The urban microclimate is gradually changing due to climate change, extreme weather conditions, urbanization, and the heat island effect. In such an altered environment, outdoor thermal comfort can have a strong impact on public health and quality of life in urban areas. In this study, three main urban areas in Serbia were selected: Belgrade (Central Serbia), Novi Sad (Northern Serbia), and Niš (Southern Serbia). The focus was on the temporal assessment of OTC, using the UTCI over a period of 20 years (1999–2018) during different seasons. The main aim is the general estimation of the OTC of Belgrade, Novi Sad, and Niš, in order to gain better insight into the bioclimatic condition, current trends and anomalies that have occurred. The analysis was conducted based on an hourly (7 h, 14 h, and 21 h CET) and “day by day” meteorological data set. Findings show the presence of a growing trend in seasonal UTCI anomalies, especially during summer and spring. In addition, there is a notable increase in the number of days above the defined UTCI thresholds for each season. Average annual UTCIs values also show a positive, rising trend, ranging from 0.50 °C to 1.33 °C. The most significant deviations from the average UTCI values, both seasonal and annual, were recorded in 2000, 2007, 2012, 2015, 2017, and 2018.
The aim of this article is to address key features and the wave of new technologies that Industry 4.0 brings to Aerospace and Defense Systems. This research paper enthusiastically depicts what the future of the Aerospace and Defense industry could be while also providing information about those braves enough to already step into the world of all around digitalization. With this approach, the aim is to interconnect every step of the operation towards creating a mostly perfect environment which cuts off any human mistake and guarantees increase in revenue stream and customer satisfaction. The main method of implementation of Industry 4.0 to many industries is digitalization. Digitalization is the digital upgrade to any company or industry which, when applied correctly, guarantees nothing but success in revenue streams and customer service. This process is a complex blend of many modern technologies and implementing such a hefty upgrade might be problematic to those who have been surviving on very old business models for tens of years. Industry 4.0 is a fast-changing environment and those who are quickly adapting to this wave of change are setting themselves for success. The primary goal of this research paper is to provide an insight into the world of technology Industry 4.0 offers and how that technology could help Aerospace and Defense create a portal to the future.
Sažetak rada UDK 364.632-027.553:159-923-053.2 Ovaj rad ispituje religijsko-pedagosku perspektivu u pogledu tjelesnog i emocionalnog zlostavljanja djece. U tom smislu se analiziraju kur'ansko-sunnetske metode discipliniranja i sankcioniranja uz karakteristike i uvjete primjene nakon odgojnog iscrpljivanja pozitivnih pedagoskih pristupa i metoda unapređivanja, ohrabrivanja, predupređivanja i sl. Ukazuje se na teorijski okvir i terminologiju koja se tice discipliniranja i sankcioniranja. Donose se primjeri poslanickog odnosa prema djeci u odgojnom kontekstu i ispravljanju gresaka kod ljudi kao egzemplar tolerantnog, empaticnog i nenasilnog odgojnog djelovanja. U radu se također kroz pedagosku prizmu prezentiraju stetne posljedice tjelesnog i emocionalnog zlostavljanja na zdravlje djece. Summary: This article analyses religious and pedagogical perspective regarding physical and emotional abuse of children. Disciplinary and sanctioning methods of Qur’an and the Sunnah are analysed here for this purpose, however, bearing in mind characteristics and conditions which imply that these are taken as options only after all the other positive up-bringing approaches and methods like improvement, encouragement and prevention have been exhausted. Theoretical framework and terminology pertaining to disciplinary and sanctioning measures are pointed out here as well. A model of the Messenger’s relation with children in the context of upbringing and corrective measures is presented here as an exemplary, tolerant, empathic, and non-violent upbringing method. The article also demonstrates a pedagogical view of damaging consequences of physical and emotional abuse upon children’s health.
Flood represents a temporary cover of water that submerges land, usually not covered by water, which is caused by water overflowing the watercourses. The floods that occur in the area of Zenica-Doboj Canton in Bosnia and Herzegovina cause massive damage to agriculture, housing, equipment and civil engineering facilities and can be characterized as hazards. The hydrographic backbone of this Canton is the river Bosna, and the subject of research in this paper is the flood vulnerability in Zenica-Doboj Canton. The result of the work is the production of flood hazard and risk maps using GIS. Geographic Information System (GIS)-based spatial analysis and visual elements have been used frequently in recent years for detection of flood hazard areas and preparation of maps. GIS applications are based on a database and analysis tools which have logical and mathematical relationships between the layers. When creating the flood hazard map, in addition to GIS tools, Hec-RAS was also used as a program intended for the analysis of hydraulic calculations. The results of this paper are of great importance for spatial planning and environmental protection, starting with local communities, municipalities and the entire Canton. Key-words: Spatial analysis, the Bosnia River, Flood risk, GIS, Physical geography
Façade greening at the intersection between buildings and urban space offers an optimal opportunity to integrate greenery into increasingly dense cities and influence the microclimate and contribute to high quality of life in urban areas. Despite proven numerous positive effects, there is still a lack of implementation and practical relevance is low until now. To integrate existing greening systems directly into future planning processes and thus keep up with the advancing digitalization in the building sector, an integration of these systems into Building Information Modeling (BIM) is urgently needed and in connection to this, the implementation of an automated planning process to support easier realization of greening projects contributing to a sustainable urban development. Therefore, BIM objects were created for five façade greening systems after analyzing the necessary basic data. Subsequently, an automated process was used to optimize the time-consuming conventional planning process of façade greening, with the aim of evaluating the simulated greening variants based on defined parameters. A case study presents the application of the prototypes and the possible calculations over the life cycle of the building. This development holds great potential by simplifying the process of decision-making and placing façade greenery on buildings.
Sažetak UDK 341.485(497.6) Masovni zlocini pocinjeni u Bosni i Hercegovini tokom Agresije 1992–95. izvrseni su od velikog broja srpskih vojnih i policijskih snaga. Ovi zlocini pocinjeni su u skladu s politickim odlukama i politikama srpskih rukovodecih organa: u prvom redu Skupstine Republike Srpske i lokalnih “kriznih stabova“. U tom kontekstu potrebno je posmatrati pocinjene zlocine u Bosni i Hercegovini tokom Agresije. Krivicni postupci pred Međunarodnim krivicnim sudom za bivsu Jugoslaviju (MKSJ) i lokalnim sudovima, uspjesno su uklonili najznacajnije politicke, vojne i policijske zvanicnike za koje se zna da su ucestvovali u ratnim zlocinima s mjesta odlucivanja. Cilj ovog rada je da predstavi ulogu i znacaj srpskih institucija u izvrsenju masovnih zlocina u Bosni i Hercegovini. Summary Massive scale crimes committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the 1992-1995 Aggression were committed by a large number of Serbian military and police forces. These crimes were executed in compliance with political decisions and policies of Serbian top government organs: primarily the Assembly of Republic of Srpska and local “crises headquarters”. Hence, it is in this context that we shall observe the crimes committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the aggression. Criminal proceedings of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) have successfully removed the most significant political, military and police officials, verified to have participated in war crimes, from the important decision-making positions. The aim of this article is to present the role and significance of Serbian institutions in executions of mass scale crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In this work, we analyse character networks in the cult TV show Twin Peaks. In the small-scale community network of Twin Peaks we discovered a new storytelling network phenomenon we called the Dale Cooper Effect, a phase transition in network structure. It is a sharp demarcation between the two statistically and topologically distinct networks of characters, where the point of demarcation is the protagonist himself (Special Agent Dale Cooper) introduced as a median character.
Aspiration is a serious complication of swallowing disorders. Adequate detection of aspiration is essential in dysphagia management and treatment. High-resolution cervical auscultation has been increasingly considered as a promising noninvasive swallowing screening tool and has inspired automatic diagnosis with advanced algorithms. The performance of such algorithms relies heavily on the amount of training data. However, the practical collection of cervical auscultation signal is an expensive and time-consuming process because of the clinical settings and trained experts needed for acquisition and interpretations. Furthermore, the relatively infrequent incidence of severe airway invasion during swallowing studies constrains the performance of machine learning models. Here, we produced supplementary training exemplars for desired class by capturing the underlying distribution of original cervical auscultation signal features using auxiliary classifier Wasserstein generative adversarial networks. A 10-fold subject cross-validation was conducted on 2079 sets of 36-dimensional signal features collected from 189 patients undergoing swallowing examinations. The proposed data augmentation outperforms basic data sampling, cost-sensitive learning and other generative models with significant enhancement. This demonstrates the remarkable potential of proposed network in improving classification performance using cervical auscultation signals and paves the way of developing accurate noninvasive swallowing evaluation in dysphagia care.
The main objective of this corpus-based study is to shed more light on the influence of the English language on BCS with the focus on the business register. The specialized and written corpus was designed in order to examine at what levels of BCS the impact of English is most notable. The corpus was based on the texts from the news portal Klix. The results showed that the influence of English was evident at all levels of BCS, but most prominent at the lexical and syntactic level. All the phrases from the corpus were analyzed and it was found that out of 148 phrases, 113 were the examples of the influence at lexical level and the rest, 35 precisely, were the examples of the influence at the level of syntax. As for the lexical level, most borrowings are nouns, but BCS also borrows a large number of verbs, as well as adjectives. Some of these borrowings are adapted to the rules of BCS, while the others are either used in their original forms or they are used in some hybrid forms. When it comes to the syntactic level, BCS borrows inflections, modification patterns, collocations, as well as passive “by phrase”. Finally, these Anglicisms were also analyzed in terms of writing and spelling and it was found that there are many inconsistencies regarding the spelling of these borrowed words primarily due to the fact that most of them are either brand new Anglicism or they simply were not adapted to the rules of BCS. However, it was concluded that, despite the previously mentioned fact, some rules regarding the spelling of Anglicisms can still be formed.
We examined demographic and lifestyle risk factors for incidence of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and Barrett's esophagus (BE) in an Australian cohort of 20,975 participants aged 40-63 at recruitment (1990-1994). Information on GERD and BE was collected between 2007 and 2010. GERD symptoms were defined as self-reported heartburn or acid regurgitation. BE was defined as endoscopically confirmed columnar-lined esophagus. Risk factors for developing GERD symptoms, BE diagnosis, age at symptom onset, and age at BE diagnosis were quantified using regression. During a mean follow-up of 15.8 years, risk of GERD symptoms was 7.5% (n = 1,318) for daily, 7.5% (n = 1,333) for 2-6 days/week, and 4.3% (n = 751) for 1 day/week. There were 210 (1.0%) endoscopically diagnosed BE cases, of whom 141 had histologically confirmed esophageal intestinal metaplasia. Female sex, younger age, lower socioeconomic position (SEP) and educational attainment, and former smoking were associated with higher GERD risk. Male sex and smoking were associated with earlier GERD symptom onset. Men, older participants, those with higher SEP, and former smokers were at higher BE risk. There was some evidence higher SEP was associated with earlier BE diagnosis. GERD and BE had different demographic risk factors but shared similar lifestyle factors. Earlier GERD symptom onset for men and smokers might have contributed to higher BE risk. The SEP patterns observed for GERD and BE suggest potential inequity in access to care. These findings would be important in the development of clinical risk prediction models for early detection of BE.
Background Patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) have anemia often present as a consequence of chronic bleeding from tumor. The exact role of lL-33, Galectin-l and IL-l in the pathological genesis of anemia in colorectal cancer patients has not been elucidated yet. The main goal of this research was to analyze Gal-l, IL-l and lL-33 systemic values in anemic and non-anemic CRC patients. Methods Concentrations of IL-33, Galectin-1 and IL-1 have been studied in blood samples of 55 CRC patients (27 without anemia and 28 with anemia). Results CRC patients with anemia had more severe and local advanced disease compared to CRC non-anemic patients. Anemia positively correlated with higher nuclear grade, lymph and blood vessel invasion, as well as with higher TNM stage, detectable metastatic lesions in lung and liver and peritoneal carcinomatosis. Significantly higher IL-33, Gal-1 and IL-1 concentration have been found in sera of patients with CRC and detected anemia. CRC patients mostly had microcytic anemia, while ferritin values were in normal range. Analysis revealed positive mutual correlation between serum values of galectin-1, IL-1 and IL-33 in CRC patients. Level of hemoglobin negatively correlated with serum IL-33, Gal-1 and IL-1. We have analyzed the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves of serum IL-33, Gal-1 and IL-1 showed that these cytokines can be treated as additional markers for anemia of inflammation in CRC patients. Conclusions Predomination of Galectin-1, IL-1 and IL-33 in anemic CRC patients implicates on their potential role in anemia genesis and further development.
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