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Comparative study between toxic effects of newly synthesized aminophosphates (AP) and glyphosate on fresh-water ciliates model; Paramecium tetraurelia

Synthetic aminophosphates are a class of organophosphorus compounds commonly used for protecting crops, however, the toxic effects on terrestrial and aquatic non-target organisms limit their uses. Freshwater protozoan c…

Modelling potential snakebite risks of the endemic Iranian venomous snake Macrovipera razii (Serpentes: viperidae) under climate change

The potential distribution of one the most venomous snake species of Iran, the endemic Macrovipera razii, has been studied. A total of 54 occurrence records with four informative environmental variables, including tempe…

Aquabacterium silicae sp. nov., isolated from a deep aquifer

A novel mesophilic chemoheterotrophic bacterial strain designated LMB275T, that grows under aerobic/microaerophilic conditions, was isolated from the thermal spring water of a deep aquifer in France. Cells were oxidase-…

The Unobvious Legacy of Romanticism?

Doomed to the Empire. A Vision of the Russian Historical Path in Alexander Pushkin's The Bronze Horseman

The article is an attempt to explore the vision of Russian history in Alexander Pushkin's The Bronze Horseman. The key role in the poem is played by the figure of Peter I, who is shown as a despot on the one hand, and a…

Mise en poeme: Epic (Auto)reflexivity and South Slavic Poetry in the Age of Romanticism

This paper deals with the discursive phenomenon of reflexivity in the epic poetryof South Slavic romantic poets around the middle of the 19th century. Reflection is here understood as a kind of poetic self-formation pro…

Deconstruction of the Romantic Myths in Slovenian Literature after France Prešeren

The main aim of this article is to present the methods in which Slovenian myths of Romantic provenience, present in France Prešeren's poetry, are deconstructed since the fifties of nineteenth century. Prešeren (1800−184…

Representation of the Croatian National Revival and Romanticism in Croatian Literary Historiography

The paper presents poetically and politically conditioned changes in the interpretationof the literature of the Croatian National Revival period as "Romantic".It indicates that these phenomena should necessarily be view…

The Feminine Face of Romanticism in the Light of the 19th Century Dictionaries of the Russian Women Writers

The paper presents four dictionaries of the Russian women writers from the perspective of the history of Romanticism in Russia and the presence of women in it. There are: 1. The Bibliographical Catalogue of the Russian…

The Secret Portrait of a Romantic? On the Recent Biographies of Karel Jaromír Erben

In 1853, Karel Jaromír Erben published a collection of ballads Kytice, which was immediately seen as a model of national literature. The contact of this model with Romanticism is only selective, because it does not cons…

Slavic Philosophy in the Philosophical Thought of the Slovak Romantics - with Polish Traces in the Background: pl

The author of the article focuses on introducing and interpreting the dispute over Slavic philosophy that took place in the 1840s in Slovak magazines (between J.M. Hurban, C. Zoch and P.Kellner-Hostinský). This dispute…

Debates over the Slovene Language and Its Influence on the Shape of Slovene Literature in the Romantic Period

The article aims to explore the status of the Slovene language and literature, as well as Slovene culture during the Romantic period in the context of historical events which informed them as a result of the creation of…

Travel Inscription of Bosnia and Bosnian in the 19th Century

The topic is romantic travelogues with the subject of Bosnia: descriptions andinsights into the perceived "reality" of the Bosnian area and people of the19th century presented through linguistic and stylistic means and…

Barva, jas, kontrast. Ilustrace Erbenovy Kytice jako interpretace; ukázka z většího celku

The paper is a sample of the author´s current intermedial research into the illustrations of Karel Jaromír Erben's volume of ballads Kytice (1853). Visual transmediations of a literary pretext may be understood as inter…

"Romantic" Image of Childhood in the Work of Jovan Sundečić

In this paper I analyze one of the first collections of poems for children in the SCBM language, Niz dragocijenoga bisera ili Duhovne i moralne pjesme za djecu by Jovan Sundečić (Zadar 1856, Cetinje 1865). Although many…

The Mousetrap of Language: The Mechanism of Anamorphosis in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe and Antun Gustav Matoš

Rethinking conditions of revolutionary potential of literature, with special regard to ways literature incessantly has re-examined otherness in language, in this paper we have chosen to focus on specific mechanism of il…

And There Were the Plitvice Lakes. The Landscapes of the Croatian Lake District in the Romantic Journey Put na Plitvice

Put na Plitvice (The Road to Plitvice, 1860) is the first of the travelogue in Croatian language describing an expedition to the Croatian Lake District. The work of art is of significant "world-creating" and "culture-cr…

Dialogue of God and Man: Communication in the Poem Moses by Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević

Croatian Romanticism uses a multitude of Judeo-Christian motifs. Kranjčević's Moses enters into a direct dialogue with God, who is not only a distant transcendental authority, but also a concrete being who responds to t…

Despairing Like the Scandinavians - the Romantic Aesthetics of Karin Boye and Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska

In Romantic aesthetics there is an interpretive category of the poetry of the cultures of the North - including the Scandinavians, who were familiar with the "poetry of the night and the graves" - which expressed feroci…

Love, Be a Poem. The Rhetoric of Seduction in the Love Poetry of Vesna Parun

In the broadest sense, the paper is a discussion of Vesna Parun's love poetry. The basic idea is that, on the one hand, it adheres to the romantic understanding of literature as a representation of the deepest personal…

Correspondence of Julije Benešić with Poles. Letters from Maria Kuncewiczowa in the Collections of the Croatian Academy of Sciences (HAZU)

Julije Benešć's correspondence with Polish scholars, people of culture, writers, and numerous acquaintances and friends began in his school years and lasted until his death. A large collection of letters and postcards s…

Translator's Notes in a Russian Translation of Olga Tokarczuk's Bieguni Novel

The article addresses the issue of translator's notes in a Russian translation of Olga Tokarczuk's "Bieguni" novel by Irina Adelʹgejm. The main text of the original, despite its abundance in borrowings, interjections an…

Killing Under Masks - Death by Rusalia (Vasilichari) Groups in Ottoman Macedonia in 19th Century

In this text, we refer to the killing by the rusalia groups (also known as babar or jamalar groups) whose members were wearing masks during the so-called unbaptized days (from January 7 to 19). In these centuries-old ri…

A need of the hour: pharmacovigilance in healthcare setting - nothing less than safety

Introduction: Pharmacovigilance (PV) is crucial to identify, managing, and reporting adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in the healthcare sector. Young healthcare professionals (HCPs) play an essential role in the PV system.…

Postural changes in blood pressure and heart rate among healthy young adults in a Ghanaian university

Introduction: There are contradictory and inconsistent reports on the effects of different body postures on measured blood pressure and heart rate. This relationship has not been previously tested in the Ghanaian popula…