The primary aim of the paper is to conduct research on the personality traits and pre-competition anxiety of Esports and sports players, in addition to confirming differences in personality and pre-competition anxiety between the two examined groups. The research has been conducted on 67 (N=67) subjects, 30 of whom are semi-professional or professional gamers who participate in state-level and regional-level competitions. The remaining 37 subjects are the highest-ranked athletes in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The t-test, a type of inferential statistic, has been used to determine statistical differences in disposition between the arithmetic means of the two groups, using BFI-44 (α=0.78) and CSAI-2 (α=0.60) measuring instruments. It has been anticipated that the Esports players are ranked lower at Extraversion (E) and Agreeableness (A) levels, while their Neuroticism (N) level is higher compared to the results of the athletes. The research indicates that all of the three hypotheses regarding the Big Five Model have been confirmed – on the scale of Extraversion (E) with significance levels of p=0.000 (p<0.0001); on the scale of Agreeableness (A) with significance levels of p=0.002 (p<0.01); on the scale of Neuroticism (N) with significance levels of p=0.042 (p<0.05). Furthermore, the fourth and fifth research hypotheses, proposing there is a statistically significant difference in cognitive and somatic anxiety (CSAI-2) in Esports players and athletes, were not confirmed. The sixth research hypothesis was confirmed, showing that there is a statistically significant difference between Esports players and athletes on the self-confidence dimension (CSAI-2) with p=0.030 (p<0.05). Results gathered on this sample could serve as an important part of understanding the differences between Esports players and athletes.

Experiential learning is one of the most productive ways of learning and acquiring knowledge. Through personal experience, students develop self-confidence, see more complex relationships in learning subjects, constantly have feedback on their own progress and are constantly in the circle of learning and gaining new knowledge. The paper emphasizes the role of experience in the changes that occur in an individual. Learning styles based on experience greatly influence the success of the learning process. The paper presents some of the theories that define how an individual learns when encountering new content thanks to previous experience, interests and affinities. A description of Kolb’s experiential learning theory, learning styles according to Honey and Mumford, the VARK learning model set by Fleming and Mills, as well as the criteria that experiential learning must meet in order to be efficient and purposeful.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this paper analyses power play, speech strategies, and speech impact in Harold Pinter’s one-act play Mountain Language (1988), in which prison officials exercise power over inmates and their visitors through various tactics of control and subjugation. The paper’s methodological framework of corpus analysis is founded upon the linguistic features of police speak in the English language (a hybrid genre of spoken language police officers use when interrogating suspects), which, we propose, permeates the discourse in Mountain Language. The paper first reflects on discourses on/of power as observed in literary theory, then examines discursive strategies in the play, to illustrate speech impact caused by “conduct-regulating persuasion” and linguistic features of verbal violence. It also reflects on the concept of the persuasive power of discourse, in terms of the impact it may have on the mindset and behaviour of the interlocutor(s).

With the development of industry and technology, leisure time gains sociocultural importance. Leisure activities are an important predictor of personal growth and improvement of the quality of life. The purpose of this research is to examine patterns, but also to reveal tendencies and perspectives of youth spending their leisure time. 120 first and second-cycle students of the University of Sarajevo participated in the research. The results of the research showed that students put their free time into the function of rest, leisure, and personality development. They prefer to spend their leisure time with close friends or on their own. The respondents, when they do not have family, professional, and other obligations, spend their time socializing and going out, relaxing activities, and on social networks. Also, they believe that free time is essential for self-development and productivity, as well as that the biggest challenges concern the methodical organizational and methodical performance creation of free time. Accordingly, guidelines for structuring the environment are offered, which have the potential to remove obstacles and maximize educational effects in leisure time.

Equity in the academic context is an important construct that affects the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral reactions of an individual. The study of fairness in the work context is extremely important, considering that a person spends a lot of time in the workplace during his life. Several studies so far have shown that affecting one's perception of equity can affect the individual itself- improving one's productivity, satisfaction, and such. (Galinec 2017). Distributive equity is based on Adams' (1965) equity theory, more specifically on its assumption that people do not care as much about the absolute outcome, compared to the equity of the outcome itself. Regarding stress, the academic staff in Slišković (2012) explored different sources of stress that result in reduced productivity. Some of the universal sources of stress, such as inadequate compensation and recognition within an organization, are linked to distributive equity. The goal of the research was to show if distributive inequity exists within an academic environment and if that inequity reflects stress levels inside that environment. The academic workers who took part in this research are employees of the following higher education institutions: the University of Zenica, the University of Sarajevo, the University “Džemal Bijedić” in Mostar, and the University of Bihać. The inventory contains 21 items. The research took place in July 2022. The descriptive method was used as a scientific research method. The results show that academic workers perceive distributive inequity in certain situations, and it correlates with an increase in their stress levels.

This research aimed to examine the experiences of students about the phenomenon of procrastination, investigating the following questions: Are students familiar with this phenomenon and do they report forms of behavior that can be characterized as procrastination? What are the reasons for such behavior? How does procrastination affect their emotions? Does procrastination negatively affect their psychophysical health? And finally, how do they deal with the negative consequences of procrastination? The study included 35 students from the Faculty of Teaching, University "Džemal Bijedić" in Mostar. Qualitative research was carried out to obtain answers to the questions posed. Through focus groups with students, the following topics were brought up to date: sources of procrastination, the consequences of such behavior on the psychophysical health of students, and the adaptation of students to such behavior. The results showed that students tend to procrastinate. The sources of procrastination were mainly the lack of motivation for work, poor organization of time, preoccupation with other, more interesting things, fatigue, tasks that were too easy, as well as the flexibility of professors to extend the deadlines for the completion of the tasks. Also, students reported that such behavior negatively affected their psychophysical health, however, despite this, they are not motivated to change it.

This article examines women's activism and feminism in Bosnia and Herzegovina, focusing on marginalised women's groups and organisations that are often excluded from academic research and international donor interests. The theoretical section presents the main characteristics of the development of women's organisations in post-war BIH, addressing the problem of NGO-isation of activism and feminism, which marginalises groups of women and organisations that do not belong to prominent liberal feminist organisations that pursue gender mainstreaming. Qualitative research based on in-depth interviews and analysis shows that these organisations mostly focus on the local level to meet diverse, specific, and sometimes urgent needs of women (e.g., Roma women, rural women, impoverished as well as women in small local communities) facing particular challenges while doing so. Although most of them do not clearly profess a feminist identity, they are aware of the patriarchal context, especially in their local communities, and their interpretations are mostly in line with the feminist ethics of care. However, the lack of organisational capacity, sustainable funding, and a clear feminist agenda in their work undermine their critical potential to be triggers for social change.

This paper aims to show the specific structure of the design of Uzunović's novel I Am, which on the one hand inherits a postmodern approach to the structure, and on the other hand, succeeds in concealing the relativism of the organization of the world with a zone of emotions. Genre-wise, Uzunović's novel fits in the novel book genre, in which the bildungsroman is enriched with a cultural image of a travelogue, that is, a chronotope of its events. For this reason, in this novel, the questioning of the identity of his hero concerning what was offered to him by the place and time of his birth will come to the fore, then the questioning of the subject's alienation in the zone of the Other, from which again a fragmented writing style will emerge, which, finally, will have its generalization of profits based on the phenomenon of universal sympathy.

The article addresses the issue of liability for artificial intelligence through the analysis of civil liability for autonomous entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. First, it addresses the issue of applying vicarious liability in the law of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and it elaborates on its limitations. The example of the treatment of animals in case law indicates the possibility of creatively interpreting the existing legal framework in order to create a functional equivalent of situations that are not included in the scope of vicarious liability, but nonetheless treat liability for autonomous entities.

The main aim of this review is to systematize and present evidence from recent scientific studies regarding the role of early mathematical competencies in later mathematics achievement, as well as to analyze characteristics of educational and family environments that facilitate the development of these competencies in children. Presented longitudinal studies provide clear evidence that early math competencies significantly predict later mathematical outcomes. Reviewed studies also suggest that how adults and children interact in terms of mathematics activities is related to children’s mathematics development. In both formal education and family environment, adults who use everyday situations and activities for reasoning, communicating, and mathematical thinking seem to be the most important factor for fostering early math competencies. These findings are also discussed in the context of BiH where most children do not attend formal early education.

The negative influence of timber harvesting on the forest environment is reflected through damage to the residual trees, regeneration, and forest soil. Considering that skidding, a popular extraction method, can cause substantial and severe damage to the remaining stand, the aim of this research was to determine damage to residual trees during skidding by an LKT 81T cable skidder, including oxen bunching. The research was conducted in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, in an uneven-aged mixed fir (Abies alba Mill.) and spruce (Picea abies L.) forest with pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) on limestone soils. Tree felling was conducted using a Husqvarna 372 XP chainsaw. Extraction operations caused damage to 6.31% of the residual trees in the stand. The most damage was “removed bark” (65.34%) and occurred on the lower parts of the tree, the butt end (55.11%) and root collar (32.39%). The average size of the damage was 197.08 cm2. A statistically significant correlation was found between the damage position and the diameter at the breast height (p < 0.05) and the damage position and damage size (p < 0.01) by Spearman correlation analysis. The conducted analysis by the chi-squared test showed that there is a statistically significant difference in the proportion of damage for trees with different distances to the nearest skid road (p = 0.0487), but the share of damaged trees did not decrease by increasing the distance from the skid road.

Paracetamol/acetaminophen (N-acetyl-p-aminophenol, APAP) overdose is one of the most important causes of drug-induced liver injury worldwide. Hepatotoxicity induced by APAP is mainly caused by the production of N-acetyl-p-benzoquinone imine (NAPQI), a highly reactive intermediate formed predominantly via the cytochrome P450 2E1. Here, we used human studies and in vitro models to demonstrate that NAPQI-derived thiomethyl metabolites identified using high-resolution mass spectrometry could serve to monitor NAPQI detoxification and elimination in patients (after intake at recommended dose or after intoxication), and to study inter-individual variability in NAPQI production. Using in vitro human models, we showed that these thiomethyl metabolites are directly linked to NAPQI detoxification since they are mainly formed after exposure to glutathione-derived conjugates via an overlooked pathway called the thiomethyl shunt. These long-term thiomethyl metabolites have great potential in future clinical studies in order to provide a more reliable history of APAP ingestion in case of acute intoxication or to study underlying causes involved in APAP-induced hepatotoxicity. One Sentence Summary Thiomethyl metabolites are new markers to monitor the elimination of the toxic N-acetyl-p-benzoquinone imine after therapeutic use or intoxication.

Goal: Artificial intelligence applied to medical image analysis has been extensively used to develop non-invasive diagnostic and prognostic signatures. However, these imaging biomarkers should be largely validated on multi-center datasets to prove their robustness before they can be introduced into clinical practice. The main challenge is represented by the great and unavoidable image variability which is usually addressed using different pre-processing techniques including spatial, intensity and feature normalization. The purpose of this study is to systematically summarize normalization methods and to evaluate their correlation with the radiomics model performances through meta-analyses. This review is carried out according to the PRISMA statement: 4777 papers were collected, but only 74 were included. Two meta-analyses were carried out according to two clinical aims: characterization and prediction of response. Findings of this review demonstrated that there are some commonly used normalization approaches, but not a commonly agreed pipeline that can allow to improve performance and to bridge the gap between bench and bedside.

Vine-leaved kitaibelia (Kitaibela vitifolia Willd.), also known as balkanmalva or chalice flower, is a critically endangered plant species with a high risk of extinction in the wild. A reason given for this is, among others, a low germination rate primarily caused by dormancy. The present study evaluated the seed germination and seedling growth parameters of vine-leaved kitaibelia in response to eight different pre-sowing treatments. The final germination percentage ranged from 0 % to 55 %, depending on the pre-sowing treatment. The most effective method for breaking dormancy and increasing vine-leaved kitaibelia seed germination was the treatment with seeds soaked in H2SO4 for 5 min. The mechanical scarification of vine-leaved kitaibelia seeds also improved germination as compared to control treatment, while treatments with nitric acid and gibberellic acid were not effective in enhancing seed germination. All evaluated seedling growth parameters were not affected by pre-sowing treatments. Considering that successful germination and seedling establishment are crucial for the regeneration of vine-leaved kitaibelia further studies are required in order to identify other pre-sowing treatments that could further enhance seed germination and, consequently, seedling development.