Milica Bakić-Hayden, U očima posmatrača, Varijacije na temu "Balkan", IFDT/IP "Filip Višnjić", 2006

Filip Chybalski

The last ten years of the 20 century was the decade of pension reforms in Central and Eastern European countries. A three-pillar pension system has been adopted in most of that countries, including Poland, where the second pillar is created by open pension funds (OFEs), managed by pension fund companies (PTEs). The aim of this article is to identify and analyze barriers to the increased effecti...

Hana Filip and Greg

There are various opinions about how the phenomenon of sentential genericity (Carlson and Pelletier, 1995) is related to other classes of expressions of natural language. The notion of 'genericity' is most commonly viewed as having close ties to tense, mood and aspect (cf. Dahl, 1985; Comrie, 1985). For instance, philosophers and occasionally linguists (e.g. Dahl, 1975, 1985, and 1995) make use...

Une rencontre mathématique By Hayden

Suppose that you are given some number of objects that have a set order but have been randomly shuffled. Without any prior information, you are given the task of putting the objects back into their correct order. How many ways could you arrange the objects? How well do you expect to do? Would this change if there were more objects? Recently I was faced with these very questions and, in the proc...

Role of environmental toxins in endemic (Balkan) nephropathy. October 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.

An international symposium, held in Zagreb, Croatia, in October 2006, brought together basic scientists and clinical investigators engaged in research on endemic (Balkan) nephropathy, a chronic renal tubulointerstitial disease of previously unknown cause that often is accompanied by upper urinary tract urothelial cancer. Although this disease is endemic in rural areas of Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croat...

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