Vampires in the village Žrnovo on the island of Korčula: following an archival document from the 18th century

Središnja tema rada usmjerena je na raščlambu spisa pohranjenog u Državnom arhivu u Mlecima (fond: Capi del Consiglio de’ Dieci: Lettere di Rettori e di altre cariche) koji se odnosi na događaj iz 1748. godine u korčulanskom selu Žrnovo, kada su mještani – vjerujući da su se pojavili vampiri – oskvrnuli nekoliko mjesnih grobova. U radu se podrobno iznose osnovni podaci iz spisa te rečeni događaj analizira u širem društvenom kontekstu i prate se lokalna vjerovanja.The main interest of this essay is the analysis of the document from the State Archive in Venice (file: Capi del Consiglio de’ Dieci: Lettere di Rettori e di altre cariche) which is connected with the episode from 1748 when the inhabitants of the village Žrnove on the island of Korčula in Croatia opened tombs on the local cemetery in the fear of the vampires treating. This essay try to show some social circumstances connected with this event as well as a local vernacular tradition concerning superstitions

Application of the BRC Sequential Extraction Scheme for Assessing the Leaching of Elements in Wood-Based Ash Fractions from a Large-Sized (115 MW) Industrial Power Plant of a Pulp and Board Mill

Extractions tests are widely used as tools to estimate the potential release of constituents, for example from waste materials, over a range of possible waste management activities, including recycling, reuse and landfill disposal. Sequential extraction procedures offer the advantage of simulating, to a certain extent, the vari ous natural environmental conditions. In this study, the mobility and bioavailability of heavy metals in wood-based bottom ash and fly ash was evaluated by the three-stage BCR sequential extraction procedure, in which elements in the bottom ash and fly ash were fractionated between acidsoluble (CH3COOH; BCR1), reducible (NH2OH-HCl; BCR2) and oxidisable (H2O2 + CH3COONH4; BCR3) fractions. For the bottom ash, the extractable concentration of Al (88 mg/kg; d.w.) and Ba (82 mg/kg; d.w.) in the BCR1 fraction were moderate, whereas the extractable concentrations of Mn (110 mg/kg; d.w.), S (310 mg/kg; d.w.) and Zn (200 mg/kg; d.w.) were relatively high. In the fly ash, the highest extractable concentrations in the BCR1 fraction were observed for S (14,400 mg/kg; d.w.) and Ba (26 mg/kg; d.w.). Therefore, when these ashes are disposed of in a landfill or utilized, for example, in earth construction, the above-mentioned metals are likely to be released from the bottom ash and from the fly ash since the elements associated with the acid-soluble (CH3COOH) fraction are more mobile and bioavailable than the metals in easily reduced (NH2OH-HCl) and oxidisable (H2O2 + CH3-COONH4) fractions.</p