War is the multifaceted threat to human existence. The war in the area of former Yugoslavia has a complex historical background. The war has disturbed the population by forced migrations and deprivation of basic existential needs. War stress has increased the mortality and the incidence of specific diseases. Changes in behavior, PTSD, and a higher incidence of suicide reflect the psychological ...

(2012) A cautionary note on switching mtDNA reference sequences in forensic genetics. Assessing a novel room temperature DNA storage medium for forensic biological samples. of novel 'mini-amplicon' STR multiplexes to high volume casework on degraded skeletal remains. rates of nuclear STR typing from different skeletal elements. A highly effective DNA extraction method for nuclear STR testing of...

BY W. T. MASON, S. R. RAWLINGS, P. COBBETT, S. K. SIKDAR, R. ZOREC , S. N. AKERMAN, C. D. BENHAM, M. J. BERRIDGE, T. CHEEK AND R. B. MORETON 1 Department of Neuroendocrinology, AFRC Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research, Babraham, Cambridge CB2 4AT, UK, Department of Pharmacology, Smith Kline & French Research Ltd, The Frythe, Welwyn, Hertfordshire AL6 9AR, UK, ^AFRC Unit of Inse...

This is a review on fish genetics research in Croatia and former Yugoslavia, based on the analyses of all the articles published in four main journals (Ribarstvo Jugoslavije, Morsko ribarstvo, Ichthyologia and Acta Adriatica) since 1945 till disintegration of Yugoslavia in 1991. Most of the papers cover the fields on cytogenetics and hybridization (24 and 13 respectively). Eight papers were on ...

Housing shortages in Yugoslav cities were a perennial concern for authorities and citizens alike. They disproportionately affected Yugoslav workers who as a consequence were the demographic most likely to independently construct a family home. This article explores how informal builders justified home construction in moral terms, legitimizing it on the basis of physical labour that was invested...

In November 1994 the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), indicted its first accused, Dragan Nikolić. It was not until over five years later, however, in April 2000, that he was finally arrested and transferred to TheHague. The circumstances of his arrest – which reportedly featured his being violently abducted from his home in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FR...

BACKGROUND The war in former Yugoslavia, which commenced in 1990, caused the biggest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. There are numerous research investigations into the trauma and associated problems. However, there is no available publication concerning refugees' own perception of the provided support in host countries. AIMS To investigate how refugees evaluated support received...

This article discusses sanctions for and the prevention of mass violence. But rather than take a classic approach centred on statutory players such as soldiers, officers or political leaders, all of them acting within a legal chain of command, I focus on nonstate perpetrators. My reflections are based on case studies of four former Serbian militiamen who took part in mass violence in the former...

BACKGROUND Somatisation is particularly challenging in multicultural contexts where patients and physicians often differ in terms of their illness-related beliefs and practices and health care expectations. This paper reports on a exploratory study aimed at better understanding how asylum seeker and refugee patients from the former country of Yugoslavia who were identified by their physicians a...

During the civil war in ex-Yugoslavia, a large number of patients was treated at our clinic for injuries to the lower third of the face.Approximately, one third of them required reconstruction of large and small bone and soft tissue defects of the mandibula. The incidence of war injuries of the maxillofacial structures from 8% to 17%, according to the literature (1). In the ex-Yugoslavia civil ...