The post-Yugoslav space on a demographic crossway: 25 years after the collapse of Yugoslavia

The aim of the article is to integrally assess the demographic changes after 1990. It is presumed that considerable variations exist in terms of intensity of demographic processes. The following analyses encompassed the relevant national or regional statistics, employing methodological adjustment in order to enable data comparison. Herewith, the changing definitions of population presented a special analytical problem. The so-called principle of ?permanent? residence was largely replaced with the principle of ?usual? residence. By way of the usual residence it was possible to single out the present population and thus to approach the analysis. The main goal was to assess the direct and indirect demographic loss within the post-Yugoslav space. The combined analysis showed that the whole post Yugoslav area suffered a loss of about 5 million inhabitants (including the permanent emigration of the former guest-workers). Except from Slovenia, and stagnating Montenegro and Macedonia, all other countries from the Yugoslav space have lost more or less of their population. Losing a quarter of its pre-war population, Bosnia-Herzegovina suffered the most (1.093 million), but the high loss was determined also for the neighboring Serbia and Croatia. Serbia within its pre-war territory lost almost a million or one tenth of its population, while Croatia lost more than half a million or one ninth of its population. The three core Yugoslav areas lost more than 2.5 million. The analyses confirmed the striking regional differences as well. The highest relative depopulation was recorded in Republika Srpska of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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Demographic challenges and spatial distribution of the population in the Republika Srpska

Zbornik Matice srpske za drustvene nauke ◽

10.2298/zmsdn1448813v ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 813-821

Author(s):

Rajko Vranjes ◽

Dara Petkovic

Keyword(s):

Spatial Distribution ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Natural Increase ◽

Economic Effects ◽

Preliminary Results ◽

Demographic Challenges ◽

First Results ◽

Demographic Processes ◽

Republika Srpska ◽

First Time

For the first time in 22 years, an official census of population was carried out on the territory of the Republika Srpska. This is the first time that we have data (preliminary results) based on which we can examine the demographic situation, spatial distribution of the population and certain ongoing demographic processes. Based on the analysis of preliminary results on the total number of enumerated persons and through the analysis of natural increase in migration flows, the article will present the demographic problem faced by the Republika Srpska. The analysis of first results shows that entire regions have low population densities, being affected by depopulation which is caused mainly by negative natural movements and migrations. Rural areas which represented a demographic potential are being depopulated and some of them have no inhabitants at all. The unfavourable spatial distribution, low level of natural regeneration and constant emigration seriously endanger the total number of population in the Republika Srpska, which has been steadily declining ever since 2002. Constant negative socio-economic effects in the short term could jeopardize the development of the population and the very maintenance of infrastructure in settlements in Republika Srpska.

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Author response for "Regional differences in beta amyloid plaque deposition and variable response to midlife environmental enrichment in the cortex of APP / PS1 mice"

10.1002/cne.25060/v3/response1 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Barbora Fulopova ◽

Kimberley E. Stuart ◽

William Bennett ◽

Aidan Bindoff ◽

Anna E. King ◽

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Keyword(s):

Regional Differences ◽

Environmental Enrichment ◽

Amyloid Plaque ◽

Beta Amyloid ◽

Author Response ◽

Variable Response ◽

Plaque Deposition

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Review for "Regional differences in beta amyloid plaque deposition and variable response to midlife environmental enrichment in the cortex of APP / PS1 mice"

10.1002/cne.25060/v2/review1 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Elliott J Mufson

Keyword(s):

Regional Differences ◽

Environmental Enrichment ◽

Amyloid Plaque ◽

Beta Amyloid ◽

Variable Response ◽

Plaque Deposition

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Microstructural characterization of YBaCuO Films on LaAlO3 substrates

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100152872 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 47 ◽

pp. 180-181

Author(s):

E. L. Hall ◽

A. Mogro-Campero ◽

N. Lewis ◽

L. G. Turner

Keyword(s):

Dielectric Constant ◽

Single Crystal ◽

Film Growth ◽

Microstructural Characterization ◽

Lattice Parameter ◽

Film Plane ◽

Substrate Material ◽

High Loss ◽

Amorphous Substrates ◽

High Dielectric

There have been a large number of recent studies of the growth of Y-Ba-Cu-O thin films, and these studies have employed a variety of substrates and growth techniques. To date, the highest values of Tc and Jc have been found for films grown by sputtering or coevaporation on single-crystal SrTiO3 substrates, which produces a uniaxially-aligned film with the YBa2Cu3Ox c-axis normal to the film plane. Multilayer growth of films on the same substrate produces a triaxially-aligned film (regions of the film have their c-axis parallel to each of the three substrate <100> directions) with lower values of Jc. Growth of films on a variety of other polycrystalline or amorphous substrates produces randomly-oriented polycrystalline films with low Jc. Although single-crystal SrTiO3 thus produces the best results, this substrate material has a number of undesireable characteristics relative to electronic applications, including very high dielectric constant and a high loss tangent at microwave frequencies. Recently, Simon et al. have shown that LaAlO3 could be used as a substrate for YBaCuO film growth. This substrate is essentially a cubic perovskite with a lattice parameter of 0.3792nm (it has a slight rhombohedral distortion at room temperature) and this material exhibits much lower dielectric constant and microwave loss tangents than SrTiO3. It is also interesting from a film growth standpoint since it has a slightly smaller lattice parameter than YBa2Cu3Ox (a=0.382nm, b=c/3=0.389nm), while SrTiO3 is slightly larger (a=0.3905nm).

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