Evaluation of efficiency of repulsion in speed-and-strength types of athletics

Efficiency of repulsion in speed-and-strength types of athletics is an integral measure of skill, since the performance of repulsive movements involves interaction of almost all organs and body systems. Dynamic repulsion lays the foundation for high sports results and the conditions of effective interaction of internal and external forces. With the special test exercises, one can determine the level of functioning of individual systems, on which the result of an exercise depends, which during training sessions provides focused opportunity to influence the stimulation of individual systems, increasing their level of activity. The article presents an electromyographic evaluation of the effectiveness of repulsion during the high jump at a run. The implementation of this method will make it possible to objectively evaluate the level of technical skills of athletes and purposefully influence the improvement of basic biomechanical characteristics of sports exercises

Analysis of possibilities for improving entrepreneurial behaviour of young people: Research results in Central Banat district

Unemployment, especially among young population, represents one of key economic problems. All important institutions have to be included in overcoming these problems, with the aim of stimulating young people to be involved in entrepreneurial processes. In this paper, global and European trends and trends in the Western Balkans are shown, related to unemployment of young population (aged 15-24). The central part is dedicated to the analysis of possibilities for improving entrepreneurial behaviour of young people in the Central Banat District, on the basis of trends, statistical indicators and the results of conducted research on attitudes of young people towards entrepreneurship and starting their own business. The research sample conducted in 2016 consisted of 350 respondents. The young are often unmotivated to get involved in entrepreneurial processes - they wish to start their own business, but most frequently claim to be distracted by: lack of funds, lack of experience in running a company, lack of knowledge, as well as lack of the right idea. Factors, which distract respondents from starting their own business, represent the result of non- existing adequate environment for supporting young entrepreneurship

History of Yugoslavia

Why did Yugoslavia fall apart? Was its violent demise inevitable? Did its population simply fall victim to the lure of nationalism? How did this multinational state survive for so long, and where do we situate the short life of Yugoslavia in the long history of Europe in the twentieth century? The Complete History of Yugoslavia by Marie-Janine Calic provides a concise, accessible, comprehensive synthesis of the political, cultural, social, and economic life of Yugoslavia—from its nineteenth-century South Slavic origins to the bloody demise of the multinational state of Yugoslavia in the 1990s

Double Standards of Ethnic Identification: Collective Guilt and Moral Disengagement in Coping with Group Historical Transgression

In two post-conflict societies (Serbia and Cyprus) we investigated how different modes of ethnic identification affect peoples' coping with in-group historical transgression. We placed the events in foundational periods for Serbian (Experiment 1) and Greek Cypriot (Experiment 2) ethnic identity—that is, historical representations of the Battle of Kosovo (1389) and the Liberation Struggle (1955–1959), respectively. In both experiments, we used between-subjects design to manipulate group membership (in-group or out-group) in fictitious but historically plausible accounts of transgressions. In Experiment 1 (N = 225), participants who perceived the ethnic group as superior expected more collective guilt from out-group members in the case of out-group atrocity, but, in contrast, they used more moral disengagement regarding the identical in-group harmdoing. In Experiment 2 (N = 136), we introduced in-group attachment as a distinct and more benevolent mode of ethnic identification. When controlling for attachment, participants who perceived their ethnic group as superior reported less collective guilt and more moral disengagement in the case of in-group transgression. When controlling for superiority, participants who perceived the in-group as central for their self-concept („critically attached“) also reported more moral disengagement in the case of in-group transgression; whereas they expected more collective guilt from out-group members in the case of out-group atrocity. Our results suggest that high-identifying individuals, even those that ought to be the group's critical voice, apply double standards when interpreting in-group and out-group atrocity from the historical period foundational for their ethnic identity. We discuss the implications of avoiding collective guilt and using moral disengagement in response to past injustices for future intergroup relations and individuals living within post-conflict societies

Cartography in Croatia 2007–2011 National Report to the ICA 15th General Assembly, Paris, 2011

<p>Croatia has been a member of the International Cartographic Association – ICA since 1995 and one of its obligations has been to submit national reports about its cartographic activities at general assemblies held everyfour years. The bearer of those activities in Croatia is the Croatian Cartographic Society. The State Geodetic Administration recognized the value and importance of those activities and has been financially supporting the work on national report for several years.</p

Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe: Challenges and Opportunities

More than two decades have passed since nonprofit and third-sector researchers "discovered" Central and Eastern Europe as an area of scholarly interest. After the collapse of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the fall of the Iron Curtain, scholars noted the emergence of new civil society actors and were curious to understand the role these actors would play in their societies. Since that time, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has experienced intensive periods of transformation, conflict and renewal. This study is guided by the intention to develop a better understanding of the current state of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe, the diverse pathways of its development, and its possible future trajectories

The Law, Politics and Practice of ‘Never Again’: Guarantees of Non-Recurrence in Transitional Justice

Ensuring non-recurrence of mass human rights violations has been a central goal of transitional justice (TJ) since its foundations. Recent developments in international TJ policy have transformed the goal that violations should happen ‘Never Again’ into guarantees of non-recurrence (GNRs), a norm of legal origin. In TJ scholarship, GNRs have since emerged as both a pillar of TJ, comprised of distinct practices of predominantly institutional reform, and an overall objective that frames the pillars of TJ. As a result, GNRs remain ambiguous, normatively flexible, and generally unexplored in the burgeoning TJ scholarship. This thesis sets out to provide conceptual clarity to the content, characteristics and position of GNRs in transitional justice by empirically investigating conceptualisations and practices of GNRs in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Underpinned by structuration theory, the thesis treats TJ as a primarily ideational structure, a global, discursive force that carries a set of well-established tenets prescribing how past violence and injustice should be dealt with and how non-recurrence should be achieved. The thesis examines two core questions. Firstly, how GNRs are understood and practiced by transitional justice actors in BiH and, secondly, how transitional justice as a structure influences these domestic conceptualisations and practices. The overarching claim of the thesis is that GNRs should be understood as a complex cycle, a non-hierarchical web of connected and sequenced processes in continuous practitioners’ engagement with the ideas found within the structure of TJ as well as the effects of past implementations of these ideas. Three principal arguments support this claim. First, practitioners in BiH re-contextualise the content of the norm of non-recurrence and are only seldomly influenced by existing international legal and policy frameworks in how they conceptualise GNRs. Second, transitional justice maintains persuasive power to shape many ideas considered as GNRs by the practitioners and how they are put to practice. Third, the tension between TJ’s malleability and adherence to legalism creates practical obstacles for the practices of the contextualised GNRs due to which they remain largely under-realised in BiH