OBJECTIVE To explore female and transvestite sex workers' perceptions of risk in the sex work environment in Serbia. DESIGN Qualitative interview study. SETTING Street based locations for sex work in Belgrade and Pancevo, Serbia. PARTICIPANTS 31 female and transvestite sex workers. RESULTS Violence, including police violence, was reported as a primary concern in relation to risk. Violen...

Avian paramyxoviruses type 1 or Newcastle disease viruses (NDV) are frequently recovered from wild birds and such isolates are most frequently of low virulence. Velogenic NDV are usually recovered from poultry and only occasionally from wild birds. Five NDV isolates were obtained from carcasses of four wild bird species during 2007 in Serbia: Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), Eurasian Sparrowhawk (...

According to demographic trends, the ratio of senior citizens in the overall population of the Republic of Serbia is rising. This generates the need to create socially acceptable and economically sustainable models for the protection of the elderly. The goal of this paper is to stress the necessity of analyzing and evaluating the efficiency of social protection services aimed at senior citizens...

BACKGROUND Food safety issues are not a new issue in science, but due to the dynamic changes in the modern world it is as equally important as decades ago. The aim of the study was to address the efforts in the development of a comprehensive food safety system in Serbia, and make specific recommendations regarding the improvement of epidemiological investigation capacity as a useful tool which ...

The fungus Cercospora beticola Sacc. is the one of the most important pathogens on the sugar beet. This plant pathogen causes cercospora leaf spot disease which is a serious economic problem for growers of this crop all over the world. Traditionally, the identification of C. beticola is based mainly on conidial characters and host association, but today molecular characterization is necessary f...

In this paper a new distributed asynchronous algorithm is proposed for time synchronization in networks with random communication delays, measurement noise and communication dropouts. Three different types of the drift correction algorithm are introduced, based on different kinds of local time increments. Under nonrestrictive conditions concerning network properties, it is proved that all the a...

Standard techniques for estimatingweb page relevance neglect the informationprovided by the visual layout of the page. Themost popular link-based technique, PageRank,uses a model of a random surfer to estimate theprobability that he visits a page at any giventime. This probability is assumed to beproportional to the relevance of the page.PageRank considers all ou...

History of Pharmacy Museum at the Faculty of Pharmacy University of Belgrade was founded in Belgrade in 1952, thanks to many pharmacists and historians, but especially to Mr Andrija Mirković (Mpharm). His precious private collection of antiquities, which he donated to the Faculty of Pharmacy in Belgrade, subsequently a basic one for the Museum foundation, included apothecary vessels, apparatuse...

AIM To analyze the trends of pancreatic cancer mortality in Serbia. METHODS The study covered the population of Serbia in the period 1991 to 2010. Mortality trends were assessed by the joinpoint regression analysis by age and sex. RESULTS Age-standardized mortality rates ranged from 5.93 to 8.57 per 100 000 in men and from 3.51 to 5.79 per 100 000 in women. Pancreatic cancer mortality in al...