Saint Sava Nemanjić as a Messenger and Founder of the Eastern Church Tradition in the Serbian Church

Ο άγιος Σάββας Nemanjić ως θεμελιωτής της ανατολικής εκκλησιαστικής παράδοσης στην Σερβική Εκκλησία  Δεν υπάρχει αμφιβολία πως η ηγετική φυσιογνωμία του Αγίου Σάββα Nemanjić αποτελεί την κορωνίδα της εκκλησιαστικής ζωής του σερβικού γένους. Υποδειγματικός μοναχός του Αγίου Όρους έδειξε από τα πρώτα βήματα της μοναστικής του πολιτείας ότι ήταν σαφής ο προσανατολισμός του στην ανατολική εκκλησιαστική παράδοση. Απόδειξη της βαθιάς αυτής σχέσης αποτελεί η ίδρυση της Μονής Χιλανδαρίου ως μίας μονής που λειτούργησε ως πρότυπο της Σερβικής Εκκλησίας. Βασικό στοιχείο της απόφασης αυτής αποτέλεσε χωρίς αμφιβολία η αναγνώριση της βαθιάς πνευματικότητας του Αγίου Σάββα ως γνήσιου εκφραστή της ανατολικής παράδοσης στο δόγμα, στη λατρεία, στη διοίκηση, στην τέχνη και στη ζωή της Εκκλησίας. Οι λατρευτικές εμπειρίες του μοναχού Σάββα από τη μονή του Χιλανδαρίου και από την αγιορειτική παράδοση εν γένει, τον οδήγησαν στην διαμόρφωση και υιοθέτηση του ανατολικού λατρευτικού τυπικού. Στην σύνταξη του Τυπικού αυτού επηρεάστηκε από εκκλησιαστικούς άνδρες της Θεσσαλονίκης, της Κωνσταντινούπολης και των Ιεροσολύμων. Η μετάφραση του Νομοκάνονα του Φωτίου (Krmčija) αποτελεί μία χαρακτηριστική έκφραση επιλογής του Σάββα για την υπό σύσταση εκκλησία του. Το πνευματικό απόσταγμα αυτής της θεολογικής πράξης που εφάρμοσε αποτυπώνεται σήμερα ως παρακαταθήκη στον λεγόμενο Αγιοσαββισμό (Svetosavlje). Για τον λόγο αυτό ήδη από τους μεσαιωνικούς χρόνους αναγνωρίσθηκε ως prosvetitelj-φωτιστής και καταξιώθηκε ως αυθεντικά βυζαντινός και αγιορείτης άξιος συνεχιστής της παράδοσης των ισαποστόλων Κυρίλλου και Μεθοδίου και των διαδόχων τους

Islam as a Way of Defining the National Identity of Bosnian Muslims

Political changes in Yugoslavia in the 1990s triggered a series of changes in the ethno-religious field. The ethnological problems faced by the residents of Bosnia formed part of more general ethnological reshuffling in former Yugoslavia, promoting idealized nations, non-existent ethnic ideologies and fabricated state designs. However, these nations already constitute part of the reshuffling of the reform of New Europe. A major part was played in the formulation of the ethnic identity of Bosnian Muslims by the Islamic Community, under unique conditions and in cooperation with the Communist Yugoslavia of Josip Broz Tito from 1945 to 1990. The description and analysis of these conditions are described in this article

Νεολογισμοί και καινοφάνειες περί Μακεδόνων και Μακεδονίας στις παρυφές του «Μακεδονικού Εκκλησιαστικού Ζητήματος»

Dr. Athanasios AthanasiadisAcademic Teaching Staff, School of TheologyAristotle University of ThessalonikiNeologisms and Innovations about Macedonians and Macedonia at the edge of the “Macedonian Religious Affair”The issue of the identity of the Macedonian place stimulated intense conversation during the last decades in the public and academic field. In the present article we express our concern about the religious aspect of that issue, as well as the part that the local Orthodox dissenter Church played to the development of the dominant “Macedonian” ideology. The corruption of the historical truth of the New Testament years and of the Pauline Epistles is an indicative example of the adoption of the fixated ideologies on behalf of the so-called “Macedonian Church” as refers to the genealogy of the Macedonian residents and Macedonian people. The present article aims to clarify the dependent relation of the political and the local Church of North Macedonia and to testify the historical evidence that formed the Macedonian identity through the Ages. Key words: Macedonia, Macedonians, Macedonian Church, Pr. Ratomir Grozdanoski, Apostle Paul, Macedonian Ideology.Λέξεις κλειδιά: Μακεδονία, Μακεδόνες, Μακεδονική Εκκλησία, Απόστολος Παύλος, Μακεδονική Ιδεολογί

On the occurrence of Mesophyllum expansum (Philippi) Cabioch et Mendoza (Melobesioideae, Corallinales, Rhodophyta) in the Mediterranean, the Canary Isles and the Azores.

Copyright © 2010 by Walter de Gruyter.We reviewed literature records, examined herbarium specimens and studied new collections referred to as Mesophyllum lichenoides from the Mediterranean and the North Atlantic, and report for the first time the presence of Mesophyllum expansum in the Canaries and the Azores. Both gametophytes and tetrasporophytes of M. expansum occur in the Canaries, while we found only tetrasporophytes (and sterile thalli) of the species in all other regions. We further consider the presence of M. lichenoides further south than Atlantic France in need of confirmation. A comparative study between these two species points to the number of rosette cells as the most reliable and easily diagnosed character, M. expansum most often having 911 and M. lichenoides 68 cells

Σέκτες στα Βαλκάνια. Προβολές της «Βοσνιακής εκκλησίας» και του βογομιλισμού στο βοσνιακό Ισλάμ από το μεσαίωνα μέχρι σήμερα

Sects in the Balkans. Views of the "Bosnian church" and Bogomilism in the Bosnian Islam from the Middle Ages until Today.Sects in the Balkans. Views of the "Bosnian church" and Bogomilism in the Bosnian Islam from the Middle Ages until Today

Dynamic viscosity mapping of the oxidation of squalene aerosol particles.

Organic aerosols (OAs) play important roles in multiple atmospheric processes, including climate change, and can impact human health. The physico-chemical properties of OAs are important for all these processes and can evolve through reactions with various atmospheric components, including oxidants. The dynamic nature of these reactions makes it challenging to obtain a true representation of their composition and surface chemistry. Here we investigate the microscopic viscosity of the model OA composed of squalene, undergoing chemical aging. We employ Fluorescent Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM) in conjunction with viscosity sensitive probes termed molecular rotors, in order to image the changes in microviscosity in real time during oxidation with ozone and hydroxyl radicals, which are two key oxidising species in the troposphere. We also recorded the Raman spectra of the levitated particles to follow the reactivity during particle ozonolysis. The levitation of droplets was achieved via optical trapping that enabled simultaneous levitation and measurement via FLIM or Raman spectroscopy and allowed the true aerosol phase to be probed. Our data revealed a very significant increase in viscosity of the levitated squalene droplets upon ozonolysis, following their transformation from the liquid to solid phase that was not observable when the oxidation was carried out on coverslip mounted droplets. FLIM imaging with sub-micron spatial resolution also revealed spatial heterogeneity in the viscosity distribution of oxidised droplets. Overall, a combination of molecular rotors, FLIM and optical trapping is able to provide powerful insights into OA chemistry and the microscopic structure that enables the dynamic monitoring of microscopic viscosity in aerosol particles in their true phase.MKK is thankful to the EPSRC for the Career Acceleration Fellowship (EP/I003983/1). CF thanks NERC for a personal studentship NE/J500070/1. CF and MK were supported by ERC grant 279405. We are thankful to the CLF RAL for a programmed access grant LSF1207 (FLIMOLA)

Impact of opioid-free analgesia on pain severity and patient satisfaction after discharge from surgery: multispecialty, prospective cohort study in 25 countries

Background: Balancing opioid stewardship and the need for adequate analgesia following discharge after surgery is challenging. This study aimed to compare the outcomes for patients discharged with opioid versus opioid-free analgesia after common surgical procedures.Methods: This international, multicentre, prospective cohort study collected data from patients undergoing common acute and elective general surgical, urological, gynaecological, and orthopaedic procedures. The primary outcomes were patient-reported time in severe pain measured on a numerical analogue scale from 0 to 100% and patient-reported satisfaction with pain relief during the first week following discharge. Data were collected by in-hospital chart review and patient telephone interview 1 week after discharge.Results: The study recruited 4273 patients from 144 centres in 25 countries; 1311 patients (30.7%) were prescribed opioid analgesia at discharge. Patients reported being in severe pain for 10 (i.q.r. 1-30)% of the first week after discharge and rated satisfaction with analgesia as 90 (i.q.r. 80-100) of 100. After adjustment for confounders, opioid analgesia on discharge was independently associated with increased pain severity (risk ratio 1.52, 95% c.i. 1.31 to 1.76; P < 0.001) and re-presentation to healthcare providers owing to side-effects of medication (OR 2.38, 95% c.i. 1.36 to 4.17; P = 0.004), but not with satisfaction with analgesia (beta coefficient 0.92, 95% c.i. -1.52 to 3.36; P = 0.468) compared with opioid-free analgesia. Although opioid prescribing varied greatly between high-income and low- and middle-income countries, patient-reported outcomes did not.Conclusion: Opioid analgesia prescription on surgical discharge is associated with a higher risk of re-presentation owing to side-effects of medication and increased patient-reported pain, but not with changes in patient-reported satisfaction. Opioid-free discharge analgesia should be adopted routinely

Staging of Schizophrenia with the Use of PANSS: An International Multi-Center Study

Introduction: A specific clinically relevant staging model for schizophrenia has not yet been developed. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the factor structure of the PANSS and develop such a staging method.Methods: Twenty-nine centers from 25 countries contributed 2358 patients aged 37.21 ± 11.87 years with schizophrenia. Analysis of covariance, Exploratory Factor Analysis, Discriminant Function Analysis, and inspection of resultant plots were performed.Results: Exploratory Factor Analysis returned 5 factors explaining 59% of the variance (positive, negative, excitement/hostility, depression/anxiety, and neurocognition). The staging model included 4 main stages with substages that were predominantly characterized by a single domain of symptoms (stage 1: positive; stages 2a and 2b: excitement/hostility; stage 3a and 3b: depression/anxiety; stage 4a and 4b: neurocognition). There were no differences between sexes. The Discriminant Function Analysis developed an algorithm that correctly classified >85% of patients.Discussion: This study elaborates a 5-factor solution and a clinical staging method for patients with schizophrenia. It is the largest study to address these issues among patients who are more likely to remain affiliated with mental health services for prolonged periods of time.<br /

Yugoslavism in the Impact of the Cyrilomethodian Heritage

The holy mission of the missionaries, Cyril and Methodius from Thessaloniki to Central Europe in the 9th century constituted a prominent event for the whole of the Slavic world since it profoundly affected the cultural and social formation of its existence. The mission introduced new letters and set the foundations of its culture and education. The Slaves of the south in the mid of the 20th century broached and processed the political notion of “Υugoslavism” a political term which, although it appeared at first to have an ecumenical and supranational character, when based on the historical events,  it failed to keep united those who believed in it. This article studies the positive or negative relationships that developed between the two poles of the Slavic world