Branka Horvat, France Stephen C. Jameson, USA Stipan Jonjic, Croatia Bruno Kyewski, Germany Foo Y. Liew, UK Miodrag L. Lukic, Serbia Ofer Mandelboim, Israel Andrew N. McKenzie, UK Lorenzo Moretta, Italy Sergei Nedospasov, Russia Mihai G. Netea, The Netherlands Janko Nikolich-Zugich, USA Annette Oxenius, Switzerland Nada Pejnović, Serbia Bojan Polić, Croatia Alehander Rudensky, USA Hannes Stocki...

The beginning of nursing education in Croatia can be traced back to the early 20th century, although the first organized care for the patients started in 1845, when six nurses arrived from Austria to Zagreb (1). The first nurses set up the foundations for two activities – educational work in schools and care for patients in hospitals and nursing homes. They were Nursing in Croatia: Past, Presen...

From the early 1960’s to the late 80’s, extensive exploration for uranium ore took place in the former Yugoslavia, including Croatia (BRAUN, 1984). Prospecting activities by the Croatian Geological Survey identified several locations in the Slavonian Mts. (Croatia) with an increased level of radioactivity (BRAUN et al., 1983), particularly in the area of Mts. Psunj and Papuk. The Carbon age of ...

This article explores only a variation of tourism – warfare tourism – in Croatia, which is a recognised tourist destination. The main objective of this multidisciplinary research is to clarify and classify young residents (undergraduate students) of Croatia into different clusters based on their views of the potential for warfare tourism development in the country. A total of 292 completed ques...

Tax incentives for research and development represent an important tax relief within corporate income tax. B-index helps to detect differences in the influence of tax system on private sector to invest in research and development. The main objective of this paper is to present tax incentives for research and development, and calculation of B-index in Austria and Croatia. B-index results show be...

It is well known that countries with strong primary care achieve better health outcomes at lower costs. Therefore, the effort of World Health Organization in promoting primary care as a basic principal of successful health care system is an ongoing process. Although Croatia was recognized as a country with primary care orientation due to the development of health centers and introduction of spe...

BACKGROUND Primary prevention of acute rheumatic fever is achieved by proper antibiotic treatment of group A β -hemolytic streptococcal (GAS) pharyngitis. METHODS To assess noninferiority of oral amoxicillin to intramuscular benzathine penicillin G (IM BPG). Children (2 to 12 years) meeting enrollment criteria were randomized 1:1 to receive antibiotic treatment in 2 urban outpatient clinics i...

Program Committee John Collins (University of Minnesota, USA) Shaheen Fatima (University of Loughborough, UK) Enrico Gerding (University of Southampton, UK) Maria Gini (University of Minnesota, USA) Amy Greenwald (Brown University, USA) Gordan Jezic (University of Zagreb, Croatia) Patrick R. Jordan (Microso, USA) Wolf Ketter (RSM Erasmus University, Netherlands) Christopher Kiekintveld (Univer...

Three taxa of the Polypodium vulgare L. complex are recognized as species currently found in Europe (Shivas 1961b, Dostal and Reichstein 1984, Neuroth 1996). These are Polypodium vulgare L., P. cambricum L. and P. interjectum Shivas. The most significant difference between them is the ploidy level. P. macaronesicum Bobrov is considered a fourth species in the complex by Akeroyd and Jermy (1993)...

The author describes the methodology for assessing the suitability of tax and legal environment for the development of private equity and venture capital industry, designed by the European Venture Capital Association (EVCA). She applies this method to assess the tax and legal environment in Croatia. The results reveal that, according to the total composite score, Croatia belongs to the group of...