Stefana Matovic

Stefana Matovic
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts · Department of Mathematics, Physics and Geo Sciences

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Purpose This study explores the predictors of pro-environmental behavior (PEB) among tourists by integrating psychological, demographic, situational, behavioral and contextual factors. It aims to address theoretical gaps in existing models of PEB within the tourism industry. Design/methodology/approach The research employs a stratified random samp...
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Achieving the targets and indicators outlined in Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) presents significant global challenges, particularly in countries like Serbia, where diverse so-cio-economic contexts and policy planning shape educational outcomes. SDG4 focuses on providing inclusive and fair access to quality education for everyone and encour...
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For decades, Serbia has been struggling with cardiovascular mortality (CVM) as the leading cause of death. The unfavorable age structure of the population, lifestyle habits, access to health care, and increasingly pronounced temperature amplitudes contributed to this unenviable situation. Serbia is characterized by certain physical-geographic and s...
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The change in the patterns of the leading causes of death throughout history, due to technological and medical achievements and socio�economic development, has shaped the population dynamics. In most countries, the incidence of deaths attributed to infectious and parasitic diseases has been significantly minimized. Simultaneously, there's been a...
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The goals of sustainable development were set in 2015 and there is already halfway to their realization. It turned out not to be easy to collect and monitor all the indicators. The idea of this paper was to show how many problems Finland has, which is the first on the way to achieving those goals, and how different Serbia is from it, which is in...
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Population shrinkage is a prevalent challenge across numerous European countries, including Serbia. Despite efforts at both the national and local levels to address this issue directly, desired outcomes have not been achieved. This paper seeks to pinpoint areas experiencing population decline in Serbia, examining their unique characteristics, and s...
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This study investigates the perceptions of employees in the hotel industry of the Republic of Serbia regarding the acceptance and importance of artificial intelligence (AI). Through a modified UTAUT model and the application of structural equation analysis (SEM), we investigated the key factors shaping AI acceptance. Research results show that beha...
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The population changes at different spatial levels with varying velocities due to the influence of different factors. Serbia is a country of distinct spatial-demographic disparities, which have been shaped by various multi-decade political events on its wider territory. For more effective management of space, it is important to know not only the cu...
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Traffic accident mortality (TAM) is a significant global problem and part of the sustainable development goals strategy. In Serbia, a decline in the number of deaths in traffic accidents is evident, but in certain time intervals and areas, the number of deaths is higher than in others. This paper adopted Joinpoint regression analysis and a geospati...
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Traffic accident mortality (TAM) is a significant global problem and part of the sustainable development goals strategy. In Serbia, a decline in the number of deaths in traffic accidents is evident, but in certain time intervals and areas, the number of deaths is higher than in others. This paper adopted Joinpoint regression analysis and a geospati...
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TThe risk of severe illness or death from COVID-19 is associated with specific demographic characteristics or composition of the population within geographic areas, and the spatial relationship between these areas. The aim of this paper is to identify areas with a higher concentration of population vulnerable to COVID19, relying on the concept of s...
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The COVID-19 pandemic escalated in almost all parts of the world over a very short period of time. The speed of the spread was determined by the degree of mobility of the population, while the risk of severe illness or death depended on the population?s demographic characteristics, population health status, and the capacity of the health system to...
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The COVID-19 pandemic spread from Wuhan, China, where it occurred, in a very short time to other parts of the world. Population with different demographic characteristics showed different degrees of vulnerability to the virus. The paper aims to indicate the demographic structure of the population infected with the COVID-19 (age and gender), as well...
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The most cited definition of sustainable development was created more than three decades ago, by the Brundtland Commission. The problem that was defined then is equally present today. There are various definitions of ‘sustainable development’, and thus, in the past, different countries have made different frameworks. However, the current framework...
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The first identified case of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Serbia was recorded on March 6, 2020. The number of recorded cases varied not only over time but also with space. The virus, in addition to the medical, thus acquired a geographical dimension. Spatial analyzes gained the credibility for active participation in the research of its spread. The...
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The publication that is before the reader, entitled From the Notebooks of Jovan Cvijić – Selected Pages and Interpretations, is the result of cooperation between the Belgrade City Museum and the Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” SASA. It has been prepared with a deep awareness of the importance of Jovan Cvijić’s scientific research work and wit...
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The relationship between population change and environmental parameters such as forest area, terrestrial protected areas, еnergy production, еnergy use, carbon dioxide emissions, urban population, greenhouse gas emissions and air pollutants is examined in the paper. The aim is making adequate policies and environmental protection. The analysis incl...
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The relationship between population change and environmental parameters such as forest area, terrestrial protected areas, еnergy production, еnergy use, carbon dioxide emissions, urban population, greenhouse gas emissions and air pollutants is examined in the paper. The aim is making adequate policies and environmental protection. The analysis incl...
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Књига Из бележница Јована Цвијића – прикази и тумачења настала је као резултат сарадње Музеја града Београда и Географског института „Јован Цвијић“ САНУ. Ова публикација приређена је са дубоком свешћу о значају научно-истраживачког рада Јована Цвијића и у уверењу да се књигом, концепцијски домишљеном, стручно написаном и брижљиво уређеном, непознат...
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The forms of foreign direct investments that represent the instrument of cross-border cooperation are Greenfield and Brownfield investments. On the territory of the Republic of Serbia, during the 2000-2016 period, there were established 151 Greenfield and 15 Brownfield companies. The sum of investments of these 166 companies was near € 7,000,000,00...
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Socioeconomic data of the villages belonging to the municipality Vladičin Han were analyzed in the paper. This municipality is part of Pčinjski district and is located in southeastern Serbia. The villages have typical rural character and are located in mountain area, except Priboj, which is dislocated in the 19th century. The lowest is Priboj (350–...
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The study provides a comprehensive data analysis on total fertility rates, birth rates, life expectancy, percentage share of over 65 year olds, infant mortality rates and adolescent-specific fertility rates, in Russia and Serbia, two decades after the fall of communism and compares it with general values in Europe. The main problems in the demograp...
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The beginning of ethnopsychology development is linked with first half of XX century and with the name of Jovan Cvijić. Studying the relief of the Balkan Peninsula and psychological characteristics of the population, he realized that they were connected. Namely, different relief and climate characteristics of some areas, cause different psychologic...
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This paper considers the preliminary report of the Malaysian aircraft accident that took place on 17 July 2014, over the eastern part of Ukraine. Bearing in mind that there is no clear evidence about the causes of the plane crash, using the method of analogy we tried to determine whether this accident aligns with the sudden arrival of high-energy p...
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The amount of eroded material on the territory of Serbia has decreased in the last decades. For the purpose of quantifying the erosion intensity changes in the Municipality of Knjaževac using the GIS, overlapping of the territory has been done with the soil erosion maps from 1971 and recent state in 2010. Based on previous analysis of the area affe...
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The river system of Lepenica was drawn by using the GeoMedia programme in projections of 1:25 000, 1:50 000 and 1:300 000. Different type of information was shown using each of these projections, because smaller projections show more general information, and vice versa. Using the Horton, Strahler and Schrewe Methods we were able to divide rivers in...

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