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D. Hadžić, F. Skokić, S. Brkić, Amina Saračević

Introduction : Steady progress in intensive treatment worldwide has increased the survival of immature neonates, but with multiple invasive procedures, which has increased the risk of infection and, consequently, fungal sepsis. Candida is the dominant cause, with the rise of resistant non-albicans species. The mortality rate is high and requires timely suspicion and adequate treatment to counteract fatal outcomes. Objectives: To analyze the clinical and laboratory characteristics of Candida sepsis, compared to bacterial sepsis, in neonates treated in the neonatal intensive care unit. Methods: A retrospective cohort study conducted at the Intensive care unit of Pediatric Clinic Tuzla over a three-year period (2016-2018) analyzed the clinical and laboratory characteristics of neonates with Candida sepsis, evidenced by positive blood culture. The control group was neonates treated at the same time for proven bacterial sepsis. Statistical analysis applied standard methods, and the research was approved by the Ethics Committee of the institution. Results: Out of the total 921 neonates treated over a three-year period, culture-confirmed Candida sepsis was found in 48 (5.2%). Prematurity and low birth weight were the most significant risk factors and affected neonates had a more difficult clinical presentation, more receiving parenteral nutrition, mechanical ventilation, intravenous gamma globulin, and longer intensive treatment. Candida sepsis manifested mainly as late-onset. Laboratory abnormalities mainly included CRP elevation, anemia, leukocyte count deviations, and thrombocytopenia. There was no difference in mortality, 44 neonates recovered (91.7%), while 4 (8.3%) died. Antifungal therapy lasted 20.6 ± 6 days, and intensive treatment 38.2 ± 23.2 days, and was significantly longer compared to the control. All isolates were Candida species without in vitro resistance. In 8 neonates (16.7%) treatment complications were recorded. Conclusions: Neonatal Candida sepsis endangers life, complicates treatment, increases costs and mortality rate. Recovery depends on timely suspicion, adequate treatment, and supervision. Antifungal susceptibility is also important and requires monitoring of local epidemiological dynamics.

This study aims to clarify the relation between technological innovation and business model innovation and their shared impact on the business success of medium and large enterprises. Drawing on the Resource-Based View, this paper offers a comprehensive research model that analyses the relationships between technological innovation and business model innovations and their impact on business success. Structural Equation Modelling is utilized for the analysis of a dataset collected in a Southeast European developing country among medium and large enterprises. The results show that technological innovation has a positive influence on business model innovation and that business model innovation positively impacts the success of a business. Finally, the results confirm the mediating role of business model innovation between technological innovation and company business success. This research adds to the existing literature by empirically investigating the relationship between technological innovation, business model innovation, and company success identifying an antecedent role in the relationship between technological innovation and business model innovation.

Sandro Bochenek, É. D. Souza

Psychopedagogy is the science studying human learning in both psychological and cognitive aspects. Therefore, it is presented as a relevant area of study to education, contributing to the pedagogical process. This way, this paper aims at discussing the importance of the work of the psychopedagogues in the schools, as professionals who work through an investigative process, in order to understand and intervene in the causes of school failure. The work of this professional is carried out in several sectors, such as teacher advisory in the planning of pedagogical interventions in the classroom; guidance to families, students; assistance to the pedagogical team; among others. This study will develop a bibliographical research seeking to understand the challenges currently faced in the struggle for quality public education so that students have access, permanence and success in their school paths; to appropriate historically accumulated scientific knowledge; to be able to situate themselves and understand the social context in which they are inserted; understand themselves as learning subjects, with the autonomy to make use of scientific knowledge as an instrument of intervention in their own reality.

M. Silva, R. B. Marques

This article presents the results of a survey conducted with 5-year-old children in a municipal pre-school in Santo Andre/SP. It is a research of intervention, whose objective was to construct a pedagogical practice dialogic from the circles of culture proposed by Paulo Freire. It assumes that children read and communicate the world from the moment they are born through multiple languages. However, in an adultcentric and grafocentric society such as the Brazilian, their voices end up being silenced in the different instances of socialization, among them the educational ones. The research problematized the silencing imposed on the children and the urgency to listen to them, having as theoretical reference the studies of Paulo Freire in interlocution with researchers of the childhood. The intervention took place from the circles of culture, with the theme generator gender relations, since this theme was recurrent among children and given its relevance to the heteronormative society. The results show that children’s reading of the world is imbued with their everyday experiences, where in a dynamic movement they appropriate, confront and rename culture. In the collective, through the circles, they put in debate their worldview on the subject, which made it possible to rethink the binary opposition to the social roles attributed to men and women. This reveals the power of working with circles of culture with children, showing that an educational practice marked amorousness and dialogue opens the way to a critical-liberating education.

Veronika Barišić, D. Šubarić, M. Jašić, J. Babić

Chocolate is a complex product that has a specific texture. This complexity is due to the interactions between the ingredients used in production: cocoa butter, cocoa mass and sugar. Sugar gives bulk to chocolate and any change in the recipe changes the textural properties of the chocolate. Recently, there has been considerable production of low-sugar chocolates using other bulking agents and sweeteners. Some of the most common are isomalt, maltitol, lactitol, polydextrose etc. Emulsifiers that have been used in chocolate production almost from the beginning are also responsible for its texture and rheological properties. They reduce the interaction between the solid particles and increase the lipophilicity of the sugar particles. Lecithin and polyglycerol polyricinoleate are most commonly used, but some other emulsifiers have also been reported in production.

V. Jankuloska, I. Karov, G. Pavlovska, G. Nakov, M. Jašić

The apple is a fruit that has beneficial health effects due to the presence of biologically active components and is considered as a functional food. But today's production of apples cannot be imagined without chemical treatment. In addition to its favorable health effects, it may also have adverse effects on human health due to the presence of pesticides that are considered as contaminants. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the fungicide residues in fruit/apples. The fungicide residues were extracted from apple cultivar Idared with QuEChERS method and analyzed by ultra-performance liquid chromatography with a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer (UPLC-TQ/MS). The analyses have shown that the apples contain pesticides penconazole (10 μg/kg), boscalide (60 μg/kg), tebuconazole (11-40 μg/kg), myclobutanil (20-70 μg/kg), fenbuconazole (70 μg/kg), pyrimethanil (12-60 μg/kg) and carbendazime (azole) with range of 100-200 μg/kg. After comparing the concentration of detected pesticides with MRLs, it can be concluded that apples are safe for consumption.

Adis Puška, Herzegovina, A. Maksimović, Ilija Stojanović

Innovation is essential for long-term success in business and companies need to develop an innovative supply chain to respond to environmental and market challenges. It is necessary to develop knowledge through organizational learning in order to strengthen the ability of companies to innovate. An innovative supply chain is the basis for developing innovation in companies. To improve its market position companies should continuously receive high quality information from participants in the supply chain by sharing information. The complexity of relationships within supply chain affecting organizational learning is the subject of this study. We conducted an empirical study focusing our attention on agro-food companies in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A questionnaire was used as a data collection tool applying random systematic sampling and a total of 159 companies took part in this study. The empirical findings showed that sharing of information has a significant linkage with an innovative supply chain, but only in establishing partnerships with customers. We confirmed that an innovative supply chain is essential for development of organizational learning and agile supply chain. The findings could assist the managers of agro-food companies in Bosnia and Herzegovina to improve their business. This study provides guidance for improving business using supply chains.

Ž. Erceg, V. Starčević, D. Pamucar, Goran Mitrović, Željko Stević, Srđan Žikić

Cost rationalization has become imperative in every economic system in order to create adequate foundations for its efficient and sustainable management. Competitiveness in the global market is extremely high and it is challenging to manage business and logistics systems, especially with regards to financial parameters. It is necessary to rationalize costs in all activities and processes. The presence of inventories is inevitability in every logistics system, and it tends to create adequate and symmetrical policies for their efficient and sustainable management. In order to be able to do this, it is necessary to determine which products represent the largest percentage share in the value of procurement, and which are the most represented quantitatively. For this purpose, ABC analysis, which classifies products into three categories, is applied taking into account different constraints. The aim of this paper is to form a new model that involves the integration of ABC analysis, the Full Consistency Method (FUCOM), and a novel Interval Rough Combined Compromise Solution (CoCoSo) for stock management in the storage system. A new IRN Dombi weighted geometric averaging (IRNDWGA) operator is developed to aggregate the initial decision matrix. After grouping the products into three categories A, B and C, it is necessary to identify appropriate suppliers for each category in order to rationalize procurement costs. Financial, logistical, and quality parameters are taken into account. The FUCOM method has been used to determine the significance of these parameters. A new Interval CoCoSo approach is developed to determine the optimal suppliers for each product group. The results obtained have been modeled throughout a multi-phase sensitivity analysis.

Sexting, defined as the exchange of sexually explicit contents among adolescents and young adults using electronic media, has become a popular topic of interest in the wider public. This paper proposed a theoretical model to explain motivational determinants of sexting behaviour. We reviewed sexting literature to show how multiple empirical confirmed motivational factors can be modelled within our framework. By analysing empirical research, we posited a set of individual characteristics and contextual characteristics that explain sexting behaviour. We offered a systematic review of motivational determinants relevant to capture sexting behaviour and guidelines for future research in this area. We intended by this theory to organize prior research into a more theoretically satisfying approach to study sexting and to encourage researchers to expand the model and use it in future studies.

Niels Nauwynck, Haris Balta, Geert de Cubber, H. Sahli

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p><p class="Abstract">This article considers the development of a system to enable the in-flight-launch of one aerial system by another. The article discusses how an optimal release mechanism was developed taking into account the aerodynamics of one specific mothership and child Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Furthermore, it discusses the PID-based control concept that was introduced in order to autonomously stabilise the child UAV after being released from the mothership UAV. Finally, the article demonstrates how the concept of a mothership and child UAV combination could be taken advantage of in the context of a search and rescue operation.</p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p>

Eldar Ćerim, E. Vejo, Elma Begagić

This paper is the adapted and extended version of the bachelor’s work of our student Eldar Ćerim supervised by professor Edina Vejo and assistant professor Elma Begagić. The paper presents the results of several research studies (Bazrafshan, Jahangir & Shokrpour, 2017; Cox, 2011; Pirner, 2017; Williams & Lindsey, 2005) showing the nature of the existence of religiosity as both a protective and a risk factor precipitating the emergence of behavioral disorders. A comparative advantage of the paper lies in the fact that constructing a research equidistance in observing the phenomenon of religiosity, it presents distinct determinants of religiosity in terms of its influence on disorders in the behavior of young adults as both a protective as well as a risk factor.

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