Infants prefer native structures such as familiar faces and languages. Music is a universal human activity containing structures that vary cross-culturally. For example, Western music has temporally regular metric structures, whereas music of the Balkans (e.g., Bulgaria, Macedonia, Turkey) can have both regular and irregular structures. We presented 4- to 8-month-old American and Turkish infant...

Contemporary inhabitants of the Balkan Peninsula belong to several ethnic groups of diverse cultural background. In this study, three ethnic groups from Bosnia and Herzegovina - Bosniacs, Bosnian Croats and Bosnian Serbs - as well as the populations of Serbians, Croatians, Macedonians from the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegrins and Kosovars have been characterized for the genet...

The analysis of innovation in Western Balkan countries in 2012 Slobodan Cvetanovic, Danijela Despotović, Igor Mladenović & Dušanka Jovović To cite this article: Slobodan Cvetanovic, Danijela Despotović, Igor Mladenović & Dušanka Jovović (2014) The analysis of innovation in Western Balkan countries in 2012, Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja, 27:1, 830-846, DOI: 10.1080/1331677X.2014.97492...

Background During the transition processes, the Western Balkan countries were affected by conflicts and transition-related changes. Life expectancy in these countries is lower, while the mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is higher in comparison with western and northern parts of Europe. The primary aim of this study was to analyze the treatment possibilities for the most common NC...

Knowledge of the mayfly biodiversity in the Balkan Peninsula is still far from complete. Compared to the neighbouring countries, the mayfly fauna in Croatia is very poorly known. Situated at the crossroads of central and Mediterranean Europe and the Balkan Peninsula, Croatia is divided into two ecoregions: Dinaric western Balkan and Pannonian lowland. Mayflies were sampled between 2003 and 2013...

Objective of Focus Balkans project is to promote knowledge and to improve understanding of behavior of consumers towards food in Western Balkan countries. The project includes the development of the knowledge and the skills in the science of food consumption, as well as the development of networks of institutions and initiatives for the improvement of the understanding of food consumption in th...