bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Compared results of agricultural tractors and combine’s engine oil contamination
Authors: Oyunsurtal Erdenesaikhan , Tserendorj Ulziibaatar
Published: June 2021

Soot, silicon, and metals, which degrade rapidly in the main contact parts, were selected from the contaminants contained in the engine oil, and a study was conducted to determine the amount of contamination. As part of the research, oil samples were taken from the tractor engine and combine harvester during processing in the field and during harvest, and the amount of oil contamination was determined by laboratory analysis. Laboratory experiments revealed that soot in combine engine is 1.7...2.1 times greater than tractor engine whereas silicon was 3.0...3.3 times slighter and iron was 1.033...1.5 times slighter.

Хөдөө аж ахуйн трактор, комбайны хөдөлгүүрийн тосны бохирдлыг харьцуулан судалсан дүн

Хөдөлгүүрийн тосонд агуулагдах бохирдуулагч элементүүдээс үндсэн харьцлын эд ангиудыг түргэн элэгдүүлдэг хөө тортог, цахиур, төмөрлөгийг сонгон авч, бохирдлын хэмжээг тогтоох судалгааг гүйцэтгэсэн болно. Судалгааны ажлын хүрээнд тариалангийн талбайн уринш боловсруулах болон хаврын тариалалтанд ашиглагдаж буй трактор, үр тариа хураалтанд ашиглагдаж буй комбайны хөдөлгүүрээс санамсаргүй түүврийн аргаар тосны дээжийг цуглуулсан. Тосны дээжинд агуулагдах хөө тортог, цахиур, төмөрлөг элементийн хэмжээг “Текеномикс Монгол” ХХК-ий итгэмжлэгдсэн лабораторт автомат пепитка,  Soot meter, Fluid scan-Q1000 багажуудыг ашиглан тодорхойлов. Лабораторийн шинжилгээний дүнд дээр дурьдсан бохирдуулагч элементүүд нь туршилтанд орсон трактор болон комбайны хөдөлгүүрт өөр өөр байгааг тогтоов. Комбайны хөдөлгүүрийн тосон дахь цахиур тракторын хөдөлгүүртэй харьцуулбал бага байна. Энэ нь комбайны хөдөлгүүрийг бодвол тракторын хөдөлгүүр хөрсний шороо, тоосжилт ихтэй нөхцөлд ажилладагтай холбоотой юм. Тракторын хөдөлгүүрийн тосонд агуулагдах цахиурын хэмжээ харьцангуй өндөр байгаа нь хөдөлгүүрийн үндсэн харьцлын эд ангийн абразив элэгдлийг эрчимжүүлэх хүчин зүйл болж байна.  Харин комбайны хөдөлгүүрийн тосонд агуулагдах хөө тортог тракторын хөдөлгүүрийнхээс их байна.

 Түлхүүр үг: Хөдөлгүүрийн тос, тосны дээж, хөдөлгүүрийн тосны бохирдол, тосны шүүрний бохирдол
Baudelaire en vers català: «Don Juan aux Enfers»
Authors: Sala-Sanahuja Joaquim
Published: June 2021

A partir del poema «Don Juan aux enfers», de caràcter narratiu, inclòs a Les Fleurs du Mal, de Charles Baudelaire, el text presenta una anàlisi de les qüestions traductives lligades al mite de Don Juan i als mitologemes que en deriven. El corpus de referència són tres versions catalanes, totes prosòdiques. La finalitat és, doncs, de trobar un mètode ràpid i eficaç d’anàlisi estilística comparada, prèvia en tot cas a la recerca crítica més fina. Alhora s’ofereix informació sobre els autors de les tres versions comparades: Emili Guanyabéns (1860-1941), Rossend Llates (1899-1973) i Xavier Benguerel (1905-1990), amb observacions sobre l’estil traductiu de cadascun.
Per a qui traduïm Ibsen avui?
Authors: Moreno Tena Carolina
Published: June 2021

En aquest article ens preguntem per a qui traduïm les obres de Henrik Ibsen avui per tal de reflexionar no només sobre la necessitat de retraduir els clàssics, sinó per a què, si és per consolidar unes nocions de clàssic i de cànon ja superades o per donar-li de nou la veu als escenaris perquè pugui tornar a commoure els espectadors i a inspirar directors i autors teatrals contemporanis. I sobretot com podem enfocar aquestes retraduccions per revestir-lo d’una universalitat renovada basada en la seva força i originalitat literària.
Tesis sobre la traducció: un òrganon per al moment actual
Authors: Venuti Lawrence , Parcerisas Francesc
Published: June 2021

Les tesis ofereixen una teoria general de la traducció que abasta la relació entre teoria i pràctica i els models de traducció, que generen conceptes teòrics com equivalència i ètica. L’article critica el model instrumental, que entén la traducció com una reproducció o transferència d’un text de partida invariable, mentre que abona l’hermenèutic, que l’entén com una interpretació que altera el text de partida. Les tries lèxiques es consideren maniobres interpretatives que fan variar una sèrie de característiques textuals segons factors que s’extreuen de la cultura receptora, en què es disposen a partir del valor jeràrquic que hi tenen. En l’acte interpretatiu de traduir hi influeixen jerarquies culturals universals, en les quals el valor es distribueix de manera desigual en les llengües grans i les petites, la qual cosa redefineix els interessos ètics i polítics d’un projecte de traducció.
Desafios para valoração das patentes no Brasil: um estudo de caso sobre os produtos/processos para remediação ambiental
Authors: Araujo de Sá Novaes Antonio Fredson , Leite dos Santos Vivianni Marques
Published: June 2021

No contexto das mudanças negativas oriundas dos impactos ambientais e do incentivo à inovação como alternativa para minimizar os referidos impactos, este artigo tem como objetivo analisar duas questões: Como está a produção patentária na área de meio ambiente, especificamente na temática da remediação? E ainda, se as referidas patentes estão chegando ao mercado e/ou se estão sendo valoradas? Para isto, foram realizadas buscas nas bases de patentes do INPI e disponíveis no Orbit, além de pesquisa na literatura e aplicação de questionários. Verifica-se que são poucas as patentes de remediação ambiental no Brasil e que ainda existem muitas dificuldades para a valoração de patentes em geral, embora identificados 7 métodos. Ademais, os principais desafios estão na escassez de publicação na temática com detalhamentos dos passos empregados em casos práticos; métodos ainda necessitam adequações para valoração de novas tecnologias; falta de capacitação; e, especificamente, para as patentes na área de meio ambiente, incluindo tecnologias para remediação, a falta de parâmetros que considerem os ganhos e vantagens estratégicas a partir do cumprimento de responsabilidades ambientais.
A implantação do sistema de gerência de projetos do exército (GPEX) no âmbito do comando militar do Sul
Authors: Martins da Fonseca Alexandre , Piurcosky Fabricio Pelloso , Frogeri Rodrigo Franklin
Published: June 2021

Este trabalho trata da implantação do Sistema de Gerência de Projetos do Exército no âmbito do Comando Militar do Sul. Tal abordagem se justifica pela necessidade de melhoria contínua na gestão de projetos no âmbito do Exército, de forma a agregar agilidade, eficiência e novas capacidades. O objetivo deste estudo é apresentar uma pesquisa exploratória sobre os aspectos da implantação do Sistema de Gerência de Projetos do Exército (GPEx) e sua situação atual. Assim sendo, são apresentadas uma revisão conceitual sobre o tema e uma pesquisa quantitativa por meio de um questionário direcionado ao âmbito das Organizações Militares (OM) do Comando Militar do Sul (CMS) como universo de amostragem. A pesquisa demonstrou que aproximadamente 50% das OM ainda não utilizam o Módulo Projetos e que, aproximadamente 65% das OM, utilizam o Módulo Gestão. Foram apontados pontos fracos do sistema bem como oportunidades de melhoria, principalmente quanto à interface gráfica do GPEx e ao desenvolvimento de atividades de capacitação de operadores. Concluiu-se que, embora incipiente, a utilização do sistema GPEx pode ser considerada como relevante para as atividades das OM.
WŁADYSŁAW KLIMCZAK (1923–2021), NAMELY
PERSISTENCE IN ACHIEVING GOALS
Authors: Skrejko Magdalena
Published: June 2021

The protagonist of the paper is Władysław
Klimczak, a long-standing President of the Cracow
Photographic Association as well as the founder and the
first director of Cracow’s Museum of History of Photography.
The portrait of W. Klimczak is outlined: a controversial
individual of a clear-cut personality, eccentric, dynamic and
hard-working, he was nevertheless extremely professional
in his activities. The documentary exhibitions as well as
the ‘Venus’ controversial ones mounted and curated by
Władysław Klimczak are discussed.
Postpartum stress fracture of bilateral tibia: A case report
Authors: Hindioğlu Nurbanu , Uçar Demet , Sezgin Özcan Didem , Örmeci Tuğrul
Published: June 2021

Stress fractures are overuse injuries of the bone characterized by a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) finding of the fracture line with bone marrow edema. Clinical findings are tenderness and persistent pain. It is usually related to repetitive stresses. A 25-year-old woman was admitted with bilateral severe knee pain. She was in the postpartum period and the complaints started three days after the beginning of 2-h daily walk. The initial plain radiograph showed no abnormality, while MRI demonstrated bilateral incomplete fracture line at the proximal tibia. The patient had accompanying vitamin D deficiency and osteopenia, diagnosed with pregnancy-related osteopenia and stress fracture of bilateral proximal tibia. We advised cessation of weight bearing, resting, and supplementation of calcium and vitamin D. This report highlights that, in the postpartum period, persistent pain may indicate bone lesions such as stress fractures, particularly developing shortly after a vigorous physical activity. Detailed physical examination and further investigations are necessary to detect these fractures and risk factors.
Are COL4A1 and COL4A2 gene polymorphisms associated with cerebral palsy?
Authors: Güvener Orhan , Sezgin Melek , Tezol Özlem , Ömer Barlas İbrahim , Ayça Özdemir Asena , Arzu Kanık Emine
Published: June 2021

Objectives: This study aims to investigate the association of COL4A1 and COL4A2 gene polymorphisms with susceptibility to risk of developing cerebral palsy (CP) and severity of CP.

Patients and methods: Between December 2016 and June 2017, a total of 176 patients with CP (101 males, 75 females; mean age 71.8±37.9 months; range, 24 to 184 months) and age-, sex-, and ethnically-matched 178 (90 males, 88 females; mean age 69.3±55.2 months; range, 24 to 214 months) controls were included. Two polymorphisms of COL4A1 (rs1961495) and COL4A2 (rs9521733) genes were typed from genomic deoxyribonucleic acid. Genotype distributions and allelic frequencies were compared between the patient and control groups. Gross Motor Function Classification System, the use of medical drugs, type of involvement, number of affected limbs, accompanying conditions, birth weight, gestational age, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings were used to evaluate the disease severity and their relationships with the COL4A1 and COL4A2 gene polymorphisms.

Results: There was no statistically significant difference between the groups in terms of genotype distribution and allele frequency of COL4A1 and COL4A2 gene polymorphisms (p>0.05). In addition, there was no relationship between severity of CP and two gene polymorphisms (p>0.05). A significant association was detected between the COL4A2 polymorphism and growth retardation in CP. The TT genotype (57.1%) and T allele (76.2%) were higher, compared to CC (4.8%) and CT genotypes (38.1%) and C allele (23.8%) in patients with CP with growth retardation (p=0.03 for genotype and p=0.01 for allele frequency).

Conclusion: These findings suggest that COL4A1 and COL4A2 gene polymorphisms are not associated with susceptibility to CP in a group of Turkish populations, although COL4A2 gene polymorphism may be associated with growth retardation in patients with CP.
Big Data Full-Text Search Index Minimization Using Text Summarization
Authors: Iqbal Waheed , Ilyas Malik Waqas , Bukhari Faisal , Almustafa Khaled Mohamad , Nawaz Zubiar
Published: June 2021

An efficient full-text search is achieved by indexing the raw data with an additional 20 to 30 percent storagecost. In the context of Big Data, this additional storage space is huge and introduces challenges to entertainfull-text search queries with good performance. It also incurs overhead to store, manage, and update the largesize index. In this paper, we propose and evaluate a method to minimize the index size to offer full-text searchover Big Data using an automatic extractive-based text summarization method. To evaluate the effectivenessof the proposed approach, we used two real-world datasets. We indexed actual and summarized datasets usingApache Lucene and studied average simple overlapping, Spearman’s rho correlation, and average rankingscore measures of search results obtained using different search queries. Our experimental evaluation showsthat automatic text summarization is an effective method to reduce the index size significantly. We obtained amaximum of 82% reduction in index size with 42% higher relevance of the search results using the proposedsolution to minimize the full-text index size.
Nested Two-Layer RGB Based Reversible Image Steganography Method
Authors: Durdu Ali
Published: June 2021

In this study, a new reversible image steganography method based on Red-Green-Blue (RGB) which hides thecolored image into the colored images in two layers nested is proposed. The proposed method hides the 24-bitimage to be hidden by hiding two layers of data firstly in the resized version of the cover image with the LSBmethod, and then hides the resized cover image to the original cover image with the 4-bit method. The proposedmethod offers a secure communication environment as it hides the hidden image in two layers. When thirdparties extract data by using the LSB method, they only access the resized version of the cover image. The 4-bitmethod divides the image to be hidden into 8-bit segments. While the first 4 bits, which are the most importantbits of 8-bit data, are hidden directly, 4 bits that can be neglected with less significance are completed by roundingat approximate value through the method function. In this way, since the 8-bit data is reduced to 4-bits, themethod performs lossy hiding, but doubles the hiding capacity. Peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR), structuralsimilarity quality criterion (SSIM) and chi-square steganalysis method, which are frequently used in the literature,are used to measure the immunity level of the proposed method. When it is concealed at the same ratewith the LSB method and the proposed method, a higher measurement value is obtained in the PSNR imagecriterion, which is 1.2 dB, SSIM 0.0025, BER 0.0129 and NCC image criterion 0.00027. In additional, it wasshown that the proposed method achieved more successful results in chi-square steganalysis and histogramtests compared to the traditional LSB method.
Congestion-Preventing Routing and Charging Scheduling Mechanism for Electric Vehicles in Dense Urban Areas
Authors: Huang Chenn-Jung , Hu Kai-Wen , Ho Hsing-Yi , Chuang Hung-Wen
Published: June 2021

Traffic congestion in metropolitan areas all over the world has become a critical issue that governments mustdeal with effectively. Traffic congestion during rush hours causes vehicle drivers to arrive late at their destinations,resulting in significant economic losses. Although researchers have proposed solutions to the traffic congestionproblem, little research work has presented a joint route and charging planning strategy for electric vehicles(EVs) that alleviates traffic congestion problems simultaneously. Accordingly, a congestion-preventing route and charging planning mechanism for EVs is proposed in this work to tackle the complicated route and charging optimizationproblems of EVs. The route and charging planning proposed in this work analyzes the information providedby EVs, the charging points, and road traffic information simultaneously, and mediates the traffic jammingby means of a route and charging reservation mechanism. Possible occurrence of traffic congestion is detectedin advance and traffic regulation is carried out by allocating an elastic range to the traveling period for late-bookingEVs, to avoid moving during rush hours. EV owners are also encouraged to provide rideshare services forlate-booking EV users during rush hours. The simulation results reveal that the proposed work can satisfy thepreferred route and charging demands of EV users and alleviate traffic congestion effectively.
Energy-Aware and Proactive Host Load Detection in Virtual Machine Consolidation
Authors: Zahedi Fard Seyed Yahya , Sohrabi Mohammad Karim , Ghods Vahid
Published: June 2021

With the expansion and enhancement of cloud data centers in recent years, increasing the energy consumptionand the costs of the users have become the major concerns in the cloud research area. Service quality parametersshould be guaranteed to meet the demands of the users of the cloud, to support cloud service providers,and to reduce the energy consumption of the data centers. Therefore, the data center's resources must be managedefficiently to improve energy utilization. Using the virtual machine (VM) consolidation technique is animportant approach to enhance energy utilization in cloud computing. Since users generally do not use all thepower of a VM, the VM consolidation technique on the physical server improves the energy consumption andresource efficiency of the physical server, and thus improves the quality of service (QoS). In this article, a serverthreshold prediction method is proposed that focuses on the server overload and server underload detectionto improve server utilization and to reduce the number of VM migrations, which consequently improves theVM's QoS. Since the VM integration problem is very complex, the exponential smoothing technique is utilizedfor predicting server utilization. The results of the experiments show that the proposed method goes beyondexisting methods in terms of power efficiency and the number of VM migrations.
Carl Schmitt als Klassiker? Über das Anregungspotential denkerischer Provokation
Authors: Hacke Jens
Published: June 2021

In his contribution, Jens Hacke considers the potentials of a liberal reception of Schmitt from the perspective of political science. On the one hand, he highlights the descriptive value of some of Schmitt’s theorems when being taken up and modified under liberal premises. On the other hand, he argues that liberal positions can gain in profile by confronting Schmitt's objections. Moreover, Hacke argues that Schmitt’s affirmative explanations of concepts such as “people”, “unity”, and “homogeneity” can provide insights into current populist mechanisms that weaken present democracies.
Die (Wieder-)Geburt der Grundrechte aus dem (Un-)Geist der totalen Prävention
Authors: Güntert Manuel M.
Published: June 2021

In the section „On the Constitution“ in his „Foundations of Natural Right“, Johann Gottlieb Fichte designs a total police state. The passport functions as an instrument to ensure permanent surveillance of citizens. This text paradigmatically shows that total surveillance is not only incapable of guaranteeing the desired security, but that it endangers it itself. The need for fundamental rights can therefore be derived from surveillance itself.
The Subversion of Plato's Quasi-Phenomenology and Mytho-Poetics in the Symposium
Authors: Olivier Bert ,   Philosophy Documentation Center
Published: June 2021

Is there a significant difference between Plato's texts and what is known as 'Platonism', that is, the philosophical tradition that claims Plato as its progenitor? Focusing on the Symposium, an attempt is made here to show that, far from merely fitting neatly into the categories of Platonism—with its neat distinction between the super-sensible and the sensible—Plato's own text is a complex, tension-filled terrain of countervailing forces. In the Symposium this tension obtains between the perceptive insights, on the one hand, into the nature of love and beauty, as well as the bond between them, and the metaphysical leap, on the other hand, from the experiential world to a supposedly accessible, but by definition super-sensible, experience-transcending realm. It is argued that, instead of being content with the philosophical illumination of the ambivalent human condition—something consummately achieved by mytho-poetic and quasi-phenomenohgical means—Plato turns to a putatively attainable, transcendent source of metaphysical reassurance which, moreover, displays all the trappings of an ideological construct. This is demonstrated by mapping Plato's lover's vision of 'absolute beauty' on to what Jacques Lacan has characterized as the unconscious structural quasi-condition of all religious and ideological illusion.
What's the 'Matter with Materialism?
Authors: Mellamphy Dan , Mellamphy Nandita Biswas ,   Philosophy Documentation Center
Published: June 2021

This paper examines Walter Benjamin's argument that the matter—the materials —of materialist historiography are the objects that have been forgotten and discarded by modern bourgeois commodity culture. Just as Benjamin saw in child's play and children's playthings a potential 'playing out' and 'recollecting' of that which has been dropped, left behind, forgotten and forsaken, he likewise saw the historical endeavor as one which engaged the discarded materials of bourgeois culture and cut through progressivist, universalist history—revealing in so doing a materialist and indeed messianic history The consequences of this redemptive relation (these redemptive relations) are drawn out in the essay and culminate in the figure of the revolutionary custodian and the 'New Janitocracy'.
Being Situated in Recent Art
Authors: Cooper Ivy ,   Philosophy Documentation Center
Published: June 2021

In contemporary art, the term "relational aesthetics" emerged a decade ago as a label for emerging art practices that defied conventional categories. Coined by critic Nicholas Bourriaud, the term describes projects by artists such as Pierre Huyghe, which involve examinations and representations of social systems and contexts, and in which audience participation is a critical component The roots of this approach can be traced to the Minimalism of the 1960s and the phenomenological basis of sculpture by Robert Morris and Richard Serra, which opened up possibilities for later artists to construct more extended situations involving memory, time, experience, and the contingency of context. This paper proposes to examine artfrom the 1960s to the present and trace the developing theory and primacy of audience situations in contemporary art.
Global musicology
Authors: Chua Daniel
Published: June 2021

How do we think globally as musicologists? Recent attempts to write global histories of music raise various issues about how we should relate as scholars in a global community, and question whether as scholars we truly understand the nature of music given the new global perspective. Thinking globally is a key challenge. There is a strong possibility that we may fail, but taking up the challenge is like to spur our discipline forward in unexpected ways.
Music ethics politics
Authors: Warren Jeff
Published: June 2021

In the twenty-teens, music has been wrapped up in politics and ethics in several prominent events, including violent attacks at the Bataclan theatre in Paris and the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, and the profiling of musical listening habits in the French governments "stop jihadism" campaign. Significant scholarship exists on music and politics, and interest in music and ethical philosophy is growing. More work, however, is needed in theorizing the connections between music, ethics, and politics. In 1951, Heidegger's essay "Building Dwelling Thinking" lists the words in the title without punctuation in an attempt to show how these three terms are intertwined even though they are often considered separate. While these words and concepts are not interchangeable, each relies upon or invokes the other. My title structurally mirrors Heidegger's, and my aim here is to elucidate how music is intertwined with ethics and politics.
The Little Mermaid: By Goran Kapetanović as a postmodernist tragedy
Authors: Masnikosa Marija
Published: June 2021

The article is a discussion of Goran Kapetanović's work Sažeti prikaz neumitnog i tragičnog toka sudbine koji je krhko biće Male Sirene odveo u potpunu propast (A Brief Account of the Inexorable and Tragic Course of Destiny that Led the Fragile Being of the Little Mermaid to Total Disaster). This multilayered postmodernist work from the closing decade of the 20th century is discussed here from several perspectives: as a postmodernist intertext, as a drama (tragedy), and as hypertext in relation to Stravinsky's Petrushka, which Kapetanović used as the model and hypotext for his own piece.
Musica fibonacciana: Aesthetic and practical approach
Authors: Povilionienè Rima
Published: June 2021

In the sphere of musical research, the intersection of two seemingly very different subject areas-music and mathematics is in essence related to one of the trends of music-attributing the theory of music to science, to the sphere of mathematica. It is regarded the longest-lasting interdisciplinary dialogue. The implication of numerical proportions and number sequences in the music composition of different epochs is closely related to this sphere. A significant role in creating music was attributed to the so-called infinite Fibonacci sequence. Perhaps the most important feature of the Fibonacci numbers, which attracted the attention of thinkers and creators of different epochs, is the fact that by means of the ratio between them it is possible to come maximally close to the Golden Ratio formula, which expresses the laws of nature. On a practical plane, often the climax, the most important part of any composition, matches the point of the Golden Ratio; groups of notes, rhythm, choice of tone pitches, a grouping of measures, time signature, as well as proportions between a musical composition's parts may be regulated according to Fibonacci principles. The article presents three analytical cases-Chopin's piano prelude, Bourgeois' composition for organ, and Reich's minimalistic piece, attempting to render music composition structure to the logic of Fibonacci numbers.
Further ruminations on music
Authors: Berleant Arnold
Published: June 2021

This article examines the implications for aesthetics of using music as a model. It pursues the question of how music could stand as the paradigm of art in general as a cultural practice.
Sound of picture vs picture of sound: Musical palindrome
Authors: Petrović Milena , Ačić Gordana , Milanković Vera
Published: June 2021

This study investigated whether and how the musical palindrome (tonal, melodic, and metric) can be recognized in auditory and/or visual perception in musically trained participants. According to the results, we suggest that palindrome recognition can only be aurally perceived if it is short enough and the listener is quite sophisticated. There is a fair amount of research on the recognition of transformed auditory and visual patterns, as well as the visual symmetry perception in persons with ASD. Thus, a future study will test more people with ASD, on one hand, and musically trained participants recognizing short musical palindromes.
My vocal mosaics
Authors: Despić Dejan
Published: June 2021

This text features the status and importance of poetry in the output and opuses by Dejan Despić, based on the composer's view that "poetry is, in fact, merely unsounded music, that is to say, that music is, in fact, merely unspoken poetry". Transposing poetry into vocal shapes and achieving a specific mosaic-type dramaturgy will be explained in the example of turning miniature texts into music - Ozon zavičaja [The Ozone of the Homeland], op. 105 (a cycle created to the verses of Desanka Maksimović) and Krug [The Circle], op. 61 (composed of the verses of authentic Japanese poetry).
Kosta P. Manojlović and the teaching of liturgical singing
Authors: Perković Ivana , Mandić Biljana
Published: June 2021

In this paper we deal with Kosta Manojlović's engagement in the field of church music education, especially within curricula of the Pravoslavno-bogoslovski fakultet [Faculty of Orthodox Theology] in Belgrade, aiming to answer two research question: one, regarding different aspects of Manojlović's work at the between 1923 and 1937, and the other, dealing with ways in which his writings on the Serbian Orthodox church music were affected by the historical, social, and cultural milieu of the interwar period. An analysis of Manojlović's teaching catalogues for the Faculty of Orthodox Theology between 1923/24 and 1936/37, showed three basic models in syllabus organisation: in his early teaching career, he was teaching two subjects "Octoechos" and "History of Serbian Orthodox Church Singing Church Choral Music" (in 1923/24); as mid-career teacher (between 1924/25 and 1934/35) he was teaching "Octoechos" and "Strano pjenije", while in the last years spent at the school Manojlović's teaching subjects were "History of Church Music" and "Octoechos and General Chant". However, the most important aspects of Manojlović's teaching philosophy are not available in syllabus of his courses. For that reasons, we turned to his published writings, having in mind his plans for introducing more research tools into curricula of the Faculty of Orthodox Theology. He advocated the introduction of scientific methods: in his opinion, this was the only acceptable and credible method for an academic approach to Serbian sacred music. Among many subjects in the field of Serbian Orthodox music, Kosta P. Manojlović wrote about the relevance of Serbian medieval literature, and he was one of the first authors who recognized the importance of this subject for expanding the horizon of otherwise modest knowledge of medieval music. We explain the ways in which some of his readings of the genre of žitije (vita), the life of a saint, were influenced by the discourse of svetosavlje and the idea of emphasizing the ethnic as part of the Christian, without taking into account the process of idealization, which is a canonical element of the genre of žitije. The picture of Kosta Manojlović's teaching practice presented in this article is generally more detailed and enriched with new data and analysis of certain aspects of his work. Unfortunately, it was not possible to follow the long-term effects of his interventions and actions at the Univerzitet u Beogradu [University of Belgrade] as the Faculty of Orthodox Theology was split from the University in 1952. Manojlović had the difficult task of building his career as a university teacher in an environment that was not always supportive of his efforts, especially when it came to his integration of research into teaching, but he did accomplish his task by integrating his knowledge, acting and being. His integration of research and practical work in the field of Serbian chant, even if we may not agree with all his conclusions, was visionary and is still a valid, and the most preferred, approach to the subject.
The trumpet in a woman's hand in contemporary Serbian traditional and popular music: The case of the "Danijela" trumpet orchestra from Arilje
Authors: Joković Jelena
Published: June 2021

Trumpet orchestra "Danijela" belongs to the type of mixed gender orchestra, in which the women is the leader in men surroundings. This orchestra today mainly plays musical arrangements of the popular music, from folk to pop and rock, jazz and Latin. Danijela and her orchestra do not try to copy already existing interpretation, but they are doing their best to give to their music their personal touch in different musical securements, whether formally or in arrangements. Danijela, herself says that there are not essential difference between male and female trumpet orchestra, all, actually, depends on the personal impact. This personal impact is due to the musical education which helped Danijela's orchestra to, especially in harmony and articulation add its style to already existing interpretation. Regarding the performing of tracks which belong, by its style, to the repertoire of southeast Serbia, it is notable, especially in the aspect of articulation and ornaments marching to the style definitions of the trumpet music in West Serbia, which is general equal for all trumpet orchestras in West Serbia, which play the repertoire of the other trumpet places especially southeast Serbia. This ensemble takes part in most different kind of media, which promotes, not only this orchestra, but also the idea of women's leadership, and the fact, also that the women (in this case a young girl) can play the instrument which up to recently, was considered to be only for men. At the very end, we may conclude that today in Serbia there is no more radical difference in gender regarding musical instruments, the epithet 'male' or 'female' is not explicit any more, as it was before when men had priority. Of course, the prejudices still exist, but they are not any more so important and they are easily overcome, especially if performers get good critics from the audience for their work, no matter what instrument is in question.
Historical contributions to the study of Serbian-British relations in the field of music and culture from 1914 to 1941
Authors: Mlađenović Dimitrije
Published: June 2021

The paper deals with the relations between the Kingdom of Serbia / Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes / Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Great Britain with special emphasis on their 'encounters' in the field of music and culture during the First World War and then between the two wars, which drew the two fairly mutually distant and insufficiently known 'worlds' closer. That music was an integral part of all major social and state events staged by the two countries at different moments and in different situations throughout the mentioned historical periods can be observed. The paper also shows that research into the role and significance of music in the relations between the two countries and its influence on them was continuously permeated, like a particular 'red thread' - which sublimated the most significant mutual effects of Serbian-British music relations in those times - by the creative work and enthusiasm of Oxford graduate Kosta Manojlović. There is no doubt that all this contributed to a more profound mutual understanding of these peoples and their countries.
Musicology against silence: Memories, meaning, value: Three branches of musicology amid two types of one silence
Authors: Veselinović-Hofman Mirjana
Published: June 2021

The text is a reflection on the status of musicology under the conditions of isolation imposed by the ongoing pandemic, from the perspective of my personal memories concerning the impact that the historical, analytical, and interpretative branches of musicology had on the formation of my musicological poetics as a student of musicology. Understood as a kind of social silence informing one's internal domain as an author, and in terms of the imposition of physical distancing, which is severely jeopardizing not only individual scholarly production, but entire professions as well, this isolation is forcing the study of music (as well as many other professions) to make significant changes to some of its key activities. This concerns the necessity of making a transition to distance working.
Eating habits and antifat attitudes among adolescent: West Serbian experience
Authors: Savić Nikola , Mladenović Marija , Ralić Vesna , Jokić Zoran , Mirković Andrea , Lazarević Hristina , Bogdanović-Vasić Slobodanka , Petrović Jasna
Published: June 2021

Introduction Nutrition has a great impact on the health potential of young people. It is very important to analyze aspects of adolescent nutrition in a timely manner, in order to identify potential health risks. Objectives The aim of the study is to examine adolescents' eating habits and attitudes toward obesity. Methods 370 students from the Valjevo Medical School, Western Serbia, participated in the study. The survey was designed as a cross-sectional study, using the questionnaire whose first part was related to demographic characteristics of participants, the second part of the instrument examined eating habits, while the third part dealt with obesity, using the AFA obesity scale. Scale performance was tested by Cronbach's Alpha test (a = .78). Results The results showed that the majority of the subjects were eating properly and without skipping meals. It was worrying that the consumption of sweets and sodas was high. Females stated in large numbers that they disliked obese people. Most of the differences between healthy and unhealthy habits come from the living environment and parental level of education. Conclusions The transition years have brought some irregular eating habits in the adolescent population, more education is needed to maintain a healthy life.
FDI determinants in Europe and Chinese influence
Authors: Dorakh Alena
Published: June 2021

Despite recent concerns about the increasing influence of outside investors on the European Union (EU) and Western Balkans, the developed European countries are still a dominant source of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the region, confirming the benefits of EU membership. At the same time, fast-growing connectivity and lower trade costs in accession and neighboring countries determine the FDI growth from China, particularly via the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). By applying panel data over 2000-2019 for 34 countries, which form 89% of all European FDI, we first examine FDI patterns around Europe, compare the EU, NMS, and Western Balkans; verify the importance of EU membership for FDI, caused reducing trade costs and improving connectivity. Thus, the new EU member states (NMS) and Western Balkans appear both as a home country and as a pre- entry destination to the EU. Then, we calculate trade costs indices for each selected country and partners over time and find that Europe and China are closely interconnected through trade and FDI. It means that stronger ties with China can be realized for the sample countries at the cost of easing relations with the EU. Finally, incorporating trade costs indices into the FDI model; we evaluate the impact of connectivity on FDI and estimate how BRI affected FDI in Europe. Additionally, we validate that the old framework of horizontal and vertical FDI not representative well and even new complex vertical or export-oriented FDI strategies are shifting today.
Managing quality in industrial companies: The empirical study of quality management systems in the Czech Republic
Authors: Ondra Pavel
Published: June 2021

Since monitoring, managing, sustaining and improving the quality are is so important to the competitiveness of the company, it is advisable to use a variety of Quality Management tools (QMTs) and techniques, in addition to comprehensive Quality Management Systems (QMSs). The main aim of this research study is to explore the connection between Quality Management System (QMS) and selected Quality Management tools (QMTs) in industrial companies in the Czech Republic. This study summarizes the results of the online questionnaire survey between April 2017 and July 2017. The final sample consisted of answers from 200 companies. It has been found that 46% of surveyed companies monitor and evaluate quality of their business processes. Furthermore, it has been found that 59% of surveyed companies are ISO 9001 certified. Larger companies tend to monitor and evaluate quality of their business processes and to have ISO 9001 certification. The relationships between the use of Quality Management tools (QMTs), monitoring and quality assessment of business processes (MQABP) and ISO 9001 certification have been found based on the Pearson's Chi-square Test of Independence, the Fisher's Exact Test of Independence and the Column Proportions Z-Test.
Utilization of shop floor management as a tool for communication and knowledge sharing in the framework of lean logistics: A case study
Authors: Benyahya Petra , Macurová Lucie
Published: June 2021

The study investigates whether establishing of the shopfloor management in the company is beneficial for the company or not even in difficult conditions (food production with BRC standards of production, presence of foreigners, agency employees). A qualitative research based on detailed long-term observation the real process of planning and establishing the shopfloor management in the company was used, as well as interviews with industrial engineers, first line managers, blue-collar workers, and shopfloor management practitioners. The company was chosen for this case study on purpose. The findings say it was good to establish SFM in the company. In spite of obstacles, the utilization of machines increased by 20% and one machine (out of 12) could be sold due to redundancy. The need for human capital decreased, the number of scraps decreased, and the cooperation improved.
Modelling health care customer satisfaction: Evidence from Serbia
Authors: Rajić Tamara , Rakić Ana , Milošević Isidora
Published: June 2021

Customer loyalty, with satisfaction of customers as its main precondition, has long been regarded as an overarching goal of service businesses. With the proliferation of health care providers, which brought about rising competitive pressures on the market, the issue of how to satisfy and keep patients has been attracting increasing attention of researchers and health care management. Therefore, this study aims to examine the antecedents of patient satisfaction and its direct and mediated impact on patients' behavioural intentions in thus far under-studied context of emerging economy's health care system. The study has been conducted in a primary health care setting, on a convenience sample of 300 patients, by means of structured questionnaire. The application of structural equation modelling (SEM) revealed direct impact of health care service quality on patient satisfaction and its mediated impact on satisfaction, via perceived value of health care services. In addition to direct influence of satisfaction on patients' behavioural intentions, its total effect on positive intentions of patients is increased by the impact of patient commitment to a health care provider, which, as evidenced by this study's findings, increases with patient's rising trust into a health care provider. Implications for theory and practice are discussed and further research directions are provided.
Inclusion of uncertainty with different types of fuzzy numbers into DEMATEL
Authors: Šmidovnik Tjaša , Grošelj Petra
Published: June 2021

Nowadays the multi-criteria decision making is very complicated due to uncertainty, vagueness, limited sources, knowledge and time. The Decision-making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) method is a widely used multi-criteria decision-making method to analyze the structure of a complex system. It is useful in analysing the cause and effect relationships between the components of the system. Fuzzy sets can be used to include uncertainty in multi-criteria decision making. Linguistic assessments of decision makers can be translated into fuzzy numbers. In this study, fuzzy numbers, intuitionistic fuzzy numbers and neutrosophic fuzzy numbers were used for the decision makers evaluations in the DEMATEL method. The aim of this study was to evaluate how different types of fuzzy numbers affect the final results. An application of risk in construction projects was selected from the literature, where seven experts used a linguistic scale to evaluate different criteria. The results showed that there are only slight differences between the weights of the criteria with regard to the type of fuzzy numbers.
Knowledge transfer for innovativeness in family businesses
Authors: Letonja Marina , Duh Mojca , Ženko Zdenka
Published: June 2021

Family businesses (FB) are important in the most of national economies. We explored whether successors' innovativeness is positively associated with the transfer of the founders' innovativeness through knowledge transfer and creation processes in a form of the internal transfer of founders' tacit and experiential knowledge and skills and with the external transfer of knowledge, when potential successors attend educational programs, external training, or gain working experience in other companies. Our research reveals that when the actual forms of internal knowledge transfer are discussed, the positive correlations exist between innovativeness of successors and their early inclusion into FB, apprenticeship, inclusion of successors into meetings with business partners and strategic planning before they get involved in FB. Our survey partially confirmed that regarding external transfer of knowledge, working experiences of successors in other companies and participation in academic courses are positively associated with their innovativeness.
Farm size and digitalization: Quantitative approach
Authors: Dobre Iuliana , Capra Marius , Costache Cristiana , Dorobantu Nicoleta
Published: June 2021

This paper takes into consideration the physical dimension impact of the quantitative description at the farm level over its economic performance. It is obvious that the dimension, if centred on different statistical intervals, generates different results, initiating the different types of potentiality that characterize the certain economic entity. The impact's capture was made through the registered data analysis, relevant for the enhancement of their quantitative characteristics. Dimensional phenomenon was studied considering the data from the National Institute of Statistics (INSSE) of Romania, as well as statistical and economic analysis methods, proving that the dimension, in its actual structure, on different types of farms, can influence in a positive way the production and financial results. It is a generally accepted fact that, the physical dimension could be seen as the production capacity of the farm. Economic dimension or farm size is also an expression of farms' profit or turnover. In this condition the size is linked to economic performance. Economic dimension is usually characterized by inverse relation. Factors that determine a peculiar level of performance are usually specific in line to internal farm environment, respecting the used crops intensity or management under the factors of production. Besides, level of digitalization represents another factor that have an important contribution to increase of farms' economic performances. Its influence represents the value generator at the farm level. So certain results derived from previously conducted survey related to farmers' awareness towards the digitalization or, its presence at farm level was also done.