Spondyloarthropathy is a form of arthritis that affects spine, especially sacroiliac joint leading to the severe, chronic pain and over time, can cause complete fusion of the sacroiliac (SI) joint. The present report describes a case of spondyloarthropathy in a captive female brown bear ( Ursus arctos ) from Sarajevo zoo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Morphological inspection and radiograph of the macerated sacral and coxal bone specimen was performed. Both examinations showed complete bilateral symmetrical fusion of the sacral and coxal bone with syndesmophyte formation. Animals residing in zoos are kept under specific conditions which lead to inactivity and possible mobility problems caused by some sort of spondyloarthropathy.

This paper explores the dynamic relationship between economic freedom and tourism industry. In addition, the impact of economic growth is controlled in the extended model. Balanced panel data are collected for 100 countries over the period 2002-2015. The methodology includes panel data econometrics. Therefore, models are initially estimated using fixed and random effects models. Moreover, models are estimated using linear dynamic panel data estimators based on GMM framework. The results of linear static panel data estimators indicate a significant positive impact of economic freedom on tourism in both, initial and extended model. Stronger impact is reported in initial model. Dynamic panel data models confirm these results with the stronger impact reported in extended model. Given the importance of tourism industry, this paper suggests that governments should do necessary changes to foster the economic freedom since it is found to be an important factor to attract the foreign tourists.

The issue of management process in all organizations with a pronounced hierarchical structure is extremely complex and equally abstract to both the participants themselves and all those who deal with the study of this topic. The management process involves decision-making based on appropriate economic analysis, experience, practice, micro and macro environment, and the ability of an individual manager to create a symbiosis based on all the knowledge that will ultimately lead to making an appropriate business decision. The aim of this paper is to build a presentation of the model, which in this case will improve the economic community and enrich the everyday work of companies. This will allow the ownership and management structures of a large number of inadequately structured and internally non-institutionalized companies to become active and passive managers of all business relations within the companies in which they operate, instead of active or passive observers. In this paper, a management model will be presented based on the data researched within five variables: quality of human resources, economic incentives, development perspectives, managerial capabilities of subordinates and business satisfaction. One of the aims of this paper is precisely to explore how these variables influence the business satisfaction of Croatian companies. The research was conducted in the territory of the Republic of Croatia, in all regions, on a representative sample, while representatives of the companies were surveyed. The answers obtained were analysed descriptively, through the regression model. It has been proven that the greatest influence on pleasure in business is influenced by managerial capacities, where beta coefficients is 0.367. Slightly less impact on the pleasure of doing business has the development of enterprises and incentives from the budget, while the smallest impact on the pleasure of doing business has human potential. The obtained beta COTA is statistically significant because the p – value

The intention of this work is to examine the profile of Mann’s protagonist as one of the typical literary representations of artist, from the aspect of Nietzsche’s concept of Appollonian and Dionysian taking closer look at complex relation of motives of love, beauty and death within the life that is inseparable from an artistic existence. Gustav von Aschenbach, a writer of firm will, rationality and conscious principles, on his final journey to Venice, transcends borders and does something like an ancient hubris, yielding to Dionysian intoxication and seduction. This kind of duality within his character is the starting point for our interpretation. The analysis intents to show how the encounter with a Polish boy affects Aschenbach’s life and art, how the writer reacts in contact with beauty, and how this causes the release of his true Dionysian nature. The Venetian chronotope and unusual carnival atmosphere also influence changes in Ashenbach’s behavior, so that in a different environment, which activates the Dionysian element of his being, his character is necessarily transformed. Aschenbach’s art, as ambivalent as his life, exists between the Apollinian and Dionysian elements that constantly condition and supplement each other. Keywords: Thomas Mann, Nietzsche, Apollinian, Dionysian, art, beauty, death, Venice.

The main objective of this research is to measure the efficiency of commercial banks operating in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the period 2016-2017. An analysis is conducted of over 12 banks that had positive overall profit lost at the end of 2016 and 2017 years published by the Banking Agency of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method with two input and three output parameters is used for efficiency measurement. Each bank’s efficiency is presented for the 2016 and 2017 years. For an observed period, large banks showed more efficiency than small banks. Based on the results shown in this research and features used in this model there is a significant difference in the relative efficiency of the top two banks and the rest of the 10 banks.

Vertebral artery fenestration is a rare vascular anomaly. It most commonly occurs in extracranial segments of the vertebral artery. This congenital anomaly can occur during the various stages of embryonic development of the vertebral artery. This usually does not have clinical significance, but the possibility of associated anomalies such as saccular aneurysms and arteriovenous malformations should be noted. Awareness of vascular anomalies is key to avoiding iatrogenic injury during endovascular diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. Here, we present incidental findings of vertebral artery fenestration in a 46-year-old woman evidenced by CT angiography of the neck's blood vessells after I .V. contrast medium applications.

We model shallow-water waves using a one-dimensional Korteweg–de Vries equation with the wave generation parameterized by random wave amplitudes for a predefined sea state. These wave amplitudes define the high-dimensional stochastic input vector for which we estimate the short-term wave crest exceedance probability at a reference point. For this high-dimensional and complex problem, most reliability methods fail, while Monte Carlo methods become impractical due to the slow convergence rate. Therefore, first within offshore applications, we employ the dimensionality reduction method called Active-Subspace Analysis. This method identifies a low-dimensional subspace of the input space that is most significant to the input–output variability. We exploit this to efficiently train a Gaussian process (i.e., a kriging model) that models the maximum 10-min crest elevation at the reference point, and to thereby efficiently estimate the short-term wave crest exceedance probability function. The active low-dimensional subspace for the Korteweg–de Vries model also exposes the expected incident wave groups associated with extreme waves and loads. Our results show the advantages and the effectiveness of the active-subspace analysis against the Monte Carlo implementation for offshore applications.

UDK 3221:141]:28 341.322.5(497.6 Visegrad)”1992/1995” Ideologija, politika i praksa stvaranja etnicki ciste srpske države, tzv. “Velike Srbije“, nalazila se u fokusu interesiranja velikosrpske ideologije, jos od vremena s kraja XVIII stoljeca. Ta i takva ideologija je figurirala s idejom stvaranja etnicki cistih teritorija na kojima bi iskljucivo i samo živjeli Srbi, a koja je podrazumijevala i teritoriju Bosne i Hercegovine. Za druge i drugacije, pa cak niti za nacionalne manjine, u tim zamislima nema mjesta. Takav projekt je bilo jedino moguce ostvariti putem nasilja, tj. kroz vrsenje strasnih i užasnih zlocina nad nesrbima, prije svega nad Bosnjacima u Bosni i Hercegovini, ukljucujuci i zlocin genocida. Pocev jos od Prvog svjetskog rata, zatim Drugog svjetskog rata, te u vremenu posljednje agresije na Republiku Bosnu i Hercegovinu u periodu 1992–1995. godine, evidentna je otvorena i neskrivena namjera stvaranja tzv. “Velike Srbije“. Ona je obilježena, prije svega, kontinuiranim vrsenjem brojnih oblika zlocina protiv covjecnosti i međunarodnog prava nad Bosnjacima, ukljucujuci i zlocin genocida. Posebno je to bilo izraženo na podrucju Istocne Bosne, ukljucujuci i grad Visegrad. Prezentirana studija slucaja na primjeru sela Barimo, kao istraživane mikrolokacije, jasan je pokazatelj kontinuiteta zlocina genocida nad Bosnjacima, ali i namjere zlocinaca o stvaranju etnicki cistih teritorija na podrucju Visegrada. Radi se, dakle, o kontinuitetu namjere i nastojanja velikosrpskih ideologa o uklanjanju svih Bosnjaka s podrucja Istocne Bosne i grada Visegrada, ukljucujuci i selo Barimo. Zakljucak je da je selo Barimo jasan pokazatelj kontinuiteta genocidnih namjera na podrucju Visegrada, ali i borbe Bosnjaka da, poslije svakog stradanja, nastoje opstati na tim prostorima, na kojima su vjekovima živjeli. Summary Ideology, politics and practice of creating ethnically clean Serbian state, so called “Great Serbia”, was in the focus of the interest of the Great Serbia ideology since the end of the 18 th century. That and such ideologies coexisted with the idea of creating ethnically clean territories inhabited by exclusively Serbian populace and it included the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina. There is no place for the other and the different, not even as ethnic minorities, in these ideas. Such project was only possible to realise by using violence, by committing terrible and horrific crimes including genocide over non-Serbs, primarily over Bosniaks in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Starting with the First World War, in the Second World War and finally during the aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina 1992-1995, intention to create “Great Serbia” was revealed and exposed evidently. It was marked by continuous crimes against humanity, violation of international law and genocide committed over Boisniak population. It was primarily evident in the region of eastern Bosnia including the city of Visegrad. The present case study plainly shows, through example of the village of Barimo which was used as research micro-location, the continuity of the crime of genocide over Bosniaks as well as intentions of perpetrators of these crimes to create an ethnically clean territory in the region of Visegrad including the nearby village Barimo. We conclude here that the crimes committed in the village of Barimo is a clear indicator of continuity of genocidal intentions behind the crimes in this region but also of the persistent will of Bosniaks to remain living in these territories where they have lived for centuries.

As traditional museums migrate to the virtual world, they offer wider access to the exhibit collections but often fail to present content of those collections in more engaging way. Game-based learning is one of the solutions to mitigate this inevitable transition and support active learning in the process. It is increasingly gaining interest from the cultural heritage scientific community for the purpose of promoting cultural heritage, raising awareness of its importance and motivating users to visit cultural institutions such as museums more often. There are numerous examples of serious games that are based on or contain heritage content. Tangible cultural heritage is more represented in the virtual worlds and mainly based on applications of 3D technology. Recently, intangible cultural heritage is gaining more visibility within cultural heritage scope as a domain in which game-based learning could assist in its preservation. This paper attempts to address pros and cons of game-based learning in general and reflect on the choices of using serious games in the museum environment.

Triethanolamine was applied as an efficient ?green? cosolvent for biodiesel production by CaO-catalyzed ethanolysis of sunflower oil. The reaction was conducted in a batch stirred reactor and optimized with respect to the reaction temperature (61.6-78.4?C), the ethanol-to-oil molar ratio (7:1-17:1) and the cosolvent loading (3-36 % of the oil weight) by using a rotatable central composite design (RCCD) combined with the response surface methodology (RSM). The optimal reaction conditions were found to be: the ethanol-to-oil molar ratio of 9:1, the reaction temperature of 75?C and the cosolvent loading of 30 % to oil weight, which resulted in the predicted and actual fatty acid ethyl ester (FAEE) contents of 98.8 % and 97.9?1.3 %, respectively, achieved within only 20 min of the reaction. Also, high FAEE contents were obtained with expired sunflower oil, hempseed oil and waste lard. X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD) was used to understand the changes in the CaO phase. The CaO catalyst can be used without any treatment in two consecutive cycles. Due to the calcium leaching into the product, an additional purification stage must be included in the overall process.