Plitvice Lakes National Park is the largest national park in Croatia and also the oldest from 1949. It was added to the UNESCO World Natural Heritage List in 1979, due to the unique physicochemical and biological conditions that have led to the creation of 16 named and several smaller unnamed lakes, which are cascading one into the next. Previous scientific research proved that the increased amount of dissolved organic matter (pollution) stops the travertine processes on Plitvice Lakes. Therefore, this complex, dynamic but also fragile geological, biological and hydrological system required a comprehensive limnological survey. Thirteen of the sixteen lakes mentioned above were initially surveyed from the air by an unmanned aircraft equipped with a survey grade GNSS and a full frame high-resolution full-screen camera. From these recordings, a georeferenced, high-resolution orthophoto was generated, on which the following surveys by a multibeam sonar depended. It is important to mention that this was the first time that these lakes had ever been surveyed both with the multibeam sonar technique and with such a high-resolution camera. Due to the fact that these thirteen lakes are difficult to reach and often too shallow for a boat-mounted sonar, a special autonomous surface vehicle was developed. The lakes were surveyed by the autonomous surface vehicle mounted with a multibeam sonar to create detailed bathymetric models of the lakes. The missions were planned for the surface vehicle based on the orthophoto from the preliminary studies. A detailed description of the methodology used to survey the different lakes is given here. In addition, the resulting high-resolution bathymetric maps are presented and analysed together with an overview of average, maximum depths and number of data points. Numerous interesting depressions, which are phenomena consistent with previous studies of Plitvice Lakes, are noted at the lake beds and their causes are discussed. This study shows the huge potential of remote sensing technologies integrated into autonomous vehicles in terms of much faster surveys, several orders of magnitude more data points (compared to manual surveys of a few decades ago), as well as data accuracy, precision and georeferencing.

Acinar cystic transformation (ACT) or acinar cell cystadenoma is a rare benign tumor of the pancreas. Their clinical presentation is nonspecific, thus hampering their detection and frequently leading to misdiagnosis. In this report, we present a case of ACT of the pancreas in a 54-year-old man that was vague abdominal symptoms. A magnetic resonance imaging was shown a well-defined cystic mass located in the head of the pancreas, measuring 57×47×23 mm. Our patient was treated by pancreaticoduodenectomy. In the macroscopic examination of the mass, a multicystic lesion was found in cream-colored pancreatic tissue. Histological and immunohistochemical studies examination revealed a cystic mass containing multiple cysts at varying sizes, lined by epithelial cells without atypia and positive staining of CK7, CK8/18, and CK19. A high index of clinical suspicion is required to diagnose this tumor. The surgical approach is to ensure accurate diagnosis and to avoid complications

Background COVID-19 pandemic presented an unexpected challenge for the surgical community in general and Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) specialists in particular. This document aims to summarize recent evidence and experts’ opinion and formulate recommendations to guide the surgical community on how to best organize the recovery plan for surgical activity across different sub-specialities after the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods Recommendations were developed through a Delphi process for establishment of expert consensus. Domain topics were formulated and subsequently subdivided into questions pertinent to different surgical specialities following the COVID-19 crisis. Sixty-five experts from 24 countries, representing the entire EAES board, were invited. Fifty clinicians and six engineers accepted the invitation and drafted statements based on specific key questions. Anonymous voting on the statements was performed until consensus was achieved, defined by at least 70% agreement. Results A total of 92 consensus statements were formulated with regard to safe resumption of surgery across eight domains, addressing general surgery, upper GI, lower GI, bariatrics, endocrine, HPB, abdominal wall and technology/research. The statements addressed elective and emergency services across all subspecialties with specific attention to the role of MIS during the recovery plan. Eighty-four of the statements were approved during the first round of Delphi voting (91.3%) and another 8 during the following round after substantial modification, resulting in a 100% consensus. Conclusion The recommendations formulated by the EAES board establish a framework for resumption of surgery following COVID-19 pandemic with particular focus on the role of MIS across surgical specialities. The statements have the potential for wide application in the clinical setting, education activities and research work across different healthcare systems.

In the present paper, the authors analyse attitudes of students (N=91) studying at the Department of English Language and Literature toward distance learning launched at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo, during the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. The study is designed as action research containing elements of both qualitative and quantitative research. The key instrument for collecting data was a survey designed by the authors of the present paper. The Google Forms survey was delivered to 1st-5th year students at the Department of English Language and Literature by e-mail. The collected data were processed by means of SPSS software (descriptive statistics). Results of the analysis show that students do not consider “distance learning’’ to be of better quality when compared to “learning in the classroom’’ but also that students, in the period of returning to a “new normal’’, openly express their preference for blended learning. At the same time, results of the analysis reveal that it is necessary to modernise teaching practices by means of introducing a more representative version of the distance learning system that would not only significantly improve the quality of the teaching practices, but also assist in maintaining competitiveness of the Faculty of Philosophy as a higher education institution.

Inclusion should be an important value of every society. Education institutions are the place for developing universal values that should enable every individual to express their needs in a unique and different way, which will prompt an inclusive environment that values diversity. Forming an inclusive environment fosters opportunity for developing creativity. Although inclusive education and creativity are rarely perceived as related, this paper aims to present the values and creativity opportunities of inclusive education. A chorus of criticism directed at the education system shows that creativity is not recognized enough, especially when it comes to students with disabilities whose creativity is often not seen as one of their abilities, even when it is developed. That happens as a result of perceiving the students through the prism of their disability. The emphasis should be on developing the values during the preschool period, which is the most significant period of a child’s development as that is the time when the foundations of the personality development are set. The subject of this research is focused on identifying the values and creativity opportunities of inclusive education, while the intention is to recognize the possible ways of developing creativity in an inclusive environment. The aim of the research was to examine the educators’ opinions on values and creativity opportunities of inclusion. As of recently, preschool institutions have been now facing an increasing number of children with disabilities enrolling in. Therefore, new challenges are posed on the preschool education when it comes to providing the children with the conditions for a development that meets their needs and abilities. The purpose of the paper is to offer strategies that will ensure the development of core values while respecting the creative potential of each child in an inclusive environment.

School in the modern society should provide an environment for students to feel safe and motivated for learning. There should be an optimal student workload with the schoolwork as well as with the homework. Unfortunately, student overload at all levels of education has been evident. Their overloaded schedule presents a significant challenge and may cause fatigue, exhaustion, distraction, mope, high levels of stress, apathy, superficially and campaign learning, and general lack of motivation. Due to the topicality of the issue, the authors of this paper have tried to offer a review of the sources of the student overload. Different sources, as well as negative consequences of student overload have been determined based on a significant number of empirical works so far. The article also suggests measures to relieve students. Psychologists, in cooperation with the students’ parents and experts from other branches of the education sector, can contribute in finding a way to prevent and reduce consequences of the overload. Empirical studies about sources of student overload are also necessary to determine evidence based guidelines for the education reform.

Book Review: Bakšić, Sabina, Bulić, Halid, 2019. Pragmatika. Sarajevo: Bookline.

BACKGROUND Cognitive failures impair the quality of life. Students are often exposed to stressful situations, struggle to make a balance in life, have time management issues and tend to procrastinate, feel too much pressure to succeed, and find it difficult to cope with study and exam anxiety. In this study, we investigated cognitive failures through psychosocial variables in daily life of students and relationship between anxiety and cognitive failures. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 175 students (78.29 % female and 21.71 % male). Medical students comprised 52.57 % of the sample (n = 92), while 47.43 % were psychology students (n = 83). All students were in the first year of education at University of Sarajevo. The survey used the sociodemographic questionnaire, State-Trait Anxiety (Form Y), Cognitive Failures Questionnaire CFQ. Results were obtained by independent sample test and Pearson’s correlation coefficient (r). 26) students, 130 %) statistically significantly the total of cognitive failures, forgetfulness, distractibility, and false subscales. largest total CFQ 0.453, and anxiety could cause cognitive failures. Student life in addition to the obligations and pressures created by academic engagement itself involves many changes and just thinking about it can cause anxiety symptoms. Accordingly, the undesirable outcomes that cognitive failures can cause maladaptive student habits and anxiety. It should be a treated as a critical public health issue.

Este trabalho pretende mostrar como foi idealizado e como funciona na atualidade o Centro Regional de Estudos, Prevencao e Recuperacao de Dependentes Quimicos (CENPRE), um programa de extensao permanente da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG). O CENPRE surgiu a partir das atividades extensionistas desenvolvidas pelo antigo Departamento de Ciencias Fisiologicas (DCF), hoje Instituto de Ciencias Biologicas (ICB), e foi idealizado para cumprir os objetivos das diretrizes de prevencao ao uso de substâncias psicoativas. Inserido no contexto do Hospital universitario da FURG, o CENPRE conduz suas atividades utilizando uma abordagem interdisciplinar, composta pelo trabalho de um psiquiatra, tres psicologos, duas enfermeiras, um terapeuta familiar, uma assistente social e uma farmaceutica. Adicionalmente, este centro de pesquisas se mantem integrado a comunidade academica e a populacao em geral, com vistas a promocao da saude, a prevencao e ao tratamento de transtornos relacionados ao uso de substâncias psicoativas. O CENPRE se consolidou como um centro de referencia e apoio a formacao de recursos humanos por meio de acoes educativas e atividades de ensino; alem de fomentar a pesquisa por intermedio de estudos epidemiologicos em comunidades locais e regionais.

Selection of Sustainable Suppliers is a key term in sustainable supply chain management. This is the reason to choose the supplier who will support the company to implement sustainability in its business, especially in the supply chain. The aim of this paper is to establish a new innovative model for decision-making based on a fuzzy approach. This decision-making problem is solved by applying multi-criteria decision-making since there are several criteria according to which a decision should be made: economic, social, and environmental. In order to make the final decision on the supply chain better and safer, the social criteria were modified in this paper, adding ethical criteria. The example with modified social criteria in this paper was shown on the example of the company "Voćar" Brčko, which deals with the production of food products. In this paper, the fuzzy Measurement Alternatives and Ranking, according to the Compromise Solution Method, was used. The findings have shown that supplier A1 has the best results, which were confirmed with the first sensitivity analysis. However, the second sensitivity analysis has shown that supplier A5 was better than supplier A1 in 14 scenarios. Due to these findings, no unanimous decision can be made about which supplier among the two, in this case, would contribute more. This paper has shown that the selection of sustainable suppliers is crucial for any company focused on the principles of sustainability in business. Moreover, this paper has shown that it is sometimes very difficult to select just one supplier.

Public servants responsiveness and administrative responsibilities to their constituents in local communities are identified through the set of ethical standards predominantly resulting in good governance. Some researchers and practitioners in the field of integrity and ethics concur with the premise of administrative responsibility and responsiveness operating under holistic approaches to understanding climate resilience. This analysis contends with the traditional views of the theory of social choice and administrative burden to stipulate a suitable ethical framework and understanding of ethics in considering climate resilience. The research takes into consideration the principles and structure of moral expectations and measurable outcomes related to climate resilience through the Quadruple Bottom Line lens. The good governance in resilience is explored using an exploratory data analysis of local governments through resilience planning supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, which funded 100 Resilient Cities initiative. The sample size consisted of thirty cities with the obtainable resilience or climate actions plans and a review of their governance efforts through those documents and detailed plans. The research offers a preliminary report of the ongoing efforts in cities and regions to combat climate change, coupled with the ethical considerations and administrative responsibility to frame the administrators’ role in deliberation to climate resilience. The research findings assert a prototype ethical framework for review by administrators to augment administrative responsiveness to climate change threats and increase climate resilience.

BACKGROUND: Extracellular vesicles (EVs) play an important role in cell-cell communication in different types of tumors, carrying multiple layers of biological functional molecules, including proteins, RNA, DNA and lipids. We previously demonstrated that extracellular vesicles (EV) from central nervous system tumors reflect the molecular subtype of the original tumor and mediate an exchange of pro-oncogenic signals. Their implication as biomarkers in tumor disease is under current investigation. It is unclear, however, to what extent cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) EVs from intraspinal tumors are utilizable for diagnostical purposes and how their marker profiles overlap with EVs derived from non tumorous EVs. We analyzed CSF EVs of intraspinal tumors to define CSF EV profiles that allow tumor subtype classification. METHODS: EVs were isolated from CSF of patients suffering from intraspinal meningioma (n=5), ependymoma (n=7) and neurinoma (n=5). Patients suffering from normal pressure hydrocephalus were used as controls (n=5). EVs were analyzed by multiplex bead based assay, immunoblotting, electron microscopy and NTA. RESULTS: CSF EVs were 97.21 ± 3.37nm (intraspinal tumor patients) and 101.6 ± 3.68nm (controls) in sizes and showed vesicular structures by electron microscopy. Particle number were not significantly different between both groups (p = 0.103). Using our 37 protein mutliplex EV profiling kit we found 29 proteins to be expressed in a sufficient manner on CSF EVs. CSF EVs of intraspinal meningioma showed elevated CD62P, HLA-DR, CD40, CD42a and CD45 expression levels, while ependymoma showed decreased levels of CD9, CD63, CD81, whereas neurinomas had elevated levels of SSEA-3 and CD25. CONCLUSION: This is the first comprehensive analysis of CSF EV of intraspinal tumor patients. CSF EV display distinct subpopulations that may allow tumor classification and long-term surveillance. However as tumor-specific EVs may be rare, there is still the need to identify markers that can enrich tumor-specific EVs for molecular profiling.

This clinical randomized study aimed to evaluate the early plaque formation on nonresorbable polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) membranes having either a dense (d‐PTFE) or an expanded (e‐PTFE) microstructure and exposed to the oral cavity.

1968 was a watershed year not only for the new left but even more so for the rise of the New Right. It turns out that, if 1968 “prepared” 1989 as the next turning point in European and world history, it was probably more through the new right’s forging of ideas that would eventually provide ideological justification for illiberal democracies in Central and Eastern Europe. Yugoslavia is an important site in this history not only because of its early exposure to the ideas of the new right through the work of the painter and publicist Dragoš Kalajić but also because in his seminal book The Philosophy of Parochialism (1969), Radomir Konstantinović anticipated the rise of the new right and offered a penetrating critique of its fundamental premises.