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Following the detention and release of one of Croatia’s most prominent politicians and an equally notable businessman, questions arise about the extent of corruption.
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The murder of a wheeler-dealer journalist could be a turning point in the fortunes of Montenegro's effective, but tarnished leader Milo Djukanovic.
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Paddy Ashdown has given the authorities in Republika Srpska two weeks to get serious about arresting indicted war crimes suspects.
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The public life of people in most cases are among forgotten parts of the Persian literature; in other words, most of the poets because of their too much attention to the kings and their actions and behaviors, followed by their disconnection with the inferior class of the society, have rarely composed poems on the public life of the people. The constitutional revolution to a great extent shifted this balance in favor of the public. In this paper, the anthology of the Kurdish blind poet “Shami” - which deals with the poor class of the society and the issues relating to it from a linguistic and thematic perspective - has been investigated and on the basis of the issues that embody most in the anthology, the poems relating to the public life have been categorized into four groups: 1. Life appliances and equipment, 2.Number of people, 3. Speech and 4. Customs and etiquette. This investigation showed that Shami is a poet that understands the pains and woes of the people and tries through an eloquent language to express pains and sufferings of his own class in a poetic form, offering it to the public. Hence, he can be called a social poet as such.
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The aim of the present research was to investigate the relationship between the five personality factors among the feeling of happiness among students. The present research statistics included all the B.A. students of Payame Noor of Bijar in the year 2012-2013. The sample size of 100 students (boys and girls) was selected using the simple random sampling method. To collect data, 60 item Neo Five Factor Personality Test questionnaire and the 29 item Oxford Happiness questionnaire were used. In order to analyze the data, the Pearson correlation coefficient was also used. The findings indicated that there is a significant and positive relationship between happiness and extraversion, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness while there is a negative and significant relationship between happiness and neuroticism.
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When discussing the current state of art with regard to the use of new technologies in foreign and second language learning one thing is blinking sharply: Simulation Games. Simulator games have prepared a great pedagogical context for young sailors and mariners. The importance of creating pedegugical context for sailors and mariners to learn English as a second or foreign language is the essence of this study. Simulation games show potential not just for engaging and entertaining users, but also in promoting language learning. In this research we survey the effect of simulation Games on sailor and mariners’ English vocabulary and pronunciation learning of Khoramshahr Navy University. The results clearly showed that these kinds of games have a significant impact of learners, especially when they learn English as ESP like the sailors and mariners.
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This paper investigates the causal relationship between gross domestic investment (INV) and GDP for Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region countries by using panel unit root tests and panel cointegration analysis for the period 1970-2010. The results show a strong causality from economic growth to investment in these countries. Yet, investment does not have any significant effects on GDP in short- and long-run. It means that it is the GDP that drives investment in mentioned countries, not vice versa. So the findings of this paper support the point of view that it is higher economic growth that leads to higher investment. According to the results, decision makings should be employed to achieve sustainable growth through higher productivity and substantially enlarging the economic base diversification in the future.
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Disorders of consciousness belong to the most severe impairments, especially in patients with neurological deficits. Scientists look for novel solution making the breakthrough in contemporary approaches to aforementioned patients. Article aims at assessment of medical, social, economical and ethical result of introduction brain-computer interfaces to the diagnosis and therapy in patients with disorders of consciousness.
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This study looked at the effect of transformational leadership Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) of followers. Using the experimental design, transformational leadership was manipulated and OCB of followers was measured. The sample consisted of 86 managers of public organization in Iran (Kurdistan province). Five dimensions of OCB-altruism, conscientiousness, sportsmanship, courtesy, and civic virtue of participants were peer evaluated through a questionnaire. Results indicate that transformational leadership enhances altruism and conscientiousness and reduces civic virtue. Moderate support was found for negative impact on sportsmanship but no support was found for impact on courtesy.
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The evidence of appearance of post-transitional crises previously predicted by methods institutional economy is given on the base of data obtained by interview method. It is shown that decreasing of quality of engineering education in Kazakhstan may be considered namely as post-transition phenomenon, which is determined mostly by the inertia of mass consciousness that was formed during the period of transition from the plan economics to the market one rather than financial factors. Some possibilities of overcoming of observed negative trends are discussed.
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Giving Corrective Feedback in students’ writings has got the center of attention in the recent years. The question of whether to give CF to students or not to do so has become a controversial quest. In this research three Truscott’s claims on giving CF were investigated to EFL students’ writing. For the purpose of this investigation Direct Feedback has been used to draw the conclusion on Truscott’s claims. These claims are: (a) correction may have value for non-grammatical errors but not for errors in grammar; (b) students are inclined to avoid more complex constructions due to error correction; and (c) the time spent on CF may be more wisely spent on additional writing practice to improve writing ability. The obtained results indicated that giving CF to students’ grammatical errors has a significant result on their accuracy improvement. The research also showed that students don’t tend to avoid Complex Structures due to the CF provided on these structures. And finally it indicated that in a class without any provided CF and just with doing exercises on a specific subject the accuracy of students decrease during a writing program.
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The article concentrates on the ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment architecture and their reception at the Russian Tsar's court during the second half of the 18th century. It also tries to trace the ideas of the Scottish Englihtenment architecture in the Baltic German cultural area.
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This text presents an analysis of the Sociology Study's development at the Faculty of Political Sciences from 1964 - the year of its founding to the present moment. The elaboration of research task guided like this one even includes an indication of the sociological thought‟s genesis in our region in the second half of the twentieth century which, to a large extent, conditions the constitution, and then teaching and scientific and professional profiling studies of sociology. We have followed the concept of studying sociology‟s evolution across the curriculum, and scientific research projects of this, to 1990s, the only pure sociology program in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is evidence of this study‟s domicile quality at our University. Effects of educating sociologists have been analyzed through the presentation of statistical data on the number of enrolled students and graduates, as well as postgraduate and PhD students.
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Despite the lacking of empirical foundation, many health professionals around the world have accepted influence of religion on health, whilst religious affiliation of different social groups are getting increasingly taken into account when formulating health policy in developed democracies. The text is primarily targeted on importance of research in the field of religion, and the related lifestyle, with regard to its impact on the health status of the population, reflecting on its productivity at the end. Religion has become a factor to be taken into serious consideration when creating the health policy in EU, particularly in the field of patient‟s right, based on their religious affiliations. Focusing on effects of religion and religion related lifestyle on health, this article points out the need for affirmation of interdisciplinary approach to the phenomenon of health which will include variables of social sciences. Providing support to such research initiatives, exerts influence on improving, not only scientific research in this area, but also to the functioning of the health care system, which are reflected not only in a better health status of the population, but also on increased satisfaction of citizens with health care services .
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The scientific and expert community has been analyzing the current Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was agreed upon within the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina. All these papers share a common feature which is a taking of critical stance towards the contemporary constitutional order of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which has changed rather slightly in legally - formal terms. Up to present moment, only the Brčko District Amendment has been adopted. Prior to its adoption, a number of factual changes to the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina took place, which should be formally confirmed in future. The published critics of constitutional antinomies are standing for a solid basis regarding the direction that constitutional reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina should take. This paper has three parts. The first part is dedicated to the analysis of the B-H Constitution‟s shortcomings, published by Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Festić, Prof. Dr. Nedžad Duvnjak, Prof. Dr. Omer Ibrahimović and Prof. Dr. Ćazim Sadiković. The paper‟s second part is an analysis of the entire constitutional order‟s legal nature done by this paper‟s author. Only on the basis of the analyzing the legal nature of the entire B&H constitutional order, one can know what kind of de lege ferenda amendments to the B-H Constitution should be and what kind should be not adopted. The paper‟s third part presents the tangible proposals of these reforms for the discrimination abolishing regarding the election of political representatives of constituent peoples and national minorities in the House of Peoples of B&H, in the election of constituent peoples‟ political representatives in the B&H Presidency, and what kind of constitutional amendments should not be adopted for the election of national minorities and others‟ political representatives in the Presidency compliant with the Ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in the Sejdić and Finci vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina Case.
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Under the terms of Dayton Peace Agreement which was initialed in Dayton on 21 November 1995 and signed in Paris on 14 December of the same year, the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina has undergone a transformation in terms of its name and internal organization. Bosnia and Herzegovina continued its legal existence under that name, however its internal structure underwent modification. In this sense it has been stated that Bosnia and Herzegovina will be composed of two entities: the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serb Republic (Republika Srpska). Precisely, this change requires answering the question of its state structure: whether by the Dayton Constitution, Bosnia and Herzegovina has become a complex state (federation, confederation or union), or maintained capacity of a highly decentralized state. This issue is particularly important for the reason that some of the highest legal authorities from the smaller entity are trying to define Bosnia and Herzegovina as a union, even though some of the highest legal theorists in Bosnia and Herzegovina‟s larger entity, on the other hand, perceive it as the highly decentralized state. Starting from the criteria that differentiate unitary and complex state, which are subject of study of the Theory of state and law, this paper attempts to answer the question on the Dayton Constitution based Bosnia and Herzegovina‟s state structure.
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Na pragu druge decenije 21. stoljeća po Kristovu rođenju, po mnogo čemu bitnom za ono što je bilo i još bitnijem za ono što će biti, zateĉeni čovjek sa strepnjom i zaprepaštenjem gleda prema naprijed i unazad (ne)dovoljno svjestan da je u svim gadostima i prenapućenim deponijama nedovršenog duha bio glavni i, po svemu sudeći, jedini akter i kreator. Mjereći vrijeme po suncu, mjesecu, zvijezdama, pijeskom, oprugama, elektronski..., došao je u stanje obamrlosti ali i zgroţenosti nad vlastitom ostavštinom i zapamćenom prošlošću kao da su one sukrivci njegovog usuda i tragedije. Najradije bi uništio sve mjerne instrumente, osim onih kozmičkih koji su mu nedostupni, i započeo neko novo mjerenje nekog boljeg i sretnijeg vremena.
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Komemorativna sjednica u znak smrti 24. 10. 2012. prof. dr. Rasima Muminovića, profesora emeritusa Smail Čekić, Genocid i istina o genocidu u Bosni i Hercegovini, Univerzitet u Sarajevu i Institut za istraživanje zločina protiv čovječnosti i međunarodnog prava, Sarajevo, 2012 Omer Ibrahimagić, Bosanski identitet i suverenitet, Univerzitet u Sarajevu i Institut za istraživanje zločina protiv čovječnosti i međunarodnog prava, Sarajevo, 2012. Zlatko Dizdarević, Hiljadu i druga noć: balkanski ambasador na Istoku, Rabic, Sarajevo, 2012. Selmo Cikotić, Sigurnosne pretpostavke Bosne i Hercegovine, VKBI, 2010.
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The West is undergoing the process of discovering that meticulous artisan brush stroke of Mersad Berber - painter and graphic artist, with the possibility of endless pre-appearing or continuing. As if behind every cycle there is an “invisible time labyrinth” that invokes centuries and eras like , for example that one of the orphic mirror of the old Kastel in Banja Luka, Skender Vakuf, Bosanski Petrovac and so forth. We meddle with admiration in that silent life of faces which are enchanting, meek and melancholic, calmed and wonderful in their enigmatic element. It seems that the world of endless time arrays which are at some time simultaneous past, present and future, was disturbing the painter/thinker, that intricate play , hermeneutic shading. That is, as it has been always known, even that Borges‟ network of divergent, convergent and simultaneous times. The times that have not been meeting each other, or never known which are now in communicative union. It seems that for Mersad Berber painting was a life form, including the esthetic vindication of life in its complete dramaturgy. He was finding his joy in being the connoisseur of feminine characters, faces, ladies, in the game of light and dark - a deeper participating in the life, not just in history that never prostrates it. His paintings presented the Good in its purest form. The philosophy names it the cosmic union – everywhere with a bit of counterpoint. With his characters, colors and atmospherically Berber created the music or in a Berber‟s way. The joy in existence is getting multiplied and elevated. These were Berber‟s strengths as a creator. Even in his case, I dare say that art is the only form of proto-destiny in Malraux‟s sense - the only manner to differently compose changes in painting, rather than in music. From his paintings, almost in Platonesque sense, we conceive that element which precedes the existence, a melancholic color in his characters, a petrified fugue, music transformed in brush strokes, the music without the beginning or end. They are fascinating since they have that large controversy which is more a question‟s yawn than reply‟s tranquility. In days when multiple riddles of the world, Europe, Bosnia, Asia begin appearing on the horizon, we are becoming cognizant of Berber‟s full awareness of painting paradox: to resolve the irresolvable, to make the invisible visible, to condense the time on the canvass. It is not about the mobility in the circle of people engaged in politics or sociology, but in the zones of existentialism in its broadest conceiving. Camus expresses it as it follows: Expectancy that is asserted in front of us is delivering the words of hope. It is true that our generation has never demanded anything but a single thing: to rise to the level of despairing. However, it may have us prepared to talk about the noblest hope, the hope appearing victorious that we search for through the misery of the world.
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