Herzegovina University

Juvenile delinquency, abuse, and addictions are among the very serious problems of the modern world. They are becoming more frequent every day and appear among the younger categories of children and youth, with increasingly destructive forms and manifestations. The community seeks ways and takes measures to prevent these socio-pathological phenomena, with the aim of reducing or preventing them altogether. In order to succeed, social pedagogical theory and practice are constantly being improved and enriched, and they offer new contributions that can help in the constructive resolution of these painful social phenomena. Their spread degrades the personality of the individual and the whole social community, and this leaves lasting and far-reaching consequences. Only by getting to know and having insight into all the above aspects of these socio-pathological phenomena will it be possible to create and offer organized professional activity in their transformation.

This paper presents a review of the unusual occurrences of various marine species found upstream in the Neretva River and its wider delta zone in the last two decades. The occurrences of at least eight different marine species were reported by local fishermen, representing very rare records of these species in the upstream areas of rivers. Although some of these species generally inhabit both saltwater and brackish waters, their occurrences high upstream are probably the consequence of changes in hydrological conditions in Neretva River. Namely, more intense saltwater intrusion into the river observed in the last two decades provides suitable conditions for mass penetration of euryhaline organisms high into the Neretva River. In this biodiversity rich area which hosts a significant number of endemic species, such phenomena can threaten the local freshwater communities.

Today's class organisation and types of work have not changed much through history. The changes that have occured penetrate slowly into educational systems. New solutions and educational organisation should be carefully planned in order to improve the effectivness of education. This research aimed to investigate the advantages and disadvantages of different practices, to evaluate the effects of group work and compare it to other types of work. Group work, emanating from developmental and social psychological traditions, confirms the importance of interaction in classrooms. The main aim of this research was to study its effects on pupils' achievement, attitudes to schooling and social climate within classrooms, to find out whether group work led to learning and motivational increase and to give further recommendation.

We believe that the preschool period is key to encouraging the development of all existing potentials in children, and proper detection and multiple stimulation can develop more intensively and express the child’s talent best in the preschool development period. The crucial role in this is played by the family, but also by the educational institutions in which children spend a large part of their time. Therefore, the role of the pedagogue as a professional associate in the educational institution for the proper detection of gifted children, and the design, guidance and interpretation of ways and effects of working with them is very important.The topic of this professional paper is the recognition of giftedness in kindergarten, a look at pedagogical practice and ways of working with potentially gifted children in some preschool institutions in the Sarajevo Canton. The paper briefly presents the theoretical framework, necessary for understanding the topic and the concept of giftedness, as well as other related concepts and definitions. In order to determine how to identify gifted children in one of the kindergartens in the Sarajevo Canton, a potentially gifted four-year-old V.Z. was identified and monitored. from Sarajevo through a case study.

The article deals with the religious and confessional identity of the population in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the time of Ottoman and then the Austro-Hungarian authorities, and it is trying to define the elements of nationality in their identity. The reasons for initiating the rounding-up of three national identities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Muslim/Bosniak, Croatian and Serbian) and not a common one are also highlighted. It identifies the external factors as well as the circumstances of the internal dynamics of society that have influenced the formation of the nation on the dominant principle of religious/confessional affiliation of the population.

Records of European catfish Silurus glanis in the Neretva River delta (Adriatic Sea basin) in Croatia are reported. The first occurrence of this non-native species was reported via social network which led to its timely detection by researchers. Origin of introduction is unknown but it is most likely the case of human-mediated introduction. The importance of social networks as a useful tool for the timely detection of non-native fish species, as well as the importance of raising awareness about the impacts of biological invasions, is discussed in this paper.

In diesem Beitrag wird untersucht, wie drei Autorinnen: Marica Bodrožić, Danijela Pilic und Anna Baar die Frage der Identität thematisieren. Nach der theoretischen Bestimmung der Begriffe Identität und Hybridität folgt der analytische Teil angelehnt an die von Michael Metzeltin und Thomas Wallmann zusammengestellte Auflistung der individuellen und kollektiven Identitätsmerkmale. Als Grundlage für die Analyse dienten folgende Werke: der autobiographische Prosaband Sterne erben, Sterne färben (2007) mit dem Untertitel Meine Ankunft in Wörtern von Marica Bodrožić, das autobiographische Werk Sommer vorm Balkan mit dem Untertitel Mein Leben zwischen Alpen und Adria (2015) von Danijela Pilic und der autobiographisch gefärbte Roman Die Farbe des Granatapfels (2015) von Anna Baar. In den genannten Werken wurden folgende Identitätsmerkmale behandelt: Sprache, Herkunft und Familie. In der Schlussfolgerung werden Parallelen gezogen und Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede in der Konstruierung von hybriden Identitäten diskutiert.

Generation Z falls into the internet generation because it is the first generation born after the popularisation of the internet. Even though scientists don’t agree on when this generation starts and when it ends, after all, it is believed that the generation Z is made of people that are born in the nineties until today. Their parents belong to the millennial generation that is born in the eighties. Generation Z is the first generation that was raised as a part of the trend of being in the publics' eye, always posting about their lives on social networks. This potentially makes them an egocentric generation and a generation that does not have enough empathy. Although empathy is one of the key characteristics for happiness, generation Z finds happiness in their personal appearance and they care a lot about the opinions of others, that is, they care about the number of likes and the number of followers on social networks. Even though empathy is a key trait of happiness, generation Z finds happiness in physical appearance, and in others' opinion, that is they care about how many likes and how many followers on social networks they have. The purpose of this paper is to examine emotional empathy with the generation that is born in the late nineties, until generations 2006-2007, on a sample of 200 primary and high school students with an assumption that later generations are more empathic and that there is a difference between male and female subjects, that is that females are more empathic. Also, the paper provides case reports that represent the clinical population and not the average representatives of this generation and whose psychological problems may be associated with excessive use of the Internet and social networks. The results of the research indicate that the feeling of insecurity and lack of empathy in this generation is a risk factor for the development of low self-esteem and self-confidence, and ultimately more severe mental disorders, which can be reduced and prevented by a different approach to this generation.

Menadžment ljudskih resursa od izuzetne važnosti je za uspješno poslovanje svake organizacije. Da bih menadžment resursa opravdao ulogu u poslovanju važan čimbenik je motivacija ljudskih resursa. Ovaj rad se bavio istraživanjem motivacije ljudskih resursa u 120 organizacija u Federaciji BiH, primjenom induktivne i deduktivne metode, metode analize, apstrakcije, deskripcije… Cilj istraživanja bio je dokazati da su ljudski resursi i njihova motivacija bitan čimbenik poslovanja i ostvarenja pozitivnih poslovnih rezultata. Logičnim i analitičkim postupkom potvrđene su hipoteze istraživanja:-74% ispitanika smatra da je nužna potreba motivacije ljudskih resursa, -53,7% ispitanika smatra da njihova poduzeća trebaju znatno više ulagati u edukaciju, obrazovanje i obuku zaposlenih,-40,5% ispitanika mišljenja je da će zadovoljni radnici bolje i kvalitetnije obavljati radne zadatke,-50,7% ispitanika zna da poduzeće ima jasnu strategiju motivacije ljudskih resursa.

Zalihe su materijali, robe i/ili sirovine pohranjeni u skladišta s ciljem osiguranja normalne proizvodnje i zadovoljstva kupaca. Zalihama je moguće manipulirati tako da se ne prikazivanje stanja kretanja, promjene podaci koristeći fleksibilnost računovodstvenih regulatorskih okvira. Upravljanje zalihama od izuzetne je važnosti za uspješno poslovanje poduzeća te je u ovom radu prikazano istraživanje na uzorku od 127 hrvatskih poduzeća. Ovim istraživanjem nastojalo se doći do spoznaje u kolikoj mjeri poduzeća vode politiku upravljanja zalihama, odnosno provjeriti provode li u dovoljnoj mjeri poduzeća u Republici Hrvatskoj politiku upravljanja zalihama, njihovo praćenje, analizu samih zaliha odnosno njihovu kurentnost, te koje metode i tehnike najčešće poduzeća koriste za praćenje zaliha u poslovanju. Istraživanjem je utvrđeno da poduzeća u RH u dovoljno mjeri provode politiku upravljanja zalihama, iako poduzeća iz promatranog uzorka najčešće primjenjuju metodu za kontrolu troškova zaliha JIT (just-in-time) što može biti vrlo rizično za upravljački menadžment poduzeća.

The goal of the present study was to examine the predictors of reading speed and reading comprehension in third-grade students from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH). The sample consisted of 168 third-grade students (86 boys, 82 girls) attending regular schools in Canton Sarajevo, BIH. We examined the effects of phonological awareness (phoneme deletion and rhyming), rapid automatized naming (RAN) of letters and objects, semantic fluency, working memory, and processing speed, on three reading speed tasks and a reading comprehension task. For the reading speed tasks, total amount of explained variance was 33% for reading a text passage, 40% for word reading and 36% for pseudoword reading. The most important predictors of reading speed tasks were phoneme deletion task and RAN: Letters. On the other hand, the model explaining reading comprehension was much less predictive and explained about 11% of variance. Significant predictors of reading comprehension were working memory and processing speed. The results of this study are very informative in creating better models of reading. This in turn will help create better reading intervention programs and potentially reduce the number of children with reading disabilities.

SAŽEtAK UVOD: Osnovna vrijednost u zdravstvu je pružiti najbolju moguću njegu svakom pojedincu.Kvalitetu zdravstvene zaštite karakterizira vrednovanje odgovarajućih pokazatelja kvalitete rada zdravstvenih ustanova. Jedan od načina vrednovanja je ispitivanje zadovoljstva korisnika dobivenim zdravstvenim uslugama. CILJ: Cilj ovog istraživanja je ispitati zadovoljstvo kvalitetom primarne zdravstvene zaštite u Domu zdravlja Tomislavgrad. ISPITANICI I METODE: Ova presječna studija provedena je na uzorku od 71 ispitanika, od čega su 42 (59 %) osobe ženskog spola, tj. korisnice usluga primarne zdravstvene zaštite. Najveći broj ispitanika je u dobnoj skupini od 21 do 34 godine. Podaci su prikupljeni uz pomoć Anketnog upitnika za mjerenje zadovoljstva pacijenata. REZULTATI: Korisnici usluga primarne zdravstvene zaštite su u velikom broju zadovoljni svim ispitanim aspektima, a najniže zadovoljstvodobiveno je po pitanju radnog vremena službi, čekanja na pregled, nedovoljnom privatnošću u pro-storijama službi, adekvatnosti, urednosti i čistoće prostorija službi. Muški ispitanici statistički su značajno manje zadovolj-ni od ženskih ispitanika po pitanju pristupa ustanovi, dok druge spolne razlike nisu bile značajne. ZAKLJUČAK: Većina korisnika usluga primarne zdravstvene zaštite zadovoljna je svim ispitivanim aspektima usluga. Korisnici su manje zadovoljni od korisnica samo po pitanju pristupa ustanovi. Dio korisnika je iskazao nisko zadovoljstvo kvalitetom usluga-najviše po pitanju radnog vremena službi i čekanja na pregled. Ključne riječi: kvaliteta, zadovoljstvo korisnika, primarna zdravstvena zaštita. Kontakt za razmjenu informacija: Matijana Jurišić

This observational clinical study was composed of two substudies: a non-comparative one (n = 166), testing only lysozyme-based compounds (LBCs), and a comparative substudy (n = 275), testing both LBCs and bicarbonate-based local compounds (BBCs) on the healing of oral mucositis during radio- or chemotherapy. The density of ulcerations has decreased significantly after the treatment with lysozyme in both substudies. The density of ulcerations in the radiotherapy group was lower in patients treated with LBCs compared to patients treated with BBCs (p < 0.001). In the chemotherapy group, reduction of ulceration density was similar with both LBCs and BBCs. The LBCs reduced pain intensity during the intake of solid food and speech more than BBCs in both patient cohorts (p < 0.05). In the radiotherapy cohort, pain intensity when consuming liquid foods was reduced more with LBCs than with BBCs (p < 0.05). No adverse events were recorded. This study demonstrates the advantages of treating oral mucositis during radiotherapy or chemo-therapy with LBCs.

Learning to read is one of the most important academic accomplishments in the early grades of elementary school. Knowing what factors contribute to reading ability would improve instructional practices. The goal of the present study was to examine the effects of semantic fluency, phonological fluency, rapid naming, inhibitory control, selective attention, and visual motor integration on reading fluency in 140 second and third grade students. The results of this study indicated that significant predictors of reading fluency were: selective attention, semantic fluency, inhibitory control, and rapid naming. However, the association between predictor variables and reading fluency was moderated by the students' grade. The article concludes with some suggestions on how to improve reading fluency in elementary school children, given that all predictors are susceptible to instruction.

Background Verbal fluency (VF) is a good indicator of a child’s academic prowess and later academic success. The goal of the present study was to examine the association between VF and inhibitory control. An additional goal was to examine the developmental trajectories of VF in relation to the grade and gender of the children. Material/Methods. The sample for this study consisted of 210 children attending grades 1 to 3. Children’s performance was measured on two VF tasks: semantic fluency and phonological fluency. As a measure of inhibitory control we used a number of commission errors committed on the Multiple Choice Reaction Test. Results The results of this study indicate the lack of association between VF and inhibitory control. Children improved significantly in VF from grade 1 to grade 3. In relation to gender, girls outperformed boys on the test of phonological fluency but not on the test of semantic fluency. Conclusion Given the importance of VF, these skills need to be tackled during the elementary school period and even earlier in preschool.