The authors investigate the external solvency of three Balkan countries, two of which are socalled late transition countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia), while Bulgaria is a country that has completed the transition and become a member of the European Union since 2007. Two indicators of external solvency are analysed: External debt/g...

By Danijela Despotović, Srđan Milicević, Vladimir Nedić, Slobodan Cvetanović

 The dominant model of the economy, in the world and in our country, is still a linear model, that is, a linear economy based on the assumptions that natural resources are available in abundance, easy to obtain and cheap to dispose of. In contrast to the aforementioned, the circular economy represents a regenerative economic system within whic...

By Zoran Anišić, Jelena Demko-Rihter, Marija Pantelić

 Vendors utilize various sales strategies to secure the greatest possible return and the most favorable customer experience. One of the most commonly used sales promotion method refers to discounts that can be highlighted in a variety of ways with the aim of encouraging customers to buy products. The subject of the paper is the analysis of the...

By Milica Slijepčević, Karolina Perčić, Stefan Alimpić

 The introduction provides a review of the context that favors ethnocentrism and leads to this phenomenon. The paper explains the meaning of the very term and provides the general characteristics of consumer ethnocentrism, connecting the emergence of this phenomenon with ethnocentrism itself. The subject of the paper is consumer ethnocentrism ...

By Milica Slijepčević, Stefan Alimpić

 Artificial intelligence has undoubtedly already entered everyday human lives. It is present in the form of simple household appliances such as robotic vacuum cleaners, in cars in the form of electronic sensors (parking sensors, autopilots, or GPS systems), in computer games in the form of computer-driven roles, in the manufacturing industry, ...

By Ljubica Janjetović, Tarik Velić, Mihaela Popa

 The result of this work is a forest fire risk map on the territory of the Republic of Srpska. In this paper, a risk map was created using a geographic information system and the spatial distribution of risks on the territory of the Republic of Srpska was shown. All data used were digitized in raster and vector format and as such were used for...

By Saša Ljubojević, Branko Latinović

 In today's world, with the increasing population density, consumption habits are also changing and increasing rapidly in proportion to the population. The development of the industry, the transportation of products produced together, the increase in the rate of individual vehicle ownership have also increased the rate of vehicle tire usage si...

By Ayhan Erol, Orhan Ocak, Ahmet Yonetken

 Food industry waste has a great potential for use in terms of prevalence, accessibility and quantity. In this research, the effects of eggshells on concrete by substitution of cement were investigated. In addition, the results of using chicken feathers together with egg shells as fiber reinforcement material were also examined. For the compre...

By Ayhan Erol, İbrahim Güngör Dilek, Günnur Peşmen

 The design of space and its evaluation can be examined from the way space is perceived and from its memory production potential. Such psychological notions of spatiality, which primarily concern the perceived and experienced aspect, are most often drawn from the first children's spatial conceptualizations. Analyzing preverbal and precultural ...

By Diana Stupar, Maja Milić Aleksić, Marina Radulj

 The main goal of this paper is to examine the role of a diagram within the design studio as a significant methodology in contemporary architectural education. Our starting point is the fact that in mastering the skill of architectural design, the most important thing is to understand the process itself, and that the architectural diagram is o...

By Maja Milić Aleksić, Marina Radulj, Diana Stupar