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Journalist reports of the siege of Dubrovnik by the Yugoslav National Army (1991) were misleading and exaggerated the extent of damage to the old city in order to encourage international intervention to protect cultural property. This article examines the extent of this destruction and how it was reported by British correspondents in the field and editors at home. It uses a rhetorical frame of analysis to engage current theoretical debates about Western actors, their depiction of the Yugoslav war and the nationalities involved. Interview material, with correspondents and editors such as Alex Russell and Max Hastings, supplements documentary analysis of press sources positioned within the secondary literature. The enquiry also considers how these reports influence memory and later histories of Dubrovnik's fate in the Yugoslav wars, and public responses to humanitarian intervention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research of the Ancient Dubrovnik's literature had primarily began by its biographers; afterwards significant documents that had been found in the Dubrovnik's archive made possible to the researchers to give immense contributions in this field. The 21st century brought, in the area of the historiography especially, new approaches toward research of the renaissance and baroque literature of the Ancient Dubrovnik. New findings in Marin Držić's biography, as well as research of the social status in Dubrovnik, especially of its aristocracy have made possible to apply the new methods in studies of the works written during the time of the Renaissance, and above all the comedies. Additionally, the forming of the Dubrovnik's myth, which has been constructed for centuries by the writers of the Old Republic provides new and more intellectual view on their literary contribution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The only cable-stayed bridge in Croatia, the Dubrovnik bridge, was opened for traffic in 2002. The main cable-stayed bridge with composite superstructure is jointed in span to the prestressed concrete approach bridge by a hinge-type connection. The bridge has experienced vibrations of cable stays under certain wind conditions, as with many other cable-stayed bridges around the world. After a short review of results of wind tunnel tests and various numerical analyses, field observations of cable-stay vibrations are highlighted. Only after extremely violent movements of cable stays and the superstructure under a heavy, damp snowstorm occurred, resulting in substantial damage, was it decided to apply vibration mitigation measures. Adjustable cable dampers, based on the latest MagnetoRheological (MR) technology, were installed on the bridge to raise low structural damping of the most affected cable stays. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Editorial. Invites participants to the Philosphy of Science Annual Conferences held annually in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Author's experience of meetings during the war of the early 1990s; Quality of the meetings; Contact information.

Analyzes the dowry strategies of the noble merchant citizenry from medieval Ragusa in Dubrovnik, Croatia to promote economic growth. Result of a research by Raymond de Roover; Work of Armando Sapori.

Simple Summary: Heavy metals are considered one of the most critical pollutants that contaminate the environment through anthropogenic or natural activities. Animals are very good indicators of environmental pollution as they inhabit the same space as humans and are exposed to the same pollutants. The levels of selected heavy metals in hair samples of Holstein dairy cows are evaluated in this study. The gathered results would emphasize the usefulness of hair samples as possible bioindicators of heavy metal exposure that, in the long term, could be harmful to the final consumer. Moreover, this study gives an overview about the scenario of anthropogenic activity effects on heavy metal accumulation in dairy cows from Ragusa, a peculiar Sicilian province particularly dedicated to cow breeding for milk production. The objective of this preliminary study was to evaluate the levels of selected heavy metals in hair samples of Holstein dairy cows reared on agricultural soils characterized by grassland subjected to anthropogenic impacts. Ninety Holstein-Friesian cows were enrolled in the study and divided into six groups according to farm origin. From each animal, hair samples were collected in order to determine the content of aluminum, chromium, iron, copper, zinc, arsenic, cadmium, and lead. One-way analysis of variance was applied to assess statistically significant differences in the studied heavy metals among the six groups. A significant effect of groups (p < 0.05) on all tested heavy metals was observed. In this study, the low concentration of heavy metals in the hair of the studied animals led us to think that the cows were subjected to low levels of these compounds, preventing them from bioaccumulating. Although the current study provides only preliminary results, it highlights the importance of investigating the concentration of heavy metals in cow hair to improve the health and welfare of both humans and animals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the present study was to assess fungal and oomycete communities in the irrigation water of forest nurseries, focusing on plant pathogens in the hope of getting a better understanding of potential pathogenic microorganisms and spreading routes in forest nurseries. The study sites were at Anykščiai, Dubrava, Kretinga and Trakai state forest nurseries in Lithuania. For the collection of microbial samples, at each nursery five 100-L water samples were collected from the irrigation ponds and filtered. Following DNA isolation from the irrigation water filtrate samples, these were individually amplified using ITS rDNA as a marker and subjected to PacBio high-throughput sequencing. Clustering in the SCATA pipeline and the taxonomic classification of 24,006 high-quality reads showed the presence of 1286 non-singleton taxa. Among those, 895 were representing fungi and oomycetes. The detected fungi were 57.3% Ascomycota, 38.1% Basidiomycota, 3.1% Chytridiomycota, 0.8% Mucoromycota and 0.7% Oomycota. The most common fungi were Malassezia restricta E. Guého, J. Guillot & Midgley (20.1% of all high-quality fungal sequences), Pezizella discreta (P. Karst.) Dennis (10.8%) and Epicoccum nigrum Link (4.9%). The most common oomycetes were Phytopythium cf. citrinum (B. Paul) Abad, de Cock, Bala, Robideau, Lodhi & Lévesque (0.4%), Phytophthora gallica T. Jung & J. Nechwatal (0.05%) and Peronospora sp. 4248_322 (0.05%). The results demonstrated that the irrigation water used by forest nurseries was inhabited by a species-rich but largely site-specific communities of fungi. Plant pathogens were relatively rare, but, under suitable conditions, these can develop rapidly, spread efficiently through the irrigation system and be a threat to the production of high-quality tree seedlings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article highlights the First International Critical Tourism Studies Conference that was held on June 30 to July 3, 2005 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. These studies has been created to foreground the critical school in tourism studies with a focus on issues regarding interpretative modes of tourism. It has seven themes intended to convey the critical dimension of the event and to foreground innovative theoretical and methodological approaches. In this context, the author explained that this event has been generating essential discussion related to business tourism.

Recounts the experiences of the author in listening to young actors in Sarajevo and Dubrovnik talk about their dreams. Work with students at the Academy of Drama; Meaning of the dreams to the dreamers; Dreams of a people who have come face to face with themselves in extremity.

The article presents the author's views on the annual Philosophy & Social Science conferences, held at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, Czech Republic. She says that the event brings together diverse perspectives on critical theory. She started attending the event when it was a 'course' held at the Interuniversity Institute in Dubrovnik, former Yugoslavia. She talks about traveling to Dubrovnik and later to Prague, discovering a new city, and balancing her family and professional life.

On 23 July 2007 a very rare specimen of the live sharksucker Echeneis naucrates was caught in the Ombla River near Dubrovnik, in the south-eastern Adriatic. First data on biometric lengths and morphology of this species are presented for the eastern Adriatic. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on a conference attended by anthropologists and geographers in Dubrovnik, Croatia entitled `Landscape, Modernity and Exclusion.' Thematic focus on the role of landscape in the construction of European modernities; Relationship between the venue and theme of the conference.