The triad Zeus, Herakles and Dionysos has been attested in Upper Moesia by the relief from the village of Bukovo near Negotin, eastern Serbia. The Roman supreme god was frequently shown in association with other deities but the presence of Bacchus and Hercules in such associations is Greek rather than Roman in origin. The association of Liber and Hercules was promoted by the emperor Septimius Severus, a native of the city of Leptis Magna whose patron gods were concurrently Liber and Hercules. Septimius even granted the dii patrii a sort of official recognition as patrons of the dynasty he founded. The village of Bukovo where the relief was found had not been known as an archaeological site. There is no specific evidence for the worship of Jupiter in that area, while the worship of Herakles is attested on the sites of Rovine and Tamnic near Negotin. The relief is close to north-Macedonian reliefs in style, and reflects Hellenistic and Thracian influence in associating the cults of Dionysos and Herakles. The depicted deities are compatible and close to Septimius Severus’ official religion. The central position of the supreme god indicates his importance as well as the fact that the other two deities are associated to him, as his children patrons of nature and fertility in the underground and aboveground worlds. It is also important to note that the relief confirms Hellenistic religious influences in the area of the Upper Moesian limes.

Bojana B. Prodanic, Aleksandar I. Jokic, Jelena Đ. Markovic and Zoltan Z. Zavargo General trend of free trade at the regional level as well as in the direction of European Union has motivated sugar factories located in Serbia to invest into technologies that are more efficient in order to make their products more competitive in the markets of Europe. Until 2005, the project of energy efficiency improvement in Serbian sugar factories was conducted in Crvenka and Žabalj. Now, they have energy consumption around 1 MJ/kg beet, in contrast to the previous consumption of 1.2 up to 1.5 MJ/kg beet. Further improvements are possible but investments would be high. A result of measurements taken during 2006, after the sugar factory „Donji Srem“ - Pecinci was reconstructed showed that a considerable saving has been achieved. The first set of measurements showed that the energy consumption was 1.01 MJ/kg beet, which was 20% higher than intended, but at the same time energy savings were about 30% lower with respect to the values before the reconstruction.

In this research the microbiological changes during the ripening of fermented horsemeat sausages were studied. Three sausages were sampled on day 0, 14, 28 and 42. Microbiological analysis included the determination of counts of aerobic mesophilic bacteria, lactic acid bacteria, micrococci, Staphylococcus aureus, enterobacteria, Escherichia coli, yeasts and moulds, enterococci, Pseudomonas spp, sulphite-reducing clostridia, and identification of the presence of Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella species. During fermentation, in the sausage microflora prevailed LAB (6-8 log10 cfu g-1), but there were also micrococci (2-3 log10 cfu g-1), and yeasts and fungi (3-4 log10 cfu g-1). Significant drop in pH value was recorded during the first 14 days of fermentation (5.82 on day 0, and 5.02 on day 14). That, and other possible antimicrobial mechanisms of LAB, led to the expected reduction of microorganism counts or elimination of enterobacteria, E. coli, pathogenic staphylococci and sulphite-reducing clostridia.