Carried out in the framework of the Franco-Bulgarian archaeological mission at Apollonia Pontica, the study of the settlement of Malkoto Kale aimed at a better understanding of the impact of the foundation of the Greek city on the Thracian settlement pattern. In 2020, reopening a trench excavated in 1973, excavations uncovered archaeological contexts rich in faunal remains. The archaeozoological study provides the first publication on fish bones in an Early Iron Age context of the South-Western Black seashore. It brings to light the fishery practices of the local population before the arrival of Greek settlers in the area. As such, it constitutes an important contribution to our understanding of Early Iron Age diet in the Balkan Peninsula.
We classify all contact structures on 3‐manifolds that admit a nonfree toric action, up to contactomorphism, and present them through explicit topological descriptions. Our classification is based on Lerman's classification of toric contact 3‐manifolds up to equivariant contactomorphism [Lerman, J. Symplectic Geom. 1 (2003), 785–828]. We also prove that every contact 3‐manifold with a nonfree toric action arises as the concave boundary of a toric linear plumbing over spheres inspired by Marinković et al. As a corollary of both results, we classify which contact 3‐manifolds arise as the concave boundary of a linear plumbing of spheres.
The history of the medieval Western Balkans is complex, and the role of women remains largely unknown to the wider public. Although they lived in predominantly patriarchal societies, some women ruled medieval states, while others left a lasting legacy in patronage, diplomacy, culture, and education. This paper describes an interactive digital presentation of five medieval Balkan queens using a combination of Advanced Interactive Digital Story- telling (A-IDS) in a virtual reality (VR) educational game and an augmented reality (AR) application deployed at heritage sites associated with their lives. The SHELeadersVR game, installed in museums across Bosnia and Herzegov- ina, Albania, Serbia, North Macedonia, and Montenegro, places these female rulers in virtual reconstructions of historical locations where they narrate their life stories.An accompanying AR application engages visitors at castle and fortress sites through 3D reconstructions of archaeological remains and invites them to continue the experience in museums. User experience evaluation confirms the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
Ethnographic analysis is aimed to present the Parliament of Serbia as institutional, political, spatial and cultural ambience in which (un)written rules, rituals and regulations are designed to facilitate or inhibit bridging of the gender gap between female and male MPs. This paper explores the different microstrategies of women MPs of their initiation, accommodation, mitigation and challenging of established parliamentary gender binary hierarchical settings and in/ formal rules and norms. At all levels of the analysis, an interpretive dialogue was introduced to present the testimonies of women who served as MPs in the Serbian parliament with the aim to present the comparative genesis of their gender and political emancipation. Ethnographic analysis shows that the main focal points of the power of women MPs in parliamentary hierarchy settings are evaluated as inadequate in comparison to high level of their descriptive representation. Electoral engineering of increasing women quotas results, paradoxically, in greater exposure and vulnerability of women parliamentarians to various gender-related forms of verbal, psychological, sexual harassment and violence. The affirmative model of women?s empowerment is limited by strong gravitation field of loyalty to their political parties.
The text analyzes the concept of the mental word in Thomas Aquinas as the final step in the process of intellectual cognition. The context of the emergence of this term in St. Augustine is given at the beginning, and the connection of the meaning of mental word with the understanding of the relationships within the Holy Trinity is emphasized. In Aquinas, the mental word is defined in relation to other essential concepts for intellectual cognition: the intelligible species, the act of the possible intellect, and the known thing. Special attention is paid to the clear distinction between the intelligible species and the spiritual word. Furthermore, the meaning of intentio intellecta is explained, and the origin of the terms ?concept of first intention? and ?concept of second intention? is indicated.
