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
MEMBERS OF THE LGBT COMMUNITY UNDER ARTICLE 10 OF THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Although we live in a time of normalization of the promotion of the rights of members of the LGBT community, the problems faced by this community are still numerous. As a consequence of the history of this issue and the constant manifestation of prejudice, violence and discrimination, members of the LGBT community have become a minority whose...
By Darko Dimovsk, Ivan Ilić, Katarina Momirović
SWELLING KINETICS OF ENERGY EFFICIENTLY SYNTHESIZED HYDROGELS INTENDED FOR HYGIENE PRODUCTS
Environmental threats such as pollution, climate change, depletion of fossil fuels reserves has imposed an urgent need to take action in looking for sustainable solutions. One of the items of environmental protection is energy saving, which is especially important in manufacturing of widespread use materials such as acrylate superabsorbents. ...
By Tamara Erceg, Suzana Cakić, Vesna Teofilović, Nevena Vukić, Jelena Tanasić, Ivan Ristić
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
GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY OF SOCIAL ANXIETY OF STUDENTS: REVIEW OF ONE CYCLE OF GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC WORK
Social anxiety disorder is an excessive fear that a person experiences in different social situations where there is a possibility of assessment by other people. This paper presents the group treatment of four students with social anxiety, aged 21 to 25 years, lasting 12 meetings. The goals of the treatment were: to teach students how to deal...
By Darjana Sredić
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
WOMENʼS QUEST FOR THE INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY LOST IN THE COLLECTIVE ONE IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY
The political and economic turmoil of the modern life influenced everyone, particularly marginalized groups, such as people of the other race, ethnicity, social class, gender or sexual orientation. This concept of otherness refers to not belonging to the main stream and it is one of the most important motifs in contemporary literature. This p...
By Snježana Milačak, Ivana Aleksić