EARTHQUAKE AS A SOCIO-TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGE
The earthquake is one of the most devastating natural disasters which human civilization encounters. Striking suddenly, they can cause huge material damage and casualty in a short time. It is not possible to predict them, but only expect them with some probability, in certain area and time. The consequences of the earthquake are multiple - co...
By Lidija Babić
THE IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 EPIDEMIC ON ECONOMIC TRENDS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
The corona virus led to a sharp and unexpected downturn in the world economy that spared almost no world economy. According to the forecast of the International Monetary Fund, the decline in the world GDP is 3.3%. The situation is similar in Bosnia and Herzegovina as well. According to the Agency for Statistics of BiH, the fall in GDP in 2020...
By Ljiljana Jović, Mladen Ivić
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH OF THE FORMER YUGOSLAV COUNTRIES
After the disintegration of Yugoslavia in 1991, the paths of the newly formed states diverged, which affected the course, content and speed of implementation of economic reforms of the countries. It is characteristic of all the countries of the former Yugoslavia that negative growth rates were recorded in the second half of the 1990s, and eco...
By Ognjen Bakmaz, Mina Kovljenić, Nenad Marković
TESTING THE SATISFACTION OF PROFESSIONAL CUSTOMERS IN THE AUTOMOTIVE AFTERMARKET SPARE PARTS INDUSTRY WITH THE PURPOSE OF IMPROVING SALES: THE CASE OF BALKANS
The paper presents the results of a survey of professional customer satisfaction in the period from 2015 to 2019 on a sample of 4248 professional customers of a company engaged in the distribution and trade of automotive spare parts (aftermarket). This company operates in the region of Balkans: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and North Macedon...
By Mirjana Milovanović
REPORTING OBLIGATIONS IN THE FUNCTION OF PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS OF NON-CONTROLLED SHAREHOLDERS
With the listed companies on the Banja Luka Stock Exchange, it is noticeable that a large number do not adhere to their legally prescribed obligations that are brought to the timely publication of information on business activities. In this regard, the research problem is the unfavorable position of minority shareholders in terms of informati...
By Miloš Grujić, Boris Srdić, Zdravko Zečević, Gordana Drobnjak
E – BOOK AND ITS ACADEMIC FUTURE
The development of the e-book, in recent years, has initiated numerous debates and analysis, emphasizing reading habits as well as the effects of the mass digitalization, partially including coronavirus pandemic this last year. E – books are available in various formats, and they include various media. The highest domination is achieved...
By Aldin Obućina, Ahmed Palić, Admir Šupić
BODY AND TECHNOLOGY - CYBORG AS A NEW PARADIGM OF THE CONTEXT OF IDENTITY IN ART
Technology has become an integral element of the modern world, while life without technology is almost unthinkable. It became a necessity to be part of a network, connected with others (and with devices) and present on the Internet if you want to be up to date with the contemporary cultural, political, economic and sociological events; that i...
By Ljubica Janjetović
SOCIAL-DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF PSYCHOTIC PATIENTS, OFFENDERS AND NON-OFFENDERS OF BLOOD FELONY
Numerous empirical studies were dealing with presence of homicide at mentally ill people whereby they were dealing with their personality and social-demographic characteristics, too. The aim of this assignment was to ascertain if there are some differences between psycho offenders and non-offenders of blood felony in regard to their social-de...
By Snežana Samardžić
PASSIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN THE ENGLISH AND SERBIAN LANGUAGE
The paper aims at examining the behaviour of passive constructions in English and Serbian, offering a short review of the concept of voice in both languages, a brief comment of the passive scale found in authors such as Palmer, Quirk, etc. and a short discussion of the thematic roles of the verb arguments taken from Haegeman (Haegeman, 2001)....
By Nada Buzadžić Nikolajević
FROM GOTHIC TO FEMINIST FEMALE CHARACTERS IN WUTHERING HEIGHTS
The paper deals with the path which Emily Bronte’s heroines undergo in the quest for (self)- liberation. It provides an analysis of the way in which Bronte builds her female characters, using gothic as a starting point and then abandoning it for the reader to realize that the heroines are not to face familiar gothic denouement, where th...
By Ivana Aleksić, Snježana Milačak