Blasting represents a fundamental technological operation in the surface exploitation of mineral resources, however, it also generates dynamic loads that can effect on the stability of bench slopes. During mass blasting operations in open pit mines, seismic vibrations are generated, leading to damage in the rock mass and the formation of secondary ...

By Radmila Karanakova Stefanovska, Zoran Panov, Risto Popovski, Blagica Doneva

 Native starch exhibits significant limitations in its application in the chemical, food, and pharmaceutical industries due to unfavourable properties such as low solubility, retrogradation, syneresis, thermal degradation, and high viscosity after gelatinization. To improve its functional properties and broaden its range of applications, nativ...

By Sanda Pilipović, Tatjana Botić, Borislav Malinović, Tijana Đuričić, Aleksandra Borković, Dajana Dragić

This study investigates the dynamic relationship between renewable energy consumption and financial development in Nigeria from 1990 to 2023. Against the backdrop of Nigeria’s significant energy poverty, underutilized renewable resources, and a growing yet challenged financial sector, the research aims to determine the nature of the nexus bet...

By Olatokunbo D. Salami, Olajide S. Gbemisola, Hassan T. Bello, Arogundade S. Lawal

Sustainable product development has become one of the central challenges of modern society, requiring the integration of environmental and functional aspects throughout the entire design process. The development of distinctive and competitive sustainable industrial designs plays a significant role in high-value-added production. This paper analyzes...

By Nevena Vukić, Jovana Krstović, Darina Duplakova, Nemanja Dopsaj

In this paper, the ranking of selected software packages for project management is performed. The aim is to rank project management software packages based on predefined criteria and to show that MCDM methods can yield varying results even when analyzing the same problem. This shows that MCDM can be a useful tool for simplifying the observed proble...

By Dragana Perišić, Jelena Jovanović

The constant advancement of information technology is making billions of consumers more educated and informed about everything every day, making it far easier for them to make purchasing decisions. Good promotion significantly affects the growth of consumer interest in certain products and directly influences the consumer to make a purchase. For ...

By Mladen Milić, Marko Milić, Jelena Lutovac, Vedrana Blagojević

In the past few decades, wavelets have found an important place in many fields due to their nature and advantages compared to other algorithms. When the focus is on signal processing, wavelets can be used as an algorithm for de-noising, frequency analysis, feature analysis, etc. The spectrogram is one of the most common visual representations of th...

By Đorđe Damnjanović, Marina Milošević, Nedeljko Dučić, Dijana Stojić, Dejan Vujičić

This research presents an analysis of the application and acceptance of various standards in the field of the Internet of Things (IoT). Employing t-test statistical analysis, the study analyzes differences between groups of standards in three key categories: implementation complexity, adoption level, and citation frequency. The results show that co...

By Darko Radulović, Marija Blagojević

This paper explores the types of role models that children and adolescents form in the digital world and their influence on identity development. Through focus groups involving 110 participants aged 6 to 18, the study analyzed the figures most commonly followed by the participants, including athletes, musicians, and influencers. Special attention w...

By Dajana Bašić, Elvir Ibeljić

This paper aims to demonstrate that improving collaboration between preschool teachers and parents requires systematic training of teachers, both during their education and through continuous professional practice. The research has shown that the kindergarten plays a crucial role in initiating and encouraging cooperation with parents, which contrib...

By Nebojša Švraka, Vlado Švraka