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The politics of performance: transnationalism and its limits in former Yugoslav popular music, 1999–2004
This paper examines transnational relations between the Yugoslav successor states from the point of view of popular music, and demonstrates how transnational musical figures (such as Djordje Balaševi?, Mom?ilo Bajagi?-Bajaga and Ceca Ražnatovi?) are interpreted as symbolic reference points in national ethnopolitical discourse in the process of identity construction. Another symbolic function is served by Serbian turbofolk artists, who in Croatia serve as a cultural resource to distance oneself from a musical genre associated by many urban Croats with the ruralization (and Herzegovinization) of Croatian city space. In addition, value judgements associated with both Serbian and Croatian newly composed folk music provide an insight into the transnational negotiation of conflicting identities in the ex-Yugoslav context. Ultimately the paper shows how the ethnonational boundaries established by nationalizing ideologies created separate cultural spaces which themselves have been transnationalized after Yugoslavia's disintegration
Effect of straw size and microbial amendment of litter on certain litter quality parameters, ammonia emission, and footpad dermatitis in broilers
This study was conducted to evaluate the impact of litter amendment
(microbiological product – Micropan complex) and straw size (unchopped and
chopped straw) on pH, moisture level, ammonia emission, and footpad
dermatitis in broilers. A total of 1200 1-day-old Ross 308 broilers were randomly allocated to four treatments
(2 × 2 factorial arrangement), with four replicates per treatment.
Each replicate consisted of 75 as-hatched birds per pen. The first factor
consisted of wheat straw – chopped (<i>C</i>) or unchopped (<i>U</i>) – and the
second factor was the litter amendment with (WM) or without (OM)
Micropan<sup>®</sup> (enzymatic bacterial product –
Eurovix, USA). At 4, 5, and 6
weeks of the trial, the levels of ammonia concentration, moisture content,
and pH of litter in each pen were measured. The foot pad lesions were
evaluated at 21, 35, and 42 days of age. Broilers reared on chopped straw had
significantly better leg condition as expressed by a smaller incidence and
severity of footpad dermatitis. The pH value of litter was decreased and
footpad quality was significantly improved by Micropan application in
broilers kept on chopped and unchopped straw in the sixth week of age. There
was no significant effect of Micropan application and straw size on ammonia
emission in broiler housing