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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Belgrade"”.
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Fourth Belgrade : story about reclaiming land
… firm and its 300 sq km big land just north of Belgrade was to be traded for fifty percent of its estimated value with no guarantee that the new owner would continue the food production business. In addition, according to the UN housing expert report, "Serbia's housing crisis demands immediate …
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Rhetorics of Everyday Resistance: The Belgrade 1996/97 Student Protest
<p>In this project, I explore and theorize how practices of resistance emerge and function within a nondemocratic political context. I identify the 1996/97 student protest as a pivotal event of nonviolent resistance in Serbia during the 1990s, focusing on the rhetorical tactics employed to subvert …
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Bourgeois Balkans: world-building in Belgrade and Sofia 1830-1912
… of urban life in the Balkan capitals of Belgrade and Sofia between 1830 and 1912. In the nineteenth century, mayors, planners, doctors and intellectuals envisioned a new, urban society in which progressive social transformation could emerge through a combination of political and economic …
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Entertaining the Yugoslav capital: culture, urban space, and politics in Belgrade between the two wars
This dissertation examines entertainment in Belgrade during the 1920s and 1930s, a period when it was overwhelmingly foreign. Entertainment presented an everyday challenge to social hierarchies propped up by elites, conservatives, and reform-minded bourgeois and petit bourgeois residents. More …
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Architecture, ‘coming to terms with the past’ and the ‘world in common’: Post-war urban reconstruction in Belgrade and Sarajevo
… of war. First, it examines the rebuilding of Belgrade as the capital of socialist Yugoslavia after the aerial bombings typical of the Second World War. Second, it analyses reconstruction debates in the same city after the 1999 NATO bombings, a high-tech operation, framed by NATO as a …
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(Im)possibilities of building community and negotiating belonging in institutional theatre during the wars in Croatia and Bosnia: a comparative study of cases from Sarajevo, Zagreb, and Belgrade
… in a comparative study of nine cases from Belgrade, Sarajevo, and Zagreb, I aim to understand how notions of community and belonging are interpreted in each city and how mainstream cultural establishments negotiate, resist, or conform to the hegemonic political projects of belonging and …
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Lexical, Pragmatic and Positional Effects on Prosody in Two Dialects of Croatian and Serbian: An Acoustic Study
… their phonological properties: as mentioned, the Belgrade dialect has a pitch-accent and vowel length contrast while the Zagreb dialect does not. Lexical pitch-accent and vowel length contrasts are found to influence the expression of pragmatic focus: the phonemic contrasts are enlarged in narrow …
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The Structure of Working Class Economic Inequality Under Market Socialism: A Labor Market Analysis of Blue-Collar Workers in Yugoslavia
… za Statistiku (Federal Office of Statistics) in Belgrade supplied aggregated data from this census on industries in Slovenia and Macedonia, two republics with contrasting levels of industrial development. Zavod SR Slovenije za Statistiko (Office of Statistics in Slovenia) provided information on …
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South African Inflation Modelling Under the HJM Framework
… however, as critiqued by Mercurio (2005) and Belgrade et al. (2004), is that it depends entirely on non observable parameters. As such, estimating the parameters of a model constructed under this framework is non-trivial. This dissertation applies the approach detailed by Jarrow and Yildirim …
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Alexander Johnson's Ni' Concerto (1994) - Concerto no. 1 for Piano and Orchestra: a Discussion of Influences from Africa, Eastern and Western Europe
… South Africa and abroad. During his residency in Belgrade in 1993-94, Johnson met Croatian pianist Dorian Leljak. Impressed with Johnson's compositional ideas and output, Leljak commissioned a work from Johnson for piano and orchestra. The result was the Ni' Concerto, which Johnson completed in …
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Economic Relations between the Third Reich and Yugoslavia, 1933-1941
… Yugoslavia’s control which eventually decreased Belgrade’s political maneuverability and forced the government in Belgrade to become more receptive towards German demands, particularly after the fall of France in June 1940.
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Contemporary dance festivals in the former Yugoslav space, 2007-2017: the imperceptible politics of curatorial praxis
Analysis of three festival examples, Kondenz, Belgrade Serbia; PLESkavica, Ljubljana, Slovenia; and LocoMotion, Skopje, North Macedonia, makes a contribution to scholarship on the former Yugoslavia. This research contributes to literature on festival studies, curatorial practices and contemporary …
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Space-partitioning with cascade-connected ANN structures for positioning in mobile communication systems
… covering more than 600km in the central areas of Belgrade, was performed. Using this algorithm and applying the single ANN models to the recorded measurements, a 59m average distance error and 50m median distance error were obtained. Moreover, the positioning in indoor environment was verified and …
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From yeast to animals: A small molecule restores iron mobilization, absorption and hemoglobinization
… promotes gut iron absorption in DMT1-deficient Belgrade (b/b) rats and FPN1- deficient flatiron (ffe/+) mice. Chronic injection of hinokitiol decreases liver non-heme iron and increases hematocrit in flatiron mice and hinokitiol treatment also restores hemoglobinization and reverses anemia in …
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Ecology of Hantaviruses in Rodent Reservoirs and Their Early Innate Immune Responses in Human Model Systems
… spp. harbor Puumala orthohantavirus and Dobrava-Belgrade orthohantavirus viruses, respectively, which are responsible for causing HFRS in humans. IFA reciprocal titer showed a wide distribution indicating new infections are occurring. No relationship was found between species diversity and the …