Radno mjesto je okruženje unutar kojeg čovjek provede najveći dio aktivnog dijela svojega života. Događanja unutar radnog okruženja, tretman radnika na radnom mjestu, kao i atmosfera koja se stvara unutar radne organizacije umnogome utječu, ne samo na raspoloženje, produktivnost i učinkovitost radnika, već vrlo često i na njegovo zdravlje. Diskriminacija na radnom mjestu je jedan od negativnih, ponižavajućih i degradirajućih oblika tretmana radnika koji, zbog intenziteta posljedica koje proizvodi za pojedinca i njegovo, prije svega, psihičko zdravlje, njegovu obitelj, radnu organizaciju i društvo u cjelini, zaslužuje posebnu pozornost u razmatranju uzroka i posljedica ove negativne pojave. Pri tome je posebno značajno punu pozornost posvetiti iznalaženju adekvatnih načina prevencije diskriminacije kako do njezinih negativnih posljedica uopće ne bi niti došlo ili kako bi se one smanjile na najmanju moguću mjeru. U primjeni različitih modela prevencije diskriminacije, posebno djelotvornima su se pokazali modeli koji uvažavaju postojanje različitosti među ljudima, te ih ne smatraju preprekama, već upravo korisnim resursima za razvoj radne organizacije, kao i u stvaranju ugodne radne atmosfere i povećanju kvalitete i produktivnosti rada. Stoga je ovaj rad posvećen modelu stvaranja kulture tolerancije, primjeni tzv. pozitivnih mjera, te diversity managementu, kao mogućnostima koje stoje na raspolaganju kao modeli prevladavanja problema različitosti među ljudima u radnim odnosima, te ulozi antidiskriminacijskog zakonodavstva na tom polju.

Ensuring access to reliable and sustainable power supply is becoming more and more challenging due to a combination of factors such as more frequent power grid outages caused by extreme weather events, the large-scale introduction of renewable energy resources that increases the complexity of the power system, but also aging infrastructure, supply and demand imbalance and power theft in some areas. Combined, all these factors can cause outages and together they can make electricity supply unreliable. The implications of this are many, ranging from minor inconveniences to major failures of critical infrastructures. A potential solution to ensure power supply during outages is to use local generation in the form of renewable resources to supply energy. This paper proposes a community-based mechanism that demonstrates that when community members can determine for themselves how excess energy generation is distributed, the power supply of specific members can be ensured. Self-determination is achieved by prioritizing and differentiating between community members as well as automatically and continuously redistributing energy, thereby adapting to sudden changes in supply and demand. Simulation results show that the proposed mechanism can be used to empower local communities to decide for themselves how local resources are distributed during events such as outages, ensuring prolonged power supply for differentiated members of affected communities. Harnessing the potential of renewable resources and smart technologies for intelligent coordination through empowerment of consumers to become pro-active participants is a promising solution for the future power systems.

This paper analyses information literacy competencies of students at the Department of Comparative Literature and Library Science, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo that offers bachelor's degree and master's degree in library science. Survey on information literacy competencies of library science students at the Department was realized by the online questionnaire for self-assessment that was developed on the basis of Permutation Model Components with the purpose to obtain insight in student’s perception of their information literacy competencies, to detect to what degree students improve their information literacy competencies and confidence during studies and what possible difficulties they face in this process. This is particularly important considering that there is no separate information literacy course adopted in Departments curricula but the information literacy related content is offered and taught in different courses. Analysis expectedly reveals that in general students feel confident in their information literacy competencies, that their information literacy competencies progressively improve during their studies, but also that students consider that the introduction of a stand-alone information literacy course would greatly contribute to the simpler and faster improvement of their information literacy competencies.

This paper describes a rational approach to improve the existing guidelines for road design in the regions of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia in order to determine the carriageway crossfall in curves. In these guidelines there are certain shortcomings in determination of crosfall in comparison to some other European countries guidelines. During the last decades, worldwide and in Europe specifically, significant studies have been conducted on the issue of the operating speed and its implementation into the design process. Most European countries have been implementing this concept. The new German guidelines went a step further and introduced a new concept of a self-explaining class road. Using the results of research carried out in Croatia, this work focuses only on a determination of the carriageway crossfall based on operating speed, separately observing new and existing roads. Whereas the new road segments require implementing the principle of a consistent route, an existing road network can be safely improved only by introducing the criteria of the determination of crossfall in curves based on the operating speed.

This paper presents a numerical analysis of a reinforced concrete beam in which the concrete and reinforcement are above the yield strength of the material. Further, the procedure for determining the relationship between the cross-sectional forces and the deformations of the layered cross-section of a rod is described. For a short rod with reduced stiffness of the EI and EA cross-sections, a stiffness matrix with variable members is formed. The applicability of the proposed analysis method for the material nonlinearity in a beam calculation is demonstrated through a numerical example. The aim of the present paper is to show the flow of plastification and the load deformation of the system nodes. Finally, the results of the manual deformation calculation system are compared with the results from SCIA software.

Channel coding is a common technique used to reduce bit-error rate (BER) in a communication channel. In cases where a certain block code is used, there is a known procedure for determining a residual BER (bit-error rate after encoding and decoding). Analysis in opposite direction should determine a block code parameters for optimising system performance in terms of reliability and throughput. This paper proposes an iterative method for addressed problem by introducing some auxiliary function, whose inverse can be written in closed form. We demonstrate the usage of proposed method in determining parameters of suitable binary BCH code to improve error probability during the transmission of BPSK signal over Rayleigh fading channel. The correctness of analytically obtained results are validated by simulation results.

The software-defined networking (SDN) is an articulation of the idea of increasing the network programmability with the aim of solving the problems identified in earlier research, regarding the complex and the time-consuming process of the protocol and interface standardization. An analysis of research in the field of SDN, presented through various review and survey papers, has shown that previous research was not sufficiently focused on flexibility and programmability of the data plane in SDN. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to improve the flexibility of the data plane in SDN by increasing the programmability level of the packet-switching node. To achieve the set goal, it was necessary to choose an appropriate metric for evaluation of flexibility and programmability of the data plane. Since there is no common position on the choice of metrics, a novel metric based on qualitative criteria is proposed in this paper. An existing data plane architectures in SDN are observed through the proposed metric. In the end, a novel data plane architecture, with improved flexibility from the aspect of the qualitative metric, is proposed.

OBJECTIVE To compare and analyse the accuracy of four age estimation methods using the mineralisation stages of the permanent teeth (Cameriere et al. [16] [CAM], Liliequist and Lundberg [LLH] and Nolla without third molars [NOL7] or with them [NOL8]) in a mixed population of Brazilians and a homogeneous population of Croatians. METHODS Orthopantomograms of 930 Brazilians (366 males and 564 females) and 924 Croatians (365 males and 556 females) aged between 8 and 14.99 years were analysed using the CAM, LLH, NOL7 and NOL8 age estimation methodologies. RESULTS LLH presented the best absolute differences (ADs) among both populations without sex stratification, while CAM presented the worst results. In addition, the mean differences revealed underestimations, except when the LLH and NOL7 methods were used for the Brazilians. When the sample was stratified by sex, the best AD values were found with NOL7 (0.80) for the Brazilians and with LLH (0.98) for the Croatians. When the sample was stratified by sex and age, CAM presented high accuracy at the early ages, and LLH presented high accuracy at the older ages. The results obtained with the Nolla methods (NOL7 and NOL8) were mostly similar, but NOL7 yielded slightly better results. CONCLUSIONS The values for the Brazilians and the Croatians were relatively similar, and the techniques were properly applied in both population samples. The best method for evaluating both countries was LLH, followed by NOL7, NOL8 and CAM.

Providing appropriate legal mechanisms, that evaluate the progression of development from the age of childhood innocence to maturity and full responsibility, considered one of the difficult areas of criminal justice policy. The minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) in children varies among countries and differs widely owing to history and culture. Due to rising and brutality of criminal offenses, particularly by juveniles, few countries have lowered the minimum age of criminal responsibility, and many have considered/considering to do the same. India is one such country in which is under the proposal of lowering the age of criminal responsibility to 16 years. As there is lack of useful age assessment methods, that can indicate whether if the individual in question is younger (<16 years) or older than MACR (≥16 years), the present study was undertaken to derive a specific cut-off value of the third molar maturity index (I3M) for this purpose. The sample consisted of 1078 orthopantomograms (OPTs) from Andhra Pradesh, India, aged between 11 and 20 years (45.4% males and 54.6% females). The reproducibility of I3M was calculated by intra-class correlation coefficients, which showed an intra-rater and inter-rater agreement of 0.912 and 0.891, respectively. The sample was divided into training dataset (819 OPTs), to test I3M and gender as independent variables and MACR as a dependent variable by logistic regression analysis, and test dataset (259 OPTs). A receiver operating curve (ROC) analysis was performed to evaluate the specific cut-off value of I3M for predicting MACR status. A logistic regression analysis showed that gender was not statistically significant for predicting MACR status while ROC analysis indicated a cut-off value of I3M = 0.293 as best for predicting MACR status. The performance of derived cut-off value was tested in a test data set. The sensitivity of the test was 90.6% and 90%, while specificity was 86% and 87.1% in males and females, respectively. The proportion of correctly classified individuals was 88.0% and 88.7% in males and females, respectively. The estimated Bayes post-test probability in males was 87.2% and while in females it was 88.3%. The results highlight the contribution of the derived cut-off value of I3M for discriminating individuals around MACR and should be evaluated in other populations.

Poor adherence to medical recommendations is a well-recognized catalyst for public health consequences worldwide. The literature highlights health consciousness as a likely antecedent to patient–physician trust, which in turn promotes medical adherence. Nevertheless, principles of patient-centered care suggest that patient perceptions of their doctor’s appraisal of their emotions may influence the path between trust and medical adherence. Accordingly, this study tested the mediating role of patient–physician trust in the relation between health consciousness and medical adherence and assessed whether patient ratings of their doctor’s appraisal of their own and their patients’ emotions moderated the mediated relation. Data were collected via self-report questionnaires from two culturally and economically diverse countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina (N = 262) and the United States (N = 314). Participants were young, healthy adults who visited their primary care physician in the past year. The study employed confirmatory factor analysis, mediation, and moderated mediation analyses. The results indicate that health consciousness positively related to patient–physician trust, which was in turn related to higher medical adherence and which mediated 28% of the total effect of health consciousness. Nevertheless, among patients who rated their physicians to have low appraisal for their patients’ emotions but high appraisal for their own emotions, the path from trust to adherence was not significant. These results highlight the importance of promoting health consciousness among young individuals, all while training practitioners to be attuned to their patients’ emotions and circumstances above their own. However, additional findings indicate that the interrelation between doctors’ emotional attributes and adherence is not necessarily one directional and warrants further investigation.

Resistive pressure sensors has become popular and used in different applications. The usage of the pressure sensors in designing wearable solutions requests flexible and light materials. However, these materials are exhibiting challenging behavior in respect to precision, sensitivity and repeatability of measurement. In this paper we present a set of experiments demonstrating typical problems, and also we discuss the causes and possible remedies. The experiments were conducted with pressure sensors implemented using the VelostatTM material and Arduino platform for acquisition of the measurements.

Over the past decade technological development has lead to systems being connected to public networks in many critical domains. In such systems bringing safety and security work has become even more important, as a connected safety-critical system is not safe if it is not secure. Given this, the main goal of this study is to investigate the current status of safety and security co-analysis in system engineering by conducting a Systematic Literature Review. In this work we have focused on the early system development stages and identified 33 relevant publications categorised as: combined safety and security approaches that consider the mutual influence of safety and security; safety informed security approaches that consider influence of safety on security; and, security informed safety approaches that consider influence of security on safety. The results showed that a number of identified approaches are driven by needs in fast developing application areas, e.g., automotive, while works focusing on combined analysis are mostly application area independent. Overall, the study shows that safety and security co-analysis is still a developing domain, which requires solutions that rely on two separate disciplines, namely safety and security engineering.

Latest technological trends lead toward systems connected to public networks even in critical domains. Bringing together safety and security work is becoming imperative, as a connected safety-critical system is not safe if it is not secure. The main objective of this study is to investigate the current status of safety and security co-analysis in system engineering by conducting a systematic literature review. The steps of the review are the following: the research questions identification; agreement upon a search string; applying the search string to chosen databases; a selection criterion formulation for the relevant publications filtering; selected papers categorization and analysis. We focused on the early system development stages and identified 33 relevant publications categorized as follows: combined safety and security approaches that consider the mutual influence of safety and security; safety-informed security approaches that consider influence of safety on security; and security-informed safety approaches that consider influence of security on safety. The results showed that a number of identified approaches are driven by needs in fast developing application areas, e.g., automotive, while works focusing on combined analysis are mostly application area independent. Overall, the study shows that safety and security co-analysis is still a developing domain.

INTRODUCTION In the 1950s and 1960s, former Yugoslavia entered into bilateral treaties on legal assistance with Austria (Treaty 3), Bulgaria (Treaty 22), Czechoslovakia (Treaty 13), Hungary (Treaty 25), Poland (Treaty 26) and Romania (Treaty 27). Today these treaties are in force between the four successor countries of Yugoslavia – i.e. Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina (henceforth: B&H), North Macedonia (henceforth: Macedonia) and Montenegro – and all the abovementioned European countries, which in the meantime have become EU Member States (in the case of Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia as its successors). Each of these bilateral treaties contains the conflict-of-laws rules and procedural rules on succession that take precedence over, respectively, the rules of the Succession Regulation (Article 75(1)) in the contracting parties that are now EU Member States and the national private international law (PIL) rules in the four successor countries of former Yugoslavia that are not EU members. As these rules are based on the principle of nationality and the principle of the location of the estate, they are completely incompatible with the rules of the Succession Regulation and are, therefore, undesirable in the EU Member States. From the perspective of the successor countries of former Yugoslavia, a general assessment of the rules on succession contained in bilateral treaties cannot be given, mainly because international succession law is not consistently regulated in the successor countries: the rules of Serbian, B&H and Macedonian international succession law are based on traditional principles that correspond to those of the bilateral treaties, while the rules of Montenegrin international succession law follow the principles contained in the Succession Regulation. In order to make a proper assessment, it is first necessary to make a few remarks on the conflict-of-laws and procedural rules on succession in Serbia, B&H, Macedonia and Montenegro and then to look into the conflict-of-laws regimes and the procedural rules of the bilateral treaties in detail. A FEW REMARKS ON NATIONAL PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW RULES IN SUCCESSION MATTERS SERBIA AND BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA The main legal source of private international law in Serbia and B&H is the Act on Resolution of Conflict of Laws with Regulations of Other Countries (henceforth: PIL Act), which was enacted in 1982 in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (henceforth: SFRY) and is, with minor amendments, still in force today in both countries.