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With the developmen t of electronic literacy and the dominance of printed text over handwritten text, the need to know the rules of word division at the end of a line is decreasing. However, it is inevitably actualized when writing school written assignments. In this paper, therefore, we bring an excerpt from a broader study dealing with the orthographic norm in the written assignments of high school students of different educational profiles and directions in the Republic of Serbia. The goal is to determine the orthographic characteristics of more than 3 000 written assignments from the subject the Serbian Language and Lterature in a separate spelling area - Dividing words at the end of the line. We also pay attention to determining the representation and frequency of errors according to the age of the students, the school they attended and the assessment of the written task. The research corpus was examined by a descriptive and analytical method. The results of the research showed that the dominant mistake of the high school students was in cases when the consonant is in a position between two vowels at the end of the line, and they often avoid the division whatsoever. The rules of word division at the end of the line are the least followed by the students of the technical high school, while the weakest achievements in this spelling area were shown by both first-year pupils and high school graduates. The grades that students receive on written assignments are in line with the representation of errors in them. The current findings confirm the primary hypothesis that more attention should be paid to the issue of following the orthographic norm in high school teaching practice when it comes to word division at the end of a line. In the final part, the paper is enriched with reflections on the possibilities of improving the teaching practice in secondary schools, as well as the orthographic literature in order to change the current situation when it comes to the examined area of orthography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copyright of Zbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Nisu is the property of Law Faculty in Nis and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

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This paper analyzes the competitiveness of exports from the West Balkans countries, with special emphasis on the economy of Serbia. It draws attention to the basic factors that affect the competitiveness of exports, with comparisons between the West Balkans countries. It examines the flows of foreign direct investment, production costs, export intensity according to the level of work qualification. It analyzes the involvement in international production networks as an important channel of entry to foreign markets, especially from the point of view of participation of parts and components in exports. Starting from the importance of foreign direct investment (FDI) to improve the structure and raise the quality of export products, the paper analyzes their impact on competitiveness and investment climate as a factor for attracting FDI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the basic information about the overal results, significance, international programme committee and working areas of the 6th International Scientific Conference on Defensive Technologies, OTEH 2014, in comparison with previous five conferences. The number of sections, number of papers, number of authors/coauthors, number of sessions and number of members of the scientific commitee are presented in the review. This year conference is the best regarding the number of papers and the number of authors/coauthors since this conference got its international character. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the paper, the authors investigated and presented a comparative analysis of criminal legislation reform, in relation to the sentence of imprisonment in Croatia and Serbia. Although both Croatia and Serbia are obliged to harmonize their criminal legislation with EU legislation and international documents, we see that the solution of their legislators considerably different. With the new amendments to the Criminal Code of the Republic of Serbia in 2019, the so-called Tiana's law, effective from December 1 last year, imposed a sentence of life imprisonment, which has met with fierce controversy in scientific and professional circles. Life imprisonment included until then the maximum prison sentence of 30 to 40 years in prison. On the other hand, the Croatian Criminal Code in its provisions prescribe long-term imprisonment which may not be shorter than twenty-one or longer than forty years, since it was introduced life imprisonment novels of the Criminal Code of 2003 did not survive. We also find a distinction between the sentence of prison between legal provisions of the Criminal Code of Serbia and the Criminal Code of Croatia. The minimum sentence of imprisonment that can be imposed on a convicted person according to the Criminal Code of Serbia is thirty days and the maximum sentence of imprisonment is twenty years in prison. In relation to Croatian Criminal Code, the distinction is reflected in the special minimum of the legal provision for sentence of imprisonment, which, according to the criminal legislation of the Republic of Croatia, cannot be less than three months, which means that the special minimum for the sentence of imprisonment is three times higher in Croatia than in Serbia. In addition to an analysis of the legal provisions of the criminal legislation of Croatia and Serbia relating to the imposition of imprisonment, the possible proposals that should be taken into account are outlined. The paper also examines convictions that have imposed prison sentences in Croatia and Serbia, and provides a comparative analysis and presentation of the sentences imposed is given. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper aims to explore alternative statehood options for Yugoslavia's unification in 1918 and assess their potential success for Serbian interests. It falls within the realm of counterfactual analysis. The study draws on the economic theory of optimal nation size, which examines the pros and cons of larger nations, particularly the challenges posed by cultural diversity resulting from ethnolinguistic and religious differences. Five statehood alternatives have been identified, involving various degrees of Serbia's territorial expansion. Empirical evidence from the 1921 population census demonstrates that options leading to larger nation size would increase population heterogeneity. The research identifies an optimal solution that balances benefits and costs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is on the results of the soil and its produciton potential in the types of forests of sessile oaks (Quercus petraea) in the area of the National Park "Đerdap" in the community units of Zlatica, Đerdap, štrbacko korito, Desna reka and Kožica. There are the most widely spread types of the sprout forests of the sessile oaks in the research area, deep deluvium, luvisoil, eutric cambsoils, and a great number of sub-types of acid brown soil. Considering the fact that the produciton potential of the defined types of soil depends on the depth, skeleton and other physical characteristics which determine acception, keeping and moving of water and this means that the production value of the studied soils is in the direct correaltion with physical-geographical conditions of the environment. Taking into account that solum is well developed and the low contents of skeleton, all the studied soil in the most widely spread types of sessile oaks in the area of N.P. "Đerdap", are very productive natural habitats. The exception is acid brown soil, which characteristics vary as well as their production potential. Apart from a good production potential of the studied soils within this paper, sessile forests in the researched areas irrationally use production potential of the habitat. In the research area in the last 20 years, the processes of devitalizing and the appearance of decaying of sessile oaks are expressed. In the sessile forests of Serbia, there are forests of the production and protection character, and the structure of the sessile forests at global level is characterized by not normal state with domination of middle aged and in great extent mature withering ingredients, what is the main cause of insufficiently used good potential of the soil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Copyright of Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography of the Serbian Academy of Sciences & Arts / Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU is the property of Institute of Ethnography, SASA and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

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The first indicator of the influence of adversarial elements in the criminal procedure of the Republic of Serbia was the establishment of the institute of cooperating witnesses less than two decades ago. Until 2011, the Code of Criminal Procedure was amended several times, so the material conditions for acquiring this procedural status changed accordingly. The final break with the long-standing criminal tradition was made, first by giving the defendant the opportunity to be a party in concluding a plea agreement, then guilt, and then from 2011 a party in concluding a testimony agreement. The paper first presents a comparative overview of the institute of witnesses associated in the domestic legislative framework through long - term legislation, and then points out their similarities and differences through certain specifics of the institute of cooperating witnesses. As the newly established legislation is not harmonized with the new procedural institute, it is pointed out the need to supplement the current legal solutions, especially in the part related to the procedural and program protection of the defendant associate. The focus of the subject is on criminal acts of organized crime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Freedom of contract and non-mandatory statutory rules are characteristics of the law on contracts. Mandatory provisions are exceptional and their violation leads to the invalidity of contract and other consequences. Freedom of contract assumes that the rules are non-mandatory, while the exception is to be determined. In a number of cases jurisprudence wavered, and the courts tend to defend their position that a rule is mandatory by invoking the unacceptable position that the statute has not explicitly allowed different contracting. By contrast, Anglo-Saxon legal institutions representations and warranties and put option are often incorporated in international agreements in which Serbia's law is accepted as applicable, especially in agreements on the sale of shares in limited liability companies. In such cases the jurisprudence is not always willing to recognise and apply mandatory provisions of Serbia's law. In the paper the examples of such practice are subject to a critical analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copyright of Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography of the Serbian Academy of Sciences & Arts / Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU is the property of Institute of Ethnography, SASA and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

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Copyright of Zbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Nisu is the property of Law Faculty in Nis and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

The paper interprets performance and theoretical works of Maga Magazinovic from the perspective of cultural studies, i.e., ideological criticism and feminist theories. It starts from the global context in which her modern dance was formed, and then it construes three narratives as interpretative frames. The first narrative deals with her work as an example of transnational idea of absolute dance. The second one deals with her work within the framework of cultural feminism and of construction of female choreographic and dance subject, as well as the imagined community of female performers and audience. The third narrative deals with physical culture and modern dance, and with its theoretical explications as discoursive techniques of performing national Yugoslav identity as singular as well as plural at the same time. This interpretation is based on contemporary world-system theories, in which the cultures are divided into core, semi-peripheral, and peripheral. As a result, the paper is focused on the way global cultural models are realized in local semi-peripheral system of Serbian and Yugoslav bourgeous culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the second half of the 19th century significant socio-economic changes occurred in the whole Europe as a result of the bourgeois revolution. The need for change in lifestyle was also present in the Balkans and it was followed by a period of social modernization and emancipation in various fields. This paper focuses on the status of women and their role in a social change in the Serbian majority community, as well as in the minority Sephardic community in Serbia. The paper presents three theses which authors verify through theoretical study: that both Serbian and Sephardic women took an active part in the modernization of Serbian society, entering new roles and fighting for liberation from patriarchal constraints and thereby contributing to the emancipation and more equal position of women in society; that the emancipation was only partially achieved - Serbian and Sephardic women did gain more rights in certain areas of life, but patriarchal ideas and subordination of women were still dominanant; and that the lifestyle of Jewish women was not much different from the lifestyle of Serbian women because of similar social patterns which shaped their lives over history and made the process of their emancipation quite similar, except for the fact that there were additional obstacles that Sephardic women had to overcome in the process of emancipation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The subject of the author's analysis is the issue of legal protection of pet animals. Through analysis of applicable provisions contained in the Act on Animal Welfare of Serbia, on one hand, and the fundamental principles and provisions set out in the European Convention for the Protection of Pet animals, on the other hand, this paper attempts to point out the degree of legal protection that pet animals are awarded under domestic legal regulations, as well as to answer the question of compatibility of the national legislation with the international standards set out in the mentioned European Convention regarding the above mentioned question. In addition, since the legal protection of pet animals is also regulated by relevant by-laws in our law, the analysis of certain aspects of protection provided to pet animals, specifically the Decision of the city of Novi Sad on keeping of domesticated animals, the paper attempts to draw attention to compliance of the solutions adopted in this legal act, with the fundamental principles of protection, provided to pets by laws or the Act on Animal Welfare of Serbia. Finally, in order to provide a more comprehensive insight in terms of achievement of the legal protection of pets in Serbian law, the paper analyzes the types of unlawful conduct of the owner or the holder of the animals, as well as their respective sanctioning prescribed in specific laws or bylaws. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses fiduciary agreements, which, as a form of contract, that is the means of securing obligation and legal claims, are regulated by provisions of specific laws and codifications in some of the European Union countries. Even the Montenegrin legislator enacted a special law governing these legal matters, however in the Serbian law fiduciary agreements fall into the category of innominate contracts. Fiducia originates in the Roman Law and constitutes the first common form of the pledge law. The Latin term fiducia means „trust“, since these legal matters were, first of all, based on the trust between contractual parties. This paper addresses the institution of „trust“ as it is the Anglo-Saxon counterpart of the fiduciary agreement. Etymologically, „trust“ has the same meaning as the term fiducia - trust. Due to their advantages, fiduciary agreements are not even uncommon in the domestic legal practice, while there are certain, as we have already announced, theoretical, but also practical concerns arguing admissibility of this legal matter. These arguments mainly come down to the thesis (mentioned above) that entering into the fiduciary agreement results in violation of the ban on performance of contract lex commissoria in the pledge law. Nevertheless, I provided explanation that differences between contracts of pledge and fiduciary agreements clearly point to the conclusion that fiduciary agreements may not be treated as a pledge, hence they are admissible, that is, they are concluded on the principle of contractual freedom as an imperative norm of the Law on Obligations. Fiduciary agreements (in relation to the realistic means of security) offer to the creditor a higher level of security, reduce the period of payment of his claims, also providing practical benefits for the debtor himself. The paper presents the reasons supporting the view that it would be advantageous for the Serbian legislator, in the process of harmonisation of the legislation in the field of Civil Law with the European Union law, to regulate the institute of fiduciary agreements under the special law, integrate it into the Law on Obligations or make it a part of the future Civil Code of the Republic of Serbia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using discourse analysis, this paper examines the female readers' attitudes towards fashion and clothing which were expressed in their letters published in the journal Women's world: the organ of Serbian women's charity associations. The first part of the paper describes the programme and dominant ideology of fashion that was promoted in the journal. That ideology is then compared to opinions and attitudes that are expressed in the letters of female readers. Final analysis observes the connection between fashion and notions of tradition, moral, and emancipation of women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper considers taxes related to passenger cars and possibilities of their use in order to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, this paper considers ecological potential of non-recurrent taxes in connection with the purchase and registration of passenger cars, periodically charged taxes on the use of passenger car and excises in the European union. At the end, the author presents legislation related to motor vehicles taxes in Serbia and analyzes their ecological functions, and points out the shortcomings of the existing legislative solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper offers analysis of two issues. The first is the overview of the legal basis of international family law and it's sources under the Treaty of Lisbon on the Functioning of the European Union, and the second the case law of the European Court of Justice. Since 1999, when the Treaty of Amsterdam came into force, four regulations were adopted in matters of international family law as secondary sources of EU law, and three of them came into force. National courts of Member Staes are bound to apply directly three regulations, but so far only the interpretation of Brussels II bis Regulation has reached the European Court of Justice. Some of the judgments of the Court could be of interest for Serbian private international law. The reason is in the fact that the Court gave rulings on issues and concepts which are not defined in Serbian law, so they could influence the development and definitions of the those in the course of drawing up the new Act of Private International Law in Serbia. The paper reviews the Sundelind Lopez, the Hadady, the Case A. and the Mercredi judgments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was characteristic agrarian country. Agriculture was basic branch of the economy in all parts of the state. One of the most important issues in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was agrarian issue. Various and specific structure of land possession in different parts of the country and revolutionary mood in villages among the peasants, were the reasons which justified taking actions to organize and carry out agrarian reform in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The legal regulations were very important for proper execution of democratic land reform. The author explains the most important legal regulations that were passed in the course of the democratic land reform in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The administration which was responsible for organization and execution of democratic land reform in Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is also briefly shown in the paper. The paper also presents how implementation of agrarian legislation and functioning of agrarian administration looked like in practice through an interesting case of medium-sized holding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides the basics for more detailed research on the structures of bionic forms of different plant species and their application in the domain of landscape planning. The aim of this type of research is to expand knowledge of landscape planning with a deeper understanding of different geometric relations present in the existing natural forms. The correlation between structures in nature and structures that are present in contemporary landscape architecture could be established by the congruence with the geometric models from landscape. This paper is focused solely on the geometry of natural forms. The Voronoi diagram was used in order to examine the similarities and to perform a comparative analysis of the Prunus domestica L. leaf geometry and the geometry of cultural landscapes of Central Serbia. The resulting Voronoi diagram shows the similarity based on closed fields, Voronoi cells, which correspond to the nervation of Prunus domestica L. leaf by form. Using the comparative analysis, the geometric interpretation of cultural landscape examples could be linked to the geometric structure of the most frequent fruit tree species. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copyright of Yearbook of the Faculty of Political Sciences / Godisnjak Fakultet Politickih Nauka Beograd is the property of University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Sciences and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

This paper describes how to customize OAICat library for exporting data via OAI-PMH protocol from the institutional repositories in the example of the digital library of the University of Novi Sad. OAI-PMH protocol is one of the dominant protocols for the exchange of large amounts of data and it has been shown in previously published studies that OAI-PMH compatible repositories are more visible to users via web browsers. Visibility of knowledge stored in digital PhD dissertations is very important for future PhD students, because it provides them education in accordance with the information age in which we live. Also, the visibility of PhD dissertations in the digital form encourages collaboration of researchers from different universities and increasing the quality of future PhD dissertations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper interprets the media construction of a new gender model of woman in Serbia as a consequence of a change of dominant national ideology. An example is found in a talk show "Women" and the analysis is focused both on the traditional elements of the genre (its unbreakable connection to the idea of femininity and female public) and on the novelties which this particular talk show produces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In developed library and information environments librarians consider their role of communication intermediaries to be crucial in terms of offering collections, services and programs in the right manner. This case study empirically researches and perceives public relations practice in public libraries in Serbia, and offers recommendations for further development of this field. Primary target group in this research included directors of public libraries, their assistants and heads of sectors and departments, and the second group focused on associates engaged in PR tasks. Methodological approach that was used in the study included an online survey sent out to over two hundred email addresses and gathered quantitative and qualitative data from fifty respondents. Even though it is not easy to comment on development or stagnation in this field, since no similar researches have been done in Serbia, it is clear that libraries are transferring their focus on intensive communication with the public. This study showed significant observations when it comes to understanding the public relations, profile of the employees involved in this field, importance of the internal communication, visual identity, quality of communication with stakeholders, and awareness that some of the work processes in a library essentially belong to the public relations field. Authors of the paper suggest that accepting and developing principles of an organizational culture would create a new frame for working with public relations field. One of the principles - culture of tasks is based on an assumption that people like to work and therefore need to have certain conditions that would best stimulate their skills and knowledge. This kind of culture favors the capability of an individual to contribute to the goals of an organization as well as rights of each employee to create new ideas and solutions that would bring changes to the organization. Some of the most important values of such organization include a strong feeling of affiliation, a need to connect and to work efficiently within a team. Development of organizational culture has its roots in these values and today it is considered to be the best solution to two fundamental problems that challenge members of the organization: internal integration and external adaptation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of an analysis of the morphometric characteristics of the leaves of 14 test black poplar (Populus nigra L.) trees, from the region of Great War Island, indicating a satisfactory degree of intrapopulation genetic variability. The knowledge of the extent and nature of variability in natural populations is a starting point for the breeding and conservation of genetic resources of forest trees. To this end, it is necessary to begin with the implementation of appropriate measures of in situ and ex situ conservation that will enable long-term preservation and enhancement of the ecological adaptability and the evolutionary potential of the populations of black poplar on Great War Island. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Prediction of precipitation is one of the important factors that affect the sectors such as industry, agriculture, environmental protection, and their related fields. The stochastic method based on a Markov chain model is used in the paper to predict the annual precipitation in the territory of South Serbia for the period 2009-2013. For this purpose, the precipitation data rainfall recorded on the four synoptic stations were used for the period 1980-2010. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents one part of the findings of a research that deals with teachers' perceptions of educational reforms in Serbia. More specifically, the paper focuses on the segment of the research that was aimed at exploring teachers' views on the ways of improving the system and practice of in-service teacher training. Pursuing this topic is very important since the findings of recent studies have shown that this aspect of education system needs considerable improvement, while the authors who deal with educational change point to the importance of consulting the teachers in the development of the new system solutions. The questionnaire was used to collect the data from 326 teachers from 125 Serbian primary schools. The teachers provided answers to open-ended questions on what needs to be done in order to improve the quality of their in-service training. Content analysis was used to process the data - response categories were created inductively on the basis of teachers' answers, and then their frequency was established. The results indicate that, according to teachers, in-service teacher training has to be improved, primarily through increased funding, higher quality of programmes/seminars, diversification of types of training, as well as through creating a more encouraging system and school setting for in-service teacher training. These results are significant from the aspect of the in-service training system since they point to developmental priorities, as well as to the necessity of a more complex and comprehensive approach to the reform of this segment of education system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Corporate management, as the set of mechanisms by which companies are lead, grown and developed on the market, is of fundamental importance for all countries which strive to healthy and vital national economy. High-quality legal frame presents an assumption for good corporate management because it provides security to investors, especially to minority ones, and provides equal treatment to all stockholders. By enacting a new Company law, legislation in Serbia has been significantly improved in which are implemented OECD and other international principles of good corporate management, as a new Codex of corporate management. Analysis of the Law and Codex in this paper has shown the novelties in the domain of corporate management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes the whole system of legal norms regulating the electoral matter in order to determine the actual scope of the implementation of international standards " full and effective equality "of members of national minorities in the political life in Serbia. Sufficiency of the measures of positive discrimination in electoral law of the Republic of Serbia is focused on two questions. The first question relates to the regulation of the number of signatures required for the determination and declaration of election lists. The second question relates to the applicability of legal electoral threshold or minimum requirements in terms of the number of votes which must be received for participating in the distribution of seats in case of parties of national minorities. There were very serious differences about these issues in practice and it also had the practical consequences. Legal rules in the election matter only know the exclusion of legal electoral threshold in the final stage of the selection process as a measure of positive discrimination. This is the sufficient measure by which the members of national minorities could be put on an equal position with members of the national majority in the race to win seats. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the main results of the international study of students' mathematics and science achievement TIMSS 2011. The focus is on presentation and discussion of the results achieved by Serbian students. In Serbia, this study was conducted in the fourth grade of primary school on a nationally representative sample of students -- a total of 4379 students from 156 primary schools were tested, i.e. 219 classes. The average achievement of students from Serbia was 516 points in mathematics and in science, which in both cases represents achievement that is significantly higher than the centerpoint of the TIMSS 4th grade scale. The paper also presents results according to content domains, differences in achievement between boys and girls, as well as students' distribution according to international benchmarks. The results are observed from the viewpoint of overlapping of the Serbian curricula and the TIMSS test. Overall, these results can be seen as encouraging indicators of the Serbian education system for the first education cycle, particularly if we bear in mind relatively poor performance of students in higher grades in Serbia which had been shown in various previous studies. Since TIMSS findings should primarily be used in planning the development of education, the concluding part discusses the importance of regular participation of Serbia in international studies of this kind, as well as the importance of greater involvement of domestic researchers in analysis of available international databases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The position of Serbian women writers regarding the First World War is a specific issue and one that has largely been left unexamined. There are several reasons for this; some of them are political, some are literary. First, the war had a distinctive character in Serbia - it was considered as the final stage in the process of Serbian national liberation, which culminated, or at the least, was intended to culminate, in the creation of a new, multinational state - making it extremely difficult to draw direct comparisons between Serbian women's engagement in the war and that of other nations'. Second, Serbian women writers' arrival on the literary scene in the pre-war years had a decisive influence on their writing, limiting them to genres, themes, and forms, traditionally linked to "feminine" values. It cannot be easily assessed to what extent the experience of War shaped their subsequent literary choices, and generalizations should, if possible, be avoided. However, by examining individual cases, we can maybe arrive at a better understanding of the multifaceted reality of World War I. This paper attempts to do so by examining the involvement of Serbia's most distinguished pre-war poetess, Danica Marković, in the 1917 uprising against the Bulgarian authorities, and the account of this experience in her poem "Twelve thousand" and her testimony "Impressions from the Toplica uprising". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper makes a critical appraisal of the provisions of the 2005 Hague Convention on the Choice of Court Agreements from the perspective of Serbian Law. First, it is noted that the Convention does not apply to submission and does not regulate the effects of belated invocation of the existence of the choice of court agreement before the court not chosen. It also does not prevent that the reverse situation, that the party invokes nullity of the choice of court agreement past the initial stage in the proceedings. Secondly, the res iudicata effect of domestic arbitral awards seems to be jeopardized by the provisions authorizing the court of the contracting state to refuse to recognize and enforce a judgment of the other contracting state based on the choice of court agreement, solely if the judgment is inconsistent with a judgment given in the requested state (and not if it is inconsistent with an arbitral award given in the requested state). Thirdly, and most importantly, great number of exclusions from the scope of application and some very broad grounds for non-recognition of foreign forum selection clauses makes this instrument less attractive than it should be. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper the author analyzes the Serbian and foreign laws regulating the issue of quality of surface and underground water. He points out that, due to the interconnection between surface and underground waters, the management of the issue of their quality requires an integral approach. The basic legal instrument for the quality management of waters is the water-use permit and the consent for industrial (special) utilization of waters, which are based on the registry on the status of waters and on the supervision of the fulfillment of the conditions set-out in permits. Concerning the issue of eligibility of the new beneficiaries of water-use permits, the author refers to the legislation of the European Union and to the national legislation of member states. They prescribe the instruments of preliminary environmental analysis and environmental permit that aim to assess the impact of new industrial facilities on the quality of waters and the envisage means of elimination of environmental hazards, which might potentially realize from the industrial facilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main goal of this paper is to first on a theoretical way explain the role and importance of money supply in one national economy and later, through an empirical analysis indicate certain tendencies in the movement of this monetary aggregate in the economy of Serbia. The theoretical aspect of the money supply consists in defining the structure of money supply as well as in the definition of money supply as an important monetary aggregate in each economy. Theoretical considerations include the money supply and operational concepts of money supply that are used in certain countries and flows of its formation. Money is very important monetary aggregate to study because it allows the creators of economic policy to understand how their policies regarding the money supply affect interest rates, economic growth and other nominal and real economic variables in a country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the stability and the repercussions of the fiscal deficit in the long and short term in Serbia. The deficit is showing considerable resilience and the level of debt. In addition, the degree of resistance depends on the cause of the growth of the budget deficit. Most persistent deficit is caused by the desire to maintain the level of spending, as opposed to that which is caused by the decrease in revenue. In a further analysis shows the impact of changes in interest rates on the level of debt and the deficit, a negative association with key elements of the investment. Finally, the theoretical says that the presence of large fiscal deficits can not last forever and that necessary find a solution to its size and structure has led to a sustainable level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are only ambiguous data in literature that suggest the presence of Galanthus gracilis Čelak. in the flora of Serbia. Throughout its range G. gracilis is often confused with closely related species G. elwesii Hook., with which it shares several morphological characteristics, and in some cases the same name is erroneously used for both species (G. graecus Orph.). Only about a decade ago, the genus was a subject of taxonomic revision by the English author Aaron P. Davis, whose work eliminated confusion created by the previous conflicting divisions. Therefore, further studies are required to determine the exact distribution of this species. In this paper, we officially report the presence of G. gracilis in Serbia, with a description of its habitat and estimation of the threatened status. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]