This study aimed to investigate the reliability, validity, and sensitivity of spatiotemporal parameters, during sprint skating, of bandy players. Thirty-two well-trained male bandy players (age: 17.8 ± 1.2 years; height: 1.80 ± 0.06 m; body mass: 75.7 ± 1.2 kg) participated in this study. They performed two 80 m linear skating sprints. To calculate the velocities and obtain glide-by-glide spatiotemporal variables, nine timing gates and two skate-mounted inertial measurement units (IMUs) were synchronized and used. The spatiotemporal variables at each step included the glide time, glide length, double support time, double support length, step length, and step frequency. All the spatiotemporal variables were analyzed separately: averaged over 80 m, during the acceleration, and the maximal steady-state phases. The relative and absolute reliability of the spatiotemporal parameters were good (ICC > 0.70; CV < 10%), except for the step frequency during the steady-state phase. The spatiotemporal parameters showed “good” to “satisfactory” sensitivity during the acceleration phase and whole sprint, and “marginal” sensitivity during the steady-state phase. Content validity was confirmed by a low percentage of the shared variance (17.9–34.3%) between the spatiotemporal parameters obtained during the acceleration and steady-state phases. A “stepwise” regression significantly predicted the steady-state skating velocity from the spatiotemporal metrics obtained during the acceleration [F(5,26) = 8.34, p < 0.001, adj. R2 = 0.62] and steady-state phases [F(5,26) = 13.6, p < 0.01, R2 = 0.67]. Only the step frequency obtained in the acceleration phase significantly predicted the maximal skating velocity (p < 0.01), while the glide length and step frequency derived during the steady-state phase significantly added to the prediction (p < 0.01). In conclusion, the spatiotemporal parameters, obtained by two skate-mounted IMUs, were shown to be reliable and sensitive measures of sprint skating, and they could be used to provide independent information for the different skating phases. The maximal skating velocity could be predicted from the spatiotemporal parameters, with longer gliding and more frequent steps as the most significant determinants.

This article examines the ways in which the media in Bosnia and Herzegovina in times of crisis relate to the already existing social polarization and the ways in which they further strengthen it. Theories of social polarization were used, with a special emphasis on interpretive polarization, in which the media play a crucial role. The focus of the research is reporting on the Ukrainian crisis, in order to consider the patterns that have developed in media reporting, especially when it comes to different approaches in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republika Srpska. The research is based on the method of content analysis and in-depth structured interviews with journalists, editors and political analysts. The sample consists of the 7 most read web portals from BiH: 4 from the Federation of BiH and 3 from the RS, and the corpus totals 50 texts. A search used the keywords: Ukraine, Russia, aggression, attack, invasion, war, and the analyzed period is seven days from the beginning of the attack on Ukraine (from February 24, 2022) and seven days from the date of the first anniversary of the attack on Ukraine (from February 24 .2023). Indicators for analysis are: how the media decide what is newsworthy, how the media choose sources, how the media verify information and how the media shape the story (with special reference to how they shape it in relation to the agenda they set and the public opinion they shape). The goal is to question how much the Ukrainian crisis was used by the media to further polarize B&H society, and the general conclusion is that media reporting only partially fulfills the key roles of providing comprehensive, clear information, contextualizing events and educating the public. The interpretation of the events is selective and in accordance with the dominant narratives and, as such, does not contribute to a complete understanding of the events, and even less to a high-quality social dialogue. As a post-conflict society, Bosnia and Herzegovina should have a much greater sensitivity to the events in Ukraine, and the media should approach this topic with much more attention, responsibility and public interest. This applies equally to the quantity and quality of information available to citizens.

Gender equality is a democratic and civilizational standard, and mechanisms to implement gender mainstreaming have been established in many countries around the world, including Bosnia and Herzegovina. International mechanisms and women's civil society organizations are the main carriers of these changes, but the real impact of gender mainstreaming depends on the ability of institutions and the commitment of policy makers to move gender from the margins to the center in setting public policy at all levels of government. Unfortunately, across globally, the norm and practice diverge, especially at the local level. In the countries of the Western Balkans, these problems are even more pronounced and insufficiently articulated in academic research. Therefore, this paper analyzes the results of a survey conducted in local communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The research included an analysis of legal provisions at the local level and interviews with relevant stakeholders (women activists and members of local equality commissions). The analysis shows that gender equality is addressed in a fragmented and inconsistent manner, that it is not adequately addressed in local documents, and that local gender mechanisms (commissions for gender equality) have been formed to fulfill a formal obligation. In communities with no profiled women's organizations, the situation is even worse when it comes to the possibility of monitoring and improving the work of these mechanisms.

Telepresence robots, designed to bridge physical distances, have unique capabilities and inherent limitations when deployed in classroom environments. This study examines these aspects, focusing on how telepresence robots facilitate or hinder classroom accessibility and inclusivity. Based on field study results from participatory observations, surveys and interviews with 22 participants, we present and catalogue the operational capabilities of telepresence robots, such as mobility and interaction potential, alongside their limitations in areas like sensory perception and social presence. Our findings reveal a nuanced landscape where telepresence robots act as both enablers and barriers in the classroom. This duality raises the question of whether these robots can be considered “disabled” in certain contexts and how this perceived disability impacts remote students’ inclusion in classroom dynamics. Finally, we present use recommendations to improve classroom experience and telepresence design.

Robot motion planning is a challenging domain as it involves dealing with high-dimensional and continuous search space. In past decades, a wide variety of planning algorithms have been developed to tackle this problem, sometimes in isolation without comparing to each other. In this study, we benchmark two such prominent types of algorithms: OMPL's sampling-based RRT-Connect and SMPL's search-based ARA* with motion primitives. To compare these two fundamentally different approaches fairly, we adapt them to ensure the same planning conditions and benchmark them on the same set of planning scenarios. Our findings suggest that sampling-based planners like RRT-Connect show more consistent performance across the board in high-dimensional spaces, whereas search-based planners like ARA* have the capacity to perform significantly better when used with a suitable action-space sampling scheme. Through this study, we hope to showcase the effort required to properly benchmark motion planners from different paradigms thereby contributing to a more nuanced understanding of their capabilities and limitations. The code is available at https://github.com/gsotirchos/benchmarking_planners

PurposeTo understand how three features of online consumer reviews - the strength of persuasiveness in online consumer reviews (argument quality), the number of online consumer reviews (volume of reviews), and source credibility – are related to the behavioural intentions in the movie consumption context. Besides, the present study aims to explore intergenerational differences (X, Y, and Z) in the patterns of association between three characteristics of online consumer reviews (argument quality, volume of reviews, and source credibility) and an individual’s choice of a movie intended to be watched.Design/methodology/approachThe study sample (n = 518) was recruited from a population of users of IMDb living in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Structural equation modelling and multi-group analysis were used to test the proposed hypotheses.FindingsThe results revealed that argument quality, the volume of reviews, and source credibility of movie-related online consumer reviews are positively related to the intention to watch a movie for all three generational cohorts (X, Y, and Z). Regarding biases in processing information cues, our findings indicate that movie viewers from all three generations (X, Y, and Z) make inferences between source credibility and argument quality. However, biases in the relation between the volume of reviews and the argument quality were found only among X-ers and Y-ers but not among Z-ers.Originality/valueThe present study contributes to the eWOM research stream by examining the role of different characteristics of online consumer reviews (argument quality, the volume of reviews, and the source credibility) in movie consumption. Moreover, it sheds light on how argument quality, the volume reviews and the source credibility interact with the behavioural intentions of different generations and whether these interactions exhibit similarities or differences across three distinct generation cohorts: X-ers, Y-ers, and Z-ers.

<p class="KEYWORDS">Architectural designers are currently faced with many challenges&mdash;technological changes, environmental and economic impacts, necessity to innovate and raise the bar in building performance, and the paradigm shift in architecture with the wider adoption of advanced computational design and fabrication techniques. This paper focuses on innovations in architecture, relationships between scientific research and design, and advanced building technologies. Several research projects are presented, including use of virtual and augmented reality for design, smart facade systems for generating heating/cooling and electricity, and regenerated buildings with improved performance.</p>

By using the quadratic interpolating spline a new class of the quadrature rules was obtained. Those formulas are modifications of the well known trapezoidal rule. The basic characteristic of those formulas is a free parameter. With appropriate choice of that parameter, accuracy of the trapezoidal rule can be improved up to $O(h^4).$ Besides this, by using this nonstandard techniques some well known quadrature rules were also obtained.   2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. 65D32, 65D07

<p>Regional analysis is often used for flood quantile estimation in ungauged catchments. The regionalization procedure has two phases: the formation of homogeneous regions and flood quantile estimation. The presented research results consider the first phase of the regional analysis for 41 catchments in Serbia. The catchment similarity attributes are catchment area and catchment mean elevation. The number of formed regions and the number of stations within the regions are determined by maximising the mean silhouette width of the region. Regions were first obtained by cluster analysis and then adjusted to comprise catchments with a positive silhouette width. For the three formed regions, homogeneity was checked by the Gini index - GI.</p>

Let ($S, \mathfrak{A}, \mu$) be a finite measure space and let $\phi: S \rightarrow S$ be a transformation which preserves the measure $\mu$. The purpose of this paper is to give some (measure theoretical) necessary and sufficient conditions for the transformation $\phi$ to be measurability-preserving ergodic with respect to $\mu$. The obtained results extend well-known results for invertible ergodic transformations and complement the previous work of R.E. Rice on measurability-preserving strong-mixing transformations.   2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary: 28D0

<p>Modern data collection, storage, and processing rely on diverse techniques to handle various types of information, ranging from structured tables to free-form text. This paper explores the captivating application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for categorizing titles from Google Forms or any other textual data. The process of training an NLP model will be demonstrated through a specific example. Just as we learn from our past experiences, NLP models need to be fed with relevant data and labels. This ensures accurate and efficient processing even when new titles are introduced. We will conclude with a fascinating demonstration of how NLP algorithms analyze the structure and meaning of titles. By identifying keywords and understanding the context, they can automatically classify titles into relevant categories. This dramatically simplifies data organization and analysis, empowering us to extract valuable insights faster.</p>

IP devices are ubiquitously spread, for both residential and industrial purposes, thanks to the low integration costs and rapid development cycle of all-IP-based 5G+ technologies. As a consequence, the engineering community now considers their automatization and energy scheduling/management as relevant research fields. These topics have a striking relevance also for the development of smart city networks. As a drawback, most ID-device applications produce a large amount of data (high-frequency complexity), requiring supervised machine learning algorithms to be properly analyzed. In this research, we focus on the performance of vehicular mobility and imaging systems, recognizing scenarios (with powered-on devices) in real-time, with the help of a simple convolutional neural network, proving the effectiveness of such an innovative low-cost approach.

In this paper $X$ is a Banach space, $\left( {S(t)}\right) _{t\geq 0}$ is non-dege\-ne\-ra\-te $\alpha -$times integrated, exponentially bounded semigroup on $X$ $(\alpha \in \mathbb{R}^{+}),$ $M\geq 0$ and $\omega _{0}\in \mathbb{R}$ are constants such that $\left\| {S(t)}\right\| \leqslant Me^{\omega _{0}t}$ for all $t\geq 0,$ $\gamma $ is any positive constant greater than $\omega _{0},$ $\Gamma $ is the Gamma-function, $(C,\beta )-\lim $ is the Ces\`{a}ro-$\beta $ limit. Here we prove that\begin{equation*}\mathop {\lim }\limits_{n\rightarrow \infty }\frac{1}{{\Gamma(\alpha )}} \int\limits_{0}^{T}{(T-s)^{\alpha -1}\left({\frac{{n+1}}{s}}\right) ^{n+1}R^{n+1}\left({\frac{{n+1}}{s},A}\right) x\,ds=S(T)x,}\end{equation*}for every $x\in X,$ and the limit is uniform in $T>0$ on any bounded interval. Also we prove that\begin{equation*}S(t)x=\frac{1}{{2\pi i}}(C,\beta )-\mathop {\lim }\limits_{\omega\rightarrow \infty }\int\limits_{\gamma -i\omega }^{\gamma+i\omega }{ e^{\lambda t}\frac{{R(\lambda ,A)x}}{{\lambda^{\alpha }}}\,d\lambda },\end{equation*}for every $x\in X,\,\,\beta >0$ and $t\geq 0.$   2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. 47D06, 47D60, 47D62

In this paper $\left( S(t)\right) _{t\geq 0}$ is an exponentially bounded integrated semigroup on a Banach space $X,$ with generator $A.$ We present some relations between an integrated semigroup and its generator $A,$ or its resolvent.   2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. 47D60, 47D62