SONEMUS is an organization established in 2001 for the purpose of performing, promoting and educating in the domain of contemporary music. The SONEMUS Festival is the only festival of its kind in Bosnia and Herzegovina and that is the reason for its great importance for the development and expansion of 21st-century culture and art in the home country, as well asin the region of Southeast Europe. So far, a large number of projects have takenplace under the name of SONEMUS, including a variety of concerts,workshops and lectures. From 2015 to 2018, the Society has registered fourfestivals of exceptional importance for musical life in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Consequently, this article will review of the Festival’s development over the past four years.

Common buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench) is an annual plant from Polygonaceae family which is well known as pseudocereal with high nutritional value. The yield and quality of the buckwheat`s kernel depend on weather conditions, mainly due to variations in the air temperatures and precipitation during the growing period. The aim of this study was to determine the impact of some metrological parameters on yields and chemical compositions in the kernel of buckwheat. Field experiments were conducted during three years (2011, 2012 and 2013) in the village Donje Selo, near Ilijaš. In this study grain yield, protein content, sludge, fats, mineral matter, cellulose and total phenols were determined. Experimental results suggested that the weather conditions in different years of the research have a significant impact on the yield and the chemical composition of the kernel. The yield of buckwheat varied from the year to year and ranged from 0.98 to 1.29 tons per hectare.

The aim of this study was to examine the concentration of total and available forms of heavy metals (Ni, Cr, Cu, Zn, Pb and Mn) in the greenhouse soils as well as the distribution of these metals in the different parts of tomato plants grown on these soils. Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (AAS) was used to determine heavy metals concentration. The concentration of available forms of all examined heavy metals in the soils and in tomato fruits were low, although the total concentration of hazardous heavy metals Ni and Cr in soils exceeded the maximum permissible values, prescribed by legislative rules in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The reasons for the low uptake of heavy metals by tomato plants are mainly related to the chemical properties of soil which are not favorable for heavy metal availability. In addition, the results of this study also showed that the accumulation of all examined heavy metals especially Cr and Ni were much higher in the roots than in the fruits. The low accumulation of heavy metals in tomato fruits is the result of synergy of different plant defense mechanisms that limiting or reducing heavy metal transport from root to fruits.

A CMOS controllable constant-power source suitable for thermal-based sensor applications is presented in this paper. It is based on the resistive mirror method. The stability of the proposed controllable constant-power source is not dependent on either the load resistance or the generated power. A generated power dynamic range of 46.2 (33.3 dB), a load resistance dynamic range of 5 (14 dB), a voltage efficiency of 0.81, and a relative error of the generated power less than 2.3 %, with a single supply voltage of 10 V have been measured. The stability test has been carried out using the resistive load in a pulse mode operation confirming the predictions of the analysis performed. In addition, a figure of merit is introduced in order to improve the quality of the performance comparison among the state-of-the-art in the area of controllable constant-power sources.

The paper presents an analysis of the key processes in the field of adult education in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) referring to its socialist past and current tendencies dominantly motivated by the country’s aspiration towards accession to the European Union (EU). Any effort to offer a systematic overview of the history of adult education in BiH faces ambiguity and a lack of systematic data. Unlike other parts of the education system where historical accounts are to a certain extent preserved and subject to scholarly studies and investigations, adult education in BiH seems to be a field without a documented past. Based on critical discourse analysis, the paper intends to unravel the intricate socio-political texture that has shaped the key themes in adult education both in the country’s socialist past and its democratic present. The results of the analysis indicate several quite clear patterns: (a) the ambiguous treatment of the socialist past, from romanticising to annihilating its achievements and arrangements; (b) the rise of private institutions in adult education in the post-socialist period and the diversification of the education on offer; and (c) tensions between aspirations towards global and European trends on the one hand and insistence on localisation in terms of shaping adult education policy on the other.  

Carbon nanotube-based field-effect transistors (NTFETs) are ideal sensor devices as they provide rich information regarding carbon nanotube interactions with target analytes and have potential for miniaturization in diverse applications in medical, safety, environmental, and energy sectors. Herein, we investigate chemical detection with cross-sensitive NTFETs sensor arrays comprised of metal nanoparticle-decorated single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). By combining analysis of NTFET device characteristics with supervised machine-learning algorithms, we have successfully discriminated among five selected purine compounds, adenine, guanine, xanthine, uric acid, and caffeine. Interactions of purine compounds with metal nanoparticle-decorated SWCNTs were corroborated by density functional theory calculations. Furthermore, by testing a variety of prepared as well as commercial solutions with and without caffeine, our approach accurately discerns the presence of caffeine in 95% of the samples with 48 features using a linear discriminant analysis and in 93.4% of the samples with only 11 features when using a support vector machine analysis. We also performed recursive feature elimination and identified three NTFET parameters, transconductance, threshold voltage, and minimum conductance, as the most crucial features to analyte prediction accuracy.

Ovo istraživanje obuhvaća opažanja fenološke varijabilnosti od 28 provenijencija hrasta lužnjaka u bosansko­hercegovačkom pokusu provenijencija u Žepču. Pokus je baziran na slučajnom blok sustavu sa tri (3) ponavljanja, gdje je svaka provenijencija u svakom bloku predstavljena sa 36 biljaka, osim provenijencija Drvar, Mutnica, Zvornik i Vinac, koje su djelomično zastupljene u pokusu. Proces listanja praćen je tijekom 2012. i 2013. godine, od kraja ožujka do početka svibnja. Praćeno je pet (5) fenofaza listova koje su za hrast kitnjak razradili Derory i dr. (2006.). Analiza fenoloških faza pokazala je da postoje statistički značajne razlike između ispitivanih provenijencija. Razlike su potvrđene za početak, trajanje i završetak pojedinih fenoloških faza listanja između provenijencija, što ukazuje na genetsku varijabilnost između populacija i zavisnost fenoloških faza od vremenskih uvjeta. U ovom istraživanju nije bilo moguće napraviti razliku između provenijencija na osnovi najranijeg pojavljivanja faza. Provenijencija Bijeljina nešto ranije ulazi u fazu B u 2012. godini, dok u 2013. godini u fazu B ulazi u isto vrijeme kao i ostale provenijencije. Provenijencija Bosanska Dubica kasni s ulaskom u sve faze u obje godine, i kašnjenje u odnosu na ostale provenijencije u prosjeku iznosi 7-10 dana. S obzirom na lokaciju populacije Bosanska Dubica u planinskim uvjetima možemo pretpostaviti da se radi o kasnoj formi. Dobiveni rezultati već sada mogu biti korišteni u programu oplemenjivanja hrasta lužnjaka, kao i u očuvanju genetske varijabilnosti uz pomoć in situ i ex situ metoda. Dobivene rezultate treba koristiti za planiranje, repopulaciju i reintrodukciju hrasta lužnjaka u Bosni i Hercegovini. Ovo istraživanje treba nastaviti kako bi se dobila detaljnija slika o fenologiji hrasta lužnjaka i utvrdila eventualna prisutnost ranih i kasnih formi, uzimajući u obzir i učinke klimatoloških uvjeta.

The objective of this work was to evaluate the soil physical and biological properties in an integrated crop-livestock system (ICLS), with or without cattle grazing, in different seasons. The experiment was carried out in the Cerrado biome, in Brazil, in a Rhodic Eutrudox. The treatments consisted of grazing areas ( Urochloa ruziziensis ) at 0.25, 0.35, and 0.45 m heights (with soybean cultivation after grazing) and of nongrazed areas. The ICLS had no negative effects on soil bulk density, total porosity, macroporosity, and microporosity. After ICLS implementation, the values of soil bulk density decreased, and those of soil macroporosity increased, in the grazed and nongrazed areas. However, after three years, bulk density and macroporosity were reestablished to values similar to those before ICLS implementation. Soil penetration resistance was higher in the ICLS, mainly at 0.00–0.05 m soil depth. After four years, ICLS promoted the increase of microbial biomass C and N and the reduction of the metabolic quotient. The microbial biomass carbon and the metabolic quotient were related to the weighted mean diameter. ICLS benefits to soil physical and biological properties are associated with adequate ICLS implementation, adequate grazing height (0.35 m), and maintenance of soil cover.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the teaching of sanitary surveillance in undergraduate nursing courses in Brazil, seeking to know how this theme is addressed during the training of nurses. METHOD The universe of study was composed of Political-Pedagogical Projects, syllabi and curricula of nursing undergraduate courses from Brazilian public institutions. The quantitative analysis was developed through descriptive and inferential statistics, and for the qualitative part, a software was used to analyze the documents. RESULTS A total of 153 public institutions' websites were analyzed. Of these, only 98 presented a Political-Pedagogical Project, a syllabus or a curriculum for on-line consultation, and only 2.04% of these programs had a specific discipline focused on teaching sanitary surveillance. CONCLUSION The findings indicate that the contents related to the teaching of sanitary surveillance in nursing courses of public higher education institutions in Brazil, when present, are inserted, mostly, in other curricular components.