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Background: Medicinal plants and herbs constitute rich sources of flavoring, and aromatic compounds, namely phytochemicals, which have many positive impacts on human health, such as antioxidant, anticancer, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, cardioprotective, and neuroprotective properties. Such bioactive compounds may be considered lead compounds that can be introduced in the drug design process to obtain novel drug candidates with better bioavailability and therapeutic efficiency. The Islands of the North Aegean have rich biodiversity and many medicinal plants and herbs with multiple health benefits. Objective: This study aims to summarize and scrutinize the antioxidant activity of medicinal plants and herbs of the North Aegean islands. Methods: A thorough search of the existing literature was performed in the most accurate scientific databases, using a set of effective and relative keywords and including only clinical human studies written in English. Results: Several clinical studies have highlighted the potential antioxidant activity of phytochemicals from plants such as St. John's wort, chamomile, rosemary, spearmint, mastiha, mountain tea, oregano, sage, and thyme, as measured in the blood and saliva of human individuals, after administration of extracts and solutions of these plants. Decreased levels of oxidized lipoproteins, increased activity of antioxidant enzymes, and an enhanced total antioxidant capacity were observed. Conclusions: Current clinical trials remain still limited, and an enhanced series is needed with a better methodology design, larger sample size, longer intervention periods, using controlled groups and randomization to unravel the antioxidant activity of these North Aegean endemic plants in human individuals.

Rad će se usredotočiti na analizu potencijala glazbenog i vizualnog doživljaja u građanskim salonima tijekom fin de siècle. Idući ukorak s onovremenom transformacijom glazbenog iskustva, potaknutom uvjerenjima da izvedba instrumentalne glazbe u privatnom prostoru može stimulirati individualnu kontemplaciju, saloni krajem stoljeća postaju uređeni u skladu s načelima estetskog doživljaja koji objedinjuje auditivnu i vizualnu percepciju. Studija slučaja u ovom radu je salon obitelji Brajković iz Perasta u Boki kotorskoj, jedan od rijetkih glazbenih salona s kraja 19. stoljeća koji je sačuvao izvorno uređenje. U radu se tumači vizualna manifestacija glazbe u ovom salonu, njezina ikonografska obilježja i reprezentativna vrijednost. Interpretacija obuhvaća znanja i pristupe iz povijesti umjetnosti, a osim toga autorica će se osloniti i na spoznaje iz područja povijesti glazbe, povijesti filozofije i kulturne antropologije. Cilj rada jest analiza značenja, uloge i vrijednosti glazbenog salona kao osobitog estetskog i konceptualnog prostora koji se krajem 19. stoljeća pojavljuje na teritoriju Boke kotorske. The paper explores the potentialities of musical and visual experience in bourgeois salons of the fin de siècle. In response to the evolving musical experience within private spaces, where instrumental performances were believed to elicit individual contemplation, music salons of the late 19th century were organised in line with the principles of an aesthetic experience that unified auditory and visual perception. The case study in this paper is the salon of the Brajković family in Perast, Bay of Kotor, one of the rare music salons from the late 19th century that has preserved its original decor to the present day. The paper examines the visual manifestation of music in this space, its iconographic features and representative value, drawing upon insights and approaches from art history, as well as the history of music, philosophy, and cultural anthropology. The objective has been to analyse the meaning, role, and value of music salons as distinctive aesthetic and conceptual spaces present in the Bay of Kotor at the close of the 19th century.

Cultural heritage (CH) sites are frequently exposed to natural elements, and their exposure becomes particularly precarious with the onset of climate change. This increased vulnerability places these sites at risk of deterioration or complete destruction. Risks such as land deformation, floods, acid rain, and erosion significantly threaten historic monuments, while water-related hazards, significantly influenced by both climate change and human activities, present a particularly grave risk to these invaluable sites. Considerable research efforts have focused on safeguarding CH sites. However, there remains a deficiency in systemic approaches towards identifying and mitigating risks for CH sites. The TRIQUETRA project proposes a technological toolbox and a methodological framework for tackling climate change risks and natural hazards threatening CH in the most efficient way possible. It aims at creating an evidence-based assessment platform allowing precise risk stratification as well as a database of available mitigation measures and strategies, acting as a Decision Support System (DSS) towards efficient risk mitigation and site remediation. TRIQUETRA is a European project that brings together a diverse group of researchers with varied expertise, encompassing university research groups, research institutes, public entities, as well as small and medium-sized enterprises. In this article, TRIQUETRAs overall methodology is presented, and preliminary results concerning risk identification, TRIQUETRAs knowledge base, as well as novel sensors and coatings, are discussed.

Američki nedeljnici Life i Time, pokrenuti u međuratnom periodu, vrhunac svog uspeha dostigli su za vreme Hladnog rata. Bavili su se različitim temama, od politike, ekonomije, religije i medicine do pitanja iz svakodnevnice, te su uticali na oblikovanje stavova svojih čitalaca, zahvaljujući inovativnom formatu i obilju fotografija. Istraživanje u ovom radu bilo je usmereno ka prepoznavanju i analiziranju niza sadržaja koji su se pojavljivali u ova dva nedeljnika od kraja Drugog svetskog rata, pa sve do smrti jugoslovenskog predsednika Josipa Broza Tita. Naročito se tematizuje pitanje uloge koju su časopisi odigrali u kreiranju slika o jugoslovenskom stanovništvu, njegovoj svakodnevnici, običajima, turizmu. The representation of Yugoslavia and its populace in Life and Time magazines from the end of World War II until the rise of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1945 and the subsequent death of President Josip Broz Tito in 1980 was characterized by fluctuations that aligned with the volatility of relations between Washington and Belgrade. The accession of the communist regime to power was viewed as a foreseeable outcome, as the population of this region of Europe, due to their impoverished and uneducated state, was believed to be ill-equipped to comprehend and embrace the concept of democracy. Consequently, individuals were selectively chosen to be depicted in a positive light when Yugoslavia was once again considered an ally following the conflict with the Cominform in 1948. Nevertheless, the representation of the Yugoslav people was brief and superficial, lacking in any true endeavor to demonstrate empathy for their situation and hardships. In spite of efforts to showcase certain favorable aspects, the representation of Yugoslavia that evolved over time in the magazines was predominantly consistent with the Cold War preconceptions that Americans associated with communism. This representation was infused with elements of nineteenth-century imperial Balkanism, indicating that Life and Time were disinclined to deviate far from the predetermined framework and societal roles assigned to them.

This article is based on the analysis of the referential relationship within three concepts for the development of the urban matrix: High-rise City by Ludwig Hilberseimer (1924), No-Stop City by studio Archizoom Associati (1969), and Stop City by architectural office DOGMA (2007). The three projects represent a critique of the growth and development of the city within the economic system and the sociocultural context of the time. This research argues that each project finds its formal expression through referencing the former, adopting the programmatic, formative, and linguistic structures, which enable the reading of the authors’ interpretations and positions in relation to the generic properties of the urban matrix. Furthermore, the research aims to reveal the referential relationship between the aforementioned projects by comparing the critical positions they represent and the elements that constitute them.

ABSTRACTTravertines are terrestrial carbonates that are commonly associated with fault activity in extensional and transtensional basins. The faults serve as conduits for the rising and mixing of carbonate‐enriched fluids with thermal and meteoric CO2 inputs promoting travertine precipitation at the surface. Therefore, travertine successions provide key constraint on the faulting, depositional environments, fluid flow and climate. This work focuses on the travertine succession in the Miocene Levač Basin, the marginal basin of the Morava Corridor situated at the junction of the Dinarides and the southernmost Carpathians. Detailed sedimentological, geochronological (U–Pb age, laser ablation – inductively coupled plasma – mass spectrometry) and structural analyses of the travertines are used to reconstruct the evolution of the feeding geoothermal system. Furthermore, these data were used to understand the controlling factors governing alternation of fluid flows enriched in thermally generated and meteoric CO2, and precipitation of travertines in Levač Basin, and finally to elucidate the late stage of basin evolution. Four facies associations are distinguished within the succession, i.e. travertine slope, ridge, flat, and travertine flat under the fluvial influence. The results demonstrated that travertine deposition was controlled by north‐west/south‐west and north‐east/south‐east normal fault arrays. Stable isotope data show positive δ13C values (with δ18O being negative) shifting to negative in the distal and stratigraphically younger deposits implying dilution of deep hydrothermal fluids by mixing with meteoric waters. Finally, travertine deposits yielded a new U–Pb age of ca 14 Ma indicating that the Middle Miocene extensional phase known from other intermountain basins in the Dinarides reached as far east as the Levač Basin and Morava Corridor.