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Published: 05.06.2022.

05.06.2022. Original scientific paper
VALUE BASED APPROACH AS A DRIVER OF MODERN HEALTHCARE

 Modern healthcare is characterized by a clear trend towards a value-based approach first presented by M. Porter in 2004 as a competitive strategy for US healthcare system. The concept expands the focus from operating solely with clinical data by including a patient’s values. The goal of the study is to present a personal experience of i...

By YULIIA ZUENKOVA

 There is a growing interest in the use of biopolymers for obtaining biodegradable packaging with the addition of green components. The aim of this paper is to develop films based on cellulose acetate and polycaprolactone-diol intended for active packaging by adding biocompatible plasticizers. The films were obtained by solution casting method...

By TAMARA ERCEG, NEVENA VUKIĆ, VESNA TEOFILOVIĆ, SEBASTIAN BALOŠ, ALENA STUPAR, OLJA ŠOVLJANSKI, SLAVICA POROBIĆ

 Education, at all levels, has undergone certain changes due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In the time of the pandemic, classes were held exclusively through online platforms or with a possible combination of traditional, frontal classes. Some institutions also conducted partial knowledge tests through online platforms with the possible inclusion ...

By SVETLANA ANĐELIĆ, NIKOLA DRAGOVIĆ, GORAN RADIĆ, VALENTIN KULETO, VELIMIR DEDIĆ

 The conducted research analyses the energy and economic aspect of the applied measures on the energy rehabilitation of an individual residential building in Petrovac na Mlavi and the sizing of the elements of the thermal membrane. using the methodology prescribed by the Rulebook on energy efficiency of buildings (Official Gazette of RS No. 61...

By MARINA NIKOLIĆ TOPALOVIĆ, MILAN BLAGOJEVIĆ

 The conducted research analyzes the possibility of applying the methodology for assessing the environmental impacts that certain thermal insulation materials have on the environment. Ecosystem approach and improvement of the design phase in the direction of evaluating the environmental characteristics of the proposed materials for thermal ins...

By MARINA NIKOLIĆ TOPALOVIĆ

 The building sector with the highest energy consumption is also a priority area in which the possibilities of solving environmental and economic problems are great. Achieving benefits from the energy, environmental and economic aspects, can be achieved by using renewable energy sources whose implementation does not require large and expensive...

By MILANA RADUJKOVIĆ, PETAR GVERO

 Previous research and statistical data have shown that buildings in Europe consume about 40% of total energy, and most of it is spent on heating. Due to the use of fossil fuels, many harmful gases are emitted into the atmosphere, especially greenhouse gases. Therefore, the study of new technologies and solutions in the field of construction o...

By MILANA RADUJKOVIĆ, DARIJA GAJIĆ

 The aim of this paper is to investigate the possibility of improving the state of undeveloped spaces in urban areas. The first part of this paper focuses on the state of the undeveloped spaces of the urban landscape. To recognize their character and quality, the Narrative Spatial Analytics (NSA) method was proposed. It integrates three design...

By TANJA TRKULJA, LJILJANA DOŠENOVIĆ, ZORAN ULJAREVIĆ

 This paper’s aim is to explore the possibilities of improving the visual attractiveness of space by applying the vertical greenery system (VGS). The first part of the paper focuses on the analysis of the VGS as a unique element of urban design with emphasized visual characteristics formed from the color and structure of plants, which al...

By TANJA TRKULJA, LJILJANA DOŠENOVIĆ, SANDRA ČEKIĆ

 Eco-design and usage of eco-labels on milk packaging, have a great influence on consumers when choosing and buying this product. Milk is usually packed in carton packs, plastic bottles or bags, and glass bottles. There is a worldwide trend of using innovative technologies for packing milk in aseptic packaging made of biodegradable materials. ...

By SUZANA KNEŽEVIĆ, MILENA MILOJEVIĆ, BILJANA DELIĆ VUJANOVIĆ, GORAN STANIŠIĆ

 This research paper shows the analysis of wildfires at the territory of the Republic of Srpska which was performed using the data collected using MODIS satellite imagery while the map presentation was created through Geographic Information System (GIS). For the purpose of this research paper, the period between the years 2001 to 2021 was anal...

By SAŠA LJUBOJEVIĆ, BRANKO LATINOVIĆ

 The paper examines the impact of government efficiency and corruption control as two of a total of six partial indicators of the World Bank's perception of the quality of public governance (World Governance Indicators) on foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows from the Western Balkans (WB) from 2010 to 2019. years. It was concluded that the ...

By SLOBODAN CVETANOVIĆ, DRAGAN TURANJANIN, ALEKSANDAR KOSTIĆ

 The paper investigates the impact of the Ukrainian crisis on the economy and budget policy in the Republic of Srpska. In the absence of statistical series and due to the variability of key parameters, in circumstances when it seems that the established models of international economic flows are growing, for analysis we have in mind the compar...

By LJILJANA JOVIĆ, MLADEN IVIĆ

 The paper examines the impact of government efficiency and corruption control as two of a total of six partial indicators of the World Bank's perception of the quality of public governance (World Governance Indicators) on foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows from the Western Balkans (WB) from 2010 to 2019. years. It was concluded that the ...

By DRAGAN TURANJANIN, SLOBODAN CVETANOVIĆ, ALEKSANDAR KOSTIĆ

 Digital revolution and globalization have drastically been changing the way people think, behave and communicate with one another, as well as their way of functioning and performing business. The new way of creation of knowledge, education and information distribution has changed the economic and business practice on a global level. Interdepe...

By GORDANA PRLINČEVIĆ, MARIJA MARČETIĆ, MARINA JOVOVIĆ

 The pandemic has had a major impact on the international business environment. Business between countries has changed a lot in terms of imports, exports and the border crossing of certain goods from country to country. The economic dimension of the international environment refers to the overall economic situation in a given environment and t...

By DIJANA LUKIĆ, DARKO VASELIĆ

 In order for a company to operate successfully, a number of conditions need to be met. The first step of a company in entering the market is the analysis of the environment. In strategic management, the analysis of the environment is focused on all the factors to which the company is sensitive and to which it must respond in order to operate ...

By DIJANA LUKIĆ, DARKO VASELIĆ

 Agile is a software development framework based on existing development principles (such as waterfall and spiral models), and encourages continuous planning and development. The Agile approach starts with short development cycles in which programs are developed in a flexible way. There is constant team interaction and joint decision making, w...

By MIHAJLO TRAVAR, SAŠA RISTIĆ, VELINKA TOMIĆ

 This study assessed the effect of counseling, training and development on entrepreneurial capabilities of Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN). The objectives of the study were to examine whether training organized by SMEDAN affects entrepreneurial capabilities and also to determine the effect of counseling on e...

By KOWO SOLOMON AKPOVIRORO

 Reindustrialization is of particular importance for securing the conditions for growth and development of the economies of Southeast European countries, including Serbia, which have undergone a difficult period of transition and privatization. The rapid effects of accelerated reindustrialization are evident not only in the form of job creati...

By MILICA NIČIĆ, DRAGAN DUKIĆ, DRAGAN RASTOVAC

 The paper focuses on understanding the central issues related to intellectual capital with afocus on family businesses. Intellectual capital is becoming a resource of primordialimportance for the creation of economic wealth. It is indisputable that tangible assetscontinue to be an important factor in the production of both goods and services,...

By BOSILJKA SREBRO, NENAD MARKOVIĆ, VUK MIRČETIĆ, OGNJEN BAKMAZ, UGLJEŠA MRDIĆ

05.06.2022. Professional paper
DROPSHIPPING AS A NEW MODEL OF E-COMMERCE

 Internet sales grows more and more every day and it becomes one of the more popular kinds of the trade in the World but in our region as well. Especially since it enables trade without time and location boundaries, fast and simple payment and delivery to home address. Internet trade from business entities to end users (B2CBusiness to Consumer...

By DARKO VASELIĆ

 The current trend of change at the global level in the political, social, economic and institutional spheres could not remain without influence on nation states and thus on the public sector. All these new conditions, phenomena and events define the new environment in which the state or the public sector operates. There is no possibility for ...

By BILJANA BJELICA, DRAGAN VUKASOVIĆ, DARKO MARTINOV

 Sustainable development requires the application of innovations and radical changes in the concept of functioning of most countries, where it is of special importance to achieve environmental sustainability. The environment is not only the environment in which people live, but also the resource base and the place where economic activities are...

By BOJANA OSTOJIĆ, IRENA PETRUŠIĆ, DRAGAN BULATOVIĆ, JELENA RUŽIĆ

 In order to improve the business management process, first of all, you need to improve the quality of your products and / or services. Many organizations, in terms of quality improvement, mean meeting the requirements of ISO standards. But other methodologies of quality improvement have appeared in the world and therefore this paper will deal...

By MIRKO MILIČEVIĆ, AZEMINA MAŠOVIĆ, SIMONIDA VILIĆ

 The changing environment challenges the managers of modern organizations how to achieve stability and the ability to create change, overcoming the instability that prevails in the market and ensuring success in chaos. New ideas, applied and exploited in a way that causes an increase in profitability, directly or indirectly lead to an increase...

By SIMONIDA VILIĆ, TATJANA DUJAKOVIĆ

 This paper explains the importance of capacity building to improve the competitiveness of food producers. We first consider a more precise definition of the concept of industry competitiveness, especially with the aim of describing the most important pillars on which the growth and development of companies in the food industry is based. It is...

By ZORAN BRLJAK, SRĐAN MILIĆEVIĆ

 As part of strategic environmental management, the need for sustainable management of natural resources is of primary importance. The essence of natural resource management is to enable the unhindered development of society, without reducing natural capital. Management of renewable and non-renewable natural resources is based on a systematic ...

By ZORAN BRLJAK, SRĐAN MILIĆEVIĆ

 In modern business aspect, it is impossible to imagine a successful business without appropriate business culture. Human resources management represents a very complex process. Business implementation is a quite complex procedure too. Development of human resources and business development depend on successful business communication. The conn...

By LOLIĆ SLAĐANA

 Human resource management in sports organizations is a relatively new management discipline, and the topic of the paper is current from the aspect of examining the way of functioning and innovation in this field. Namely, human resource management is perhaps the most important segment in running a sports organization, since its basic resources...

By BRANKO ĆURLIĆ, JELENA RUŽIČIĆ

 The job design of health organizations is one of the ways to provide motivation and job satisfaction, which are key determinants of the quality of health care. In this context, the research of social, motivational and contextual factors of job design is most often performed. However, results often show that there are differences in the percep...

By DANIJELA NEŠIĆ, MARKO SLAVKOVIĆ, NIKOLA JERKAN

 Intrinsic motivation is the initiation and direction of certain employee behaviour through intangible and non-financial rewards. In health organizations, intrinsic motivation stands out as a key factor in achieving efficiency, which is why human resource managers strive to stimulate employees to provide high quality health care by applying in...

By ALEKSANDAR ČIVOVIĆ, MARKO SLAVKOVIĆ, ANA ANIČIĆ

 Leadership, as a process of engaging and directing employees towards the realization of a certain goal, is a social process that has a significant impact on job satisfaction. In healthcare organizations, job satisfaction is a antecedent of performances, so a leadership style must be created to provide a positive impact on both intrinsic and e...

By VESNA MALIĆANIN, MARKO SLAVKOVIĆ

05.06.2022. Professional paper
MARKETING ACTIVITIES OF SMALL FAMILY HOTELS

 The future of receptive tourism in this area relies on the potential of numerous small, family hotels. They encourage the regional development of underdeveloped areas and easily fit into the destination they belong to. Their most distinctive feature is the direct relationship with hotel guests. A small family hotel business is able to fully a...

By IVANA VLADIMIROVIĆ, MIROLJUB ĐENADIĆ, DEJAN GRUJIĆ, SAŠA SPASOJEVIĆ

05.06.2022. Original scientific paper
CONVERSATIONAL MARKETING - NEW ROLES OF CONSUMERS

 Consumer behavior has changed. Everything is gravitating towards customization. The key driving forces without a doubt are technological growth that is developing in a rapid rhythm. Historically, the companies had a one-way communication with the consumers, where the goal was to push broadcast marketing whereas today consumers are becoming pr...

By MLADEN MIROSAVLJEVIĆ, MIRJANA MILOVANOVIĆ

 The advent of digital marketing and its application has triggered a digital revolution in consumer behavior. Its appearance has completely changed the pattern of consumer behavior in the shopping process. Digital marketing in a completely new way without any effort in an efficient, economical and effective way connects potential customers any...

By MLADEN MILIĆ, DRAŽEN VRHOVAC, JELENA VITOMIR

05.06.2022. Review Scientific Paper
THE IMPACT OF DIGITAL TWIN TECHNOLOGY ON MARKETING

 By creating digital representations of items, the digital twin concept bridges the gap between the physical and virtual worlds. Digital twin is an emerging technology that has recently received a lot of attention. With advancements in data acquisition, processsing, simulation, visualization and many other associated technologies, the concept ...

By MIRJANA MAKSIMOVIĆ, ZVJEZDANA KRSTIĆ

 Understanding the factors that influence consumers when making purchasing decisions, the phases that consumers go through to make decisions, as well as how to evaluate the company after the purchase are just some of the elements that require research into consumer behavior to gain a competitive advantage in the market. Digital transformation ...

By ZVJEZDANA KRSTIĆ, MIRJANA MAKSIMOVIĆ

 Taking into account the current trends in the financial markets and the crisis caused by the COVID-19 virus, the paper analyzes, tests and quantifies the impact of inflation rates on daily rates of return-on-investment activities in the financial markets of Serbia and Republic of Srpska. The aim of the research is a concrete, practically test...

By MARKO MILOŠEVIĆ, OGNJEN BAKMAZ

05.06.2022. Review Scientific Paper
TAXATION AND COMMON TAX POLICY IN EU COUNTRIES

 Today's modern states cover most of their expenditures with fiscal revenues, which are undoubtedly the most important group of revenues, and the most prominent item of these revenues should be taxes that cover 80% of public expenditures in the budgets of modern states. Through the introduction to the types and goals of taxation, the scope of ...

By MIRJANA RADAKOVIĆ

 The history of the Russian Stock Exchange is very rich. The first stock exchange was founded in St. Petersburg in 1703, it was a trade in goods. In Moscow, the trading platform was opened more than a century later, in 1839, and trading on Russian stock exchanges began in the 1860. Russia's invasion in Ukraine has roiled global markets. Inflat...

By TURDEAN COSMINA MARIA, BENEA MARIUS CĂLIN

 Cryptocurrencies are a challenge for auditors worldwide because entities required to audit financial statements can do business with cryptocurrencies. Since the accounting coverage of cryptocurrencies is not yet clearly defined, cryptocurrencies have a particular specific risk that arises due to insufficient knowledge of cryptocurrencies, the...

By NEMANJA I. JAKOVLJEVIĆ

05.06.2022. Original scientific paper
A MINOR AS A TRANSPLANT ORGAN DONOR

 Human organ donation is an act of humanity and mercy, an expression of solidarity with the person in need of an organ and his family and, therefore, represents socially desirable and notably acceptable individual action. A living donor transplant is based on the principle of voluntarism and the protection of the individual person's autonomy, ...

By DRAGICA ŽIVOJINOVIĆ, NINA PLANOJEVIĆ

 In this paper, we will deal with guardianship authorities that participate in the enforcement of decisions in the field of Family Law.The Law on Enforcement Procedure prescribes basic procedural rules of importance for the execution of court decisions in the field of family relations - family law, which refer to the surrender and confiscation...

By BILJANA PETROVIĆ, SLAĐANA JOVANOVIĆ

 Since the exercise of civil rights is based on a fundamental and conceptual approach that is indispensable with the human desire to exercise them, or in some situations and defense (when they are subject to any challenge, restriction or violation), it is evident that the lawsuit is the initiator of their preservation. Just as in criminal proc...

By DIJANA ŠIPOVAC

05.06.2022. Scientific review
DOMESTIC OR FAMILY VIOLENCE

 Domestic violence represents a criminal act which seriously endangers a family as a basic unit of society. In the paper, the authors analyze the elements of the criminal act of domestic or family violence in the Republic of Srpska law, with a parallel review of the legal solutions in the countries in the region, which are accompanied by the p...

By SUZANA MALEŠIĆ, SANDRO NALIĆ, JADRANKA STOJANOVIĆ

 At the beginning of the paper, the authors point out that sport, in addition to having positive effects, can in some cases generate violence that is unacceptable. In this regard, violence in sports is immanent to all social epochs. As the existing concept of retributive justice embodied in criminal law (does not) give appropriate results, it ...

By DARKO DIMOVSKI, DRAGANA MILOVANOVIĆ

 As part of the study of administrative disputes, it is necessary to consider whether our country needs institutional reform of the administrative-judicial system. In order to give an answer to this question, it is necessary to generally problematize the importance of judicial supervision over the legality of the work of the administration and...

By GORAN BRANKOVIĆ

 The right to life is a fundamental and universally accepted human right. We can find it in numerous constitutional and international legal documents. The right to life has become more pronounced in the last few years since the whole world was facing with a pandemic of the SARSCoV-2 coronavirus disease (the COVID- 19 pandemic). In this paper,...

By VEDRAN ZLATIĆ

05.06.2022. Review Scientific Paper
THE CONSTITUTION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

 The Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, i.e., Annex 4 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina is in many ways specific in relation to the general notion of the constitution, as the highest legal document, which is its basic characteristic. The Constitution of BiH, by its very nature, is only one of the eleve...

By ŽELJKO TODOROVIĆ

 Alternative criminal sanctions enable the punishment of offenders and the execution of a sentence of liberty in the social environment in which the perpetrator lives and works, and their content constitutes special obligations, restrictions and prohibitions. Alternative criminal sanctions include penalties in the public interest, a home priso...

By ACO BOBIĆ, DRAZEN ERKIĆ, NIKO SJERIĆ

 Information security includes a list of measures whose appropriate application ensures that the data contained in information systems are sufficiently protected from unauthorised access, unauthorised changes and unauthorised use, ensuring the integrity, confidentiality and availability of data in information systems. Information security is a...

By NEMANJA I. JAKOVLJEVIĆ

05.06.2022. Review Scientific Paper
ESTABLISHING SECURE COMMUNICATION USING SSL VPN

 A following text represents a real life sample and as such it has a large possibility for use and everyday life. By setting up SSL-VPN connection, users can have access to local resources (LAN). SSL-VPN uses safe connections and creates a “safe tunnel” for clients to communicate from outside of local network to the local user netw...

By ALEN KAMIŠ

 This document presents a sample of building a Web application which is used for „Voice over IP – VoIP„ calls, internal and external to the company. The application enables wired and wireless users to access “live” voice and video communications based on the webRTC technology. Containers (micro services) were used...

By ALEN KAMIŠ

05.06.2022. Review Scientific Paper
DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN A REAL KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM

 Digital technology is a comprehensive term that includes digital devices such as computers, mobile phones, tablets, etc., as well as activities that arise from using digital devices. Ways of integrating digital technologies into the preschool education program should result from the conceptual starting points of the program. In programs based...

By GORDANA STEPIĆ, DEJAN SAVIČEVIĆ

 This paper is devoted to the issue of the possibility of lighting subjective assessment in production halls using digital tools. Production systems and processes are subject to mass digitization in synergy with the Industry 4.0 concept. It is necessary to extend the digitization process to all available processes and issues, to ensure the sus...

By DARINA DUPLÁKOVÁ, JÁN DUPLÁK, VLADIMÍR SIMKULET, PETER MICHALIK, LJUBICA JANJETOVIĆ

 Predicting the total energy load is extremely important for all elements of the energy system for a number of reasons. This is even more pronounced when energy system includes a significant number of volatile renewable sources. This paper examines the ability of the Time-Delay Neural Network model to predict total energy load, on an hourly ba...

By LUKA LATINOVIĆ, VLADIMIR TOMAŠEVIĆ

05.06.2022. Original scientific paper
NETWORK AND PORT SCANNER - A TOOL FOR GOOD OR BAD

 In this paper we examine and compare several custom-made implementations of a network and port scanner that are written in Python programming language as a part of a Information systems security course teaching material. Network scanning tools play an important role in network information gathering, which is the first step in penetration test...

By PREDRAG PECEV, ANITA MILOSAVLJEVIĆ

 This paper describes how we automated data processing for over 2000 fabric samples that were ripped using MESDAN-LAB tensile Strength Tester in order to determine their respective yielding points. Yield point is defined as a point where a sample start to tear and is presented as an ordered pair of two values. First value represents force that...

By PREDRAG PECEV, ANITA MILOSAVLJEVIĆ

05.06.2022. Original scientific paper
ARTS, COMMUNICATION AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

 Paul Watzlawick, an Austrian sociologist and psychotherapist, set out a famous axiom about the necessity of communication. He said “One cannot not communicate”. From this point of view on culture and digital technologies, when we use social networks, various communication applications, computers, smartphones and watches on a large...

By LJUBICA JANJETOVIĆ, MIHAELA POPA, DARINA DUPLAKOVA

 Bioethanol can be obtained from a variety of biodegradable raw materials, and one of the cheaper raw materials is cornmeals (Zea mays). The most important, and at the same time the longest operations during the production of bioethanol from corn grits are enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation, and the duration of these operations can be influ...

By ALEKSANDAR SAVIĆ, BLANKA ŠKIPINA, VANJA JOKANOVIĆ, ĐORĐE MARINKOVIĆ, ANA VELEMIR, MAJA STOJKOVIĆ

 Bioethanol belongs to the category of renewable biofuels and is mainly obtained from starchy or lignocellulosic raw materials. One of the starchy raw material that can be successfully used to obtain bioethanol is potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). To produce ethanol from starchy raw materials, starch needs to be hydrolyzed to glucose, maltose and...

By ALEKSANDAR SAVIĆ, SAŠA PAPUGA, ALEKSANDAR KUSIĆ, ANA VELEMIR

 Domestic bentonite clay (location Šipovo, Republika Srpska, BiH) is characterized by good structural, textural and morphological characteristics, and has the possibility of wide industrial application. Literature research has shown that the characteristics of this clay can be improved by various methods of modification, and then used f...

By ZORAN PETROVIĆ, ANA ĐOKIĆ, TATJANA BOTIĆ, SABINA BEGIĆ, DRAGANA KEŠELJ, MILENA MILOVANOVIĆ

05.06.2022. Original scientific paper
THE APPLICATION OF HYDROGELS IN MODERN AGRICULTURE

 More and more modern agricultural crops require an increasing amount of agrochemicals, however, as modern agricultural mechanization cannot meet the targeted delivery of conventional agrochemicals, over time, soil saturation occurs. After a number of years, agrochemicals become poison for the land on which they were used, and when the land is...

By LJILJANA TANASIĆ, JELENA TANASIĆ, IVAN RISTIĆ, NEMANJA STOŠIĆ, MILAN BLAGOJEVIĆ

 This paper studies the corrosive processes caused by the influence of three different seawater environments on two Ni-Ti alloys produced by different technological processes. Statistical analysis is focused on monitoring changes in the base material as well as in the formed corrosive layer. Six samples of each Ni-Ti alloy were exposed to thre...

By ŠPIRO IVOŠEVIĆ, NATAŠA KOVAČ

 Milk and dairy products, especially cheeses, are a good source of minerals that play an important role in maintaining health. Minerals are necessary for biological processes and normal growth and development of the organism. Various spices have been used for centuries to improve the taste of food. The aim of this study was to examine the infl...

By DANICA SAVANOVIĆ, ANA VELEMIR, ALEKSANDAR SAVIĆ, JOVO SAVANOVIĆ, JELENA SEKULIĆ

 Cheese is one of the oldest foodstuff. Cheese consumption is constantly increasing. There are a large number of different cheeses on the market and they represent the cultural and traditional mirror of the country in which they are produced. They can be produced in industrial plants as well as in households. The aim of this work was to produc...

By DANICA SAVANOVIĆ, ANA VELEMIR, JOVO SAVANOVIĆ, ALEKSANDAR SAVIĆ, TANJA SMILJIĆ

05.06.2022. Original scientific paper
MACHOVER TECHNIQUE IN FORENSIC ASSESSMENT

 Consideration of homicide behaviour of psychotic people implies, except of examination of dominant psychopathology in a scope of current psychosis, even assessment of prepsychotic structure of personality and their available agressive potential. The aim of this work is to consolidate if psychotic offenders and psychotic non-offenders of blood...

By SNEŽANA SAMARDŽIĆ

05.06.2022. Original scientific paper
INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL SUPPORT ON CHRONIC PAIN

 The prevalence of chronic pain in the general population is estimated at 10 to 30%. Pain can be described as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience that is associated with, or described in terms of, actual or potential tissue damage. Today, there is a widespread consensus that pain should be recorded as a multidimensional construct th...

By ADELA HUSKIĆ, SNEZANA SAMARDŽIĆ

 Asperger's disorder belongs to the spectrum of autistic disorders and is considered highly functional autism. The main features of the syndrome are motor awkwardness, difficulties in social communication, stereotypical actions, hypersensitivity and specific interests. The aim of this research was to gain insight into the life circumstances of...

By DARJANA SREDIĆ, TANJA TODOROVIĆ

 This paper presents group psychotherapy in specific phobias, using some cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques. In the treatment of specific phobias, cognitive-behavioral therapy is the method of choice. This therapy (CBT) is a form of psychotherapy that emphasizes the importance of the role of thought in what we feel and how we behave...

By TANJA TODOROVIĆ

 Critical care nursing is considered as one of the most stressful professions in the modern healthcare systems, making it suitable for the development of job burnout. Considering this, we conducted a cross-sectional study to determine the frequency and level of chronic anxiety, as well as the frequency of psychosomatic manifestations of job bu...

By DEJAN ŽIVANOVIĆ, JOVAN JAVORA, JADRANKA ĐURANOVIĆ MILIČIĆ, SVETLANA STOJKOV

 Test anxiety is a pathological fear that occurs before and during testing. It can be manifested with both somatic and cognitive symptoms. The purpose of this crosssectional study was to analyse test anxiety among students at the Faculty of Medicine in Novi Sad. A total of 375 respondents completed the Test Anxiety Inventory – TAI, a wid...

By JOVAN JAVORAC, DEJAN ŽIVANOVIĆ, GORANA JANJIĆ, JADRANKA ĐURANOVIĆ MILIČIĆ, SVETLANA STOJKOV

 This study shows the use of regression algorithms in predicting the ideal weight of children during the process of haemodialysis. The data regarding height and weight for calculating the BMI (Body Mass Index) are collected at the University Children’s Hospital Tirsova in Belgrade. In addition, bioimpedance, haematocrit and blood pressur...

By MARIJA BLAGOJEVIĆ, DANIJELA MILOŠEVIĆ, KATARINA MITROVIĆ, MIRJANA KOSTIĆ, DUŠAN PARIPOVIĆ, NATAŠA GOJGIĆ

 Sustainable development is an integral economic, technological, social and cultural development, harmonized with the needs of protection and improvement of the environment, which enables present and future generations to meet their needs and improve the quality of life. Sustainable development requires understanding and actively maintaining c...

By MAJA DOŠENOVIĆ MARINKOVIĆ, BILJANA DELIĆ VUJANOVIĆ, MARKO CINCOVIĆ

05.06.2022. Original scientific paper
THE EFFECT OF YOGA ON REDUCING STRESS LEVELS

 The challenging time in which we live as a generation that for the first time encounters various situations that primarily concern our health and well-being, stopped us all in moment.The stress that has been ubiquitous so far has intensified as it has been further fueled by fear. Between business commitments, caring for a family and strugglin...

By DIJANA LUJANAC

 Work engagement refers to a positive, fulfilling, and work-related state of mind characterized by vigour, dedication and absorption. This study aimed to examine whether there are differences in the work engagement of healthcare workers depending on their work role (doctor/nurse) and sociodemographic characteristics (gender, age, duration of ...

By DIJANA ĐURIĆ, BILJANA MIRKOVIĆ

05.06.2022. Original scientific paper
CHEMICAL ESCAPE ROOM AS EDUCATIONAL TOOL

 Escape room can be an excellent educational tool for the establishment of teamwork, peer learning and communication competences within a school environment. It also provides an opportunity for making connections between real life concepts and the knowledge acquired in the traditional school system. An escape room including lab activities rela...

By JOVANA S. MARJANOVIĆ, JELENA ĐURĐEVIĆ-NIKOLIĆ, VERA M. DIVAC, MARINA D. KOSTIĆ

 STEM education is an educational approach focused on the integration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in the creation of student-centered learning environment for the examination of real-life phenomena [1,2]. The benefits of the STEM implementation within school environment are reflected in the increasement of students&rsq...

By JOVANA S. MARJANOVIĆ, MARINA D. KOSTIĆ, VERA M. DIVAC

 Teaching methodology is a special discipline that requires a special approach and way of working with children, through theoretical and practical aspects of teaching, where students would be practically ready to pursue their profession. We reject memorization altogether, we are not saying that everything was not good before, but we are strong...

By DRAGANA ALEKSIĆ

 Learning is a continuous process. If the usual way of work and teaching is interrupted, especially with first-graders, various problems, shortcomings and gaps occur, especially when there is no physical contact with the teacher, and when regular classes are deviated from. Research, as well as practice, have shown certain shortcomings in this ...

By DRAGANA ALEKSIĆ

 Teaching methods differ from teacher to teacher, as well as for other reasons that directly affect the teaching process itself. Teachers are the ones who can and should influence the choice of teaching strategies and methods of work. Teaching strategies and methods certainly need to be updated and used in accordance with the possibilities, ne...

By DRAGANA ALEKSIĆ

 Team teaching is a new teaching system of work and learning, and of course it has a number of advantages in the teaching process itself. The ways and possibilities of work are multiple and it is necessary to prepare, of course, to work according to this teaching model. It is also necessary to plan and choose in detail the teaching content tha...

By DRAGANA ALEKSIĆ

 In the inclusive educational process, there is a constant need of teachers to acquire new knowledge, skills and abilities, ie specific competencies that shape the communication and cooperation of teachers in inclusive working conditions. Aim of the research: Identification of teachers' attitudes about the level of their ability to communicate...

By GORDANA DUKIĆ, BILJANA SLADOJE BOŠNJAK

 The COVID-19 pandemic is a global health issue and has a major impact on education in different ways. Soon after the Republic of Serbia had confirmed the first case of the novel coronavirus pandemic in March 2020, all educational institutions were enforced to rapidly convert all their courses to emergency remote teaching and learning as a mit...

By VIOLETA PETROVIĆ, HRISTINA DELIBAŠIĆ-MARKOVIĆ, IVAN PETROVIĆ

 This article analyzes role of kindergarten teacher and his methodical approaches in creativity development process in preschool children. It was analyzed drama activities in kindergarten as a way for integrated personal development of children. Research problem is focused on identifying factors that affect the encouragement of dramatic expres...

By MARIJA ALEKSANDROVIĆ STAJIĆ

 Zlatibor is a mountain in Serbia where a significant development of the tourist economy has been recorded with a constant increase in the number of visitors. This paper presents the bioclimatic and climatic conditions on this mountain that can have a significant impact on tourism development. The required information was obtained based on phy...

By STOJIĆEVIĆ GORA, KOLARIĆ BORISLAV, IGNJATOVIĆ JELENA, SPASOJEVIĆ SAŠA, KNEŽEVIĆ SUZANA

 Architectural visualization is the process of creating digital models using computer, which allows us a very detailed and accurate view of the future interior and exterior design. Using renders, is possible to display different levels of brightness, types of shadows and variety of materials, therefore, it is possible to obtain realistic rende...

By ALEKSANDRA BOBIĆ, ACO BOBIĆ