A few years ago, the expert public was discussing the consequences of consolidating the EU countries' representation in the IMF's Executive Board. The main idea was that EU members should be split into two constituencies. - the first one with members of the eurozone and the other a members outside the eurozone. The subject of this paper is to analyse the voting power in the Executive Committee of the International Monetary Fund using the Penrose-Banzhaf Index (PBI) and the Koleman's Index (CI). The aim of the paper is to express the power of voting and the possibility of blocking certain decisions in relation to the position in the constituency. We will also take a look at the characteristics of the official missions of the IMF in order to determine the importance of the results and recommendations arising from the visit of the IMF team to the country.

Cilj rada je da se ispita korelacija između dostignutog nivoa tehnologije i inovacija i razvoja finansijskog tržišta, indeksa humanog razvoja i bruto domaćeg proizvoda po glavi stanovnika. Istraživačko pitanje glasi: „Da li su, i u kakvoj vezi, nivo tehnologije i inovacija sa indeksom razvijenosti tržišta, indeksom ljudskog razvoja i BDP-om po glavi stanovnika?” Cilj istraživanja je da utvrdimo da li ima osnova za verovanje da je „kopiranjem” određene zemlje po nivou digitalizacije i inovacija moguće dodatno razviti finansijsko tržište, uticati na nivo ljudskog razvoja ili na povećanje BDP-a po glavi stanovnika. Metode korištene u radu su regresiona analiza, odnosno prosta linearna regresija, te analiza i sinteza prethodnih istraživanja i teoretskih nalaza, da bi zaključci bili izvučeni metodom indukcije. Rad predstavlja doprinos autora ekonomskoj teoriji i praksi, te široj javnosti. Rezultati istraživanja još ukazuju i da bi bilo racionalno da finansijski posrednici u zemljama u razvoju razmotre izmjenu svojih poslovnih modela i mogućnosti za njihovo prilagođavanje ubrzanim tehnološkim promjenama.

In recent years, many researchers have addressed the issue of interior climate and how it affects human health. Investigations performed at schools and office buildings have found that CO2 concentrations often exceed the limit value of 1500 ppm given in Decree No. 20/2012 Coll., on technical requirements for buildings. In addition, interior space often exhibits very low relative humidity. This results in poor conditions that are detrimental to human health and not conducive to studying and work. One means of improving the interior microclimate is implementing green walls. These walls can help generate a much better climate and greatly enhance the mental well-being of the inhabitants. In addition, they greatly improve dust levels and acoustics in the room. The research compared the interior conditions in two classrooms at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Brno University of Technology. One had a green wall installed while the other was in its original configuration. CO2 concentration, temperature, and relative humidity were measured. A survey was conducted to assess the influence of the green wall on students and teachers (mental well-being, efficiency, productivity, creativity, etc.). Results obtained thus far show that the room with the green wall provides far better interior conditions, mainly in terms of lower CO2 concentration and higher relative humidity, improving students’ and teachers’ mood and health (as confirmed by the survey as well).

In the present work, by using a paralelepipedic thermogravitational microcolumn, the temperature gradient influence on the stability of the flow was or has been examined, emphasizing mixtures with negative Soret coefficients. Experiments and numerical analysis were conducted for DCMIX2 Toulene-Methanol binary subsystem. This binary subsystem has a broad range of negative Soret values for low concentrations of Methanol which was analysed. Two different concentrations have been studied in order to confirm existence of temporal stability windows of those mixtures. Experiments were compared with numerical simulations conducted in open source software OpenFOAM, for both cases.

antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody (anca)-associated vasculitis (aav) is a small-vessel vasculitis, characterized by necrotizing inflammation of small vessels and positive ancas. cancas are directed against proteinase-3 (Pr-3) and are specific for granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPa, formerly known as Wegener’s disease), although their role in the immunopathology of the disease is still unclear. This is why the european medicines agency suggested that canca positivity, in addition to the clinical picture, can be enough for the diagnosis of GPa. Granulomatosis with polyangiitis is characterized by granulomatous inflammation that usually involves the upper and lower respiratory tract, necrotizing vasculitis that affects small and medium-sized vessels, and often rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis. We present a patient with an unusual presentation of canca-associated vasculitis, who presented with arthritis, palpable purpura on legs, and pauci-immune necrotizing glomerulonephritis with highly positive canca antibodies, without any signs or symptoms of airway involvement. although renal-limited anca vasculitis is recognized as a separate entity, our patient also had signs of skin and joint involvement and prominent constitutional symptoms that contributed to the diagnosis of systemic disease. in this paper, we present a patient with an atypical course of GPa, which can also be called a limited form of the disease. an atypical course or limited form belongs to the group of sine syndromes in inflammatory rheumatic diseases, which are not very common, but should be considered in the differential diagnosis. to our knowledge, there are only a few described case reports with a similar presentation.