insurer circumstances significant for the risk assessment. The aim of this paper is to compare the provisions of the The Law on Contract and Torts (LCT), proposals for changes in Serbian law envisaged in the Preliminary Draft of the Civil Code of the Republic of Serbia with solutions from comparative law and the provisions of the Principles of European Insurance Contract Law (PEICL). The analysis showed that it is necessary to update the solutions from the LCT and that the proposed changes, in terms of special rules regarding the obligation to report circumstances relevant to risk assessment to the insurer, are largely in line with modern solutions in comparative law and PEICL. The author points out that the proposed solutions can be supplemented and improved.
Discrimination and Roma identity in Serbia
Authors: Bašić Goran , Stjelja Ivana
Published: July 2021

The paper was based on contemporary legal, sociological and anthropological literature concerning the issues of discrimination and integration of Roma, as well as on the data obtained in two research projects realised in 2020: "Research on Social Relations among Ethnic Communities in Serbia" (Institute of Social Sciences) and "Roma Equality through Increased Legal Access" (Minority Rights Group). Results of the former project were based on data collected by quantitative methods (national internet sample and field research), while those of the latter were gathered by means of qualitative methods, i.e. interviews with 42 female and 17 male respondents realised in eight focus groups. Crossing the empirical data pertaining to discrimination of the Roma citizens living in Serbia, with the legislative system which should supress and gradually eliminate all forms of discrimination, indicates the depth of the social dimension of this problem, but also the vagueness and deficiencies of the very system.
"Business as unusual": Pandemic concentration of executive powers in Croatia
Authors: Gardašević Đorđe
Published: July 2021

Faced with the Covid-19 pandemic, countries around the globe responded with a wide range of special measures. Whereas some of them resorted to their constitutional emergency rules, others opted to act through legislation. The author argues that the effects of the legislative approach to the epidemic in Croatia actually resemble the state of an emergency in the proper sense of the word, although the authorities try to present the whole case as a situation of "legal normalcy". More precisely, the author claims that in practice the adopted model produces concentration of power in the executive branch far beyond what one could expect in ordinary times. To prove that, the author analyses the Croatian legal anti-epidemic framework through several elements (declaration of emergency, law-making powers, overview of executive emergency actions, parliamentary sittings). Finally, the author argues that the constitutional state of natural disaster in Croatia should have been proclaimed.
The Garden City concept: From theory to implementation: Case study: Professors' Colony in Belgrade
Authors: Ćorović Dragana
Published: July 2021

This paper presents a part of the town-planning history of the capital of Serbia - Belgrade. The subject of the research* is the analysis of the application of Ebenezer Howard's Garden City Concept in Belgrade in the third decade of the twentieth century. Special attention was devoted to the urban discourse in the first decades of the last century. The narrower referential framework of this work focuses on investigating the urban growth and development of Belgrade in the first decades of the twentieth century. In Belgrade there are dwelling quarters that were created in the period between the World Wars as a direct consequence of the implementation of the Garden City Concept. One of the basic thesis of this work elaborates the modes of the genesis of one of them - the Professors' Colony, and seeks to distinguish specific applications of the Garden City Concept in relation to Belgrade's specific social conditions.
A history and geography of contemporary architecture
Authors: Fujita Haruhiko
Published: July 2021

History is the study of the past described in written documents. Prehistory is the history of human culture prior to written documents and post-history is the period in which the end of human development is reached. Contemporary history, a subset of modern history, describes the historical period from approximately 1945 to the present. Although the term 'contemporary history' has been in use since at least the early nineteenth century, its usage changed in the twentieth century. The continuous subduction process causes frequent earthquakes in Japan. The Japanese islands are also affected by typhoons and global warming. Although a country affected by numerous natural disasters, it recovers relatively quickly and is considered safe. The history of contemporary architecture is not related to natural disasters in the West. In Japan, however, it is related to earthquakes. The history of contemporary architecture in Japan should be written taking into account the phenomenon of earthquakes or at least the way in which contemporary architects have addressed this issue. After the peak of postmodernism and deconstructivism, some Japanese architects started holding traditional culture and nature in high regard, while discontinuing postmodern classicism. It is meaningful to pay attention to the history and geography of the contemporary architecture in Japan from this perspective.
Art addressing the anthropocene
Authors: Welsch Wolfgang
Published: July 2021

The current diagnosis that the era we are living in ought to be conceived as anthropocene has two implications: a. Human activity is changing the superficial as well as the deep structure of our planet to a formerly unknown degree. b. The foreseeable catastrophic consequences of our impact on life on this planet command a fundamental change of our technological-consumerist attitude. - How can the arts address this situation? One (relatively superficial) option is ecological art. But, despite all its good intentions, it often just contributes to the widespread sedation procedures that prevent us from taking the necessary measures. A different option consists in exploring a possible future of the planet that no longer counts or relies on humans (which, due to their activities, might anyway disappear in a few decades). Nature might then take its own way again. How can art picture a no longer human-based future state of our planet? This is what the paper tries to elucidate along some examples from the arts. In the end, however, depicting a possible vanishment of humans also stimulates efforts to avoid this.
The role of the European Food Safety Authority in the active substance approval and renewal procedures within the EU pesticide policy
Authors: Mladenović Slađana
Published: July 2021

The EU decentralised agencies are involved in various sectorial EU policies and related composite procedures. One of the agencies, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), has a prominent role in the composite procedures within the EU pesticide policy - the active substance approval and renewal procedures. These procedures represent the initial steps in the complex administrative process of placing on the market and control of use of plant protection products. The procedures are arranged under the linear risk analysis model within which the scientific risk assessment is performed by Member States and the EFSA, while the political risk management is performed by the Commission and Member States in the comitology procedure. After a brief analysis of the key stages and outcomes of the procedures, the paper discusses two topics. The first relates to the properties of three key aspects of the EFSA's role in the procedures: 1) involvement in adopting guidance documents; 2) publishing appropriate documents and deciding on confidentiality requests; and 3) preparing and submitting the conclusion, its main scientific output related to active substance. The second topic includes five elements of confidence in the EFSA regarding the course and outcome of the procedure: efficiency, independence, transparency, high scientific quality and effective risk communication. The paper discusses the properties of the elements, the main identified challenges associated with them, as well as ongoing and future responses to these challenges, especially those introduced by the Transparency Regulation, adopted in 2019 and applicable from 27 March 2021.
The role of the state in the internet-mediated information and communication environment
Authors: Mitrović Marta , Vujović Marija
Published: July 2021

The development of the Internet and the absence of national bounderies in cyberspace constantly challenge the role of the state in the new information and communication environment. On the one hand, this new environment challenges the former power of the state stemming from the exclusivity of its territoriality. On the other hand, the role of the state may be observed as being changed but it is certainly not inconsequential. Numerous examples from the past decade testify to the fact that the state still has the power to control its Internet-mediated information and communication environment. In response to the contemporary developments, it has been necessary to introduce conceptual changes. Thus, the term system has been replaced with the term environment; the conceptual framework of strict control through regulation has been replaced with the term management. Although the role of the state has changed, the state still has the central position in the new information and communication environment. The aim of this paper is address the research question: How has the role of the state changed in the new information and communications environment?
Math predictors of numeric health and non-health decision-making problems
Authors: Thompson Clarissa A. , Taber Jennifer M. , Fitzsimmons Charles J. , Sidney Pooja G.
Published: July 2021

People frequently encounter numeric information in medical and health contexts. In this paper, we investigated the math factors that are associated with decision-making accuracy in health and non-health contexts. This is an important endeavor given that there is relatively little cross-talk between math cognition researchers and those studying health decision making. Ninety adults (M = 37 years; 86% White; 51% male) answered hypothetical health decision-making problems, and 93 adults (M = 36 years; 75% White; 42% males) answered a non-health decision-making problem. All participants were recruited from an online panel. Each participant completed a battery of tasks involving objective math skills (e.g., whole number and fraction estimation, comparison, arithmetic fluency, objective numeracy, etc.) and subjective ratings of their math attitudes, anxiety, and subjective numeracy. In separate regression models, we identified which objective and subjective math measures were associated with health and non-health decision-making accuracy. Magnitude comparison accuracy, multi-step arithmetic accuracy, and math anxiety accounted for significant variance in health decision-making accuracy, whereas attention to math, as illustrated in open-ended strategy reports, was the only significant predictor of non-health decision-making accuracy. Importantly, reliable and valid measures from the math cognition literature were more strongly related to health decision-making accuracy than were commonly used subjective and objective measures of numeracy. These results have a practical implication: Understanding the math factors that are associated with health decision-making performance could inform future interventions to enhance comprehension of numeric health information.
Effects of figural and numerical presentation formats on growing pattern performance
Authors: Mielicki Marta K. , Fitzsimmons Charlies J. , Woodbury Lauren H. , Marshal Hannah , Zhang Dake , Rivera Ferdinand D. , Thompson Clarissa A.
Published: July 2021

Prior work exploring preschool-aged children’s reasoning with repeating patterns has shown that patterning ability is an important predictor of math achievement; however, there is limited research exploring older children’s growing pattern task performance. The current study tested whether presentation format impacts performance on growing pattern problems, and whether the effects of presentation format extend to transfer word problems for which no patterns are provided. Sixth grade students were randomly assigned to complete several growing pattern tasks in one of three presentation formats (figures, sequences of values, or tables of values), and later completed transfer story problems with no figures, sequences, or tables provided. Findings suggest that presenting growing patterns as figures can benefit performance, although these benefits may depend on both pattern type and task. No differences were observed in performance on transfer problems, likely because students rarely spontaneously generated figures. Additional exploratory analyses suggest that performance on growing pattern problems may be related to both standardized math ability and fraction task performance, whereas inhibitory control may only be related to performance for specific patterning tasks. These findings have implications for educators because describing/expressing patterns is critical to algebra and higher-level mathematics.