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2007 - SANU-a

SERBIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS
ISSN 1820–340X
SERBIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS
BULLETIN
OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
Annual Report for 2007
BELGRADE, 2008
Editorial Board
Corresponding Member Vidojko Jović
Academician Ivan Gutman
Corresponding Member Nikola Tucić
Academician Dragutin Dražić
Academician Veselinka Šušić
Corresponding Member Aleksandar Loma
Corresponding Member Časlav Ocić
Corresponding Member Momčilo Spremić
Corresponding Member Todor Stevanović
Editor
Corresponding Member Vidojko Jović
Editor–in–Chief
Academician Dimitrije Stefanović
Translation and editing
Lynne Katsikas
Vera Gligorijević
Layout and Cover Design
HELICON, Belgrade
Print
CONTENT
Editor’s Note
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS, PHYSICS AND EARTH SCIENCES
EARTH SCIENCES
MATHEMATICS AND MECHANICS
PHYSICS AND METEOROLOGY
Interdepartmental Committees
Interacademic Cooperation
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
CHEMISTRY
BIOLOGY
Interdepartmental Committees
Interacademic Cooperation
DEPARTMENT OF TECHNICAL SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
LINGUISTICS
Interdepartmental Committee
Interacademic Committee
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORICAL SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF FINE ARTS AND MUSIC
CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF THE SASA AND
NIŠ UNIVERSITY
CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF THE SASA AND
KRAGUJEVAC UNIVERSITY
INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITY IN 2007
MEETINGS AND LECTURES IN 2007
PUBLISHING ACTIVITY IN 2007
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN THE SASA INSTITUTES IN 2007
EDITOR’S NOTE
In 2007, the Scientific Research Fund of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
(SASA) provided and allocated the funds for scientific research, publishing activity,
interacademic and international cooperation, for the participation of SASA members
and their associates in scientific meetings in the country and abroad, for the acquisition
of scientific literature and for other SASA scientific research needs.
In 2007, the scientific research programme of the Serbian Academy of Sciences
and Arts, including its Branch in Novi Sad and the Centres in Niš and Kragujevac, was
carried out through 64 projects in the field of natural sciences and mathematics, 16
projects in the field of technical sciences, 26 projects in the field of medical sciences, 23
projects in the field of language and literature, 7 projects in the field of social sciences,
41 projects in the field of historical sciences and 5 projects in the field of fine arts and
music.
The work results were published in scientific and professional journals and
monographs, or were presented at scientific meetings.
In 2007, 25 publications were published in the SASA editions. The total number of
copies was 12,304. In these SASA editions, 225 authors published 205 works.
In the course of 2007, 92 members and associates of the SASA made study trips
or participated in scientific meetings in the country and abroad. In addition, 194 scientists
visited the SASA either under bilateral agreements on free exchange of researchers, or as
participants in scientific meetings, lecturers and members of official delegations.
In 2007, the Academy organized 16 scientific meetings, 12 lectures, 11 inaugural lectures
and 10 commemorative gatherings.
The resources allocated by the Fund for the acquisition of professional literature
in 2007, were mainly used for a subscription to foreign journals and the acquisition of
other foreign scientific publications according to the needs of the specified committees,
research teams and individuals, whose projects are carried out under the Academy’s
scientific research programmes. A portion of these resources was also used for the
acquisition of domestic scientific publications.
Since 2006, the Annual Report inludes relevant reports submitted by eight SASA`s
institutes (Geographical Institute, Mathematical Institute, Institute of Musicology,
Institute for Byzantine Studies, Ethnographical Institute, Institute for Balkan Studies,
Institute for the Serbian Language, and Institute of Technical Sciences).
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS, PHYSICS
AND EARTH SCIENCES
EARTH SCIENCES
Project: INVESTIGATION OF PALEOFLORA AND PALEOFAUNA
OF SERBIA
(Academician Marko Ercegovac)
1. The historical and geological evolution of Serbia in the Phanerozoic
The complex study of Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Tertiary sediments of Serbia from
paleontologic, biostratigraphic and paleoecological aspects was continued in 2007. It
included solutions of some stratigraphic and tectonic relationships between marine and
continental sediments of Serbia. The study of the age and the metamorphic changes of the
organic matter from the ophiolite complexes of Serbia, Republika Srpska and Hungary,
and their geodynamic implications were analyzed in particular. Fossil fuel resources in
different geotectonic units of Serbia were also investigated.
2. Investigation of fossil flora and fauna of Serbia
The study of the paleontologic and biostratigraphic characteristics of green algae
(Dasycladacean from the Cretaceous and Paleogene), conodonts (from the Triassic of
Serbia and Hungary), radiolarians (from the Jurassic), ostracodes (from the Miocene
and Pliocene) and palynomorphs (from the Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous of the CarpathoBalkanides and the Neogene of the Pannonian Basin) were continued. Palynomorphs
from the western ophiolitic belt of the Vardar Zone (the ophiolites of Podkozarje) were
also studied. The investigations of the Late Permian conodonts from the Jadar Block
(Vardar Zone; northwestern Serbia) were finished. Charophyta of Jurassic and Cretaceous
sediments of Montenegro and Dalmatia in the External Dinarides and western Serbia
were also investigated. The lacustrine ostracodes in the Pannonian basin during the
Pliocene were also investigated.
Project: PALYNOMORPHS FROM PALEOZOIC AND MESOZOIC
SEDIMENTS IN SERBIA
Paleontological and geological investigations of the volcano-sedimentary Carboniferous
deposits in the area of the Carpatho-Balkanides in eastern Serbia were continued. The
investigations of palynomorphs from Upper Permian and Lower Triassic sediments
in the Stara Planina (Carpatho-Balkanides) and the Pošćensko Jezero - Durmitor
(Dinarides) were completed. The study of Upper Triassic and Lower Jurassic deposits of
the Stara Planina were investigated from paleontological, biostratigraphical and organic
petrography standpoints. The determination of the boundaries between Rhät-Lias in
eastern Serbia was continued.
Ercegovac M., Životić D., Kostić A., 2007: Fossil fuels resources of Serbia.
Book of Proceedings 2nd Balkan Mining Congress (Ed. S. Vujić), 1–7, Belgrade.
Krstić N., 2007: Two new taxa of large Neogene ostracodes. VI Europaean
ostracodologists meeting, Abstracts, 31, Frankfurt a/M.
Krstić N., 2007: Lacustrine ostracodes in the Southeastern Europe during Pliocene
(in Russian with English abstract). Палеонтологичное товариство, Институт
геологичних наук НАНУ, 328–335, Киев.
Prysjazhnjuk V. A., Jovanović G., Krstić N., Marković Z., Mitrović B., 2007:
Land Mollusks in locality Mazgosh (Eastern Serbia). (in Ukrainian with English
summary). Paleontologicni doslidzhennja v Ukraini, Paleontologichne tovarystvo,
349–354, Kiev.
Radoičić R., Schlaginweit F., 2007: Neomeris mokragorensis sp. nov. (Calcareous
alga, Dasycladales) from the Cretaceous of Serbia, Montenegro and Northern Calcareous
Alps (Gosau Group, Austria). Annales géologiques de la péninsule balkanique, 68,
39–51.
Radoičić R., Đorđević-Milutinović D., 2007: Charophyta of the Jurassic and
Cretaceous sediments of Montenegro and Dalmatia - External Dinarides and western
Serbia. 15th Meeting of the Group of European Charophytologists (GEC), 24–28
September 2007, Belgrade (poster).
Sudar M., Jovanović D., Kolar-Jurkovšek T., 2007: Late Permian conodonts
from Jadar Block (Vardar Zone, northwestern Serbia). Geologica Carpathica, 58, 2,
145–152, Bratislava.
Sudar M., Jovanović D., Stojanović-Kuzenko S., Filipović I., Gajić R., 2007:
Late Pennsylvanian conodonts biostratigraphy and sedimentology of the Kriva Reka
Formation from the Jadar Block, Vardar Zone (NW Serbia). Journal of Alpine Geology,
48, 101–115, Wien.
Sudar M., Jovanović D., Kolar-Jurkovšek T., 2007: First record of conodont
fauna in the Permian-Triassic boundary interval of NW Serbia. Geoitalia 2007 (Rimini,
12–14 settembre 2007), Epitome, 2, p. 155 (poster).
Project: GЕОDYNAMICS
(Academician Stevan Karamata)
The work was concentrated, considering the possibilities, on the following
problems:
1. Formation of the geological structure of Serbia and neighboring areas up to the
Neogene
(Prof. ��
Dr. ��
Milan Sudar and Academician Stevan Karamata)
The explanatory text for the maps of the paleoenvironments of the Circum-Pannonian
Region published in 2004 were prepared and will be submitted for printing in the first half of
2008. This was realized by Dr. B. Krstić for the maps of the Variscan Preflysch (Devonian10
Early Carboniferous) and the Late Variscan (Latest Carboniferous to Early Permian), by
Prof. M. Sudar and Academician S. Karamata for the Initial Neotethyan Rifting (MiddleLate Triassic) period and by Academician S. Karamata and Prof. M. Sudar for the Maximal
Neotethian Spreading (Middle Jurassic) period. This work was coordinated with the team
of Dr. S. Kovács from the Geology group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
The study of the olistostrome mélange squeezed between the East BosnianDurmitor Unit and the Dinaridic carbonate platform continues. In this mélange,
fragments to blocks of diabases, ultramafics, cherts, siliceous limestones, sandstones
etc. occur. Also a strange association occurs, similar the one in the ophiolite mélange of
the Dinaridic ophiolite belt, and for this reason the study of this unit is of special interest
for regional conclusions.
Work on the other before initiated problems continues.
2. The study of Carpatho-Balkanides of eastern Serbia
(Dr. Branislav Krstiċ)
According to the contract between the SASA and the BAN (Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences), scientists of both institutions (Corresponding member of the BAN Ivan
Zagorchev, Ch. Kiselinov, MA, and others from the Bulgarian side and Dr. M. Kaleniċ,
Prof. D. Milovanoviċ and others from the side of SASA) jointly studied the Inovska
Series and the red beds of Stara Planina. The collected samples have been investigated.
3. The investigations of the ophiolite belts of the Vardar Zone, the Dinarides and the
Carpatho-Balkanides
The study of ophiolitic rocks south of Zlatar of olistoplakes from eastern Bosnia (S.
Karamata and Dr. L. Vujnoviċ), cherts from the surroundings of the Jadar Block (Prof. V.
Višnjevskaja and N. Đeriċ, MA), of postcollisional granites in the Main Vardar Zone belt
(K. Šarić, MA) and of glauchophane schists of Fruška Gora (Corresponding Member of
RAS S. Korikovski and Dr. G. Zakariadze).
The study of ophiolitic rocks between Bistrica and Priboj (S. Korikovski and Dr.
G. Zakariadze) is in its final phase. A paper on granitic rocks from ophiolite belts (K.
Šarić and co-workers) was submitted for print to LITHOS in January 2008.
The papers for the monograph on the ophiolite belts of the northern part of the
Balkan Peninsula (Editors Prof. A. Robertson, Edinburgh, S. Karamata and K. Šarić)
have been collected and were sent for print to LITHOS in January 2008.
4. Study of Neogene deposits of the Balkan Penninsula
(Dr. Nadežda Krstić and co-workers)
In 2007, the Neogene in Serbia and the Republic of Srpska was studied in several areas.
Work on the palegeography of Serbia proceeded at two stratigraphic levels: on the
early Middle Miocene and on the Upper Pliocene, since they are the most widespread
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in Serbia. For the early Middle Miocene (collaborator Sanja Pavić, custodian for large
mammals in the Natural History Museum, Belgrade), the Serbian Lake, a step towards
palinspastic was made by indicating the main dislocations produced by the CarpathianBalkan bending and the resulting consumption of Miocene lacustrine sediments.
Krstić N., Knežević S., Pavić S., 2007: Fauna of a large early Middle Miocene
lake of Serbia. Joannea - Geologie und Paläontologie, 9, 51–54, Graz.
The study of the paleogeography of the Balkan Peninsula at the boundary
Miocene/Pliocene was commenced several years ago in Romania by a French team (J.P. Suc, Lyon and others). This year they visited Serbia again and, in addition to collecting
new material, they presented their results from sampling the previous year - the Pliocene
Dinoflagellata from the surroundings of Niš (our accompanying persons: Vesna Lesić, for
magnetostratigraphy and Petar Stejić for Plio-Quaternary regional geology), confirming
our previous assumption on the great spreading of the late Pliocene lake and its great
extension, especially eastwards toward the Caspian Sea-Lake.
Крстић Н. (Krstić N.), 2007: Озерные остракоды плиоцена юговосточной
Европы (Lacustrine ostracodes in the Southeastern Europe during the Pliocene) (in
Russian with English abstract). Палеонтологiчнi дослiдження в Украiнi: Iсторiя,
сучасний стан та перспективи - Палеонтологiчне товариство, Институт
геологiчних наук НАНУ, 328–335, Киiв.
In the Republic of Srpska, the work was focused mainly around the coal mine
Gacko/Aljinovići and the already collected samples from the mine Ugljevik-Bogutovo
Selo were further studied. The deep drilling hole in Gacko passed the middle part of the
Neogene, mostly beds with Fossarulus. It was proved that the basis of the main coal bed
was deposited in the Oligocene and that the hanging wall is of Miocene age.
Krstić N., Olujić J., Milutinović-Đorđević D., 2007: Lower Miocene Charophyta
of Gacko (Dinaric Alps). 15th Meeting of the Group of European Chariphytologists
(GEC), Abstracts and Excursionsguide, Belgrade.
Project: GЕОМОRPHOLOGICAL MAP OF SERBIA AT SCALE 1:50.000
(Academician Stevan Karamata and Dr. Miloš Zeremski)
Since the beginning of the work on this project in the 1980s, 50 sheets of the
Geomorphological Map at the scale of 1:50,000 have been prepared, covering one half
of the territory of Serbia, without the provinces. It is time to start printing them for the
following reasons:
As is known, the Geomorphological Map is an integral part of the geological,
hydrological and vegetation maps, which are based on on the study of Serbia’s
geomorphological features. Without these maps it is impossible to achieve favourable
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results in the fundamental and applied studies of Serbia’s terrain. Therefore, it was not
an accident that the preparation of the Geomorphological Map of Serbia was included in
the priority federal projects 30 years ago. This was our international obligation assumed
towards the International Geographic Union. Considering all this, the Geomorphological
Map can serve its purpose only after being printed and placed at the disposal of the
professional public.
Project: GЕОCHEMISTRY
(Academician Zoran Maksimović)
1. The geochemistry of the upper mantle and the igneous rocks of the Earth’s crust
The study of basaltic rocks from the Dinarides and the Vardar ophiolite mélange
was continued within the doctoral thesis of Milica Božović. The first absolute age
determinations by Ar-Ar method were made and the results are extremely interesting. The
age obtained indicates the presence of Cretaceous MORB volcanism in the Dinarides,
which gives a quite new picture of the geodynamic development in our areas. At one
locality, the Cretaceous age obtained by this method was confirmed by U-Pb isotopes on
zircons, determined by the LA-ICP-MS-MC method.
Prelević D., Foley S.F., Cvetković V., 2007: A review of petrogenesis of
Mediterranean Tertiary lamproites: a perspective from the Serbian ultrapotassic province.
In: L. Beccaluva, G. Bianchini and M. Wilson (eds.), Cenozoic Volcanism in the
Mediterranean Area, Geological Society of America, Special Paper 418, 113–129.
Prelević D., Foley S.F., 2007: Accretion of arc-oceanic lithospheric mantle in
the Mediterranean: evidence from extremely high-Mg-NiO olivines and Cr-rich spinel
inclusions from lamproites. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 256, 120–135.
Prelević D., 2007: Mediterranean Тertiary lamproites: multicomponent melts in
postcollisional geodynamics. GSA Denver Annual Meeting (invited), 28–31 October
2007.
Prelević D., Foley S.F., Stracke A., Romer R., Conticelli S., 2007: No need for
involvement of a hidden mantle reservoir in the origin of lamproites from Mediterranean.
Goldschmidt Conference Abstracts 2007, A809.
Prelević D., Foley S.F., Stracke A., Romer R. Conticelli S., Guarneri L., 2007:
Tertiary Mediterranean lamproites: towards a comprehensive model. European
Geosciences Union, General Assembly 2007, Wien, Austria, Abstracts CD.
2. Geochemistry of the rock alteration
The karstic bauxites of Slovenia, according to their geochemical characteristics,
are similar to other karstic bauxites of corresponding age in the Mediterranean region.
The Upper Triassic bauxites have the lowest contents of many trace elements, which is
characteristic of other bauxites in this region. This indicates to mother rocks of similar
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composition. The vertical distribution of “mobile” trace elements in the locality Kopitov
grič indicates that the bauxitization process did not occur in situ and that the bauxites
were redeposited in their present positions.
The Upper Jurassic bauxites of Slovenia are richer in trace elements compared
with Triassic bauxites, which is also characteristic of the Upper Jurassic bauxites in
this region. In the locality Logatec, the vertical distribution of “mobile” trace elements
indicates that the process of bauxitization of clayey material occurred in situ at the
present position.
The Oligocene bauxites from the locality Rudnica in Bohinj have an unusually
high concentration of some trace elements (Zn, Cd, Mn and Y), not observed in the
Mediterranean bauxites. All the investigated samples were collected near the footwall
of an excavated deposit. The concentration of “mobile” trace elements indicates in situ
bauxitization. A preliminary investigation revealed an unusual association of sulfide
trace minerals, among them the mineral greenockite (CdS), for the first time found in
karstic bauxites.
The great economic significance of metallic, non-metallic and energy mineral
resources for Serbia’s economic and social progress prompts their rational and controlled
use and prevention of harmful environmental effects.
Of particular importance are the conservation of mineral resources, greater
efficiency in their exploitation and processing, substitution with renewable resources
and reduction of harmful environmental effects. For many regions of Serbia, the use of
natural resources is the only possibility for long-term, sustainable development, but the
exploitation and use of mineral resources needs to rely on state-of-the-art technologies
and to conform to the highest economic and ecological standards.
Exploitation, processing and use of mineral resources needs to be accommodated in
the concept of sustainable development, taking into account: market requirements and the
value of the raw materials; the selection of raw materials to be exploited; the exploration,
exploitation and rational use of mineral resources; environmental conservation and
protection in the course of and subsequent to the exploitation of deposits; the availability
of data.
A feasibility study on the sustainable use of mineral resources should be based on
the appraisal of the value of minerals sources, the possibilities of their use, recycling and
environmental conservation.
In order to obtain an as complete as possible picture of the status of soil pollution
in Belgrade, samples were taken from very different locations, from residential areas, the
central city area, industrial zones, suburban quarters and the outskirts of the city. This
research also included analysis of some results which were provided for private purposes
(e.g. building sites, factories etc.). In total, 153 soil samples from 24 different locations
were taken and analyzed from 2004 to 2006 in the laboratory “MOL” (Belgrade). At
most of the localities (21 out of 24), a certain excess concentration of at least one element
which is important for soil pollution assessment was determined. Only in a single case of
the analysis of a deep drilling sample was the excess concentration of chromium related
to geological factors; in the other 152 out of 153 cases, human activities were the only
source of pollution with heavy metals and toxic elements. The nickel concentration in
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the soil samples from the Belgrade area exceeded the MAC of 50 ppm in almost all the
analyzed samples (20 of 24). The concentration attained a value of 228 ppm in soils
from New Belgrade Block 19a. In the samples from the localities Ada Ciganlija and New
Belgrade Block 67 excesses in the concentrations of six and four elements, respectively,
were determined. These results demand urgent recultivation of these soils. Samples of
river mud from the lakeshore of Ada Ciganlija showed very high levels of contamination
with lead, nickel, copper and, especially, zinc, which implies the necessity for future
research and immediate sanitation of the soil on the shore.
Milovanović D., Jelenković R., Seke L., Jović V., 2007: Mineralni resursi u
Srbiji i održivi razvoj. Ecologica, Posebno tematsko izdanje, br. 13, Međunarodna
naučna konferencija Životna sredina i održivi razvoj = International Conference on
Environment and Sustainable Development, Beograd, 23–25. 04. 2007, 23–32.
Perovic S., Jovic V., Brceski I., 2007: Heavy metals content in Belgrade soils.
Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, Vol. 71, No 15S, Special Supplement, Abstracts of the
17th Annual V. M. Goldschmidt Conference, Cologne, Germany, August 2007, A779.
3. Mineralogy
The massive, pale-green serpentine veins cutting the Yugoslavian serpentinites consist
of 15- and 30-sector polygonal serpentines in a random orientation but becoming stressoriented close to the vein walls. [100] cross-sections show ordered one-layer and twolayer projected polytype sequences, as well as disordered multilayer sequences. From
sector to sector, these sections have systematically alternating polytypes that obey the
O-L-R and O-R-L alternation rules in the 15- and 30-sector polygonal serpentines,
respectively. Furthermore, [010] longitudinal sections systematically show a unique twolayer sequence. By combining the two projections, the basic 3D polytype assemblage,
which from sector to sector consists of alternating M5-M15-M15 or M5-M16-M16
polytypes, was reconstructed. The individual fibers may be described as cyclical
pseudo-twins, based on continuous 1:1 layers, with possible octahedral rotation from
one sector to another. Continuous curved sector boundaries join adjacent sectors, with
no tetrahedral sheet inversion; the curved boundaries behave as similar folds and have
variable interplanar spacings. Simulated electron diffraction patterns reproduce all the
observed diffraction geometries, even for faulted stacking sequences, and explain the
numbers of diffraction cusps and chords. Additional XRPD reflections were indexed
based on the polytypes present in the 15- and 30-sector polygonal serpentines.
Fibrous magnesium silicate (Mg6Si4O10(OH)8 - mountain leather asbestos) of
Serbian origin was used as the Si precursor for the synthesis of SiC by the carbothermalreduction process. As a reducing agent, carbon (from various precursors) was used.
The formation of SiC was confirmed by XRD and SEM/EDS analyses. The porous SiC
particles obtained at 1873 K possess longish, plate-like morphology. The results showed
that the reduction reaction was assisted by liquid phase formation, as well as vapor phase
transport, and that mountain leather asbestos could be a very effective mineral precursor
for the preparation of silicon carbide.
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The Čoka Marin polymetallic deposit is situated in eastern Serbia, about 25 km
north of the town of Bor. The deposit, consisting of three bodies of massive sulfide,
is situated in a large volcanic system, mainly built up of different types of andesitic
rocks, formed in several phases. The ore bodies are composed of colloform to finegrained pyrite, in which veinlets and nests of luzonite, enargite, chalcopyrite, bornite,
galena, sphalerite and barite, accompanied by less common minerals, such as digenite,
arsenopyrite, seligmanite, stannite, freibergite and colusite, and some undetermined
minerals. The pyrite shows a great variety in its chemical and textural features, especially
zoning, which is also expressed in the chemical composition, because of the presence of
Cu- and As-bearing varieties, with 8 % Cu and 4.5 % As. Three phases of formation exist:
a fine-grained disseminations of pyrite with very fine elemental gold; an intermedial
phase Fe-Cu-As-S, with 50 micrometer grains of electrum with 10 % Ag and a late PbZn-Cu-(Au)-(Ag) phase, with Au grains of approximately 100 micrometers).
The ore-occurrences at the Osanica locality represent an unusual Sb-W type, in
which the main ore minerals, stibnite and wolframite, display complex mutual relations.
By common mineralogical methods, the mineral composition and the significant
differences among four Sb-W ore veins and one Pb-Zn ore vein, as well as the several
phases of mineralization, were determined. Three generations of wolframite exist and
local variations in their chemical composition were established by EPMA.
Mugnaioli E., Logar M., Mellini M., Viti C., 2007: Complexity in 15- and 30sectors polygonal serpentine: Longitudinal sections, intrasector stacking faults and
XRPD satellites. American Mineralogist, 92, 603–616.
Logar M., Mellini M.,, Mugnaioli E., Viti C., Vasiljevic D., 2007: Complexity
in the polygonal serpentine structure. Proceedings of the 3rd Serbian Congress for
Microscopy, Belgrade, September 25–28, 97–98.
Devečerski A., Pošarac M., Egelja A., Radosavljević-Mihajlović A., Bošković S.,
Logar M., Matović B., 2007: Fabrication of SiC by carbothermal-reduction reactions of
mountain leather asbestos. Journal of Alloys and Compounds (2007), doi:10.1016/
j.jallcom.2007.09.09
Pačevski A., Cvetković Lj., Živković P., 2007: Mineralogy of the Čoka Marin
polymetallic deposit, Bor ore district, Serbia. Report and abstract on the Advances
in Regional and Metallogenic Studies in the Carpatians, Rhodope Massif and
Caucasus (Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria and Georgia), ed. R. Moritz & A. von Quadt,
5, Rtanj Balašević Motel, Bor area, Sept. 4–7, 2007.
Pačevski A., Goetzinger M., Dimitrijević R., Cvetković Lj., 2007: Oscillatory
zoning in wolframite from Osanica, near Bor, Serbia. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie
Abhandlungen, 184/2, 151–160, Stuttgart.
Cvetković Lj., Pačevski A., 2007: Occurrence of the colusite group minerals at
the Bor ore district, Serbia. Report and abstract on the Advances in Regional and
Metallogenic Studies in the Carpathians, Rhodope Massif and Caucasus (Romania,
Serbia, Bulgaria and Georgia), ed. R. Moritz & A. von Quadt, 4, Rtanj Balašević
Motel, Bor area, Sept. 4–7, 2007.
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MATHEMATICS AND MECHANICS
Project: ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIOUR OF GENERALIZED FUNCTIONS,
THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
(Academician Bogoljub Stanković)
Over the past years it has been shown that the use of non-integer derivatives can
improve the mathematical model of processes in physics. The solving of such models
is considerably aggravated if both left and right derivatives of non-integer order occur
simultaneously in the same equation. In 2007, we especially studied the equations of
this type and developed mathematical methods for their study. This year’s results were
published in the paper:
Stanković B., 2007: A method to solve an equation with left and right fractional
derivatives. Bulletin CXXXIV de l’Académie Serbe des Sciences et des Arts, Classe
des Sciences mathématiques et naturelles, Sciences mathématiques, 32, 59–67.
Project: SEMI-RIEMANNIAN GEOMETRY
(Academician Mileva Prvanović)
Minimal holomorphic hypersurfaces of anti-Kähler manifolds of constant total
real sectional curvatures were investigated. It was proved that for some of them, the
second fundamental forms can be expressed in terms of the curvature and Ricci tensors
of the hypersurface.
Prvanović M., 2007: Minimal Anti-Kähler holomorphic hypersurfaces. Bulletin
CXXXIV de l’Académie Serbe des Sciences et des Arts, Classe des Sciences
mathématiques et naturelles, Sciences mathématiques, 32, 85–104.
Project: NONLINEAR ANALYSIS IN FUZZY STRUCTURES
(Academician Olga Hadžić)
The article „On the uniqueness of the fixed point of contraction mappings in fuzzy
metric spaces“ was finished and is to be published in the journal „Novi Sad Journal
of Mathematics“. In the paper, the problem of the uniqueness of the fixed point of
contraction mappings in fuzzy metric spaces is analyzed. Since in a fuzzy metric space
the distribution function in general does not tend general to 1 when an independent
variable tends to infinity (as is the case for a Menger space), the uniqueness of a fixed
point of a contraction mapping in a fuzzy metric space can not be proved in a manner
similar to that employed in the case of Menger spaces, which belong to a special class of
fuzzy metric spaces, - probabilistic metric spaces. Hence, in this paper, the uniqueness
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of a fixed point on some subsets of the fuzzy metric space on which the contraction
mapping is defined was investigated.
Project: COMPUTER AIDED INVESTIGATIONS IN DISCRETE
MATHEMATICS
(Academician Dragoš Cvetković)
The sum of the absolute values of the eigenvalues of a graph is called the energy
of the graph. In paper [1], the problem of finding graphs with extremal energy within
specified classes of graphs is studied. Using calculus, it was shown that an extremal graph
“should” have a small number of distinct eigenvalues. However, data is also presented
which show that in many cases extremal graphs can have a large number of distinct
eigenvalues. Such phenomena are explained by the discrete structure of graphs.
In paper [2], the problem of determining distance-perfect graphs in the sense of
the metric dimension is considered. It is shown that distance-perfect graphs are either
paths or have a diameter of at most 3.
It is well known that undirected graphs can be used for modeling multiprocessor
systems. In recent literature, it was proposed how to use spectral graph invariants to
describe well-suited interconnection networks. In paper [3], this idea is extended to
show that all widely employed interconnection networks are covered by this approach. In
addition, the employment of some new graphs is proposed in the design of multiprocessor
topologies.
1. Cvetković D., Grout J., 2007: Maximal energy graphs should have a small
number of distinct eigenvalues. Bulletin CXXXIV de l’Académie Serbe des Sciences et
des Arts, Classe des Sciences mathématiques et naturelles, Sciences mathématiques,
32, 43–57.
2. Cvetković D., Čangalović M., Kovačević-Vujčić V., Kratica J., 2007: Distanceperfect Graphs. SYM-OP-IS 2007, 289–291.
3. Cvetković D., Davidović T., 2007: Description of multiprocessor interconnection
networksby graph invariants. Proceedings Symposium on Information Technology,
YUINFO 2007 (on CD, 108.pdf), Kopaonik, March 11–14, 2007.
Project: ASYMPTOTIC FORMULAS IN ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY
(Academician Aleksandar Ivić)
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In the year 2007, A. Ivić published the following works:
1. On the mean square of the zeta-function and the divisor problem. Annales
Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae Mathematica, 23, 1–9, 2007.
http://www.emis.de/journals/AASF
2. On some mean square estimates in the Rankin-Selberg problem. Applicable
Analysis and Discrete Mathematics, 1, 111–121, 2007.http://pefmath.etf.bg.ac.yu
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3. On sums of integrals of powers of the zeta-function in short intervals. Dirichlet
Series, Automorphic Forms, and Analytic Number Theory (eds. S. Friedberg et al.),
Proceedings Symposia Pure Mathematics, Vol. 75, AMS, Providence, Rhode Island,
231–242, 2006. http://www.ams.org
4. On the Riemann zeta-function and the divisor problem IV. Uniform Distribution
Theory, 1, 125–135, 2006. http://udt.mat.savba.sk
5. On moments of |ζ(½ + it)| in short intervals. Ramanujan Math. Soc. LNS2,
The Riemann zeta function and related themes: Papers in honour of Professor
K. Ramachandra (Proc. Conference held at Bangalore 13–15 Dec. 2003, eds. R.
Balasubramanian and K. Srinivas), 2006, 81–97. http://www.ramanujanmathsociety.
org/docs/lns/ln-issue2-contents.pdf
6. (with P. Sargos, Nancy): On the higher moments of the error term in the divisor
problem. Illinois Journal of Mathematics, 81, 353–377, 2007.
http://www.math.uiuc.edu/˜ijm/
7. On exponential sums with Hecke series at central points. Functiones et
Approximatio, 37, 7–35, 2007. http://www.functiones.amu.edu.pl
8. (with M.N. Huxley, Cardiff): Subconvexity for the Riemann zeta-function and
the divisor problem. Bulletin CXXXIV de l’Académie Serbe des Sciences et des Arts,
Classe des Sciences mathématiques et naturelles, Sciences mathématiques, 32, 13–
32, 2007. http://www.emis.de/journals/BSANU
In [2], new mean square results in the classical Rankin-Selberg problem involving
holomorphic cusp forms are obtained, using different analytic methods, In [6], power
moments in the divisor problem are investigated and new results obtained for the third
and fourth moments. Paper [7] deals with the estimation of exponential sums with
Hecke series, with applications to the Riemann zeta-function. The other papers deal
directly with the Riemann zeta function. The accent is on the connection between the
zeta-function and the divisor problem (as in [1] and [4]), or on power moments on the ½
-line, as in [3] and [5].
A. Ivić spent two weeks in June 2007 at the Dipartimento Ingegneria Matematica
Applicata, University of Salerno at Fisciano (Italy), participating in their seminar. He
also had a communication at the international meeting “25th Journées Arithmetiqués” at
the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, in July 2007.
Project: QUALITATIVE AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF SOME CLASSES
OF DIFFERENTIAL AND DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS
(Academician Vojislav Marić)
Two kinds of problems were studied: 1. problems related to the approximation of
solutions in the boundary layer of some non-linear differential equations; 2. regularity
and asymptotic of solutions of some classes of functional differential equations.
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Kusano T., Marić V., Tanigawa T., 2007: The asymptotic behaviour of a class
nonlinear second-order differential equations. Bulletin ��
of the London Mathematical
Society, 39, 413–418.
Kusano T., Marić V., 2007: Slowly varyng solutions of functional differential
equations with retarded and advanced arguments. Georgian Mathematical Journal,
14, 301–314.
Kusano T., Marić V., 2007: Regularl��
y varying solutions to functional differential
equations with deviating argument. Bulletin CXXXIV de l’Académie Serbe des
Sciences et des Arts, Classe des Sciences mathématiques et naturelles, Sciences
mathématiques, 32, 105–128.
Adžić D., Ovcin Z., 2006: Iterative pseudo-spectral approximation for nonlinear
singularly perturbed problems. XVII Conference on Applied Mathematics, Đ. Herceg,
H. Zarin, eds. Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Novi Sad.
Project: APPLICATIONS OF THE VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLES OF
MECHANICS TO NONLINEAR AND NONCONSERVATIVE DYNAMICAL
SYSTEMS
(Academician Božidar D. Vujanović)
During the year 2007, research on the Project was accomplished in accordance to
the general Plan, the outlines of which were described in the Proposal of the Project.
The main effort during the last year was devoted to the study and application of
the action conservation laws of scleronomic, rheonomic, linear and non-linear dynamic
systems with a single degree of freedom, which are formulated as two-point boundary
value problems. In addition to combining direct methods for obtaining approximate
solutions, the possibility of finding complete solutions of the Hamilton-Jacobi partial
differential equations were also studied. A report devoted to the main characteristics of
action conservation laws is in preparation.
Project: EQUATIONS WITH SINGULARITIES THROUGH METHODS OF
FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
(Corresponding Member Stevan Pilipović)
Three papers were presented as a part of the scientific work within this project for
2007.
1. Kostić M., Pilipović S., 2007: Convoluted C-operator families and abstract
Cauchy problems. Kragujevac Journal of Mathematics, 30, 201–210.
2. Carmichael R.D., Eida A., Pilipović S., 2007: Microlocalization within some
classes of Fourier hyperfunctions. Modern trends in pseudo-differential operators, 329–
342, Operator Theory: Advances and Applications, 172, Birkhäuser, Basel.
3. Pilipović S., Stoeva D., Teofanov N., 2007: Frames for Frechet Spaces.
Bulletin CXXXIV de l’Académie Serbe des Sciences et des Arts, Classe des Sciences
mathématiques et naturelles, Sciences mathématiques, 32, 69–94.
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The first paper is related to the solvability of abstract Cauchy problems through
C-Semigroups and C-Cosine functions.
The second paper deals with some classes of microfunctions aimed at the analysis
of a support and a wave front at infinity for some classes of tempered ultradistributions.
In the third paper, a new concept of frame theory is introduced; frames in Frecher
spaces. With this, the analyses of the regularity properties of frame expansions were
enabled.
Project: INTERPOLATION AND QUADRATURE PROCESSES BASED ON
THE THEORY OF ORTHOGONALITY
(Corresponding Member Gradimir V. Milovanović)
Quadrature processes were investigated and quadratures of the highest
degree of precision constructed. In paper [1], Gaussian quadratures for highly
oscillatory functions, which are exact on the subspace spanned by the functions
are considered. The existence of such
quadratures was solved partially. In paper [3], some conjectures connected with these
quadratures are considered. The existence and uniqueness of the Gaussian interval
quadrature formula with respect to the Hermite weight function on a real line is proved
in [2]. Recently, similar results for the Jacobi weight, Numerische Mathematik (2004,
2006), and for the generalized Laguerre weight, Journal of Applied and Computational
Mathematics (2005), were obtained. Numerical construction of the Gauss-Hermite
interval quadrature rule was also investigated and a suitable algorithm is proposed.
Among the results is also the monograph: Interpolation Processes - Basic Theory and
Applications, G. Mastroianni, and G. V. Milovanović, which has just been finished and
given to Springer-Verlag for the Springer Monographs in Mathematics.
1. Milovanović G.V., Cvetković A.S., Stanić M.P., 2007: Gaussian quadratures
for oscillatory integrands. Applied Mathematics Letters, 20, 853–860.
2. Milovanović G.V., Cvetković A.S., 2007: Gauss-Hermite interval quadrature
rule. Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 54, 544–555.
3. Milovanović G.V., Cvetković A.S., Stanić M.P., 2007: Two conjectures for
integrals with oscillatory integrands. Facta Universitatis Series Mathematics &
Informatics, 22, 77–90.
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PHYSICS AND METEOROLOGY
Project: STATISTICALITY AND CAUSALITY IN QUANTUM
MECHANICS
(Academician Fedor Herbut)
One of the basic laws of quantum mechanics, the law of probability, was derived
in two ways in two articles. In the first one, the mathematical structure of two unitaries
for bipartite pure states was studied in detail. Utilizing this theory, the mentioned law
was derived from the concept of minimal measurement.
Herbut F., 2007: Quantum probability law from ′environment-assisted invariance′
in terms of pure-state twin unitaries. Journal of Physics A, 40, 5949–5971.
Herbut F., 2007: Derivation of the quantum probability law from minimal non/
demolition measurement. Journal of Physics A, 40, 10549–10555.
Project: NUMERICAL
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SIMULATION OF WEATHER AND CLIMATE
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Academician Fedor Mesinger)
Activities within this project were aimed at further refinement of the Eta model, and also
at the applications of the model for regional weather and climate purposes. The refined
Eta discretization, via the earlier developed introduction of “sloping steps” (Mesinger,
Jović) , was further improved. A problem was identified with the “slantwise advection”
in this code performed using the centered Arakawa-Lorenz vertical advection scheme,
also frequently used in other models, and the scheme was replaced by a scheme with
ideal conservation properties, thereby correcting the problem. Numerous additional real
data cases were run (Jović, Lazić, Živković) and the robustness of the sloping steps addon code was confirmed in real-time running by Živković. The Arakawa-Lorenz vertical
advection was noticed to have led to problems also in the advection of dynamic variables
by way of a false advection from below the ground. Its replacement by а piecewiselinear scheme led to a remarkable improvement in case of a severe downslope “zonda”
wind in the lee of the Andes.
One task worked on in 2007 was the initialization of the model for weather
prediction purposes using a modified form of the so-called super-Matsuno scheme
(Lazić). Another subproject addressed the effects of the release of contaminants into
the atmosphere above Serbia (Lazić, Mijić). Verification of the Eta model forecasts for
purposes of estimating power plant winds was another application of the model (Lazić,
Živković). The impact of different definitions of lateral boundary conditions in limited
area models was studied by a comparison of the Eta scheme with the Davies relaxation
scheme, used in almost all other models, with encouraging preliminary results in favor
of the Eta scheme (Veljović, Mesinger, Lazić, Rajković).
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Marković D.M., Marković D.A., Jovanović A., Lazić L., Mijić Z., 2007:
Determination of O3, NO2, SO2, CO and PM10 measured in Belgrade urban area.
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. Publisher Springer Netherlands (Print)
1573-2959 (Online). Online first-DOI: 10.1007/s10661-007-0044-1
Web: http://www.springerlink.com/content/102878/?Content+Status=Accepted
Mesinger F., 2007: Bias adjusted precipitation threat scores. Geophysical
Research Abstracts, Vol. 9, EGU General Assembly 2007.
Mesinger F., Chou S.C., Gomes J., Jovic D., 2007: The eternal vertical coordinate
issue: sigma, eta, sloping steps eta update, and a severe downslope wind case study.
Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 9, EGU General Assembly 2007.
Xue Y., Vasic R., Janjic Z., Mesinger F., Mitchell K.E., 2007: Assessment of
dynamic downscaling of the continental U.S. regional climate using the Eta/SSiB
Regional Climate Model. Journal of Climate, 20, 4172–4193.
Mesinger F., 2007: Bias adjusted precipitation threat scores. Submitted to Weather
Forecasting. Available online at http://www.rap.ucar.edu/projects/icp/references.html
Project: PHYSICAL AND MATHEMATICAL MODEL FOR MESOSCALE
ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES
(Corresponding Member Zaviša Janjić)
The general objective of the project was to develop a physical and numerical
model of the atmosphere which could be used for the simulation and forecasting of
atmospheric processes, as well as for studies of environmental problems, including meso
scales. The project leader is Prof. Zaviša Janjić, corresponding member of SASA, and the
collaborators were Prof. Borivoj Rajković and Ana Vuković, meteorologist, University
of Belgrade, Serbia, Prof. Milivoj Gavrilov, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje,
Macedonia, and Gordana Jovanović, meteorologist, the Hydrometeorological Institute
of Serbia.
Work on validation and further improvements of the model components,
preprocessing, postprocessing and computer graphics systems continued in 2007.
The emphasis was again placed on parameterizations of physical processes, and in
particular on the land surface processes and simulation of moisture movement in soil. A
predictability study was performed using a global model indicating that predictability is
not limited only by uncertainties in initial conditions, but also by variability of the basic
physical parameters, such as the radius of the Earth.
Gavrilov M.B., Jovanović G.R., Janjić Z.I., 2007: The Sensitivity of a LongRange Numerical Weather Forecasting Model to Small Changes of the Earth Radius. 8th
European Conference on Applications of Meteorology (ECAM), 1–5 October 2007,
San Lorenco de El Escorial, Spain.
Steppeler J., Bitzer H.W., Janjic Z., Schättler U., Prohl P., Gjertsen U., Torrisi
L., Parfinievicz J., Avgoustoglou E., Damrath U., 2006: Prediction of Clouds and Rain
Using a z-Coordinate Nonhydrostatic Model. Monthly Weather Review, 134 (12)
(December 2006), 3625–3643.
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Yongkang X., Vasic R., Janjic Z., Mesinger F., Mitchell K.E., 2007: Assessment
of Dynamic Downscaling of the Continental U.S. Regional Climate Using the Eta/SSiB
Regional Climate Model. Journal of Climate, 20 (16), 4172–4193.
Janjic Z., Black T., 2007: An ESMF unified model for a broad range of spatial
and temporal scales. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 9, 05025, 2007, SRef-ID:
1607-7962/gra/EGU2007-A-05025, European Geosciences Union, General Assembly
15–20 April 2007, Vienna, Austria.
Coniglio M.C., Kain J.S., Weiss S.J., Bright D.R., Levit J.J., Xue M., Weisman
M. L., Janjic Z.I., Pyle M., Du J., Stensrud D., 2007: Evaluating WRF model output
for severe-weather forecasting: The 2007 NOAA HWT Spring Experiment. 22nd
Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting / 18th Conference on Numerical
Weather Prediction, American Meteorological Society, 25–29 June 2007, Park City,
Utah.
Janjic Z., Black T., Pyle M., Manikin G., Rogers E., Chuang H.Y., DiMego G.,
2007: The NCEP’s WRF NMM and hazardous weather prediction. 22nd Conference
on Weather Analysis and Forecasting / 18th Conference on Numerical Weather
Prediction, American Meteorological Society, 25–29 June 2007, Park City, Utah.
Weiss S.J., Kain J.S., Bright D.R., Levit J.J., Pyle M., Janjic Z.I., Ferrier B., Du J.,
Weisman M.L., Xue M., 2007: The NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed: Collaborative
testing of ensemble and convection-allowing WRF models and subsequent transfer to
operations at the Storm Prediction Center. 22nd Conference on Weather Analysis
and Forecasting/18th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction, American
Meteorological Society, 25–29 June 2007, Park City, Utah.
http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/124772.pdf
Janjic Z., Black T., Pyle M., Manikin G., Rogers E., Chuang H.Y., DiMego G.,
2007: The NCEP’s WRF NMM and hazardous weather prediction. IUGG XXIV
General Assembly, 2–13 July 2007, Perugia, Italy.
Janjic Z., 2007: A unified atmospheric model suitable for studying transport
of mineral aerosols from meso to global scales. WMO/GEO Expert Meeting on
an International Sand and Dust Storm Warning System Meeting, 7–9 November,
Barcelona, Spain.
Project: DYNAMICS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM BODIES
(Academicians Božidar D. Vujanović and Fedor Mesinger)
Topic: Chaos and stability in the motion of small solar system bodies
(Dr. Zoran Knežević)
Mapping of the phase space of orbital elements was completed in the regions of the
asteroid families Koronis and Veritas. It was found that most of the asteroids, members of
these families, fulfill the 3-jet condition for the application of the Nekhoroshev theorem.
A significantly smaller number of objects fulfill conditions of either convexity or quasiconvexity, while only a few percents of the examined population fulfill neither of the
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conditions. Thus, the possibility of the direct application of the Nekhoroshev theorem to
a real system was verified
Work was continued on the development of methods for the preliminary
determination of the orbit of an asteroid and for the linkage of observations for the next
generation of observational surveys. We solved The general problem of multiple solutions,
and in particular for the observations in the so-called sweet spots (near quadratures) were
solved. Generalization of the existing solution for the geocentric observations to the case
of topocentric observations for the classical methods of Gauss and Laplace, as well as
comparison of these methods from the viewpoint of preliminary mass orbit computation,
led to the development of optimized methods and procedures, which were successfully
tested on simulated samples of the expected observational output of the next generation
surveys. Also, a proposal for an improved algorithm to define what can be considered a
discovery of a small solar system body was completed and published.
Also research on the chaotic nature of motion of asteroids in resonant regions
was continued. The problem of the determination of the speed of chaotic diffusion as a
function of the initial position in the chaotic zone was considered with the mechanisms
of chaotic transport and with an attempt towards a comprehensive explanation of the
observed macroscopic distribution of asteroids in the (5, -2, -2) resonance. Preliminary
results showed good qualitative agreement with the observations, although quantitatively
there were still differences in the diffusion rates found in Monte Carlo simulations and
those that would fully account for the observed distribution.
Results of this research were presented at two international scientific meetings:
Theory and Applications of Dynamical Systems, Spoleto, Italy; Latest Progress in
Astrophysics, Athens, Greece.
Topic: Motion of major planets and satellites of major planets
(Vojislava Protić-Benišek, MA)
In 2007 and within the framework of the international campaign “Mutual Events of
the Uranian Satellites 2007–2008”, five events (occultations and eclipses of satellites)
were successfully observed. Due to particularly bad weather and unfavorable conditions
for operation of the Meade 16” telescope, slightly fewer events were registered than
expected. Regular astrometrical and photometrical observations of asteroids and comets
were made and the results were submitted to the Minor Planet Center, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, USA. Some data were also sent to the IMCCE center in Paris.
In 2007, Goran Damljanović, collaborator on this topic, successfully defended his
PhD thesis “Improvement of the accuracy of proper motions of stars of the Hipparcos
catalog on the basis of optical latitude observations” (Mathematical Faculty, University
of Belgrade). He also worked on the derivation of precise corrections of proper motions
in declination of Hipparcos stars observed with 26 instruments throughout the world. He
used his own method which was additionally improved in 2007. Input latitude data are
astronomical ERP (Earth Rotation Programs) observations. EOC-2 catalog served for
checking our hitherto obtained results; the agreement was found to be satisfactory. This
research has as its goal the improvement of the referent Hipparcos catalog, since the
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accuracy of proper motions decreases with time. After removal of the detected systematic
errors, both satellite (Hipparcos) and corresponding ground based observations, with
weights inversely proportional to the errors of coordinates of considered stars, were
included in the computation of the corrections
The results of this research were presented at two international scientific meetings:
European Symposium on Occultation Projects, Stara Lesna, Slovakia; Journées 2007
Systémes de Référence Spatio Temporels: The Celestial Reference Frame for the Future,
Paris, France.
Milani A., Gronchi G.F., Knežević Z., 2007: New definition of discovery for solar
system objects. Earth, Moon, Planets, 100, 83–116.
Knežević Z., 2007: Preliminary orbit determination with topocentric correction.
Latest Progress in Astrophysics, Athens, Book of Abstracts, 3.
Todorović N., Pavlović R., Knežević Z., 2007: Diffusion in Hamiltonian Systems:
from Maps to the Real World. Theory and Applications of Dynamical Systems,
Spoleto, Abstracts, 7.
Pavlović R., 2007: Third derivatives of the integrable part of an asteroid
Hamiltonian.� Serbian Astronomical Journal, 174, 53–60.
Protitch-Benishek V., Grnja J., Benishek Vl., 2007: Notes on the Most Important
Phenomena Detected During 120 Years of the Belgrade Astronomical Observatory.
XXVI ESOP 2007, Slovakia, Book of Abstracts, 6.
Protitch-Benishek V., Benishek Vl., 2007: Seventy-five Years of Occultation
Observations from BAO. XXVI ESOP 2007, Slovakia, Book of Abstracts, 8.
Benishek Vl., Protitch-Benishek V., 2008, CCD Photometry of Seven Asteroids at
the Belgrade Astronomical Observatory. Minor Planet Bulletin, 35, No. 1, 28–30.
Damljanović G., 2007: Better proper motions accuracy for stars with Hipparcos
satellite and ground-based observations. Book of Abstracts of the Journées 2007
Systémes de Référence Spatio - Temporels: The Celestial Reference Frame for the
Future. Observatoire de Paris, Book of Abstracts, 24.
Project: SHAPES AND SHIFTS OF SPECTRAL LINES IN GAS PLASMAS AND
ELECTRIC GAS DISCHARGES
(Academician Nikola Konjević)
A comparative study of the radial intensity distribution of the excessively Doppler
broadened hydrogen Hα line in a hollow cathode (HC) glow discharge operated in
hydrogen and argon-hydrogen gas mixtures with a stainless steel (SS) or titanium (Ti)
cathode was reported. The main interest of this work was focused on the dependence
of the radial distribution on the cathode material and the cathode surface composition.
Analysis of experimental radial distributions and the results obtained from the simulation
of the H+ → metal surface interaction combined with available data for H → metal target
interaction explains the difference between the SS and Ti cathodes. These results also
explain the important role of metal hydrides at the cathode surface for discharge → HC
interaction and its temperature dependence.
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The analysis of the Hα and Dα profiles indicates that the line profile represents
a convolution of three Gaussian profiles resulting from different collision excitation
processes. The average energy of excited deuterium atoms determined from the width of
the broadest Gaussian is about 86 eV in both HCs. In Ar/D2/H2 gas mixtures, the energies
are in the range from 33 eV to 47 eV but with a much larger contribution of this Gaussian
to the Balmer alpha profile. In discharges with hydrogen isotopes, the energy derived
from the medium-width Gaussian is in the range from 4 eV to 6 eV, while in gas mixtures
it is between 1 eV and 2 eV. The width of the narrowest Gaussian slightly exceeds the
instrumental broadening and it was always below 0.5 eV.
Optical emission spectroscopy was used for the determination of excited hydrogen
molecule rotational, Trot, and vibrational, Tvib, temperature. For all temperatures, the
radial temperature distribution was reported. The experiment was performed using
copper or titanium hollow cathode discharges operating in pure hydrogen. The rotational
temperature of excited hydrogen molecules was used to derive the translational
temperature of hydrogen molecules.
Šišović N.M., Majstorović G.Lj., Konjević N., 2007: Excessive Doppler
broadening of the Hα line in a hollow cathode glow discharge: Radial distribution,
influence of surface coverage and temperature effect. European Physical Journal D,
41, 143–150.
Majstorović G.Lj., Šišović N.M., Konjević N., 2007: Spectroscopic study of
high energy excited deuterium atoms in a hollow cathode glow discharge. Physics of
Plasmas, 14, 043504-9.
Majstorović G.Lj., Šišović N.M., Konjević N., 2007: Rotational and vibrational
temperatures of molecular hydrogen in a hollow cathode glow discharge. Plasma
Sources Science and Technology, 16, 750–756.
Ivković M., Jovićević S., Žikić R., Konjević N., 2007: Application of spectral
lines for low electron density plasma diagnostics. VI Serbian-Belarussian symposium
on physics and diagnostics of laboratory and astrophysical plasma, Belgrade,
Serbia, 22–25 August 2006, Eds.: Ćuk M., Dimitrijević M.S., Purić J., Milovanović N.,
Publications of the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade, No. 82, 117–128.
Šišović N.M., Majstorović G.Lj., Konjević N., 2007: Excessive Doppler
broadening of Hα and Dα line in a hollow cathode glow discharge. Ibid., 183–200.
Konjević N., Ivković M. Jovićević S., 2007: Low-electron density plasma
diagnostics by optical emission spectroscopy. XVIIth Symposium on Physics of
Switching Arc Phenomena, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic,
September 10–13, 2007, Vol. II, Invited papers, Eds.: Aubrecht V., Bartlova M., BrnoLetohrad, 27–36.
Konjević N., Šišović N.M., Majstorović G.M., 2007: Spectroscopic study of a glow
discharge-surface interaction using the Balmer alpha line shape of hydrogen isotopes.
European Working Group for Glow Discharge (EW-GDS), Brussels, September 14,
abstract only.
Konjević N., Šišović N.M., Majstorović G.M., 2007: Balmer alpha line shape of
hydrogen isotopes for monitoring discharge-metal surface interaction. XVII Symposium
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on Condensed Matter Surface SFKM, 16–20 September 2007, Vršac, Program and
Contributed Papers, Eds.: Žikić R., Popović Z.M., Damnjanović M., Radović Z.,
Institute of Physics, Belgrade, 220, one page abstract.
Šišović N.M., Majstorović G.Lj., Konjević N., 2007: Radial distribution of the
excessively Doppler broadened hydrogen Balmer alpha line in a titanium hollow cathode
glow discharge. XXVIII International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases,
July 16–20, Contributed papers, Eds.: Schmidt J., Šimek M., Pekarek S., Institute of
Plasma Physics AS CR, I, Prague. Czech Republic, 1926–1929.
Majstorović G.Lj., Šišović N.M., Konjević N., 2007: Radial distribution of the
excessively Doppler broadened deuterium Balmer alpha line in a titanium hollow cathode
glow discharge. Ibid., 1930–1933.
Project: AFFINE SYMMETRY OF PHYSICAL LAWS
(Corresponding Member Đorđe Šijački)
Spinorial representations of the space-time symmetries of quantum extended objects of p
space-like dimensions, “p-branes”, were investigated. The spinning p-brane description
and its proper physical interpretation depends on the topological, group-theoretical and
unitarity features of the General Coordinate Transformations group Diff(d,R) in d = p + 1
dimensions. The topology of the Diff(d,R) group is given by the topology of its maximal
compact subgroup SO(d). An explicit construction of the physically relevant (unitary
irreducible) spinorial representations of the Diff(d,R) and/or SL(d,R), d>2, covering
groups was presented. These representations are necessarily infinite dimensional. The
correct physical interpretation of the p-brane theory in the Special Relativity limit
was achieved by employing the SL(d,R) algebra “deunitarizing” automorphism. The
non-linear realization techniques were utilized to relate the Diff(d,R) spinors to the
corresponding SL(d,R) ones (arXiv:0709.3111).
The SU(5/1) superalgebra provides a way to unify the symmetries of strong
and electroweak interactions, as well as quarks and leptons of both chiralities. The 16dimensional representation of the SU(5/1) algebra, which accommodates all particles of
one generation of fundamental fermions, was explicitly constructed.
Šijački Đ., 2007: SU(5/1) supergroup and its representation 16 of one generation
of fundamental fermions. Journal of Research in Physics, 31, 90–93.
Project: N-REPRESENTABILITY PROBLEM
(Corresponding Member Milan Damnjanović)
The set of the single particle states obtainable as the reduced N-fermion pure states was
analyzed by the topological and symmetry techniques. The space of the pure N-particle
states was stratified into the orbits of the action of the groups U(dN) and Nth direct
power UN(d) (where d is the dimension of the single particle state). This resulted in the
classification of the N-particle states which were reduced into the same single particle
state, while it turned out that the total set of the single particle states obtained as the
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reduced single particle states was a rotational polytope. The work on this problem will
be continued with the analysis of the possibility to apply the results to the variational
problems within the density functional theory and physical interpretation of the expected
results in the physics of nanotubes, when the ground state is not a Slater determinant.
Damnjanović M., Nikolić B., Milošević I., 2007: Symmetry of arbitrary layer
rolled-up nanotube. Physical Review B, 75, 033404.
Viršek M., Jesih A., Milošević I., Damnjanović M., Remškar M., 2007: Raman
scattering of the MoS2 and WS2 single nanotubes. Surface Science, 601, 2868–2872.
Mohr M., Machon M., Thomsen C., Milošević I., Damnjanović M., Mixing of
the fully symmetric vibrational modes in carbon nanotubes. Physical Review B, 75,
195401.
Mohr M., Maultzsch J., Dobardžić E., Reich S., Milošević I., Damnjanović M.,
Bosak A., Krisch M., Thomsen C., 2007: Phonon dispersion of graphite by inelastic xray scattering. Physical Review B, 76, 0354391.
Vuković T., Damnjanović M., 2007: Diffraction intensity and symmetry of singlewall carbon nanotubes. Nanotechnology, 18, 375708.
Milošević I., Popović Z., Volonakis G., Logothetidis S., Damnjanović M.,
2007: Electromechanical switch based on pentaheptite nanotubes. Physical Review B,
76,115406.
INTERDEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE DЕFICIENCY OF SELENIUM AND
MAGNESIUM IN SERBIA
(Academician Zoran Maksimović)
Investigations of the health effects of deficiencies of selenium, magnesium and other
essential nutrients, as well as the effects of food of plant and animal origin enriched
with selenium or another deficient nutrient were continued on animals and human
populations. Investigations of the effects of the use of drink made of quail eggs
enriched with selenium and other deficient nutrients and crops foliarly treated with
selenium on health were also continued. In addition to classical biochemical parameters,
non-invasive methods for the early detection of disorders of the contents of the essential
and toxic elements in hair, pH value of saliva and bioresonant diagnostics were also
included. Apart from the conditionally healthy population, the investigation also covered
persons suffering from chronic diseases, such as asthma, type 2 diabetes, hyper- and
hypothyroidism, multiple sclerosis, cancer, as well as patients on a parenteral diet. They
consumed a specially designed liquid drink made of whole quail eggs for 8 - 14 weeks.
In all of them, an improvement in their general state of health was observed and optimal
results were obtained with persons with chronic diseases (1-3 years).
The activity of glutathione dependent enzymes: glutathione peroxidase-GSH-Px,
glutathione reductase-GR and enzyme phase II biotransformation GST in the foot of
three freshwater mussel species from the Sava River (Serbia) were investigated. The
obtained results show tissue and species-specifity of the investigated enzymes. The study
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represents the first comprehensive report of the investigated enzymes in the foot of three
freshwater mussel species from the Sava River.
The changes of antioxidant enzyme activities (catalase - CAT, glutathione
peroxidase - GSH-Px, glutathione reductase - GR and glutathione-S-transferase - GST,
as well as dehydroascorbate reductase-DHAR) in the mitochondria of European Corn
Borer (Ostrinia nubilalis) were investigated. The obtained results showed that the
investigated enzymes play a similar role in the regulation of the mitochondrial energetics
and in diapauses and metamorphosis.
The changes in the anti-oxidant enzyme activities (copper zinc containing
superoxide dismutase - CuZn SOD, catalase - CAT, glutathione peroxidase - GSH-Px,
glutathione reductase - GR and glutathione-S-transferase - GST) in the blood of patients
with liver echinococcosis were investigated. The aim of this study was to establish the
influence of larval form of parasite (Echinococcus granulosus) in the liver on the activity
of the investigated enzymes in the blood of patients before and after surgical treatment.
According to the available data, this paper represents the first study of anti-oxidant
defense enzymes in patients with chronic liver echinococcosis before and after operation
with respect to clinically healthy persons.
The anti-oxidant effect of coenzyme Q10 and Vitamin E on the changes of the antioxidant enzyme activities in the heart of Wister albino rats treated with cadmium was
studied. The obtained results support the assumption that coenzyme Q10 and Vitamin E
functions cooperatively with endogenous antioxidants and diminished some toxic effects
of cadmium in rat hearts.
The changes in the antioxidant enzyme activities (superoxide dismutase - SOD,
catalase - CAT, glutathione peroxidase - GSH-Px, glutathione reductase - GR and
glutathione-S-transferase - GST) in red blood cells of rats treated with phenylhydrazine
were studied. The obtained results show that oxidative stress was followed by
elevated activities of anti-oxidant enzymes in the red blood cells of rats treated with
phenylhydrazine compared with controls.
The correlation between the increased leucocytes count and the level of hydrogen
peroxide in the erythrocytes in women with pre-eclampsia was studied. The investigated
disease is characterized with elevated blood pressure and proteinuria. The obtained
results show a statistically significant correlation between leukocyte count and hydrogen
peroxide and lipid peroxide in the erythrocytes of women with pre-eclampsia. These
results show that the erythrocytes of women with pre-eclampsia have the capability for
hydrogen peroxide removal.
Perendija B.R., Borković S.S., Kovačević T.B., Pavlović S.Z., Stojanović B.D.,
Paunović M.M., Cakić P.D., Radojičić R.M., Pajović S.B., Saičić Z.S., 2007: Glutathione
dependent enzyme activites in the foot of three freshwater mussel species. Archives of
Biological Sciences, Belgrade, 59, 169–175.
Jovanović-Galović A., Blagojević D.P., Grubor-Lajšić G., Worland M.R., Spasić
M.B., 2007: Antioxidant defense in mitochondria during diapause and postdiapause
development of European corn borer (Ostrinia Nubilalis, Hubn.). Archives of Insect
Biochemistry and Physiology, 64, 111–119.
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Lilić A., Denčić S., Pavlović S.Z., Blagojević D.P., Spasić M.B., Stanković N.S.,
Saičić Z.S., 2007: Activity of antioxidative defense enzymes in the blood of patients
with liver echinococcosis. Vojnosanitetski pregled, 64, 235–240.
Ognjanovi��
ć B.I.��
, Marković S.D., Pavlović S.Z., Žikić R.V., Štajn A.Š., Saičić ZS.,
2007: Antioxidant effect of coenzyme Q10 and vitamin E in cadmium induced alterations
of antioxidant defense system in the rat heart. A Scientific Conference with International
participation and with CME certificates for atherosclerosis prevention: Nutrition,
Treatment and Cardiovascular Risk Management, Novi Sad, Serbia, May 24–27,
Book of Abstracts, p. 112.
Aleksić S., Obradović A., Vukajlović M.Đ., Ognjanović B.I., Štajn A.Š., Žikić
R.V., Saičić Z.S., Spasić M.B., Marković S.D., 2007: Antioxidative enzyme activities
in red blood cells of phenylhydrazine and bleeding treated rats. XI Congress of
Hematology with International Participation, Novi Sad, Serbia, September 27–30.
Bulletin of Hematology, 35, 146.
Đorđević N.Z., Babić G.M., Marković S.D., Ognjanović B.I., Štajn A.Š., Žikić
R.V., Saičić Z.S., 2007: Correlation between increased leucocytes count and levels
of hydrogen peroxide in erythrocytes of women with preclampsia. XI Congress of
Hematology with International Participation, Novi Sad, Serbia, September 27–30.
Bulletin of Hematology, 35, 149.
Lalić T.D., Đujić I.S., 2007: Health
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information’s that offer non-invasive diagnostic
to specific persons. A conference with international particiapation, Nutrition, treatment
and cardiovascular risk management, 24–27 May 2007, Novi Sad,� Abs Book, 43,
www.physiology.org.yu /eng/htm/konf2007
Đujić I.S., Lalić T.D., 2007: Oxidative Stress Reduction by Bio-resonance Therapy
and Functional Food Products in Patients with Cancer.��
A conference with international
particiapation, Nutrition, treatment and cardiovascular risk management, 24–27
May 2007, Novi Sad, Abs Book, p. 22, www.physiology.org.yu /eng/htm/konf2007 �
Đujić I.S., Lalić T.M., 2007: Variations in magnesium distribution and cardiovascular
disorders. The VIth Romanian Symposium on Magnesium with International
participation, 27–28 September 2007, Iasi, Plenary lecture, Abs book, p. 24, www.
editurastef.ro
Đujić I., Jeremić S., 2007: Exposure of Serbian Residents to toxic elements.
Proceedings from XI International Eco-conference, 26–29 September 2007, Novi
Sad, Environmental Protection of Urban and Suburban Settlements Proc. Book II, 47–
53. www.ekopokret.org.yu
Đujić I., 2007: Benefits of foliar treating crops with selenium in low selenium
areas. International Inovation Conference, Inovation & Health and Safe Human
Environment, 29–30 November 2007, Belgrade, Abs Book, p. 22, Proc BAI2007003,
p. 1–8.
Đujić I., 2007: Nutritionally valuable poultry egg beverages production - Health
benefits, International Inovation Conference, Inovation & Health and Safe Human
Environment, 29–30 November 2007, Belgrade, Abs Book, p. 23, Proc BAI2007004,
p. 1–8.
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Recognized Patents in 2007
Đujić, I., Milovac M., The Foliar Fertilization Method for Producing Plants
with the Desired Selenium Content and Distribution (Postupak dobijanja folijarnog
prihranjivanja radi dobijanja biljaka sa željenim sadržajem i distribucijom selena),
Register of Patents of the Intellectual Property Office, No. 49786
Đujić, I., Milovac M., Combination for Foliar Plant Fertilization with Selenium
Salts and Urea (Kombinacija za folijarnu prihranu biljaka solima selena i ureom),
Register of Patents of the Intellectual Property Office, No. 49797.
INTERDEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE KARST OF SERBIA AND
SPELEOLOGY
Interdepartmental project: KARST OF SERBIA
Speleological, hydrological and archaeological explorations were carried out. The
speleological exploration of the 8 metre deep pit at the top of Mt Rtanj was carried out.
This pit is an extension to the cave system that is longer than 1,200 metres. Six caves
were also explored: two at the source of the Crni Timok and four in the Radovanska river
basin. All caves were marked with a code at the entrance, while surveying was done
using remote control laser, which accelerates the work two or three times relative to the
conventional surveying method, i.e. using a tape.
On the basis of a comparison of satellite and aerial photographs and collected
field data, a detailed analysis of the Krupac catchment area (whose water is used by
Niš) was made with a view to developing the conceptual balance model. It was also
complemented with an analysis of rainfall, melting of snow cover, soil humidity and the
actual evapotranspiration and infiltration, which enabled the development of the balance
model.
The reconnaissance of the caves and rock shelters in the Gradac river canyon near
Valjevo was carried out in part; in the Ribnica river valley, Šalitrena cave was explored
whereby, in the lower strata, Mesolithic artifacts were ascertained. The explorations of
the Balanica cave complex in Sićevo were also continued. In Mala Balanica, Pleistocene
sediments, more than 4 metres thick, were ascertained. On their surface there are findings
from the early Mesolithic period (which are older than 65,000 years). Thus, it follows
that the lower strata with findings are much older.
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INTERACADEMIC COOPERATION OF SASA AND
MONTENGRIN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS
Project: A STUDY OF FOSSIL FLORA AND FAUNA OF MONTENEGRO
Biostratigraphic and paleoecological investigations of palynomorphs from
Paleogene carbonate rocks, connected with a Permian epiplatform, in the Pošćensko
Jezero (Dinarides), were performed. Dasycladales and microbiota from the Upper
Cretaceous and Paleogene deposits of the Peri-Adriatic area (Podgorica) were also
investigated. Fossil Charophyta of the Jurasic and Cretaceouus sediments of Montenegro
and Dalmatia - External Dinarides and western Serbia were presented at the 15th Meeting
of the Group of European Charophytologists (GEC).
Project: RARE EARTH ELEMENTS IN THE BAUXITES OF NIKŠIĆKA ŽUPA
(Corresponding Member Vidojko Jović)
In 2007, the rare earth elements and some other trace elements in bauxites (Ba, Be, Co,
Cs, Ga, Hf, Nb, Rb, Sn, Sr, Ta, Th, U, V, W, Zr, Y) were analyzed - 31 elements in 94
samples of bauxites. The analytical method was ICP-MS (Canada). Four samples of
bauxites from the lower part of the deposit were treated with 10 % HCl (15 times) and
mass losses in the range 37.20 to 44.00 % were established. After extraction, the content
of U and Y remained unchanged, but significant proportions of Th, Sn, Co, V, Sr were
transferred to solution. The light lanthanides (La, Ce, Pr, Nd) to a great extent (about 80
%) were solubilized, confirming the suitability of employed method for the extraction
of lanthanides from bauxites. Some heavy lanthanides (Sm. Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy) were also
extracted, but to a lesser extent, while other lanthanides (Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu) showed
similar contents as in original samples. This means that they were not, or only in very
small quantities, transferred to solution.
Samples from drilling cores from the northern part of the deposit showed higher
contents of lanthanides (especially the light ones) in relation to the southern part of the
deposit. It was established that lanthanides gradually enriched toward the lower part of
the deposit.
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MACEDONIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS
Project: INVESTIGATION OF TERTIARY LAMPROITES
(Corresponding Member Vidojko Jović)
The study of ultrapotassic rocks of the Balkan Peninsula was continued. Bulk analyses
of the age of ultrapotassic volcanic rocks from Macedonia were made using the ArAr method. It was established that the volcanic rocks were formed in the range 6 - 3
millions of years.
Bozovic M., Prelevic D., Cvetkovic V., Romer R., 2007: Neogene volcanism of
Jezevo Brdo (Macedonia): an unusual type of Mediterranean lamproites. European
Geosciences Union, General Assembly 2007, Wien, Austria, Abstracts CD.
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DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL
SCIENCES
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
Project: NEW CATALYTIC SYSTEMS
(Academician Paula Putanov)
The self-regulated behavior of some polymeric materials when adapting to their
environment conditions, especially when applied as biomaterials, is very attractive for
biomedical application. The properties of these materials provide a wide variety of
applications, both for the replacement of body tissues or the temporary overtaking of
some tissue functions.
From a molecular point of view, the mechanisms dominating the present
application of smart materials are related to the dynamics of the polymer molecules and
intermolecular structures as well as to chain degradation processes. Such degradation
opens a new area for growing tissues during the healing of damaged organs. In
many cases, the process is much more complex. In addition to different degradation
processes, enzymes influence changes the chain structure, at first by configuration and
conformational changes.
In this work the conformational properties of alginates in relation to energy
changes produced by the enzymatic conversion of epimer D-manuronic acid residues
to L-guluronic residues were considered. In particular, different radii of gyration obtained
experimentally and the persistent length are related to both conformational models of
alginate chains with different M/G blocks and models of gel structure.
Polymers in the gel state exhibit numerous attractive and unique properties.
Hydrogels, which resemble natural tissues more than any other class of synthetic
bio-materials, are of special interest for bio-medical application. Hydrogels as threedimensional hydrophilic polymeric networks exhibit a thermodynamic compatibility
with water which allows them to swell in aqueous media, while the polymer structure
provides compatibility or at least bioinertness. There are numerous possibilities for
the design such gel structures from both a chemical and physical point of view.
However, new and pragmatic approaches to this multidisciplinary field sometimes
overshadow some serious problems, important for the long term application of
such materials. One of the issues is the anomalous time-temperature relation of some
gels during long term application.
In this work, just the part of the problem related to energetic aspects was
analyzed using the internal variable method. The viscoelastic properties of the
material were considered not in terms of classical rheological models, but using the
approach of fractional derivatives. First the reproducibility level of the experimental
results obtained for living systems by such a method was examined and later the
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generality of its application for systems of constitutionally different gels. The obtained
results were in good agreement with the experimental ones.
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Pajić-Lijaković I., 2007: Rheological
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aspects of structured-gel
implant applications. YUGOMAT 07 International Conference, Herceg Novi,
September 2007, Book of Abstracts P.S.E. 18.
Project: THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS ORIENTED TOWARDS THE
DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRIAL CATALYSIS
The activation procedures of Mo-based catalysts were investigated in terms of their activity
in the reaction of n-hexane isomerization. Temperature programmed activation and oxidation
(TPA/TPO) in different gaseous environments were used to correlate activity/selectivity
properties of the catalyst with the nature of the active phases and with the activation
procedures required for their formation. A beneficial activation procedure giving Mooxycarbide comprised a very low heating rate of l °C/min, 550 °C as the final temperature
and a flow of methane and hydrogen with a preferable 1:4 ratio. In addition, some minimal
time for maintaining both the initial and final temperature constant was required, indicating
the benefit of both the initialization period and the slow aging of the active phase. Neither
a different diluent (He) nor another gas as the C-source (CO, n-hexane) gave an active
catalyst. The catalyst activity can be enhanced by exposing it to air at room temperature
and decaying in the same environment at 300 °C.
Sulfated zirconia (SZ) is a promising catalyst for the isomerization of nalkanes, providing high octane number components for gasoline blending. The reaction
requires a bifunctional catalyst containing metallic and acidic sites. Incorporation of Pt
brings stability to the basic structure of a SZ catalyst and increases the fraction of the
tetragonal crystal phase known to be catalytically active, as well as increasing the takeoff temperature of sulfate groups. In addition, both the activity and selectivity are
improved due to the favorable textural and structural properties. Introduction of the
second metal, such as Re, however, decreases the original activity of the Pt-promoted
SZ catalyst. Incorporated Re acts as an inhibitor to the primary metallic function of Pt-SZ,
constraining its reducibility.
Two types of zirconium(IV) hydroxides were synthesized, differing in the precursor
type and the preparation procedure. The impacts of the origin of the material, the synthesis
parameters, sulfate incorporation and thermal treatment on the morphological, textural
and structural properties of the final material were investigated. Nano-sized particles of 10
- 20 nm diameter were obtained by the sol-gel method when very basic conditions were
applied, while lowering the pH results in bigger sized particles. Zirconium(IV) hydroxide
of nitrate origin obtained by the standard precipitation procedure is attributed with very
small particles of nano-dimensions, as well as the highest surface area and the smallest
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mean pore diameter in the series. The main difference between zirconium(IV) hydroxides
obtained from different precursors lies in the pore-size distribution, which is bimodal in the
case of zirconium(IV) hydroxide of alkoxide origin and monomodal when nitrate was used
as the basic material.
Two series of sulfated zirconia catalysts were synthesized from various precursors by
the corresponding mono- or multi-steps sequence preparations under laboratory conditions.
Their activities/selectivities in the n-hexane isomerization reaction were correlated
to textural, structural and morphological properties. The slightly higher activity of the
commercially sulfated Zr(OH)4 based catalyst is in line with the differences in the SO4²ֿ
content and their thermal stability, textural and structural properties, i.e. the crystallite size
and possible imperfection the incorporation of the sulfate groups in the multi-step synthesis
of the catalyst of nitrate origin. The employment of H2 as the carrier gas resulted in no catalytic
activity regardless of the catalyst precursor, preparation method and calcination temperature.
When the isomerization reaction was performed under He, the relatively short life-time of all
the catalysts samples was caused by rapid deactivation, due to coking in the absence of H2.
Boskovic G., Putanov P., Foettinger K., Vinek H., 2007: Activation of Mo-based
catalyst for paraffins isomerization. Applied Catalysis: A-General, 317 (2), 175–182.
Zarubica A., Boskovic G., Putanov P., 2007: Platinum Promoted Sulfated Zirconia
Catalyst Restrained by Rhenium. EuropaCat VII, Turku/Abo 2007, Finland, Abstracts
P9-66.
Boskovic G., Zarubica A., Putanov P., 2007: Precursor affected properties of
nanostructured sulfated zirconia: morphological, textural and structural correlations.
Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials, 9 (7), 2251–2257.
Zarubica A., Putanov P., Boskovic G., 2007: Content of sulfates and their stability
- key factors determining the catalytic activity of sulfated zirconia catalysts. Journal of
the Serbian Chemical Society, 72 (7), 679–686.
Project: THEORETICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE VIBRONIC, SPINORBIT AND MAGNETIC HYPERFINE STRUCTURE IN POLYATOMIC
MOLECULES
(Corresponding Member Miljenko Perić)
The investigation of vibronic coupling in tetra-atomic molecules was extended to
five-atomic, six-atomic and finally any-atomic linear molecules. Perturbative approaches
for the calculation of vibronic energy levels and wave functions were elaborated. They
were applied in the computations of the structure of the spectra of C5-, C6- and C6+.
Perić M., 2007: A model for the Renner-Teller effect in any linear molecule.
Molecular Physics, 105, 59–69.
Mraković A., Drvendžija M., Samolov A., Petković M., Perić M., 2007: Are the
program packages for molecular structure calculations really black boxes? Journal of
the Serbian Chemical Society, 72, 1329–1341.�
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CHEMISTRY
Project: CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY OF STEROIDS AND
TERPENOIDS AND CHEMICAL INVESTIGATION OF DOMESTIC FLORA
(Academician Milutin Stefanović)
The genus Achillea L. (family Asteraceae, tribe Anthemidae) comprises about 100
species, which occur in temperate regions throughout the Old World, especially on the
higher mountains of the Mediterranean. Due to numerous medicinal properties, the aerial
parts of some members of the genus are widely used in traditional medicine. Published
results on the investigation of wild growing Achillea species collected in Serbia and
Montenegro (A. abrotanoides, A. millefolium, A. crithmifolia, A. clypeolata, A. atrata,
A. lingulata, A. clavena and A. depressa) prompted us to make a survey on the flavonoid,
sesquiterpene lactone and essential oil content of 29 Achillea species inhabiting the
Central Balkans. The alkamide, sesquiterpene-coumarin ether and lignane content of
the respective species were also presented. In light of the chemical constituents of the
species, the biological activity (antimicrobial, anti-oxidative, antitumor, antimalarial,
anti-inflammatory etc.) was presented. Chemotaxonomy within the taxon of the analyzed
species was briefly discussed.
Trifunović S., Aljančić I., 2007: Secondary metabolites of wild growing species
of genus Achillea L. from Central Balkan. In: J. N. Govil, V.K. Singh and R. Bhardwaj,
Recent Progress in Medicinal Plants - Phytomedicines, 16, 139–178, Studium Press,
LLC, USA.
Project: ORIGIN, STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF SEDIMENTARY
ORGANIC MATTER APPLIED TO PROBLEMS OF ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION AND NEW ENERGY SOURCES EXPLORATION
(Academician Dragomir Vitorović)
Environmental and organic geochemical investigations were carried out aimed at the
characterization and classification of type III kerogens and crude oils, the design of new
oil-oil maturity correlation parameters, the characterization of source rocks based on
the distributions of biological marker, the definition of diagenetic processes leading to
the formation of pyrite in coals and sediments and the differentiation of petroleum-type
pollutants and the study of their fate in alluvial sediments and the corresponding water.
Cvetković О., Vrvić M.M., Dragutinović V., Vitorović D., 2006: Preparation of
sedimentary organic matter concentrates by microbiological methods. Acta Biologica
Iugoslavica, serija B Mikrobiologija, 43 (1), 41–54.
Stojanović K., Jovančićević B., Vitorović D., Pevneva G., Golovko J., Golovko
A., 2007: Hierarchy of maturation parameters in oil-source rock correlations. Case study:
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Drmno depression, Southeastern Pannonian Basin, Serbia and Montenegro. Journal
of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 55, 237–251.
Jovančićević B., Vrvić M., Schwarzbauer J., Wehner H., Scheeder G., Vitorović
D., 2007: Organic-geochemical differentiation of petroleum-type pollutants and study of
their fate in Danube alluvial sediments and corresponding water (Pančevo Oil Refinery,
Serbia). Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 183, 225–238.
Stojanović K., Jovančićević B., Vitorović D., Pevneva G., Golovko J., Golovko A.,
2007: New maturation parameters based on naphthalene and phenanthrene isomerization
and dealkylation processes aimed at improved classification of crude oils (Southeastern
Pannonian Basin, Serbia). Geochemistry International, 45, 781–797.
Stojanović K., Jovančićević B., Vitorović D., Golovko J., Pevneva G., Golovko
A., 2007: Evaluation of saturated and aromatic hydrocarbons oil-oil maturity correlation
parameters (SE Pannonian Basin, Serbia). Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society,
72, 1237–1254.
Šolević T., Stojanović K., Bojesen–Koefoed J., Nytoft H.P., Jovančićević B.,
Vitorović D., 2007: Origin
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of oils in the Velebit oil-gas field, SE Pannonian Basin,
Serbia - source rocks characterization based on biological marker distributions. Organic
Geochemistry, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2007.09.003.
Dević G., Pfendt P., 2007: Diagenetic relationship between sulphur species
and formation of pyrite in coals and sediments. Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery,
Utilization, and Environmental Effects, 29, 1487–1498.
Đorđević Lj., Gržetić I., Cvetković O., 2007: Eco-chemical status of the Korbevačka
River (South-Eastern Serbia). Fresenius Environmental Bulletin, 16, 1412–1421.
Stojanović K., Jovančićević B., Vitorović D., Golovko J., Pevneva G., Golovko
A., 2007: Evaluation of saturated and aromatic hydrocarbons oil-oil maturity correlation
parameters by factor and cluster analyses (SE Pannonian Basin, Serbia). 23rd International
Meeting on Organic Geochemistry, Torquay (England), 9–14 September 2007, Book
of Abstracts, 863–864.
Šolević T., Stojanović K., Bojesen-Koefoed J., Nytoft H.P., Jovančićević B.,
Vitorović D., 2007: Search and characterization for the source rocks of oil-gas field
Velebit (SE Pannonian Basin, Serbia) based on biomarker distribution in crude oils.
23rd International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry, Torquay (England), 9–14
September 2007, Book of Abstracts, 919–920.
Jovančićević B., Antić M., Pavlović I., Novaković M., Vrvić M., Schwarzbauer
J., 2007: The fate of petroleum type pollutants in soil and ground waters - monitoring
of changes in native environment and trials of bioremediation (Petroleum Refinery
Pančevo, Serbia). International Conference on Quality of Life and Environment in
the Frame of E.U. Sustainability, BENA, Belgrade (Serbia), 15–17 November 2007,
Book of Abstracts, 148–149.
Jovančićević B., Antić M., Pavlović I., Novaković M., Schwarzbauer J., Beškoski
V., Vrvić M., 2007: The fate of petroleum type pollutants in soil during bioremediation
(Pančevo Petroleum Refinery, Serbia). 1st Symposium of Chemistry and Environment,
Miločer-Budva, (Montenegro), 12–15 June 2007, Book of Abstracts, 66.
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Ilić M., Jovančićević B., Antić M., Ljajević-Grbić M., Cvijan M., Vrvić M.,
2007: Surface water microorganisms degrade dominantly petroleum hydrocarbons, 13th
European Congress on Biotechnology, Barcelona (Spain), 16–19 September 2007,
Journal of Biotechnology, S150.
Jovančićević B., Antić M., Pavlović I., Vrvić M., Schwarzbauer J., 2007:
Bioremediation of petroleum polluted soil (Oil Refinery in Pančevo, Serbia). 8th European
Meeting of Environmental Chemistry, Inverness (Scotland), 5–8 December, 2007,
The Book Abstracts, 16.
Šolević T., Milić J., Ilić., Beškoski V., Gojgić-Cvijović G., Jovančićević B., Vrvić
M., 2007: Laboratory study on the ability and efficiency of microbial consortium in
degradation of oil pollutants. 8th European Meeting of Environmental Chemistry,
Inverness (Scotland), 5–8 December, 2007, The Book Abstracts, 36.
Project: SYNTHESIS OF STEROIDAL ANALOGUES OF ARTEMISININ
AND 1,2,4,5-TETRAOXANES
(Corresponding Member Bogdan Šolaja)
Several dicyclohexylidene tetraoxanes were prepared in order to gain a further
insight into structure-activity relationship of this kind of antimalarials. The tetraoxanes
obtained as cis, trans mixtures showed pronounced antimalarial activity against
Plasmodium falciparum chloroquine susceptible D6 (IC50 = 13 - 38 nM), chloroquine
resistant W2 (IC50 = 6 - 30 nM) and the multidrug-resistant TM91C235 (Thailand) (IC50
= 16 - 47 nM) strains. They have better than or similar activity to the corresponding
desmethyl dicyclohexylidene derivatives. In addition, the in vivo activity of epimeric
7α,12α-diacetoxy-5β-cholan-24-amide-3-spiro-6’-(1’,2’,4’,5’-tetraoxacyclohexane)3’-spiro-1“-((4”R and S)-methyl)cyclohexane was evaluated upon s.c. administration.
Both the epimers exhibited cured-all-mice at a dose of 160 mg/kg/day, and the (4”R)epimer cured 1/5 at a dose of 40 mg/kg/day. No toxicity was observed. Two chimeric
endoperoxides with superior antimalarial activity to the natural product ascaridole were
also synthesized.
Hatzakis Е., Opsenica I., Šolaja B.A., Stratakis M., 2007: Synthesis of novel
polar derivatives of the antimalarial endoperoxides ascaridole and dihydroascaridole.
ARKIVOC, (viii) 124–135.
Opsenica I., Opsenica D., Jadranin M., Smith K.K., Milhous W.K., Stratakis
S., Šolaja B.A., 2007: On peroxide antimalarials. Journal of the Serbian Chemical
Society, 72, 1181–1190.
Terzić N., Opsenica D., Milić D., Tinant B., Smith K.S., Milhous W.K., Šolaja
B.A., 2007: Deoxycholic Acid-Derived Tetraoxane Antimalarials and Antiproliferatives.
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 50, 5118–5127.
Opsenica I. M., Milhous W.K., Smith K.S., Šolaja B.A., 2007: Polyfunctional
mixed 1,2,4,5-tetraoxanes: synthesis and antimalarial activity. ��
The 41st IUPAC World
Chemistry Congress, Torino, 5–11 avgust 2007. Poster S08P28.
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Project: CHEMICAL REACTIVITY AND BIOACTIVITY OF NATURALLY
OCCURRING HYDROQUINONES AND THEIR DERIVATIVES
(Academician Miroslav J. Gašić)
A steroidal di-epoxide was synthesized and shown to possess a high anti-proliferative
activity against cancer cell lines in vitro; while in vivo it was either inactive or toxic. A
steroidal compound with the spiro A/B system was also synthesized and shown to be
strongly to moderately active, depending on the cell phenotype.
Regarding the mechanism of action of the synthesized compounds, modification
of the model protein β-lactoglobulin with the steroidal di-epoxide was performed. Mass
spectrometry showed that one molecule of the steroid was bound to a subunit of the protein,
and isoelectrofocusing provided evidence that a lysine residue was the site of modification.
Vujčić M., Tufegdžić S., Vujčić Z., Gašić M.J., Sladić D., 2007: Interactions of
the anti-tumor sesquiterpene hydroquinone avarol with DNA in vitro. Journal of the
Serbian Chemical Society, 72, 1265–1269.
Gašić M.J., Kop T., Milić D., Juranić Z., Željko Ž., Šolaja B., 2007: Steroidal
quinols, epoxyquinols and epoxides with antineoplastic activity. ASMC07, International
Symposium on Advances in Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry, Sankt-Peter��
sburg,
Book of Abstracts, Р 47.
Sladić D., Vujčić M., Tufegdžić S., Gašić M.J., 2007: Interactions of antitumor
quinone-hydroquinone couple avarone-avarol with DNA. ASMC07, International
Symposium on Advances in Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry, Sankt-Petersburg,
Book of Abstracts, Р 177.
Project: INVESTIGATIONS IN MATHEMATICAL CHEMISTRY
(Academician Ivan Gutman)
In the plan for year 2007, four main directions of intended research were indicated.
Here, only those results that were published in 2007 or in late 2006 are mentioned:
(a) The papers 2, 7, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 29, 31 are concerned with various aspects of
the theory of polycyclic conjugated, in most cases benzenoid, molecules: with their
electron distribution, enumeration, energetics, Kekulè, and Clar structures.
(b) The papers 9, 10, 12, 20, 21, 26, 28, 33 report results on the total π-electron energy,
the graph energy, the Laplacian graph energy, and related quantities.
(c) Of graph invariants of chemical interest, mainly the Estrada index was studied (3, 4,
5, 14, 15, 19, 22, 27, 30, 32), but also some other (6, 8, 11, 13).
(d) A review article was published (1).
(e) The papers 3, 8, 9, 10, 21, 22 communicate results relevant for graph spectral theory.
1. Gutman I., 2006: Chemical graph theory - The mathematical connection. In:
J. R. Sabin, E. J. Brändas (eds.), Advances in Quantum Chemistry, 51, Elsevier,
Amsterdam, 125–138.
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2. Gutman I., Stanković S., Đurđević J., Furtula B., 2007: On the cycle-dependence
of topological resonance energy. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 47,
776–781.
3. De la Peña J.A., Gutman I., Rada J., 2007: Estimating the Estrada index. Linear
Algebra and Its Applications, 427, 70–76.
4. Gutman I., Graovac A., 2007: Estrada index of cycles and paths. Chemical
Physics Letters, 436, 294–296.
5. Gutman I., Radenković S., Graovac A., Plavšić D., 2007: Monte Carlo approach
to Estrada index. Chemical Physics Letters, 446, 233–236.
6. Gutman I., Yan W., Yeh Y.N., Yang B.Y., 2007: Generalized Wiener indices of
zigzagging pentachains. Journal of Mathematical Chemistry, 42, 103–117.
7. Brinkmann G., Grothaus C., Gutman I., 2007: Fusenes and benzenoids with
perfect matchings. Journal of Mathematical Chemistry, 42, 909–924.
8. Zhou B., Gutman I., De la Peña J.A., Rada J., Mendoza L., 2007: On spectral
moments and energy of graphs. MATCH Communications in Mathematical and in
Computer Chemistry, 57, 183–191.
9. Zhou B., Gutman I., 2007: On Laplacian energy of graphs. MATCH
Communications in Mathematical and in Computer Chemistry, 57, 211–220.
10. Gutman I., Zare Firoozabadi S., De la Peña J.A., Rada J., 2007: On the energy
of regular graphs. MATCH Communications in Mathematical and in Computer
Chemistry, 57, 435–442.
11. Liu B., Gutman I., 2007: Estimating the Zagreb and the general Randić
indices. MATCH Communications in Mathematical and in Computer Chemistry,
57, 617–632.
12. Gutman I., Furtula B., Hua H., 2007: Bipartite unicyclic graphs with maxi
mal, second-maximal, and third-maximal energy. MATCH Communications in Mathe
matical and in Computer Chemistry, 58, 57–83.
13. Liu B., Gutman I., 2007: On general Randić indices. MATCH Communications
in Mathematical and in Computer Chemistry, 58, 157–176.
14. Gutman I., Radenković S., 2007: Estrada index of benzenoid hydrocarbons.
Zeitschrift für Naturforschung, 62a, 254–258.
15. Gu��
tman I., Furtula B., Marković V., Glišić B., ��
2007: Alkanes
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with greatest
Estrada index. Zeitschrift für Naturforschung, 62a, 495–498.
16. Gutman I., Ruiz-Morales Y., 2007: Note on the Y-rule in Clar theory. Polycyclic
Aromatic Compounds, 27, 41–49.
17. Balaban A. T., Furtula B., Gutman I., Kovačević R., 2007: Partitioning of πelectrons in rings of aza-derivatives of polycyclic benzenoid hydrocarbons. Polycyclic
18. Gutman I., Stanković S., 2007: Testing the Y-rule in Clar theory. Polycyclic
19. Gutman I., Furtula B., Glišić B., Marković V., Vesel A., 2007: Estrada index
of acyclic molecules. Indian Journal of Chemistry, 46, 723–728.
20. Gutman I., Radenković S., 2007: Hypoenergetic molecular graphs. Indian
Journal of Chemistry, 46A, 1733–1736.
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21. Zhou B., Gutman I., 2007: Nordhaus-Gaddum-type relations for the energy
and Laplacian energy of graphs. Bulletin de l’Académie Serbe des Sciences et des
Arts (Classe des Sciences Mathématiques et Naturelles), 134, 1–11.
22. Aleksić T., Gutman I., Petrović M., 2007: Estrada index of iterated line
graphs. Bulletin de l’Académie Serbe des Sciences et des Arts (Classe des Sciences
Mathématiques et Naturelles), 134, 33–41.
23. Gutman I., Radenković S., 2006: Dependence of Dewar resonance energy
of benzenoid molecules on Kekulé structure count. Journal of the Serbian Chemical
Society, 71, 1039–1047.
24. Gutman I., Furtula B., Kovačević R., 2007: Partitioning of π-electrons in rings
of aza-derivatives of naphthalene. Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society, 72, 663–
671.
25. Gojak S., Gutman I., Radenković S., Vodopivec A., 2007: Relating resonance
energy with Zhang-Zhang polynomial. Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society, 72,
673–679.
26. Gutman I., 2007: The McClelland approximation and the distribution of πelectron molecular orbital energy levels. Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society, 72,
967–973.
27. Gutman I., Radenković S., Furtula B., Mansour T., Schork M., 2007: Relating
Estrada index with spectral radius. Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society, 72,
1321–1327.
28. Radenković S., Gutman I., 2007: Total π-electron energy and Laplacian energy:
How far the analogy goes? Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society, 72, 1343–1350.
29. Vukičević D., Gutman I., Randić M., 2006: On instability of fullerene C72.
Croatica Chemica Acta, 79, 429–436.
30. Gutman I., Estrada E., Rodríguez-Velázquez J.A., 2007: On a graph-spectrumbased structure descriptor. Croatica Chemica Acta, 80, 151–154.
31. Gutman I., 2007: Partitioning of π-electrons in rings of aza-derivatives of
triphenylene. Macedonian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, 26,
25–29.
32. Gutman I., Radenković S., 2007: A lower bound for the Estrada index of
bipartite molecular graphs. Kragujevac Journal of Science, 29, 67–72.
33. Walikar H.B., Ramane H.S., Gutman I., Halkarni S.B., 2007: On equienergetic
graphs and molecular graphs. Kragujevac Journal of Science, 29, 73–84.
Project: SYNTHETIC TRANSFORMATIONS OF ORGANIC COMPOUNDS BY
FREE RADICAL AND IONIC REACTIONS
(Academician Živorad Čeković)
Scientific investigations of this project were realized in laboratories of the Faculty
of Chemistry, University of Belgrade and the Center for Chemistry, ICTM. The
stereoselectivity of organometallic catalyzed reactions and their applications in organic
synthesis were investigated. It was found that unsaturated aldehydes possessing an
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olefinic bond at position 5 (or 6) and a leaving group at the allylic position, in the
presence of π-allyl-palladium catalysts and amines, undergo cyclization reactions,
affording preferentially trans-2-vinylcycloalkane aldehyde in good yields. This method
is convenient for the preparations of five- and six-membered 2-vinylcyclic aldehydes.
In addition to these reactions, oxidative transformations of some taxoid derivatives
were investigated and the structures of the reaction products established.
Matović R., Ivković A., Manojlović M., Tokić-Vujošević Z., Saičić R.N., 2006: Ring
Closing Methathesis/Fragmentation Rout to (Z)-Configuration Medium Ring Cycloalkanes.
Total Synthesis of (±)Periplanon C. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 71 (25), 9411.
Bihelović F., Matović R., Vulović B., Saičić R.N., 2007: Organocatalyzed
Cyclizations of π-Allylpalladium Complexes: A New Method for the Construction of
Five- and Six-Membered Rings. Organic Letters, 9 (24), 5063.
Project: NATURAL PRODUCTS: ��
PHARMACOPHORE CARRIERS OF THE
NEW BIOACTIVE MOLECULES
(Corresponding Member Bogdan Šolaja)
Structurally diverse small molecule (non-peptidic) inhibitors (SMNPIs) of the
botulinum neurotoxin serotype A (BoNT/A) light chain (LC) were identified. Of these,
several (including antimalarial drugs) contained a 4-amino-7-chloroquinoline (ACQ)
substructure and a separate positive ionizable amine component. The same antimalarials
have also been found to interfere with BoNT/A translocation in neurons, via pH elevation
of the toxin-mediated endosome. Thus, this structural class of small molecules may serve
as dual functional BoNT/A inhibitors. In this study, a refined pharmacophore for BoNT/
A LC inhibition was used to identify four new, potent inhibitors of this structural class
(IC50 values ranged from 3.2 to 17 μM). Molecular docking indicated that the binding
modes for the new SMNPIs are consistent with those of other inhibitors that have been
identified, further supporting our structure-based pharmacophore.
Burnett Ј.C., Opsenica D., Sriraghavan K., Panchal R.K., Ruthel G., Hermone
A.R, Nguyen T.R, Kenny T.A., Lane D.J., McGrath C.F, Schmidt J.J., Vennerstrom J.L.,
Gussio R., Šolaja B.A, Bavari S., 2007: A Refined Pharmacophore Identifies Potent 4Amino-7-chloroquinoline-Based Inhibitors of the Botulinum Neurotoxin Serotype A
Metalloprotease. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 50, 2127–2136.
Opsenica D.M, Šolaja B.A., Opsenica I.M., Milhous W.K., Smith K., Gerena
L., Burnett J.C., Bavari S., 2007: N-steroidal-4-amino-7-chloro-quinolines as potent
antimalarial agents that also inhibit botulinum serotype A. Eight Tetrahedron
Symposium - Challenges in Organic Chemistry - 50th Anniversary Meeting, Berlin,
Germany, 26–29 June, 2007. Delegate manual P2.97.
Šolaja B.A., Opsenica D.M, Opsenica I.M., Milhous W.K., Smith K., Burnett J.C.,
Bavari S., 2007: New
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peroxide-aminoquinoline chimeras as
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antimalarials and BONT/A
LC inhibitors. International Symposium on Advanced in Synthetic and Medicinal
Chemistry, St. Petersburg, Russia, 27–31 August, 2007. Book of abstracts, P178, p. 279.
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BIOLOGY
Project: CATECHOLAMINE METABOLISM AND CELL PROTECTION
FROM OXIDATIVE DAMAGES - EFFECT OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS
(Academician Vojislav M. Petrović)
The present results show that spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) in basal conditions
have higher blood ACTH and corticosterone levels as compared to normotensive rats
(NTR). In addition, acute exposure to both cold and immobilization stress induced a
higher increment of ACTH in the plasma of SHR in respect to that of NTR. A similar
pattern of ACTH response occurred when SHR had been chronically isolated and then
acutely exposed to both applied stressors. However, the results concerning corticosterone
concentration were different; acute cold and immobilization stress with or without a
previous 21-day isolation had no affect on the serum corticosterone level in both
examined strains.
The kinetics of ACTH and vasopressin (VP) secretions in response to acute (20,
30 and 60 min) cold (6°C) and heat (38°C) exposure were also examined. The results
suggest a different response of ACTH, but not vasopressin, to various stressors depending
on the nature of the stressor and the time of exposure.
The obtained results showed that acute exposures of animals to cold (6 °C) for 60
min did not change the concentration of ascorbic acid (AA) in the serum, adrenals and
liver, while the same duration of exposure to heat (38 °C) induced a significant decrease
in the AA concentration in the adrenals, an increase in serum but did not change its
concentration in the liver. These results show that heat is a stronger stressor than cold,
causing ascorbic acid turnover, i.e. an increase in its amount in blood due to a depletion
of the adrenal content, without a de novo hepatic synthesis.
Djordjevic��
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Vuckovic T., Jasnic N., Cvijic G., 2006: Effect of cold
and heat stress on rat adrenal, serum and liver ascorbic acid concentration. Archives of
Biological Sciences, 58 (3), 161–164.
Djordjevic J., Vuckovic T., Jasnic N., Cvijic G., 2007: Effect of various
stressors on the blood ACTH and corticosterone concentration in normotensive Wistar
and spontaneously hypertnesive Wistar-Kyoto rats. General and Comparative
Endocrinology, 153, 217–220.
Jasnic N., Korac A., Djordjevic J., Cvijic G., 2007: Kinetic of pituitary ACTH
and vasopressin response to environmental stressors - effect of cold and heat. Ninth
Symposium on Catecholamines and Other Neurotransmitters in Stress, June 16–21,
2007, Smolenice Castle, Slovakia, Abstract book, 94.
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Project: ADAPTIVE LIMITS OF POPULATION-GENETIC POLYMORPHISM
(Academician Dragoslav Marinković)
In contemporary science of population genetics, it is equally important to visualize
how adaptive limits of individual variation are determined, as well as to describe the
amount and sort of this variation. Among numerous model-organisms that have been used
to prove these concepts, Drosophila melanogaster has been indispensable in numerous
experiments for the passed 100 years (Carpenter, 1905) and has also been exploited by
the Belgrade group of population geneticists for more than 40 years. Within the present
project, a continuous analysis of a gene-enzyme system based on 9 loci is showing
that the realized, i.e. the adaptive, variation within ca. 80.000 possible combinations
of present allelogenes is much smaller than expected for such a polygenic complex,
being estimated to be smaller than 0.2 %. Analytically speaking, it is decreased to ca.
3 % during meiotic divisions and reduced a further 15 times in gamete selection. The
finalized metabolic or developmental programs are emphasized to be the basic targets
of Darwinian natural selection, rather than all the chromosomal carriers and individual
genes that are involved in these programs.
Studies of the genetic polymorphisms of specific samples of human inhabitants
exposed in our region to different environmental effects were continued, using MN and
HRC tests, including medical treatments and studies of the patients in hospitals.
Marinković D., Kekić V., 2007: Capacities for population-genetic variation and
ecological adaptations. Genetika, 39, 93–102.
Radulović Ž., Milutinović M., Anđelković M., Vujičić Z., Tomanović S., Božić N.,
Marinković D., 2006: Allozyme pollimorphism of Mdh and alpha-Gpdh in Ixodes ricinus
populations: comparison of borreliae-infected and uninfected ticks. Experimental and
Applied Acarology, 40, 113–121.
Marinković D., Cvjetičanin S., 2007: Population-genetic study of Balkan Endemic
Nephropathy in Serbia. Russian Jоurnal of Genetics, 43, 942–946.
Grujicic D., Milosevic-Djordjevic O., Arsenijevic D., Marinkovic D., 2007: The
effect of combined therapy with ritodrine, erythromycin and verapamil on the frequency
of micronuclei in peripheral blood lymphocytes of pregnant women. Clinical and
Experimental Medicine, 7, 11–15.
Milošević-Đorđević O., Grujičić D., Arsenijević S., Brkić M., Ugrinović S.,
Marinković D., 2007: Micronuclei in cord-blood lymphocytes as a biomarker of
transplacental exposure to environmental pollutants. Tohoku Journal of Experimental
Medicine, 213, 231–239.
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Project: INHERITANCE OF OIL QUALITY IN F1 AND F2 GENERATIONS
IN SUNFLOWER
(Corresponding Member Dragan Škorić)
During 2007, the analyses of higher fatty acid and tocopherol contents were
completely finished and the results organized and statistically processed. A preliminary
examination of the data showed that the traits that determine oil quality are inherited
differently in the F1 and F2 generations. These results will be the basis of two scientific
papers to be published in international journals in 2008.
In 2007, genotypes with a high oleic acid content were crossed with lines
possessing genes for resistance to downy mildew, broomrape, imidazolinones and
sulfonylurea. The F1 combinations have been sown in Argentina (winter of 2007/2008)
to produce the F2 generation. Genetic studies of the lines and F1 and F2 combinations
will be carried out in a comparative trial in 2008.
Škorić D., Jocić S., Hladni N., Vannozzi G.P., 2007: An Analysis of Heterotic
Potential for Agronomically Important Traits in Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.).
Helia, 30, Nr. 46, 55–75.
Škorić D., 2007: Sunflower breeding for resistance to abiotic stresses (Keynote
Lecture). EUCARPIA - Oil and Protein Crops Section Meeting, 7–10 October,
Budapest, Hungary, 26–28.
Škorić D., 2007: Achievements and Future Direction of Sunflower Breeding
Worldwide. (keynote paper). 3rd International Sunflower Symposium for Developing
Countries, 9–13 December 2007, Entebbe, Uganda, 7–8 (Abstracts).
Recognized hybrids in 2007
Serbia: NS-H-2016, NS-H-2017, NS-H-2018, NS-H-2019, NS-H-2020, NS-H-2022
(commercial names of hybrids will be given later)
Russia: Saša, Rimisol
Macedonia: Pelagonija, Kazanova
Project: ECOLOGICAL AND GENETICAL STUDIES OF DROSOPHILA
SUBOBSCURA POPULATIONS FROM THE CENTRAL BALKANS
(Corresponding Member Marko Anđelković)
The results obtained on the project during 2007 were primarily obtained from
research of inversion polymorphism of D. subobscura in natural populations and under
laboratory conditions. Studying the changes in the parameters of inversion polymorphism
over years in D. subobscura from two ecologically distinct habitats, beech and oak woods,
on the Goč Mountain, the existence of significant differences in gene arrangements
between those populations was found, as well as a change in the gene pool over the years.
These temporal intra population differences are, to a certain degree, population specific.
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The obtained results indicate that structures of a population gene pool can significantly
depend on short term and long term microclimatic changes within a habitat. Additional
studies within these populations showed that changes in the effective population size
also reflect on inversion polymorphism in the gene pool of the population. Laboratory
investigations of the influence of inbreeding on change in the frequency of inversion
polymorphism and its quantitative parameters show interpopulation differences. This
confirms the assumption that gene complexes within certain inversions represent coadaptive systems, which can explain the existence of interpopulation differences in the
dynamic and range of changes within a gene pool due to the variability of abiotic and
biotic environmental factors.
Anđelković M, Stamenković-Radak M., Kurbalija Z., Kenig B., Rašić G.,
Savković V., Kalajdžić P., Savić T., Savić M., 2007: The study of chromosomal inversion
polymorphism of Drosophila subobscura over years in two different habitats from
mountain Goč. Genetika, 39, 2, 155–167.
Stamenković-Radak M., Rašić G., Savić T., Kalajdžić P., Kurbalija Z., Kenig B.,
Anđelković M., 2007: Monitoring of the genetic structure of natural populations; change
of the effective population size and inversion polymorphism in Drosophila subobscura.
Genetica. DOI: 10.1007/s10709-007-9183-0.
Rašić G., Stamenković-Radak M., Savić T., Anđelković M., 2007: Inbreeding
reveals interpopulation differences in inversion polymorphism of Drosophila subobscura.
Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. DOI:10.1111/j.14390469.2007.00428.x.
Patenković A., Savić T., Stamenković-Radak M., Anđelković M., 2007:
Environmental change, body size variability and developmental stability in Drosophila
subobscura. 11th Congress of the European Society of Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala
(Sweden), Abstract book, 02-30 P.
Savić M., Savić T., Pavković-Lučić S., Stamenković-Radak M., Anđelković M.,
2007: Mating success and developmental stability of two male sexual traits in Drosophila
subobscura. 11th Congress of the European Society of Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala
(Sweden), Abstract book, 24-57 P.
Kenig B., Kurbalija Z., Savić T., Stamenković-Radak M., Anđelković M.,
2007: Effect of environmental pollution on interpopulation differences of inversion
polymorphism in Drosophila subobscura. 11th Congress of the European Society of
Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala (Sweden), Abstract book, 02-15 P.
Kurbalija Z., Stamenković-Radak M.��
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Anđelković��
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Interpopulation
hybridization and developmental stability in Drosophila subobscura. 11th Congress of
the European Society of Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala (Sweden), Abstract book,
05-39 P.
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Project: THE ROLE OF HEAT SHOCK PROTEINS IN THE SENESCENCE
(Corresponding Member Nikola Tucić)
Using four seed beetle lines selected for different life history traits but which also
inadvertently created monoandrous and polyandrous conditions, it was shown that males
evolved to affect the mortality patterns of females in a way consistent to the postmating
sexual selection generated by the sexually antagonistic co-evolution theory. Monoandrous
males, irrespective of other life history traits specific to their lines, evolved to increase
the longevity of control females kept under starvation and suppressed fecundity, relative
to males that originated in lines with effectively polyandrous conditions. When females
were allowed to lay eggs, the effects of males from different lines and mating type history
on the senescence of females were substantially weaker. It was found that males in the
line that was evolved to decelerate senescence and polyandrous conditions stimulate an
earlier onset of oviposition, of females relative to males stemming from the line with
accelerated senescence and monoandrous conditions. This fact may explain the absence
of differences in the mean longevities between the control females mated to these males
and highlight the importance of sexual selection in the evolution of ageing.
Tucić N., Šešlija D., 2007: Genetic architecture of difference in oviposition
preference between ancestral and derived populations of the seed betle (A.obtectus).
Heredity, 98, 268–273.
Lazarević J., Perić-Mataruga V., Tucić N., 2007: Relationship between preadult
development and longevity in the natural populations of gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar).
Jоurnal of European Entomology, 104, 211–216.
Project: CHOROLOGICAL AND ECOLOGICAL FACTORS OF TAXA
DIFFERENTIATION IN OROPHYTIC FLORA OF SERBIA AND
NEIGHBORING TERRITORIES OF THE CENTRAL BALKANS
(Corresponding Member Vladimir Stevanović)
The results of the project investigations in 2007 regarding the complex and diverse
problematic of chorological, ecological and genetic differentiations of certain selected
and interesting genera and aggregates of vascular flora of the central part of the Balkans
could be concisely presented as follows:
1. Mapping of genera Alchemilla and Aphanes distributed in Serbia, Montenegro,
Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina for the International Project “Atlas Florae
Europaea 14” (paper No 1)
2.New chorological data for the flora of Serbia and surrounding countries of the
Balkans (papers No. 8, 12, 13, 14, 18, 24);
3.Helisperma oliverae M. Niketić & V. Stevanović spec. nov. is described from
Montenegrin and the Metochian part of Mt Prokletije (3)
4.Investigation of molecular taxonomy and phylogeny of the genus Edraianthus (20,
21);
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5. Investigation of genome size of endemic and relict species Ramonda serbica, R.
nathaliae and R. myconii (4, 23);
6. Mapping of endemic flora of the Balkans (10, 11)
7. Caryological investigation of selected species from the genera Allium and Hieracium
(7, 16);
8. Molecular genetics of wild relatives of cultivated cherries (2)
9. Distribution, ecology and some taxonomical notes of the genus Fritillaria in Serbia
(15);
10. Taxonomical and nomenclature problems in the genus Cerastium (5, 17).
In addition, the results of the investigations related to the Red Data List of
Charophytes in Serbia, as well as some aspects of the conservation of vascular flora in
the Montenegrin part of Mt Prokletije were also reported.
Field investigations were realized in collaboration with the prominent European
expert for the genus Hieracium, Dr. Zbignew Szelag from the Botanical Institute of the
Polish Academy of Science in Krakow. Together with Dr. Marjan Niketić, he visited
several mountains in Montenegro and Mt Jastrebac in C. Serbia from 30 July to 5 August
2007 and collected numerous interesting plant material for further taxonomical and
caryological analysis. Together, they also collected valuable data about the distribution
of numerous vascular plant taxa in the C. Balkans.
Prof. V. Stevanovic made a research visit to the Goulandris Museum of Natural
History in Athens, from 19 – 25th November 2007. In this institution, a comparative
analysis of herbarium material from Greece and those from Serbia and Macedonia was
performed, especially in regards to the critical genera Edraianthus and Helianthemum,
in which crypto-speciation frequently occurs.
1. Stevanovic V., Niketic M., Lakušic D., Tomovic G., Vukojicic S., 2007:
Distribution of the vascular plants in Serbia and Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
and F. Y.R.O.M. In: Kurtto A., Lampinen R., Junikka L. (eds.), ATLAS FLORAE
EUROPAEAE. Distribution of vascular plants in Europe 14. Rosaceae (Alchemilla
and Aphanes). The Committee for Mapping the Flora of Europe & Societas Biologica
Fennica Vanamo. Helsinki, 200 pp.
2. Šurbanovski N., Tobutt K.R., Konstantinović M., Maksimović V., Sargent D.J.,
Stevanović V., Ortega E., Bošković R.I., 2007: Self-incompatibility of Prunus tenella
and evidence that reproductively isolated species of Prunus have different SFB alleles
coupled with an identical S-RNase allele. The Plant Journal, 50 (4), 723–734.
3. Niketić M., Stevanović V., 2007: A new species of Heliosperma (Caryophyllaceae)
from Serbia and Montenegro. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 154, 55–63.
4. Šiljak-Yakovlev S., Stevanović V., Tomašević M., Brown S.C., Stevanović B.,
2007: Genome size variation and polyploidy in the resurrection plant genus Ramonda:
Cytogeography of living fossils. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 62, 101–
112.
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5. Niketić M., Stevanović V., Tomović G., 2007: Nomenclatural and taxonomic
notes on the Flora of Serbia and Balkan peninsula. I (Caryophyllaceae). Archives of
Biological Sciences, Beograd, 59 (4), 387–396.
6. Lakušić B., Lakušić D., Slavkovska V., Stevanović V., Stevanović B., 2007:
Morpho-anatomical differentiation of the Balkan endemic species Teucrium arduini L.
(Lamiaceae). Archives of Biological Sciences, Beograd, 59 (4), 369–381.
7. Blagojević J., Stevanović V., Vujošević M., 2007: B Chromosomes in keeled
garlic, Allium carinatum L. (Liliaceae), from Tara mountain (Serbia). Archives of
Biological Sciences, Beograd, 59 (4), 73P–74P.
8. Tomović G., Vukojičić S., Niketić M., Lakušić D., 2007: New chorological data
on some threatened and rare plants in Serbia. Archives of Biological Sciences, Beograd,
59 (1), 63–73.
9. Stevanović V., 2007: The Biodiversity of the Belgrade Region - Changes
during the Last century and Further Perspectives. In: Hartman R. M. (ed.), 3rd SwedishSerbian Symposium, Proceedings, The Royal Swedish Academy Letters, History and
Antiquities, Stockholm, Sweden, 178–185.
10. Stevanović V., Tan K., Petrova A., 2007: Mapping the endemic flora of the
Balkans - a progress report. Bocconea, 21, 131–137.
11. Tan K., Stevanović V., Strid A., 2007: Distribution and centres of diversity for
endemic geophytic Monocots in the Balkans. Bocconea, 21, 139–146.
12. Vladimirov V., Dane F., Stevanović V., Tan K. (eds.), 2007: New floristic
records in the Balkans 6. Phytologia Balcanica, 13 (3), 305–317.
13. Stevanović V., Lakušić D., 2007: Rhus coriaria L., Salvia aethiopis L. In:
Vladimirov V., Dane F., Stevanović V., Tan K. (eds.): New floristic records in the Balkans
6. Phytologia Balcanica, 13 (3), 317–318.
14. Zlatković B., Stevanović V., 2007: Onobrychis caput-galli (L.) Lam., Rostraria
cristata (L.) Tzvelev. In: Vladimirov V., Dane F., Stevanović V., Tan K. (eds.): New
floristic records in the Balkans 6. Phytologia Balcanica, 13 (3), 325.
15. Tomović G., Vukojičić S., Niketić M., Zlatković B., Stevanović V., 2007:
Fritillaria (Liliaceae) in Serbia: distribution, habitats and some taxonomic notes.
Phytologia Balcanica, 13 (3), 359–370�.
16. Szelag Z., Ilnicki T., Niketić M., Tomović G., 2007: Diploid chromosome
numbers in five Hieracium species from Serbia and Montenegro. Acta Biologica
Cracoviensia, Series Botanica, 49 (1), 119–121.
17. Niketić M., 2007: Cerastium banaticum (Caryophyllaceae) in Macedonia.
Distribution and infraspecific differentiation. Collection of Papers Devoted to Academi
cian Kiril Micevski, Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Art, Skopje, 171–190.
18. Niketić M., Melovski Lj., Tomović G., 2007: Polystichum illyricum (Borbás)
Hahne (pro hybr.), Pancicia serbica Vis., Sempervivum kosaninii Praeger, Oxytropis
purpurea (Bald.) Markgraf, Geranium caeruleatum Schur, Pulsatilla vernalis (L.)
Miller, Ranunculus brevifolius Ten., Aconitum lycoctonum L. subsp. neapolitanum (Ten.)
Nyman, Potentilla apennina Ten. subsp. apennina, Potentilla speciosa Willd. subsp.
illyrica Soják. In: Vladimirov V., Dane F., Matevski V., Tan K. (eds.), New floristic
records in the Balkans 4. Phytologia Balcanica, 13 (1), 114–116.
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20. Stefanović S., Lakušić D., Kuzmina M., Međedović S., Tan K., Stevanović V.,
2007: Molecular phylogeny of Edraianthus (Grassy Bells; Campanulaceae) based on
non-coding plastid DNA sequences. Međunarodni
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Lakušić D., Rakić T., Stefanović S., Međedović S., Stevanović V., 2007:
Edraianthus x lakusicii a new natural hybrid of Edraianthus DC. (Campanulaceae) from
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Stevanović B., 2007: Genome size and ploidy level of Ramonda serbica and Ramonda
nathaliae in two sympatric populations from southern Serbia. III Congress of Ecologists
of the Republic of Macedonia with international participation. Abstract Book,
Struga, Republic of Macedonia, 39.
24. Niketić M., Melovski Lj., Matevski V., Tomović G., Stevanović V., 2007: New
chorological and taxonomic data for the flora of the Republic of Macedonia. III Congress
of Ecologists of the Republic of Macedonia with international participation. Abstract
Book, Struga, Republic of Macedonia, 81.
25. Blaženčić J., Stevanović B., Šinžar-Sekulić J., Stevanović V., 2007: Red Data
list of Charophytes in Serbia. 15th Meeting of the group of European Charophytologists
(GEC), ��
Program & Book of Abstracts, Serbia, Belgrade, 5.
26. Špirić J., Radojević Lj., Subotić A., Stevanović B., Stevanović V., 2007:
In vitro umnožavanje vrsta Dianthus gigantheus subsp. croaticus i D. ciliatus subsp.
dalmaticus. XVII Simpozijum Društva biljnih fiziologa Srbije i Crne Gore, Knjiga
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COMMITTEE FOR FLORA AND VEGETATION
Project: STUDY OF FLORA AND VEGETATION IN SERBIA
In 2007, the third volume of the edition Vegetation of Serbia II 2 (Vegetacija Srbije 2)
was published. This volume deals with coniferous and some broad-leaved forests, thus
rounding off the presentation of forest vegetation in Serbia. The formal presentation of
the book was organized at the Academy. The editor, Corresponding Member Dragan
Škorić, Corresponding Member Vladimir Stevanović and Professor Dr. Radiša Jančić
talked about the book. The opinion prevails that it is an important work in the field of
Serbian botanics.
The preparation of the volume devoted to herbaceous vegetation of Serbia, within
the scope of publishing the monograph “Vegetation of Serbia 3“ (“Vegetacija Srbije 3“),
was continued.
The manuscript of the new edition of “Flora of Serbia 2“ (“Flora Srbije 2“) was
finished. According to the Instructions provided by Professor Dr. Vladimir Stevanović,
it is necessary to adjust the contributions in the manuscript. He also finally reviewed
the contributions and informed the Committee about the further work on the adjustment
of the text and preparation of areal maps. The manuscript of “Flora of Serbia 2“ was
approved for printing.
INTERDEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE FOR STUDY OF THE FAUNA
OF SERBIA
The research of the entomo-, nemato- and acarofauna in the Tara National Park, which
started several years ago, resulted in the first published papers and identification and
listing of species which are new for the fauna of Serbia or the Tara NP. A description of
one, scientifically new Nematode species, Trichodorus pseudobursatus, was suggested.
Among 22 species of leaf bugs (Homeoptera: Psylloidae), registered for the first time
in the Tara NP, six were new for the fauna of Serbia. Among 12 species of eryophide
(Eriophyoidea), registered for the first time in the Tara NP, two were new for the fauna
of Serbia and two will be described as new in science.
The results of the research of the acrofauna of Serbia are also noteworthy, as eight
new species of mites were registered for the fauna of Serbia.
A particular activity was carperformed within the project, namely “A study of fish
parasitic fauna of the Danube River”. The project was realized within a collaboration of
the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts and the Bulgarian Academy of Science. The
project leader from the SANU is academician Zlatibor Petrović. Among the inspected fish
species, parasites of the Monogenea, Digenea and Acanthocephala groups were found,
and nine parasite species were defined for the first time for the ichtyoparasitofauna of
Serbia. Nematodes were represented with the species Cystercus sp., which was for the
first time found for the ichtyoparasitofauna of Serbia.
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Magud B.D., Stanisavljević Lj.Ž., Petanović R.U., 2007: Morphological variation
in different populations of Aceria anthocoptes (Acari:Eriophyoidea) associated with the
Canada thistle, Cirsium arvense, in Serbia. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 42,
173–183.
Project: INVESTIGATION OF PARASITOFAUNA OF FISH IN THE DANUBE,
ITS TRIBUTARIES, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO PARASITE
OCCURRENCE DUE TO ANTHROPOGENIC FACTOR POLLUTION
(Academician Zlatibor Petrović, Prof. Dr. Iglika Nedeva)
This Project arose from the cooperation of the Bulgarian and Serbian Academy of
Sciences. The superintendent of the zoocoenoses topic on the mentioned project is
academician Zlatibor Petrović, and Dr. Marko Anđelković from the board of the Serbian
fauna associate of the Academy of Science. The researchers of the task on this project are
co-author Dr. Predrag Cakić and M.Sc. Vesna Đikanović from the Institute for Biological
Research “Siniša Stanković”, Belgrade. Prof. Dr. Iglika Nedeva with associates - Dr.
Margarita Gabrashanska, Dr. Valentin Radev, M.Sc. Elena Karaivanova and M.Sc.
Georgi Atanasov from the Institute for Experimental Pathology and Parasitology, Sofia
participated from the Bulgarian side.
In the period from 16 to 22 April, 2007, fish material for the parasitological
investigations were collected in the Danube River near Smederevo. The same
investigations were performed by Dr. Predrag Cakić with colleagues Dr. Iglika Nedeva,
M.Sc. Elena Karaivanova and M.Sc. Georgi Atanasov from Bulgaria to accomplish the
task on the Project. The experimental part (laboratory work) of these investigations was
done in the Institute for Biological Research “Siniša Stanković”, Belgrade. In period
from 30 September to 4 October 2007, Dr. Predrag Cakić collected fish material from
sampling sites near Smederevo, especially the fish species - Barbus barbus (barbel).
Special attention was directed to the presentation of acanthocephala Pomphorhynchus
laevis. The material analyses and determination of the found parasites in the other caught
fishes is in progress. In the period from 22 to 29 October, 2007, Dr. Predrag Cakić and
M.Sc. Vesna Đikanović were invited to visit the Institute for Experimental Pathology
and Parasitology, Sofia.
In the course of parasitological studies on the Danube River near Smederevo, in
period from 16 to 22 April 2007: the following fish species were examined: Leuciscus
cephalus, Barbus barbus, Zingel zingel, Abramis sapa, Abramis brama, Gymnocephalus
schraetzer, Carassius auratus, Vimba vimba and Chondrostoma nasus. The scales, gills,
digestive tract and eyes of these fish were examined. The following parasitic species
were found: Dactylogirus carpethicus, D. dyki, D. haplogonoides, D. dirigerus, D.
malleus, D. cornu, D. sphyrna, D. alatus and D. Phalax (Monogenea and Digenea).
These parasites are for the first time found in the icthyoparasitofauna of Serbia.
In the period from 22 to 29 October 2007, at a stay in the Institute for Experimental
Pathology and Parasitology in Sofia, new methods of bleach, stain, preparation and
fixation of Monogenea and Digenea were realized. With colleagues from Bulgaria, we
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participated in the process of determining the heavy metal content in parasites, as well as
DNA analyses in the parasitic species Diplostomum sp. and P. leavis.
Atanassov G., Karaivanova E., Cakic P., Nedeva I., 2006: First record of
metacercariae of Diplostomum pseudospathaceum (Niewiadomska, 1984) in freshwater
fishes in Bulgaria. Experimental Pathology and Parasitology, Vol. 9, No. 3.
Cakić P., Paunović M., Stojanović B., Đikanović V., Kulišić Z., 2007: Metagonimus
yokogawai a new parasitic Trematoda species in ichtyoparasitofauna of the Serbia. Acta
Veterinaria, Vol. 57, No. 5–6, 537–543.
Despotović S.G., Perendija B.R., Kovačević T.B., Borković S.S., Pavlović
S.Z., Milošević S.M., Đikanović V.D., Cakić P.D., Pajović S.B., Saičić Z.S., 2007:
Glutathione redox status in some tissues and the intestinal parasite Pomphorhynchus
leavis (Acanthocephala) from barbel (Barbus barbus) (Pisces) from the Danube River.
Archives of Biological Sciences, 59 (4), 57P–58P.
INTERDEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE FOR PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
OF MATERIALS
Project: INVESTIGATION OF PROCESSES OF THE CONSOLIDATION OF
MATERIALS
(Academician Momčilo M. Ristić)
The influence of Bi2O3 on the sintering of the 2ZnO-SnO2 system, i.e. the microstructure
and electrical properties of the obtained materials, was investigated. The electrical
properties were measured on a High Resistance Meter device.
The influence of mechanical activation on the synthesis and properties of the
MgCO3: TiO2 = 1:1 system was investigated. The influence of mechanical activation on
changes in the dielectric properties was investigated in detail by analyzing the kinetics
and mechanism of sintering at 1100 °C in the time interval 30 - 180 minutes.
Sintering of zinc titanate ceramics doped with magnesium oxide was investigated.
X- Ray and DTA analyses established that magnesium oxide influences the density of
sintered zinc titanate.
Mechanical activation of the ZnO-SnO2 system was investigated by photoacoustic
spectroscopy using the photoacoustic phase and amplitude spectra of the sintered
sample as a function of the chopping frequency. X-ray analysis confirmed the presence
of Zn2SnO4 crystalline spinel. The thermal-electric properties of the obtained Zn2SnO4
were measured.
Thermodynamic, electrolytic and magnetic properties of sintered materials from
the viewpoint of the configurational model of matter were investigated.
Correlation of the isothermal expansion and changes of the functional properties
of Fe81B13Si4C2 amorphous alloys was investigated.
Reactive sintering of the mechanically activated 2ZnO-TiO2 system was
investigated. The Dorn method was used to determine the kinetic parameters of the
process.
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A detailed comparative analysis of the model of changes of physical properties
during material sintering was performed. Original mathematical models enabling the
investigation of the sintering kinetics of crystal materials were developed.
Ivetić T., Nikolić M.V., Slankamenac M., Živanov M., Minić D., Nikolić P.M.,
Ristić M.M., 2007: Influence of Bi2O3 on Microstructure and Electrical Properties of
ZnO-SnO2 Ceramics. Science of Sintering, 39, No. 3, 229–240.
Petrović V.V., Maričić A., Labus N., Ristić M.M., 2007: Influence of Mechanical
Activation on Synthesis and Properties of the MgO-TiO2 System. Science of Sintering,
39, No. 1, 59–65.
Obradović N., Stevanović S., Mitrić M., Nikolić M.V., Ristić M.M., 2007: Analysis
of Isothermal Sintering of Zinc Titanate Doped With MgO. Science of Sintering, 39,
No. 3, 241–248.
Ivetić T., Nikolić M.V., Nikolić P.M., Blagojević V., Đurić S., Srećković T., Ristić
M.M., 2007: Investigation of Zinc Stannate Synthesis Using Photoacoustic Spectroscopy.
Science of Sintering, 39, No. 2, 153–160.
Pryadko L.F., Verhoturov A.D., Ristich M.M., Radich S.M., 2007: ChargeOrdering States in Materials and Their Description Using the configurational Model.
Physics and Technology of Materials (FITEM’07), Čačak, 12.
Maričić A.M., Kalezić-Glišović A., Simeunović R., Vulićević Lj., Ristić M.M.,
2007: Correlation Between Isothermal Expansion and Functional Properties Change
of the Fe81B13Si4C2 Amorphous Alloy. Physics and Technology of Materials (FITEM
‘07), Čačak, 10.
Project: RESISTIVITY OF MATERIALS TO CORROSION
(Academician Dragutin Dražić)
The electrochemical and chemical investigations of chromium and 304 stainless steel
were extended to solutions of sulfuric acid of pH 0.5 - 7. Special attention was paid to the
interpretation of the mechanism of the establishment of the open circuit potentials, either
in the passive or active state. The metallic chromium had two open circuit potentials,
while the examined 304 stainless steel could not be activated and had only a passive open
circuit potential. However, addition of NaCl to the sulfuric acid solution and removal of
the passive layers activated the surfaces of both chromium and 304 stainless steel.
Jegdić B., Dražić D.M., Popić J.P., Radmilović V., 2007: Structural Effects of
Metallic Chromium on its Electrochemical Behavior. Journal of the Serbian Chemical
Society, 72, 563–578.
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Project: SYNTHESIS AND PROPERTIES OF NEW CRYSTAL AND
AMORPHOUS MATERIALS
(Academician Pantelija M. Nikolić)
The application of the photoacoustic method for the characterization of isotropic and
anisotropic materials was continued.
The investigation of the effect of doping PbTe with B and Ni was continued.
The synthesis and characterization of the thermal diffusivity of NTC samples was
performed.
The far infrared optical reflectivity of PbTe and PbSnTe doped with Fe, Pd and the
rare earths Yb, Ce and Gd was studied. These investigations were realized in cooperation
with Professor K. M. Paraskevopoulos from Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, and W.
König from the Max Plank Institute, Stuttgart, Germany.
Nikolić M.V., Blagojević V., Paraskevopoulos K.M., Zorba T.T., VasiljevićRadović D., Nikolić P.M., Ristić M.M., 2007: Far infrared properties of sintered NiO.
Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 27, 469–474.
Nikolić P.M., König W., Vujatović S.S., Blagojević V., Luković D., Savić S.,
Radulović K., Urošević D., Nikolić M.V., 2007: Far infrared properties of PbTe doped
with Cerium. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 433, 292–295.
Nikolić M.V., Paraskevopoulos K.M., Aleksić O., Zorba T.T., Savić S., Blagojević
V.D., Luković D.T., Nikolić P.M., 2007: Far infrared reflectance of sintered nickelmanganite samples used as negative temperature coefficient thermistors. Material
Research Bulletin, 42, 1492–1498.
Ivetić T., Nikolić M.V., Nikolić P.M., Blagojević V., Đurić S., Srećković T., Ristić
M.M., 2007: Investigation of zinc–stannate synthesis using photoacoustic spectroscopy.
Science of Sintering, 39, 153–160.
Nikolić P.M., Đurić S., Paraskevopoulos K.M., Zorba T.T., Luković D., Savić
S., Nikolić M.V., 2007: Infrared reflectance of single crystal jarandolite, CaB3O4(OH)3.
Mineralogical Magazine, 70, 273–283.
Luković D., Nikolić P.M., Vujatović S., Savić S., Urošević D., 2007: Photoacoustic
Properties of Single Crystal PbTe (Ni). Science of Sintering, 39, 161–167.
INTERDEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE ON BIOMEDICAL
INVESTIGATIONS
(Academician Ljubiša Rakić)
Project: MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF STRESS RESPONSE
(Academician Dušan T. Kanazir)
1. The presented review addresses a number of basic molecular pathways that play
a crucial role in the perception, transmission and modulation of stress signals and
conduct adaptation of the vital processes in the cardiovascular system (CVS). These
highly complex systems for intracellular information transfer include stress hormones
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and their receptors, stress-activated phosphoprotein kinases, stress-activated heat shock
proteins and anti-oxidant enzymes, which maintain the oxidoreductive homeostasis of
the CVS. Failure to compensate for the deleterious effects of stress may result in the
development of different pathophysiologies in the CVS, such as, ischemia, hypertension,
atherosclerosis and infarction. Stress-induced disbalance in each of the CVS molecular
signaling systems and their contribution to the CVS malfunctioning is reviewed. The
general picture of the molecular mechanisms of stress-induced pathophysiology in the
CVS indicated to the importance of stress duration and intensity as etiological factors
and suggested that future studies should be complemented by careful insights into the
individual factors of susceptibility to stress, prophylactic effects of ‘healthy’ life styles
and the beneficial action of anti-oxidant-rich nutrition.
2. Nutrigenomics is a promising multidisciplinary field that focuses on the study
of the interactions between nutritional factors, genetic factors and health outcomes.
Its goal is to achieve more efficient, individual dietary intervention strategies aimed at
preventing disease, improving the quality of life and achieving healthy aging.
Scientific progress in nutrition, medical and food sciences is having an increasingly
profound impact on the approach of consumer to nutrition. There is a growing awareness
that many chronic diseases are caused by an unbalanced diet. In addition to disease
prevention, the role of food as an agent for improving health has been proposed and a
new class of food, so called functional food, has come into being. This term is used to
indicate a food that contains some health-promoting components and not only traditional
nutrients. From this point of view, it could be argued that milk and many dairy products
belong to the family of functional food, replete with bioactive peptides, anti-oxidants,
probiotic bacteria, highly absorbable calcium, conjugated linoleic acid and other
biologically active components.
Milk is a polyphasic secretion of the mammary gland, containing on average 3.3 %
protein, 3.9 % fat, 5.0 % lactose and 0.7 % minerals. The most abundant milk proteins are
caseins, which are organized into micelles mutually held together by calcium phosphate
bridges. β-Lactoglobulin, α-lactalbumin, serum albumin, lactoferrin, immunoglobulins
and β-microglobulin are the other proteins present in milk. Cow milk also contains the
anti-oxidant enzymes, Cu/Zn- and Mn-superoxide dismutases (SODs).
The study deals with the structure of milk proteins and its relation to the superoxide
dismutase (SOD) activity. The effects of several laboratory treatments on the profile of
sodium dodecylsulfate polyacrylamide gel elecrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) of the proteins
and on the respective SOD activity were studied in raw milk samples. It is concluded
that the high anti-oxidant content of the initial raw milk, as well as the technology of
its processing are of great importance for the preservation of SOD activity in the final
foodstuff product. Thus, the obtained data of specific SOD activity in full milk and
milk fractions may be of practical significance when choosing the starting milk samples
for further processing. The finding is of potential interest for industrial processing of
IMPAMIL baby food.
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Pajović S.B., Radojčić M.B., Kanazir D.T., 2007: Neuroendocrine and
oxidoreductive mechanisms of stress induced cardiovascular diseases. Physiological
Research, No. 3, PMID: 17465697(on line).
Pajović S.B., Todorović A., Stojiljković V., Kasapović J., Pejić S., Kanazir D.T.,
2007: Milk, milk products, nutrition and health. Innovation & health and safe human
environment, International innovation conference 2007, 29–30 November 2007,
SANU, Belgrade, Serbia.
Project: REGULATION OF CELL PROTECTION AGAINST OXIDATIVE
DAMAGES UNDER CONDITIONS OF MAINTAINED HOMEOSTASIS AND
ITS DISRUPTIONS
(Academician Vojislav M. Petrović)
A comparative study of the effects of molsidomine (MO) and 3-morpholinosydnonimine
(SIN-1) on the redox status of rat erythrocytes and reticulocytes was made. There are two
metabolic pathways for MO biotransformation: one - causing NO and NO- generation in
erythrocytes and other - via SIN-1 in reticulocytes. The main difference between the
action of MO and SIN-1 is that the latter caused oxidative damage in erythrocytes (1).
The activities of superoxide dismutase, SOD, and catalase, CAT, in the foot of three
freshwater mussel species from the Sava River were investigated. It was shown that
parameters employed in the study could be useful tools in the biomonitoring of freshwater
bivalves (2).
The aim of this study was the investigation the glutathione redox status in some
tissues from barbel (Barbus barbus) and the intestinal parasite (Pomphorhynchus laevis)
from the Danube River. This study represents the first investigation of its kind and the
obtained results gave significant data for biomonitoring studies of the investigated
species (3).
The present study demonstrates that manganese containing superoxide dismutase
- Mn SOD binds nitric oxide, NO, and stimulates its decay under both anaerobic and
aerobic conditions. This results indicate that Mn SOD catalyzed NO dismutation into
nitrosonium and nitroxyl under anaerobic condition is also operative in the presence
of molecular oxygen. The interaction of NO with Mn SOD may represent a novel
mechanism by which Mn SOD protects the cell from overproduction of NO (4).
The aim of these investigation was to establish whether cholesterol bound to
hemoglobin affects the antioxidant enzyme system in human erythrocytes. It was shown
that the lipid fraction in erythrocytes represents cholesterol associated with phospholipids
and hemoglobin. The amount hemoglobin-cholesterol neither influenced the activities of
erythrocyte anti-oxidative enzymes nor altered the level of methemoglobin (5).
In this study, the different responses of mesenteric artery from normotensive and
spontaneously hypertensive rats to nitric oxide, NO, were investigated . The results
indicate that relaxation induced by nitroxyl and NO- was more effective in the mesenteric
artery smooth muscle of spontaneous hypertensive rats than that of normotensive rats
(6).
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The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of carvedilol on the activity
of copper zinc containing superoxide dismutase, CuZn SOD, in patients with acute
myocardial infarction. The obtained results showed that carvedilol induces an increased
activity of CuZn SOD in erythrocytes from patients treated with streptokinase - carvedilol
and in erythrocytes isolated from patients treated with strepokinase - metoprolol (7).
In this study, the hematological parameters (hematocrite, hemoglobin, erythrocyte,
leukocyte, platelets and reticulocytes) were investigated in anemia induced by
phenylhydrazine and bleeding. Bleeding induced anemia was followed by a low amount
of retikulocytes and a low level of hematological parameters in the blood. Anemia caused
by phenylhydrazine yielded to greater degree reticulocytes with lower hematological
parameters (8).
The aim of the study was to investigate the redox status in erythrocytes of
phenylhydrazine- and bleeding-treated rats. The following parameters: superoxide anion
radicals, hydrogen peroxide, reactive nitrogen species, as well as oxidized and reduced
glutathione were studied. It was concluded that there is elevated oxidative stress in both
groups of anemic rats with respect to the controls (9).
The changes of hematological parameters (hematocrite, hemoglobin, erythrocyte,
leukocyte, platelets and reticulocytes) in the anemic rats after bleeding were investigated.
This kind of anemia was followed by decreased hematologal parameters, reticulocytosis,
increased leukocyte number and oxidative damage of hemoglobin (10).
The aim of this study was to investigate the concentration of anti-oxidant compounds
(Vitamin E and Vitamin C) and lipid peroxide in some tissues of hake (Merluccius
merluccius) from the Adriatic Sea. The intensity of oxidative stress was increased in the
liver of hake in comparison to the muscle in the winter period with respect to spring, and
as well as in the waters of Valdanos with respect to Platamuni (11).
In this study, the oxidative stress parameters: superoxide dismutase, SOD, and
catalase, CAT, the concentration of lipid peroxide, and the concentration of reduced
glutathione in the liver of hake (Merluccius merluccius) and red mullet (Mullus barbatus)
were investigated. According to the analyses of the results, it can be concluded that the
investigated parameters represents significant and reliable biomarkers for the monitoring
of environmental pollution (12).
1. Marković S.D., Vukajlović M.D., Ognjanović B.I., Štajn A.Š., Žikić R.V., Saičić
Z.S., Radojičić R.M., Jones D.R., Spasić M.B., 2007: A Comparative study of the effects
of molsidomine and 3-morpholinosydnonimine on the redox status of rat erythrocytes and
reticulocytes. Cell Biochemistry and Function, 25, 251–258.
2. Perendija B.R., Borković S.S., Kovačević T.B., Pavlović S.Z., Stojanović B.D.,
Paunović M.M., Cakić P.D., Pajović S.B., Saičić Z.S., 2007: The activities of superoxide
dismutase and catalase in the foot of three freshwater mussel species. Archives of
Biological Sciences, Belgrade, 59, 17P–18P.
3. Despotović S.G., Perendija B.R., Kovačević T.B., Borković S.S., Pavlović
S.Z., Milošević S.M., Đikanović V.Đ., Cakić P.D., Pajović S.B., Saičić Z.S., 2007:
Glutathione redox status in some tissues and in the intestinal parasite Pomphorhynch
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laevis (Acanthocephala) from barbel (Barbus Barbus) in the Danube River. Archives of
Biological Sciences, Belgrade, 59, 57P–58P.
4. Filipović M., Stanić D., Raičević S., Spasić M., Niketić V., 2007: Consequences
of Mn SOD interactions with nitric oxide: Nitric oxide dismutation and the generation of
peroxynitrite and Hydrogen peroxide. Free Radical Research, 41, 62–72.
5. Nikolić M., Vranić D., Nikolić–Kokić A., Stanić D., Blagojević D.P., Jones
D., Niketić V., Spasić M.B., 2007: Does cholesterol bound to haemoglobin affects the
antioxidative enzyme defence system in human erythrocytes. Journal of the Serbian
Chemical Society, 72, 339–345.
6. Oreščanin Z., Milovanović S., Spasić S., Jones D., Spasić M., 2007: Different
responses of mesenteric artery from normotensive and spontaneously hypertensive rats
to nitric oxide and its redox congeners. Pharmacological Report, 59, 325–332.
7. Kastratović D.A., Vasiljević Z.M., Spasić M.B., Peruničić J.P., Matić M.,
Blagojević D.P., Mijalković D.N., Antonijević N.M., Marković S.Z., Gojković-Bukarica
L., Stojiljković M.P., Lasica R.M., Jones D.R., Nikolić-Kokić A.L., 2007: Carvedilol
increases copper-zinc superoxide dismutase activity in patients with acute myocardial
infarction. Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, 101, 138–142.
8. Žižić J., Milošević M., Vukajlović M.Đ., Ognjanović B.I., Štajn A.Š., Žikić
R.V., Saičić Z.S., Spasić M.B., Marković S.D., 2007: Hematological parameters of
phenylhydrazine and bleeding induced anemia in rats. XI Congress of Hematology
with International Participation, Novi Sad, Serbia, September 27–30. Bulletin of
Hematology, 35, 145.
9. Obradović A., Aleksić S., Vukajlović M.Đ., Ognjanović B.I., Štajn A.Š.,
Žikić R.V., Saičić Z.S., Spasić M.B., Marković S.D., 2007: Redox status in red blood
cells of phenylhydrazine and bleeding treated rats. XI Congress of Hematology
with International Participation, Novi Sad, Serbia, September 27–30. Bulletin of
Hematology, 35, 147.
10. Milošević M., Žižić J., Vukajlović M.Đ., Ognjanović B.I., Štajn A.Š., Žikić
R.V., Saičić Z.S., Spasić M.B., Marković S.D., 2007: Time course of experimental
bleeding-induced anemia in rats. XI Congress of Hematology with International
Participation, Novi Sad, Serbia, September 27–30. Bulletin of Hematology, 35, 148.
11. Đorđević N., Ognjanović B., Marković S., Pavlović S., Žikić R., Štajn A., Saičić
Z., 2007: ��
Concentration of antioxidant compounds and lipid peroxidation in some tissues
of hake (Merluccius merlucius L.) from the Adriatic Sea. 1ST International Congress on
Biology in Serbia, Palić, October 25–28, Collection of Abstracts, 54–55.
12. Ognjanovi��
ć B.��
, Marković S., Đorđević N., Pavlović S., Štajn А., Žikić R., Saičić
Z., 2007: Oxidative stress parameters in the liver of hake (Merluccius merlucius L.) and
red mullet (Mullus barbatus L.) from the Adriatic Sea. 1ST International Congress on
Biology in Serbia, Palić, October 25–28, Collection of Abstracts, 68–69.
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Project: HOMEOSTATIC MECHANISMS AND REGULATION SYSTEM OF
BEHAVIOR
(Academician Ljubiša Rakić)
1. The therapeutic effect of combined treatment with nucleoside analogues on
experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis in Dark Agouti rats
The effect of combined treatment with two nucleoside analogues (ribavirin and
tiazofurin - RT) on the development of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis
(EAE), a commonly used animal model of the human disease multiple sclerosis, actively
induced in highly susceptible Dark Agouti rats was investigated. Amelioration of clinical
signs and faster recovery was detected in the RT group compared to the control group.
Immunohistochemical analyses revealed that RT treatment decreases the number of T
cells, macrophages and microglia. In addition, demyelination areas and axonal damage
were not recorded in the RT group, in contrast to the control group in which multiple
areas of demyelination zones and axonal loss were found. RT combination treatment
suppresses ongoing EAE, prevents demyelination and axonal loss and, therefore, may
well be a potential therapy for the treatment of MS.
2. Distribution of ecto-nucleotidase activity in the rat hippocampus and early
temporal changes in activity after cortical stab injury
The distributions of ecto-nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase and ecto5’-nucleotidase in the rat hippocampus were assessed by immunohistochemistry. The
obtained results showed co-expression of the enzymes in the hippocampus region, as
well as a wide and strikingly similar cellular distribution, suggesting that the broad
overlapping distribution of these enzymes in neurons and glial cells reflects the functional
importance of ectonucleotidase actions in the nervous system. During a variety of insults
to the brain, adenine nucleotides are released in large quantities from damaged cells.
Early temporal changes (0 - 24h) in the extracellular hydrolysis of ATP, ADP and AMP
after cortical stab injury (CSI) in adult rats were evaluated. It is observed that 24 hours
following CSI, ATP and ADP hydrolyzing activities were not significantly altered in
injured cortex, while AMP hydrolysis was significantly reduced at least 4 hours following
CSI revealing that injured tissue has reduced potential for extracellular metabolism of
adenine nucleotides in early stages after CSI.
3. Molecular and behavioral mechanism of brain plasticity
Dietary restriction (DR) is one of the promising environmental interventions known
to attenuate aging and decrease the risk of age-related neurodegenerative disorders.
First six different food restriction (FR) regimens on amphetamine (AMPH)-induced
locomotive and non-locomotive activities in male rats were examined. Changes in serum
corticosterone (CORT), insulin and glucose levels were also examined. AMPH injection
led to a significant increase of locomotive activity in all rats subjected to FR compared
to ad libitum fed rats. A significant increase of non-locomotor activity was observed
only in the 75 % FR and 87.5 % FR groups. The serum CORT levels were significantly
elevated and the serum insulin and glucose levels were significantly decreased in all the
FR groups in comparison to the AL rats. The results presented in this paper suggest that
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the every day regimens produced changes in motor activity and biochemical parameters,
which were more-or-less dependent on the degree of FR.
We have also investigated Also the effects of FR on the expression of α-synuclein,
a presynaptic protein involved in the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s and some other
neurodegenerative diseases, in the cortex and hippocampus of adult, middle-aged, late
middle-aged, and aged rats. Using Real Time RT-PCR, it was found that aging regulates
the expression of α-synuclein in a tissue-specific manner and that long-term DR reverses
the late age-related changes of α-synuclein expression.
4. New perspective on the roles for neurotransmitters in early embryogenesis
Sea urchins use neurotransmitters as embryonic growth regulatory signals, so that
adverse effects on neural substrates for mammalian brain development can be studied in
this simple organism. The effects of the organophosphate insecticide chlorpyrifos in sea
urchin embryos were compared with those of the monoamine depleter reserpine, in order
to investigate multiple neurotransmitter mechanisms involved in developmental toxicity
and to evaluate different therapeutic interventions corresponding to each neurotransmitter
system. Whereas reserpine interfered with all stages of embryonic development, the
effects of chlorpyrifos did not emerge until the mid-blastula stage. After that point, the
effects of the two agents were similar. Treatment with membrane permeable analogs of the
monoamine neurotransmitters, serotonin and dopamine, prevented the adverse effects of
both chlorpyrifos and reserpine, despite the fact that chlorpyrifos works simultaneously
through actions on acetylcholine, monoamines and other neurotransmitter pathways.
This suggests that different neurotransmitters, converging on the same downstream
signaling events, could work together or in parallel to offset developmental disruption
caused by exposure to disparate agents.
5. “Neurobiological Studies - from Genes to Behaviour”. Eds: Ruzdijic S. and
Rakic Lj., Research Signpost, Kerala, India, 1–284, 2006.
Ruzdijic S., Pesic M., Kanazir S., Rakic Lj., Tanic N.: The role of genetic instability
in the developement of the multidrug resistance phenotype in brain tumors, 1–19.
Kanazir S., Mladenovic A., Rakic Lj., Ruzdijic S.: Age-related neuronal
degeneration - Effects of diet and glucocorticoids, 85–107.
Pekovic S., Subasic S., Nedeljkovic N., Bjelobaba I., Filipovic R., Milenkovic I.,
Lavrnja I., Stojkov D., Jovanovic S., Rakic Lj., Stojiljkovic M.: Molecular basis of brain
injury and repair, 143–165.
Buznikov G., Nikitina L., Milosevic I., Bezuglov V., Francisco E.Y.M., ObispoPeak N.I., Peterson E.R., Slotkin A.T., Lauder M.J., Rakic Lj.: New perspectives on
roles for neurotransmitters in early (“Pre-nervous”) embryogenesis, 183–196.
Lazarević L., Rogač Lj., Milošević D., Rakić Lj.: The blood-brain barrier in
elasmobranchia - A challenge for studies of pathologies of the blood-brain barrier in
higher organisms, 227–241.
Čolić M., Rakić Lj.: Toll-like receptors and nucleoside analogs: from innate
immunity to the brain, 243–257.
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Grossarth-Maticek R., Rakic Lj.: Interaction between self regulation and
antidepressive administration as a method of intervention in primary and secondary
cancer prevention, 273–284.
This book marks the 50th anniversary of the Belgrade School of Neurobiology
and 50 years of scientific activity of its founder, Professor Ljubiša Rakić. In the book
are collected review papers written by his former PhD students and friends from around
the world. They describe the most up-to-date results in neuroscience. They were initially
presented at the symposium “Neurobiology Today”, held in May 29-30, 2006 in the
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade.
This book summarizes recent research of diverse aspects of experimental and
clinical studies dealing with the physiology and pathophysiology of the functioning of
the CNS.
6. Transport and metabolism of purine nucleosides and bases
During the year 2007, further research on the experimental model of rat astrocyte
primary culture (that was established in the previous year) was conducted. Measurement
of the uptake of purine nucleosides and bases enabled the transport systems for purine
nucleosides and bases on rat primary astrocytes to be defined. The investigation showed
that adenosine uptake into rat astrocytes is mediated via a saturable transport system,
which is also used by purine bases. The same transport system, although of higher
affinity, was defined on the rat glioma C6 cell line.
Since the existence of adenosine uptake into rat astrocytes was evidenced,
further research will be aimed at the investigation of the adenosine effects on rat
primary astrocytes under physiological conditions and under conditions of metabolic
stress (oxidative stress, ATP depletion).
7. Investigation of the function of the innate immune system in Alzheimer’s
disease
During previous year, work related to the investigation of the function of the innate
immune system in Alzheimer disease was continued. The peripheral blood monocytes of
patients with sporadic Alzheimer disease (AD) were tested by the “amyloid-P stress test”
and a higher propensity to apoptosis from fibrilar A (3, compared to the monocytes from
the control subjects) was evidenced. In addition to the defects in FITC-APphagocytosis,
the Ap stress test indicated that AD monocytes showed lower expression of surface
proteins important for immune function, in particular CD44, a receptor for hyaluronic
acid. Further research will be aimed at investigation of the CD44 expression in different
age groups, as well as in Alzheimer disease patients, as well as in patients suffering
from other forms of dementia, in order to establish if the decrease in the expression
of this surface molecule is specific for Alzheimer disease or is simply related to
neurodegeneration as such.
In the year 2007, investigations of transport systems for the purine and pyrimidine
nucleosides and bases located on the choroid plexus epithelial cells and astrocytes was
continued. For these purposes, an experimental model of the sheep choroid plexus
epithelial cells in primary culture was developed and the development of an experimental
model of rat astrocytes in vitro was commenced.
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Bjelobaba I., Stojiljkovic M., Pekovic S., Dacic S., Lavrnja I., Stojkov D., Rakic
L., Nedeljkovic N., 2007: Immunohistological Determination of Ecto-nucleoside
Triphosphate Diphosphohydrolase1 (NTPDase1) and 5’-nucleotidase in Rat Hippocampus
Reveals Overlapping Distribution. Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, 27 (6), 731–
743. Stojkov D., Lavrnja I., Pekovic S., Dacic S. Bjelobaba I., Mostarica-Stojkovic
M,, Stosic-Grujicic S., Jovanovic S., Nedeljkovic N., Rakic Lj., Stojiljkovic M., 2007:
Therapeutic effects of combined treatment with ribavirin and tiazofurin on experimental
autoimmune encephalomyelitis development: Clinical and histopathological evaluation.
Journal of the Neurological Sciences, doi:10.1016/j.jns.2007.10.010.
Nedeljkovic N., Bjelobaba I., Lavrnja I., Stojkov D., Pekovic S., Rakic L.,
Stojiljkovic M., 2007: Early Temporal Changes in Ecto-Nucleotidase Activity after
Cortical Stab Injury in Rat. Neurochemical Research, doi:10.10��
07/s11064-007-9529-0.
Buznikov G.A., Nikitina L.A., Rakic L., Milosevic I., Bezuglov V.V., Lauder
J.M., Slotkin T.A., 2007: The sea urchin embryo, an invertebrate model for mammalian
developmental neurotoxicity, reveals multiple neurotransmitter mechanisms for effects of
chlorpyrifos: Therapeutic interventions and a comparison with the monoamine depleter,
reserpine. Brain Research Bulletin, 74, 221-231.
Mladenovic A., Perovic M., Tanic N., Rakic L., Petanceska S., Ruzdijic S., Kanazir
S., 2007: Dietary restriction modulates ��
α-synuclein expression in the aging rat cortex
and hippocampus. Synapse, 61 (9), 790–794.
Marinkovic P., Pesic V., Loncarevic N., Smiljanic K., Kanazir S., Ruzdijic S.,
2007: Behavioral and biochemical effects of various food-restriction regimens in the
rats. Physiology & Bеhavior, 92, 492–499.
Kosanovic M., Jokanovic M., 2007: The association of exposure to cadmium
through cigarette smoke with pregnancy induced hypertension in a selenium deficient
population. Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology, 24, 72–78.
Bjelogrlic S.K., Radic J., Radulovic S., Jokanovic M., Jovic V., 2007: Effects
of exrazoxane and amifostine on evolution of doxorubicin cardiomyopathy in vivo.
Experimental Biology and Medicine, 2312, 11, 1414–1424.
Stojkov D., Lavrnja I., Peković S., Šubašić S., Jovanović S., Mostarica-Stojković
M., Stošić-Grujičić S., Nedeljković N., Rakić Lj., Stojiljković M., 2007: Nucleoside
analogues effect on glial response in Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis.
7th Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society; 31th Goettingen Neurobiology
Conference, Germany, March 29 – April 1, Poster presentation T36-1A, 191.
Andjelkovic T., Pesic M, Bankovic J., Rakic L., Tanic N., Ruzdijic S., 2007: The
molecular mechanism of the acquired multidrug resistant (MDR) phenotype in the nonsmall cell lung carcinoma cell line: the effect of anti-cancer drugs in overcoming MDR.
The 1st Congress on Respiratory Medicine of Serbia/Southeast Europe, Novi Sad,
November 02 -04, Oral presentation in section Oncology - original papers.
Pesic M., Andjelkovic T., Bankovic J., Markovic I., Podolski A., Rakic L.,
Tanic N., Ruzdijic S., 2007: Modulation of multidrug resistance by sulfinosine - 6thioguanosine analog in human non-small cell lung carcinoma cell lines. The 1st Congress
on Respiratory Medicine of Serbia/Southeast Europe, Novi Sad, November 02–04,
Oral presentation in section Oncology - original papers.
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Project: Etiology, Diagnostics and Therapy of High Risk
PregnancY - EXPERIMENTAL, EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AND CLINICAL
RESEARCH
(Academician Vojin Šulović)
In 2007, research was conducted in three directions:
1. Reproductive health of drug addicts, especially HIV/AIDS patients, based on
the questionnaire which has been used by the SASA Department of Medical Sciences
for about 20 years;
2. Precancerous and cancerous diseases of the uterine cervix in female drug
addicts;
3. Sexually transmitted diseases of matter or virus origin in female drug addicts.
If the financial and other organizational possibilities permit, a statistical analysis
of the reproductive health of female alcoholics will also be made.
The period of time required for these researches cannot be precisely determined.
In any case, they will last a few years.
As for the experimental part, both laboratory and epidemiological investigations,
which started in 2002, will be continued.
Project: Kidney as an endocrine organ
(Academician Sveto Suša)
The results of the investigations in 2007 are the continuation of the investigations
being mostly behind the project’s schedule.
Special attention was devoted to an analysis of the urinary syndrome, bearing in
mind the influence of insulin and glucagon on renal and extrarenal metabolic changes.
Insulin resistance and insulin sensitivity were investigated, especially in patients with
endemic glomerulonephritis. In addition, IGF-1 values were determined in all patients.
They point to a degree to the early detection of factors for the development of kidney
disorder.
In the second part of the studies, the influence of a therapeutical agent on the
lessening of insulin resistance and of consecutive proteinuria reduction, as a therapy
model, was investigated by applying an ACE inhibitor, whose investigation still
continues. The investigations also covered secondary hyperparathyroidism in chronic
renal insufficiency, as well as the role of vasoactive hormones in the hypertension of
renal patients, where a clear disproportion was ascertained.
In addition, the results of studying cytokine in the pathogenesis of endemic
glomerulonephritis show that they can serve as a useful indicator in monitoring the
evolution of glomerulopathies, regardless of their etiology. These investigations of
cytokine and growth hormone in urine point to the clinical significance that different
therapy modalities are gradually applied in the treatment of these patients.
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INTERDEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE “MAN AND ENVIRONMENT”
In the year 2007, two meetings of the Committee were held, at which current
issues of the protection of natural and living environments were discussed. Within
the Committee activities, three invited lectures were organized which reflect the
multidisciplinary approach to environmental protection. The first lecture was presented by
Milorad Mihailović (MSc), entitled: “Significance of standardization in the management
of environmental protection in Serbia”. Prof. Dr. Ratko Kadović gave a lecture “Pollution
as a factor of soil degradation”, and Committee member Prof. Dr. Vladimir Stevanović,
corresponding Member of SANU, gave a lecture entitled, “Biodiversity and climatic
changes”. The president and several members of the Committee actively participated
at meetings organized by other institutions, dedicated to current issues that fall within
the scope of the Committee’s program. The Committee has, on behalf of the Academy,
participated in organizing, with the French Academy of Sciences and the Vinca Institute,
a Serbian-French summer school titled “Water quality control and health. From concepts
to action”. The members of the Committee realized their professional activities relating
to the Committee’s field of work, primarily in reputed scientific institutions.
INTERDEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE ON ENERGETICS
Project: SOLAR ENERGY AND CHARACTERIZATION OF APPLIED
MATERIALS
The results of previous research were published concerning possible energy gain in
solar collectors and converters. An economical analysis of the efficiency of solar collectors
and PV panels was performed. The result of theoretical analysis and measurements
of possible energetic gains were also analyzed. The result of the investigations and
characterization of 18-year-old YBa2Cu3O7-x samples were also published. Thick film
doped Fe2O3 and NiO were synthesized and partly characterized.
Nikolić P.M., Vujatović S.S., Paraskevopoulos K.M., Zorba T.T., Savić S.M.,
Nikolić M.V., Aleksić O.S., Ristić M.M., 2007: Effect of ageing on optical and thermal
properties of YBa2CuO7-8. International Journal of Material Research (formerly Z.
Metallkd), 98, 569–573.
Pucar M., Nenković M., 2007: Sustainable development energy efficient buildings
and renewable energy sources - legislative applic, institutions and ation in Serbia.
Proceedings Conference Sustainable building 2007 South Europe, Torino, Italy, June
2007, 241–246.
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INTERDEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE FOR THE RESEARCH ON LIVES
AND WORK OF SERBIAN SCIENTISTS IN SERBIA AND OF SERBIAN
ORIGIN SCIENTISTS OUTSIDE SERBIA
(Academician Vladan Đorđević)
In 2007, a special book of abstracts containing short biographies of 125 scientists,
which were published in the first 10 volumes of the Edition, came out in English.
The manuscripts for Volume XI of the Edition “Lives and Work of Serbian
Scientists“ (“Život i delo srpskih naučnika“) were prepared (editing, translation of the
abstracts into English, adjustment of bibliographic units, reviewing...). The content and
reviews were adopted at the sessions of the Committee and the Department of Chemical
and Biological Sciences. Since the funds for printing this book were provided, the
manuscripts were submtited to the SASA Publishing Service for further action.
The formal presentation of the Volumes within the Edition (VI–X) as well
as this book of abstracts in English took place in the Salon of the SASA Club. They
were presented by Academicians Vladan Đorđević and Dragoslav Marinković and
Corresponding Members Vidojko Jović and Vladimir Bumbaširević.
Project: ADDITION TO THE HISTORICAL MATERIALS ON THE
DEVELOPMENT OF CHEMISTRY IN SERBIA
A text concerning the contribution of the SASA to the development of chemistry,
chemical technology and chemical engineering in Serbia in the period 1897–1997,
supplemented with new data up to 2006, which was prepared for printing, contains
a review of scientific researches and the modalities of their organization within
the framework of departmental, interdepartmental and international projects, with
particular emphasis on the development of new specialties and the establishment of
multidisciplinary collaboration.
The printing will be realized at the beginning of 2008, after completion of thematic
and other necessary amendments.
INTERACADEMIC COMMITTEE ON CATALYSIS
In addition to its regular activities aimed at the development of catalysis in Serbia,
the Board was engaged in organizing the scientific meeting “Catalysis as a
scientific/technical discipline in science, education and social progress”. The meeting
was held at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, on October 24, 2007, under
the auspice of the Committee for Catalysis.
The aim of the meeting was to present the role of catalysis in civilization and
define measures that should be undertaken in science and education, in order to
ensure our involvement in contemporary research.
There were five lectures:
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Paula Putanov: Recent breakthroughs in catalysis and the quiet revolution in
science and technology
Bernard Delmon, member of the Royal Belgium Academy of Science:
Environmental and social responsibility of catalytic S & T,
Laszlo Guczi, professor of the Technical University of Budapest: The role of various
oxides in modifying the morphology of Au/SO2,
Goran Jovanović, professor of Oregon University, USA: Microreactors - one likely
future of catalytic chemical processes,
Slavko Mentus, professor of the Faculty of Physical Chemistry of the
University of Belgrade: Education in the field of catalysis in Serbia.
These lectures presented the achievements and new directions of contemporary
research in catalysis, changes of criteria, goals, approaches and demands, as well as
scientific, technological, social, economic and political aspects of the effects induced by
the above-mentioned changes. The example of the usage of renewable energy sources
illustrated our responsibility for the consequences of the application of new catalytic
processes in environment protection. An explanation was given for the fundamental
advantages of microreactors in comparison to conventional ones.
On the basis of an overview about the presence of catalysis in middle and higher
education, the necessity to improve teaching of catalysis in our country was pointed
out.
In conclusion of the meeting, the need was emphasized for joining together the
scientific public, industrial potentials and governing administration for the adoption
of contemporary research criteria and implementation of a well-defined and structured
strategy, in order to accommodate to the world that we are supposed to join.
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INTERACADEMIC COOPERATION OF SASA,
MONTENEGRIN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS
Project: ISOLATION, CHEMICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL
CHARACTERISATION OF MARINE NATURAL PRODUCTS
(Academician Miroslav J. Gašić)
Modification of the amino acid residues in the lectin of the coral Gerardia savaglia
by marine quinone avarone was performed and the nature of the modification and the
hemagglutination activity of the modificate were studied. Dimerization of the protein and
a decrease of the pI value occurred, with the concomitant inhibition of hemagglutination
activity.
A method for the detection of aminopeptidases after native electrophoresis in
situ was developed. The method is based on diazotation of p-nitroaniline formed by the
action of the enzyme on leucine p-nitroanilide.
Pajić I., Vujčić Z., Vujčić M., Novaković I., Sladić D., Gašić M.J., 2007: Chemical
modification of the lectin of the marine quinone Gerardia savaglia by marine quinone
avarone. Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society, 72, 1271–1274.
Gašić M.J., Novaković I., Božić T., Juranić Z., Sladić D., 2007: Preparation and
eveluation of antitumor activity of derivatives of avarone. ASMC07, International
Symposium on Advances in Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry, St. Petersburg,
Russia, 27–31 August 2007, Book of abstracts, Р 65.
Project: AQUACULTURE OF THREATENED SPECIES OF FISHES AND
APPLICATION IN PROTECTION AND RESTITUTION OF NATURAL
POPULATIONS
(Academicians Dragoslav Marinković and Gordan Karaman)
Studies on the status of endangered fish species in Serbia were conducted. Furthermore,
studies regarding the development of the culture of these species were performed aimed
at the promotion of free production for restocking purposes. Considering comparative
ecological research of the Danube and Volga Rivers, analysis of the data obtained during
investigations on the Volga River is in its final phase and it is expected that the results
will be publishing during this year. The data analysis was performed through joint work
with colleagues from Russia. In October, for a 10 days period, an associate of the Institute
for Biology of Inland Waters of the Russian Academy of Sciences visited the Institute
for Multidisciplinary Research, Belgrade. During 2007, it was planned to conduct a
comparative survey of the Danube River, but due to the non-availability of the research
vessel which is under the competence of the Ministry for Environmental Protection, this
activity was postponed for this year.
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Studies on the ecophysiological characteristics of fish species recognized as
potential aquaculture candidates were continued. The studies were focused on predatory
species.
Gačić Z., Damjanović I., Bajić A., Milošević M., Mićković B., Nikčević M.,
Anđus P., 2007: The d-wave in fish and the state of light adaptation. General Physiology
and Biophysics, 26 (4), 260–267.
Gačić Z., Bajić A., Milošević M., Nikčević M., Mićković B., Damjanović I., 2007:
Spectral sensitivity of the perch (Prca fluviatilis). Archives of Biological Sciences,
Belgrade, 59 (4), 335–340.
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BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Project: NATURAL PRODUCTS FROM PLANT SPECIES AND MARINE
ORGANISMS: MEDICINAL AND ECOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE
(Prof. Dr. Slobodan Milosavljević, Academician Miroslav J. Gašić)
The investigations of secondary metabolites of various species of wild-growing plants of
Serbia and Montenegro were continued.
The essential oils from the leaves of young branches of Cotinus coggygria
Scop. from two localities in Serbia (Deliblatska peščara and Zemun), obtained by
hydrodistillation, were analyzed by GC-MS. Thirty-one components were identified
from both oils and among them monoterpenic hydrocarbons were the dominant class
(87.4 and 93.1 %, respectively). The dominant constituent in both essential oils was
limonene (47.0 and 39.2 %, respectively). Both oils were also tested for antibacterial and
antifungal activities. In comparison to streptomycin, both oils showed slightly higher
activity against most Gram-positive bacteria in the disc diffusion method and slightly
lower activity when the microdilution method was employed. They also exhibited
antifungal potentials higher than that of the commercial fungicide bifonazole.
In addition, the radioprotective properties of extracts of Crataegus monogyna
Jacq. (Rosaceae) fruit, Cornus mas L. (Cornaceae) leaves and Gentianella austriaca
(A. Kern. & Jos. Kern.) Holub (Gentianaceae) aerial parts on cultured human peripheral
blood lymphocytes were studied in vitro.
The effects of numerous derivatives of avarol and avarone on the fouling of
submerged surfaces by mollusks Balanus amphitrite, on marine bacteria and fungi were
studied.
Novaković M., Vučković I., Janaćković P., Soković M., Filipović A., Tešević V.,
Milosavljević S., 2007: Chemical composition, antibacterial and antifungal activity of
the essential oils of Cotinus coggygria from Serbia. Journal of the Serbian Chemical
Society, 72 (11), 1045–1051.
Leskovac A., Joksić G., Janković T., Savikin K., Menković N., 2007:
Radioprotective properties of the phytochemically characterized extracts of Crataegus
monogyna, Cornus mas and Gentianella austriaca on human lymphocytes in vitro.
Planta Medica, 73 (11), 1169–1175.
Tsoukatou M., Marechal J.P., Hellio C., Novaković I., Tufegdžić S., Sladić D.,
Gašić M.J., Clare A.S., Vagias C., Roussis V., 2007: Evaluation of the activity of the
sponge metabolites avarol and avarone and their synthetic derivatives against fouling
micro- and macroorganisms. Molecules, 12 (5), 1022–1034.
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Project: Theoretical And experimental research of metal
structures and their influence on contemporary design
and construction
(Academician Nikola Hajdin)
The subproject “Elasto-plastic behavior of metal plates, plate and box girders” deals with
box-girders with wide flanges subjected to bending and torsion and plate girders subjected
to centric and eccentric patch loading. Experimental and theoretical investigations of the
stability and ultimate load were carried out. The subproject “Dynamics of structures”
was directed primarily to bridges. The research included problems of impact and noise
- structure borne sound and bridges as its source. The subproject “Composite structures
of steel and concrete” dealt with the analysis of composite structures according to the
theory of elasticity and the theory of plasticity, with a theoretical analysis of the influence
of the deformability of connectors on the behavior of composite beams.
Research was continued on all subprojects and the results were presented at
international conferences.
Hajdin N., 2007: Structural mechanics and structures. Proceedings of the National
Congress on Mechanics, Hellenic Society for Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, 11–15
July 2007, Patras, Greece.
Hajdin N., Coric B., Matovic V., Sreckovic G., Mandic R., 2007: Bridge test of the
reconstructed Sloboda bridge over Danube in Novi Sad. Proceedings 6th International
Conference on Bridges across the Danube 2007 “Bridges in Danube Basin”, Budapest,
Hungary, September 12–14, 2007, Edited by Ivanyi M. & Bancila R., 515–526.
Hajdin N., Stipanić B., 2007: Project of New Roadway Bridge across Sava River
in Belgrade. Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Bridges across the
Danube 2007 “Bridges in Danube Basin”, Budapest, Hungary, September 12–14,
2007, Edited by Ivanyi M. & Bancila R., 107–115.
Stipanić B., 2007: Design Proposal of Pedestrian-Cycle Bridge across Ibar River
in Kraljevo. Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Bridges across the
Stipanić B., 2007: Design of Roadway Bridge across Tissa River at Ada.
Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Bridges across the Danube 2007
“Bridges in Danube Basin”, Budapest, Hungary, September 12–14, 2007, Edited by
Ivanyi M. & Bancila R., 189–199.
Marković N., Hajdin N., 2007: Elasto–plastic behaviour of plate girders subjected
to patch loading. Proceedings 6th International Conference on Bridges across the
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Marković N., 2007: Determination of the ultimate load for longitudinaly stiffened
plate girders subjected to patch load. Proceedings 1st International Congress of
Serbian Society of Mechanics, Eds: Sumarac, D., Kuzmanovic, D., 10–13th April
2007, Kopaonik, 407–413.
Šćepanović B., Gil-Martín L.M., Hernández-Montes E., Aschheim M., Lučić
D., 2007: Reduction in Failure Load of I-Girders under Eccentric Patch Load. The 6th
International Conference on Steel and Aluminium Structures - ICSAS 07, Oxford,
324–331.
Lučić D., Aleksić S., Šćepanović B., 2007: Mathematical Model for Calculating
Ultimate Capacity of Locally Pressed I-Girders. The 3rd International Conference on
Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation - SEMC 2007, Cape Town.
Project: Advanced Engineering Ceramics
(Academician Momčilo M. Ristić)
In this project, synthesis processes of advanced technical ceramics, especially fundamental
problems of the synthesis of these ceramics, were investigated.
The influence of mechanical activation on the solid-state reactions of ZnO-TiO2
powder mixtures was investigated. Dilatometer and X-ray diffraction investigations of
the activated mixture were performed, whereby the influence of the grinding time on the
activation of the system was established.
The influence of mechanical activation of BaTiO3 on microstructure evolution
during non-isothermal sintering was investigated. Para-electric−ferroelectric phase
transitions of BaTiO3 were also investigated.
Sintering of the MgO-TiO2 system was investigated on powders obtained by
grinding in a high-energy planetary ball mill. The influence of the sintering time on the
electrical properties of the obtained material was investigated.
A detailed investigation of the mechanical properties of silicon, germanium,
silicon carbide and titanium boride was performed. The mechanical properties of these
materials in the temperature interval 20 - 900 °C were determined using load - strain
curves for brittle and weakly plastic materials.
The principles of self-organization were analyzed and based on these principles
the significance of self-organization for obtaining sintered materials was shown.
Obradović N., Labus N., Srećković T., Ristić M.M., 2005: Dilatometer
Investigations of Reactive Sintering of Zinc Titanate Ceramics. Materials Science
Forum, 494, 411–416.
Pavlović V.P., Nikolić M.V., Nikolić Z., Branković G., Živković Lj., Pavlović V.В.,
Ristić M.M., 2007: Microstructural Еvolution and Eleсtric Properties of Mechanically
Activated BaTiO3 Ceramic. Science Direct, 27, 575–579.
Petrović V.V., Maričić A., Labus N., Ristić M.M., 2007: Influence of Mechanical
Activation on Synthesis and Properties of MgO-TiO2 System. Science of Sintering, 39,
59–65.
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Milman Yu.V., Gridneva I.V., Golubenko A.A., 2007: Construction of StressStrain Curves of Brittle Materials by Indentation in a Wide Temperature Range. Science
of Sintering, 39, 67–75.
Pryadko L.F., Verhoturov A.D., Ristich M.M., Radich S.M., 2007: Charge ordering
States in Materials and their description using the configurationally mode. Physics and
Technology of Materials, 12.
Pryadko L.F., Ristich M.M., Radich S.M., Verhoturov A.D., 2007: Valence
Instabilites and Phase Formation in Transition Metall Alloys. High Mat Tech 2007,
Kiev, 238.
Project: Synthesis and properties of thin and thick films
The properties of sintered and thin films of Zn2SnO4 and also PbTe doped with B were
investigated in cooperation with Professor Paraskevopoulos from the Aristotle University
in Thessaloniki.
Research of the application of infrared spectroscopy and the characterization of
nickel manganite, in cooperation with Professor Paraskevopoulos from the Aristotle
University in Thessaloniki, was continued.
Research on the possibility of characterization of thermal and electronic properties
of superlattice structures by application of the photoacoustic method was continued.
Nikolić M.V., Ivetić T., Young D.L., Paraskevopoulos K.M., Zorba T.T., Blagojević
V., Nikolić P.M., Vasiljević-Radović D., Ristić M.M., 2007: Far infrared properties of
bulk sintered and thin film Zn2SnO4. Materials Science and Engeneering B, 138, 7–11.
Nikolić P.M., Paraskevopoulos K.M., Zorba T.T., Pavlidou E., Kantiranis N.,
Vujatović S.S., Aleksić O.A., Nikolić M.V., Ivetić T., Savić S., Labus N., Blagojević V.,
2007: Far Infrared Properties of Sintered PbTe Doped with Boron. Science of Sintering,
V39 3s, 223–228.
Nikolić M.V., Paraskevopoulos K.M., Aleksić O.S., Zorba T.T., Savić S.M.,
Blagojević V.D., Luković D.T., Nikolić P.M., 2007: Far infrared reflectance of sintered
nickel-manganite samples for negative temperature coefficient thermistors. Materials
Research Bulletin, 42, 1492–1498.
Project: HIGH PRECISION MEASUREMENT OF AC CURRENT
(Academician Petar Miljanić)
Activities concerning the high precision measurements were performed with the help of
researchers at the Technical Faculty (Novi Sad) as well as the Institute “Mihajlo Pupin”
and the Institute “Nikola Tesla” in Belgrade.
Many precise measurements of alternating voltage, current and power, including
statistical methods, were performed in the Laboratory for electrical measurement in
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Novi Sad, and some precision components were bought, including four precision four
terminal resistors from the company Vishey.
Due to the very good precision instrumentation that the Ministry of Science
bought and installed in the Institute “Mihajlo Pupin”, most accurate measurements of ac
resistance were made, including the evaluation of the characteristics of the standard ac
resistor of 0.1 Ohm, which Miljanić obtained during his visit to the Company Guildline
(Canada), the leading manufacturer of precision instrumentation.
All designs are done and material obtained in the Institute “Nikola Tesla” for
making a heavy cooper enclosure in which a two-stage transformer will be placed in
order to greatly reduced, in this way, the influence of external magnetic and electrical
fields on the measurements.
Project: NEW MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN THEORY OF STRUCTURES,
THEORY OF ELASTICITY AND THEORY OF PLASTICITY (Academician
Đorđe Zloković)
The Zloković group supermatrix procedure from his books Group theory and G-vector
spaces in structural analysis: vibration, stability and statics (Horwood/John Wiley)
and Group supermatrices in finite element analysis (Horwood/Prentice Hall), was
applied to the analysis of large complex structures of architectural, civil and mechanical
engineering. The further development is presented in Zloković’s paper The modular group
supermatrix procedure in structural analysis (The Eleventh International Conference on
Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing, St. Julians, Malta, 2007).
An important enhancement was realized by developing the group supermatrix
chain of symmetry groups C2, D2, D2h, which was utilized for the modular structuring of
the procedure. This chain displays the common pattern of cumulative relationships of
group character tables, elements, shape functions and boundary conditions, as well as of
group super-matrices in normal and diagonal forms.
The solution by the group supermatrix procedure is accomplished by superposing
solutions for loads of symmetry adapted generalized forces in particular G-invariant
subspaces, where their sets of equations are obtained by assembling the respective
stiffness matrices. An alternate method of this procedure provides the solution by basis
transformation TDT-1 of the diagonal matrix D of values of load members from the
subspaces, where T is the group transformation matrix. The entire external influence on
the structure is composed of sets of generalized forces, each set possessing the symmetry
type of its subspace. The data for bars with fixed and not-fixed ends are taken from the
data base, the kind of bar end supports depending on the symmetry type of the respective
subspace.
In the group supermatrix procedure, positive directions of local coordinate axes
parallel to global coordinate axes correspond to the symmetry type of the particular
subspace, contrary to the conventional analysis, where positive directions of axes in
local coordinate systems, parallel to global coordinate axes, have the same directions as
the respective global coordinate axes. Decomposing the system into subspaces by the
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modular group supermatrix procedure provides large reductions in formulation, input of
data and amount of computation time in comparison with conventional solutions.
In the paper by Zloković entitled The shape functions of finite elements in the
modular group supermatrix procedure, the formulation of shape functions employs
nodal numbering derived from the sequence of group elements (symmetry operations)
in the character table of the group that describes the symmetry properties of the element.
When in addition to corner nodes, the finite element contains other nodes, then the nodes
are grouped into nodal sets, where the first node of each set is located in the first quadrant
or octant of the coordinate system in two or three dimensions. e.g., a 16-node rectangular
element contains four nodal sets which pertain to four rectangles, while a 64-node
rectangular hexahedral element has eight nodal sets represented by eight rectangular
hexahedrons.
Instead of the conventional derivation for a 32-node rectangular hexahedral element
by 32 × 32 matrices, in the modular group supermatrix procedure, the shape functions
are produced by deriving a 4 × 4 matrix for the first subspace, while seven 4 × 4 matrices
of the other subspaces are obtained by simple diagonal 4 × 4 matrix multiplication of the
matrix of the first subspace. Also, instead of the conventional derivation for a 64-node
rectangular hexahedral element by 64 × 64 matrices, in the modular group supermatrix
procedure the shape functions are produced by deriving an 8 × 8 matrix for the first
subspace, while seven 8 × 8 matrices of the other subspaces are produced by simple
diagonal 8 × 8 matrix multiplication of the matrix of the first subspace. This relation of
the matrices of the subspaces is a newly derived feature which brings a strong impulse
to follow formulations in the group supermatrix procedure.
Project: STABILITY TESTS OF CONTROL OF HUMANOID ROBOTS IN
CONTACT WITH DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT
(Academician Miomir Vukobratović)
Within the framework of the project, during 2007, our generalized approach of modeling
human and humanoid motion was improved. Numerous modus of the real movement
of humans, (such as gait, tennis playing, hand ball playing, basket ball playing, etc) as
well as different types of poses of humanoid systems are simulated. This approach is
realized using a general methodology together with the model already implemented in
the previous mentioned illustrative examples, such as: a gait formulated model for single
and double support phases, a handball player, a goalkeeper, jump landing, etc.
The number of DOF-s for the humanoid robot model was also enlarged. Spine
segmentation was modeled and the influences of spine segmentation for the stability of
the system were analyzed. Using this approach, very necessary information was obtained
on how many DOF’s are required for a satisfactory degree of anthropomorphism.
Vukobratovic M., Rodic A., 2007: Contribution to the Integrated Control of Biped
Locomotion. International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, Vol. 4, No 1, 49–97.
Vukobratovic M., 2007: When Where Active Exoskeletons Actually Born?
International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, Vol. 4. No 3, 459–487.
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Vukobratovic M., 2007: Milestones of Scientific Results - an Homage.
International Journal Engineering & Automation Problems, No 1, 8–21.
Vukobratovic M., 2007: Memories Apropos 75 years of Academician Konstantin
Vasil’evich Frolov. International Journal, Engineering & Automation Problems, No
2, 129–132.
Project: CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS OF FLUIDS ENGINEERING
(Academician Vladan Đorđević)
In 2007, the work on the project was mostly focused on the study of the flow of diluted
gases in microcanals of different cross-sectional dimensions, by applying the perturbation
methods, non-homogenous turbulence structure by making use of invariant theory, while
at the same time focusing on the methods of validating experimental results by using the
instruments of this theory, as well as the general problems of using fractional calculus in
mechanics and, in particular, in biomechanics.
Djordjevic V.D., Atanackovic T.M., 2007: On the application of fractional calculus
in mechanics. 1st International Congress of Serbian Society of Mechanics, Plenary
lecture, Proceedings, 29–44.
Stevanovic N.D., 2007: New analytical solution of microchannel gas flow. Journal
of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 17, 1–8.
Project: PROBLEMS OF INTERACTION FOUNDATION - SOIL
(Academician Dušan Milović)
In this study, the available theoretical methods for calculating the ultimate and allowable
bearing capacity of piles, based on the static and dynamic parameters, were analyzed in
order to establish their validity and accuracy .
On the basis of a relatively large number of field load tests of concrete, steel and
wooden piles, carried out on the scale 1:1, a new method for determining the ultimate and
allowable bearing capacity of piles, based on the results obtained by static and dynamic
penetration tests, was developed.
Using the boundary element method and finite element method, in the further
analysis, the effect of negative skin friction on the behavior of piles loaded by vertical
and horizontal force was extensively studied. Particular attention was paid to piles in
unstable slopes, piles performed near or through an embankment and piles performed
near existing piles. An analysis of pile behavior was also made when piles were subjected
to cyclic loading, which could cause a degradation of the bearing capacity of piles.
A number of studies incorporated the effect of soil non-linearity on the behavior
of piles. This property of soil is generally represented by p - y curves, which relate soil
reaction and pile deflection. However, the obtained results were not always satisfactory.
The limitation of this approach is that the procedure requires the input of a series of non
linear p - y curves, which are difficult to select for a given pile size and soil type. The
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validity of the results, obtained by this procedure was examined by comparing several
proposed methods for selecting p - y curves with data from field load tests.
A particular problem in the design of the foundations on piles is the evaluation
of the settlement for a single pile and groups of piles. In order to take into account
the effect of non linearity, the elasto-plastic continuum and the hyperbolic continuum
were considered. In several cases, the measured and theoretical total and differential
settlements were compared.
Project: INFRARED AND LASER TECHNIQUE
(Academician Aleksandar Marinčić)
In connection with the planned work for 2007, two themes were covered:
- Transient responses in coupled resonant circuits used for obtaining large, highfrequency voltages;
- A review of analytical methods in the calculation of laser beam parameters
transformations in transmission through free space and through concave lenses, for
beam of circular and elliptical beam cross sections, and experimental verification of the
calculated transformed parameters.
Marinčić A., Gmitrović M., 2007: Coupled circuits time and frequency analysis.
International Conference TELSIKS 2007, Niš, Vol.2, 339��
–342.
Marinčić A., 2007: Review of laser beam transformation through space and lenses.
TELFOR 2007, Belgrade, November 20–22, 2007.
Project: Numerical techniques and data bases for
development of plasma technologies for applications in
micro electronics and nano-technologies
(Corresponding Member Zoran Petrović)
The primary goal in last year was to establish models for the transport of positrons in a gaseous
environment. We have compiled Sets of cross sections for H2, N2 and Ar were compiled
which enabled transport coefficients to be calculated. A lot of new kinetic phenomena were
discovered, which was basically the result of an exceedingly large non-conservative process
- positrinium formation. A mini-symposium was organized in December with four guests
from Australia, USA and Portugal. Also, one of the visitors gave a lecture at the meeting of
the Department of Technical Sciences of the Academy.
In addition, numerical models of neutralization were extended to fast ions on surfaces
and models of sources of fast neutrals for plasma etching free of charging problems.
Also, afterglows in real plasmas were examined by calculating the thermalization of the
electron energy when the plasma field is turned off.
Work on data bases was extended to Cl- ions in rare gases and electron scattering
cross sections for N2O were considered.
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Finally, in collaboration with one Australian group, spatial relaxation of nonhydrodynamic (non-local) transport close to boundaries was studied. This problem suffers
from exceeding numerical requirements and it remains to be satisfactorily solved.
Rađenović B., Radmilović-Rađenović M., Petrović Z.Lj., 2007: Influence of
Charging on SiO2 Etching Profile Evolution Etched by Fluorocarbon Plasmas. Materials
Science Forum, Vol. 555, 53–58.
Radmilović-Rađenović M., Petrović Z.Lj., Rađenović B., 2007: Modelling of
breakdown behavior by PIC/MCC code with improved secondary emission models.
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 71, 012007.
Gencheva V., Djulgerova R., Mihailov V., Dohnalik T., Petrović Z.Lj, 2007: On
hydrogen negative ion formation and concentration measurements in hollow cathode and
positive column glow discharge. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 71, 012009.
Radetić M., Jovančić P., Puač N., Petrović Z.Lj., 2007: Environmental impact of
plasma application to textiles. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 71, 012017.
Petrović Z.Lj., Stojanović V.D., Nikitović Ž.D., 2007: Electron, Ion and Atom
Collisions Leading to Anomalous Doppler Broadening in Hydrogen. AIP Conference
Procееdings, 938, 237.
Marić D., Malović G., Petrović Z.Lj., 2007: Spatiotemporal Development of
Low-Pressure Gas Discharges. 5th Eu-Japan Symposium on Plasma Processing,
Belgrade March (2007) I-25. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 86, 012009
doi:10.1088/1742-6596/86/1/012009.
Donko Z.,
Petrović Z.Lj., 2007: Ion behavior in capacitively-coupled
dual-frequency Discharges. 5th Eu-Japan Symposium on Plasma Processing,
Belgrade March (2007) Pr-2., Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 86, 012011
doi:10.1088/1742-6596/86/1/012011.
Radmilović-Rađenović M., Petrović Z.Lj., Rađenović B., 2007: Modelling of
breakdown behavior by PIC/MCC code with improved secondary emission models.
Workshop on Nonequilibrium Processes in Plasma Physics and Studies of the
Environment IOP Publishing. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 71, 012007
doi:10.1088/1742-6596/71/1/012007.
Project: DYNAMICS AND STABILITY OF VISCO-ELASTIC BODIES OF
FRACTIONAL TYPE
(Corresponding Member Teodor Atanacković)
During the year 2007, problems of the formulation and finding a solution to the differential
and integral equations arising in mathematical models of elastic and visco-elastic rods
was worked on.
Atanackovic T.M., 2007: Optimal Shape of a strongest inverted column. Journal
of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 203, 209–218.
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Atanackovic T.M., Oparnica Lj., Pilipovic S., 2007: On a nonlinear distributed order
fractional differential equation. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications,
328, 590–608.
Jelicic Z.D., Atanackovic T.M., 2007: Optimal shape of a vertical rotating column.
International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 42, 172–179.
Atanackovic T.M., Pilipovic S., Zorica D., 2007: A diffusion wave equation with
two fractional derivatives of different order. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and
Theoretical, 40, 5319–5333.
Atanackovic T.M., Baclic B.S., 2007: More on the Problem and the Solution of
the Optimal Shape of a Javelin. Studies in Applied Mathematics, 119, 173–189.
Atanackovic T.M., Stankovic B., 2007: On a differential equation with left and and
right fractional derivatives. Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis 10, 138–150.
Atanackovic T.M., 2007: Optimal shape of an elastic rod in flexural-torsional
buckling. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik (ZAMM) 87, 399–
405.
Atanackovic T.M., Stankovic B., 2007: On a class of differential equations with
left and right fractional derivatives. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und
Mechanik (ZAMM) 87, 537–546.
Atanackovic T.M., 2007: Optimal Shape of a Rotating Rod with Unsymmetrical
Boundary Conditions. Journal of Applied Mechanics (transactions of ASME), 74,
1234–1238.
Djordjevic V.D., Atanackovic T.M., 2007: On the Application of Fractional
Calculus in Mechanics. Plenary Lecture. Proceedings of the 1st International Congress
of Serbian Society of Mechanics, 29–44.
Atanackovic T.M., Seyranian A.P., 2007: Application of Pontryagin’s principle
to bimodal optimization problems. 7th World Congress on Structural and
Multidisciplinary Optimization WCSMO, Seoul, Korea, Мay 21–25, 2007.
Atanackovic T.M., 2007: Shape optimization of Rods with respect to Buckling
Force. 8th Helenic International Congress on Mechanics, Patras, 12–14 July 2007.
Plenary Lecture.
Project: SYNTHESIS OF NANO-POWDERS AND NANO-COMPOSITES BY
SOL-GEL METHOD
(Corresponding Member Zoran V. Popović)
During the first year of the project, a method for the synthesis of TiO2 nano-powders
(anatase crystallographic phase) using the sol-gel method was developed. The procedure
is based on the hydrolysis of a precursor solution (an aqueous solution of NH4ОH is
added to an aqueous solution of ТiCl4 at 0 °C), firstly to obtain a suspension of colloidal
particles (“sol”), and subsequently the as-formed hydroxide Тi(ОH)4 is converted into
a gel composed of solid aggregates. The last step during the synthesis process is the
thermal treatment of the gel (at temperatures lower than 600 °C, because the anatase
phase is only stable up to this temperature), during which the final product, i.e. nanopowdered TiO2, is produced.
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X-ray diffraction analysis confirmed that the obtained ТiО2 nano-powders consisted
of the anatase phase without the presence of other phases (rutile or brookite) or any
impurity phase. By the Rietveld refinement method, the average crystallite size of the
analyzed samples was estimated to be between 12 and 13.5 nm.
In order to investigate the microstucture and vibrational properties, as well as the
particle dimension and particle size distribution, the anatase TiO2 nano-powders were
studied by Raman spectroscopy. The Raman spectra of chosen samples were analyzed
using the phonon confinement model. This study confirmed the X-ray diffraction results
that the produced TiO2 nano-powders are in the anatase phase with an average particle
size of 12 to 13 nm.
INTERACADEMIC COOPERATION SASA AND BULGARIAN ACADEMY
OF SCIENCES
Project: HIGH-k STACK CAPACITORS FOR NANOSCALE DYNAMIC
RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES (DRAMs)
(Corresponding Member Ninoslav Stojadinović)
The research of the effect of various metal electrodes (Al, W, TiN) deposited by evaporation
(Al) and sputtering (W, TiN) on the electrical characteristics of thermal Ta2O5 capacitors
was continued. The leakage currents, breakdown fields, mechanisms of conductivity and
dielectric constant were investigated in terms of possible reactions between Ta2O5 and
the electrode material, as well as electrode deposition process-induced defects, which
act as electrically active centers. During the deposition of TiN and Al, reactions which
worsen the properties of Ta2O5 occurred, while there was no indication of detectable
reduction of Ta2O5 when the top electrode was W. The sputtered W top electrode is a
good candidate as a top electrode of storage capacitors in DRAMs, but the sputtering
technique is less suitable for the deposition of TiN, due to the introduction of radiation
defects causing a deterioration of leakage currents.
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Project: INVESTIGATION OF PATHOLOGICAL-MORPHOLOGICAL
LESIONS OF: CONGENITAL AND ACQUIRED HEART DEFECTS
(AND THEIR PULMONARY CIRCULATION), MYOCARDIUM
AND CORONARY BLOOD VESSELS
(Academician Vladimir Kanjuh)
With 33 multidisciplinary associates (from Serbia and abroad), in 2007, 25 scientific
works (including 12 abroad), i.e., 8 in extenso (4 abroad), 10 abstracts (4 abroad), and 7
only presented (2 abroad) were published.
The following topics were investigated:
Coronary atherothrombosis. Pathological anatomy, classification, and morphologic
- clinical diagnostic correlation in coronary atherothrombosis (monograph), holistic
approach to atherothrombosis, explanation of the “French Paradox”, i.e., the diet of
French people is inadequate but they have compensation by the anti-oxidant Resveratrol
in red wine. In a joint regional project of Serbia, Hungary and Romania, the quality of
water of common rivers were investigated as a risk factor for atherothrombosis.
Morphologic-clinical problems of the “Torrent-Guasp Heart”, and, in particular,
the three layers of ventricular septum in the light of this concept of a macroscopic heart
structure.
Within the investigation of the structure and function of fetal hearts with congenital
heart disease diagnosed by echocardiography, it was shown that a diagnostic biopsy of
the placental chorionic villi has a significant influence on the heart performance. Also,
the embryonic heart frequency correlates with the result of pregnancy during the first
three months.
The level of brain natriouretic peptide can be a predictor of heart failure in patients
with a pace-maker.
New data were given about myocarditis, which, after some period of time, can be
the cause of fatal dilated cardiomyopathy.
Nedeljković M.A., Ostojić M.Č., Beleslin B.D., Nedeljković I., Milić N.,
Vukčević V., Stojković S., Šaponjski J., Orlić D., Đorđević-Dikić A., Stepanović J.,
Giga V., Petrašinović Z., Aranđelović A., Beleslin B., Kanjuh V., 2007: ErgonovineInduced Changes of Coronary Artery Diameter in Patients with Nonsignificant Coronary
Artery Stenosis. Relation with Lipid Profile. Herz. Cardiovascular Diseases, 32 (4),
329–335.
Kanjuh V., Gojković-Bukarica Lj., Vasiljević Z., Stošić-Divjak S., Jelić V., 2007:
Histopathology and classification of coronary atherothrombotic lesions - correlation
with clinical syndromes of ischemic heart disease. Abstracts XII Serbian Congress of
Pharmacology and II Serbian Congress of Clinical Pharmacology, p. 4, Palić, May
9–12.
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Gojković-Bukarica Lj., Cvejić J., Protić D., Petrović A., Jović S., Kanjuh V.,
2007: Scientific basis of the French paradox. Abstracts XII Serbian Congress of
Pharmacology and II Serbian Congress of Clinical Pharmacology, p. 5, Palić, May
9–12.
Stojšić Đ.S., Jelkić N., Stojšić-Milosavljević A., Čemerlić-Ađić N., Csanady M.,
Keltai M., Martinov-Cvejin M., Erzsebet A., Kanjuh V., Ostojić M., 2007: Drinking water
as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Abstract book 9th International Symposium
“Interdisciplinary regional research (ISIRR 2007), Hungary - Szeged, Romania Timisoara, Serbia - Novi Sad”, Novi Sad, June 21–23, p. 17.
Kočica M.J., Corno A.F., Lačković V., Kanjuh V.I., 2007: The helical ventricular
myocardial band of Torrent-Guasp. Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Annual (Semin.
Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg.), 52–60.
Kanjuh V., Kočica M., Lačković V., 2007: Unraveled ventricular myocardium
into the open helical ventricular myocardial band: “Torrent-Guasp’s heart”. Book of
Abstracts 4th International Congress of Cardiologists and Angiologists of Bosnia &
Herzegovina, Mostar, 17–19 May, 90–91.
Kočica M., Kanjuh V., Lačković V., 2007: Three layers of ventricular septum
according to the conception of F. Torrent-Guasp heart. Abstracts Book 56th International
Congress of the European Society for Cardiovascular surgery. May 17–20, Venice,
Italy.
Radunović N., Kuczynski E., Kontić O., Kanjuh V., Lockwood C.J., 2007:
Chorionic villus sampling significantly affects fetal cardiovascular function. The
Journal of Maternal- -Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, 20 (4), 285–288.
Stojšić Đ.S., Stojšić-Milosavljević A., Jung R., Vučković D., Čemerlić-Ađić N.,
Pavlović K., Hogye M., Csanady M., Forster T., Kanjuh V., Ostojić M., 2007: Myocarditis:
Cause of inflammatory cardiomyopathy. Abstract book 9th International symposium
“Interdisciplinary regional research (ISIRR 2007), Hungary - Szeged, Romania
- Timisoara, Serbia - Novi Sad”. Novi Sad, June 21–23, p. 17.
Project: PHYSICIANS - MEMBERS OF THE SASA
The objective of the project is to write individual bio-bibliographies of 131
physicians - members of the SASA (including foreign and non-resident members) in
the context of time, environment, condition of their work, institutions, and circle of
associates.
The bio-bibliographies of the following Serbian and foreign scientists were
studied: Laza K. Lazarević, Đorđe Joannović, Milan - Bane Đorđević, and Jean
Bernard.
On the occasion of “80 years of the faith against cancer in Serbia”, Belgrade, December
10, 2007, V. Kanjuh gave a lecture entitled “Professor Dr. Đorđe Joannović, corresponding
member of SASA - the first Serbian oncologist-scientist and world pioneer in the
discovery of autoaggression in medicine” and received for Đ. Joannović his posthumous
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Golden Medal. Also, V. Kanjuh wrote the necrology for a foreign member of SASA, the
French academician Jean Bernard, world known oncohaematologist. On the occasion of
the celebration of 40 years of the Pace-maker Center of Serbia, Belgrade, September 13,
2007, V. Kanjuh gave a lecture entitled “Tribute to Prof. Bane Đorđević, founder of the
Pace-maker Center of Serbia”.
For the General National Serbian Encyclopedia of the SASA and the Matica Srpska,
relevant personalities, institutions and other subjects of the letters A and B concerning
medicine, stomatology, pharmacy, and veterinary medicine was made (including items
from the SASA).
Kanjuh V., Pavlović B., 2006: Laza K. Lazarević (1851 – 1891). Lives and work
of the Serbian scientists. SASA, Editors of the special edition, Academicians V.D.
Đorđević, D. Vitorović, D. Marinković, Belgrade, 149–150.
Project: POPULATION GROWTH RATE OF SERBIA FROM MEDICAL AND
SOCIAL ASPECT AND HIV INFECTED WOMEN
In 2007, a survey of the reproductive health of women in the Serbian enclaves
in Kosovo was conducted. The survey covered induced abortions, contraception,
spontaneous abortions, premature births, regular births, birth of children with congenital
anomalies, sterility, use of drugs and sedatives, sexuality, birth of stillborn infants and
social factors (employment, housing conditions and health-related factors).
Research will be continued in 2008, until the living and working conditions
in Kosovo so warrant. After the completion of this survey, the statistical data will be
processed and compared with the data obtained in the territory of the Republic of Serbia
during the period prior to the political changes in Kosovo.
This will enable the objectivization of the reproductive health of the population,
since the data provided by various institutions and individuals thus far are not sufficiently
reliable.
Project: RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES FOR TREATMENT
OF INJURED EXTREMITIES
(Academician Živojin Bumbaširević)
In 2007, the investigation was focused on the application of contemporary surgical and
microsurgical techniques for reconstructive management of injured extremities. An
analysis of the surgical techniques for the replacement of large bone and soft tissue
defects was performed. It was shown that free microvascular grafts are superior to other
conventional techniques.
Microsurgical techniques were also applied in other complex surgical procedures,
such as in phalloplasty.
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In addition to microvascular grafting, an analysis of the most beneficial methods for
the management of complex injuries of extremities, as well as their epidemiological
characteristics was performed. The incidence of these injuries is high and, if not
adequately treated, results in early or delayed disability.
Lešić A., Jarebinski M., Pekmezović T., Bumbaširević M., Spasovski D., Atkinson
H.D., 2007: ��
Epidemiology of hip fractures in Belgrade, Serbia Montenegro, 1990–2000.
Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery, 127 (3), 179–183.
Cobeljić G., Bajin Z., Lešić A., Tomić S., Bumbaširević M., Atkinson H.D.,
2007: A radiographic and clinical comparison of two soft-tissue procedures for paralytic
subluxation of the hip in cerebral palsy. International Orthopaedics 2007 Sep 26;
[Epub ahead of print]PMID: 17896106
Tomić S., Bumbaširević M., Lešić A., Mitković M., Atkinson H.D., 2007: Ilizarov
frame fixation without bone graft for atrophic humeral shaft nonunion: 28 patients with a
minimum 2-year follow-up. Journal of the Orthopaedic Trauma, 21 (8), 549–556.
Golubović Z.S., Stojiljković P.M., Mitković M.B., Macukanović-Golubović L.D.,
Bumbaširević M.Ž, Lešić A.R., Milenković S.S., Najman S.R., Visnić A.M., Karaleić
S.S., Matović Z.M., Jovanović V.R., 2007: Treatment of unstable closed tibial shaft
fractures by external fixation. Acta Chirurgica Iugoslavica, 54 (2), 83–89.
Perovic S.V., Djinovic R., Bumbasirevic M., Djordjevic M., Vukovic P., 2007:
Total phalloplasty using a musculocutaneous latissimus dorsi flap. British Journal of
Urology International, 100 (4), 899–905.
Project: Etiopathogenesis, incidence and treatment of
various forms of glomerulopathies
In 56 patients with various forms of, or variations in glomerulopathy cytokines in
the serum and urine were determined. The results point to their frequent correlation with
patohystological changes in the bioptic kidney tissue.
The electrophoretic curve of the serum and urine in these patients points to a
frequent correlation (in 92%) between these two parameters.
The investigation of a correlation between progressive renal insufficiency and
anemia was carried out with a view to determining the impact of the applied recombined
human erythropoetin on anemia, quality of life and complications (hypertension, etc.) in
the same group of patients.
The results of these investigations refuted the earlier fears that a correlation
between anemia and increased hematocrit would accelerate the progression of renal
insufficiency, but it did improve the quality of life to a significant extent.
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Project: HEALTH CONDITION FOLLOW-UP OF THE SASA MEMBERS
In 2007, the number of the examined SASA members considerably exceeded
the number of last year’s examinations, both in terms of the number of patients and in
qualitative terms. Apart from numerous laboratory analyses, made in the laboratories of
Belgrade’s clinical centres, a great number of electrocardiographic recordings was made
at the SASA Polyclinic.
Last year, much work was done on the introduction of a new card register, with
new features adjusted to our possibilities. The problem of prescription writing was
also resolved for the entire Academy. Since the reception of civilians at the Military
Medical Academy only with their health cards is now prescribed by law, we are now
offered high-quality treatment at one place, which is still impossible in other medical
institutions in Belgrade.
In 2007, many academicians were vaccinated against flu, so that during the winter
most of them did not catch it.
Project: EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL INVESTIGATION
OF BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE SUBSTANCES (CONVULSANTS,
ANTICONVULSANTS, SLEEP PEPTIDE AND ITS ANALOGS ON
EXCITABILITY OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
(Academician Veselinka Šušić)
In 2007, the effects of several different substances were investigated. The central
effects were monitored by registering electroencephalographic activity, while the motor
ones were behaviourally observed (clonic and tonic convulsions).
Mladenović D., Hrnčić D., Vučević D., Radosavljević Т., Lončar-Stevanović
H., Petrović J., Šušić V., Đurić D., Stanojlović O., 2007: Ethanol suppresed seizures
in lindane- treated rats. Electroencephalographic and behavioral studies. Journal of
Physiology and Pharmacology, V58 (4), 641–656.
Vučević D., Hrnčić D., Radosavljević Т., Mladenović D., Đurić D., Rašić-Marković
A, Lončar-Stevanović H., Macut Đ., Šušić V., Stanojlović O. Correlation between
electroencephalographic and motor phenomena in lindane - induced experimental
epilepsy in rats. Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology (Acceptance
Notice).
Hrnčić D., Vučević D., Rašić A., Radosavljević Т., Mladenović D., Šušić V.,
Đurić D., Stanojlović O., 2007: Moderate body hypothermia alleviates behavioral and
EEG manifestations of audiogenic seizures in metaphit - treated rats. Canadian Journal
of Physiology and Pharmacology, 85 (10), 1032–1037.
Stanojlović O., Hrnčić D., Rašić A., Lončar-Stevanović H., Đurić D., Šušić V.,
2007: Interaction of delta - sleep inducing peptide and valproate on metaphit audiogenic
seizure model in rats. Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, DOI:10.1007/s10571007-9222-5, 27 (7), 923–932.
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Rašić-Marković A., Krstić D., Vujović Z., Jakovljević V., Stanojlović O., Hrnčić
D., Đurić D., Lončar-Stevanović H., 2007: Modulations of rabbit erythrocyte ATPase
activities induced by in vitro and in vivo exposure to ethanol. Molecular and Cellular
Biochemistry. DOI: 10.1007/s11010-007-9618-z OnLine First
Stanojlović O., Hrnčić D., Rašić A., Šušić V., Živanović D., 2007: Beneficial
effects of delta sleep inducing peptide on metaphit seizures. Acta Veterinaria (Beograd),
57 (2–3), 89–101 (DOI: 10.2298/AVB0703089S).
Stanojlović O., Hrnčić D., Živanović D., Šušić V., 2007: Anticonvulsant, but not
antiepileptic action of valproate on audiogenic seizure in metaphit - treated rats. Clinical
and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology, 34 (10), 1010–1015 (DOI:10.1111/
j.1440-1681.2007.04681.x).
Hrnčić D., Rašić A., Šušić V., Radosavljević Т., Lončar-Stevanović H., Đurić D.,
Stanojlović O., 2007: EKG and EEG changes during tonic seizures in metaphit - injected
rats challenged by sound stimulation. Joint Meeting of The Slovak Physiological
Society, The Physiological Society and The Federation of European Physiological
Societies, Bratislava, Slovakia, September 11–14, 2007, Abstracts. Acta Physiologica,
191 (S658), 93.
Mladenović D., Hrnčić D., Radosavljević Т., Vučević D., Đurić D., Rašić A.,
Lončar-Stevanović H., Stanojlović O., 2007: Dose - dependent effects of ethanol
on experimental lindane - induced epilepsy in rats. Joint Meeting of The Slovak
Physiological Society, The Physiological Society and The Federation of European
Physiological Societies, Bratislava, Slovakia, September 11–14, 2007, Abstracts. Acta
Physiologica, 191 (S658), 93.
Hrnčić D., Stanojlović O., Rašić A., Mladenović D., Vučević D., Radosavljević Т.,
Šušić V., 2007: Inhibition of convulsions in lindane - treated rats by ifenprodil. Scientific
Conference with international participation Nutrition, treatment and cardiovascular
risk management, Novi Sad, 24–27 May 2007, Abstract book, 101.
Petrović B., Hrnčić D., Mladenović D., Vučević D., Rašić A., Radosavljević
Т., Šušić V., Stanojlović O., 2007: Effects of ethanol on electroencephalographic and
behavioral signs of metaphit induced audiogenic seizure. Scientific Conference with
international participation Nutrition, treatment and cardiovascular risk management,
Novi Sad, 24–27 May 2007, Abstract book, 114.
Vučević D., Mladenović D., Radosavljević Т., Hrnčić D., Lončar-Stevanović
H., Šušić V., Stanojlović O., 2007: Behavioral and EEG changes in lindane - induced
experimental epilepsy. Scientific Conference with international participation Nutrition,
treatment and cardiovascular risk management, Novi Sad, 24–27 May 2007, Abstract
book, 113.
Radosavljević Т., Mladenović D., Vučević D., Petrović J., Hrnčić D., LončarStevanović H., Stanojlović O., 2007: Effect of acute lindane and alcohol intoxication
on serum enzyme activity in rats. Scientific Conference with international participation
Nutrition, treatment and cardiovascular risk management, Novi Sad, 24–27 May
2007, Abstract book, 115.
Rašić-Marković A., Petrović J., Lončar-Stevanović H., Hrnčić D., Prostran M.,
2007: The effects of chronic ethanol consumption on the lipid profile of rabbits. Scientific
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Conference with international participation Nutrition, treatment and cardiovascular
risk management, Novi Sad, 24–27 May 2007, Abstract book, 121.
Mladenović D., Hrnčić D., Vučević D., Rašić A., Radosavljević Т., Petrović J.,
Lončar-Stevanović H., Šušić V., Stanojlović O., 2007: Electroencephalographic and
behavioral effects of ethanol on seizures in rats treated with lindane. XII Serbian
Congess of Pharmacology and II Serbian Congress of Clinical Pharmacology, Palić,
May 9–12, 2007, Abstract book, 33.
Radosavljević Т., Mladenović D., Vučević D., Petrović J., Hrnčić D., Rašić A.,
Lončar-Stevanović H., Stanojlović O., 2007: Serum concentration of enzymes and fatty
acids in rats after acute lindane and alcohol intoxication. XII Serbian Congess of
Pharmacology and II Serbian Congress of Clinical Pharmacology, Palić, May 9–12,
2007, Abstract book, 34.
Project: HIGH TECHNOLOGY IN MEDICINE AND NUCLEAR
MEDICINE: INSTRUMENTATION DEVELOPMENT, INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY, CLINICAL METHODOLOGY AND BASIC
EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH
(Academician Vladimir Bošnjaković)
The work on the development of new original designs of imaging instrumentation
for nuclear medicine was continued in 2007. The novelty was the improvement of the
basic design of scintillation camera (SC) type of the detector by optimizing its design to
serve for detecting the single photon emitters only, in particular for the SPECT studies.
Thus, the design based on the known sodium iodide - NaI(Tl) crystal only was considered,
as the new lantan bromide - LaBr3(Cr3+) scintillation crystal was shown inconvenient for
building the large crystals as needed for the Anger type of position sensitive SC detector.
Two reasons made such a design decision. First, the single photon emitters (99m-Tc,
123-I, 111-In, 131-I) are still used in 85 - 90 % of all studies in nuclear medicine. Second,
the very popular PET studies which are nowdays used routinely in conjunction with CT
studies (one can now buy just the PET-CT machines), are very recently overmatched
with the SPECT-CT machines (CT was added to a dual SC SPECT system, too!). Thus,
SPECT-CT system with the improvement of performing characteristics of the exsisting
SPECT machines to work fluently with the hightech CT machines was considered as a
chalinging goal for the future research.
The work on other subtopics in the realization of the project in 2007 referred
mostly to clinical and methodological investigations by evaluating diagnostic significance
of nuclear medicine techniques. These investigations included problems of nuclear
cardiology, nuclear hematology and nuclear gastro-entero-hepatology combined with
nuclear pulmology and oncology studies.
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.Project: ENERGY METABOLISM UNDER NORMAL AND PATHOLOGICAL
CONDITIONS
(Academician Zoran Kovačević)
In 2007, the work on the project “Expression of the Neoplastic Cell
Programme“ was carried out.
Project: IDENTIFICATION OF MYOCARD VIABILITY WITH DYPIRIDAMOLE
AND DOBUTAMINE
(Academician Miodrag Ostojić)
The study population consisted of 31 pts (mean age 53 ± 7 years; 26 male, 5 female) with
previous myocardial infarction and single vessel CAD undergoing coronary angioplasty of
the infarct-related coronary artery. All patients were evaluated by single pressure/thermo
wire (RADI) FFR and CFR by thermodilution during maximal hyperemia (induced by
papaverine) before and immediately after coronary angioplasty. In addition, functional
testing was performed in all patients by dobutamine stress echocardiography as well as
perfusion scintiography, both before and at least six months post percutaneous coronary
intervention. Patients were also observed for the development of adverse cardiovascular
events, including restenosis.
Percutaneous coronary intervention resulted in a significant increase of the FFR
and CFR, 0.60 ± 0.15 to 0.91 ± 0.6 and 1.5 ± 0.4 to 2.6 ± 0.8, correspondingly (p for
both <0.001). Patients who developed ECG changes during the inflation of the balloon
had a lower FFR of the collateral circulation compared to patients who did not have
ECG changes (0.16 ± 0.8 vs. 0.27 ± 0.9, p<0.01, correspondingly) The best cut off
value of the FFR to predict ECG changes produced by inflation of balloon was 0.23,
giving value of 87 % and 90 % for sensitivity and specificity, respectively. The FFR
of the collateral circulation correlated positively with the angio Rentrop classification
(p = 0.035). Myocardial viability was best independently predicted by the FFR of the
pretreated vessel (p = 0.01) than by the FFR of the collateral circulation (p = 0.04). The
feasibility of the FFR and CFR by thermodilution, measurements was 98 % and 90 %,
respectively.
For the first time, a number of relations between the FFR and the size of myocardial
infarction (i.e., the ejection fraction and peak creatin-kinase) was presented, confirming
the value and pathophysiological concept of the evaluation of the FFR in the target vessel,
as well as of the collateral circulation in patients with previous myocardial infarction in
regard to the probability of myocardial recovery.
Nedeljkovic M., Ostojic M., Beleslin B., Nedeljkovic I., Milic N., Vukcevic
V., Stojkovic S., Saponjski J., Orlic D., Djordjevic-Dikic A., Stepanovic J., Giga V.,
Petrasinovic Z., Arandjelovic A., Beleslin B., Kanjuh V. et al., 2007: Ergonovineinduced changes of coronary artery diameter in patients with nonsignificant coronary
artery stenosis: relation with lipid profile. Herz, 32 (4), 329–335.
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Lewington S., Whitlock G., Clarke R., Sherliker P., Emberson J., Halsey J.,
Qizilbash N., Peto R., Collins R. (Serbia: Nedeljkovic S., Ostojic M.), 2007: Prospective
Studies Collaboration - Blood cholesterol and vascular mortality by age, sex, and blood
pressure: a meta-analysis of individual data from 61 prospective studies with 55,000
vascular deaths. Lancet, Dec 1, 370 (9602), 1829–1839.
Mrdovic I., Savic L., Perunicic J., Asanin M., Lasica R., Jelena M., Matic M.,
Vasiljevic Z., Ostojic M., 2007: Randomized active-controlled study comparing effects of
treatment with carvedilol versus metoprolol in patients with left ventricular dysfunction
after acute myocardial infarction. American Heart Journal, 154 (1), 116–122.
Asanin M., Vasiljevic Z., Matic M., Vujisic-Tesic B., Arandjelovic A., Marinkovic
J., Ostojic M., 2007: Outcome of patients in relation to duration of new-onset atrial
fibrillation following acute myocardial infarction. Cardiology, 107 (3), 197–202.
Stankovic G., Ostojic M., Louvard Y., Colombo A., 2007: Coronary bifurcation
lesions: definition, classification and approaches to treatment. Cardiology International,
Vol. 8, No.3, 107–113.
Ostojic M., Sagic D., Jung R., Perisic Z., Jagic N., Nedeljkovic M., Topic D.,
Stojkovic S., Mangovski Lj., Paunovic D., 2007: NOBORI CORE - final angiographic
and clinical results. European Heart Journal (Abstr. Supl), 1639.
Stepanovic J., Ostojic M., Lecic-Tosevski D., Vukovic O., Djordjevic-Dikic A.,
Beleslin B., Giga V., Nedeljkovic I., Petrasinovic Z., Vujisic-Tesic B., 2007: Mental stress
facilitates development of myocardial ischemia during exercise stress test. European
Heart Journal (Abstr. Supl), P2648.
Trifunovic D., Athanassopoulos G., Athanassios M., Panagiotis I., Karatasakis G.,
Ostojic M., Cokkinos D.V., 2007: Doppler tissue imaging derived regional deformation
indices of right ventricular function in primary pulmonary hypertension: a case-control
matched study. European Heart Journal (Abstr. Supl), P3541.
Beleslin B., Ostojic M., Djordjevic-Dikic A., Vukcevic V., Stojkovic S., Nedeljkovic
M., Stankovic G., Orlic D., Stepanovic J., Giga V., Arandjelovic A., 2007: Fractional and
Coronary Flow Reserve in Prediction of Functional Recovery of Myocardium in Patients
with Previous Myocardial Infarction. Circulation, 116, II 751-II, 752.
Djordjevic Dikic A., Beleslin B., Ostojic M., Stepanovic J., Giga V., Vujisic Tesic
B., Nedeljkovic I., Nedeljkovic M., Vukcevic V., Dikic M., 2007: Functional recovery of
the left ventricle coronary intervention in the chronic phase after myocardial infarction
evaluated by coronary flow reserve with echocardiography. European Journal of
Echocardiography, 8 (Suppl 1), S104.
Petrovic M., Trifunovic D., Vujisic Tesic B., Suvajdzic N., Petrovic O., Nedeljkovic
I., Banovic M., Ostojic M., 2007: Conventional echocardiographic and pulsed tissue
Doppler study of heart involvement in Gausher diseas: a case control matched study.
European Journal of Echocardiography, 8 (Suppl 1), S62.
Stepanovic J., Ostojic M., Lecic Tosevski D., Vukovic O., Djordjevic Dikic A.,
Beleslin B., Nedeljkovic I., Giga V., Nedeljkovic M., Stojkovic S., 2007: Multivariante
analysis of parameters associated development of myocardial ischemia during mental
stress test. European Journal of Echocardiography, 8 (Suppl 1), S92.
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Ostojic M., Sagic D., Beleslin B., Jung R., Topic D., Jagic N., Perisic Z., Stojkovic
S., Miloradovic V., Apostolovic S., Milosavljevic B., Mangovski Lj., Nedeljkovic M.,
Debeljacki D., 2007: First Clinical Comparison of Nobori Drug Eluting Stent with
Cypher Stent: NOBORI CORE Clinical Trial. The American Journal of Cardiology,
100 (Issue 8, Suppl 1), 160L.
Popović D., Mazić S., Nešić D., Velkovski S., Stojiljković S., Šćepanović L.,
Mitrović D., Ostojić M., et al., 2007: Athlete’s heart syndrome. Srpski Arhiv za
celokupno lekarstvo, 135 (3–4), 222–229.
Popovic D., Ostojic M., Popovic N., Stojiljkovic S., Scepanovic L., 2007: Causes
of sudden cardiac death in athletes. Medicinski pregled, 60 (1–2), 61–65.
Popovic D., Brkic P., Nesic D., Stojiljkovic S., Scepanovic L., Ostojic M., 2007:
Electrophysiological characteristics of the athlete’s heart. Medicinski pregled, 60 (3–4),
156–159.
Asanin M., Vasiljevic Z., Matic M., Vujisic-Tesic B., Mrdovic I., Kostic J., Ostojic
M., 2007: Chronic heart failure and recurrences of atrial fibrillation after acute myocardial
infraction: 7-year follow up��. XVI Kongres kardiologa Srbije sa međunarodnim
učešćem, Beograd 14–17. oktobar 2007, Kardiologija, 28, Sažeci radova - Suplement
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Project: Biochemical and Morphological Cell Features at the
Onset of Programmed Cell Death (Apoptosis)
(Academician Bogdan Đuričić)
Studies were carried out at the Institute of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, University
of Belgrade. Quantitative investigations on metabolic changes were commenced using a
newly-acquired high-pressure liquid chromatograph.
The effects of oxidative stress (induced by hydrogen peroxide or sodium
nitroprusside) were investigated using an astrocyte cell culture and, in particular, the
nature of cell death was investigated. The number of dying/dead cells was established
using MTT staining or crystal violet staining and the changes were dynamically followed
using flow cytometry, the cells being stained with dihydroxyrodiamine and annexine/
propidium iodide. In addition, tentative protective effects by adenosine were sought
after.
Moreover, the protective effects of adenosine in astrocytes were shown by following
the reduction of the glycolytic rate (hypoglycemia or poisoning by iodoacetate).
The investigations aimed on defining the adenosine transport system in astrocytes
were continued. It was shown that there is a fast uptake of adenosine in astrocytes,
apparently by a saturable transport system.
Jotić A, Lalić N., Miličić T., Lukić M., Marković I., Đuričić B. [et al.], 2006:
Diffrerent islet cell antibody titer at onset of type I diabetes: an association with changes
in CD4+T cells subsets and clinical course of disease. Diabetologia: Abstract, 42nd
EASD Annual Meeting, Copenhagen-Malmoe. 49��
[Suppl 1], 281.
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Milovanović J., Milovanović A., Đuričić B. ... [et al.], 2007: Changes in enzymatic
activities of superoxide dismutase and glutathione reductase, and in reduced glutathione
and malonyl aldehyde after acute alumina poisoning. Acta veterinaria (Beograd), 57.
Markovic I., Segal M.B., Đuricic B., [et al.], 2007: Kinetics of nucleoside
uptake by the basolateral side of the sheep choroid plexus epithelium perfused in situ.
Experimental Physiology, 2007 Nov 26; [Epub ahead of print]
Project: INVESTIGATION OF GENETIC BASIS OF DEGENERATIVE
DISEASES OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
(Academician Vladimir S. Kostić)
During 2007, the activities were focused on an investigation of the genetic basis of
Parkinson’s disease, dystonia and other neurodegenerative disorders. In relation to this
topic, 8 papers were published in international journals. Papers relating to this topic were
presented at 6 international and several domestic meetings (published as abstracts and
not cited in this report). One master’s thesis was defended in the area of the topic. The
project head delivered 4 invited plenary lectures at international meetings.
During 2007, V.S. Kostić developed collaboration with groups from Italy, Germany,
Russia and the USA. He is a member of the editorial boards of Acta Physiologica et
Pharmacologica Jugoslavica, Psychiatry Today, Acta Infectologica, Focus on Parkinson
Disease, Vojnosanitetski Glasnik, Polish Journal of Neurology and Neurosurgery, JAMA
(Serbian edition). He is a member of the Scientific Board of the Movement Disorders
Society.
Kostić V.S., 2007: Defining mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson’s disease Comment. Focus on Parkinson’s Disease, 19, 18. [Comment]
Winkler S., Konig I.R., Lohman-Heidreich K., Vieregge P., Kostić V.S., Klein C.,
2007: Role of ethnicity on the association of MAPT H1 haplotypes and subhaplotypes in
Parkinson’s disease. European Journal of Human Genetics, 15, 1163–1168.
Svetel M., Pekmezović T., Jović J., Ivanović N., Dragašević N., Marić J., Kostić
V.S., 2007: Spread of primary dystonia in relation to initially affected region. Journal of
Neurology, 254, 879–883.
Pekmezović T., Svetel M., Marić J., Dujmović-Bašuroski I., Dragašević N.,
Keckarević M., Romac S., Kostić V.S., 2007: Survival of Huntington’s disease patients
in Serbia: longer survival in female patients. European Journal of Neurology, 22, 523–
526.
Winkler S., Hagenah J., Lincoln S., Heckman M., Lohmann-Heidreich K., Kostić
V.S., Farrer M., Klein C., 2007: α-Synuclein and Parkinson disease susceptibility.
Neurology, 69, 1745–1750.
Cerovac N., Petrović I., Klein C., Kostić V.S., 2007: Delayed-onset dystonia due
to perinatal asphyxia: a prospective study. Movement Disorders, 22, 2426–2429.
Lepori M.B., Lovicu M., Dessi V., Zappu A., Incollu S., Zancan L., Giacchino R.,
Iorio R., Vajro P., Maggiore G., Marcellini M., Barbera C., Pellecchia M.T., Simonetii
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R., Kostić V.S., Farci A.M., Solinas A., De Virgillis S., Cao A., Loudianos G., 2007:
Twenty-four novel mutations in Wilson disease patients of predominantly Italian origin.
Genetic Testing, 11, 328–332.
Kostić V.S., 2007: Dystonia: diagnosis and treatment. Teaching Course 1:
Update on movement disorders - basic. 11th Congress of the European Federation of
Neurological Societies, Brisel, 1–14.
Svetel M., Vasić M., Tomić G., Stanković P., Stojanović M., Dragašević N.,
Dergenc R., Vukašinović M., Pekmezović T., Petrović I., Kostić V.S., 2007: Botulinum
toxin efficacy in the treatment of patients with spasmodic dysphonia. Vojnosanitetski
pregled, 64, 671–675.
Project: THE INVESTIGATION OF THE ROLE OF CYTOSKELETAL
PROTEINS IN THE PROCESS OF APOPTOSIS (PROGRAMMED CELL
DEATH)
(Corresponding Member Vladimir Bumbaširević)
In 2007, the investigations of the molecular mechanisms leading to apoptosis induced
by microtubule disassembly in several tumor cell lines (C6 glioma, HL-60 and
human glioblastoma) in vitro were continued. In addition to the morphological and
immunocytochemical studies by light and electron microscopy, Western blot analysis of
the proteins engaged in the execution of apoptosis was performed in order to detect both
caspase-dependent and independent apoptotic pathways.
Additionally, the mechanisms and the extent of apoptosis in lymph nodes of
patients with Hodgkin’s lymphoma were studied and an evaluation of apoptosis related
proteins as prognostic factors was performed.
Jakovic L.R., Mihaljevic B.S., Jovanovic M.D., Bogdanovic A.D., Martinovic
V.M., Kravic T.K., Bumbasirevic V.Z., 2007: Serbian Lymphoma Study Group. The
expression of Ki-67 and Bcl-2 in Hodgkin’s lymphoma: correlation with the International
Prognostic Score and bulky disease: a study by the Serbian Lymphoma Study Group
(SLG). Medical Oncology, 24, 45–53.
Kravić T., Brajušković G., Bumbaširević V., 2007: Involvement of microtubules
in the regulation of apoptosis induced by lovastatin and paclitaxel in HL-60 cells.
Proceedings 3rd Serbian Congress for Microscopy, Sept 25–28, 2007, Belgrade,
205–206.
Mirčić A., Maksimović-Ivanić D., Mijatović S., Đuričić B., Bumbaširević V., 2007:
Cell death of C6 glioma cells treated by microtubule interfering agents. Proceedings
3rd Serbian Congress for Microscopy, Sept 25–28, 2007, Belgrade, 223–224.
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Project: IMMUNOBIOLOGY OF DENDRITIC CELLS IN HEALTH AND
DISEASE
(Corresponding Member Miodrag Čolić)
In 2007, phenotypic and functional characteristics of dendritic cells from patients
with metastatic colorectal carcinoma were investigated. A protocol based on dendritic
cell vaccines was designed. In addition, the immunomodulatory effects of Royal jelly
components and herbal extracts on the immune responses in vitro and in vivo, mediated
by dendritic cells, were studied. In collaboration with the Faculty of Dentistry, Belgrade,
the immunoregulatory mechanisms involved in the development and persistence of
chronic periapical dental lesions were investigated.
Čolić M., Вasilijić S., Gazivoda D., Вučević D., Marjanović M., Lukić A., 2007:
Interleukin-17 plays a role in exacerbation of inflammation within chronic periapical
lesions. European Journal of Oral Sciences, 115, 315–320.
Vučević D., Melliou E., Вasilijić S., Gašić S., Ivanovski P., Chinou I., Čolić M.,
2007: Fatty acids isolated from royal jelly modulate dendritic cell-mediated immune
response in vitro. International Immunopharmacology, 7, 1211–1220.
Gasic S., Вucevic D., Вasilijic S., Antunovic M., Chinoui I., Colic M., 2007:
Evaluation of the immunomodulatory activities of royal jelly components in vitro.
Immunopharmacology and Immunotoxicology, 29, 521–536.
Colic M., Doslov-Kokorus Z., Backovic A., Stojanovic D., Antic-Stankovic J.,
Kovacevic N., 2007: Evaluation of the stimulatory effect of Epimedium alpinum L.
methanolic extract on the immune response in vivo. Pharmazie, 62 (9), 705–708.
Project: INVESTIGATION OF THE ASSOCIATION OF GENETIC
POLYMORPHISM OF PC-1 GLYCOPROTEIN (K121Q) AND INSULIN
RESISTANCE WITH DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY, CORONARY ARTERY
DISEASE AND CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE
(Corresponding Member Vladisav Stefanović)
In 2007, the research was focused on the study of molecular mechanisms of insulin
resistance and its role in the development of diabetic nephropathy, coronary artery
disease and cerebrovascular disease. Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a clinical feature,
closely associated with insulin resistance, one of the prime underlying causes of
overall cardiovascular morbidity, including coronary heart disease (CHD). Considering
the association between PC-1 121Q genotype and insulin resistance phenotype, the
contribution of PC-1 K121Q polymorphism to the development of MS and its concomitant
disorders in CHD patients was investigated. PC-1 121Q allele was found associated with
genetically determined susceptibility for MS in patients with CHD, therefore suggesting
a potential role for PC-1 K121Q genotyping in identifying individuals at high risk for
MS, its concomitant disorders and subsequent complications.
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Tasic I., Milojkovic M., Sunder-Plassmann R., Lazarevic G., Tasic N.M.,
Stefanovic V., 2007: The association of PC-1 (ENPP1) K121Q polymorphism with
metabolic syndrome in patients with coronary heart disease. Clinica Chimica Acta, 377,
237–242.
Rajic M., Ilic S., Vlajkovic M., Antic S., Velickovic L., Stefanovic V., 2007:
Radionuclide staging of renal function in type 1 diabetes mellitus. Renal Failure, 29,
685–691.
Lazarevic G., Antic S., Vlahovic P., Djordjevic V., Zvezdanovic L., Stefanovic V.,
2007: Effects of aerobic exercise on microalbuminuria and enzymuria in type 2 diabetic
patients. Renal Failure, 29, 199–205.
Project: CONTROL ENDOCRINE MECHANISMS IN BODY WEIGHT
REGULATION AMONG OBESE SUBJECTS
(Corresponding Member Dragan Micić)
During 2007, the investigation of the interaction between ghrelin and insulin
was continued in a model of obesity represented by the polycystic ovary syndrome under
the euglycaemic clamp condition. In healthy persons investigations of mutual interaction
between ghrelin and hormones that participate in the enteroinsular axis were performed
in the course of the investigation of endocrine control of appetite. The possible role
of leptin, a hormone derived from adipose tissue, as a tumor marker in a patient with
androgen secreting tumor was analyzed. An investigation of the mechanism of action
of metformine, as a drug which is used for the correction of insulin resistance in obese
subjects, was commenced and, in particular, its possible antitumor action in a model of
glioma was analyzed. The interrelation between the C reactive protein and metabolic
syndrome was investigated in patients with overweight or obesity. Visfatin plasma values,
a hormone derived from adipocytes, were investigated in the course of a glucose tolerance
test in obese women. All the mentioned investigations are published in eight papers
in international journals, four national journals and eleven abstracts on international
meetings. The project leader delivered seven invited lectures on international meetings
in 2007.
Micić D., Šumarac-Dumanović M., Kendereški A., Cvijović G., Zorić S.,
Pejković D., Micić J., Milić N., Dieguez C., Casanueva F., 2007: Total ghrelin levels
during acute insulin infusion in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome. Journal of
Endocrinological Investigation, 30, 820–827.
Micić D., Duntas L., Cvijović G., Kendereški A., Šumarac-Dumanović M., Jehle
P., Zorić S., Pejković D., Lague M., Dieguez C., Casanueva F., 2007: Ghrelin and the
enteroinsular axis in healthy men. Hormones, 6, 321–326.
Micić D., Milosavljević T., 2007: Counteracing obesity in Europe: who ministerial
conference on counteracting obesity. Diet and physical activity for health. 15–17
November 2006, Istanbul, Turkey. Obesity and Metabolism, 3, 48–49.
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Cvijović G., Micić D., Kendereški A., Šumarac-Dumanović M., Zorić S., Popović
V., 2007: Low leptin level in an obese hyperandrogenemic woman-potential marker for
androgen-secreting tumor. Gynecologic Endocrinology, 23, 112–116.
Isaković A., Harhaji L., Stevanović D., Marković Z., Šumarac-Dumanović M.,
Starčević V., Micić D., Trajković V., 2007: Dual antiglioma action of metformin: cell
cycle arrest and mitochondria-dependent apoptosis. Cellular and Molecular Life
Sciences, 64, 290–302.
Lalić N.M., Micić D., Antić S., Bajović L., Pantelinac P., Jotić A., Kendereški A.,
Dimić D., Đukić A., Mitrović M., Vujasin M., 2007: Effect of biphasic insulin aspart on
glucose and lipid control in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Expert Opinion on
Pharmacotherapy, 8, 2895–2901.
Jorga J., Šević Lj., Maksimović M., Đurišić N., Davidović D. , Micić D., 2007:
Relationship between c-reactive protein and the metabolic syndrome in overweight and
obese patients. Obesity and Metabolism, 3, 161–167.
Šumarac-Dumanović M., Micić D., Krstić M., Georgiev M., Diklić A., Tatić S.,
Stamenković-Pejković D., Kendereški A., Cvijović G., Pavlović A., 2007: Pitfalls in
diagnosing a small cystic insulinoma: a case report. Journal of Medical Case Reports,
1, 181 doi: 10.1186/1752-1947-1-181
Micic D., 2007: Pathophysiology of metabolic syndrome. 3rd Postgraduate
Course in Clinical Endocrinology. Ohrid, Macedonia, 22–24 March 2007, 10–11.
Micić D., 2007: Dyslipidaemia in the metabolic syndrome. ECO 2007 PreCongress Satellite Symposium “Metabolic Syndrome in Daily Practice”, April 20–
21 2007, Cluj Napoca, Romania, Maedica A Journal of Clinical Medicine, 1, XII.
Micić D., Šumarac Dumanović M., Kendereški A., Cvijović G., StamenkovićPejković D., Georgiev M., Zorić S., Jorga J., Casanueva F., Dieguez C., 2007: Plasma
levels of adipocytokines and insulin sensitivity during 10% weight reduction in obese
women. International Journal of Obesity, 31, Suppl 1, T3, PO.159.
Micić D., 2007: Drug induced weight gain. International Journal of Obesity,
31, Suppl 1, T3, RS3.3.
Šumarac Dumanović M., Micić D., Georgiev M., Stamenković-Pejković D., Jorga
J., Kendereški A., Cvijović G., Zorić S., Dieguez C., Casanueva F., 2007: Visfatin, leptin,
diponectin and insulin sensitivity in obese women. International Journal of Obesity,
31, Suppl 1, T3, OS4.5.
Cvijović G., Micić D., Kendereški A., Zorić S., Šumarac-Dumanović M., Pejković
D., Georgiev M., 2007: Insulin sensitivity and lipid levels in patients with primary
hyperparathyreoidism. 9th European Congress of Endocrinology, Budapest, Hungary,
Endocrine Abstracts, Vol 14, P 85.
Kendereški A., Micić D., Cvijović G., Zorić S., Šumarac-Dumanović M., Pejković
D., Georgiev M., 2007: The effect of surgical treatment on insulin sensitivity in patients
with primary hyperparathyreoidism. 9th European Congress of Endocrinology,
Budapest, Hungary, Endocrine Abstracts, Vol 14, P 86.
Micić D., Šumarac-Dumanović M., Kendereški A., Cvijović G., StamenkovićPejković D., Zorić S., Jorga J., Dieguez C., Casanueva F., 2007: Plasma visfatin during
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oral glucose tolerance test in obese women. 9th European Congress of Endocrinology,
Budapest, Hungary, Endocrine Abstracts, Vol 14, P 237.
Šumarac Dumanović M., Micić D., Georgiev M., Stamenković-Pejković D.,
Jorga J., Kendereški A., Cvijović G., Zorić S., Dieguez C., Casanueva F., 2007: Visfatin,
adiponectin, leptin and insulin sensitivity in severe obese women with normal and
impaired glucose tolerance. 9th European Congress of Endocrinology, Budapest,
Hungary, Endocrine Abstracts, Vol 14, P 268.
Stamenković-Pejković D., Micić D., Šumarac-Dumanović M., Kendereški A.,
Cvijović G., Zorić S., Georgiev M., 2007: Ghrelin levels in obese patients with polycystic
ovary syndrome. 9th European Congress of Endocrinology, Budapest, Hungary,
Endocrine Abstracts, Vol 14, P 652.
Georgiev M., Micić D., Šumarac-Dumanović M., Kendereški A., StamenkovićPejković D., Cvijović G., Zorić S., Zečević N., 2007: Ghrelin levels in lean patients
with polycystic ovary syndrome. 9th European Congress of Endocrinology, Budapest,
Hungary, Endocrine Abstracts, Vol 14, P 653.
Project: PROSTATE CANCER SCREENING
(Corresponding Member Jovan Hadži-Đokić)
There is an evident upward trend in the incidence of prostate cancer in our country.
The rate of localized cancer detection is increasing. This sharp increase was recorded
several years later than in other European countries. The delay period corresponds to the
time required for the professional public to pay attention to the possibilities of a prostatespecific antigen (PSA). The result was the introduction of early detection of prostate
cancer into practice, since there were no financial possibilities for epidemiological
studies or mass screening.
Today, in the urological clinics and wards in Serbia radical prostatectomy is
practiced to a greater extent than paliative treatment methods, as contrasted to the period
ten years ago when PSA testing was not prevalent. In the world today, early detection of
prostate cancer is mostly practiced in patients with health insurance. The regions where
the evaluation of the entire asymptomatic population is made are rare. In our investigation,
which started in two municipalities in Serbia, prostate cancer screening included a rectal
check-up, transrectal ultrasound screening (TRUS) and PSA testing. In patients with
suspected prostate cancer, we carried out transrectal biopsy in analgosedation. We tested
the male population aged 45-70. In addition, we tested the holesterol, trigliceride and
testosteron levels in the blood of these patients in order to ascertain whether there is a
casual link between their levels in the blood and the incidence of prostate cancer. One
doctoral dissertation on this topic was defended at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade.
Milković B., Hadži-Đokić J., Džamić Z., Pejčić T., 2007: The significance of
TPSA, free to total PSA ratio and PSA density in prostate carcinoma diagnostics. Acta
chirurgica Iugoslavica, 4, 105–107.
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Pejčić T., Hadži-Đokić J., Marković B., Maksimović H., Aćimović M., Miljković
S., 2007: Stage T2 Prostate Cancer Presented with High Serum Prostate Specific Antigen
adn Nonspecific Bone Lesions. Acta chirurgica Iugoslavica, 4, 108–112.
Hadži-Đokić J., Pejčić T., Vuksanović A., Aćimović M., Džamić Z., 2007:
Orthotopic Neobladder: A 22 - Year Experience. Acta chirurgica Iugoslavica, 4, 33–
35.
INTERDEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN REPRODUCTION
BIOLOGY
In 2007, the activity included the organization of the scientific meeting with
international participation in cooperation with the SASA Interdepartmental Committee for
Human Reproduction Biology and the Gynecological-Obstetrics Section of the Serbian
Medical Society. Its topic was: Chronic Non-contageous Diseases and Pregnancy - Part
I (Hronične nezarazne bolesti i trudnoća - I deo). All papers listed below were published
in the Proceedings, edited by Vojin Šulović and Tihomir Vejnović.
The content of the Proceedings:
- Introduction
- Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Pregnancy
- Rheumatic Heart Disease and Pregnancy: Maternal and Phoetal Risks
- Congenital Heart Disease and Pregnancy: Perinatal Outcome
- Diabetes and Pregnancy
- Hyperthension and Pregnancy
- Therapy of Hyperthyreosis in Pregnancy
- Nicotine and Women’s Reproductive Health
- Therapeutical Dilemma: Congenital or Acquired Trombophilia
- Pregnancy and Malignant Diseases
- Epilepsy and Pregnancy
- Adult Diseases Attributable to a Slowdown in Phoetal Growth
In 2008, the scientific meeting bearing the same name (Chronic Non-contageous
Diseases and Pregnancy - Part II), with international participation, will also be held. It
will also be organized in cooperation with the Gynecological-Obstetrics Section of the
Serbian Medical Society.
INTERDEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE ON AIDS
Last year, the Committee organized the scientific meeting entitled “Twenty Years of
HIV/AIDS in Serbia“, together with the Youth Association Against AIDS (JAZAS). The
papers presented at this scientific meeting were published in 2007, in the Proceedings
with the following contents:
- Introduction
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- Keynote Address by Academician Šulović
- Аleksandar Dujić: From the First Case of HIV/AIDS in Serbia to the Formation
of the National Commission
- Danijela Simić: Development and Characteristics of the Epidemic Caused by
Human Imunodeficiency Virus in the Republic of Serbia in Comparison with Europe;
- Аleksandar Bojović, Slađana Baroš, Farida Basioni Stamenić: The Response of
the Government Sector to HIV/AIDS, from the Formation of the HIV/AIDS National
Commission to the Present Day;
- Viktorija Cucić, Dragan Ilić: The Role and Contribution of the Non-Governmental
Sector in Combatting HIV/AIDS;
- Мila Paunić, Marijana Pešić, Vesnica Kljajević, Dragan Ilić, Milena Tomašević,
Zorica Žikić, Miodrag Stojanović: Development of Voluntary Confidential Counselling
and Testing for HIV;
- Spaso Anđelić, Bojan Vasić, Relja Lukić: Prevention of Mother-to-Child Vertical
Transmission of HIV, 2003–2004;
- Каtarina Mitić: Vulnerable Groups and HIV;
- Vesna Šuljagić: Miodrag Jevtić: HIV/AIDS, National and Global Security;
- Јеlena Drezga: Problems of Including People Living with HIV/AIDS in
Prevention and Care Programmes;
- Ivana Mišić: National Strategy Against HIV/AIDS;
- Daniel Mešković: The Global Fund Initiative in Serbia Relating to HIV/AIDS,
Further Steps.
Underway are the HIV/AIDS investigations as a health, social, ethic and emotional
problem in the territory of the Republic of Serbia.
COMMITTEE ON KIDNEY DISEASES
In 2007, the members of the Committee met six times. This year, the Committee was
expanded by 6 new members. The members of the Committee took an active part in all
four projects, i.e.:
* Kidney as an Endocrine Organ - Committee on Biomedical Research
* H ealth Condition Follow-up of the SASA Members - Committee on Kidney Diseases
* Research on Endemic Nephropathy in South-Eastern Europe - Centre for Scientific
Research in Niš
* Еtiopathogenesis Incidence and Treatment of Various Forms of Glomerulopathy
- SASA Department of Medical Sciences.
Last year, the Committee on Kidney Diseases was concerned with the best possible
examination and treatment of the SASA members. Special attention was devoted to the
best possible organization of the specialist service at the SASA Polyclinic not only with
respect to treatment, but also with respect to the early detection of various diseases,
laying special emphasis on the early detection of malignant diseases, especially malignant
prostate tumour.
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In order to prevent its incidence, most SASA members were vaccinated against
flu. Apart from the standard laboratory analyses, the PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) test
was also performed on a number of SASA members for the purpose of early detection of
malignant prostate tumour. In the current year, this test will also be performed on other
SASA members.
An attempt was also made to raise the level of the SASA members’ examination
and treatment. Among other things, the card register was established and the cards will
be provided to all SASA members who still do not have them.
Last year, the Committee members presented their papers at numerous meetings
in the country and abroad.
COMMITTEE ON SURVEY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF MEDICAL
SCIENCES IN SERBIA
The survey in 2007 showed the continuation of the trend that financial funds for
medical scientific projects in SASA are small and not adequate, especially for retired
academicians. The collaboration of SASA with the universities of Niš and Kragujevac,
Serbian Medical Society and its Academy of Medical Sciences, international cooperation
(including Montenegro and R. Srpska) were advanced.
The following scientific meetings were held: Medical education (B. Đuričić, V.
Bumbaširević, N. Lalić), Chronic non-contagious diseases and pregnancy (V. Šulović),
Obesity: pathogenetic aspects and therapeutic possibilities (D. Micić), and Promotion of
research ethics in Serbia (V. Stefanović).
In a collaboration of the SASA and the ASARS, the book “A new perspective
on prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis“ (with chapters written by V. Kanjuh
and M. Ostojić) was published as well as three numbers of Annals of the SASA branch
in Novi Sad (Z. Kovačević), the book “Professors of internal medicine, infectious
disease, pediatrics, neurology, psychiatry, and dermatovenerology of the Belgrade
School of Medicine“ (R. Čolović), and Items on letters A and B for the General
Serbian Encyclopedia of SASA and Matica Srpska.
A tribute was paid to 15 members of the SASA and 3 other scientists in the SASA’s
book “Lives and Work of the Serbian Scientists“ and in other monographs to: Đ.
Joannović, K. Šahović, Lj. Mihajlović, V. Đorđević, E. Mihel, J. Bernard, M. Đorđević,
and J. Apostolović (the first Serb with a PhD in medicine 250 years ago).
COMMITTEE ON CARDIOVASCULAR PATHOLOGY
Under the auspices of the Committee of 39 members (including 11 foreign members),
the following projects were worked on (besides the four projects in the SASA):
1. A preventive prospective study of cardiovascular diseases in seven countries of the
world (S. Nedeljković, M. Ostojić and associates).
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2. Yugoslav study of the precursors of atherosclerosis in children (S. Nedeljković,
S. Simeunović, M. Vukotić, V. Kanjuh, M. Ostojić and associates).
3. The water of the common rivers of Vojvodina, Hungary and Romania and
cardiovascular diseases (Đ. Stojšić, V. Kanjuh, M. Ostojić).
4. Myocarditis - Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy: Problems in Diagnostics and
Therapy (Đ. Stojšić, V. Kanjuh, M. Ostojić).
The following scientific conferences were held with the Committee as a coorganizer:
1. International Cardiology Workshop III. Complex Coronary Angioplasty
up to Chronic Total Occlusions 2007: The clinically integrated approach with a
training course on the radial approach and the symposium: Therapy of Ischemic
Heart Disease 2007: From Asymptomatic Atherosclerotic Plaque to Myocardial
Infarction. Belgrade, April 11–14, 2007. (M. Ostojić, M. Nedeljković). The book
‘’Syllabus and Abstracts’’ with 478 pages was published.
(2) Heart failure 2007. Belgrade, April 23, 2007. (Z. Vasiljević, B. Stojnić).
(3) Symposium “Modern Approach in the Prevention and Therapy of
Atherosclerosis” within the XII Serbian Congress of Pharmacology and the II
Serbian Congress of Clinical Pharmacology. Palić, May 9–12, 2007. (Lj. GojkovićBukarica, V. Kanjuh).
(4) Actualities in Cardiology with international participation. Niš, May 17–19,
2007 (S. Ilić, M. Deljanin-Ilić).
(5) 9th International Symposium “Interdisciplinary Regional Research,
Hungary, Romania, Serbia”, Novi Sad, June 21–23, 2007. (Đ. Stojšić).
(6) Meeting on the occasion of the opening of Cardiac Catheterization
Laboratory in the Clinical Hospital Center, Banja Luka, June 28, 2007 (A. Lazarević,
M. Ostojić).
(7) 40 years of the Clinical Center of Serbia Pace-Maker Center. Belgrade,
September 13, 2007 (G. Milašinović, V. Kanjuh).
(8) Joint Symposium of the SCS and SASA “Atherosclerosis 2007: Past,
Present and Future“ within the XVI SCS Congress with international participation.
Belgrade, October 14, 2007 (M. Ostojić, V. Kanjuh, S. Nedeljković).
Collaboration with cardiologists and angiologists of Bosnia and Herzegovina
by participations to their 4th International Congress in Mostar, May 17–19, 2007 (V.
Kanjuh, N. Radovanović, Z. Vasiljević, and P. Seferović).
During the last 16 years, 119 promotions of postgraduate text-books (Cardiology
1994, 2000, YUSAD study) with relevant lectures for 13327 physicians in different cities
of Serbia, Republic of Srpska and Montenegro were held.
The members of the Committee paid great attention to the investigation of coronary
atherothrombosis, heart failure, and the Torrent - Guasp Heart.
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COMMITTEE ON IMMUNOLOGY AND ALLERGOLOGY
(Corresponding Member Miodrag Čolić)
The most significant activity of the Committee in 2007 was the organization
of the V Scientific Meeting of the Society for Allergology and Clinical Immunology
of Serbia and the Serbian Immunological Society, held in Belgrade (Military Medical
Academy) 22.03–24.03.2007. The Serbian Immunological Society organized a mini
symposium on the occasion of the International Day of Immunology (29.04.2007). It
was agreed that in future (commencing from 2008), this Meeting will be organized in
the SASA by the Committee on Immunology and Allergology, Medical Department
of the SASA and the Serbian Immunological Society. The members of the Committee
were engaged in different activities, such as preparations of the V Balkan Congress of
Immunology, to be held in 2008 in Ohrid, publications of papers in Clinical Application
of Immunology (official journal of the Balkan Association of Immunological Societies)
and other international journals, as well as participation on domestic and international
immunological meetings.
COMMITTEE FOR SOMNOLOGY
(Academician Veselinka Šušić)
In 2007, the activity involved the organization of the scientific meeting: „Sleep
and disorders of sleep“ with international participation, which was held in SASA on 10
May 2007. The presented papers were published in the journal SANU, Glas 8 CDVI,
Book 49, in Serbian with an English summary.
The content of Symposium was:
1. Veselinka Šušić: Normal sleep
2. Nikola Trajanović: A contemporary view at the classification of sleep disorders
3. Tatjana Pekmezović: Epidemiology of sleep disturbances
4. Ružica Kovačević-Ristanović: Narcolepsy and other hypersomnias
5. Slavko Janković, Vladimir Kostić, Veselinka Šušić: REM sleep parasomnias and
degenerative diseases of the central nervous system
6. Miodrag Radulovački, David W. Carley: Is pharmacologic treatment of sleep apnea
efficient?
7. Miodrag Vukčević: How to solve the problem of sleep apnea?
8. Dragan Micić, Veselinka Šušić, Vladimir Kostić: Ghrelin and sleep
9. Dragoslav Sokić: Sleep and the epilepsies
10. Dušica Lečić-Toševski, Milica Pejović-Milovančević, Smiljka Popović-Deušić,
Veselinka Šušić: Psychiatric aspects of sleep
11. Marina Svetel, Vladimir Kostić: Disturbed motor behavior in sleep
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Mathematics, Physics and Geo Scie
ONOMASTIC COMMITTEE
(Corresponding Member Aleksandar Loma)
Fieldwork was carried out in the regions of southern Banat (Mirjana Petrović, 14 days),
of Rađevina (Mirjana Petrović, 30 days), of Nevesinje (Branko Remeta, 50 days), of
Knjaževac (Nedeljko Bogdanović and Radomir Videnović, 40 days), a total of 134 days,
almost twice as many as last year. The influx into the database also increased, although
less than planned, a total of around 8000 cards, from the regions of Jablanica (Radmila
Žugić), Rađevina (Mirjana Petrović) and Preševo (Tatjana Trajković).
The XIX volume of “Onomatological Contributions” (Onomatološki prilozi) will
be published early in 2008.
Dr. Jovanka Radić, PhD, was appointed by the Department of Language and
Literature as the secretary of the Committee, replacing the deceased Željko Ćupić.
By purchasing equipment and furniture for the room of the Committee, conditions
were provided for two collaborators to work therein jointly on the filing and classification
of the data. The initial steps were taken towards electronically mapping onomastic
fieldwork in the Serbian language area.
COMMITTEE FOR CRITICAL EDITIONS OF SERBIAN WRITERS
(Academician Nikša Stipčević)
The manuscript of the first volume “The Đurđe Branković Chronicles“ (“Hronike
Đurđa Brankovića“) was completely prepared for printing. Its critical edition was
prepared by Dr. Anna Kretschmer, professor at the University of Vienna. The manuscipt
was collated and reviewed a few times (Academician Aleksandar Mladenović and
Corresponding Member Aleksandar Loma). Corresponding Member Aleksandar Loma
checked the citations in Greek. The manuscript is now in the SASA Publishing Service
and should be published this year.
Dr. Anna Kretschmer started to prepare the second volume of “The Đurđe
Branković Chronicles“. She expects that it will be finished this year.
THE COMMITTEE FOR THE DICTIONARY OF THE SERBO-CROATIAN
LITERARY LANGUAGE AND VERNACULARS
(Academician Milosav Tešić)
In 2007, the Committee held one session (on 13 November). On that occasion, the
President of the Committee presented the data on the progress made in the preparation
of the 18th volume of the SASA Dictionary (based on the report submitted by the project
leader). Thereafter, the Committee discussed the personnel, spatial and financial issues
related to the further work on the SASA Dictionary.
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In this connection, the Committee concluded that it would be realistic to expect
that the manuscript of the 18th volume would be completed by the end of 2008 or, in
other words, that there would be enough time to finish all editing, reviewing, acting upon
the reviewer’s comments and technical jobs. As for the personnel, spatial and financial
issues related to the further work on the SASA Dictionary, the Committee will suggest
that, apart from the SASA, the relevant executive and professional bodies of the Institute
for the Serbian Language also become more involved in them in the coming period.
COMMITTEE FOR RESEARH IN LITERARY HISTORY
(Academician Predrag Palavestra)
Academician Predrag Palavestra continued to work on individual project “Serbian
Literature of the 20th Century“ (“Srpska književnost XX veka). He finished the first
version of the manuscript History of Serbian Literary Criticism (Istorija srpske književne
kritike) and started to work on the bibliography. From this manuscrupt he published the
essays on the critical reviews by Zoran Mišić, Sveta Lukić, Zoran Gavrilović, Zoran
Gluščević, Nikola Milošević and Slavko Leovac. He published the essays “The Mission
of Ultimate Man and New Humanism in Serbian Literary Criticism“ (“Misija Svečoveka
i Novi humanizam u srpskoj književnoj kritici“) and “Understanding Criticism in
Serbian Literature of the Second Half of the 20th Century“ (“Shvatanje kritike u srpskoj
književnosti druge polovine XX veka“).
He also edited Glas No. 22 of the SASA Department of Language and Literature,
Belgrade, 2006, Sveske of the Ivo Andrić Foundation No. 24/2007, and Volume VII of
Branko Lazarević’s Collected Works, Political Treatises. Legacy (Sabrana dela Branka
Lazarevića, Političke rasprave. Ostavština), Belgrade, 2007. He also published seven
papers.
Academician Radovan Vučković published the book The Life and Poetry
of Mubera Pašić (Život i poezija Mubere Pašić), 2007, 300 pages, and the treatises
“Stratification of the Novel Bosnian Chronicle“ (“Slojevitost romana Travnička
hronika“), Novi Sad, 2007; “S. Leovac’s Monograph on the Serbian Authors of the
20th Century“ (“Monografija S. Leovca o srpskim piscima XX veka“), Zbornik Matice
srpske za književnost, 2007, 55/2, 303–326, and ”Two Essays of Sreten Marić” (“Dva
eseja Sretena Marića”), Raskršća, Novi Sad, 21–28. He participated in several scientific
meetings; in Banja Luka, he led the scientific meeting ”Kočić Today” (“Kočić danas“)
at the Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republic of Srpska (ANURS), where he is
working on the publishing of the Collected Works by Pero Slijepčević.
Scientific Advisor Mirjana Deletić published two monographs - Epic Cities.
Lexicon (Epski gradovi. Leksikon), SASA Balkanological Institute, Special Editions
84, Belgrade 2007, and The White Palace and the White Town in Epic Poetics (Beli dvor
i beli grad u epskoj poetici), Glas Odeljenja jezika i književnosti SASA 23, Belgrade
2007, 109–119. She submitted the following works for printing: “On Proverbs and
Books“ - The Introduction to the book by Milan Z. Vlajinac, The Agricultural Economy
in Folk Proverbs (“O poslovicama i knjigama“ - Predgovor u knjizi: Milan Z. Vlajinac,
Poljska privreda u narodnim poslovicama), new edition of RTS; S��
lavery in the West
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Balkans: History and Oral Tradition, Festschrift Gabriella Schubert; “Formulativeness
and the Oral Epic Formula: The Attributes White and Heroic in Serbian Decasyllable
Epic Poetry“ (“Formulativnost i usmena epska formula: atributi belo i junačko u srpskoj
deseteračkoj epici”), Proceedings Serbian Oral Tradition (Srpsko usmeno stvaralastvo),
edited by Snežana Samardžija, Faculty of Philology, Belgrade.
Professor Dr. Staniša Tutnjević published his study Poetical and Poetological
Research (Poetička i poetološka istraživanja), Institute for Literature and Art, Belgrade,
2007, 366 pages, as well as the following papers: ��
”The Constitution and Stratification
of Literary Identities Within the South Slavic Literary Community” (”Konstituisanje
i raslojavanje književnih identiteta u okviru južnoslovenske književne zajednice”),
Književnost, 2007, 1, 103–109; “Serbian Literary Science on the Literature of Bosnia
and Herzegovina (“Srpska nauka o književnosti o literarnom stvaralaštvu Bosne i
Hercegovine“), The Contribution of the Serbs from Bosnia and Herzegovina to
Science and Culture (Doprinos Srba iz Bosne i Hercegovine nauci i kulturi), Proceedings,
University of Sarajevo, Pale Faculty of Philosophy, Special Editions, Scientific Meetings,
Vol. I, Pale 2007, 103–134; “The Creation and Structure of the Collection I Seek Clemency
(“Nastanak i struktura zbirke Tražim pomilovanje”), Desanka Maksimović’s Collection
I Seek Clemency (Zbirka Tražim pomilovanje Desanke Maksimović), Proceedings,
Desanka Maksimović Foundation, 2007, 93–114, ”Andrić’s Story ‘A Summer in the
South’ and Thomas Mann’s Story ’The Wardrobe’“ (“Andrićeva priča ’Letovanje na
jugu’ i priča ’Ormar’ Tomasa Mana“), Sveske Zadužbine Ive Andrića, 24/2007, 261–
272; “Understanding Reality as the Guiding Principle of the Mimetic Character of Art“
(“Shvatanje stvarnosti kao ključno načelo mimetičkog karaktera umjetnosti”), Scientific
Meeting of Slavists During the Vuk Days (Naučni sastanak slavista u Vukove dane),
36/2, 2007, 5–12; “The Lyrical Tide of Ćopić’s Work“ (“Lirska plima Ćopićevog dela“),
Proceedings of the Scientific Meeting Devoted to B. Ćopić (Zbornik radova sa naučnog
skupa posvećenog B. Ćopiću), Book 7, Vol. 1, Faculty of Philosophy, Banja Luka,
2007, 47–57; “At the Boundary Between Folklore and Urban Forms of Cultural Life“
(“Na razmeđu folklornih i urbanih formi kulturnog života“), Accolade for Professor
Slobodan Ž. Marković (Priznanje profesoru Slobodanu Ž. Markoviću), Proceedings,
Belgrade, 2007, 155–182; “Between History and Legend“ (“Između istorije i legende“),
The Priest Jovica Rebellion (Pop Jovičina buna), Belgrade, 2007, 162–176.
OLD SLAVONIC COMMITTEE
(Academician Aleksandar Mladenović)
The four-member team, headed by the member of the SASA Old Slavonic
Committee Radomir Petrović, graphic artist and art historian, worked in the monastery
of Gračanica in Kosovo and Metohija for 30 days. In fact, they continued to work on
the project Old Records and Inscriptions in the Monastery of Gračanica (14th–19th
Centuries) (Stari zapisi i natpisi u manastiru Gračanici /XIV–XIX veka/), “scratched“
or, better said, inscribed on the flat surfaces in the monastery church, mostly on its walls.
However, the team had a technical problem: the sisterhood cut the earlier scaffold for its
needs and another one could not be obtained. Therefore, the team was forced to make the
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calques only of the inscriptions in the lower zones of the walls (at a man’s height) and
left other inscriptions, in the higher zones, for next year.
T. Petrović published the results of his hitherto work in the monastery of Gračanica
in Arheografski prilozi, the scientific journal which is published by the National Library
of Serbia and edited by the President of this Committee.
This work in Gračanica monastery will be continued next summer.
COMMITTEE FOR THE ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE
SERBIAN LANGUAGE
(Corresponding Member Aleksandar Loma)
At the Etymological Department of the Serbian Language Institute of the SASA, work
on the third issue of the Etymological dictionary entered the final stage.
Proceedings have been issued of the international symposium Slavic Etymology
Today, which was organized by the Department of Language and Literature of the SASA
and the Serbian Language Institute of the SASA and held in Belgrade in September
2006.
The collaborators of the Department actively contributed to the conference
celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Institute; five of them participated on the conference
and in its publications (M. Bjeletić, S. Petrović, J. Vlajić-Popović, M. Vučković and
A. Loma). A. Loma also participated in scholarly meetings and conferences in Struga,
Macedonia (Editorial Board of ALE), Vienna, Austria (6th European Conference of
Iranian Studies) and Bautzen, Germany (Editional Board of OLA). J. Vlajić-Popović,
M. Bjeletić and S. Petrović presented their papers on the 37th Scholarly Meeting of
Slavicists in Belgrade.
Seventeen papers were published, most of them dealing with etymology - Serbian,
Slavic and Indo-European.
Bjeletić M., 2006: A contribution to the study of Proto-Slavic *verti, *v��
ьr�o̢. Studia
etymologica Brunensia, 3, Praha, 35–45 (in Serbian, with an English summary).
Bjeletić M., 2007: Blaza and blazna. A study in folklore-mythological vocabulary.
Ėtimologija��
2003–2005, Moscow, 12–22 (in Russian).
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Vlajić-Popović J., 2006: Is there a PSlav *butarъ/ *buturъ/ *butyrъ behind a
pseudohungarism?. Studia etymologica Brunensia, 3, Praha, 413–426 (in Serbian with
English summary).
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Vlajić-Popović J., 2007: Serbo-Croatian bor, borina ‘valley’: relic or innovation?.
Ėtimologija��
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(in Russian).
Vlajić-Popović Ј., 2007: Proto-Slavic *kotiti /*katati - the traces of -а- vocalism
in the Slavic South. Slovenska etimologija danas, Belgrade, 67–81 (in Serbian with
English summary).
Vučković М., 2007: On the origin of the argot word lizgam ‘to drink’. Slovenska
etimologija danas, Belgrade, 83–91 (in Serbian with English summary).
Đokić М., 2006: Rmanj - A study in Serbo-Croatian phytonymy. Studia
etymologica Brunensia, 3, Prague, 73–85.
Loma A., 2006: Common Slavic *mo̢žь ‘man’. Studia etymologica Brunensia,
3, Prague, 195–199 (in Russian with English summary).
Loma A., 2006: ��
Σιμόεις, Sobria ebrietas. U spomen na Mirona Flašara, Zbornik
Filozofskog fakulteta, Serija A: Istorijske nauke, knj. XX, Belgrade, 103–114 (in Serbian
with English summary).
Loma A., 2006: Albano-Caucasica pastoralia. Južnoslovenski filolog, LXII,
Belgrade, 31–38 (in English with Serbian summary).
Loma A.: The Serbian anthroponymic System, in: Die europäische
Personennamensysteme. Ein
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der 65. Geburtstage von Rosa Kohlheim und Volker Kohlheim herausgegeben von Andrea
Brendler und Silvio Brendler, Baar-Verlag, Hamburg 2007, 669–687 (in German).
Loma A., 2007: Ethnolinguistic Picture of the Kosovo-Metohija Region in
Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Zbornik radova Arheologija Kosova i Metohije,
Muzej u Prištini, Belgrade, 17–31 (in Serbian, English version in print).
Loma A., 2007: A Slavic-Iranian Isogloss in the field of composition: OCS vrъtъpъ:
Persian girdāb. Ėtimologija��
2003–2005, Moscow, 117–123 (in Russian).
Loma A., 2007: Homer via van Gennep: Some initiatory themes ih the Odyssey.
Zbornik Matice srpske za klasične studije, 9, Novi Sad, 21–39 (in English).
Loma A., 2007: Serbo-Croatian neman ‘monster’. Zbornik Matice srpske za
filologiju i lingvistiku, L, Novi Sad, 453–455 (in German).
Loma A., 2007: Two Serbian dialectal archaisms from a Balto-Slavic perspective.
Slovenska etimologija danas, Belgrade, 308–323 (in Serbian with English summary).
Petrović S., 2007: Separating homonyms. Intermingling between Slavic and NonSlavic in the Balkans. Slovenska etimologija danas, Belgrade, 349–359 (in Serbian
with German summary).
Stanišić V., 2007: On some analogous developments of PIE syllabic sonants
in Albanian and Balto-Slavic. Slovenska etimologija danas, Belgrade, 393–402 (in
Serbian with Russian summary).
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COMMITTEE ON FOLK LITERATURE
(Corresponding Member Nada Milošević-Đorđević)
Of the six topics dealt with by the Committee members, Dr. Mirjana Detelić’s monograph
Epic Cities. Lexicon (Epski gradovi. Leksikon), 693 pages (+ CD-ROM), was published
by the Balkanological Institute.
Professor Dr. Nenad Ljubinković finished the working version of the study Guslar
Singing in the Context of Balkan Folklore (Guslarsko pevanje u balkanskom folklornom
kontekstu).
Dr. Miodrag Maticki co-authored with Milorad Radević the book Folk Poems in
Serbian Periodicals Until 1864 (Narodne pesme u srpskoj periodici do 1864), which
was published by Matica Srpska and the Institute for Literature.
Professor Dr. Nada Milošević-Đorđević was concerned with Historical and
Cultural-Historical Traditions (Istorijska i kulturnoistorijska predanja) in the SASA
Ethnographic Collection.
Academician Miroslav Pantić finished the critical edition of Bogišić’s Collection
of Old Serbian and Croatian Folk Poems (Bogišićev zbornik starih narodnih pesama
Srba i Hrvata) and the study Vojislav Jovanović and Fake Folk Poems, and the Outline of
His Collection (Vojislav Jovanović i lažne narodne pesme i nacrt njegovog zbornika).
Professor Dr. Snežana Samardžija submited for printing her article The
Cultural and Aeshtetic Significance of Čajkanović’s Collection (Kulturni i estetski
značaj Čajkanovićeve zbirke). Series: The Legends of Belgrade University (Legende
Beogradskog univerziteta). Its publisher is “Svetozar Marković“ University Library.
Underway is the digitalization of the Ethnographic Collection of the SASA
Archives. The database was established. To be used, it is necessary to decode, type and
edit the text that will have over 10,000 pages, so that the Committee needs considerable
funds.
The database for the printed collections of epic folk poems (Vuk’s Collections,
Erlangen Manuscript, Collection of Matica hrvatska) was also made.
COMMITTEE FOR RESEARCH OF SERBIAN LANGUAGE REGARDING
CONTEMPORARY LINGUISTIC THEORIES
(Corresponding Member Predrag Piper)
In 2007, the Committee prepared the proceedings The Serbian Language in the Light of
Contemporary Semantic Theory (Srpski jezik u svetlu savremene semantičke teorije) for
publishing (the editors are Corresponding Members Milorad Radovanović and Predrag
Piper).
The received papers were edited and then submitted for technical editing, assigning
of a UDC code and make-up. One part of these papers should be sent to the editorial
staff at the beginning of 2008, when the proceedings will be completed and submitted
for printing.
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INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS
Project: HISTORY OF LITERATURE OF DUBROVNIK
(Academician Miroslav Pantić)
During the year, I worked intensively, with the assistance of two younger acrhivists,
on the classification of my scholarly legacy, including a great number of transcripts on
the literature of old Dubrovnik from the Dubrovnik Archives, archives and libraries of
Dubrovnik’s Franciscan and Dominican Monasteries, Historical Institute, etc., numerous
archives and libraries in Dalmatia and the Bay of Kotor, in Italian towns and the Vatican
and elsewhere, in addition to the scans of old manuscripts of Dubrovnik’s authors and
books by our authors which we do not have, as well as other book manuscripts and
material preserved elsewhere in the world. This is now a huge collection of original
material for the study of our old literature and culture, primarily from Dubrovnik. It will
constitute the Cabinet for Dubrovnik Studies within the SASA, for which the basis was
created during six decades of comprehensive research and which will be available to
numerous younger researchers.
Project: SERBO-ITALIAN LITERARY AND CULTURAL TIES
(Academician Nikša Stipčević)
In 2007, I worked on the manuscript “Italian Poems by Ignjat Đurđević“
(“Italijanske pesme Ignjata Đurđevića“). I reconstructed his stay in Italy at the time of
his belonging to the Jesuit Order and interpreted his poems I had found in the Historical
Archives in affiliation to the Jesuit monastic order and interpreted his poems I had found
in the Historical Archives in Dubrovnik. I encoded the manuscript and prepared the
book on that topic. The manuscript has about 325,000 characters with spaces and will be
submitted for printing in 2008.
I wrote the introduction to the famous book by our late foreign member Angelo
Tambora Cavour and the Balkans, entitled “Angelo Tambora and His Book on Cavour
and the Balkans“ (“Anđelo Tambora i njegova knjiga o Kavuru i Balkanu“) (Zavod za
udžbenike, 2007, pp. VII–XII) and thoroughly edited Snežana Milinković’s translation
from Italian.
Project: SERBIAN LITERATURE IN XX CENTURY
(Academician Predrag Palavestra)
Working on his personal project “Serbian Literature in the XX century”, the first version
of the History of the Serbian Literary Criticism was completed. Also, portraits of the postwar Serbian writers and literary critics: Zoran Mišić, Zoran Gavrilović, Zoran Gluščević,
Nikola Milošević and Slavko Leovac, as well as the essay Mission of Universal Man and
New Humanism in Serbian Literary Criticism, in »Glas« SASA, (»The Voice«, 23/2006),
149–170, were published.
In Serbian and foreign periodicals, 8 articles and essays were published.
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Project: HISTORY OF SERBIAN LITERARY LANGUAGE AND
VERNACULARS (FROM THE BEGINNING OF SERBIAN LITERACY TO
THE FIRST HALF OF XIX CENTURY)
During 2007, within individual project History of Serbian Literary Language
and Vernaculars (from the Beginnings of Serbian Literacy Until the Mid-19th Century
Inclusive) (Istorija srpskog književnog jezika / od početka srpske pismenosti pa zaključno
s prvom polovinom XIX veka/), I published the following papers, some of which also
bear the previous years:
Book
1. D
espot Stefan’s Charters and Letters. Text. Annotations. Scans (Povelje i pisma
despota Stefana. Tekst. Komentari. Snimci), Belgrade, Čigoja štampa, 2007, 511
pages.
Papers, Treatises, Articles
2. (Introduction: A. Mladenović) in the book: Ljupka Vasiljev and Miroslava
Grozdanović-Pajić, Filigranological Description and Album of 14th Century
Greek Manuscripts of the “Professor Ivan Duichev“ Centre for SlavicByzantine Studies (Filigranološki opis i album grčkih rukopisa XIV veka Centra
za slovensko-vizantijska proučavanja “Prof. Ivan Dujčev“), I, Sofia (St Clement of
Ohrid University Edition and National Library of Serbia), the Serbian and French
translations of the Introduction are on pages VII and VIII respectively.
3. Неколико бележки за развоя на фонологичната система на сръбсколавянския
език (сръбската редакция на старославянския език). Български език, София,
LII/2005, Vol. 3, 29–32.
4. Philological Annotations on One of the Oldest Cyrillic Documents in the Kotor
Historical Archives (Filološke napomene o jednom od najstarijih ćiriličnih
dokumenata u kotorskom Istorijskom arhivu), Arheografski prilozi, Belgrade
(National Library of Serbia, Archeographic Department), 2006, Vol. 28, 279–292
with two fascimiles (published in Zbornik Matice srpske za filologiju, Novi Sad,
2007, Vol. L).
5. On the Edition of St Sava’s Kormchaya Kniga (O izdanju “Zakonopravila Svetog
Save”), Arheografski prilozi, Belgrade (National Library of Serbia, Archeographic
Department), 2006, Vol. 28, 333–335.
6. On the Edition of the “Belgrade Parimeinik” (O izdanju “Beogradskog parimejnika”),
Arheografski prilozi, Belgrade (National Library of Serbia), 2006, Vol. 28, 337–
340.
7. О профессоре Петре Андреевиче Дмитриеве. Санкт-Петербургски
Университет, Санкт-Петербург, 2007, Н° 8 (3756)��
, 30 ��
May, 62–63.
8. “Slavonic School” of Maksim Suvorov in Sremski Karlovci (1726–1730), the
Beginning of the Official Use of the Russo-Slavonic Language and the Creation of a
New Serbian Literary Language (“Slavenska škola“ Maksima Suvorova u Sremskim
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Karlovcima /1726–1730/, početak zvanične upotrebe ruskoslovenskog jezika i
stvaranje novog književnog jezika kod Srba), Srem Through the Centuries. The
Cultural Strata of Fruška Gora and Srem (Srem kroz vekove. Slojevi kultura
Fruške gore i Srema), Proceedings, Belgrade (Vuk Foundation, Branch of the Vuk
Foundation in Beočin, Institute for Literature and Art), 2007, 187–191.
9. Prince Lazar’s “My Dominion” (“Moje gospodstvije” cara Lazara). Kosovo
and Metohija. Past, Present, Future (Kosovo i Metohija. Prošlost, sadašnjost,
budućnost), Belgrade (Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts), Scientific Meetings,
Vol. CXV, Department of Social Sciences, Vol. 28), 19–25 with two fascimiles.
10. History from Charters (Istorija iz povelja), Politika, Belgrade, CIV/2007, No. 33789
(1 December), p. 3 (in its supplement: Culture, Art, Science - an interview given to
journalist Anđelka Cvijić).
Project: SYNTAX AND SEMANTIC INVESTIGATIONS OF CONTEMPORARY
SERBIAN LANGUAGE
(Corresponding Member Predrag Piper)
In 2007, within my research project Syntactic and Semantic Investigations of
the Contemporary Serbian Language (Sintaksičko-semantička ispitivanja savremenog
srpskog jezika), I published the following papers:
Anaphora in the Serbian Simple Sentence (Anafora u srpskoj prostoj rečenici),
Zbornik Matice srpske za slavistiku, Vol. 71–72, 2007, 261–273.
On Optativity in the Serbian Language (O optativnosti u srpskom jeziku), Glas
CDVIII, Department of Language and Literature, Vol. 23, 2007, 73–107.
I presented a paper at the session of the Grammatical Commission of the
International Committee of Slavists (St Petersburg, 12/14 September 2007).
The writing of the book Grammatical Systems of the South Slavic Languages
(Gramatički sistemi južnoslovenskih jezika) (in co-authorship with Academician Zuzana
Topolinska, Vjara Maldzieva and Maja Đukanović). In this book I am the author of the
section “Serbian Language“ and the chapter on Slovene syntax, as well as the coordinator
of cooperation among four co-authors. It is now necessary to edit, review and publish
this book.
INTERDEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE FOR FACSIMILE EDITIONS
Since L��
JUBICA PASTIRSKO RAZGOVARANJE SLOŽENO PO MARINU
GAZAROVIĆA, VENEZIA, MDCХХIII, was much better scanned in the SASA
Library than the previous edition of this book, whose only preserved copy is kept here,
its fascimile and critical edition will require a much better scanning. Thus, this job will
be postponed for 2008. Otherwise, everything else has been finished (the critical text in
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the current ortography, including all necessary annotations, explanations, glossaries and
the final study).
INTERACADEMIC COMMITTEE FOR DIALECTOLOGICAL ATLASES
The exclusive activity of the Committee is the preparation of dialectological atlases or,
better said, the work on the Serbian Dialectological Atlas (SDA) and our section of the
Atlas of the European Languages (ALE) and Slavic Linguistic Atlas (OLA). At one time,
the Committee founded the ALE, OLA and SDA Boards in order to ensure more efficient
work on these projects.
Atlas of the European Languages
The President of the Serbian ALE Commission, Professor Dr. Aleksandar Loma,
attended the 40th meeting of the Publishing Board of the Atlas of the European Languages,
which was held in Struga (Macedonia) from 19 to 21 April 2007. As for the division of
the Atlas points, wnich are designated in the material as Serbo-Croatian, into Serbian and
Croatian, the opinion prevailed that, for the time being, the composite name should be
preserved in a modified form: Serb/Cro (which is in conformity with the way we write
Serbo-Croatian) and that the final solution should be in conformity with the decision of
the Publishing Board of the Slavic Linguistic Atlas.
Slavic Linguistic Atlas
From 1 to 5 October 2007, Bautzen (Budysin) in Germany hosted the regular
annual meeting of the International Commission and International Working Group of
OLA within the International Committee of Slavists. The work was carried out at the
plenary sessions of the International Commission and in the sections. Our representatives
at this meeting were Professor Dr. Aleksandar Loma, Corresponding Member of SASA,
and Professor Dr. Sofija Miloradović. At the first plenary session of the International
Commission, national commissions presented their reports (S. Miloradović presented
the report on behalf of our commission). At one of the plenary sessions, the group for
elaborating the principles of preparing OLA morphological maps was set up and S.
Miloradović was included in it. It was decided that the representatives of all national
commissions should submit the reports on their work over the past five years at the
Congress of Slavists in Macedonia (2008), within the OLA section. It was decided to
post the complete material from all volumes, which is available in electronic form, on
the OLA web-site, in pdf format, as a prerequisite for the formation of the digital OLA
archives. One of the decisions of the final plenary session was that the term Central
South Slavic Dialects, included in the volume Reflexes *ъ, *ь, should be regarded as the
authors’s view of the Croatian OLA national commission, which is not shared by other
participants in this project. Thus, all national commissions are asked to adhere to the
classification of Slavic dialects adopted in the Atlas (cf. 2006 Report).
The work in the sections was focused on the specific issues concerning the
preparation of the subsequent volumes. The Serbian National Commission fulfilled all
obligations for 2007. It prepared 66 indices for the Bulgarian lexical volume Family
Relations (Rodbinski odnosi), as well as the literary titles for that volume, 50 indices for
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the Slovakian morphological volume (devoted to noun declension) and 33 indices for the
Belarusian *а Volume.
Serbian Dialectological Atlas
External associates mostly collected the relevant material in the field, while
permanent associates in Belgrade, Novi Sad and Niš (involved in the project
Dialectological Studies of the Serbian Language Area /Dijalektološka istraživanja
srpskog jezičkog prostora/ within the SASA Institute for the Serbian Language), apart
from occasional field work, prepared the indices for 166 questions for the first volume
from 800 anticipated points, since their number was increased in the meantime (there
were 764 in the previous version). It must be noted that there is an ongoing project within
the Language Committee of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republic of Srpska
in Banjaluka, within which dialectal material for the Serbian vernaculars in the territory
of Bosnia and Herzegovina is collected. During 2007, 87 per cent of the material for the
first volume of the Atlas was entered into the computer. All material for the first volume
was collected, while the material for the first four volumes covering all Serbian dialects
was collected to a considerable degree. After having determined the format, contents
(the number of points, boundaries, larger towns, major rivers) and the design of the blank
map, Military Geographic Institute associate Radoje Banković, MA, prepared the blank
map of the network of points for the Serbian Dialectological Atlas.
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In 2007, the members of the Department of Social Sciences continued their work
on seven long-term projects, which is financed by the SASA Fund Scientific Research,
although a great obstacle to their research was posed by a small number of the members
of the Department and their health condition.
COMMITTEE ON THE SOURCES OF SERBIAN LAW
(Academician Aleksandar Fira)
During 2007, the Committee on the Sources of Serbian Law worked very successfully
on the projects Dušan’s Code (Dušanov zakonik) and Two Centuries of Serbian
Constitutionality (Dva veka ustavnosti u Srba), which are led by the President of the
Committee, Academician Aleksandar Fira. His deputy is Corresponding Member Kosta
Čavoški, who was commended for his work by the Committee on a number of occasions.
The members of the Committee are: Academicians Miloš Blagojević, Irena Grickat
Radulović and Aleksandar Mladenović, Corresponding Members Danilo Basta, Jovanka
Kalić and Vojislav Stanovčić, Professor Dr. Sima Avramović, Professor Dr. Gordana
Jovanović, Professor Dr. Ljubomirka Krkljuš, Professor Dr. Ljubiša Lazarević, Professor
Dr. Dragoljub Popović, Professor Dr. Mirjana Stefanovski, Professor Dr. Srđan Šarkić,
Dr. Đurđica Krstić and Dr. Biljana Marković, Secretary of the Committee.
After publishing two books in 2005 and two in 2006, two books also came out
in 2007: the critical edition of the Serbian version of the Agricultural Legal Code
(Zemljopradnički zakonik) by Academician Miloš Blagojević (Belgrade, SASA,
2007, 350 pages) and The So-Called Code of Emperor Justinian (Tzv. Zakon cara
Justinijana), (abridged Syntagm), Vol. I, critical edition.
Professor Dr. Tatjana Subotin is about to finish her translation of the complete
Syntagm of Matija Vlastar (Sintagma Matije Vlastara), which also includes the relevant
annotations and introduction, while Dušan Sindik continued his work on the Short
Church Law Documents (Kratki crkvenopravni spisi).
In 2007, the work on the preparation of the fourth volume of the remaining 12
manuscripts of the more recent redaction of Dušan’s Code was continued, while Dr.
Biljana Marković undertook to prepare the study From the Tripartite to Bipartite
Corpus (Od tripartitnog ka bipartitnom korpusu), including changes in Dušan’s Code in
the transcripts from the 13th to the 19th century. Viktor Savić decoded the Borđoš and
Kovilj manuscripts, while the Stratimirović manuscript was typset with a computer. In
addition, the Patriarchate manuscript was scanned and archeographically described. The
work on the remaining manuscripts of the more recent redaction of Dušan’s Code was
continued.
Within this project, the scientific meeting entitled Serbian Medieval Law in
the Mirror of Historical Sources (Srednjovekovno pravo u Srba u ogledalu istorijskih
izvora) is also being prepared. Academician Sima Ćirković was appointed President of
the Organizing Board.
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A great novelty in the work of the Committee will be the project entitled “Two
Centuries of Serbian Constitutionality“ (“Dva veka ustavnosti u Srba“). It will provide an
opportunity to study all constitutional acts, from the legal acts of Karađorđe’s rebellious
Serbia to the constitutional acts of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the State
Union of Serbia and Montenegro, from the aspect of constitutionality, that is, restrictions
on state power and the rule of law. The Committee adopted the draft of the project, so
that it is now necessary to gather associates and provide the necessary funds.
In 2007, the President of the Committee, Academician Fira, published the
Constitutional Law of the Republic of Serbia (Ustavno pravo Republike Srbije) in
two volumes, Faculty of Legal and Business Studies, Novi Sad, 2007; Vol. I: General
Theoretical Issues of Constitutional Law and the History of Serbia’s Constitutional Law
(Opšta teorijska pitanja ustavnog prava i istorija ustavnog prava Srbije), 275 pages; and
Vol. II: The Constitution of the Republic of Serbia of 2006 (Ustav Republike Srbije od
2006); its introductory part deals with the creation of the State Union of Serbia and
Montenegro, characteristics of its basic constitutional documents and the process of its
dissolution, but the main part of the book is devoted to a constitutional-law analysis of
the text of the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia of 2006.
Corresponding Member Kosta Čavoški, Deputy President of the Committee,
published the following books: Motives and Echoes. Essays in Srpska reč - July 1991
– December 1993 (Povodi i ogledi. Ogledi u Srpskoj reči - juli 1991. – decembar 1993.),
Belgrade, Serbian Liberal Party (SLS), 2007, 355 pages; What Is the Democratic Party
for (Čemu Demokratska stranka), Belgrade, SLS, 2007, 135 pages; “Selected Writings
by Kosta Čavoški, Introduction into Law“ (“Текстот е избор од Коста Чавошки, Вовед
во право“), Philosophy of Law. Selected Writings (Филозофија на правото. Избор
на текстови), Skopje, “Saints Cyril and Methodius“ University, “Justinian the First“
Faculty of Law, 2007, 197–254; Introduction into Law (Uvod u pravo) (the second
edition, co-author Radmila Vasić, 269–432), Belgrade, Faculty of Law in Belgrade
and Službeni glasnik, 2007, pages 535; The Hague Mynotaurus (Haški Minotaur),
Vol. I The Hague Against Justice (Hag protiv pravde); Vol. II The Hague Against the
Truth (Hag protiv istine), Belgrade, Euroquatro, Beoknjiga, SLS, 2007, I, 244 pages;
II 253 pages. He also published a number of articles: “Constitutional Genocide Against
the Serbs“ (“Ustavni genocid nad Srbima“), Constitutional Genocide Against the
Serbs. The Serbian People in the New Montenegrin Constitution (Ustavni genocid
nad Srbima. Srpski narod u novom Ustavu Crne Gore), proceedings of the scientific
meeting in Podgorica, 16 and 17 November 2006, Podgorica, Serbian National Council
of Montenegro, 2007, 24–32; “The Ignorant and Irresponsible Authors of the New
Serbian Constitution“ (“Neuki i neodgovorni tvorci novog Ustava Srbije“), The Serbian
Constitution. Critical Analysis (Ustav Srbije. Kritička analiza), Belgrade, Belgrade
Forum for the World of Equals, 2007, 57–69; “Constitutional Genocide Against the
Serbs” (“Ustavni genocid nad Srbima”), The Serbian Constitution. Critical Analysis
(Ustav Srbije. Kritička analiza), Belgrade, 2007, 189–199; “’The Final Settlement’ of
the Status of Kosovo and Metohija“ (“’Konačno rešenje’ statusa Kosova i Metohije“),
Kosovo and Metohija. Past, Present, Future (Kosovo i Metohija. Prošlost, sadašnjost,
budućnost), Belgrade, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2007, 431–438.
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COMMITTEE ON PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL THEORY
(Academician Mihailo Marković)
This Committee is involved in the project Social Thought in Serbia in the 19th
and 20th Centuries (Društvena misao u Srbiji u XIX i XX veku), which is led by
Academician Mihailo Marković. Within this project, the Proceedings Social and Political
Thought of Vuk Karadžić (Društvena i politička misao Vuka Karadžića) were prepared
and submitted for printing. The Proceedings will be published by Zavod za udžbenike i
nastavna sredstva.
The round table on the topic The Methodological Problem in the Study of the Origin
of the Albanians (Metodološki problem istraživanja porekla Albanaca) was held on 21
June 2007. Apart from two Academicians (Mihailo Marković, President of the Organizing
Board, and Miloš Blagojević) and one foreign SASA member (Elena Guskova), another
ten university professors participated with their papers. The proceedings were published
in the book The Albanians - False Illyrians (Albanci - lažni Iliri), Belgrade, Pešić i
sinovi, 2007.
The announced meeting under the project “Social Thought in Serbia in the 19th
and 20th Centuries“, devoted to Social and Political Thought of Vladimir Jovanović
(Društvena i politička misao Vladimira Jovanovića), was postponed for April 2008.
In 2007, Marković prepared the first part of his study The Time of Change (Vreme
preokreta), 450 pages, for printing. It will be published by Belgrade’s publishing house
“Prosveta“ in January 2008, under the title Rush into the Sky (Juriš na nebo). He also
published the following treatises and articles: “The Possibility of Solving the Problem
of the Status of Kosovo and Metohija“ (“Mogućnost rešenja problema statusa Kosova
i Metohije“), Kosovo and Metohija (Kosovo i Metohija), Belgrade, SASA 2007,
451–459; “Jovan Cvijić on the Causes of the Balkan War“ (“Jovan Cvijić o uzrocima
Balkanskog rata“), The First Balkan War (Prvi balkanski rat), SASA, 2007, 237–241;
“The Problem of Kosovo“ (to be printed in the historical journal edited by SASA member
Jelena Milojković-Đurić in the United States, 42 pages); “Philosophy and Contemporary
Times“ (“Filozofija i savremenost“ (which is currently being printed; Filozofeme, Novi
Sad, 15 pages); “Where Is Serbia Going“ (“Kuda ide Srbija“ (Novi Sad, Filozofeme,
No. 5, 16 pages): “The Left in Today’s World and Here“ (“Levica u današnjem svetu i
kod nas“), The Left in Serbia and the World Today (Levica danas u Srbiji i u svetu),
Belgrade, Belgrade Forum 2007, 9–25; “A Word About the New Constitution“ (“Reč o
novom Ustavu“), The Serbian Constitution. Critical Analysis (Ustav Srbije, kritička
analiza) (Belgrade Forum 2007, 71–75); “The Crisis of Contemporary Democracy“
(“Kriza savremene demokratije“) (the lecture delivered in the School of Philosophy in
Smederevska Palanka, 18 pages).
In 2007, the members of the Committee also published their works: Professor Dr.
Mirko Zurovac published the book The Signatures of Contemporary Times (Signature
savremenosti) (Belgrade, Rivel Co., 2007, 455 pages) and Methodical Foundations of
Aesthetics (Metodičko zasnivanje estetike) (about 200 pages), as well as the treatise
“The Notion of Creativity“ (“Pojam stvaralaštva“) in the Proceedings of the Aesthetical
Society of Serbia Theories of Artistic Creativity (Teorije umetničkog stvaralaštva);
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Professor Dr. Dragan Simeunović published the book Collective Serbian Guilt (Srpska
kolektivna krivica) (Belgrade, Nolit, 2007, 62 pages).
INTERDEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE FOR THE STUDY OF POPULATION
(Corresponding Member Časlav Ocić)
In 2007, the Committee for the Study of Population, whose President is
Corresponding Member Časlav Ocić, the leader of the projects Evolution of the
Population Policy in Serbia 1945–2004, Serbian Demographic Bibliography and
Population Development in Serbia 1992–2002 (“Evolucija populacione politike u
Srbiji 1945–2004“, “Srpska demografska bibliografija“ i “Razvitak stanovništva Srbije
1992–2002“), while the project coordinator is Dr. Ana Gavrilović, also devoted a lot of
time to personnel renewal. To that end, it set up the Group for Historical Demography,
which prepared a special programme of activities.
In 2007, it worked intensively on the preparation of Serbian Demographic
Bibliography. The results of this work were presented to the Committee members, while
the material covering the period 1945–2006 is currently being preliminarily reviewed by
the members of the Editorial Board of Serbian Demographic Bibliography.
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC SCIENCE
(Corresponding Member Časlav Ocić)
The Committee on Economic Science is engaged in the project consisting of the following
subprojects: The Strategy of Serbia’s Economic Development (Strategija privrednog
razvoja Srbije), The History of Serbian Economic Thought (Strategija privrednog
razvoja Srbije), The Role of the Academy in the Creation of Young Scientists (Uloga
Akademije u kreiranju naučnog podmlatka), The Role of Science and Technology in
Enhancing the Competitiveness of South-East European Countries’ Exports (Uloga
nauke i tehnologije u povećanju konkurentnosti izvoza privreda jugoistočne Evrope) and
Economic Terminology (Ekonomska terminologija). The President of this Committee,
Corresponding Member Časlav Ocić, is the project leader.
In 2007, the Committee on Economic Science devoted the greatest attention to
the preparation of Serbian Economic Bibliography, as a vital prerequisite for the work
on other projects: The History of Serbian Economic Thought, The Economic History
of Serbia, Economic Terminology and Serbian Encyclopedia (Area 05: Economics and
Finance). So far, it has collected comprehensive bibliographic material from the interwar period (periodicals) and the period 1945–2005 (monographs).
At the session of the Committee on Economic Science, which was held on 11
December 2007, Professor Dr. Miroslav N. Jovanović (United Nations Economic
Commission for Europe, Geneva) delivered the lecture on “ 1918 Obstacles to Serbia’s
Path to the EU“ (“1918 prepreka na putu Srbije u EU“), which provoked lively and
interesting debate.
Despite his age and health problems, the late Committee member, Academician
Kosta Mihailović, as the President of the Organizing Board of the Scientific Meeting
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Kosovo and Metohija - Past, Present Future (Kosovo i Metohija - prošlost, sadašnjost,
budućnost), spared no effort to have the Proceedings Kosovo and Metohija: Past,
Present, Future published in Serbian as soon as possible in 2007, after their English
version. Thus, the Proceedings (edited by Academician Kosta Mihailović), Belgrade,
SASA, came out in early 2007. They also contain his contribution “The Neglected
Aspects of the Kosovo Crisis“ (“Zanemareni aspekti kosovske krize“), 189–234.
In 2007, Corresponding Member Časlav Ocić published “The Failure of the Model
of ’Affirmative Action’: Economic Development of Kosovo and Metohija After World
War II“ (“Propast modela ’pozitivne diskriminacije’: privredni razvoj Kosova i Metohije
posle Drugog svetskog rata“), Kosovo and Metohija: Past, Present Future (Kosovo i
Metohija: Prošlost, sadašnjost, budućnost), Belgrade, SASA, 2007, 341–352; and “Kosta
Mihailović (1917–2007), In Memoriam“, Zbornik Matice srpske za društvene nauke,
2007, No. 123, 277–285.
COMMISSION FOR THE STUDY OF LIFE AND CUSTOMS OF THE ROMA
(Academician Ljubomir Tadić)
The President of the Commission is Academician Ljubomir Tadić, who is also the leader
of the project “The Study of Life and Customs of the Roma“ (“Proučavanje života i
običaja Roma“).
In 2007, the Commission was focused on the preparation of the proceedings of
the forums held in 2003 and 2004, entitled Social Sciences on the Roma in Serbia
(“Društvene nauke Romima u Srbiji“). The Proceedings were published in 2007 (SASA,
VIII + 258 pages) and their editors were Academician Ljubomir Tadić and Dr. Goran
Bašić.
The monitoring of the policy and strategy of Roma integration in the region was
continued, in addition to the collection of the data on the aspects of their status and life,
as well as the preparation of the scientific meeting devoted to the problems of Roma
cultural identity.
The Chairman of the Commission, Academician Ljubomir Tadić, is also a member
of the SASA Committee on Philosophy and Social Theory and the Interdepartmental
Committee for Studying the National Minorities and Human Rights. In 2007, five
volumes (the first volume - Philosophy of Law /Filozofija prava/ was published in
2006, 520 pages) of the Collected Works (Izabrana dela) of Academician Ljubomir
Tadić were published by Zavod za udžbenike and Službeni glasnik. Those are Volume
II: Order, Authority and Freedom (Poredak, autoritet i sloboda), 506 pages; Volume
III: Tradition, Legitimacy and Revolution (Tradicija, legitimnost i revolucija), 318
pages; Volume IV: Science of Politics (Nauka o politici), 532 pages; Volume V: The
Public and Rhetoric (Javnost i retorika), 352 pages; and Volume VI: Philosophy in
Time and the Puzzle of Death (Filozofija u vremenu i Zagonetka smrti), 358 pages. He
also published “Jasenovac - Jewish Holocaust in Nazi-Ustasha Croatia“ (“Jasenovac jevrejski holokaust u naci-ustaškoj Hrvatskoj“) (4 pages), the introduction to M. Bulajić’s
book Jasenovac: The Role of the Vatican in Nazi Croatia (Jasenovac: uloga Vatikana u
nacističkoj Hrvatskoj), Belgrade, Pešić i sinovi, 2007. As the author of Collected Works
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(Izabrana dela), he participated in their presentation at the Belgrade Book Fair on 25
October 2007. Apart from the author, Professor Dr. Dragoljub Mićunović and editor
Trivo Inđić also talked about the books.
During the year, he continued to work on the study Rhetoric of Fascism (Retorika
fašizma).
The members of the Commission, Professor Dr. Svenka Savić, Dr. Dragoljub
Đorđević and Dr. Rajko Đurić published a number of papers devoted to Roma, while
Dr. Goran Bašić prepared the chapter devoted to cooperation in the improvement of the
Roma status in the Balkan region for the UNDP Report.
In 2007, the associates of the Commission prepared, and the Commission agreed,
at its session on 17 November 2007, to organize the international scientific meeting The
Impact of the Policies and Strategies of Roma Integration on Changes in Their Identity
(Uticaj politika i strategija integracije Roma na promene njihovog identiteta) and to
support the initiative for the formation of the permanent museum (or similar) exhibition
devoted to the Roma in Serbia, but following a professional debate on this issue (in June
2008).
The Commission is preparing the monograph about the Roma in Serbia and the
work was entrusted to Professor Dr. Dragoljub Đorđević and Dragoljub Acković, who
should prepare the appropriate proposal and project analysis until its next session.
COMMITTEE FOR THE PREPARATION OF SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
“PHILOSOPHY BETWEEN THE EAST AND THE WEST”
(Academician Mihailo Đurić)
The Committee’s work on the research project “Philosophy Between East and West“
(“Filozofija između Istoka i Zapada“) is led by its President, Academician Mihailo Đurić.
Apart from many manuscripts he worked on during 2007, particular mention should be
made of his paper “The Original Image of Europe and Its Modern Identity“ (“Izvorni
lik Evrope i njen moderni identitet“), which provided a basis for his lecture at the Felix
Romuliana School of Philosophy in Zaječar, in the autumn of 2007 (published in the
journal Zenit, No. 6, October 2007).
In 2007, the Committee’s work was considerably aggravated due to the disease of
its President. Thanks to the fact that the Committee members began seriously to work
on the project in the previous year already, it was not difficult for them to continue it
autonomously. The successful continuation of the work on this project was especially
contributed by the Committee members. Thus, Assistant Professor Koprivica developed
the programme of the initiated studies and published several noted papers (such as the
one on the possibility and value of the reception of philosophical tradition in the work
of Martin Heidegger), while Professor Vladimir Milisavljević successfully participated
in considering the most complex issues within the philosophy between East and West,
which is clearly observed in his published works on the responsibility of philosophy
and, especially, those on the struggle for recognition in Hegel’s Jena writings. It is also
necessary to point to the contribution of Danilo N. Basta toward improving the image of
philosophy in our environment. After being elected SASA Corresponding Member, he
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provided several valuable contributions through his work in this Committee, including
those being primarily legal-philosophical in character and those having mostly the
practical-philosophical contents (which is evidenced by his collection of testimonies
published in the book Self-Respect and Servility. Texts with a Reason (2002–2007)
/Samopoštovanje i puzavost. Tekstovi povodom (2002–2007)/), Belgrade, Faculty of
Law and Dosije, 2007, 306 pages.
INTERDEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE FOR STUDYING MINORITIES
AND HUMAN RIGHTS
(Corresponding Member Vojislav Stanovčić)
The Interdepartmental Committee is carrying out the project The Status of the Serb
Minority in the Neighbouring and Other Countries in the Region (Položaj srpske
manjine u susednim i drugim zemljama u regionu). The project leader is Corresponding
Member Vojislav Stanovčić. In 2007, the associates of thie Committee continued to
monitor and study the status of the Serb minorities in the neighbouring and other countries
in the region, as well as the status of the national minorities in Serbia. The work on the
formation of an electronic database on the Serbs in the neighbouring countries and the
minorities in Serbia was continued.
The Proceedings of the international scientific meeting, held at the SASA on 24–26
November 2005, The Status of the National Minorities in Serbia (Položaj nacionalnih
manjina u Srbiji) (edited by SASA, Belgrade, 2007, 753 pages), whose editor is
Corresponding Member Vojislav Stanovčić, are being printed. They also contain his two
contributions that are relevant for the national minority issue: “A Survey of the Study
of the Status of Minorities“, The Status of the National Minorities in Serbia (“Pregled
istraživanja položaja manjina“, Položaj nacionalnih manjina u Srbiji), 2–36; and “The
Majority and Minority in the Theories of Democracy and Political Institutions“ (“Većina
i manjina u teorijama o demokratiji i političkim institucijama“), ibid., 61–86.
In September, the members of the Committee, Academician Tibor Varadi,
Corresponding Member Vojislav Stanovčić and Dr. Goran Bašić were appointed to the
working group of the Ministry of State Administration and Local Self-Government,
which was entrusted with the preparation of the new Law on the National Minority
Rights.
Аcademician Varadi delivered the lecture “Minority Self-Government Units Rhetoric and Principles“ (“Manjinske samouprave - retorika i principi“), at the meeting
devoted to the minority self-government units in Croatia, Hungary and Serbia, on 26
October 2007.
Professor Dr. Vučina Vasović, a member of the Interdepartmental Committee
for Studying the National Minorities and Human Rights, published Contemporary
Democracies (Savremene demokratije) (Belgrade, Službeni glasnik, 2007, Volume
II, 333 pages; Volume I, 710 pages, was published in 2006). In Volume II, attention
was devoted to the political systems of the contemporary multiethnic states - Spain,
Switzerland and Belgium. Vojislav Stanovčić reviewed and recommended this book for
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publishing. He also participated in its presentation at the Faculty of Political Sciences on
10 January 2007.
In 2007, the Secretary of the Interdepartmental Committee for Studying the
National Minorities and Human Rights, Goran Bašić defended his doctoral dissertation
on the topic The Policy of Multiculturalism in South Eastern Europe Based on the
Example of the Serb National Minority (Politika multikulturalizma u jugoistočnoj Evropi
na primeru srpske nacionalne manjine) at the Faculty of Political Sciences (Belgrade).
The Intergovernmental Committee continued its cooperation with the Research
Institute for Ethnic and National Minorities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and
Arts. During the year, its guests were Professor Dr. Laszlo Szarka and Balas Vizi.
In 2007, the Interdepartmental Committee held the regular session and several
working meetings devoted to the status of Bunjevci in Serbia (together with the associates
of the SASA Ethnographic Institute and the Bunjevci National Council in Serbia) and the
status of Vlachs in Serbia (together with the representatives of the SASA Balkanological
Institute and the Vlach National Council in Serbia). The reform of the legal szstem of
protecting national minority rights was also considered on a number of occasions.
The Committee members participated in the international scientific meeting The
Status of the Minority Self-Government Units in Croatia, Hungary and Serbia (Položaj
manjinskih samouprava u Hrvatskoj, Mađarskoj i Srbiji), which was organized by the
Ethnicity Research Centre in Belgrade, in October 2007. The papers were also presented
by the Committee members, Academician Tibor Varadi, Corresponding Member Vojislav
Stanovčić, Dr. Goran Bašić, Petar Lastić, Dr. Vučina Vasović and associate Nevenka
Gojković.
The Committee assigned Dr. Bašić to prepare a new five-year project during 2008.
It should include - within the Academy’s regular international cooperation and financing
programme - various aspects and indicators of citizens’ security in multiethnic societies
in the Balkans, based on the UN criteria on the quality of life of people in their local
communities.
The Status of the National Minorities in Serbia (Položaj nacionalnih manjina u Srbiji),
SASA, Belgrade, 2007, 753 pages (in Serbian with English summaries)
Foreword
Corresponding member Vojislav Stanovčić, President of Researching Committee for
National Minorities and Human Rights: Summary of a Research on National Minority
Status
An Introductory Speech
Academician Nikola Hajdin, President of SASA
Academician Nikola Tasić, Secretary General of SASA
I DEMOCRACY AND MULTICULTURALISM
Vojislav Stanovčić: Majority and Minority in the Theories of Democracy and Political
Institutions
Vučina Vasović: Nation - National Minorities, Liberal State and Democracy in the
Conditions of Globalization
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Milan Podunavac: Basic Consensus in Multiethnic Society
Goran Bašić: Social Identity and Ethno-Cultural Policy
Ilija Vujačić: Forms of Citizenship and Multiculturalism
Vukašin Pavlović: Democracy and Multiculturalism
Zagorka Golubović: Socio-Cultural Milieu and Conditions for National Interculturality
in Serbia Today
Slaviša Orlović: Activities of National Minorities’ Political Parties
Alpar Lošonc: Aspects of Theoretical and Cultural Autonomies: Pro Et Contra
Ružica Žarevac: International Standards of the Protection of National Minorities and
Their Implementation in Serbia
Siniša Tatalović: Protection of Minorities and Regional Cooperation
Svetozar Stojanović: Rights and Duties of National Majorities and Minorities - Example
of Serbs and Albanians
Dusan T. Bataković: Serbian Community at Kosovo and Metohija 1995-1995 From
Constitutive Nation to the Imposed Minorization
II CONSTITUTIONALISM AND MINORITIES’ STATUS
Aleksandar Molnar: Constitutional Power and Ethnical Heterogeneity
Aleksandar Fira: Status of National Minorities According to the Constitutional Acts of
the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro
Marijana Pajvančić: Rights of Persons Belonging to National Minority in Proposal for
New Constitution of Serbia
Miodrag A. Jovanović: Minorities and the Constitutional Definition of Serbia
Aleksandar Panovski: Council for Interethnic Relations and Government Organization
in Units of Local Self-Government
III MINORITIES IN SERBIA
Mirjana Pavlović: Report on Work of Session Minorities Status in Serbia
Dragoljub B. Đorđević: Religions and Confessions of National Minorities in Serbia
Branimir Stojković: Minorities and Cultural Diversity of Serbia
Nada Raduški: Demographic Aspect of Minority Issue in Central Serbia
Zlatko Isaković: Human Security of National Minorities in Serbia
Ljiljana Gavrilović: Homeland: In Between Myth and Reality
Tamaš Korhec: Borders of Minority Rights Universality - About Significance of Territory
and Number - With Special Emphasize on Official Use of National Minority’s Language
in Vojvodina
Dubravka Valić Nedeljković: Privatization and Transformation of Media in Minority
Languages - Vojvodina Case Study Dragana Radojičić: Minorities in Serbia: Ethnological Research and the Projects
Operated by Institute of Ethnography, SASA
Biljana Sikimić: Anthropological-Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Concepts Concerning
Balkan Minorities
Radivoje Mladenović: Minority Ethno-Linguistic Communities in Kosovo and Metohija
with Special Review on South-West Part of Kosovo and Metohija
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Aleksandar Krel: Situation of the Germans in Vojvodina - Case Example of Germans in
Subotica
Anemari Soresku Marinković: Possibilities of Constructing a Minority Identity: One
Personal Narrative of a Romanian from Vojvodina
Svetlana Ćirković: The Traditional Culture of Vlahs in Southeast Serbia: the Possibilities
of the Secondary Analysis of Fieldwork Data
Esad Džudžević: Status and Implementation of the Rights of Sanjak Bosniaks in Serbia
and Montenegro
Hivzo Gološ: Administrative and Territorial Division of Sanjak (1912–1941)
Irena Gabrić Molnar: Perspectives - Demotion or Integration Vital Characteristics and
Conditions for Education of Vojvodina Hungarians
Janoš Oros: Official Use of Language and Script of National Minority in AP Vojvodina
Antal Bozoki: Several Existing Questions and Issues on the Status of Hungarians in
Vojvodina
Boris Nebesnij: Ukraine’s in Serbia
Branko Pavlica: Macedonian-Serbian Relations and Status of Macedonian Minority in
the Republic of Serbia
Cenka Ivanova: The Status of the Bulgarian Language in Serbia in a Socio-Linguistic
and Linguo-Cultural Aspect
Jovan Živković: The Attitudes of Albanian in Bujanovac and Preševo Towards the form
of Society and Other Ethnic Communities
Mladena Prelić: Bunevac of Backa: Problem of Identity in Historical and Contemporary
Perspective
Suzana Kujundžić Ostojić: The Bačka Bunjevci on their Way from a Nation to National
Minority
Katarina Crnjanski: Slovaks in Vojvodina
Sanja Zlatanović: Identity Negotiation: The Roma who are and are not
Tomislav Žigmanov: Croats in Vojvodina - Example of Becoming a Minority
IV OTHER COUNTRIES’ EXPERIENCES
Eben Friedman: Ethnopolitical Competition as a Factor in the Integration of Stateless
Minorities
Marina Martinova: Minorities in Contemporary Russia
Aleksandar Tolnauer: The Role of the Council for National Minorities of the Republic
of Croatia, Minority Councils and Representatives in the Implementation of Minority
Rights in the Republic of Croatia
Miran Komac, Mojca Medvešek: Integration: Assimilation or Cultural Pluralism?(With
a Special Review on the Perception of Serbian Community in Slovenia)
Neđo Milićević: Right on Education of National Minorities’ Members in Bosnia and
Herzegovina (Legal Condition)
Srđan Vukadinović: The Obstacle Social Structure Complete Norm Regulative of the
Status Member of on Nationality Minority in the Montenegro
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COMMITTEE ON ARCHAEOLOGY
(Academician Nikola Tasić)
The Committee coordinates the work on the archaeological projects presented in
this Bulletin (Roman Limes in Upper Moesia, Gamzigrad and Šarkamen, Antique
Inscriptions in Macedonia, Metallurgy in Prehistory and Antiquity, Culture and Art of
the Bronze and Iron Ages in the Danube Basin, Antique Society and State, Scordisci and
the Autochthons.
In 2007, the Committee held three sessions, which were mostly devoted to the
allocation of funds for the projects and their readjustment.
The projects of the Committee, which were led by the late Academician Bogdan
Brukner, are being currently frozen until the problem of their continuation is settled in
cooperation with the ssue of their continuation is settled in cooperation with the SASA
Branch in Novi Sad.
Comprehensive reports on the progress of their projects were separately presented
by the project leaders.
Project: FONTES - FONTES ARCHEOLOGIAE
SERBIAE - ARCHAEOLOGICAL SUBJECT MATERIAL OF SERBIA
In 2007, due to limited funds, it was only possible to continue processing the material
relating to the registered hummocks in Vojvodina (initiated by B. Brukner and the
SASA Branch in Novi Sad), in which the associates P. Medović and M. Girić were also
involved.
In the Annals of the SASA Branch in Novi Sad for 2006 (which came out in 2007),
one part of the processed data on the prehistoric hummocks in Banat was published. The
continuation is expected next year.
Project: NEOLITHIC AND ENEOLITHIC CULTURES AND COPPER
FINDINGS IN EAST SERBIA
(Corresponding Member Borislav Jovanović)
The processing of the study material and preparation of the summary plans of the final
documentation for the Mesolithic, Upper Neolithic, Eneolithic and Early Iron Age at the
stratified site of Padina (Upper Đerdap Gorge) was continued as part of the preparations
for publishing the ifrst volume about this site. The catalogue of the publication “Axes
from the Eneolithic Period in Serbia“ (Sekire eneolitskog perioda u Srbiji), within the
international series Prähistorische Bronzefunde - PBF (Prehistoric Bronze Findings),
with the chronological table of the characteristic types was finished (Dr. Dragana
Antonović).
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Project: ROMAN LIMES OF MOESIA SUPERIOR AND PANNONIA INFERIOR
(Academician Slobodan Dušanić)
During 2007, S. Dušanić and his collaborators continued their work on the “Inscriptions
de la Mésie Supérieure” vol. III/1 (Inscriptions of the Iron Gates, in preparation, to
be published by the “Centre d’études épigraphiques et numismatiques Fanoula
Papazoglou”). An important part of the historical and purely epigraphical problems have
been solved. The emphasis of the research in 2007 was centered on Trajan’s religious
propaganda connected with the wars of AD 101 and 105; its naval aspects and the roles
of the Đerdap Fort and the port of Diana proved especially instructive. Other aspects of
the military history of Illyricum were also studied (see e.g. Dušanić, “Three Sidelights on
the Early Diplomata Militaria”, Mavors 15 (Stuttgart 2007) 55–85). D. Grbić completed
the manuscript of her corpus of inscriptions from Drobeta and its territory.
Project: FELIX ROMULIANA - GAMZIGRAD
Emphasis was placed on probing on the external side of the northern rampart of Galerius’s
fortified palace, as well as on certain results of the investigations within the ramparts,
in the south-eastern tract of the palace. This year’s investigations ascertained that the
Roman structures were buried in the prehistoric stratum belonging to the Bronze Age
and Early Neolithic Starčevo culture, which was first ascertained in the Timok valley. �
Probing outside the ramparts of Galerius’s fortified palace Romuliana, near
the village of Gamzigrad, was carried out from 10 August to 10 September 2007, in
the area to the north of the northern part of the ramparts of the younger fortification
of Romuliana, in cooperation with the colleagues from the German Archaeological
Institute in Frankfurt/Main. The explorations were carried out in order to verify the
geophysical measurements in this area which were made, in 2006, by the Lorenz Institute
of Geophysics from Berlin, in accordance with the Agreement on Cooperation with DAI
RGK��
of the German Archaeological Institute in Frankfurt/Main. The geomagnetic and
geoelectrical measurements revealed the anomalies pointing to the existence of a number
of structures made of solid material. As agreed by the Serbian and German sides, the two
most striking structures were selected for probing.
Since we were obliged to publish the first part of the joint report, which would
consist of several articles about the results of the Serbian-German explorations during the
period 2004–2007 (1. Results of Geophysical Prospecting; 2. Results of Archaeological
Excavations, 3. R��
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sults of an Anthropological Analysis of the Osteological Findings
from the Investigated Graves, 4. The Catalogue of Mobile Findings and Related
Commentary; 5. Results of an Analysis of the Paleozoological and Paleobotanical
Samples) in Starinar, the journal of the Archaeological Institute in Belgrade (all articles
by German and Serbian authors must be submitted by next February), it was necessary to
prepare the documentation about this year’s investigations for printing. Thus, colleague
Aleksandar Kapuran from the Archaeological Institute in Belgrade was entrusted with
the preparation of the technical documentation.
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The investigations in the south-eastern tract of Romuliana, in the area to the
south and to the east of Galerius’s hot baths, are carried out in accordance with the
Archaeological Excavation Plan up to 2009. In this area there are the traces of life from
the Early Neolithic, through the Bronze Age, to the Antique horizon, which preceded the
building of the palace - in the second half of the 2nd / beginning of the 3rd century AD
- the remnants of vicus.
Project: ANCIENT INSCRIPTIONS OF MACEDONIA
During 2007, S. Dušanić continued his research on (a) the history of Macedon in the
light of epigraphical documents (centered on the fourth century BC), and (b) the mines,
coins and economy of the Roman province of Macedonia. As to (a), the work was
focused on the relations of Macedon with the Peloponnese, Boeotia, Athens and Persia
(cf. his article “The Noble Quality of Sophrosyne: Historical Notes on the Minos and
Plato’s Laws“, Živa Antika [Skopje] 56, 2006 [2007] 25–39). As to (b), a paper was
prepared on the role of senators in the mining industries of the Illyrican provinces (cf.
his “Prosopographical Notes on the History of Roman Mining in Moesia Superior”,
Starinar [Belgrade, to appear]).
Mr. Mirko Obradović, assistant of the Philosophical Faculty (Belgrade), participated
in the project. He continued his studies of the political aspects of the anthroponomy of
ancient Macedonia, as reflected in inscriptions and narrative sources (mostly the names
of the rulers of the Temenid and Antigonid dynasties). See his article “The Heroic Name
Telephos as a Personal Name amongst the Greeks”, Zbornik Matice srpske za klasične
studije 9 (2007) 73–89.
As soon as material and administrative conditions permit, S. Dušanić, M.
Obradović and their Macedonian colleagues will begin their work on the collation
of North Macedonian epigraphic documents that are preserved locally and/or in the
museums of Macedonia.
Project: METTALURGY IN THE PREHISTORIC AND ANTIQUE PERIOD
During the systematic, protective excavations in the area of the Kolubara Mining Basin,
the Belgrade-based Republican Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments,
which carried out the work, achieved valuable and rare results in the archaeometallurgy
of the Eneolithic period at the site of Masinske njive (Mali Borak near Ub). It discovered
the centre (or plant) for charcoal production, required for copper ore melting, on an
area of several hectares, including over 65 cylindrical ovens-pits, buried to the depth
of up to 1 metre, surrounded by dugouts and deposits of combustion residues and coal
powder. So far, the production of fuel for the needs of prehistoric metallurgy has not
been sufficiently studied due to the lack of explored production centres, such as this
one at Masinske njive. The closed pottery fragments from this site point to the contacts
among the Late Neolithic cultures of the Drina, Sava and Danube basins.
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COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY OF ART
(Academician Vojislav Korać)
The members of the Committee worked on individual projects.
Academician Dejan Medaković prepared the book The Holy Mountain Fruška
Gora (Fruškogorska Sveta Gora). In 2008, he plans to work on the book Serbian
Antiquities Researchers II (Istraživači srpskih starina II).
Аcademician Vojislav Korać continued his work on the project “Monuments and
Topics of 14th Century Serbian Architecture“ (“Spomenici i teme srpske arhitekture
XIV veka“), in cooperation with the Institute of Art History of the Faculty of Philosophy
in Belgrade. The works by V. Korać:
- Monumental Architecture in Byzantium and Serbia in the Last Century of
Byzantium, Specific Processing of Facades (Monumentalna arhitektura u Vizantiji i
Srbiji u poslednjem veku Vizantije. Osobena obrada fasadnih površina), Proceedings of
the Byzantological Institute 43 (2006), 209–231;
- A Contribution to the Study of Domed Single Nave Churches in the Dubrovnik
Region (Prilog poznavanju jednobrodnih crkava sa kupolom na dubrovačkom području),
Proceedings of the Byzantological Institute 44 (2007);
- Church of St George in Gornji Kozjak. A View on Architecture (Sv. Đorđe u
Gornjem Kozjaku. Opažanje o arhitekturi), Zograf 31, 29–34.
Academician Gojko Subotić: Within the Committee on History of Art it was
undertaken to collect the material on historical, spiritual and cultural heritage in Kosovo
and Metohija. The need for its collection, classification and processing by using the
contemporary digital technique already existed, but a direct incentive for the systematic
scanning of the documentation was provided by the tragic destruction of the monuments
over the past years, especially during the organized assault in March 2004, when 135
sacral buildings were destroyed. It is the question of precious material which is kept in
scientific institutions, museums and institutes for the protection of cultural monuments,
and is also possessed by individuals in various professions who collected it for decades.
The project was supported by the Ministry of Culture, which provided funds for the
acquisition of all necessary equipment. By the decision of the Department of Historical
Sciences, Academician Gojko Subotić was assigned to lead the project. In cooperation
with Dr. Dragan Vojvodić, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, and the
Republican Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, it was immediately
undertaken to type and copy the documentation which is, after being processed, returned
to the owner together with a copy in digital form.
As for the project Jašunja Monasteries (Jašunjski manastiri), the available funds
were spent on the visits to the Church of St John the Forerunner so as to monitor the
cleaning of its frescoes and on the supplementation of the relevant documentation.
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CHILANDAR COMMITTEE
(Academician Vojislav Korać)
During 2007, the preparation of the new volume of Chilandar Proceedings
(Hilandarski zbornik) and the ongoing activities were on the agenda. The Chilandar
Proceedings were completely prepared and the relevant papers were collected by using
the standard procedure. The printing of the Proceedings has been delayed for months,
because the Academy has no funds for their printing.
The ongoing activities include the care about the existing documentation, its
supplementation and the provision of the appropriate documents for the associates. For
the documentation fund 311 colour photographs of the Chilandar icons were purchased.
During the year, the fifth volume of The Holy Mountain - Thoughts and Studies
(Kazivanja o Svetoj Gori) of the Society of Serbian-Greek Friendship came out.
The members of the Committee were working on the topics relating to
Chilandar:
- М. Blagojević, The Medieval Villages of the Monastery of Chilandar in Kosovo
and Metohija (Srednjovekovna sela manastira Hilandara na Kosovu i Metohiji), The
Holy Mountain - Thoughts and Studies 5 (Peta kazivanja o Svetoj gori), Belgrade,
2007, 102–140.
- М. Blagojević, Agricultural Legal Code, Serbian Medieval Manuscript
(Zemljoradnički zakon, Srpski srednjovekovni rukopis), SASA Department of Social
Sciences, Belgrade 2007, 350 pages (it is being printed).
- А. Мladenović, Despot Stefan’s Charters and Letters. Text, Annotations
and Scans (Povelje i pisma despota Stefana. Tekst, komentari i snimci), Belgrade 2007
(Čigoja štampa). The book contains Despot Stefan’s charters given to the monastery of
Chilandar, Great Laura, St Panteleimon and Vatoped.
– A. Fotić, The Metochion of Chilandar Monastery in Salonica (16th–17th
centuries).
SZENTENDRE COMMITTEE
(Academician Dinko Davidov)
The work of the Committee stagnated to a degree, because some of its members
were too busy. Here mention should be made of the study of archival material in the
archives of Sremski Karlovci, Belgrade and Novi Sad, as well as abroad. Аcademician
Slavko Gavrilović continued to study the historical material about the Serbs in Hungary.
Committee member Kosta Vuković worked in the Hungarian State Archives in Budapest.
As for Grabovac monastery, the archival material in the Manuscript Department of
Matica srpska was studied. Dr. Dimitrije Stefanović continued to study the records and
inscriptions on the epitaphs in St George’s Church in Budapest. Academician Dinko
Davidov submitted his book “UPPER COUNTRY - From the Cultural History of Serbs
in Hungary“ (“GORNJA ZEMLJA - Iz kulturne istorije Srba u Ugarskoj“) for printing.
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COMMITTEE FOR HISTORY OF THE SERBIAN REVOLUTION 1804–1830
(Academician Slavko Gavrilović)
During 2007, five papers related to the mentioned project were published in the SASA
editions, Almanac of the Museum of the Town of Novi Sad and Karlovci Metropolitanate
Archives. The documents of the Swedish State Archives about the First Serbian Uprising
and the Adriatic Question of 1804–1813 were also published. The paper for the scientific
meeting in Moscow in 2008 was prepared.
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY OF THE SERBIAN PEOPLE
FROM XVI TO XVIII CENTURY
In 2007, the work was carried out in the SASA archives in Sremski Karlovci, Vojvodina
Archives, Manuscript Department of Matica srpska, Vojvodina Museum and the Archives
of the Town of Novi Sad.
Over 20 studies, documents, surveys and critical reviews relating to the Serbs
in the Habsburg Monarchy and Turkish Empire, their economy, hierarchical structure,
religion and war history were published.
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY OF THE SERBS IN CROATIA
(Academician Vasilije Krestić)
The Proceedings on the Serbs in Croatia 6 (Zbornik o Srbima u Hrvatskoj 6) were
published and distributed to the authors together with offprints. The next issue, No. 7,
was prepared for printing and submitted to the Department of Historical Sciences which
assigned the reviewers.
COMMITTEE FOR THE COMPILATION AND PUBLICATION OF
MATERIAL ON THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE KINGDOM OF SERBIA
1903–1914
Supplement 2 (Serbian National Defence / Srpska narodna odbrana/) for 1906 came out,
while Volumes 3 and 4 of Book II, for 1907, and Supplement 2 for 1907, which were
prepared by Dr. Ljiljana Aleksić-Pejković, are about to be printed. Volume 3 of Book
IV, for 1911, was prepared for printing by Dr. Ljiljana Aleksić-Pejković and Dr. Kliment
Džambazovski, after being favourably evaluated. The final processing of Volume 1,
Book II, for 1908, prepared by Professor Dr. Mihailo Vojvodić and Dr. Ljiljana AleksićPejković, began. Dr. Andrija Radenić continued to work on Volume 3, Book I, for
1905.
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COMMITTEEE ON THE HISTORY OF THE SERBS IN XIX CENTURY
(Academician Čedomir Popov)
The Committee devoted its complete work to preparations for the publishing of the
multi-volume Diary (Dnevnik) by Milan Đ. Milićević, one of the most prominent
cultural and political figures in Serbia in the second half of the 19th century and one
of the presidents of the Serbian Royal Academy. The manuscript of Diary is kept in
the SASA Archives, while its computer-aided preparation for further processing and
publishing was done by Zoran Gajić. Dr. Ana Stolić and Dr. Petar Krestić are working
on the interpretations and scientific apparatus of Diary. The project has to be completed
in 2008, on the occasion of the 175th anniversary of the birth and 100th anniversary of
the death of M.Đ. Milićević.
Project: BALCANOLOGICAL TOPICS
During 2007, cooperation with the Balkanological Institute was continued. Within interacademy cooperation, V. Petrović and S. Pilipović were enabled to conduct their research
under the project “Society, Material and Spiritual Culture and Communications in the
Balkans in Protohistory and Early History“ (“Društvo, materijalna i duhovna kultura i
komunikacije na Balkanu u protoistoriji i ranoj istoriji“). The result of this research is
the completion of V. Petrović’s monograph Dardania in Roman Itineraries - Towns
and Settlements (Dardanija u rimskim itinerarima - gradovi i naselja), Belgrade 2007
(responsible editor N. Tasić). A detailed report by the associates in the Balkanological
topics and more complete bibliography will be submitted to the Ministry of Science and
the Technological Department for 2007.
Within the scope of the project and international cooperation in 2007, the talks with
the Romanian colleagues concerning mutual cooperation in dealing with the prehistory
and protohistory of the Serbo-Romanian Danube river basin were resumed. The next
meeting was scheduled by the Romanian side. It should take place in Drobeta from 6 to 8
June 2008. Its topic will be “The Iron Gate Region in the Second Iron Age: Settlements,
Necropolis, Treasures“. The participation of 8 Serbian experts with the relevant papers is
planned.
Group of projects: BYZANTINE THEMES
(Corresponding member Ljubomir Maksimović)
Project: THE LAST CENTURY OF BYZANTIUM AND SERBIA
(Prof. Dr. Radivoj Radić)
The project is dedicated to research for the publication of Vol. 7 of the Byzantine Sources
for the History of the Peoples of Yugoslavia and for the publication of Vol. 3 of the Actes
de Chilandar. One PhD dissertation (S. Pirivatrić) and an MA thesis (Maja Nikolić) are
also included, while another PhD dissertation is in its initial stage.
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Pirivatrić S., 2007: Entering of Stefan Dušan into the Empire. Zbornik radova
Vizantološkog instituta, 44/2, 381–409.
Radić R., 2007: Constantinople: Stories from Bosporus. Beograd, pp. 296.
Ćirković S, 2007: On Historiography and Methodology (Studia Historica
Collecta 3)��
. Beograd, pp. 373.
Project: BYZANTINE WORLD IN CHANGING (10th – 12th CENTURIES)
(Corresponding Member Ljubomir Maksimović)
The project contains studies concerning various aspects of changes of the Empire during
the mentioned period.
Stanković V., 2007: A Generation Gap or Political Enmity? Emperor Manuel
Komnenos, Byzantine Intellectuals and the Struggle for Domination in Twelfth Century
Byzantium. In: Zbornik radova Vizantološkog instituta, 44/1, 209–227.
Krsmanović B., 2007: On the Accumulative Military Power of strategos,
monostrategos and strategos autokrator. In: Zbornik radova Vizantološkog instituta,
44/1, 80–117.
Project: WALL PAINTING AND INSCRIPTIONS IN THE 14th AND 15th
CENTURIES
(Academician Gojko Subotić)
Comprehensive studies on the interaction of both main phenomena of the sacral
monumental art in some Byzantine areas were undertaken.
Miljković B., 2007: The Nemanjićs and the St Nicholas in Bari. Zbornik radova
Vizantološkog instituta, 44/1, 275–294.
Subotić G., 2007: L’art médiévale du Kossovo. Paris.
INTERDEPARTMENTAL VARDAR COMMITTEE
(Academician Vladimir Stojančević)
In 2007, the research on the history and culture of the Serbs in the territory of presentday Macedonia was continued. Vardar Proceedings (Vardarski zbornik) No. 6 are about
to come out. Underway are the preparations for printing Vardar Proceedings No. 7.
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
(Academician Milorad Ekmečić)
The members of the Committee continued to work on individual topics. The fifth issue
of the Proceedings for the History of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Zbornik za istoriju Bosne
i Hercegovine) was submitted for printing in 2006, but the printing process began only
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in early December 2007. During the year, more than half of the texts for the sixth issue
of the Proceedings was collected.
Individual Project: MATERIAL FOR THE HISTORY OF MILITARY BORDER
IN XVIII CENTURY
Research was continued in the archives in Sremski Karlovci and Novi Sad. Six studies
and more than 70 biographies of the frontiermen from the 16th to 19th centuries, who
were in the Austrian and Venetian service, as well as those in the service of the Serbian
state and the Serbian National Movement of 1848–1849, were published.
Individual project: MATERIAL FOR THE HISTORY OF THE SERBS IN
CROATIA AND SLAVONIA
During 2007, I worked on the preparation of the manuscripts of two memoirs for
printing. The first of these manuscripts deals with Baranja and the issue of its belonging
in the period after the First World War, when the debate on this issue was conducted at
the Peace Conference in Paris. It is the question of Milan Glibonjski’s memoir and the
accompanying documents.
The author of the second manuscript is Teodor Stefanović Vilovski, a well-known
historian, publicist and politician. In his memoir, he covered the period from 1880 to the
end of the First World War.
During 2007, apart from several shorter papers, I published the book Through
Genocide to a Greater Croatia (Genocidom do velike Hrvatske), Jagodina 2007, which
is the supplemented edition in the Serbian language.
In Spomenik CXL, Department of Historical Sciences 14, Belgrade 2007, 141–
150, the article New Data on the History of the Revolution of 1848–1849 (Novi podaci o
istoriji revolucije 1848–1849. godine) was published.
The study Jaša Tomić, the Representative of Patriotic Historiography (Jaša
Tomić, zastupnik patriotske istoriografije) was published in Letopis Matice srpske for
November 2007, 776–795.
The article entitled Strossmayer on the Eastern Question and the Federalization of
the Monarchy (Štrosmajer o istočnom pitanju i federalizaciji Monarhije) was published
in Serbian and Polish in Krakow in 2007, 291–309, in the proceedings Josip Juraj
Strossmayer. Croatia. Ecumenism. Europe (Josip Juraj Strossmayer. Hrvatska.
Ekumenizam. Europa).
The article The Aims of Yugoslav Politics (Ciljevi jugoslovenske politike) was
published in Književni list of 1 March 2007, and the article The Basic Causes of
Misunderstanding Between Croats and Serbs (Osnovni uzroci nesporazuma Hrvata i
Srba) in Književni list of 1 June 2007.
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Individual project: BURGEOIS EUROPE 1871–1914
(Academician Čedomir Popov)
During 2007, rersearch on the evolution and development of the Eastern
Question in the epoch of imperialism was conducted. This research was finished and its
results presented in the monograph The Eastern Question and the Serbian Revolution
1804–1918 (Istočno pitanje i srpska revolucija 1804–1918), which was submitted to the
publisher. The monograph Greater Serbia, Reality and Myth (Velika Srbija, stvarnost
i mit) was published by Knjižarnica Zorana Stojanovića, Novi Sad 2007 (4 editions) and
so was the study Vasilj Popović, The Historian of the Eastern Question (Vasilj Popović,
istoričar Istočnog pitanja), The Ćorović Encounters, SPKD “Prosvjeta“, Bileća-Gacko
2007, 140–162.
Individual Project: CULTURE AND ART OF BRONZE AND IRON AGE OF
SERBIAN DANUBE BASIN
In 2007, the project was considerably expanded with the inclusion of two associates,
especially P. Medović as well as one junior associate, Miloš Spasić, MA. During the
year, Medović expanded his work on the publication and processing of the Bronze Age
sites in Srem, primarily Gradina on the Bosut, the Early Iron Age horizons, while the
Bronze Age findings were used by Miloš Spasić for the preparation of his master’s thesis
under the mentorship of the project leader. The thesis was defended at the end of 2007.
As for the topic of the project, the work on the drawing and recording of
prehistoric material from the excavations at Gamzigrad was coordinated. It turned out
that underneath one part of this Roman site, that is, the imperial palace from the time of
Galerius, there was a much older settlement which, according to rather modest pottery
fragments, belongs to the Early Iron Age (Dr. Miroslav Lazić, Faculty of Philosophy).
While processing the prehistoric findings in the broader area of Feudvar, project
associate P. Medović publicized two necropolises near Feudvar (Mošorin), one from the
Bronze Age and the other from the Early Iron Age.
P. Medović, Stubarija, the Necropolis of the Settlement of Feudvar (Stubarija,
nekropola naselja Feudvar), Novi Sad 2007.
Individual Project: ANCIENT SOCIETY AND STATE
S. Dušanić continued his research on (a) political thought of the Greeks in the classical
period, and (b) the history of Roman institutions and society under the Empire.
His bibliography for 2007 includes: (a) “The Noble Quality of Sophrosyne:
Historical Notes on the Minos and Plato’s Laws”, Živa Antika 56 (Skopje 2006 – 2007)
25–39; (b) “Three Sidelights on the Early Diplomata Militaria”, Mavors 15 (Stuttgart
2007) 55–85; “The Arval Vows of AD 101 and 105 and Trajan’s Dacian Wars”, Simp.
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Int. Daci si Rom., Timisoara 2006–2007, 36–42; “Vota u Aktima Arvalske Braće za 25.
mart 101. godine”, Mélanges offerts à Miron Flašar, Belgrade 2006–2007, 59–76; cf.
Ad Vjestnik arheol. Muzeja u Zagrebu 36, 2003, 146–147, in: M. Corbier Ed., L’Année
épigraphique 2007 (Paris) 391 No. 1111. Several other papers of his are forthcoming.
During 2007 as in previous years, S. Dušanić was the director of the Centre for
ancient epigraphy and numismatics “Fanoula Papazoglou” (Faculty of Philosophy,
Beograd) and the head of several projects concerning ancient history, epigraphy, and
related disciplines (the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts; the Faculty of Philosophy,
Belgrade). His study of Roman history and epigraphy (including the collaboration with
the editors of the Ann. ép.) focused on the preparation of vol. III/1 (inscriptions of the
Iron Gates, especially those of Pincum) of the Inscriptions de la Mésie Supérieure (series
edited by the Centre “Fanoula Papazoglou”).
Early in 2007, S. Dušanić participated in the Freiburg meeting of the Collegium
Politicum, devoted to the Pseudo-Platonic dialogue Minos.
Individual Project: MONASTERY OF ST JOHN THE FORERUNNER IN
JAŠUNJA (Academician Gojko Subotić)
Cooperation with Okayama University on the preparation of the monograph on this
monastery was continued. This year, a larger group of painters/conservationists was
engaged for cleaning the fresco paintings in the interior thanks to the funds provided
by the Japanese Foundation. At the same time, the archaeological excavations led by
Dr. Vujadin Ivanišević began in the monastery compound thanks to the support of the
Ministry of Culture. In mid-October, the monastery was visited by Dr. Michitaka Suzuki,
professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Okayama, with his associate, Dr. Chie Manabe.
Like in the previous years, Professor Dr. Nikola Dudić included the new data and copies
of a greater number of the legible sacral texts in the documentation. ��
Selected publications (G. Subotić):
1. L’ art médiévale du Kosovo (on the cover of a certain number of copies of
Terre Sacrée du Kosovo his name is wrongly written “Sotić“ instead of “Subotić“), Paris
2006;
2. The Third Žiča Charter (Treća žička povelja), Zograf 31 (2006–2007), 51–58;
3. Joint Presentations of Saint Sava of Serbia and Saint Clement of Ohrid (Zajednički
likovi Svetog Save Srpskog i Svetog Klimenta Ohridskog), Jubilee Proceedings on the
25th Anniversary of Metropolitan Timotej, Ohrid 2007.
Individual Project: EUROPE AND SERBIA IN THE MIDDLE AGES
(Corresponding Member Jovanka Kalić)
During 2007, the work on the project was continued within the scope of several
thematic entities: Byzantological studies and research on the historical and cultural
relations of the Serbs with the countries of Western Europe. The author redefined the
chronological framework of the Late Middle Ages from the aspect of the history of
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Serbian and European societies. The research covered the history of the state and church
relationship in the 12th century. The project also included the study of old Raška. Field
research was resumed (towns and settlements from the pre-Turkish period) on the basis
of interdisciplinary studies (history, archaeology, language, religion).
1) Europe and Serbs. The New Views (Evropa i Srbi. Novi pogledi). Zbornik
Matice srpske za društvene nauke, 122, Novi Sad 2007, 7–9.
2) The Serbian State and the Ohrid Archbishopric in the 12th Century (Srpska
država i Ohridska arhiepiskopija u XII veku). Proceedings of the SASA Byzantological
Institute 44 (2007), 196–207.
3) Ioannes Kinamos and Nikita Honiates. Historical Documents (Jovan Kinam i
Nikita Honijat, Istorijski spisi), in the book: Byzantine Sources for the History of the
Yugoslav People (Vizantijski izvori za istoriju naroda Jugoslavije), Vol. IV. Belgrade
2007, 1–173.
4) The Foundations of the Cultural History of Srem. The Middle Ages (Temelji
kulturne istorije Srema, srednji vek). Proceedings Srem Through the Centuries (“Srem
kroz vekove“, published by the Vuk Foundation and Institute for Literature, Belgrade
2007, 31–44.
Individual Project: SERBS IN HUNGARY - CULTURAL PAST
(Academician Dinko Davidov)
Academician Slavko Gavrilović continued to study the archival material relating to the
Serbs in Hungary in the 18th and 190th centuries. Academician Dinko Davidov finished
the manuscript of the book “UPPER COUNTRY“ - From the Cultural History of the
Serbs in Hungary (“GORNJA ZEMLJA“ - Iz kulturne istorije Srba u Ugarskoj). The
300-page manuscrupt with 90 illustrations will be published by Zavod za izdavanje
udžbenika. Associate Kosta Vuković, the curator of the Buda Eparchy Museum,
conducted his research in Belgrade, Sremski Karlovci and Novi Sad. Associate Dr.
Danilo Urošević collected and handed over to the Szentendre Committee the historical
photographs of old Taban, one-time Srpska Varoš (Raczvaros), in the Buda suburbs.
Associate Slavomir Matejić photographed the wall paintings in the Serbian Church in
Srpski Kovin (Raczkeve).
Individual Project: TERRITORY AND SOCIETY OF MEDIEVAL SERBIA
(Academician Miloš Blagojević)
During 2007, I finished the study entitled Agricultural Legal Code, a Serbian Medieval
Manuscript (“Zemljoradnički zakon, Srpski srednjovekovni rukopis“). The 350-page
study was submitted for printing. This is the well-known Byzantine Nomos georgikos
translated into Old Serbian in the Middle Ages. Thus, it was necessary to translate it
into the contemporary literary language and comment on each article of the Legal Code,
coupled with a special treatise on the agrarian relations in medieval Serbia.
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Blagojević, M., Prince Lazar’s Lands in Kosovo and Metohija (Teritorije kneza
Lazara na Kosovu i Metohiji). Kosovo and Metohija, Past Present, Future (Kosovo
i Metohija, prošlost, sadašnjost, budućnost), SASA Scientific Meetings, Vol. XCV,
Department of Social Sciences, Vol. 28, Belgrade, 2007, pp. 518.
Blagojević, M., Medieval Villages of Chilandar Monastery in Kosovo and Metohija
(Srednjovekovna sela manastira Hilandara na Kosovu i Metohiji). The Holy Mountain
- Thoughts and Studies 5 (Peta kazivanja o Svetoj Gori), Belgrade, 2007, 102–140.
Individual Project: HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION IN SERBIA
IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19th CENTURY
(Academician Vladimir Stojančević)
Due to the prolonged illness the work on the project could not be continued.
Individual Project: SREBRENICA IN THE MIDDLE AGES
(Academician Desanka Kovačević-Kojić)
During 2007, the focus of the research was based on the domestic population in
Srebrenica, their activities and legal status in the XIVth and XVth centuries.
The research is summarized in the monograph: Gradski život u Srbiji i Bosni
(XIV–XV vijek), Beograd 2007, 491 p.
Individual Project: SERBIA AND ITALIAN STATES IN
THE LATE MIDDLE AGES
(Corresponding Member��
Mom��
čilo Spremić)
Working on the relations between Serbia and the Italian states in the late Middle Ages,
two aspects were focused of in 2007. The first aspect concerned economic relations.
Namely, as a result of the Turkish invasions in the late Middle Ages, Serbian trade
with the East decreased. Simultaneously, trade was directed to the Apennines, where
Serbia commenced to export cattle produce and metals, mostly silver. The second aspect
concerned Serbian migrations to Italy, via Bosnia and Dalmatia. The Serbs arrived and
settled in Venice, Marke and Apulia.
Spremić M., 2007: Srpska despotovina - susedi i strani uticaji. Glas
akademije nauka i umetnosti, CDIV, Odeljenje istorijskih nauka, knj. 13
Beograd, 51–70.
Spremić M., 2007: Il Despota Giorgio Branković e Venezia. Glas
akademije nauka i umetnosti, CDIV, Odeljenje istorijskih nauka, knj. 13
Beograd, 119–135.
Spremić M., 2006: Beograd u Furlaniji. Beograd, 1–12.
Srpske
(2006),
Srpske
(2006),
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Individual Project: SCORDISCI AND AUTOCHTHONS IN THE
PROTOHISTORY OF THE CENTRAL BALKANS
The final text of the catalogue of the Early Celtic cemetery Pećine near Kostolac (Eastern
Serbia) is finished, including a site plan with separate groups and autochthonous graves.
The analogies of the inventories of the rich graves indicate the Middle Danube Basin and
North - East of the Carpathian Basin as the starting point for the migrations of Eastern Celts.
The contribution „Galatae and Scordisci“was presented at the international symposium
“The Eastern Celts between Hellenistic and Roman World” (Vršac, 1–4. 11. 2007).
Individual Project: STATE AND SOCIETY IN BYZANTIUM
(Corresponding Member Ljubomir Maksimović)
In 2007, I continued to synthetically process the original material relating to various
aspects of Byzantine civilization, under the provisory title State and Society in Byzantium
(Država i društvo u Vizantiji). The data were processed to a varying degree, so that it was
not necessary to treat them by specified phases. The mentioned provisory title covers
only the first phase - the structures of the state and society and their interaction - which
actually comprises the project.
The issue in question deals with the physiognomy and evolution of the Empire’s
constitutional factors - the emperor, the senate, the army and the people (populus), as
well as the structure and evolution of state administration. In many respects, this context
is linked to the processes of shaping Byzantine society, especially its elite. The treatment
of these intertwining factors produced several parts of the project which should represent
the chapters of the future book. Four of them assumed almost the final form, two are well
underway, while as manyu are in a rough state to a lesser or greater degree. However, it
can be said that the physiognomy of this book, which will be the end result of the project
and will probably bear the same title, was shaped in 2007.
Individual Project: FONTES - THE GREEK ACTS OF THE HILANDAR
MONASTERY, Vol. III (14th–15th CENTURY)
(Corresponding Member Mirjana Živojinović)
The work on the Greek acts of the Hilandar Monastery was continued during the past
year. Transcription, analysis and comments for acts through 1366 were completed. In
addition, these acts were translated into French.
Živojinović M., 2007: The Monks of Hilandar - Custodians of Monastery’s
Documents [In Serbian: Monasi Hilandara čuvari manastiskih dokumenata]. Peta
kazivanja o Svetoj Gori, Beograd, 141–168.
Živojinović M., 2007: The Monastery of Plaka in Karyes [In Serbian: Manastir
Plaka u Kareji]. Zbornik radova Vizantološkog instituta, 44, 173–189.
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Individual Project: THE GREAT POWERS AND THE SERBIAN QUESTION IN
THE XXth CENTURY
(Corresponding Member Dragoljub Živojinović)
The goal of this project is to examine the policies, intentions, aims and methods used by
the Great Powers toward Serbia and the Serbian people in the XXth century. Most of my
attention was directed to exploring the background, both political and diplomatic, of the
Salonica front and the military operations carried out in the Balkans.
Živojinović D., 2007: The Balkans. Prestup, # 35, Belgrade, 34–41.
Živojinović D., 2007: Woodrow Wilson and the Treaty of Rapallo 1920. Mitološki
zbornik, vol. 16, Rača-Belgrade, 249–261.
Živojinović D., 2007: Diary of Major Dragomir Nikolajević, 1911–1914. Srpske
dinastije u memoaristici, Zbornik radova, Belgrade, 141–156.
COMMITTEE FOR KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
In 2007, the Committee held one session at which the report on the papers for the fourth
volume of the Kosovo and Metohija Proceedings - which are periodically published by
the Committee - was discussed and the engagement of reviewers was approved.
The Committee also gave its approval for the presentation of proceedings The
Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija (Srbi na Kosovu i Metohiji) of the last year’s scientific
meeting, organized by the Committee and the University of Priština seated in Kosovska
Mitrovica and Zubin Potok, together with the presentation of the proceedings Kosovo
and Metohija - Past, Present, Future, published that same year by the Committee of
the Department of Social Sciences, headed by Academician Kosta Mihailović, on the
SASA premises.
The President of the Committee, Academician Stevan Karamata, took the
Proceedings to Kosovska Mitrovica and Zubin Potok, together with Professor Milica
Grković, and distributed them to the authors, the University, the town mayors and the
monastery of Duboki Potok near Zubin Potok, at their presentation in the University
Rectorate.
The Committee made fifty or so photographs from its collection or obtained from
other institutions for its documentation. It also purchased the catalogue of photographs
of the wood-carved iconostasis of the church in Priština, which was burnt down by
the Albanians, together with the Church of St Nicholas in Priština, from the painters/
conservationists of the Republican Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments.
From the Library of Matica srpska in Novi Sad the Committee obtained free of
charge one copy of S. Smirnov’s Collection of Copies of Old Inscriptions in Serbian
Churches in Kosovo and Metohija (КОЛЕКЦИИ КОПИИ СТАРИХ НАТПИСЕИ В
СЕРБСКИХ ЦЕРКВАХ), which represents a real rarity in the libraries in Serbia.
In the SASA copying service, the Committee made more than 100 copies of
rare manuscripts, photographs and other documents in order to keep them on file.
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The Committee also obtained a number of last year’s publications, published by the
Balkanological Institute and the Museum of Kosovo and Metohija. It receives free copies
of the weekly journal Jedinstvo, published in Kosovska Mitrovica. It also regularly
receives a copy of the journal Hvosno, launched in the municiplity of Istok in Metohija
15 years ago, which is now printed in exile, in Leposavić.
COMMITTEE FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN VINČA
(Academician Nikola Tasić, Corresponding Member Borislav Jovanović)
During 2007, the work was carried out both in the field (excavations) and at the SASA
itself, including the processing of the material and preparation of the project for marking
the 100th anniversary of the excavations in Vinča.
This year, the organization of work underwent a significant change. Namely, under the
agreement between the Serbian Ministry of Culture and the City Municipality of Belgrade
a new Committee was set up within the Ministry with a view to leading the explorations
in Vinča. In addition to the representatives of the Ministry of Culture and the City
Municipality of Belgrade, it includes the representatives of the SASA, Archaeological
Department of the Faculty of Philosophy, National Museum in Belgrade, Republican
and Municipal Institutes for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, Museum of the City
of Belgrade, as well as the Municipality of Grocka.
In 2007, excavations were continued, revealing the remains of the houses belonging to
the Vinča culture and a number of profane and cult objects. A documentary film was also
made on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the excavations at this significant site.
It will have its premiere on the Day of the Academy in November.
Together with the Committee within the Serbian Ministry of Culture, this Committee is
preparing the exhibition devoted to the 100th anniversary of the excavations in Vinča
(1908–2008), which will be staged in the SASA Gallery.
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DEPARTMENT OF FINE ARTS AND MUSIC
Project: RECORDING OF SERBIAN FOLK MUSIC
(Academician Dejan Despić)
Field work was undertaken in the Šumadija region (Central Serbia, village Natalinci). An
interview with a village singer, a man, and traditional songs of different functions were
recorded. Also the program of The Second Festival of Gajde Players’, which took place
in Svrljig (East Serbia), was recorded. The recordings were made by Jelena Jovanović
and Danka Lajić-Mihajlović.
Project: COMPACT-DISKS AND CASSETTES PRODUCTION
(Academician Dejan Despić)
An audio edition, a CD Traditional singing and playing in Upper Jasenica region was
published.
Project: CONTEMPORARY SERBIAN MUSIC SCENE
(Academician Dejan Despi��
ć)
The Musicology Department of the Faculty of Music Art in Belgrade organized the
presentation of the monograph published on the occasion of the birthday of Roksanda
Pejović (11 December 2007), The History and Mystery of Music (Istorija i misterija
muzike) (Faculty of Music Art, Belgrade, 2006). On that occasion, Biography and
Bibliography of Roksanda Pejović (Biografija i bibliografija Roksande Pejović) was
published as a special book (Faculty of Music Art, Belgrade, 2007).
Roksanda Pejović presented her paper The Belgrade Ballet in the Inter-War
Period (Beogradski balet između dva svetska rata) at the meeting of the Musicology
Department of the Faculty of Music Art entitled “Thematic Potentials of Lexicographic
Units on Music Institutions“ (“Tematski potencijali leksikografskih jedinica o muzickim
institucijama“) (Belgrade, 12–14 April 2007). She also edited the operatic and ballet
essays and critical reviews by Mihailo Vukdragović, Branko Dragutinović and Stana
Đurić-Klajn.
On the occasion of the jubilee of Milica Zajcev (50 years of her work as a ballet
critic), the book Bibliography of the Art Dance Critic, Theatrologist and Publicist
Milica Zajcev, 1960–2006 (Bibliografija kritičara umetničke igre, teatrologa i publiciste
Milice Zajcev za period 1960–2006) was published (the first edition; edited by Suzana
Polić-Radovanović, MA; published by YUBIN, Belgrade, 2007).
Мirka Pavlović dealt with the career of Divna Radić-Đoković in the Belgrade
Opera.
Каtarina Tomašević and Biljana Milanović finished their studies about the Serbian
scene for the Greek-Serbian musicological project 2005–2007 (the leader of the Serbian
team was Melita Milin), which are published in the bilingual Athens publication Aspects
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of Greek and Serbian Music (edited by Dr. Katy Romanou, the leader of the Greek
team).
Nadežda Mosusova participated in the preparation of the Serbian Biographical
Dictionary of Matica srpska (Srpski biografski rečnik Matice srpske) with the entries on
Sofija Drausalj and Dušan Đorđević. In June 2007 she stayed in Paris, where she studied
the Slavic repertoire in the Grand Opera library. She participated in the symposum “The
Russian Diaspora and Serbian-Russian Ties“ (“Ruska dijaspora i srpsko-ruske veze“) at
the Faculty of Philology (Belgrade, 22–24 May 2007) with the paper “’World of Art’ on
the Music Stage of the National Theatre in Belgrade - Ornament as Crime or Offence“
(“Мир искусства” на музыкальной сцене Национального театра в Белграде Украшение и преступление или оскорбление). At the conference devoted to dance
within the 21st World Congress on Dance Research CID-UNESCO “Dancers Without
Frontiers” (Athens, 5–9 Sеptember 2007), she presented her paper Iovanka Biegoievic,
Serbian Ballerina - Star of the International Stages. She participated in the Tenth
Pedagogical Forum of the Solfeggio Department of the Faculty of Music Art “Motion
in Music and Scenic Arts“ (“Pokret u muzičkim i scenskim umetnostima“) (Belgrade,
7–9 December 2007), with the paper Composer as Choreographer (Kompozitor kao
koreograf).
COMMITTEE FOR THE DICTIONARY ON THE FINE ARTS TERMS
(Corresponding Member Milan Lojanica)
Project: DICTIONARY ON FINE ARTS TERMS
In January 2007, the Report on the Activities of the Committee in 2006 was adopted. It
was also proposed to change the Committee composition and form the editorial staff of the
Dictionary, including Dušan Otašević (painting), Kosta Bogdanović (sculpture), Dijana
Marić (applied arts) and Slobodan Maldini (architecture). This proposal was accepted at
the session of the Department of Fine and Musical Arts on 7 February 2007.
The report on the Committee’s activities and the estimate of the funds required for
the planned activities - financing the work of the editorial staff and further preparation
and printing of Volume I the Dictionary (A-Đ) - was submitted to the Secretary General,
that is, the SASA Executive Board on 20 February 2007. The report also contained the
request for the provision of one more room so as to ensure better comfort and work
organization for the editorial staff of the Dictionary, as well as two editorial staffs of the
Serbian Encyclopedia (Area 019 - Culture, Art), both entrusted for care and organizational
coordination to the SASA Department of Fine and Musical Arts.
At its Sixth Session of 8 March 2007, the Executive Board of the Presidency
accepted both proposals.
Since the financial resources for the preparation of the Dictionary, which had been
allocated to the Fund, were not obtained until September (due to the constitution of
the republican bodies) and those expected from the City Secretariat of Culture have
not been allocated to the present day, the editorial staff’s activities were confined to an
analysis and evaluation of the registered texts (A-Đ), defining the view on the necessary
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alterations and supplements, as well as the work related to illustrative material. Thus,
the plenary sessions of the editorial staff and several individual meetings were used to
decide on the conceptual improvements, supplements to the entries, text improvements,
categorization, proportion balance, text volume and quality, text authors, bibliography
and the like, laying special emphasis on illustrative material by area.
COMMITTEE FOR THE HISTORY OF SERBIAN MUSIC
(Academician Dimitrije Stefanović)
Since the new room for the permanent exhibition Old Serbian Music in the monastery of
Velika Remeta is still not ready for use, Committee associate Ivan Joksimović re-recorded
a number of church, spiritual and folk songs from the worn-out audio cassettes on to
four DVD CDs, including the recordings from Knin, Dalmatinsko Kosovo, Slavonski
Brod, Timisoara and Resica (Romania), as well as our monasteries such as, for example,
Krka, Velika Remeta, Krušedol, Jazak, Beočin, Presentation of the Virgin near Čačak,
Annunciation in Rudnik and Manasija.
A detailed list of all recorded songs, including the recording date, was made. These
recordings have both musical and historical significance. The scarce connoisseurs of folk
church singing were recorded, while some of them passed away (Bishop Sava Vuković,
SASA Corresponding Member, and Archimandrite Damaskin from the monastery of
Krušedol).
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CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF SASA AND
UNIVERSITY OF NIŠ
Director of the Centre:
Academician Miroslav Pantić
Deputy Director:
Professor Dr. Dragan Žunić
SECTION FOR ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF ART
(Miloje Vasić, Ph.D.)
Project: NIŠAVA RIVER BASIN IN PREHISTORY, ANTIQUITY AND
MIDDLE AGES
(Miloje Vasić, Ph.D.)
According to the plan and programme of the Archaeological Institute in Belgrade,
archaeological excavations at the site of Mediana near Niš were carried out from 15
March to 16 June 2007. They were financed through the public works of the Serbian
Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Policy and co-financed by the Medijana
City Municipality. The public works included the clearing of the central part of the site,
in the immediate vicinity of the villa with peristyle, in the area of the discovered military
barracks and choreum. The aim of the public works was to remove caved material from
the old excavations and debris, and to stack original building material.
At the same time, archeological excavations were carried out in the area to the
north of the early Christian church with the mosaic with Christ’s monogram, covering an
area of 14.00 (north-south) x 17.20 metres (east-west), between the eastern wall of room
17 of the eastern tract of the barracks and the contemporary dirth road. The investigation
of this area is defined by the Preliminary Project Relating to the Presentation of the
Church with Christ’s Monogram (Idejni projekat za prezentaciju crkve sa Hristovim
monogramom), which was adopted by the Mediana Site Management Board of the
Medijana City Municipality, in September 2006. The public works confirmed the
chronological order of the strata and construction work at the site of the settlement of
Mediana, while the coins, minted in Apolonia or Dirachion between the 1st century BC
and the 1st century AD, confirmed the late La Tène period, which had been ascertained
during the earlier excavations in the south-western part of this site. The most important
discovery is certainly another, smaller single nave church from the early Christian period
(church 2), which belongs to the youngest horizon from Late Antiquity in this region.
The discovery of another early Christian church at Mediana points to the
continuation of intensive life in this part of the antique town of Naissus after the battle
of Hadrianopolis. Despite the disurbanization and ruralization of this area, it is certain
that its life continues in the new organization, in which a significant role is played by
the alliance with the Goths to whom Mediana was most likely given as a pledge for this
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alliance, as shown by the archaeological findings. The presence of two churches from
the same period, at such a small distance, raises the question of the organization of the
church at the site of this antique town in the period from the late 4th to the early 5th
century AD.
During the last year, as part of document processing, it was continued with
the digitalization of the plans from the previous investigations, as well as with the
photographing of archaeological material and frescoes. The documentation relating to
the investigations in 2007 was completely processed in the Auto Cad program.
The work on the preparation of the publication Naissus I (a group of authors) was
continued.
SECTION FOR SERBIAN LANGUAGE
(Prof. Dr. Nedeljko Bogdanović)
Project: TYPOLOGICAL STUDIES OF SERBIAN SPEECH IN SOUTHEASTERN SERBIA
(Prof. Dr. Slobodan Remetić)
The collection of papers under the project Typological Studies of Serbian Speech in
South-Eastern Serbia (Tipološko proučavanje srpskih govora na jugoistoku Srbije)
(including the papers by S. Remetić, D. Jović, N. Bogdanović, J. Marković, M. Đorđević,
J. Gmitrović, A. Savić-Grujić, M. Ranđelović and M. Cakić, as well as by S. Meneslend
and E. Egeberg from Norway) was prepared for printing and the funds for its publishing
were provided.
Two articles on the relevant topics were submitted for printing (for the monographs
dedicated to M. Dešić, Belgrade, and M. Pižurica, Novi Sad), in addition to one paper for
the proceedings of the University of Timisoara.
The paper on the Dialectal and/or Thematic Sentences in the Serbian Language
(Dijalektske i/ili tematske rečenice srpskog jezika) was presented at the Vuk
Foundation.
The lecture on The Hitherto Studies of Speech in the Prizren-Timok Area
(O dosadašnjim proučavanjima govora prizrensko-timočke zone) was delivered in
Knjaževac.
Project: DIALECTOLOGICAL STUDIES OF THE SERBIAN LINGUISTIC
AREA
(Prof. Dr. Slobodan Remetić)
The material collected from the field points in the territories of south-eastern
Serbia and Macedonia was supplemented (a total of 12 points). The first version of the
registers for the first volume of the Serbian Dialectological Atlas (Srpski dijalektološki
atlas) was prepared.
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Оther Activities
1. Professor N. Bogdanović and the associates of the Section (M. Đorđević,
A. Bogdanović, B. Mitić), by the order of the Rector of Niš University, Professor Dr.
Radosav Bubanj, and with the blessing of His Excellency Bishop Irinej of Niš, spent two
days in the village of Izvor near Svrljig where they made an inventory of its library’s
collection, which is significant because it was founded in the second half of the 19th
century by priest Filip Nedeljković, who is also responsible for the preservation of the
Svrljig Gospel Passages (Svrljiški odlomci jevanđelja) from 1279 and their handover to
the Academy, through Milan Đ. Milićević, in 1866.
2. The associates of the Section presented two papers at the scientific symposium
Traditional Aesthetic Culture: Body and Clothing (Tradicionalna estetska kultura: telo i
odevanje), which was organized by the Centre’s Section for Studying People.
3. The manuscript of Dr. Borislav Prvulović Lexicon of Old Handicrafts (Leksika
starih zanata) was edited and reviewed. The Regional Chamber of Handicrafts in Niš
undertook its publishing.
Bogdanović N. (editor), 2007: Linguistic Culture of Public Life (Jezička kultura
javnog života). Proceedings, Niš, Centre for Scientific Research of SASA and Niš
University, 128 pages.
Bogdanović N., 2006–2007: Mythology and Geographic Lexicon (Mitologija i
geografska leksika). Ethno-Culturological Proceedings (Etno-kulturološki zbornik),
No. 11, Svrljig, 132–134.
Bogdanović N., 2007: Serbian Dialects and the Literary-Language Norm (Srpski
dijalekti i književno-jezička norma). In: The Serbian Language and Social Trends
(Srpski jezik i društvena kretanja), Proceedings, Kragujevac, Faculty of Philology and
Arts, 47–50.
LITERATURE SECTION
(Prof. Dr. Miroljub Stojanović)
Project: LITERATURE AND HISTORY
The scientific meeting entitled Literature and History IX: Idealization and Mythologization
of History in Literature (Idealizacija i mitologizacija istorije u književnosti) was organized,
with international participation. It lasted two days (on 19 and 20 October) and had 27
registered participants, of whom 2 from abroad (Ukraine and Bulgaria). Otherwise, there
were 22 direct participants. Underway is the preparation of the proccedings, which will
also include the papers of those authors who could not participate directly for objective
reasons. This scientific meeting was organized with the financial support of the Serbian
Ministry of Science.
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During the meeting Literature and History IX (Književnost i istorija IX), on 19
October, which was organized by the Student Cultural Centre, the monograph The Human
Face of History in Literature (Ljudsko lice istorije u književnosti) was also presented.
Within her work on the project, researcher Marija Slavković-Ilić defended her
master’s thesis entitled Lukrecija Bogašinović, a Dubrovnik Poetess of the 18th Century
(Lukrecija Bogašinović, dubrovačka pesnikinja XVIII veka) at the Faculty of Philology
in Belgrade, before the commission comprising Professor Dr. Zlata Bojović, Professor
Dr. Tomislav Jovanović and Dr. Bojan Đorđević, Assistant Professor.
Project: LITERARY AND CULTURAL LIFE IN SOUTH-EASTERN SERBIA IN
THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES
Within the programme of activities of the Centre’s Literature Section underway is
the editing and computer-aided processing of the proceedings Writers in Niš and About
Niš (Pisci u Nišu i o Nišu).
Underway is also intensive work on the collection of contributions for the
monograph devoted to Ljuba Stanojević - Life and Work (Ljuba Stanojević - život i
delo), which was the topic of the round table held on 15 December 2006.
Project: CULTURAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NIŠ
Twenty or so new entries in the field of literature were prepared.
Оther Activities
The International Scientific Conference Serbian-Macedonian Cultural and Literary Ties
(Srpsko-makedonske kulturne i književne veze) was held on 15 and 16 November, in
cooperation with the Faculty of Teaching in Vranje and the Institute of Literature from
Skopje, with the support of the Medijana City Municipality. Its participants included 13
scientists from Macedonia and 14 from Serbia. It was observed that this was the first
such meeting in Serbia after the disintegration of the FRY and that the study of these
ties should become a permanent activity. The scientific meeting was organized with the
financial support of the Serbian Ministry of Science.
Stojanović, M., 2007: The Human Face of History in Literature (Ljudsko lice
istorije u književnosti), Slavist Library (Slavistička biblioteka), Vol. VI, Belgrade, Slavist
Society of Serbia, Belgrade, 235 pages.
Stojanović, M. (editor), 2007: Literature and History VIII: The Transposition
of Historical Events and Personages in Epic Poem, Poem and Epic (Književnost i
istorija VIII: transpozicija istorijskih događaja i ličnosti u epskoj pesmi, spevu i epu),
Niš, Centre for Scientific Research of SASA and Niš University, 322 pages.
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Popović-Srdanović, D., 2007: The Storm of Incidental Issues (Essays on 20th
Century American Poetry) (Bura sporednih stvari / ogledi o američkoj poeziji XX
veka), Belgrade, Institute for Literature and Art, Vol. XLVII, Belgrade, 317 pages.
Đorđević, M., 2007: Oratory Among the Serbs (Historical Monograph)
(Oratorstvo kod Srba /istorijska monografija/), Niš, Centre for Ecclesiastical Studies,
301 pages.
Obradović, S., 2007: Both Sides of History in Children’s Prose (Lice i naličje
istorije u prozi za decu), Niš, Veljko Vidaković Literary Community, 33 pages.
SECTION FOR STUDYING PEOPLE
(Prof. Dr. Dragan Žunić)
Project: TRADITIONAL AESTHETIC CULTURE OF SERBS
(Prof. Dr. Dragan Žunić)
On 23 October 2007, the Section organized the Third Scientific Symposium Traditional
Aesthetic Culture: Body and Clothing (Tradicionalna estetska kultura: telo i odevanje)
with international participation. The participants from Serbia, Bulgaria, Macedonia and
Slovenia presented 19 papers, which were also recorded by the technical team of Radio
Belgrade Channel III and will be broadcast in the relevant radio programme. The papers
presented at this symposium will be published in the special proceedings in 2008. During
the discussion it was stated that this year’s symposium was a successful continuation of
the work on the project. Thus, it was concluded that the fourth symposium within the
project on traditional aesthetic culture should be organized next year, but this time its
topic should be Traditional Aesthetic Culture: Bread (Tradicionalna estetska kultura:
hleb). The Symposium was organized thanks to the financial support of the Serbian
Ministry of Science.
Project: POPULATION IN SOUTH-EASTERN SERBIA
The realization of the project began with the edition Villages in South-Eastern Serbia
(Sela jugoistočne Srbije) (a series of monographs). It was inquired into the possibility of
publishing other monographs (in print and electronic form), the authors were contacted,
consultations on the potential reviewers were also held, etc. The Section received the
manuscript of the Bogdan Vasov’s monograph Izatovci.
On 26 October 2007, within the work on this project, the Ecological and
Anthropogeographic Film Evening (the author was Professor Dr. Dragan Mitić from the
Faculty of Occupational Safety in Niš). At the Great Hall of Niš University the following
reportage films about ourselves, our past, visions and future were shown: There, Across
Ploča (Tu, preko Ploče), Underneath Mt Belava (A Journey Through Space and Time)
(Pod Belavom /Put kroz prostor i vreme) and Forests in the Middle Nišava Basin (Šume
srednjeg Ponišavlja).
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Žunić D. (editor), 2007: Traditional Aesthetic Culture: Everyday Routine and
Holiday (Tradicionalna estetska kultura: svakodnevlje i praznik). The Proceedings of
the Second Scientific Symposium. Niš. Centre for Scientific Research of SASA and Niš
University, 118 pages.
Žunić D., 2007: Aesthetics - The Theory of Aesthetic Culture (Estetika - teorija
estetske kulture), Teme, No. 3, 549–574.
SECTION FOR BIOMEDICAL INVESTIGATIONS
(Prof. Dr. Vojin Savić)
Project: RESEARCH ON ENDEMIC NEPHROPATHY IN SOUTHEAST
SERBIA
In 2007, research on endemic nephropathy was partly conducted according to the
programme. However, part of the time was still devoted to an analysis of the results of the
research conducted during the past years. The urinary syndrome was especially analyzed,
although there is no possibility of determining the protein concentration in the urine
by electrophoresis at the Niš Clinical Centre. For decades now, protein eletrophoresis
has been done at the Military Medical Academy but, for the time being, there are no
financial resources for it. The electrophoresis of protein in the urine is very important
for tracking the type of proteinuria, not only for diagnosing but also for treating endemic
nephropathy, in this case.
In 2007, the investigation of endemic nephropathy in the village of Moravac,
located on the eastern bank of the Južna Morava, covered 50 members of the families with
patients with endemic nephropathy. The investigations, included a detailed anamnesis,
physical examination and an analysis of the first urine in the morning. The additional
clinical investigations included 12 persons with a pathological urinary diagnosis. Thus,
in 2007, the diagnostics of those patients was completed.
The results of these investigations show that, in this phase, it cannot be ascertained
that endemic nephropathy is in regression, especially because the contemporary diagnostic
methods were not applied during the routine investigation. The initial phase of endemic
nephropathy requires kidney biopsy and other laboratory methods. Accordingly, the
study of the incidence of endemic nephropathy and the tumour of the urothelium will be
enabled by continuing monitoring and contemporary diagnostic methods. The criteria
proposed by some authors are not adequate for the study of endemic nephropathy and it
will be a great mistake to use them in the future.
During 2007, two papers were published and one paper was prepared for printing,
i.e.: Raičević R., Čukuranović R., Suša S.: Investigation of Balkan Endemic Nephropathy
in Members of Endemic Families in the Endemic Village of Moravac.
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Project: THE RISKY SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR OF THE STUDENTS OF NIŠ
UNIVERSITY AND THEIR EXPERIENCES WITH DRUGS
Within this project, the Section organized, in cooperation with the Section for SocioEconomic Research, the scientific symposium The Risky Sexual Behaviour of the
Students of Niš University Students and Their Experience with Drugs (Rizično seksualno
ponašanje studenata Univerziteta u Nišu i njihova iskustva s narkoticima) (Niš University,
21 December 2007).
SECTION FOR ENERGETICS
Project: DEVELOPMENT AND INVESTIGATION OF FLAT SOLAR ENERGY
RECEPTOR FOR THERMAL AND ELECTRIC CONVERSION
(Prof. Dr. Tomislav M. Pavlović)
In 2006/07, the Laboratory for Solar Energy at the Faculty of Science and Mathematics
in Niš realized two international and three projects, which were financed by the Serbian
Ministry of Science in the field of energy efficiency, in addition to publishing one book,
three papers in the proceedings of the international conferences, three papers in domestic
journals, three papers in monographs and three abstracts of the papers presented at an
international conference.
In 2006/07, the laboratories of the Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Niš
(Laboratory for Electronic Design Automation, Laboratory for Electronic Systems Design
and Laboratory for Electrical Installations and Lighting) worked on the realization of
four energy efficiency projects, which are financed by the Ministry of Science. Within
the work on these projects, apart from the provision of numerous concrete technical
solutions, one doctoral dissertation was defended and a greater number of papers was
published in international and domestic journals.
The Faculty of Occupational Safety in Niš was involved in the realization of
two international and two national energy efficiency projects. In addition, Professor
Dr. Dragan Mitić prepared the scientific monograph The Middle Nišava Basin - The
Fundamentals of the Strategy of Protecting Natural and Man-Made Values (Srednje
Ponišavlje - osnove strategije zaštite prirodnih i stvorenih vrednosti) for publishing.
In 2006/07, the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Niš worked on the
realization of one international project and several projects which are financed by the
Serbian Ministry of Science in the field of energy efficiency. It was also involved in the
realization of commercial energy efficiency projects a greater number of the relevant
papers was also published.
The Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture in Niš was involved in the
realization of one energy efficiency project and a number of the relevant papers was also
published.
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SECTION FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC RESEARCH
(Prof. Dr. Marko Sekulović)
On 21 December 2007, in accordance with the Centre’s Programme and Plan of Activities,
the Section for Socio-Economic Research organized, the scientific symposium The Risky
Sexual Behaviour of the Students of Niš University and Their Experience with Drugs, in
cooperation with the Section for Biomedical Research. The participants (psychologists,
psychiatrists, epidemiologists, sociologists and educators) from Niš University and the
relevant medical institutions presented 13 papers. The proceedings are currently being
prepared. Among other things, the participants accepted the proposal that the symposium
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CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF SASA AND
UNIVERSITY OF KRAGUJEVAC
Director of the Centre:
Academician Nikola Tasić
Deputy Director:
Professor Dr. Miloš Kojić
SECTION FOR LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
(Prof. Dr. Mirjana Detelić)
Project: CULTURAL AND LITERARY LIFE OF KRAGUJEVAC
In 2007, the publication (Ab)uses of History in Serbian Literature (1945–2000) (/
Zlo/upotrebe istorije u srpskoj književnosti /1945–2000/) came out. Its editors were Dr.
Mirjana Detelić, SASA Balkanological Institute, and Dr. Dragan Bošković, FILUM,
Kragujevac. The Proceedings were published within the edition Liceum (No. 11) and
contain the texts from the cycle of lectures bearing the same name, which were held in
2005 and 2006, in cooperation with the National Library in Kragujevac. The book deals
with the “reactions of literature to the political and historical events over the past sixty
years“. Liceum No. 11 was promoted at the National Library in Kragujevac, on 11May,
with the participation of the editors of the Proceedings.
Under its programme, the National Library in Kragujevac continued its cooperation
with the Centre for Scientific Research of SASA and Kragujevac University. In 2007,
the new topic, “Musical Life in Kragujevac in the 19th Century and in the First Half of
the 20th Century“ (“Muzički život Kragujevca u 19. i prvoj polovini 20. veka“), was
introduced within the project “Cultural and Literary Life of Kragujevac“. One segment
from music history was presented at the exhibition of music posters entitled “The Concert
Codes of Kragujevac“ (“Koncertni kodovi Kragujevca“), which was held on the Day of
the Library in June 2007.
During the year, the preparation of the bibliography of the most significant
literary journal Koraci was continued. However, it was not printed due to the prolonged
preparations for its publishing and financial problems.
The associates of the Centre for Scientific Research of SASA and Kragujevac
University presented their papers at several scientific meetings and continuously
contributed to the periodicals devoted to the cultural history of Kragujevac.
SECTION FOR HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY
(Dr. Milenko Bogdanović)
Liceum No. 11, The Hidden Horizon - The Landmark of the History of Serbian
Science (Skriveni horizont - razmeđa istorije srpske nauke) was published. Edited
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by Dr. Aleksandar Petrović, it contains the texts from the cycle of lectures organized
in cooperation with the Student Cultural Centre in Kragujevac during 2006/07. The
presentation of the Proceedings took place on 27 March, in the presence of a great number
of visitors who regularly attended all lectures within this cycle. The speakers were
Professor Dr. Aleksandar Petrović, historian Dejan Obradović and the Secretary of the
Centre Lela Vujošević. On the basis of the competition for the purchase of publications,
the Serbian Ministry of Culture purchased this book and distributed it to public libraries
in Serbia.
In 2007, the activities of the Archaeological Department included as follows:
- The work on the make-up of the monograph GRIVAC - The Settlements of the
Protostarčevo and Vinča Culture by Dr. Milenko Bogdanović was completed and the
City of Kragujevac provided the funds for its printing.
- The material for the new relative chronological classification of the Vatin culture
was collected, systemazied and partly processed.
- Research on the topics related to prejudices and mistakes in Serbian archaeology
started.
SECTION FOR STUDYING PEOPLE
(Prof. Dr. Ljubinko Radenković)
The book Korićani - A Village in Šumadija (Korićani - selo u Šumadiji) by Milivoje
D. Milosavljević, the late curator of the National Museum in Kikinda, was published.
This book deals with the history, settlement, material and social culture of the village
and represents a specific cultural monument of the village of Korićani. The book was
presented in the house of priest Miloje Bajraktarović, in cooperation with the National
Museum in Kragujevac, on 16 October. The speakers at the presentation were Professor
Dr. Ljubinko Radenković, SASA Balkanological Institute, and Dr. Vesna Marjanović,
Director of the Department for the Study of National Culture of the Ethnographic
Museum in Belgrade.
In the second half of 2007, there began the cycle of lectures “The European
Image of the Balkan Woman“ (“Evropska slika balkanske žene“), which was initiated
and coordinated by Professor Dr. Đorđe S. Kostić, scientific advisor at the SASA
Balkanological Institute.
1. The Image of the Balkan Woman in British Travels from 1919 to 1939 (Slika
žene Balkana u britanskim putopisima od 1919. do 1939.) - Sanja Lazarević-Radak,
MA, SASA Balkanological Institute (18 October).
2. The Serbian Woman in British Travels of the 19th Century (Žena Srbije u
britanskim putopisima 19. veka) - Dr. Ljubodrag P. Ristić, SASA Balkanological Institute
(20 November).
3. Woman and Her World (Žena i njen svet) - Professor Dr. Đorđe S. Kostić,
SASA Balkanological Institute (13 December).
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SECTION FOR SCIENTIFIC STUDIES, MATHEMATICS AND MECHANICS
(Prof. Dr. Branislav Čabrić)
In the second half of 2006, three lectures within the cycle “A Fairy Tale About
Electricity” were held. Their coordinator was Professor Dr. Vukota Babović, Faculty of
Science and Mathematics, Kragujevac. In the first half of 2007, the cycle was continued
with the following lectures:
4. The Dream of Tesla’s Cat (San Tesline mačke) - Professor Dr. Aleksandar
Petrović, FILUM (22 February)
5. Tesla’s Creative Method (Teslin stvaralački postupak) - Professor Dr. Radomir
Đorđević, Faculty of Physics, Belgrade (22 March)
6. Nikola Tesla’s Journey into Astronomy (Astronomski izlet Nikole Tesle) Professor Dr. Jelena Milogradov Turin, Faculty of Mathematics, Belgrade (19 April).
Within the Section, Dr. Miljana Stojanović continued to work on the topic:
THE STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN THE KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
ENCLAVE AND THE PROPOSED MEASURES FOR ITS PROTECTION,
IMPROVEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
Field and laboratory research on the quality of air, aero-sediments, surface and
ground waters, industrial waste disposal sites and dust, which was conducted in 2007,
did not reveal any more significant change. It was largely focused on the sites that were
identified as being significant in the previous peruod.
In the entire region, industrial waste disposal sites, including both dispersed and
concentrated waste, were systematically investigated. It is estimated that at four sites,
Leposavić, Žarkov potok, Gornje polje and Žitković, about 100 million tons of industrial
waste are deposited. As for dispersed industrial waste, it is impossible to estimate its
exact quantity due to incomplete data. The samples from these waste disposal sites were
taken from various spots, to the depth of up to one metre below the surface, by available
sampling equipment. A total of 204 samples was taken: 8 from Žarkov potok (which
is hardly accessible due to the Albanian surroundings), 68 each from other three waste
disposal sites and 12 from the Gater Plateau in Žitkovac. In these samples the presence
of 15 heavy metals was detected by the method of X-ray fluorescence, on the apparatus
NITON XLp 300А/700А, with Cd109 as the source of radiation. The presence of the
following heavy metals was detected: Zr, Sr, Rb, Pb, As, Zn,Cu, Ni, Fe, Mn, Cr, Mo, Se,
Hg and Co, which totals 3,240 registered heavy metals, while the values so obtained are
in ppm. As for toxic metals, the highest concentration was found for Pb - 200.6 ppm
in the sample from the Gater Plateau in Žitkovac, then for As - 21.5 ppm, Mn - 63.4
ppm, Hg - 1.9 ppm, Zn - 119.6 ppm and Se - 36.9 ppm, all of them being from the same
site. The lowest measured concentration was for Mo - <5.7 ppm. At this site a high
concentration of selenium was detected. It is a highly desirable element for human health,
but its utilization is not possible due to high concentrations of toxic metals. The density
of these waste disposal sites was not measured due to the lack of drilling equipment;
the reactions are acid and the anions will be determined in the subsequent period. The
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waste disposal sites are burdened with extremely high concentrations of heavy metals,
they have not been developed and there is sldo a very pronounced erosion caused by
the action of wind and water. Thus, they represent an active source of environmental
pollution.
Field research conducted in Mokra Gora, from Previja to the Savina rijeka, through
Jarebinje, up to Mojstir, during the vegetation period, revealed the habitat of the endemic
plant - eastern white pine Pinus strobus, Weymouth pine, Pinaceae, whereby the size
of the population was estimated. Along the Savina rijeka, from the Jezero sinkhole to
the local forest road running toward Uvor, the habitat of the endemic plant Ranunculus
scutatus, Ranunculceae, was identified and registered, and the size of the population was
estimated.
SECTION FOR TECHNICAL SCIENCES
(Prof. Dr. Miroslav Demić)
1.0. Study of new vehicle systems
It covers the dynamics of vehicles equipped with the new automated control
systems, which have not yet been used on vehicles built by Zastava corporation.
1.1. Braking force distribution in vehicles with and without ABS while braking in
a straight line
The results of research show that the use of ABS on vehicles improves their
braking properties on a hard surface. Moreover, in ABS-equipped vehicles, the adhesion
coefficient is better utilized on the rear wheels (the adhesion curve approaches the ideal
distribution line), thus preventing the locking of the rear wheels.
1.2. The impact of the type of front axle brake on the braking parameters of ABSequipped vehicle
The aim was to determine the impact of the rear drum and disc brakes on the
braking performance of an ABS-equipped vehicle. Experimental research was conducted
on a Zastava Florida 1.3 vehicle equipped with Bosch ABS 2X.
1.3. The impact of the type of front axle brake on the braking parameters of an
ABS-equipped vehicle
Experimental research was conducted on the vehicle equipped with ordinary and
ventilated front axle discs. The analysis of these data revealed that the application of
ventilated discks to the front axle improves the vehicle’s braking parameters.
1.4. The impact of the ABS algoritm on the vehicle’s braking parameters
Bearing in mind Zastava’s needs, the vehicle model was developed for an analysis
of the impact of the ABS algoritm on the braking parameters. In order to verify the
vehicle model, experimental research was conducted on a Florida model equipped with
ABS Bosch 2X. The verified vehicle model was used for an analysis of the impact of the
ABS algoritm while braking the vehicle on different surfaces.
1.5. An active vehicle suspension system
In order to overcome technological lagging, the attempts were made to make
an analysis of the advantages of active suspenion systems over conventional ones, by
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employing the dynamic simulation methods. A passenger car equipped with an active,
hydraulic suspension system and PID controller was observed.
2.0. Some specific phenomena of vehicle dynamics
Here the results of an analysis of the possibilities for developing the driver model,
impact of the design parameters on the vehicle’s oscillatory comfort and experimental
determination of the vehicle and road parameters will be presented.
2.1 Driver model while driving in a straight line
The modelling of a dynamic driver-vehicle-environment system while driving in
a straight line is not an easy task in the most general case, it is necessary to introduce
simplifications. Since the development of a driver model is linked to a greater number of
unknowns, the concept of optimal steering was adopted.
2.2. A contribution to defining the new driver model for lateral vehicle steering
The results achieved by using the models of driver-vehicle-environment system
and dynamic simulation confirmed the adequacy of the adopted driver concept.
2.3. The impact of the flow formula on the vehicle’s longitudinal vibrations
On the basis of the adopted vehicle and dynamic simulation models, an analysis of
the impact of the drive patterns on the vehicle’s longitudinal vibrations was made.
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nalysis of the possibilities for measuring the parameters of the macroand micro road sections and vehicle dynamics without using gyroscopically
stabilized platforms
The procedure for measuring the parameters of macro- and micro road sections
as well as the parameters of vehicle motion, without using gyroscopic devices was
developed. For determining the unknowns the optimization methods were employed. The
analyses show that the method can be applied in practice and that it enables the indirect
calculation of six parameters of vehicle motion, or devices for measuring the parameters
of the macro- and micro road sections (three translations and three rotations).
Demić M., Raičević M., Neagu E., 2007: Comparison of braking parameters
and drivers reactions in case of vehicles with and without ABS. Scientific Bulletin,
Automotive Series, University of Pitesti - Faculty of Mechanics and Technology, XII,
No 16, 50–60.
Demić M., Raičević M., Stanojević M., 2007: Influence of the front axle brake
type on the vehicles braking parameters in an ABS equiped vehicle. 17th International
Scientific Conference “Transport” 2007, Mechanical Transport Communications, 3,
Sophia, VI-49–VI-54.
Demić M., Raičević M., 2007: Research of ABS algorithms influence on vehicles
braking parameters. Transport, Warshava, 33–42.
Demić M., Diligenski Đ., Demić I., Demić M., 2007: A contribution to optimal
design of vehicle active suspension system. Omul si Mediul, CD 24. 07. 2007, Timisoara,
Romania, 25–43.
Demić M., Diligenski Đ., Demić I., Demić M., 2007: A contribution to analysis of
behaviour of the dynamic system: Driver-Vehicle-Road. Scientific Bulletin, Automotive
Series, University of Pitesti - Faculty of Mechanics and Technology, XII, No 16, 30–
49.
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Šakota Ž., Diligenski Đ., Demić M., 2007: The effect of wheel formula on heavy
truck longitudinal vibrations. 11th European Automotive Congress, Budapest, 246–
249.
Demić M., Diligenski Đ., Demić I., Demić M, 2007.: A Contribution to Design
of Macro and Micro Road Profilometer. The Archives of Transport, Vol. XIX, No 1–2,
27–40.
SECTION FOR MATERIALS AND COMPONENTS
(Prof. Dr. Aleksa Maričić)
Project: PHYSICO-CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF
SOME NEW METAL AND NON-METAL MATERIALS IN CRYSTAL AND
AMORPHOUS STATE
(Prof. Dr. Aleksa Maričić)
In 2007, experimental and theoretical research was focused on the impact of structural
changes in metastable systems on their functional properties. Nanocrystal powders of
Ni-Co and Ni-Mo alloys were studied.
By employing the method of measuring the thermoelectric motive force and
changing electric and magnetic properties, a distinct correlation of a change in the density
of the state of electrons at the Fermi level and a change in the electrical resistance of all
powders was determined.
It was revealed that - in the temperature range of the process of structural relaxation
- it comes to a mild increase in the density of the state of free electrons, easing of microtension and lessening of the density of defects. This results in an increase in the magnetic
permeability of these powders even up to 50 %.
For Ni95,4Mo4,6 alloy powder it was determined that after the process of structural
relaxation, the relative change in the density of the state of electrons amounts to ΔNrel/N
= 5 %, аnd after the process of crystalization ΔNcr/N= 15 %.
For two amorphous iron-based alloys Fe89,8Ni1,5Si5,2B3C0,5(A) and Fe81B13Si4C2(B)
in strip form the processes of structural relaxation were studied in detail. By using a very
sensitive dilatometrical method it was showed that the process of structural relaxation
takes place in two phases. In the first phase there exists the linear dependence of the
logarithm of isothermal strip expansion on time, while during the second phase there
exists the linear dependence of isothermal strip expansion on the square root of time.
The experimental dependences so obtained point to the conclusion that the first
phase of structural relaxation is a kinetic process and the second a diffuse one.
Theoretical and experimental research on the process of hydrogen absorption
on crystal cobalt power was conducted. of hydrogen on the crystal cobalt powder was
conducted. The defined theoretical model of absorption process is in a correlation with
the experimental results.
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Minić D.M., Maričić A.M., Dimitrijević R.Z., Ristić M.M., 2007: Structural
changes of Co70Fe5Si10B15 аmorphous аlloy induced during heating. Journal of Alloys
and Compounds, Vol. 430, 241–245.
Kalezić-Glišović A., Mitrović N., Maričić A., Simeunović R., 2007:
Magnetoimpedance effect in Fe89.8Ni1.5Si5.2B3C0.5 metallic glass ribbons. Materials
Science Forum, Vol. 555, 533–538.
Vulićević Lj., Ivanović N., Maričić A., Srećković М., Vardić С., Plazinić М.,
Tomić Ž., 2007: Hidrothermal treatment of electrochemically synthesized nanocrystalline
magneticiron oxide powder. Science of Sintering, Vol. 39, 85–91.
Petrović V.V., Maričić A., Labus N., Ristić M.M., 2007: Influence of mechanical
activation on synthesis and properties of the MgO-TiO2. Science of Sintering, Vol. 39,
59–65.
Mitrović N., Čukić B., Jordović B., Roth S., Stoica M., 2007: Microstructure
and microhardness in current annealed Fe65.5Cr4Mo4Ga4P12C5B5.5 bulk metallic glass.
Materials Science Forum, Vol. 555, 521–526.
Kalezić-Glišović A., Mitrović A., Maričić A., Simeunović R., 2007: Study of
stress-annealing enhancement of magnetoimpedance effect in Fe89.8Ni1.5Si5.2B3C0.5 metallic
glass ribbons. 13th CSMAG, Košice, Slovačka, July 2007, Book of Abstracts.
Maričić A., Kalezić-Glišović A., Mitrović N., Simeunović R., Đukić S., 2007:
Correlation between isothermal annealing and magnetic susceptibility relative change of
the Fe89.8Ni1.5Si5.2B3C0.5 amorphous alloy. YUCOMAT 2007 Conference, Herceg Novi,
September 2007, Book of Abstracts.
Maričić A., Aleksić O., Mitrović N., Minić D.M., 2007: Corelation between the
change of electron density states on the Fermi level and the relative change of the magnetic
permeability of the Fe.81B13Si4C2 amorphous alloy. YUCOMAT 2007 Conference,
Herceg Novi, September 2007, Book of Abstracts. �
Maričić A., Kalezić-Glišović A., Simeunović R., Vulićević Lj., Ristić M.M.,
2007: ��
Correlation between isothermal expansion and functional properties change of the
Fe.81B13Si4C2 amorphous alloy. FITEM 2007, Čačak, avgust 2007, Book of Abstracts.
Maričić A., Kalezić-Glišović A., Mitrović N., Rafailović L., Ristić M.M., 2007:
The effect of structural changes on functional properties of the Fe73,5Cu1Nb3Si15,5 B7
metastable alloy. FITEM 2007, Čačak, avgust 2007, Book of Abstracts.
Grujić A., Ćosović V., Talijan N., Staić-Trošić J., Maričić A., 2007: A comparative
study of rapid quendhed Nd-Fe-B alloys with different Nd content in optimized magnetic
state. FITEM 2007, Čačak, avgust 2007, Book of Abstracts.
Spasojević M., Krstajić N., Maričić A., Ribić-Zelenović L., 2007: Hidrogen
absorption in pressed cobalt powder. FITEM 2007, Čačak, avgust 2007, Book of
Abstracts.
SECTION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH
(Academician Miodrag Ostojić)
Preserving the successful tradition of continuing medical education, the Ninth Seminar
on Vascular Doppler Ultrasonography was organized from 9 to 11 November. It had 25
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participants from Serbia and the Republic of Srpska. Lectures and practice sessions were
conducted by 12 lecturers, while Professor Ian P. Dunn, VNUS Medical Technologies,
London, ran the workshop demonstrating varicose vein surgery by the method of radiofrequency obligeration. Due to a great interest, it was shown by the video beam.
SECTION FOR BIOTECHNICAL STUDIES
Project: THE VARIABILITY OF GLIADIN ALLELES IN THE DOMESTIC
VARIETIES OF WHEAT
(Prof. Dr. Desimir Knežević)
In the new 30 analyzed varieties of wheat the hitherto known alleles were identified,
so that the existing variability of Gli alleles was registered in the domestic varieties
of wheat. The hitherto investigations of wheat revealed that a total of 59 alleles was
identified: 47 Gli а��
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locus and 13 аlleles with 3 Glu-1 ��
locus.
In this year’s investigations revealed 4 new Gli alleles, which were not identified
in the previous investigations of durum wheat: Gli-B1b, Gli-B1d, Gli-A2f and Gli-B2b.
The identified alleles, encoded with the same designation differ in durum wheat and in
ordinary wheat in terms of the number and distribution of the components whose synthesis
they control. This year’s investigations revealed 6 new alleles in durum wheat.
Knezevic D., Paunovic A., Madic М., Djukic N., 2007: Genetic analysis of
nitrogen accumulation in four wheat cultivars and their hybrids. Cereal Research
Communications, 35, 2, 633–636.
Torbica A., Antov M., Mastilovic J., Knezevic D., 2007: The influence of changes
in gluten complex structure on technological quality of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.).
Food Research International, 40, 1038–1045.
Torbica A., Živančev D., Knežević D., 2006: Electrophoretic analysis of wheat
gliadins in media of different acidity. Proceedings of Symp. with int. partic. Improvement
of agricultural production in Kosovo and Metohia, 26–29 June, Vrnjačka Banja, 99–
102.
Knezevic D., Zecevic V., Micanovic D., Djukic N., Paunovic A., Madic M.,
Djalovic I., 2007: Yield and quality of winter wheat genotypes (Triticum aestivum L.).
Proceedings of International Conference on Long-term Experiments, Agricultural
Research and Natural Resources, 31May – 1 June, 2007, Debrecen-Nyírlugos,
Hungary, 90–94.
Knezevic D., Kovacevic V., Paunovic A., Madic M., Djukic N., 2007: Genetic
analysis of physiological eficiency of nitrogen in four wheat cultivars and their hybrids.
Proceedings of 1st International Conference Research People and Actual Tasks on
Multidisciplinary Sciences, ��
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June 2007, Lozenec, Bulgaria, 16–20.
Knežević D., Yurievna-Dragovich A., 2007: Polymorphysm of Gli-D1 alleles of
Kragujevac’s winter wheat cultivars (Triticum aestivum L.). Genetika, 39, 2, 273–282.
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Knežević D., Yurievna-Dragovich A., Zečević V., Đukić N., 2007: Polymorphism
of Gli-A1 alleles in winter wheat cultivars (Triticum aestivum L). Kragujevac Journal
of Science, 29, 1, 139–147.
Zečević V., Knežević D., Mićanović D., 2007: Seed dry matter accumulation of
wheat in different maturity stages. Kragujevac Journal of Science, 29, 1, 129–138.
Micanovic D., Zecevic V., Knezevic D., ��
Delic D., 2007: Method for selection
of wheat on possibility of nitrogen fixation. Book of Abstracts RHIZOSPHERE 2
International Conference, Montpellier, France, 26 – 31 August 2007, 174.
Project: GENETIC BASES OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL QUALITY OF WHEAT
(Prof. Dr. Desimir Knežević)
During the second year of investigations, 20 varieties of wheat were covered in which,
in the previous investigations, gliadin and glutenin alleles, responsible for the quality of
gluten in wheat flour, were identified. The quantitative relationship between gliadin and
glutenin in the gluten protein complex is 1:1. These two gliadin components determine the
technological quality of gluten, dough properties (extension and reistance to extension)
as well as bread properties. The investigated varieties were cultivated under different
nitrogen nutrition conditions, in which the technological quality properties and their
variations and stability were stabylized. For all 20 varieties, protein sedimentation, as the
basic quality indicator, was analyzed.
Paunovic A., Madic М., Knezevic D., Bokan N., 2007: Sowing density and
nitrogen fertilization influences on yield components of barley. Cereal Research
Paunovic S.A., Madic М., Knezevic D., Djurovic D., 2007: Planting density and
fertilization effects on general spring barley tillering. Proc. of Int. Sym. Trends in the
development of european agriculture (ed. Alexandru Moisuc), May 24–25, 2007,
Timişoara, 65–70.
Zečević V., Knežević D., Mićanović D., 2007: Variability of technological quality
components in winter wheat. Genetika, 39, 3, 365–374.
Dodig D., Zorić M., Knežević D., Dimitrijević B., Šurlan-Momirović G., 2007:
Assessing wheat performance using environmental information. Genetika, 39, 3, 413–
425.
Project: VARIABILITY OF AMINO ACIDS IN DOMESTIC VARIETIES OF
WHEAT
(Dr. Nevena Đukić)
The amino acid content in the wheat kernel is of great significance for its nutritional
value and that of wheat products. As protein monomers, amino acids also determine the
protein properties by their biochemical properties. Essential amino acids in the amino
acid content are of great significance.
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Our investigations covered 71 lines of Triticum aestivum. In addition, an analysis
of 20 varieties of Triticum durum and two varieties of barley was made with which the
comparisons of the total amino acid concentration were made in one paper.
This year’s investigations also covered the amino acid content of 40 new genotypes
of Triticum aestivum.
Our investigations revealed the differences in the amino acid composition and
concentration. The qualitative analysis of the amino acid composition and seeds of the
investigated lines of T. aestivum and varieties of T. durum points to the prevalence of
proline, glutamic acid, threonine, valine and tryptophan. The total concentration of free
amino acids shows that their content is higher in durum than in T. aestivum. An analysis
of the content of individual amino acids in the wheat kernel revealed that, compared
to other amino acids, glutamic acid and proline concentrations were higher. Glycine,
norvaline and threonine concentrations were somewhat lower. Sarcosine, norvaline and
tryptophan were present in the lowest concentrations and in some varieties they were
found only in traces.
Djukic N., Knezevic D., Novoselskaya-Dragovich Yu.A., 2007: Polymorphism
of Gli-A1 alleles and quality properties in 21 durum wheat genotypes. Cereal Research
Knežević D., Đukić N., Madić М., Paunović A., Zečević V., 2007: Comparison
of amino acids contents in barley and wheat. Proc.
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of Int. Symp. Trends in the
development of European agriculture (ed. Alexandru Moisuc), May 24–25, 2007,
Timişoara, 71–76.
Research Programme: BIOENGINEERING
1. Developing Lung: Bioengineering Approach (MAE- Blood Flow in
MicroAngiEctasias, Blood Flow CFD, Modelling of Airflow and Particle
Deposition in Alveolar System), under the Agreement with Harvard University, USA.
The project objectives (for the part that is carried out in Kragujevac): Developing the
methods of modelling and simulation for the areas of blood flow through micro blood
vessels, through large blood vessels, modelling of thrombosis by discrete particle
methods, modelling of air flow through the alveolar system and particle deposition
deep in the lungs, modelling of tying particles to membranes and their penetration into
the tissue. Modelling of ligand diffusion in the intercellular space.
2 Project with “Jaroslav Černi” Institute for Water Management, Belgrade: Developing
the Method and Software for Determining Fluid Flow Through Porous Media,
with Their Specific Application in the Modelling of Absorbing Wells. The
project objective is to develop the method of modelling and simulation for the areas
of groundwater flow with the transmission of contaminants and applications in the
modelling of absorbing wells. Project results: Software for practical applications in the
design of the water supply system with Renney wells was developed.
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3. Project: Developing the Method and Software for Modelling the Electromagnetic
Field in Functional Electrostimulation in the Arm, under the Agreement with
Integrated Microsystems Austria. The project aims (for the part that is carried
out in Kragujevac): Developing the method of modelling and simulation in the
field of electrostimulation. Project results: Software which is used for modelling
electrostimulation of the arm.
4. Project: Developing the Computer Methods and Software for Modelling and
Simulation in the Field of General and Biomedical Engineering. The Faculty of
Mechanical Engineering and the Faculty of Science and Mathematics in Kragujevac
are also involved in the project. The project objectives are to develop the methods in
computational mechanics and software to be used in the field of general and biomedical
engineering.
5. Project: Methods of Modelling Biomechanical Systems with Applications in
Medicine. The collaborators in the project are also the Faculty of Mechanical
Engineering, Faculty of Medicine in Kragujevac, and the Faculty of Natural Science
and Mathematics in Kragujevac. The objectives of this multidisciplinary project,
falling into the category of Basic Researches, are the development of the methods
in computational mechanics and software in the field of biomedical engineering and
integration with laboratory investigations of the fundamental and applicative character
in medicine.
6. Project: Bilateral Programme of Scientific and Teechnological Cooperation Between
Serbia and Greece, Development of an Anatomic Model for Simulation of the
Spreading of Excitations in the Complex System of Electro-Cardio-Biomechanics.
The collaborators in the project are the University of Kragujevac and Ioannina University
in Greece. The project result is the software program for the better understanding of
electro-cardio-biomechanics.
7. Project: Modelling of Blood Flow Through the Blood Vessel from Real Patient Data
Using Medical Image Processing and Computer Modelling, under the Agreement on
Principled Cooperation with the DKFZ Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
The calculations with real patients were initiated by using DICOM scans with
multislice CT Scanner and Magnetic Resonance. Specialized algoritms and software
for the 3D reconstruction of blood vessel walls are developed. For large calculations,
which require solving several hundred thousand equations, GRID infrastructure is
also used.
8. Project SEE-GRID2: South-Eastern European Grid-Enabled E-Infrastructure
Development 2, Contract No. 031775. Development of GRID infrastructure and
distribution of the resources with GRID infrastructures in the territory of South-Eastern
Europe. The existing 15-node cluster machine is used in the project, and the equipment
of 4 additional computers, as part of the material costs of this project, was also acquired.
Application which is used on GRID infrastructure is the simulation of blood flow
through arteries.
9. Experimental work: In 2007, in the Laboratory for Biomedical Research of the Faculty
of Medicine in Kragujevac, the biomechanical properties of isolated blood vessels
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were investigated by varying perfusion pressure (in the presence and absence of Larginine).
Stojanovic B., Kojic M., Rosic M., Tsui C.P., Tang C.Y., 2007: An extension of
Hill’s three-component model to include different fiber types in finite element modelling
of muscle. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 71, 801–
817.
Tang C.Y., Tsui C.P., Stojanovic B., Kojic M., 2007: Finite element modelling of
skeletal muscles coupled with fatigue. International Journal for Mechanical Sciences,
49, 1179–1191.
Kojic M., 2007: Serbian Society for Computational Mechanics - a brief overview.
IACM Expressions, 21, 18–21.
Stojanovic B., Kojic M., 2007: Modeling of Musculoskeletal Systems Using Finite
Element Method. Journal of the Serbian Society for Computational Mechanics, Vol.
1, No 1, 110–119.
Rankovic V., Ristic B., Kojic M., 2007: Interal fixation of femoral bone comminuted
fracture - FE analysis. Journal of the Serbian Society for Computational Mechanics,
Vol. 1, No 1, 120–128.
Vlastelica I., Veljkovic D., Rankovic V., Stojanovic B., Rosic M., Kojic M., 2007:
Modeling of urinary bladder deformation within passive and active regimes. Journal of
the Serbian Society for Computational Mechanics, Vol. 1, No 1, 129–134.
Kojic M., Isailovic V., Stojanovic B., Filipovic N., 2007: Modeling of cell
mechanical response by biphasic models with activation. Journal of the Serbian Society
for Computational Mechanics, Vol. 1, No 1, 135–143.
Dimkic M., Krstic M., Filipovic N., Stojanovic B., Rankovic V., Otasevic L.,
Ivanovic M., Nedeljkovic M., Trickovic M., Pusic M., Boreli-Zdravkovic Dj., Djuric
D., Kojic M., 2007: Comparison of different configuration of Ranney wells using finite
element modeling. Journal of the Serbian Society for Computational Mechanics,
Vol. 1, No 1, 144–153.
Filipovic N., Nedeljkovic M., Peulic A., 2007: Finite element modeling of a transient
functional electrical stimulation. Journal of the Serbian Society for Computational
Mechanics, Vol. 1, No 1, 154–163.
Kojić M., Filipović N., Stojanović B., Ranković V., Krstić M., Otašević L.,
Ivanović M., Nedeljković M., Dimkić M., Tričković M., Pušić M., Boreli-Zdravković
Đ., Đurić D., 2007: Finite element modeling of underground water flow with Ranney
wells. Regional IWA Confrence on Groundwater Management in the Danube River
Basine and Other Large River Basins, Belgrade, Serbia, 7–9 June.
Filipovic N., Kojic M., Tsuda A., 2007: Multiscale modeling of thrombosis
using coupling of dissipative particle dynamics with continuum finite element method.
XXXIV European Society for Artificial Organs Congress, Krems, Austria, Intl. J.
Artif. Organs, 30 (8), 709.
Filipovic N., Kojic M., Tsuda A., 2007: Nanoparticle applications in medicine
and biomedical engineering. 2nd ��
Knowledge-based Multicomponent Materials for
Durable and Safe Performance, 24–25 October, Vienna, Austria.
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Filipovic N., Kojic M., Tsuda A., 2007: New approach in thrombosis modeling
by Dissipative Particle Dynamics. The 8th International Workshop on Mathematical
Methods in Scattering Theory and Biomedical Engineering, 27–29 September, Lefkada,
Greece.
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Filipovic N., Kojic M., Ivanovic M., Tsuda A., 2007: Blood flow and thrombosis
modeling in large arteries. Parallel Blood Flow Simulation, PBFS, 10–13 December,
Milano, Italy, BioinfoGRID.
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INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN 2007
In 2007, international cooperation was one of the core activities and the programme
priority of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Its attention was devoted to
the promotion and expansion of cooperation with foreign academies and international
scientific institutions and organizations, either through membership in these organizations,
or through the implementation of scientific cooperation agreement. The Serbian Academy
of Sciences and Arts continued to establish and promote cooperation with the national
academies of the EU member countries, as well as with other academies, especially
those in the region. The SASA maintains its international cooperation through:
- The exchange of researchers under bilateral agreements on scientific cooperation
(inter-academy, inter-institutional and inter-state agreements). Non-currency exchange
was agreed with 17 national academies within the realization of 146 joint research
projects.
- Multilateral cooperation, which implies the activities linked to the programmes
financed from the European Commission’s and other funds (FP 6, FP 7, SEE-ERA.NET,
COST, IAP, ICSU, UNESCO);
- Membership in non-governmental international scientific associations and
panels at all levels, that is, at the global (IAP, ICSU), European (ALLEA, IUA, EASA,
EAASH), regional (CЕEN, ICBSS) and Balkan (IAC SEE) levels;
- Participation in international scientific meetings abroad, as well as the organization
of such meetings at home;
- Lecturing by renowned foreign and domestic scientists.
The year 2007 was marked by very intensive activities of the SASA members
in competing for the European Commission’s funds for the development of scientific
activity, so that science can assume that place in society which will contribute to Serbia’s
accelerated development and, on an international scale, the place which belongs to it due
to its capacities and results. Our Academy also participated within the Central and East
European Network of Academies of Sciences (CEEN) in one of the calls of the Seventh
EU Framework Programme, that is, the RESEARCH POTENTIALS Programme, which
is especially designed for the Western Balkans. This project was highly evaluated by
the European Commission. Our researchers participated in the regional FP 6 ERA NET
activity under the title South-East European Research Network (SEE-ERA.NET). Within
the FP 6 cycle funds, one part was earmarked for financing the centres of excellence in
the West Balkan countries. Of the ten centres, Serbia obtained eight, of which six in
the field of physics. The directors of these centres of excellency are SASA members:
Academician Nikola Konjević, Corresponding Members Zoran Popović and Zoran
Petrović.
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The Work of the Committee for International Cooperation and the Commission
for Inclusion of the Academy in International Projects
At the proposal of the Executive Board, the SASA Presidency brought the decision to
appoint the Committee for International Cooperation. The members of the Committee
are the representatives of the SASA Departments, while Academician Ljubiša Rakić was
appointed President. The Committee adopted its principles of work and assignments.
The Committee will monitor the Academy’s cooperation with international associations,
as well as bilateral cooperation, which implies the monitoring and realization of the
concluded agreements and protocols and thematic plans.
At the same session of the SASA Presidency, the Commission for the inclusion of
the Academy in international projects was also appointed.
International Activities of SASA
In 2007, the Academy took an active part in numerous international conferences, hosted
a great number of delegations, and its representatives also paid visits to other national
academies.
On 1 March 2007, the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts was visited by
Thierry de Montbrial, a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of the
French Institute in Paris. One of the most influential French theoreticians in the field of
international relations, Thierry de Montbrial published the book L’action et le systéme,
which was presented at the Academy.
The representatives of the University of Bologna, Professor Gianfranco Cicognani
and Professor Francesco Pizzio, visited the SASA on 23 March 2007. The guests from
Italy came to Belgrade on the occasion of the International Exhibition “Kosmika“, which
was staged in the SASA Gallery from 16 to 25 March 2007, within the exhibition devoted
to Nikola Tesla.
At the invitation of the SASA President, Academician Nikola Hajdin, the
Academy was visited by the delegation of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, including
Academician Kostantin Kosev, Vice-President, Professor Dr. Aleksandar Popov,
Scientific Secretary, and Gergana Doncheva, an expert at the International Cooperation
Service. Their visit lasted from 10 to 13 May 2007. The two parties adjusted the Thematic
Cooperation Plan for the period 2007–2009, with a total of 26 projects. The Agreement
and Protocol on Scientific Cooperation for the period 2007–2010 were concluded at the
beginning of the year by mail. The annual exchange quota was increased by 50 man/
weeks each. Under the programme of their visit, the delegation visited the SASA Branch
in Novi Sad and the Institute of Physics in Belgrade.
In the organization of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, UNESCO and
International Council for Science, Kishinev, Moldova, hosted the Conference of the
Academies of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe entitled “Global Science and National
Policies: The Role of Academies“, on 4 and 5 May 2007. The SASA delegation included
Academician Nikola Hajdin and Corresponding Members Marko Anđelković and
Vladimir Stevanović, who took an active part in the Conference.
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The SASA President, Academician Nikola Hajdin, participated in the spring session
of the Assembly of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, at the invitation of its President,
Professor Peter Schuster. The Assembly was held in Vienna, on 23 May 2007.
The SASA returned the call of Bishop Lukijan of Osijek Polje and Baranja and
its representatives, Academician Dimitrije Stefanović, the Secretary General of SASA,
and Časlav Ocić took part in the presentation of the book The Serbian Orthodox Parish
in Dalj (Srpska pravoslavna parohija u Dalju) by Archpriest Aleksandar Đuranović from
the First Dalj Parish. The presentation took place in Dalj, on 26 May 2007.
As the SASA representative, Academician Ljubiša Rakić participated in the work
of the meeting The European Union and the Countries of South Eastern Europe, held
in Budva, from 28 to 30 May 2007. At this meeting, he presented his paper entitled “A
View on the Development of Intellectual Capacities and Research Potentials“.
The President of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and a foreign
member of SASA, Professor Felix Unger, visited the Academy on 29 and 30 May 2007.
He delivered the lecture on European Perspectives of Serbia at the Academy. Professor
Felix Unger also visited the Ministry of Science and was promoted to the title of honorary
doctor of Belgrade University, at the proposal of the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade.
The delegation of the Romanian Academy, including Academician Ionel Haiduc,
President, Academician Marius Sala, Vice-President, and Academician Paun Ion Otiman,
Secretary General, visited the Academy from 28 to 31 May 2007. During this visit,
the Agreement and Protocol on Scientific Cooperation between the two Academies was
concluded for the next five-year period. The thematic plan of cooperation for the period
2007–2009 was also adopted, including 23 projects. The delegation also visited the
SASA Branch in Novi Sad and Matica srpska.
The Eighth Meeting of the Central and Eastern European Network (CEEN) was
held in Budva, on 1 and 2 June 2007. The SASA delegation included Academician Stevan
Koički, Vice-President, Academician Ljubiša Rakić, a member of the SASA Presidency,
and Corresponding Member Časlav Ocić. The participants in the meeting adopted the
Budva Declaration.
From 1 to 6 June 2007, Oslo hosted the 81st General Assembly of the International
Union of Academies (IUA), which was attended by Academician Dragoslav Marinković
and Corresponding Member Ljubomir Maksimović as the SASA representatives.
The Ninth Meeting of the Central and Eastern European Network (CEEN) was
held in Kluj-Napoca, Romania, on 5 and 6 October 2007. The SASA was represented
by its President, Academician Nikola Hajdin, and Corresponding Member Časlav Ocić.
The participants adopted the Kluj Declaration confirming the deliberations of the Budva
Declaration. The Declaration calls on national governments and financial institutions
to provide funds for financing scientific research, thus facilitating participation in the
projects of the European Commission.
The Turkish Academy of Sciences and the International Organization of Black
Sea Countries organized the meeting of the Council of Presidents of National Academies
of Sciences (CoPNAS) in Ankara, on 5 October 2007. On behalf of SASA the meeting
was attended by Academician Ljubiša Rakić, who presented the SASA proposals for the
future CoPNAS activities.
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The Second French-Serbian Summer School devoted to water quality control
was held in Vrnjačka Banja, from 6 to 12 October 2007. The SASA representative was
Corresponding Member Vladimir Stevanović.
The meeting of the European members of the International Council for Science
(ICSU) was held in Bern, on 26 October 2007. The host was the Swiss Academy of
Sciences and the meeting was attended by 34 representatives of the European academies
of sciences and large national foundations for science. On behalf of SASA, the meeting
was attended by Corresponding Member Đorđe Šijački.
On 18 and 19 October 2007, Amesterdam hosted the conference entitled “The
Beginning of Regional Cooperation among the Academies of Sciences of South Eastern
Europe in the European Research Area“. The conference was jointly organized by the
ALLEA and the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and Arts. The conference was
attended by 30 representatives of 21 academies. The SASA was represented by its
President, Academician Nikola Hajdin, and Academician Zoran Kovačević, President of
the SASA Branch in Novi Sad.
The first meeting of the European academies, entitled “Academies in Europe of the
21st Century“, was held in Paris, from 21 to 23 October 2007, in the organization of the
French Institute. On behalf of SASA, the meeting was attended by Academician Tibor
Varadi, who presented his paper on the topic The Academic and Dissident Opinions.
The Inter-Academy Council of South Eastern Europe and the Programme
Committee held the meeting in Sarajevo, on 26 October 2007. This meeting was
attended by Academician Nikola Hajdin, SASA President, and Academician Ljubiša
Rakić, President of the Committee for International Cooperation and the Chairman of
the Programme Committee. The participants also adopted a declaration.
The International Council for Science (ICSU) organized the Forum of the Working
Group on the Prevention of Natural and Human-Induced Environmental Hazards and
Disasters in Paris, on 29 October 2007. Our representative was Corresponding Member
Vladimir Stevanović.
The Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts marked the 40th anniversary of
its work on 8 November 2007. On behalf of SASA, this event was attended by its VicePresident, Academician Nikola Tasić, and Academician Gojko Subotić.
The Third World Scientific Forum was held in Budapest from 7 to 10 November
2007. It was attended by over 350 delegates from all parts of the world. Our Academy
was represented by Academician Zoran Kovačević, President of the SASA Branch, and
Academician Dragoslav Marinković.
At the invitation of the SASA President, Academician Nikola Hajdin, the delegation
of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences visited Belgrade from 4 to 7 November
2007. The delegation was led by its Secretary General, Professor Huang Haotao. The
two Academies signed a scientific cooperation agreement for a period of 5 years. The
delegation visited the SASA Branch in Novi Sad and Novi Sad University. In addition,
it visited the Institute of International Politics and Economics, the House of Flowers and
the Numismatic Collection of the National Bank of Serbia.
The President of the Academy of Athens and foreign member of SASA, Academician
Panayotis Vokotopulos, stayed in Belgrade from 11 to 15 November 2007. He delivered
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the introductory lecture on The Influence of Renaissance Painting on the Orthodox East:
The Example of the Cretan School at the SASA. With Academician Vokotopulos it was
talked about the promotion of cooperation between the two academies.
The Giorgio Cini Foundation organized the international meeting entitled New
Forms of Cultural Cooperation in the Globalized World in Venice, on 15 and 16 November
2007. The SASA representative was Academician Dimitrije Stefanović, SASA Secretary
General.
On 3 December 2007, the SASA President, Academician Nikola Hajdin, received
Professor Dr. Ivan Charota, a Slavist from the Faculty of Philology in Minsk. Professor
Charota published a number of articles and books on Serbian literature, history of
literature, bibliography and anthropology. Apart from the SASA President, Academician
Predrag Palavestra, Secretary of the Department of Language and Literature, Academician
Dobrica Ćosić and Corresponding Member Predrag Piper were also present.
The formal session of the Assembly of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of
Sciences, held in Berlin, on 14 December 2007, was attended, on behalf of the SASA,
by its Secretary General, Academician Dimitrije Stefanović.
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During 2007, the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts was visited by heads of
diplomatic-consular missions in Belgrade, who talked with the members of the Executive
Board of the SASA Presidency, or participated in significant meetings organized at the
Academy.
The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts hosted a number of the representatives
of the renowned foreign and domestic institutions:
- H.E. Sándor Pap, Ambassador of the Republic of Hungary
- Thierry de Montbrial, a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of the
French Institute in Paris
- Professor Gianfranco Cicognani and Professor Francesco Pizzio, representatives of
Bologna University
- H.E. Ajay Swarup, Ambassador of India to Belgrade
- Delegation of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- Professor Felix Unger, President of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- Delegation of the Romanian Academy
- Dr. Ana Pešikan, Serbian Minister of Science
- H.E. Hristos Panagopulos, Ambassador of the Republic of Greece
- H.E. Clair Birgin, Australian Ambassador
- Delegation of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
- Academician Panayotis Vokotopulos, President of the Academy of Athens
- Vojislav Brajović, Serbian Minister of Culture
- Zoran Lončar, Serbian Minister of Education
- Radomir Naumov, Serbian Minister of Religion
- Predrag Bubalo, Serbian Minister of Trade and Services
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Participation of the SASA representatives in more important international
meetings:
- “Global Science and National Policies: The Role of Academies”, Moldova, Kishinev
- Spring Session of the Assembly of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
- The European Union and Countries of South Eastern Europe, Budva, Montenegro
- Eighth Meeting of CEEN, Budva, Montenegro
- 81st General Assemnly of the International Union of Academies, Oslo, Norway
- Ninth Meeting of the Central and Eastern European Network of Academies (CEEN),
Kluj-Napoca, Romania
- Meeting of CoPNAS, Ankara, Turkey
- Second French-Serbian Summer School, Vrnjačka Banja
- European Meeting of ICSU, Bern, Switzerland
- Аcademies in Europe of the 21st Century, Paris, France
- Meeting of the Inter-Academy Panel for South Eastern Europe, Sarajevo, Bosnia and
Herzegovina
- Meeting of the ICSU Working Group, Paris, France
- Cooperation of the Academies of Sciences of the Countries of Central and Eastern
Europe, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- “New Forms of Cultural Cooperation in the Global World”, Venice, Italy
- 40th Anniversary of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Skopje,
Macedonia
- Third World Scientific Forum in Budapest, Hungary
- Formal Session of the Assembly of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences,
Berlin, Germany
Bilateral Scientific Cooperation Under the Concluded Agreements
The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts concluded bilateral agreements on scientific
cooperation with 17 national academies. Under these agreements, a total of 179 man/
weeks each year is anticipated for the non-currency exchange of our researchers. In
2007, under bilateral agreements, a total of 145 man/weeks was utilized, of which 103
weeks were utilized by foreign researchers and 42 weeks by domestic researchers.
In 2007, the scientific cooperation agreements and protocols were signed and the
thematic plans were adjusted with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the Romanian
Academy, while the Thematic Coopration Plan was adjusted with the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences. The Scientific Cooperation Agreement was concluded with the
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, while the Cooperation Agreement for Granting
Scholarships to Serbian Researchers for the Swedish Universities was concluded with the
Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. The text of the Agreement
on Cooperation with the Athens Academy was adjusted and its signing is expected next
year.
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Cooperation with the Austrian Academy of Sciences
The Cooperation Agreement with the Austrian Academy of Sciences was signed
in October 2005 for a period of five years. It anticipates the annual exchange quota of
four weeks each.
The Austrian Academy participates in the subproject Corpus of Monumental
Byzantine Painting within the international project Scientific Approach to the Protection
of Cultural Heritage in South Eastern Europe, initiated by the Turkish Academy of
Sciences.
The anticipated quota for the exchange of researchers is four weeks each, but was
no used by either side.
Cooperation with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
The Agreement and Protocol on Scientific Cooperation with the Bulgarian Academy
of Sciences were signed and exchanged by mail in February, while the Thematic Plan
was adjusted during the visit of the BAS delegation in May 2007. The Protocol was
signed for a period of three years, with the possibility of being automatically extended
for another three years. The Thematic Plan includes 26 joint projects and the annual
quota for the exchange of researchers is 50 weeks in the first year of the validity of
the Protocol. After that period, the quota will be adjusted to the needs and financial
possibilities of the two sides.
Underway is the adjustment of the new project: Synthesis of Engine Oil from
Vegetable Oils by Using a Solid Acid Catylist, which is led by the University of Niš,
Faculty ot Chemical Engineering in Leskovac (project leader: Professor Dr. Miodrag
Lazić) and the BAS Institute of Catalysis (project leader: Professor Alla Spojakina).
Cooperation with the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
The Scientific Cooperation Agreement was signed in November 1998 and the
Protocol in 2001. The annual exchange quota is four weeks for each side, while the
Thematic Plan contains only one joint project.
Cooperation with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The Agreement on Scientific Cooperation with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
was signed in December 1997 in Belgrade and in January 1998 in Budapest, while the
Protocol on Cooperation for the period 2007–2009 was signed in December 2006. The
Thematic Cooperation Plan was adjusted at the beginning of 2007 and contains 15 joint
projects.
Cooperation with the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts
The Agreement on Scientific Cooperation with the Macedonian Academy of
Sciences and Arts was signed in 1996 and the Protocol on Scientific Cooperation for the
period 2006–2008 in October 2006 in Skopje. The Thematic Cooperation Plan of the two
Academies contains six joint projects.
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Cooperation with the Polish Academy of Sciences
The Agreement on Cooperation with the Polish Academy of Sciences was signed
in 1998 and the Protocol on Scientific Cooperation with the Thematic Plan of Projects
for the period 2004–2006 in November 2004.
Тhe Thematic Plan contains five projects and the annual quota for the exchange of
researchers is seven weeks each.
Cooperation with the Romanian Academy of Sciences
The Agreement on Scientific Cooperation with the Romanian Academy was
signed, together with the Protocol, in May 2007 in Belgrade, and was signed by the SASA
President, Academician Nikola Hajdin, and the President of the Romanian Academy,
Academician Ionel Haiduc. The Agreement was signed for a period of five years, with
an automatic extension for another five years. The new Thematic Plan includes 23 joint
projects and the annual exchange quota is 15 weeks each.
Cooperation with the Russian Academy of Sciences
The Agreement on Cooperation with the Russian Academy of Sciences was signed
for a period of five years in 1994, with an automatic extention for another five years,
unless either party decides otherwise.
In October 2006, the Protocol on Scientific Cooperation for the period 2006–2008
was signed in Moscow. The annual quota for the exchange of researchers is 25 weeks
each and 31 joint projects were adjusted under the Thematic Plan.
Cooperation with the Slovak Academy of Sciences
The Agreement on Scientific Cooperation with the Slovak Academy of Sciences
was signed in 2001 and the Protocol for the next three-year period in June 2002. The
Thematic Plan includes four joint projects, with the possibility of its extension. The
annual quota for the exchange of researchers is four weeks each.
Cooperation with the Turkish Academy of Sciences
The Agreement and Executive Protocol on Cooperation with the Turkish Academy
of Sciences were signed in April 2005 and will be in force until either signatory party
requests otherwise.
The annual quota for the exchange of researchers is six weeks each.
As a partner, the SASA participates in the multilateral projects initiated by the
Turkish Academy of Sciences: Scientific Approach to the Protection of the Cultural
Heritage of South-Eastern Europe, with the subproject Corpus of Monumental Byzantine
Painting.
Apart from the Turkish Academy and SASA, the Athens Academy, Austrian
Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Academies of Sciences of South Eastern Europe,
i.e. Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kosovo and Montenegro, are also
involved in the project.
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Cooperation with the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
The Agreement on Scientific Cooperation with the Institute for Problems of
Materials Science of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine was signed in 1997.
The Protocol on the Continuation of Cooperation between the SASA and the Institute
for the period 2005–2007 was signed in May 2004, defining 7 man/weeks for exchange
and adjusting four joint projects.
The Agreement on Cooperation between the SASA and the National Academy of
Sciences of Ukraine for a period of three years was signed in Belgrade, in February 2006,
with the provision of its automatic extension for another three-year period. The annual
exchange quota is seven weeks each and the Thematic Plan includes 11 projects.
Underway is the adjustment of the new project Analysis of Partial Differential
Equations with Singularities (Analiza parcijalnih diferencijalnih jednačina sa
singularitetima). The project leaders are the SASA and Faculty of Natural Science and
Mathematics in Novi Sad (project leader: Corresponding Member Stevan Pilipović) and
the NASU Institute of Mathematics (project leader: Professor Anatoliy Samoylenko).
The initiative of the Ukrainian side for the compilation of the Ukrainian-Serbian
Dictionary (Ukrajinsko-srpski rečnik) was accepted.
Cooperation with the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
The Agreement on Cooperation with the Academy of Sciences of the Czech
Republic was signed in 1998 for a period of five years, with the possibility of automatic
extension. In April 2006, the Protocol on Scientific Cooperation for the period 2006–
2008 was signed.
The annual exchange quota is ten weeks each and the Thematic Plan includes
eight joint projects.
Cooperation with the Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities
The Cooperation Agreement between the SASA and Royal Swedish Academy of
Letters, History and Antiquities was signed in 1988 and is still in force. At the initiative
of the Swdish side, the Agreement on the Non-currency Exchange of Researchers was
signed in November 2004, stipulating the exchange quota of 10 man/weeks.
In May 2007, the Academy was visited by Professor Sven Gustavson, a member
of the Royal Academy and foreign member of SASA. On that occasion, the presentation
of the Stockholm-Belgrade Proceedings of the Third Swedish-Serbian Symposium, held
in Stockholm from 21 to 25 April 2004, was organized. It was also agreed to hold the
Fourth Symposium in Belgrade, in the first week of October 2008, in the organization of
the SASA and with the support of the City Assembly of Belgrade.
In June 2007, the Agreement on Cooperation between the two Academies was
signed and exchanged by mail. It refers to the granting of scholarships to Serbian
researchers for Swedish universities in the fields of the humanities, religion, legal
sciences and study of national heritage.
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Cooperation with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Bejing
The Agreement on Scientific Cooperation between the SASA and CASS for the
period 2007–2012 was signed in Belgrade at the beginning of November 2007, during
the bisit of the CASS delegation from Beijing. The Agreement was signed by the SASA
President, Academician Nikola Hajdin, and the Secretary General of CASS, Professor
Huang Haotao.
The Agreement stipulates cooperation through joint research projects, reciprocal
visits with the aim to elaborate and develop projects, exchange experiences and participate
in international scientific meeting and exchange of postdoctoral students in order to
prepare for the future scientific work, as well as to exchange scientific information and
literature. The Agreement anticipates the annual quota for the exchange of researchers
of seven weeks each.
Cooperation with the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
The SASA and Accademia Nazaionale dei Lincei signed the Memorandum of
Understanding and exchanged by mail in the autumn of 2006. This document established
the framework for cooperation between the SASA and the Accademia Nazionale dei
Lincei. All details concerning the enforcement of the Memorandum will be defined upon
the conclusion of the Executive Protocol.
Сooperation with the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts
In October 2006, the two Academies signed the Pro Memoria about their
cooperation and adopted the Thematic Cooperation Plan for the period 2006–2008,
including 18 joint research projects.
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During the year, 92 members and associates of SASA went on study trips, attended
scientific meetings in the country and abroad, and participated in the working bodies of
international associations or, as the SASA representatives, in significant international
meetings. The SASA was visited by 194 scientists under bilateral agreements on the
non-currency exchange of researchers, as participants in scientific meetings, and as
lecturers or members of official delegations. About as many researchers visited scientific
institutions outside the SASA, which collaborate on the projects under the SASA bilateral
agreements.
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SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS AND LECTURES IN 2007
In 2007, the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts organized 16 scientific meetings,
13 lecturers, Introductory Lectures, Formal Session on the Day of the Academy and 10
commemorative gatherings.
Scientific Meetings
1. The International scientific meeting entitled the 5th EU-JAPAN JOINT
SYMPOSIUM ON PLASMA PROCESSING Radicals and Non-equilibrium
Processes in Low-Temperature Plasmas was held at the SASA, in cooperation with
the Institute of Physics in Belgrade (ESF Programme). The scientific meeting lasted
three days, from 6 to 9 March 2007. Apart from domestic researchers, it was attended
by scientists from the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, USA, Mexico, Netherlands,
Australia, Belgium, Hungary, Austria and Denmark.
2. The Committee on Somnology of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
and the Serbian Association of Neurologists organized the national symposium, with
international participation, devoted to Sleep and Sleep Disorders, on 10 May 2007.
The participants also included the researchers from the USA. The Symposium attracted
a great number of participants from health institutions from all parts of Serbia.
3. On the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Study of Balkan Endemic
Nephropathy, the meeting bearing the same name was held at the University of Niš,
on 18 and 19 May 2007. It was organized by the Academy of Medical Sciences of
the Serbian Medical Society and its branch in Niš, under the auspices of the Serbian
Academy of Sciences and Arts.
4. The round table on The Methodological Problem in the Study of the Origin
of the Albanians was organized on 21 June 12007, at the proposal of the Committee
on Philosophy and Social Theory of the SASA Department of Social Sciences. The
interdisciplinary round table dealt with the historiographic, linguistic, archaeological,
cultural and other aspects of the problem of studying the origin of the Albanians.
5. In cooperation of the SASA and Bioethical Committee of the National Commission
for Cooperation with the UNESCO, the scientific meeting entitled The Council of
Europe’s Bioethical Instruments and Promotion of Research Ethics in Serbia
(Bilateral Meeting Within the Framework of the Cooperation Programme to
Strengthen the Rule of Law), with the renowned participants from the Council of
Europe’s Bioethical Department, on 28 and 29 June 2007.
6. The scientific meeting Physics and Technology of Materials - FITEM ’07,
within the 7th Symposium on the Theory and Technology of Sintering, was organized
in Čačak, from 6 to 8 August 2007, at the proposal of the Inter-Departmental Committee
for Physical Chemistry of Materials of the Department of Technical Sciences. The coorganizers were the Technical Faculty in Čačak, Institute of Physics (Centre for Solid
State Physics and New Materials - Belgrade) and the SASA Institute of Technical
Sciences.
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7. From 24 to 27 September 2007, Novi Sad was the venue of the International
Scientific Conference ММ-VII Symmetries and Mechanics. Its participants were also
the scientists from Greece, Italy, Austria and Ukraine.
8. The SASA Department of Fine and Musical Arts and SASA Musicological
Institute organized the International Scientific Meeting Musical Modernism - New
Interpretations from 11 to 13 October 2007. Apart from domestic lecturers, the papers
were presented by experts from the United Kingdom, Greece, Slovenia, Austria and
Denmark. The participants also visited the archaeological site of Viminacium.
9. At the proposal of the SASA Department of Language and Literature and in coorganization of the Old Slavonic Section of the SASA Institute of the Serbian Language,
the scientific meeting Standardization of the Old Slavonic Cyrillic Alphabet and Its
Registration in Unicode took place from 15 to 17 October 2007. In the SASA Gallery,
the concert of the choral music performed by the Mixed Choir of the Valjevo Church
“Hadži Ruvim” and conducted by Dragan Vasiljević was organized. The visit to the
monastery of Manasija was also organized.
10. At the proposal of the Inter-Academy Committee on Catalysis of the Serbian
Academy of Sciences and Arts, the scientific meeting Catalysis as a Scientific and
Technical Discipline in Social Progress, Science and Education was organized on
24 October 2007, with international participation. Apart from domestic participants, the
papers were presented by researchers from Belgium, Hungary and the United States.
On 25 October 2007, the guests visited the Pavle Beljanski Gallery in Novi Sad, the old
centre of the town and the Museum in Sremski Karlovci, as well as the monastery of
Krušedol. The foreign guests also visited the White Palace.
11. On 29 October 2007, the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the
Urological Section of Serbia organized the national scientific meeting Urinary Bladder
Cancer and Urinary Derivations, with international participation. Apart from domestic
researchers, it was attended by French, Bulgarian and Macedonian scientists.
12. In cooperation with Inter-Academy Council for South-East Europe and under
the sponsorship of Serbian President Boris Tadić, the Academy of Sciences and Arts
organized the international-regional scientific meeting Endemic Nephropathy and
Tumours of the Urothelium on 9 and 10 November 2007. Parallel to this meeting,
on 9 November 2007, a press conference was organized. Its participants were the
veteran researchers, pioneers of endemic nepropathy in the Balkans. On 10 November,
the foreign participants visited endemic villages in the Kolubara region and visited the
Institute of Endemic Nephropathy in Lazarevac. The lecturers and listeners were able to
see the exhibition of scientific works by the pioneers of endemic nephropathy, Professor
Dr. Milenko Ivić, published between 1954–1961, and Professor Dr. Vojislav Danilović,
published in the period 1957–1966.
13. On 15 November 2007, at the proposal of the Department of Medical
Sciences, the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts organized the International
Conference Obesity: Patogenetic Aspects and Therapeutical Possibilities. The coorganizers were the National Working Group for Obesity of the Serbian Ministry of
Health, Serbian Association for the Study of Obesity and the Committee for Obesity of
the Endocrinological Section of the Serbian Medical Society.
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14. The Inter-Departmental Committee on the Biology of Human Reproduction
of the SASA Department of Medical Sciences organized, in cooperation with the
Gynecological-Obstetrician Section of the Serbian Medical Society, the one-day national
scientific meeting with international participation, entitled Chronic Non-contageous
Diseases and Pregnancy, Part I, on 20 November 2007. It was also attended by
Hungarian and Slovenian researchers.
15. On 17 and 18 December 2007, the scientific meeting, entitled The State and
Perspectives of the Science of the Serbian Language, was organized on the 60th
anniversary of the Institute of the Serbian Language, in cooperation with the SASA
Department of Language and Literature.
16. On 18 December 2007, the scientific meeting marking the 80th anniversary
of the birth of Academician Nikola Pantić (1927–2007), entitled Nikola Pantić and
the Relevance of His Work, was held at the proposal of the SASA Department of
Mathematics, Physics and Earth Sciences, in cooperation with the Museum of Natural
History in Belgrade.
Introductory Lectures
The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts organized the Formal Session at which
the newly elected, full members of SASA presented themselves with their introductory
lectures. The newly elected academicians were introduced by the department secretaries
according to the list to the list of speeches made according to the year of their election
in SASA membership. The gathering lasted two days. On the first day, on 16 October
2007, the speeches were delivered by Academicians Nikola Konjević, Marko Ercegovac,
Živorad Čeković, Boško Petrović and Antonije Đorđević, and on the second day, on 17
october 2007, by Academicians Bogdan Đuričić, Vladimir Kostić, Milosav Tešić, Dinko
Davidov and Miloš Blagojević, while Academician Nikola Janković presented himself
with the exhibition of his works in front of the great hall.
Formal Gatherings
On 19 November 2007, the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts marked the
Day of the Academy in its great hall. This event was attended by Serbian President
Boris Tadić, Science Minister, Dr. Ana Pešikan, Education Minister Zoran Lončar,
Trade and Services Minister Predrag Bubalo and Religion Minister Radomir Naumov.
The gathering was also attended by the academicians, heads or representatives of the
diplomatic-consular missions in Belgrade from the United Kingdom, Switzerland,
Slovakia, China, Japan, Slovenia, Macedonia, Australia, Romania, Russia, Greece,
India and Indonesia, church dignitaries, representatives of the Serbian universities,
faculty deans, directors of reseach institutes and other public and cultural figures. The
gathering was greeted by Serbian President Boris Tadić. The speeches were delivered
by the President of SASA, Academician Nikola Hajdin, and Serbian Science Minister,
Dr. Ana Pešikan. The actors read the Testaments by Jovan Sterija Popović, Jovan Cvijić
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and Svetozar Radojčić (Zaveštanja: Jovana Sterije Popovića, Jovana Cvijića i Svetozara
Radojčića), which were prepared by Academician Ljubomir Simović.
During this event, a short documentary film was showed on the occasion of the
100th Anniversary of the Excavations at the Archaeological Site of Vinča. The newly
elected full members of SASA were presented to the public and the SASA President
conferred on them the charters about their election. In the artistic part of the programme
there appeared the vocal group “Oktoih“. In front of the great hall, the exhibitions of
Petar Lubarda’s works, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth, and Paja
Jovanović’s works, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death, were staged.
Commemorations
The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts organized ten commemorative
gatherings devoted to the memory of its deceased full members: Academician Ivan
Maksimović, Academician Vojislav Đurić, Academician Nikola Milošević, Academician
Zvonko Marić, Academician Stevan Raičković, Academician Zoran Konstantinović,
Academician Pavle Ugrinov (Vasilije Popović), SASA Vice-President, Academician
Stevan Koički, Academician Kosta Mihailović and Academician Vojislav Petrović.
Lectures
1. On 23 April 2007, at the invitation of the Serbian Society of Physicists, the
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Serbian
Ministry of Science and Environmental Protection and the Italian Cultural Institute in
Belgrade organized the lecture by Dr. Giacomo Cutone, head of research at the National
Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), Director of the Proton Therapy Facility (CATANA)
- project at INF-LNS, Director of the Radioactive Beam Facility (EXCYT) - project at
INF-LNS and amember of the OECD Working Group on Nuclear Physics. The lecture
covered three topics: I The Role of Organization for Economical Co-operation and
Development (OECD) for the Future Long-Term Plans of Nuclear Physics; II INFN
Activities on Particle Therapy: A Status Report and III EXCYT: The RIB Facility at
INFN-LNS.
2. Professor Dr. Axinia Dzurova, Director of the “Ivan Duichev“ Centre for
Slavic-Byzantinr Studies, Saint Clement of Ohrid University in Sofia, and a foreign
member of SASA, held the lecture on THE CULT OF RULERS - THE EMBLEM OF
SERBIAN STATEHOOD (according to the known and unknown materials from the
Samokovo Eparchy) on 16 May 2007, at the proposal of the Department of Language
and Literature. The lecture was accompanied by the appropriate exhibition of photograph
entitled “The Golden Sides of the Bulgarian Middle Ages“.
3. Professor Dr. Felix Unger, foreign member of SASA and the President of
the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Salzburg, delivered the lecture on The
European Perspectives of Serbia on 30 May 2007.
4. Dr. Elena Yurievna Guskova, scientific advisor to the RAS Institute of Slavistics
and a foreign member of SASA, delivered the lecture on Russia’s Foreign Policy in the
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Balkans: Historical Phases, on 22 June 2007, at the proposal od the Department of
Historical Sciences.
5. Professor Dr. Miroslav Radman, Professor of Molecular Biology, a member
of the Academy of Sciences of the French Institute, delivered the lecture on Adaptive
Evolution in Bacteria and Evolutive Biotechnology on 6 July 2007, as the guest of
the Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences and Siniša Stanković Biological
Research Institute.
6. Professor Dr. Miloš Ercegovac, professor at the University of California in
Los Angeles and foreign member of SASA, delivered the lecture on How to Get More
for Less: The Trends in Computer Architecture on 20 September 2007, at the proposal of
the Department of Technical Sciences.
7. Professor Dr. Berislav Zloković, Professor of Neurosurgery and Neurology at
the University of Rochester and foreign member of SASA, delivered the lecture on The
Vascular Nature of Alzheimer’s Disease on 27 September 2007, at the invitation of the
Department of Medical Sciences.
8. Professor Dr. Marek Stachowski, professor at the Jagiellonian University in
Krakow, delivered the lecture The Gipsy, the Laponian, the Brothel - Three Etimologies,
on 8 October 2007, at the invitation of the Department of Language and Literature.
9. Professor Dr. Marek Stachowski delivered one more lecture during his stay
in Belgrade, at the proposal of the Department of Language and Literature: The Turkish
Language and Turkish Languages, Ural Linguistic Family and Several Casual/Incidental
Observations on the History of Comparative Linguistics, on 9 October 2007.
10. Dr. Ingo Muller, Professor of Thermodynamics at the Technical University
in Berlin and the President of the International Society for Interaction of Mechanics and
Mathematics (ISIMM) delivered the lecture on Integration and Segregation in the Society
of Falcons and Pidgeons - From the Aspect of a Thermodynamician on 10 October 2007,
at the invitation of the Department of Technical Sciences.
11. Professor Dr. Zoran Popović, a professor at the University of MacMaster in
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Canadian Research Centre of Xerox Company (1974–2005),
and foreign member of SASA, delivered the lecture on Organic Semiconductor Devices
on 22 October 2007, at the proposal of the Department of Technical Sciences.
12. Аcademician Panayotis Vokotopulos, President of the Athens Academy and
foreign member of SASA, delivered the lecture on The Influence of Renaissance Painting
on the Orthodox East: The Example of the Cretan School on 13 November 2007, at the
proposal of the SASA Department of Historical Sciences.
13. Dr. Luigi Rodino, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Turin and
Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences in Turin, delivered the lecture on
Shubin Operators and Hypoelasticitiy on 20 December 2007, at the proposal of the
Department of Mathematics, Physics and Earth Sciences.
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PUBLISHING ACTIVITY IN 2007
During the year, the manuscripts were submitted for printing according to the priorities
set by the Publishing Board and according to the financial possibilities. The funds were
spent on a monthly basis, which corresponded to the monthly inflow of funds earmarked
for publishing activity to the SASA Fund for Scientific Research (about 200,000 dinars),
but posed an obstacle to a regular submission of new manuscripts for printing. Under
such unfavourable circumstances, 25 publications - totalling 650 author’s sheets or
560 press sheets - were printed. In these editions 225 authors published a total of 205
papers. For the Academy, these books were printed in 12,304 copies altogether. The
total publishing costs amounted to about 5,200,000 dinars. At the end of December, the
additional funds were approved so that 12 new manuscripts were submitted for printing.
It is expected that they will come out next year. The editions of the SASA Gallery were
financed from special sources.
PRESIDENCY
Almanac CXIII for 2006
Bulletin of the Scientific Research Fund for 2006, No. 32
Bulletin of Scientific Research. Annual Report for 2006
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS, PHYSICS AND EARTH SCIENCES
Bulletin, CXXXIV, Sciences mathematique, No. 32
Glas CDVII, Vol. 60
Bibligraphies IX, Ljiljana Kandić, Bibliography of the Works of Academician Zoran
Maksimović
Special Editions DCLXII, Vol. 3, Jelena Obradović, Nebojša Vasić, Lake Basins in the
Neogen of Serbia
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Bulletin, CXXXVI, Sciences naturelles, No. 45
Bibliographies, Vol. VIII, Biljana Jovanović, Bibliography of Academician Dušan
Kanazir
Biographies and Bibliographies, I–X, Abstracts, Lives and Work of Serbian
Scientists
Galerija 110 Editions, Aleksandar Marinčić. Nikola Tesla, The Creativity of a Genius
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Glas CDVI, Vol. 49
Glas CDVIII, Vol. 23
Serbian Dialectological Proceedings ��
LIII
Scientific Meetings CXVII, Vol. 17, Jovan Sterija Popović 1806–1856–2006
Scientific Meetings CXV, Vol. 28, Kosovo and Metohija. Past, Present, Future
Scientific Meetings CXIX, Vol. 29, Social Sciences on the Roma in Serbia
Sources of Serbian Law XIV, Miloš Blagojević, Agricultural Legal Code. Medieval
Manuscript
Spomenik CXL, Vol. 14.
Scientific Meetings CXVI, Vol. 30, The First Balkan War in 1912 and the End of the
Ottoman Empire in the Balkans
Proceedings on the Serbs in Croatia, 6
Bibliograhies VII, Vera Pavlović, Bibliography of Academician Vojislav Korać
Documents on the Foreign Policy of the Kingdom of Serbia 1903–1914, Vol. II /
Supplement 2 - Prepared by Ljiljana Pejković-Aleksić and Života Anić
DEPARTMENT OF FINE AND MUSICAL ARTS
Music Editions 66, Dušan Radić, Voices from Šumarice. Cantata in Memory of the
Killed in Kragujevac in 1941, Op. 16 (1981)
Galerija 112 Editions, Insignia of the Metopolitanate of Karlovci
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SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN THE SASA INSTITUTES IN 2007
GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE „JOVAN CVIJIĆ“
Project:� MODALITIES OF GEOPOTENTIAL VALORIZATION IN
UNDEVELOPED REGIONS OF SERBIA
(Dr. Marina Todorović�)
One of the main aims of the project is to analyze the regional disproportions between
economically developed and undeveloped regions in Serbia.
The research comprised the identification of the potentials of undeveloped regions,
as well as modalities for their proper and unbiased valorization. A systematic overview
of definition criteria included natural, economical, statistical, political, and synthetic
aspects of the problem. In addition to statistical analyses of the development indicators,
several fieldwork observations were realized, which gave valuable new results for further
analyses. The planned result is the identification of all undeveloped areas in Serbia and
a definition of a concept for their sustainable development. Furthermore, it is of crucial
interest to single out the expected positive effects of development and changes in the
spatial-functional profile of the studied regions.
Zbornik radova broj 56 (Collection of papers N0 56) (160 p.), and Zbornik
radova broj 57 (Collection of papers N0 57) devoted to 60 years of Geographical
Institute (501 p.), Geografski institut “Jovan Cvijić” SANU, Beograd, 2007.
Todorović M., 2007�: Rural Societies and Attractiveness of Rural Regions. ��
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n: The
rural society of European peripheries, ��
editor Elke Knappe and Evelin Muller, 39–62,
Leibniz-Institut für Landerkunde, Leipzig.
Tosic B., Djordjevic J., 2007: Characteristics and Processes in the Rural Settlements
and Centres and their Role in the Integration Processes: The Case Study of Carpathian
Serbia. Rural Space and Loca Development, Babes-Bolyai University, Turda, ClujNapoca, Romania, 580–586.
Djordjevic J., 2007��
: ��
Possibilities for Activation of Potentials of Undeveloped
Regions - Case Study of Regional Spatial Plan of Juzhno Pomoravlje Region��. 56th
Annual Meeting “Geography in the Regional Studies”, Kielce, Poljska.
Djordjevic J., Todorovic
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M., 2007: Towards new concepts of rural development
of Serbia. Fourth International Conference “Global Changes and Problems”, Faculty
of Geology and Geography, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Bjeljac Ž., Ćurčić N., 2007��
: Tourism
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in the Serbian and Romanian border area
as a part of transborder cooperation. Journal Geopolitica Romania, electronic journal,
www.geopolitica.ro/actuality
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Vemić M., Strugar M., 2007��: Atlas Stare Srbije. Evropske karte Kosova i
Metohije. Atlas (1–326). Izdavačko-informativna ustanova ��
Mitropolije Crnogorskoprimorske “Svetigora”, Cetinje - Beograd.
MATHEMATICAL INSTITUTE
Project: GRAPH THEORY AND MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING WITH
APPLICATIONS IN CHEMISTRY AND ENGINEERING
(Academician Dragoš Cvetković)
Several results in the fields of the theory of graph spectra, mathematical models in
chemistry and mathematical programming were obtained. In the bibliography given
below, only a part of papers published by the project collaborators in 2007 is included. A
complete list of publications can be found at the web site of the Mathematical Institute
of the SASA at the address http://www.mi.sanu.ac.yu/projects/projects.htm. See also in
this Bulletin, the reports on related projects Computer aided investigations in discrete
mathematics (academician Dragoš Cvetković) and Investigations in mathematical
chemistry (academician Ivan Gutman). Extensive international cooperation was
realized.
F.K Bell., D. Cvetković, P. Rowlinson , S.K. Simić , Some additions to the theory
of star complements, Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 423 (2007), 146–154.
D. Cvetković, P. Rowlinson, S.K. Simić, Signless Laplacians of finite graphs,
Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 423 (2007), 155–171.
M. Aouchiche, F.K. Bell, D. Cvetković, P. Hansen, P. Rowlinson, S.K. Simić, D.
Stevanović, Variable neighborhood search for extremal graphs, 16. Some conjectures
related to the largest eigenvalue of a graph, European Journal of Operational Research,
doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2006.12.059.
J. A. de la Pena, I. Gutman, J. Rada, Estimating the Estrada index, Linear
Algebra and Its Applications, 427 (2007) 70–76.
B. Zhou, I. Gutman, On Laplacian energy of graphs, MATCH Communications
in Mathematical and in Computer Chemistry, 57 (2007) 211–220.
F. Belardo, E.M. Li Marzi, S.K. Simić, Some notes on graphs whose index is
close to 2, Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 423 (2007), 81–89.
S.K. Simić, Z. Stanić, The polynomial reconstruction of unicyclic graphs is unique,
Linear and Multilinear Algebra, 55(1) (2007), 35–43.
S.K. Simić, Z. Stanić, Q-integral graphs with edge-degrees at most five, Discrete
Mathematics, doi: 10.1016/j.disc.2007.08.055.
S.K. Simić, E.M. Li Marzi, F. Belardo, On the index of caterpillars, Discrete
Mathematics, doi: 10.1016/j.disc.2006.11.046 .
D. Stevanović, N.M.M. de Abreu, M.A.A. de Freitas, R. Del-Vecchio, Walks and
Regular Integral Graphs, Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 423 (2007), 119–135.
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D. Stevanović, Research Problems from the Aveiro Workshop on Graph Spectra,
Linear Algebra and Its Applications ,423 (2007), 172–181.
P. Hansen, D. Stevanović, On Bags and Bugs, Discrete Applied Mathematics,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2007.05.044 .
M. Lepović, On conjugate adjacency matrices of a graph, Discrete Mathematics,
307 (2007), 730–738.
Z. Radosavljević: On unicyclic reflexive graphs, Applicable Analysis and
Discrete Mathematics, Vol. 1, No 1, 2007, 228–240.
Z. Radosavljević, B. Mihailović, M. Rašajski, Decomposition of Smith graphs
in maximal reflexive cacti, Discrete Mathematics, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.disc.
2006.11.049 M. Rašajski, On a class of maximal reflexive ?-graphs generated by Smith
graphs, Applicable Analysis and Discrete Mathematics, Vol 1, No 1, (2007), 241–
250.
G. Brinkmann, C. Grothaus, I. Gutman, Fusenes and benzenoids with perfect
matchings, Journal of Mathematical Chemistry, 42 (2007), 909–924.
B. Liu, I. Gutman, On general Randić indices, MATCH Communications in
Mathematical and in Computer Chemistry, 58 (2007), 157–176.
I. Gutman, S. Radenković, A. Graovac, D. Plavšić, Monte Carlo approach to
Estrada index, Chemical Physics Letters, 446 (2007), 233–236.
Kratica J, Kovačević-Vujčić V, Čangalović M. Computing the metric dimension
of graphs by genetic algorithms. Computational Optimization and Applications,
doi:10.1007/s10589-007-9154-5
Lj. Pavlović, T. Divnić, A quadratic programming approach to the Randić index,
European Journal of Operational Research, 2007, Vol. 176, Issue 1, 435–444.
Lj. Pavlovic, The linear Programming approach to the Randić index, ITOR International Transactions in Operational Research, November 2007, Vol. 14, Issue
6, 535–545.
M.V.G. da Silva, K. Vušković, Triangulated neighborhoods in even-hole-free
graphs, Discrete Mathematics, 307 (2007), 1065–1073.
Project: GEOMETRY, EDUCATION AND VISUALIZATION WITH
APPLICATIONS
(Zoran Rakić)
In 2007 the participants of the project have continued successful research in the fields of
differential geometry and its applications in visualizations and education, theory of knots
and links, graph theory, as well in the fields of quantum groups, mathematical physics,
theory of probability and statistics, and genomics.
Obtained results were presented at the seminars in Belgrade, Kragujevac and
Niš, which have been organized by the participants of this project, as well at important
international scientific meetings in other countries. Also, the high quality results were
published in world wide known mathematical journals and prestigious publications such
as monograph S. Jablan, R. Sazdanović, LinKnot: Knot Theory by Computer, World
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Scientific 2007, which is devoted to the one of the best computer programs for the
investigations in the theory of the knots and links.
In this year the wide scientific activity of this project have been continued with
the organizations of international scientific meetings, publishing of its proceedings,
continuation of international cooperation and implementation of obtained results. Some
members of our project were participated in the organization of international scientific
meetings in other countries. Here we emphasize the project Multimedia Technology
for Mathematics and Computer Science Education (http://www.matf.bg.ac.yu /~daad/)
which is financed by German foundation DAAD and which is again announced (by this
foundation) as one of the best DAAD projects in 2007 (in this field).
V. Andrejić, Z. Rakić, On the duality principle in pseudo-Riemannian Osserman
manifolds, J. Geom. Physics, 57 (2007), 2158–2166. L. Haapasalo, Dj. Kadijevich, Factors that influence student teacher’s interest to
achieve educational technology standards, Computers & Education, 50 (1), 262–270.
F. Gavarini, Z. Rakić, Fq[Mat_n], Fq [GLn] and Fq [SLn] as quantized hyperalgebras,
Journal of Algebra, 32 (2007), 761–800.
S. K. Simić, Z. Stanić, The polynomial reconstruction of unicyclic graphs is
unique, Lin. Mult. Alg. 55 (1), 35–43, (2007).
M. Antić, M. Đorić, L. Vrancken, Four dimensional minimal CR submanifolds in
S6 satisfying Chen’s equality, Diff. Geom. Appl., Vol. 25, No. 3 (2007), 290–298.
S. Jablan, R. Sazdanović, Unlinking number and unlinking gap, Journal of Knot
Theory and Its Ramifications, 16(10), 1331–1355, (2007).
Z. Stanić, On graphs whose second largest eigenvalue equals 1 - the star
complement technique, Lin. Alg. App. 420, (2007), 700–710.
P. B. Gilkey., S. Ž. Nikčević, Pseudo-Riemannian Jacobi-Videv Manifolds,
International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics, Vol. 4, No. 5,
(2007), 727–738.
Kadijevich, Dj., Towards a wider implementation of mathematical modelling at
upper secondary and tertiary levels. In The 14th ICMI Study Series: New ICMI Study
Series , Vol. 10W. Blum, P. Galbraith, H.-W. Henn & M. Niss (Eds.), Modelling and
Applications in Mathematics Education ( 349–356), New York: Springer 2007.
Project: STOCHASTICS WITH APPLICATIONS
(Dr. Slobodanka Janković)
This project contains research in probability, random processes and statistics, together
with various areas of mathematical analysis, which is the necessary and the basic tool
for solving probabilistic problems. In particular, there are results concerning asymptotic
properties of random processes with heavy tails, results concerning regular variation,
series of functions connected with the product of a trigonometric integral and a
trigonometric function, properties of psi and gamma functions, asymptotic behavior of
moments of power series distributions, and entire functions with non-negative Taylor
coefficients.
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Milan Merkle, Convexity in the theory of the Gamma function, International
Journal of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 11, No 7 (2007), 103–117.
Stojan Radenović: Some properties of C-reflexive localy convex spaces, Univ.
Beograd. Publ.
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Elektrotehn. Fak.
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Ser. Mat. 18 (2007), 52–58.
Trickovic SB, Vidanovic MV, Stankovic MS: Series involving the product of a
trigonometric integral and a trigonometric function, Integral transforms and special
functions 18 (10): 751–763 2007.
Slavko Simić: On a property of entire functions with almost negative zeros, Appl.
Anal. Discr. Math. Vol. 1, No. 2 (2007), 353–359.
Slavko Simić: Inequalities for psi function, Math. Inequal. Appl. Vol. 10, No.
1. (2007), 45–48.
Slavko Simić: Some properties of entire functions with non-negative Taylor
coefficients, Math. Notes, Vol. 81, No. 5. (2007), 681–685.
Project: ADVANCED METHODS FOR CRYPTOLOGY AND INFORMATION
PROCESSING
(Miodrag Mihaljević)
The project is dedicated to a number of mathematical directions relevant for information
processing and particularly to certain information security and coding issues. The main
project achievements are within the cryptology and information representation topics.
The project activities include international collaboration which is very extensive
with Japan and UK, and participation in referee’s and editor’s duties. Also, a goal of the
project is to provide a background for the related applications.
M. Mihaljevic, M. Fossorier and H. Imai, “Security Evaluation of Certain
Broadcast Encryption Schemes Employing a Generalized Time-Memory-Data TradeOff”, IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 11, no. 12, 988–990.
M. Fossorier, M. Mihaljevic and H. Imai, “Modeling Block Encoding Approaches
for Fast Correlation Attack”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 53, no.
12, 4728–4737.
M. Mihaljevic, “Generic framework for the secure Yuen 2000 quantum-encryption
protocol employing the wire-tap channel approach”, Physical Review A, vol. 75,
052334_1–5, May 2007.
M. Mihaljevic, M. Fossorier and H. Imai, “Birthday Paradox Based Security
Analysis of Certain Broadcast Encryption Schemes”, IEICE Transactions on
Fundamentals of Electronics Communications and Computer Sciences, vol. E90-A,
no. 6, 1248–1251, June 2007.
M. N. Huxley, J. Zunic: “The
Number of n-Point Digital Discs,” IEEE
Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 29 (no. 1), 159–161,
2007.
J. Zunic, P.L. Rosin, “Convexity Measure for Shapes with Partially Extracted
Boundaries”, IET Electronics Letters, vol. 43, no. 7, 380–382, March 2007.
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J. Zunic and P.L. Rosin, “A Definition for Orientation for Multiple Component
Shapes”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4673, 677–685, August 2007.
S. Ghilezan, J. Pantovic, J. Zunic: “Separating Points by Parallel Hyperplanes
- Characterization Problem” IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 18, no. 5,
1356–1363, Sept. 2007.
N. Sladoje and J. Lindblad, “Representation and reconstruction of fuzzy disks by
moments”, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, vol. 158 no. 5, 517–534, May 2007
P. Blagojevic and A. Dimitrijevic-Blagojevic, “Using equivariant obstruction
theory in combinatorial geometry”, Topology and its Applications, vol. 154, 2635–
2655, 2007.
Project: REPRESENTATIONS OF LOGICAL STRUCTURES AND THEIR
APPLICATION IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
(Zoran Ognjanović)
In this project the following issues, which are interesting both from the theoretical point
of internal development of mathematical logic and as possible tools for representing and
reasoning about some important concepts in computation, are investigated:
Representation of proofs, in particular those of substructural logics, in structures
of category theory, especially structures close to geometry, application of the results
obtained in normalization and in deciding equality of proofs, which is important for the
semantics of programming languages.
Tanović P, “Non-isolated types in stable theories”, Annals of Pure and Applied
Logic, 145 (1), 1–15.
Došen K, Petrić Z, “Medial commutativity”, Annals of Pure and Applied Logic,
146 (2–3), 237–255.
Banković D, “All general solutions of Post equations”, Acta mathematica Sinica
- English Series, 23 (5), 945–950.
Kapetanovi��
ć M, “On theories with the general disjunction property”, Algebra
Universalis, 57 (1), 127–129, 2007.
Đorđevic R, Ikodinović N, Mijajlović Ž, “Completeness theorem for topological
class models”, Archive for Mathematical Logic, 46 (1), 1–8, 2007.
Ognjanović Z., Ikodinović N., A logic with higher order conditional probabilities,
Publications de L’Institute Matematique (Beograd), ns. 82 (96), 141–154, 2007.
Rašković M., Marković Z., Ognjanović Z., A Logic with Approximate Conditional
Probabilities that can Model Default Reasoning, International Journal of Approximate
Reasoning, doi:10.1016/j.ijar.2007.08.006
Ikodinović N., Rašković M., Marković Z., Ognjanović Z., Measure Logic, LNCS/
LNAI, Vol. 4724, 128–138, 2007.
Krapež A., A note on Belousov quasigroups, Quasigroups and Related Systems,
15 (2007), 291–294.
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Project: THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS OF THE RIGID AND
SOLID BODIES. MECHANICS OF MATERIALS
(Katica R. (Stevanović) Hedrih)
Today, it seems generally accepted that nonlinear dynamical problems should be
cooperatively addressed through the combined use of analytical, computational,
geometrical and experimental approach.
Further, interaction between nonlinear dynamics and control, as well as energy
transfer between subsystems, plays an important role in advanced engineering systems
in order to obtain desired dynamics behavior and improved reliability during operation.
The nonlinear deterministic and stochastic dynamics and control of processes in complex
mechanical systems are subject of our project research results. New mathematical and
phenomenological knowledge is a advances to theoretical and applied mechanics of
the rigid and solid bodies and complex hybrid structures and dynamical systems with
applications in mechanical engineering. Mechanics of materials with coupled fields is
also subject of project research.
Partial and partial fractional differential equations of creeping and vibrations of
double plate system and axially moving double belt system are derived and solved. A
fractional-differential operator with the creep material parameters are introduced. Plate
material is elastic or creeping and constitutive relation of stress-strain state is expressed
through fractional derivatives. A influence of temperature field was investigated.
The finite number of coupled partial fractional order differential equations of
transversal vibrations of a creeping connected multi plate homogeneous system and multi
belt system have been derived and analytically solved and numerically analyzed. The
analytical solution of the system of coupled partial fractional order differential equations
of corresponding dynamical free and forced processes are identified. It is also obtained
time series functions as a particular components of the solution.
Contributions in the form of mathematical description of deterministic
and stochastic dynamics of the sandwich multibelt, multibeam or multiplate and
multipendulum systems with rheological or hereditary properties and stability of its
deformable shape are present.
The mass moment vectors coupled for pole and axis are used to present a vector
method for the analysis of kinetic parameter dynamics of rigid rotors with deviational
properties of mass distribution. Mass moment vectors and their deviational components
are used to determine kinetic pressures on axis shaft bearings and compose nonlinear
differential equations of rotor dynamics in the Earth’s gravity field. Taking into
account impact forces properties for obtain impact (impulsive) kinetic impacts on the
shaft bearings and to find center of impact on this rotate body we use the following he
expressions for the kinetic impacts (impulses) on the rotor shaft bearings are in the new
vector form.
Hedrih (Stevanović) K. (2007), Double plate system with discontinuity in the
elastic layer, Acta Mechanica Sinica, Springer Acta Mechanica Sinica, Springer, vol.
23, no. 2, 221–229, DOI 10.1007/s10409-007-0061-x
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Hedrih (Stevanović) K. (2007), Energy analysis in the nonlinear hybrid system
containing linear and nonlinear subsystem coupled by hereditary element, Nonlinear
Dynamics, Springer, vol. 51, no. 1, 127–140. DOI 10.1007/s11071-007-9197-2
Hedrih (Stevanović), K.,2007), Transversal vibrations of the axially moving
sandwich belts, Archive of Applied Mechanics, Springer, vol. 77, no. 7, 523–539.
http://springerlink.com/content/?k=Hedrih
Hedrih (Stevanović) K., Gadžić S., (2007), On a model of the material particle
dynamics and of inert mass depending of velocity, Tensor, N.S., Vol. 68, No. 1 (2007)
51645. #8 Hedrih (Stevanović) K., Simonović J. (2008), Transversal Vibrations of a Double
Circular Plate System with Visco-elastic Layer Excited by a Random Temperature Field,
International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation, Vol. 9,
No.1, 47–50. Hedrih (Stevanović) K., (2007), Multifrequency and infinite frequency regimes
and Lyapunov exponents as the measures of the hybrid system dynamic integrity,
Closing Minisymposa Lecture, Proceedings of the International Summer School
APM -Advanced Problem in Mechanics, Saint Petersburg 2007, 157–169.
Goroshko O.A., Hedrih (Stevanović) K., (2007), Construction of the Lagrange
mechanics of the hereditary systems, Minisymposium Oppening Lecture, Proceedings
of the International Summer School APM -Advanced Problem in Mechanics, Saint
Petersburg 2007, 133–156.
Hedrih (Stevanović) K.R. (2007), For optimal time of study: Vector and tensor
methods in classical mechanics. Nonlinear Dynamics, Kharkov, 98–107.
Goroshko O., Hedrih K. (2007), Dynamics of the hereditary dyscrete systems,
Nonlinear Dynamics, Kharkov, 77–92.
Hedrih (Stevanović) K., (2007), Stochastic dynamics of hybrid systems with
thermo-rheological hereditary elements, IX International Conference on Dynamical
Systems Theory and Applications, December 17–20, 2007, Łódź, Poland, Technical
University of Łódź. Department of Automatics and Biomechanics. Abstracts p. 62, Full
Paper, 193–202.
Hedrih (Stevanović) K. (2007), Hybrid system dynamics, Invited lecture,
Proceedings First International Congress of Serbian Society of Mechanics, 10–13
April 2007, 79–84.
Hedrih (Stevanović) K., Simonović J. (2007), Forsed vibrations of the double
circular plate system with viscoelastic layer, Proceedings First International Congress
of Serbian Society of Mechanics, 10–13 April 2007, 299–306.
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INSTITUTE OF MUSICOLOGY
.Research in the Institute (seven co-workers and the leader of the project Dr. Danica
Petrović) conducted within the five-year project Music at the crossroads - Serbian,
Balkan and European perspective. The project was financially supported by the
Ministry of Science of the Republic of Serbia. During the past year, an international
musicological conference “Music modernism - new interpretation” was organized in
cooperation with the Department of Fine Arts and Music of the SASA. Volume No. 7 of
the journal “Musicology” (Ed. Dr. Katarina Tomašević, 463 pp.) was published.
The publication of the Complete Works of Kornelije Stanković was co-financed
by the City of Belgrade and the Department of Education and Culture of Vojvodina.
The City of Belgrade is also financing the work on the protection and digitalization of
the Institute’s phono-archive. An agreement has been signed with Radio Belgrade to
commence publication of a series of music CDs with the music of Serbian composers
from the recording collection of Radio Belgrade. It will be a research based series, the
aim of which is to promote Serbian, mostly 20th century, music.
Eleven papers were published in international and twenty five in national journals.
The members of the Institute participated at seven international conferences. They gave
five lectures abroad and more than twenty in Serbia.
The 15th summer school of church music “In Memory of Kornelije Stanković”
was organized in cooperation with the Society for the Preservation of Traditions and
Development of Sremski Karlovci, while one member of the Institute participated at a
summer school of traditional music in Poland. The members of the Institute also worked
on maintaining the library, archive and a collection of recordings. The users of our
collections come both from Serbia and from abroad (mostly choir conductors and post
graduate students from foreign universities who are working on Serbian music). All of
them, together with the material, required consultations with the Institute members who
are working on a particular topic.
INSTITUTE FOR BYZANTINE STUDIES
The Institute has been running during the last year and will run in the following years
three projects: The Last Century of Byzantium and Serbia (Prof. Radivoj Radić, PhD),
Byzantine World in Changing (10th - 12th Centuries) (Prof. Ljubomir Maksimović,
PhD, Dr. h. c.; the project is proposed to be extended in order to cover the 13th century
as well), Wall Painting and Inscriptions in the 14th and 15th Centuries (Academician
Gojko Subotić). All three projects were sponsored by the Ministry of Science and
Environmental Protection. The projects were simultaneously included into the scientific
program of the SASA, Department of Historical Sciences (for details see the Bulletin of
the SASA, Department of Historical Sciences, Groups of projects Byzantine Themes).
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For the whole of activities of the Institute, see its web-site (available at the moment in
English and Serbian): www.vi.sanu.ac.yu.
ETHNOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE
Project: IN BETWEEN TRADITIONALISM AND MODERNIZATION:
ETHNOLOGICAL/ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES OF CULTURAL
PROCESSES IN SERBIA
(Dr. Dragana Radojičić)
The research will encompass new ways/conditions of life and new forms, generated through
the traditional culture in rural and urban environments, enclosed in the transformed forms
of creation, or newly made on the old foundations. Under the influence of contemporary
European cultural models, certain forms of the culture, founded on traditionalism, found
new ways of presentation. The cultural processes which are the subject of this project are
in fact on-going, dynamic processes, occurring right before the eyes of the researchers
who are contemporaneous to the processes. The aim of the project is to establish and fix
different phases of development, laws of transformation and directions of the changes
in cultural processes. The subjects of this research are especially important. It is a well
established fact that the Serbian society is undergoing a deep, long term transformation,
oscillating between a still vivid traditional cultural heritage and the requirements posed
by contemporary time. Therefore, there is a necessity to establish a continuity of the
traditional values in the newly-created socio-political conditions. The changes are
evident on all levels of the society, affecting individuals as well as different social groups
and institutions. The importance of the proposed research lies in its applied results in
practice, by enhancing the anthropological and multidisciplinary approach, and in the
possibility of influencing socio-economic politics. The employment of the ethnological/
anthropological perspective will allow perceiving the status and requirements of an
individual in a modern society to be perceived, which could, in turn, help and suggest
a choice of measures of cultural politics required for the democratization of the society.
The importance of the project can also be seen in the establishment of the most important
changes and alterations on a global, social plan, through the transformation of social and
cultural relations in the domain of urban-rural.
Lada Stevanović, Tradition and Resistance: Elements of Funeral Rite in the Pacifist
Movement of Women in Black during the Yugoslav wars. 12. International Festival
of Contemporary Arts, Memory and History, Ljubljana 2–10. X 2006), http://www.
cityofwomen.org/2006/en/coweb/memory/lada_stevanovic
Ivica Todorović, Пространство и время мужчины - в этнологическоантропологическом контексте. VII конгресс этнографов и антропологов Росии
- Саранск 2007, секция 11: „Культура повседневности в постсоциалистический
период“.
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Aleksandra Pavićević, Na udaru ideologija. Posebn��
a izdanja Etnografskog
instituta SANU 57, Beograd, 2006, 1–400.
Miroslava Malešević, Žensko. Etnografski aspekti društvenog položaja žene u
Srbiji. Etnološka biblioteka 25, SGC (ur. M. Niškanović), Beograd 2007, 1–264.
Milina Ivanović-Barišić, Kalendarski praznici i običaji u podavalskim selima,
Posebna izdanja Etnografskog instituta SANU 59, Etnografski institut SANU, Beograd
2007, 1–411, www.etno-institut.co.yu
Lasta Đapović, Folk Murning Poems - Life in Sadness and the Afterworld.
November 2007, Institute of Slavic, East European and Euroasian Studies at Universitiy
of California, Berkeley, USA.
Ljiljana Gavrilović, Cyber Museum: Tools for Heritage Protection. Condition
of the Cultural and Natural Heritage Protection 1, Proceedings of the Regional
Conference held in Kladovo, Serbia (ed. M. Popović-Živančević), ICOM SEE and
National Museum in Belgrade, 2007, 167–177.
Project: ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH OF COMMUNICATION IN
CONTEMPORARY SERBIA
(Dr. Jelena Čvorović)
The project deals with diachronic and anthropological analyses of the different modes of
production and social integration which characterize cultural communication in different
ethnic groups and cultures in Serbia, both on a macro, local and individual level; the
subject will be the analyses of the interrelation between the cultural communication
systems/forms and the societies which spawn them and within which they develop. This
project takes a distinctively anthropological approach to communication. It attempts to
analyze and interpret the principal means of communication and communication processes
and their numerous, complex interactions within and with the societies in which they
have been generated and developed. The project will contrast and compare oral Roma
and Vlax cultures and popular Serbian cultures, with the assumption that information
is the social, economic and political glue that holds these societies together. Cultures
are viewed as systems of communication regulated through a social system. To put it
in another way, understand the flow of information and one has a key to understanding
a culture. In the past decades, Serbian culture has been striving to invent more efficient
ways to increase its capacity to “broadcast” as much information as possible to as many
people as possible, while oral traditional societies needed to narrowcast information
in a very controlled manner in order to survive. In both societies, access to knowledge
is of particular social and economic consequence, and typically highly regulated. The
foundation of this approach to communication is the assumption that the unit of analysis
should be the community and the social interaction of community members with these
events and not to focus exclusively upon the product or artifact, be it a narrative or
the usage of internet. The goal is to discover how people become competent in and
use various communication forms in their everyday lives as a means of maintaining
their social identity. Social behaviors that surround the making and employment of
these communication “artifacts” are the key to understanding cultures as systems of
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communication regulated through a social system. The goal is to understand the various
forms of cultural communication in contemporary Serbia and to observe them in a social
and political context and to consider their place in the lives of people. We will establish:
the utility of perceiving culture as communication and social systems as regulators
of information, thereby dismissing the notion that information ever flows freely in
any society; the basic differences between oral and literacy oriented societies and the
implications of the differences for given societies, especially considering the introduction
of a new communication technologies; the attitude of ethnocentrisms of Serbian notions
of freedom of speech, role of the press, artistic license, the need to know, what constitutes
privacy, and our simplistic dichotomy between fiction and non-fiction narratives. The
applied goal is to indicate possible perspectives and particular strategies which could
advance the aimed integration of the societies into the multicultural European society.
Čvorović J.2007: The enigma of tolerated male homosexuality. Revue de la
societe anthropologique de Yugoslavie, vol 42, Belgrade, 437–454.
Štrkalj G., 2007: The status of the race concept in contemporary biological
anthropology: a review. Anthropologist, 9, 73–78.��
Editor: M.K. Bhasin et al., Publisher:
Kamla-Raj Enterprises.
Project: ETHNICITY, CONTEMPORARY PROCESSES IN SERBIA,
NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES AND THE DIASPORA
(Correponding Member Vojislav Stanovčić)
The notion of ethnicity became a subject of considerable research in social sciences during
the 1970’s, although it seems still today that the notion is not defined or explained in the
best terms. Not well understood in theory, ethnicity is in practice often a subject of misuse
and political manipulation. The understanding of ethnicity oscillates between essentialism
and total relativism, while in reality it bounces from interethnic communication and
solidarity to dramatic conflicts, sometimes ending in genocide. Ethnic boundaries in the
contemporary world are at the same time enhanced and made not absolute, and ethnicity
itself is essentially contained in cultural and political processes. Power issues, political
concepts of state sovereignty and modern political communities are intertwined with the
concept of ethnic belonging and boundaries, while the concepts themselves are basically
different. This brings about a possibility of conflict and, simultaneously, a necessity for a
reassessment on the affirmation of (cultural, political, legal) matters concerning interethnic
communication and cooperation. Multi-ethnic society is omnipresent today. The knit of
ethnic, religious and language boundaries is considered as a significant characteristic of
contemporary Serbia and the surrounding regions. Especially in our part of the world,
the questions and understandings of ethnic identification processes and power relations
have not only a scientific and theoretical significance, but also have considerable social
and political consequences. All these represent a solid foundation for scientists who
attempt to contribute to a better understanding of the meanings and ways of ethnic
division and identifications. As cultural anthropologists/ethnologists, we will deal with
ethnicity through cultural phenomena —the construction and symbolic representation
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of identity, interethnic communication, circumstantial approach, subjective dimensions
(the understanding of processes and their meanings from the viewpoint of participants)
and political/anthropological dimensions − exploring power relationships, ethnic conflict
and particular types of political and legal systems that generate, encourage or restrain
ethnic identification processes. The main question of the project is: what is the meaning
of ethnic differentiations and belongings in real life and on a symbolic plan, that is, how
do multi-ethnic societies function in the domain of culture and politics? The project will
be realized through three main thematic frames: Serbia; neighboring countries/region
(the Balkans, southeastern Europe); Diaspora.
The researchers will investigate a number of different subjects: rule of law and
ethnic groups; ethnic and national identification processes in Serbia, judgment against
other countries; status, rights and ethnic identity of the minorities; Serbs as a minority
in neighboring countries, wider region and Diaspora (historical and new minorities, old
Diaspora and new migration waves, relationship of Diaspora and the mother country.)
ethnic and other group identities (local, regional, religious); identity strategies of the
affirmed, as well as refuted and “hidden” minorities in their fight for recognition; internal
variations of ethnic and national identifications (double and multi-identities, regional
local patriotism, integration of refugees, absence of ethnic and national identification);
the employment of popular culture and cultural heritage in the development of ethnic
identities; stereotypes, social closeness/distance. These different scopes of research are
connected by the common goal-, which is, to understand ethnicity as a cultural process
in contemporary political and social contexts. The contexts comprise wide, general
processes, such as globalization, transition, European integration, local characteristics,
local, micro-events, historical and contemporary contexts. The contemporaneous of
the observed problems does not exclude a historical perspective in cases where such
a perspective could contribute to a better understanding of the reality. The principal
goal of the project is the understanding of processes of ethnic identifications and their
meanings today, the understanding of the dynamics in the relationship between minorities/
majorities, communications and conflict, pointing out to plurality and flexibility and the
historical dimension of ethnic identifications.
Mladena Prelić, Ethnic Exogamy and Identity: Attitudes and Reality among Serbs
in Hungary, Negotiating Culture: Moving, Mixing, and Memory in Contemporary
Europe, Reginald Byron and Ullrich Kockel (Editors), Muenster, Berlin, and London
2006: LIT Verlag, 157–181.
Sanja Zlatanović, The Roma of Vranje: kurban with five faces, In: Kurban in
the Balkans, Balkanološki institut SANU, Posebna izdanja, knj. 98, Beograd 2007,
51–87.
Gordana Blagojević, Multi-ethnicity, war and dancers - a case of Serbian cultural
and artistic societies in Bosnia and Herzegovina:��
Dancers
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without frontiers�, DVD
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Zbornik radova sa svetskog kongresa u organizaciji UNESKO 2�1th World Congress on
Dance Research, Athens 200��
7��.
Mirjana Pavlović, Uskršnji običaji Srba u Batanji, Etnografija Srba u Mađarskoj,
5, Mađarsko etnografsko društvo u Budimpešti, 2006, 51–62.
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Marta Stojić, Izbrisani: od liminalnosti do metafore. Časopis za kritiko znanosti,
228, godina XXXV, Študentska založba, Ljubljana, 2007, 148–155.
INSTITUTE FOR BALKAN STUDIES
In 2007, the Institute continued a new set of research topics, embarked upon in 2006,
through 6 projects funded by the Ministry of Science, bringing together 26 Institute and
31 non-Institute project members. In addition to a selection of the published results of
each project separately presented below, the Institute brought out its annual Balcanica
XXXVII/2006 (2007), entirely in English and French.
• Further information is available at http://www.balkaninstitut.com
Project: MEDIEVAL HERITAGE OF THE BALKANS:
INSTITUTIONS AND CULTURE
(Dr. Danica Popović)
The research addresses several topics relating to the institutions, culture and art of
medieval Serbia.
A. Institutions of the state and church: 1. Power and identity. Political iconography
in medieval Serbia; 2. Christians in the Ottoman empire in the fifteenth to eighteenth
centuries. The status, functioning and role of the Orthodox church within the Ottoman
empire; 3. Anchoretic monasticism in medieval Serbia. The solitary way of life as parallel
with and alternative to coenobitic monasticism.
B. Literature: 1. Works of medieval Serbian writers and Old Serbian translations;
2. Areopagitic writings in medieval Serbian theology.
C. Culture and art: 1. Fresco programs and iconography in the narthexes of
thirteenth-century Serbian churches; 2. Art and society in late medieval and Renaissance
Kotor (art, spirituality, culture and social structures in Kotor in the fourteenth to sixteenth
centuries).
Since mid-2007, the project accommodates a subproject supported by the Ministry
of Science, Program of Promotion and Popularization of Science: Electronic Archive of
Serbian Medieval Heritage (eASSB in Serbian), conceived of as a database containing
texts of sources of medieval Serbian history in electronic form. The initial phase
includes the processing of the documentary material (charters and epistles; seal,
fresco, coin and other inscriptions), followed by narrative sources (hagiographies,
chronicles, genealogies, etc). It includes texts in Medieval Serbian, Greek and Latin
from the whole of the Balkans, with an emphasis on the sources relevant to the
activity of the Serbian rulers, nobility, church dignitaries and institutions.
Popović, D.: Paying devotions to the holy hermit: the shrine of St Prochorus of
Pčinja, in Routes of Faith in the Medieval Mediterranean. International symposium.
Abstracts (Thessaloniki 2007), 26–27.
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Popović, D.: Deserts and holy mountains of medieval Serbia: written sources,
spatial patterns, architectural designs, Recueil des travaux de l’Institut des Etudes
Byzantines XLIV/1 (2007), 253–274.
Marjanović-Dušanić, S.: The Holy King. The Cult of St Stefan of Dečani
(Свети краљ. Култ Стефана Дечанског). Belgrade: Institute for Balkan Studies, Spec.
eds. 97–CLIO, 2007, 655 p.
Marjanović-Dušanić, S.: Patterns of martyrial sanctity in the royal ideology of
medieval Serbia, Balcanica XXXVII/2006 (2007), 69–79.
Jovanović, T.: Pilgrimages to the Holy Land in Serbian literature in the
Thirteenth to Eighteenth Century (Путовања у Свету земљу у српској књижевности
од XIII до XVIII века). Belgrade 2007.
Fotić, A.: Creating tradition: Milutin’s or Kabalar’s pyrgos? (Стварање традиције:
Милутинов или Каваларов пирг?). Peta kazivanja o Svetoj Gori (2007), 169–178.
Project: THE DANUBE AND THE BALKANS: HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL
HERITAGE
(Dr. Đorđe S. Kostić)
Focused on research into interactions between the cultures developing on the banks of
the Danube, the project is aimed at studying the historical and cultural heritage, the
role the river has played as a link between the European southeast and the rest of the
continent, and the reconstruction of the growth of urban communities. Its imagological
aspect draws on the accounts of foreign travelers as a source for analyzing the image of
the Danube area and the Balkans shaped among foreign readerships.
The project addresses several interrelated topics, such as: journeys along the
Danube in the accounts of German, British, French, Italian, Hungarian and other
European travelers; nineteenth- and twentieth-century traveler guides to the Danube area
in Serbian and other languages; the industrial heritage in the Danube area; mapping of
the Danube area; submerged and surviving archaeological sites; the Danube as reflected
in music, literature and the visual arts.
Kostić, Đ. S.: Falling in Love with a City. European Travellers in Belgrade
1814–1915. Belgrade: Belgrade City Museum, National Library of Serbia, National
Museum, 2007, 200 p.
Antić, Č.: Neutrality as Independence. Great Britain, Serbia and the Crimean
War. Belgrade: Institute for Balkan Studies, Spec. eds. 95, 2007, 236 p.
Antić, Č.: The Formative years of the Principality of Serbia (1804–56): Ottoman
Influences. In: Ottoman Rule and the Balkans 1760–1850: Conflict, Transformation,
Adoption, eds. A. Anastasopoulos and E. Kolovos. Rethymno: University of Crete,
2007, 243–248.
Ristić, Lj.: King Alexander Obrenović in the “memoirs of a diplomat” (Краљ
Александар Обреновић у „мемоарима једног дипломате“). Novovekovne srpske
dinastije u memoaristici. Belgrade: Historical Institute, 2007, 121–139.
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Cvjetićanin, T.: Antiche civiltà tra il Danubio e l’Adriatico, in Balkani. Antiche
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civiltà tra il Danubio e l’Adriatico. Milan 2007, 15–23.
Cvjetićanin, T.: Goldfunde aus einer reichen Frauenbestattung in Sarkamen, I.5.14
a-d. ��
In: Imperator Caesar Flavius Constantinus. Konstantin der Grosse. Mainz
2007.
Todorović, J.: Spectacles in the shadow: semi-official festivals of the Orthodox
in the Habsburg Empire. In: Festivals of the Defeated, eds. J. Bepler and P. Davidson.
Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007, 55–76.
Todorović, J.: Of the Power of memory: the ceremonial space and political
spectacle in Belgrade 2000–2007. In: Teatar-politika-grad: Studija slučaja. Belgrade:
YUSTAT, 2007, 379–400.
Kulenović, R.: Industrial Heritage of Belgrade. Belgrade: LUK-ARCH, 2007.
Project: HISTORY OF POLITICAL IDEAS IN THE BALKANS IN THE
NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES
(Dr. Dušan T. Bataković)
Based on comparative historical studies of the political principles, systems and institutions
of Balkan societies during the last two centuries of the history of Southeast Europe,
the project examines the influence of West-European political concepts and institutions,
and their gradual adoption in the process of global emancipation of the Balkan peoples
on their way towards a European model. The main goal is to explore and explain the
perception and implementation of these concepts in Balkan societies. In addition to
Serbia, the project encompasses Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, Macedonia and
Turkey.
In October 2007, the colloquium “Comparative history of minorities in the
Balkans” was held as part of the joint Institute, CNRS-IRICE, project “Tolerance and
Co-existence: the Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Serbia 1804–2004”, supported by
the Ministry of Science.
In December 2007, the Institute played host to the international conference “An
atypical alliance. Franco-Serbian relations 1870–1940”, with participation of project
members, Serbian scholars from related institutions and French scholars from the
University of Sorbonne-Paris IV.
Kosovo and Metohija. Living in the Enclave, ed. D. T. Bataković. Belgrade:
Institute for Balkan Studies, Spec. ed. 96, 2007, 309 p.
Bataković, D. T.: The Dečani Question, 2nd rev. ed. (Дечанско питање).
Belgrade: Čigoja štampa, 2007, 355 p.
Bataković, D. T.: Kosovo and Metohija. History and Ideology, 2nd. rev. ed.
(Kосово и Метохија. Историја и идеологија). Belgrade: Čigoja štampa, 2007, 470 p.
Trbovich, A. S.: A Legal Geography of Yugoslavia’s Disintegration. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2007.
Pavlović, V.: Les États-Unis et les sphères d’influence en Europe de l’Est lors de la
II guerre mondiale. Le cas Yougoslave. In : Les traites de paix 1919–1920 et l’Europe
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au XX siècle, ed. François Boulet. Saint Germaine en Laye: Les Presses Franciliennes,
2007.
Protić, М. St.: Sources of the Ideology of the Serbian Radical Movement 1881–
1903. Balcanica XXXVII (2007), 125–143.
Svirčević, M.: Constitutional Systems of Serbia and Greece on the Eve of World
War One. Balkan Studies 45/1–2 (2007), 45–58.
Project: SOCIETY, CULTURE AND COMMUNICATIONS IN THE BALKANS
IN PROTO- AND EARLY HISTORY
The chronological and geographical focus of the project is the Balkan Peninsula
in the proto-historical and early historical period. The subject of research includes
socio-political structures, remains of cultural material, anthropological aspects,
communications, spiritual life and cultural interactions. Based on archaeological
evidence and written sources, the project attempts to understand the ethnic, cultural
and social developments within the given framework and is aimed at drawing nearer to
producing a comprehensive picture of ethnic, cultural and social developments in the
Balkans of the period.
The heterogeneous thematic structure of the project reflects the cultural and ethnic
diversity, social and political interactions, geographical extent, chronological frame,
richness of archaeological and documentary material.
Tasić, N.: In Atlas zur Prähistorischen Archeologie Europas. ��
Praha 2007, 467–
487; 655–666.
Tasić, N.: Some observations on prehistoric and classical archaeological
excavations in Kosovo and Metohija (Neka razmišljanja o praistorijskim i antičkim
iskopavanjima na Kosovu i Metohiji). Arheologija Kosova i Metohije. Belgrade 2007,
9–17.
Jordović, I.: The tyrant demagogue and social conflict in Syracuse. Istraživanja
18 (2007), 19–30.
Jordović, I.: Breach of the rules of warfare during the Peloponnesian War and the
contemporary view of the influence of war conflicts on society. Zbornik Matice srpske
za klasične studije 9 (2007), 91–109.
Petrović, V. P.: Dardanie dans les itinéraires romaines. Les villes et les
agglomérations. ��
Belgrade: Institute for Balkan Studies, Spec. eds. 99, 2007, 158 p.
Pilipović, S.: Myth and Love. Representations on funerary monuments from
the Roman province of Upper Moesia. Belgrade: Institute for Balkan Studies, Spec.
eds. 100, 2007, 176 p.
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Project: RELIGIOUS AND NATIONAL IDENTITY
IN THE VISUAL CULTURE OF THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
(Prof. Dr. Miroslav Timotijević)
The project of the Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade, is focused on the development of
visual culture in the Balkans from the beginning of the seventeenth to the beginning of
the twentieth century. Its main goal is to explore the influence of visual culture on the
formation of religious and national identity of all nations in the region. In its first phase,
this research concentrates on the Orthodox Christian confession and the Serbian entity
in the Ottoman and Habsburg empires and in the Republic of Venice in the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries. Member of the project from the Institute of Balkan Studies,
Ljiljana Stošić published the following books and papers:
Stošić, Lj.: Biblical proverbs and sayings (Библијске пословице и изреке).
Belgrade: Srpska književna zadruga, 2007.
Stošić, Lj.: Biblical origin of Serbian proverbs and saying (Библијско порекло
српских изрека и пословица). Mitološki zbornik 16 (2007), 83–102.
Stošić, Lj.: Miloš Obilić as a “New Constantine” in Serbian fourteenth-century
art (Милош Обилић као „Нови Константин“ у српској уметности XIV века). Niš i
Vizantija V (Niš 2007), 429−441.
Stošić, Lj.: “Black Arab” in Serbian art and literature (Црни Арапин у српској
књижевности и уметности). Danica 15 (2007), 294−314.
Stošić, Lj.: Bible Ectypa and Žefarović’s Opisanije Jerusalima (Библија и
Жефаровићево „Описаније Јеруслаима“). Zbornik Narodnog muzeja XVIII/2
(2007), 203−218.
Project: FOLK CULTURE OF THE SERBS IN SLAVIC AND BALKAN
CONTEXTS
(Dr. Ljubinko Radenković)
The subject of research is Serbian folk culture viewed in relation to the cultures of
other Slavic and Balkan peoples. The research is based on published and unpublished
ethnographic, folkloristic and lexical material, for the most part recorded in Serb-inhabited
areas during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The material is being enriched with
fresh fieldwork data obtained by members of the research team. Comparative studies
rely on the corresponding material for other Slavic and Balkan peoples. In a narrower
sense, the research focuses on the Slavic and Balkan bases of an archaic concept of the
world in Serbian culture, mostly the notions of and attitude towards the transcendental,
reconstructable by ethnolinguistic methods.
Radenkovi��
ć, ��
Lj��
.: Беркман и другие духи-властители земных недр у славян.
Восток и запад в балканской картине мира. Moscow: Russian Academy of
Sciences, Institute for Slavic Studies, 2007, 258–265.
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Radenković, Lj.: Белое и черное как признаки мифологических существ (на
славянском материале). Балканские чтения 9 (2007), 80–92.
Radenković, Lj.: The evil spirit nežit in Slavic written sources and traditional
culture (Зао дух нежит у словенским писаним споменицима и народној култури).
Zbornik Matice srpske za filologiju i lingvistiku L (2007), 695–712.
Jovanović, B.: Fate and Magic (Sudbina i magija). Belgrade: Prosveta, 2007,
372 p.
Jovanović, B.: From believing to knowing (Oд веровања ка знању). Religija i
epistemologija. Belgrade: Dereta, 2007.
Jovanović, B.: Ethnoculture and ethnomythology (Етнокултура и етномитологија),
preface to S. Zečević. Srpska etnomitologija. Belgrade: Službeni glasnik, 2007, 7–25.
Luković, M.: Kosovska Mitrovica: Past and Present. In: Kosovo and Metohija.
Living in the Enclave, ed. D.T. Bataković, 2007, 83–106.
Luković, M.: Tzintzars in Uroševac, Lipljan, Obilić, Priština and Kosovska
Mitrovica. In: Kosovo and Metohija. Living in the Enclave, ed. D.T. Bataković, 2007,
225–238.
Luković, M.: Evolution of Serbian legal language in the modern age (Развој
српског правног језика у модерно доба). Srpsko pravo nekad i sad. Kragujevac
2007, 277–292.
Popović, Lj.: Mirrors and Reflections. Focal Perspective of Ukranian
Literature (Огледала и одрази. Фокусна перспектива украјинске књижевности).
Belgrade: Faculty of Philology, 2007, 265 p.
Project: ETHNIC AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION OF THE BALKANS
(Dr. Biljana Sikimić)
This interdisciplinary oriented project, based on analytical, qualitative
and fieldwork methods, is a continuation of the previous one, “Ethnolinguistic and
sociolinguistic study of refugees and multi-ethnic communities in the Balkans”. The
fieldwork encompasses the Serbs in Hungary, Slovenia and Romania, the KosovoMetochian enclaves and displaced persons. The multi-ethnic and multiconfessional
communities in Serbia represent another focus of research. The project also includes a
sociohistorical perspective on the social margin aimed at reconstructing everyday life
and, on a synchronic level, enquiries into the social margin in various contexts.
The most important published results are:
Detelić, M.: Epic Cities. A Lexicon (Epski gradovi. Leksikon). Belgrade: Institute
for Balkan Studies, SASA, Spec. eds. 84, 2007, 687 p.
Kurban in the Balkans, eds. B. Sikimić and P. Hristov. Belgrade: Institute for
Balkan Studies, SASA, Spec. eds. 98, 2007, 302 p.
(Mis)use of history in Serbian literature 1945–2000 (Зло)употребе историје у
српској књижевности од 1945. до 2000), eds. D. Bošković and M. Detelić, Liceum 11
(2007), 138 p.
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Ašić, T.: Espace, temps, préposition. Geneve-Paris: Libraries Droz, Langues et
Cultures 41, 2007, 320 p.
Ašić, T.: The power of prepositions: Is he sleeping now or usually? Recent
Advances in the Syntax and Semantics of Mood, Tense and Aspect. Trends in
Linguistics. Mouton De Gruyter, 2007, 95–110.
Ilić, M.: А Shift in Ethics: Serb-Albanian conflict in the vernacular discourse of a
conjurer from Kosovo. Zeitschrift für Balkanologie 43/2 (2007), 145–167.
Sorescu Marinković, A.: To be or not to be Romanian: Field emotions in
Romanian speaking communities from Serbia. In: Dynamics of National Identity and
Transnational Identities in the Process of European Integration, ed. E. Marushiakova.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007, 55–66.
Sorescu Marinković, A.: Din lexicul dialectal al satului Toracu-Mic, Banatul
sârbesc. Analele Universităţii din Timişoara, Seria Ştiinţe Filologice XLIV/2006
(2007), 231–251.
Petrović, Т.: The Serbs of Bela Krajina and imagined communities in Southeastern
Europe. Jahrbücher für Geschichte und Kultur Südosteuropas 7/2005 (2007), 53–
73.
Petrović, S.: Oral and Written Art Forms in Serbian Medieval Literature. In:
�� Oral
Art Forms and their Passage into Writing, eds. E. Mundal & J. Wellendorf. Museum
Tusculanums Forlag, Københavns Universitet, 2008 (2007), 79–102.
Vučković, M.: Others in the discourse of Marko Guran (Други у дискурсу Марка
Гурана). Balgarskite ostrovi na Balkanite. Sofia 2007, 205–218.
Đorđević J.: Greece in Serbian periodicals (first half of the 20th century). Balkan
Studies 45/1 (2007), 157–167.
Ćirković, S.: Ethnic stereotypes about Roma in Serbia: pragmalinguistic analysis
(Етнички стереотипи о Ромима у Србији: прагмалингвистичка анализа). Social
Sciences about Roma in Serbia / Društvene nauke o Romima. Belgrade: Serbian
Academy of Sciences and Arts, Department of Social Sciences, Book 29, 2007, 169–
186.
INSTITUTE FOR THE SERBIAN LANGUAGE
In 2007, area of work of the Institute for the Serbian language of the SASA proceeded
through: science projects, scientific conferences and the publication of science editions.
1. SCIENTIFIC PROJECTS
In the Serbian Language Institute of the SASA, five long-term projects are realized,
ranging from a historical to a contemporary plan of the Serbian language. All these
projects have been accepted by the Section of Language and Literature of the SASA and
financed by the Ministry of Science of the Republic of Serbia.
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The Project Dialectological studies of the Serbian linguistic territory is headed
by Prof. Dr. Slobodan Remetic, a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences
and Arts of the Republic of Srpska.
Within the Project Dialectological studies of the Serbian linguistic territory
in 2007 most of the work focused on completing of the first volume of The Serbian
Dialectological Atlas. Collaborators on the Project collected materials on 40
dialectological points from Serbia and outside of Serbia. They prepared a map which
includes all relevant facts. The first edition of the Atlas should be finished in 2008. The
collaborators on the Project were involved on the Project The European Linguistic Atlas
and General-Slavic Linguistic Atlas. The collaborators on the Project published a large
number of individual scholarly works at home and abroad.
The Project Description and standardization of the contemporary Serbian
language is headed by Prof. Dr. Predrag Piper, a corresponding member of the SASA.
In 2008, collaborators continue on the realization of projects with the primary
aim that the contemporary Serbian language, like other modern European languages, is
described and standardized according to the principles of the modern theory and language
practice. Many collaborators worked on the writing of the following monographs: on
Serbian phonetic and phonology, morphology and syntax (compound sentence). More
over, the collaborator Rajna Dragicević wrote and published the monograph Lexicology
of the Serbian Language and the author received the “Pavle Ivić” award. The collaborator
Đorđe Otašević wrote and published The Short Phraseologisams Dictionary of the
Serbian Language (778 p.). In 2007, the collaborators on the Project wrote 62 original
scholarly works.
The project The study of Old Serbian written documents and the compiling
of a Dictionary of the Serbian recession of Church Slavonic and a Serbian Slavonic
Dictionary of the Gospels is headed by Prof. Dr. Gordana Jovanović. In 2007, the pilot
issue of the Serbian Slavonic Dictionary of the Gospels was completed and published
and work on the preparation of the first volume continues. In addition, a large number of
individual scholarly works were published, at home and abroad.
The project The Etymological study of the Serbian language and the
compiling of a Serbian Etymological Dictionary is headed by Prof. Dr. Aleksandar
Loma, a corresponding member of the SASA. The third volume of Serbian Etymological
Dictionary was completed in 2007. The collaborators on the Project wrote and published
33 scholarly works, at home and abroad.
The project Linguistic research of the modern Serbian literary language
and the compiling the Dictionary of the Serbo-Croatian literary language and
vernaculars is headed by Dr. Stana Risrić. In 2007, the collaborators worked on
completing the 18th volume of Dictionary. A considerable number of original scholarly
works were published, at home and abroad.
2. SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES
In 2007, the Institute organized two international symposia, within the celebration of 60
years of its foundation. One of the symposia was The Old Slavonic Alphabets and their
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Registration in Unicode (October 15 – 17). Many specialists participated on it, not only
from Serbia, but also from other European Slavonic and non-Slavonic countries. The
participants choose the fonts for old Slavonic alphabets and decided to send a request to
Unicode (on the International Symposium of Slavics in Ohrid, 2008) to accept them.
The other symposium, Situation and Perspectives in Serbian Language Science
was held on December, 17–18. Together with many domestic specialists for the Serbian
language, other specialists from European Slavic centers also participated on the
symposium. Two proceedings were published for this symposium. Not only Institute
Projects, but also periodicals and other publications were presented during the symposium.
On the second day, there was a round-table discussion on the theme: Perspectives in
Serbian Language Science and 7 introductory reports were presented.
Both symposiums were realized with the cooperation of the Department of Language
and Literature of the SASA.
The researchers of all the Projects participated with reports in many scientific conferences
at home and abroad.
3. PUBLISHING
In 2007 2, issues (LXII - for 2006 and LXIII - for 2007) of well known periodical
Južnoslovenski filolog and an issue of periodical Naš jezik (XXXVIII — for 2007)
were published. In the Library of Južnoslovenski filolog, a book Srpskoslovenski
rečnik jevanđelja. Ogledna sveska was published. This book was compiled by Viktor
Savić and the Gordana Jovanović was the editor. On the occasion of 60 years of the
foundation of the Institute, two proceedings were published: Šezdeset godina Instituta
za srpski jezik SANU. Zbornik radova I and II. Papers of young Institute researchers
are presented in the latter. In edition Monograph, two publications were prepared: an
issue of Srpski dijalektološki zbornik and Rečnik timočkog govora Jakše Dinića.
The 9th issue of Spisi Odbora za standardizaciju srpskog jezika was also published
in 2007.
Also, in cooperation with other publishers, the Institute published monographs of
its researchers: Bogoslužbeni jezik u Srpskoj pravoslavnoj crkvi (prošlost, savremeno
stanje, perspective) - Ružica Bajić and Rimarijum srpske poezije - Milosav Čarkić.
INSTITUTE OF TECHNICAL SCIENCES
In 2007, the Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and
Arts celebrated 60 years of work. The Institute is governed by the Managing Board,
nominated by the Presidency of the SASA, with 7 members (4 academicians and 7
scientists working at the Institute) and the Director of the Institute. The Institute has 35
employees, 29 of whom are included in the research financed by the Ministry of Science
of the Republic of Serbia. Twelve researchers have a Ph.D. Five academicians have
been heads of research programs within the Institute for a very long time. Also, two
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colleagues defended their PhD theses; one received her MSc, while four MSc and five
PhD theses are in progress.
The Ministry of Science of the Republic of Serbia is financing 6 Fundamental
Research projects during the period 2006–2010, two of which are coordinated by the
Institute, engaging a large number of Science & Research institutions from Serbia:
1. Project: «Synthesis of functional materials with controlled structure on molecular
and nano level», head of project Prof. Dr. Dragan Uskokovic,
2. Project: «Research of interdependence in the triad “synthesis-structureproperties” for functional materials», head of project Academician Momčilo M. Ristić.
Furthermore, two projects headed by Academicians were financed by the SASA
Fond:
1. Project: «Theoretical and experimental research of metal construction and their
impact on contemporary designing and building», head of project Academician Nikola
Hajdin,
2. Project: «Management by position and force of robots and constructions
in contact with the dynamic environment», head of project Academician Miomir
Vukobratović.
All these projects yielded various scientific and technological results: 56 SCI
articles were published or accepted in 2007, 2 patents, 2 first devices in the series,
contracted expert work, and 2 awards for innovation and 1 for the best poster by a young
researcher at the Conference.
Selected publications are:
N. Ignjatovic, P. Ninkov, Z. Ajdukovic, D. Uskokovic, “Biphasic Calcium
Phosphate Coated with Poly-DL-Lactide-co-Glycolide Biomaterial as Bone Substitute”.
J. Europ. Ceram. Soc., 27 (2007) 1589–1594.
D. Jugović, N. Cvjetićanin, V. Kusigerski, M. Mitrić, M. Miljković, D. Makovec
and D. Uskokovic, “Structural and Magnetic Characterisation of LiMn1.825Cr0.175O4 Spinel
Obtained by Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis”. Mat. Res. Bull., 42, 3 (2007) 515–522.
M. Stevanović, J. Savić, B. Jordović, D. Uskoković, “Fabrication, in vitro
degradation and the release behaviours of poly(DL-lactide-co-glycolide) nanospheres
containing ascorbic acid”. Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 59 (2007) 215–
223.
N. Ignjatovic, C. Liu, J. Czernutszka, D. Uskokovic, “Micro and nano/injectable
composite biomaterials containing calcium phosphate coated with poly(dl-lactide-coglycolide)”. Acta Biomaterialia, 3, 6 (2007) 927–935.
M.E. Rabanal, L.S. Gomez, A. Khalifa, J.M. Torralba, L. Mancic, O. Milosevic,
“Structural properties of europia-doped-gadolinia synthesized through aerosol”. Journal
of European Ceramic Society, 27 (2007) 4325–4328.
S. Petrović, A. Terlecki-Baričevic, Lj. Karanović, P. Kirilov-Stefanovć, M. Zdujić,
V. Dondur, D. Paneva, I. Mitov, V. Rakić, «LaMO3 (M = Mg, Ti, Fe) perovskite type
oxides: Preparation, characterization and catalytic properties in methane deep oxidation».
Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 79 (2007) 186–198.
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N. Elezović, B.M. Babić, N.V. Krstajić, Lj.M. Gajić-Krstajić, Lj.M. Vračar,
“Specificity of the UPD of H to the structure of highly dispersed Pt on carbon support”.
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 32 (2007) 1991–1998.
M.V.Nikolić, K.M.Paraskevopoulos, O.S. Aleksić, T.T. Zorba, S.M. Savić, V.D.
Blagojević, D.T. Luković, P.M. Nikolić, «Far infrared reflectance of sintered nickelmanganite samples for negative temperature coefficient thermistors». Mat. Research
Bull. 42 (2007) 1492–1498.
P.M. Nikolic, W. König, S.S. Vujatović, V. Blagojević. D. Luković, S. Savić, K.
Radulović, D. Urošević, M.V. Nikolić, “Far Infrared Properties of PbTe Doped with
Cerium”. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 433 (2007) 292–295.
M.V. Nikolić, T. Ivetić, D.L. Young, K.M. Paraskevopoulos, T.T. Zorba, V.
Blagojević, P.M. Nikolić, D. Vasiljević–Radović, M.M. Ristić, »Far infrared properties
of bulk sintered and thin film Zn2SnO4«. Materials Science and Engeneering B, 138
(2007) 7-1.1
From all the results, the most outstanding achievements are perfecting the synthesis
procedure of polymer nanospheres (poly-D,L-lactide-co-glycolide and polylactide) with
various encapsulated medicaments within them (ascorbic and folic acid, proteins and
inorganic phases, such as hydroxyapatite), conquering the method of hydrothermal
synthesis, achieving significant results in the area of optical and thermal research in
thin films, powders and compacts and making the first devices in the series of universal
devices for electrochemical synthesis with circular modular reactors and the perfected
multifunctional electrochemical cell. Also, the largest ever number of SCI publications
within one was achieved.
Intensive international and national cooperation are the basic characteristics of the
activity in the Institute. Especially good formal and informal cooperation exists with a
number of the institutions from the USA, Japan, the European Union, Russia, Ukraine,
Slovenia, etc. Most of the research projects in the Institute are included in the FP6 and
FP7 programs of the EU. Some of the programs were planned to be included in various
levels of cooperation.
Dr. Olivera Milošević, Dr. Lidija Mančić and Katarina Marinković worked on
the COST 539 project (2005–2008): Electroceramics from nanopowders produced
by innovative methods (ELENA, coordinator Prof. Biljana Stojanović). Dr. Olivera
Milošević also worked on the project of the German Ministry of Education and Research
(BMBF), German Research Foundation (DFG) (2006–2008): “Designing of nanoparticle
morphology in aerosol synthesis”, as an International Expert. From April 15 until May
10, she was at Aachen University, IME Process Metallurgy and Metal Recycling, in
order to cooperate and prepare the FP7 project “Nanostructured Pt/Al2O3, Rh/Al2O3, PtRh/Al2O3 based catalysts with tailor-made functional surfaces for the Partial Oxidation
of natural gas and liquid fuels”, within “NMP-2007-2.4-2, Nanostructured catalysts with
tailor-made functional surfaces”.
Prof. Dragan Uskoković visited several times Jozef Stefan Institute and other
Slovenian Science & Research institutions from Ljubljana for the meetings with Slovenian
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colleagues concerning further bilateral cooperation and inclusion of our programs in FP6
and FP7. Project “Designing of functional materials on molecular and nano level” was
just accepted for the program of bilateral cooperation for 2008–2009 and its further
realization is expected. INCOMAT project - «Creating international cooperation teams
of excellence in the field of emerging biomaterial surface research», in cooperation with
14 other European institutes and universities, started in 2007. Initiator and coordinator of
this project is THÜRINGEN innovative GmbH, Innovation Relay Centre Stuttgart-ErfurtZürich, Erfurt, Germany, and Prof. Dr. Dragan Uskoković and Dr. Nenad Ignjatović are
coordinators for ITS SASA.
Also, CIR-CE Innovation Project ‘MagnetoPIM - Herstellung von komplexen,
weich- und hartmagnetischen Bauteilen mittels PIM’ started in October, with the
participation of Dr. Vladimir Zeljković.
Dr. Lidija Mančić was at Pontificia Universisade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
from the beginning of October 2006 until the beginning of April 2007, for six-monthlong postdoctoral studies on the project “Hydrothermal synthesis and characterization of
inorganic nanotubes based on lamellar titanate structure”, in the team of Prof. Fernando
Rizzo, working on the hydrothermal processing of some natural raw materials to obtain
quality materials with good exploitation properties. During this time, she had 1 publication
and 2 patent proposals with her Brazilian colleagues. Dr. Lidija Mančić was in charge of
forming a laboratory for the synthesis of one-dimensional nanomaterials by methods of
hydrothermal synthesis, ion-exchange reactions, intercalations and exfoliations.
Katarina Marinković spent one month at the University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain,
within the COST 539 project, on the Short Term Scientific Mission - STSM02469.
Marija Jevtić and Zoran Stojanović were at the Jozef Stefan Institute and the
Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology in Ljubljana, receiving a three-month
grant of the University of Ljubljana and of the Jozef Stefan Institute, to do experimental
work during the Winter Term.
In 2007, the Institute published the Proceedings of the Eighth Yugoslav Materials
Research Society Conference YUCOMAT, Research Trends in Contemporary
Material Science, published by Trans Tech Publications Ltd, Zurich, Switzerland, in their
Mat. Sci. Forum edition, Vol. 555, 600 pages, with 92 selected papers by international
and national authors. Also published and promoted was the book Calcium Phosphate
Ceramics - Bioresorbable Polymer Composite Biomaterials, From Synthesis to
Applications (1999–2007) by Prof. Dr. Dragan Uskoković and Dr. Nenad Ignjatović, 412
pages, with 44 papers from the field of biomaterials published in significant international
journals by authors from the Institute in collaboration with colleagues from national and
international laboratories.
Near the end of the year, Self-organization and Sintering, by Academician
Momcilo M. Ristić and Prof. Dr. Aleksa Maričić, and the book Mathematical Analysis
of the Rules of Sintering Real Materials by Dr. Vladimir Zeljković, were also
published.
Currently, a book on biomaterials, written by a group of national authors for all
Faculties of technical and natural sciences, is being technically edited.
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In September 2007, the Institute organized the Ninth Yugoslav Materials Research
Society Conference YUCOMAT, with the participation of 24 Plenary Speakers, 210
presented papers and around 190 registered participants. It consisted of 4 Plenary
Sessions, 5 Symposia and 3 Poster Sessions.
In December, the traditional Sixth Conference of Young Researchers in the
Materials Science, with 54 presented papers was held in the Academy. Selected papers
will be published in the journals Technique-New Materials and Chemical Industry.
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