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Our aim was to assess the level and socio-demographic correlates of the ability to maintain health among children in Albania, a post-communist country in the Western Balkans.

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The territory of Albania includes a wide range of habitats and biodiversity. In the 3rd published volume of “Flora of Albania” Lamiaceae family is recognized as Labiatae family and includes 32 genera. The aim of this study is to bring an update of data on one of the large families of “Flora of Albania”, Lamiaceae family. First, this study refers to “Flora of Albania” volumes, as the only complete publication for the Albanian flora. Most of the data for the critical revision has been extracted from literature, such as the four volumes of “Flora of Albania”, the five volumes of the “Flora Europaea”, the MedChecklist and the Euro+Med Plantbase. Two genera: Acinos Miller and Calamintha Miller did not exist so far, and now this two genera are part of Clinopodium L. genus. From 276 taxa of this family only 143 remain unchanged like in the 3rd edition of “Flora of Albania”, whereas 133 taxa are new for Albania (with changed species/subspecies names or not even found in any of “Flora of Albania” published volumes). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Vjosa, a relatively well-known river of South East Europe, has been a subject of numerous attempts of infrastructural interventions such as the construction of hydropower plants for more than a decade. This “pearl” of the Blue Heart of Europe, as the river is often called by various activists, scientists and media, is now also referred to as a “dynamic equilibrium” and “geological continuum”. The article explores the dynamic and uneven character of the Vjosa, which is embodied in the lives of its people as much as their lives are spatialized in its riverine environments. While activists, scientists, and the media praise the Vjosa’s continuous dynamism, local people have an ambivalent relationship to it. On the one hand, they fear the Vjosa’s “wild” character, as it floods their fields and “eats up” their soil, whereas, on the other, they appreciate its vitality because it provides their fields with water and minerals. By delving into this ambiguous nature of the Vjosa, this article seeks to rethink the meaning of dynamics, continuity, stability, fixity, and rupture at the brink of the modern quest for control over changing environments. By intersecting different scales—social, geographical, hydrological, historical, political, and economic—it explores the mutuality of entanglements, disentanglements, and transformations that configure the Vjosa’s riverine environments. We argue that the dynamic, wild, and ambiguous nature of the Vjosa is part of the structural continuity or so-called “landscape structure” that seeks to resist the contemporary quest for fixity, stability, and control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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„Saggio delli Commerciali Rapporti di Veneziani colle Ottomane Scale di Durazzo ed Albania" by Giovanni Antonio Maria Morana, printed in Venice in 1816, is used in this study as a first class source in attempt to track significant changes in local businesses of the the so-called Turkish Albania, within the general framework of Venetian economy, in the circumstances that followed the abolition of the Republic in 1797. Document offers concrete answers to the question, whether this area, with Durrës as an export port, could be a compatible partner to the Venetian economy. At the time this treatise was published, the region came under the rule of Austria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper presents an updated checklist of marine fishes of Albania and the first one published in the English language. The checklist contains 262 species compiled from published literature and personal surveys. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The political changes after the 1990s were accompanied by major economic changes, transforming a centralized economy to decentralized. During the past two decades, the public sector in Albania has been through a dramatic change, mostly from a structural perspective. The purpose of this paper is to identify and evaluate the most significant indicators of public sector performance in the case of Albania. Thus, indicators such as utility services, legal and institutional framework, modernization of public administration, and economic issues are examined considering the public perception and furthermore, their expectations. The survey took place in Albania, wherein 200 questionnaires were delivered and fulfilled. Evaluation of variables in this study are rated using a 5-point Likert-type scale, with 1 being strongly disagree to 5 being strongly agree. Each variable is measured through items, which are estimated through Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) as the most used technique in social sciences studies; Principal Component Analysis (PCA) method is implemented. Results indicate that all the 12 observed variables, are positively evaluated by the interviewed citizens. Two most positively evaluated indicators are the judicial system, and being employed in the public sector; while two less evaluated indicators are those of e-services and telecommunication. Referring to the citizens’ expectations, this paper will contribute to enhance the performance of the activities of public organizations and government institutions. In addition, the results of this study, aim to help policy-making structures improve the performance of public administration in providing public services to citizens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this expert paper is to show development in the area of cartography in chronological order from the time when Albania first appeared on maps by well-known Venetian cartographers (with toponyms in Albanian). An overview of various topographic maps and maritime charts is presented, along with the relevant local and international institutions whose main activities were cartography and geoinformation during different periods. An expert opinion is expressed on the current state of cartographic and geoinformation data as a scientific discipline, with a special emphasis on alignment with international standards. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The clinical profile of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients reflects the burden of risk factors in the general population. Differences between incident (first) and recurrent (repeated) events and their impact on treatment are poorly described. We studied potential differences in the clinical profile and in-hospital treatment between patients hospitalised with an incident and recurrent AMI.

The paper aims to describe the progress that has been made in the implementation of the Albanian food and nutrition policy since 2003, so as to consider its impacts to date, and to identify strategic priorities/critical areas and priorities for Albania’s future policy on improving the national food and nutrition situation.

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Colorectal polyps (CP) are common among individuals older than 50 years. Some polyp types can precede colorectal cancer (CRC). This study aimed at describing histopathological characteristics of colorectal polyps in relation to age and gender among symptomatic patients referred for a colonoscopy examination during 2011-2014 in Tirana, Albania.

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The intervention of the Great Britain in the First World War represented a turning point for liberal Italy and for the Adriatic region as whole. That made the Italian participation to the Triple unsustainable and marked the beginning of the long path that would have led Italy to betray that Alliance, in return of the issue of the acknowledgement of the Italian hegemony in Adriatic by the Entente. Indeed, the war arose once again the problems the Ottoman Empire's retreat from the Balkans had already set, a longstanding question to whom the Powers, first of all the Great Britain, had tried unsuccessful to settle in a stable and peaceful way in the framework of the concert of nations before the outbreak of the Great War. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper discusses the tradition of vendetta and the peace-making process that were a part of a customary legal tradition of rural kinship communities in Montenegro and Albania. The custom was preserved throughout the centuries as both Venetian and Ottoman administration acknowledged the existing legal customs. However, in some cases the customary peace-making custom proved itself to be more efficient than the diplomatic intervention in the dispute resolution. The Venetian authorities on several occasions ordered the rural kinship communities in the coastal area to make customary peace with their neighbours in hope of preventing vendetta and feuds from developing immense proportions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Blood revenge is a system of social control that regulates violence and leads towards reestablishment of social equilibrium through dispute resolution. The custom of blood revenge and peace-making within patriarchal egalitarian communities of Montenegro, Northern Albania as well as some other neighbouring areas was preserved in praxis at least until the end of the 19th century, the oral tradition regarding the customs, however, even longer. The tribal leaders who were the mediators and the arbiters in dispute resolution held the key role in dispute resolution in patriarchal egalitarian communities. With mediation of the leaders of the tribal communities the truce (besa) between the feuding parties was reached, that enabled the parties to enter the arbitration, where the assembly of arbiters deliberated on the sum of the composition and the number of the new family bonds between the parties; marriages and / or godfatherhoods and brotherhoods. The concluding symbolic gesture of peace is the kiss of peace between the parties. The peace-making consists of three phases and all phases include symbolic words, gestures and objects that indicate similar ritual structure as it was present in public contractual agreements in the Medieval Europe. The similarities indicate common origins of some European legal traditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The vegetation of Buna River Protected Landscape is described. The area comprises both the alluvial plain of the lower course of the Buna river that marks the boundary between Montenegro and Albania, and a carbonatic range. The vegetation is characterized by a high β-diversity (27 alliances and 46 associations), especially in wetlands and dry grasslands. In the area it is possible to distinguish 1 dunal and 4 hygro-sequences in the alluvial plain and 3 xeroseries in the carbonatic range. Associations Clematido viticellae-Punicetum granati and Periploco graecae-Alnetum glutinosae are described as new. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The presented work is based mainly on the still scarcely and insufficiently explored documents stored in Belgrade archives (Arhiv Jugoslavije, Arhiv Srbije). It aims to address the impact of the political and social changes that took place after the removal of A. Ranković from office in the summer months of 1966 on Yugoslav-Albanian relations. It was at this time that the power of functionaries of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia who were of Albanian origin increased. Among other things, they began to demand a quick and fundamental improvement in the relations between the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Albania. In so doing, they sought to meet the aspirations of the Albanian ethnic group in Yugoslavia. Besides, they believed that better contacts with Albania would moderate the ongoing wave of Albanian nationalism in Kosovo. On its own initiative also, the Yugoslav government tried to improve relations with the Albanian People's Democracy during the period under scrutiny. The main intention, however, was not to establish an alliance between the two countries, but to end long-term tension. Yet, the objectives of the officials of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia who were of Albanian origin went much further. They tried to achieve the widest possible cooperation with the Tirana regime at almost any price. They even did their utmost to persuade the Belgrade authorities to accept partial responsibility for the bad relations with Enver Hoxha's regime. Nevertheless, neither of these attempts ended successfully. The Enver Hoxha regime was not, in fact, interested in deeper cooperation with Yugoslavia. Furthermore, the Belgrade government agreed with only some of the amiable steps, and relatively minor ones at that, towards Albania. Indeed, it was only after the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact forces and after the establishment of cooperation between Yugoslavia and China in early 1969 that contacts between Belgrade and Tirana began to improve, albeit only temporarily. Nor did they ever reach the level the Pristina officials had desired. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Immediately after WWII Yugoslavia established close relations with the USSR and other Eastern European countries under its domination. After Tito's conflict with Stalin in 1948 these relations were disturbed and Yugoslavia became subject to military, economic and traffic blockade from these countries, particularly the neighboring ones. After Stalin's death the process of normalization started. Until 1955 it was rather formal in nature and Yugoslavia watched closely her neighbors, reassessing her own, but also their steps on that way. Only after the Belgrade Declaration significant improvements were achieved, whereas the 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party and adoption of the Moscow Declaration in 1956 decisively influenced the reestablishment of relations between the ruling communist parties (with the exception of the Albanian one). Until then, this was fi rmly refused by Yugoslavia. However, the crisis that broke out in Hungary in fall 1956 and Yugoslavia's views on it soon led to new cooling down of relations. The peak of this estrangement was the boycott of the 7th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia in Ljubljana in 1958 by all East European countries, and the beginning of the new anti-Yugoslav ideological campaign that ensued. The new split with the neighbors, coupled with Yugoslav foreign political concept of equidistance toward both blocks, led later on to significant decrease in Yugoslav interest in more meaningful cooperation with the neighboring East European countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]