The Beta-Lindley Distribution: Properties and Applications by Faton Merovci, Vikas Kumar Sharma

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Moral development in preschool children according to Kohlberg’s stages: A revised analysis from the perspective of Positive Psychotherapy by Elmedina Cesco

“… This study investigates the moral development of preschool children aged 3 to 6 in Kosovo, framed within Kohlberg’s theory of moral reasoning and principles of Positive Psychotherapy. …”
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Estimations on risk and bureaucracy: Sensitivity method by Challoumis Constantinos, Savić Marko, Constantinou Alexios

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Recruitment of authoritarian individuals into clientelist networks: A comparative study of the Western Balkans by Stankov Nemanja

“…In Bosnia and Hercegovina, Kosovo, and North Macedonia authoritarian tendencies were not related to an offer of clientelist exchange. …”
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Problem of lumpy skin disease outbreak prevention and eradication by R. A. Krivonos, G. A. Dzhailidi, A. V. Mischenko, V. A. Mischenko, O. Yu. Chernykh, V. N. Shevkoplyas, S. G. Dresvyannikova, D. V. Kolomiyets, S. V. Tikhonov

“…The paper presents data on lumpy skin disease spread in the Russian Federation, Middle East, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Greece, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia, Albania, and Kosovo. It characterizes epidemic situation in the Republic of Dagestan in 2015. …”
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Ethnic minorities and nation-building in the post-Soviet space: Constructing a theoretical framework by I. Kudryashova, E. Meleshkina

“…Divisions over recognition of Kosovo, Abkhazia and South Ossetia’s independence put in focus policies towards ethnic minorities, structuring and legitimization of power in newly-formed multi-ethnic states. …”
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Clientelistic linkages in the Western Balkans: DALP II expert survey evidence by Bliznakovski Jovan

“…Drawing on data from the Democratic Accountability and Linkages Project II (DALP II) expert survey, the study covers six party systems: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia. The findings reveal that clientelism is one of the most frequently employed strategies in the region, characterized by durable linkages between parties, brokers, and voters, the distribution of public resources, significant use of negative inducements, and targeting across income groups. …”
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PERFORMANCE BUDGETING IN THE SOUTH-EAST EUROPE COUNTRIES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON PRESENT STATE AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES by Meldina Kokorović Jukan, Elman Nadžaković

“…The aim of this research is to investigate the state of implementation of performance budgeting reform(s) in the South East Europe (SEE) countries, namely Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Moldova, Romania, Greece, Slovenia, and Turkey and their struggle to implement performance budgeting reform. …”
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PERFORMANCE BUDGETING IN THE SOUTH-EAST EUROPE COUNTRIES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON PRESENT STATE AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES by Meldina Kokorović Jukan, Elman Nadžaković

“…The aim of this research is to investigate the state of implementation of performance budgeting reform(s) in the South East Europe (SEE) countries, namely Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Moldova, Romania, Greece, Slovenia, and Turkey and their struggle to implement performance budgeting reform. …”
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Military Interventions As Omitted Variable Of Inversed Democratic Peace: An Empirical Evidence by Srđan Korać, Nenad Stekić

“…To test this so-called “inversed democratic peace” thesis based on an argument that an ongoing war is likely to lead to democratisation, we focus our analysis on the US interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and FR Yugoslavia (Kosovo). We deploy three variables: 1) Foreign policy similarity, to determine whether the intervening actor (USA) had similar or different foreign policy goals at the beginning of interventions; 2) Political regime similarity, to indicate whether there were any deviations in the quality of political regime between the intervening state and the target country, as indicated by the democratic peace postulates; 3) military interventions (independent variable). …”
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Impact of Genes and Proportional Contribution of Parental Genotypes to Inheritance of Root Yield and Sugar Content in Diploid Hybrids of Sugar Beet by Ivica Stancic, Jelica Zivic, Sasa Petrovic, Desimir Knezevic

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Western Balkans in the Russian-Ukrainian war: The instrumentalization of the past through dominant political discourses in the media by Surlić Stefan, Milić Kristina

“…The author's intention is to answer the question of how the war in Ukraine, through the dominating discourses of the political elites in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Herzegovina and Kosovo, confirm the already existing ethnicized and onesided views of the past. …”
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Rat Sarcoma Virus Family Genes in Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Pathogenetic and Clinical Implications by Shaimaa Khattab, Adriatik Berisha, Natalia Baran, Pier Paolo Piccaluga

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Integrating Handcrafted Features with Machine Learning for Hate Speech Detection in Albanian Social Media by Fetahi Endrit, Hamiti Mentor, Susuri Arsim, Zenuni Xhemal, Ajdari Jaumin

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NATO Aggression Against Yugoslavia: International-Legal, Military Strategic and Geopolitical Consequences by E. G. Ponomareva, A. V. Frolov

“…The escalation of the Kosovo conflict to the scale of a «humanitarian intervention» raised a sharp question about not only the contours and principles of the 21st century world system, but also about the limits of the functionality of supranational (first and foremost force) structures. …”
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Open Government, Social Media and Western Balkan Countries by Mirela Mabić, Dražena Gašpar

“… This article analyses the presence and activity on the field of social media in the countries that belonged to the same state in the past: Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH), Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia – these named as Western Balkan Countries (WBCs) – and, Slovenia and Croatia as EU member states. …”
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Cracks and Fault Lines: Foreign Policy Orientations of Western Balkan Capitals in the Context of the Ukrainian Crisis by E. S. Arlyapova, E. G. Ponomareva

“…This article examines the foreign policy priorities and orientations of Western Balkan capitals within the "five plus one" format states (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and the partially recognized "Republic of Kosovo") in light of the crisis in Ukraine, illustrating the interplay between regional dynamics and international crises.Drawing on a wide range of sources, including official documents and opinion polls on foreign policy, this paper identifies regional discrepancies in the perception and assessment of the ongoing Ukrainian conflict. …”
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2-Amino-6-methylbenzothiazole as corrosion inhibitor for low carbon steel in acidic solution: Experimental and theoretical studies by Klodian Xhanari, Muhamed Farruku, Avni Berisha, Bujar Seiti, Kledi Xhaxhiu, Efrosini Kokalari, Alketa Lame

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Content of TDF, SDF and IDF in Cereals Grown by Organic and Conventional Farming – a Short Report by Menkovska Mirjana, Levkov Vesna, Damjanovski Dragan, Gjorgovska Natasha, Knezevic Desimir, Nikolova Nedeljka, Andreevska Danica

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Accelerated expansion of NATO into the Balkans as a consequence of Euro-Atlantic Discord by S. Gajić, E. G. Ponomareva

“…Georgia’s attack on South Ossetia crossed Russia’s red lines and exposed the latter’s ambitions to regain the superpower status; China symbolically showed the same ambition with the Olympics in Beijing; the crash of the US real-estate market triggered the global economic crisis; and the NATO-sponsored unilateral declaration of secession by Kosovo Albanians set a precedent and introduced uncertainty in international law and the entire system of United Nations. …”
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