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The development of more modern and effective strategies for teaching chemical bonding theory is a key objective within the chemistry education community. A solid understanding of this concept is essential for comprehending a range of chemistry topics, including the physical and chemical properties of substances, chemical thermodynamics, and polymers – all of which play a vital role in real-world applications. Integrating valence bond (VB) theory, with its strong interpretative capabilities, i...

This paper presents the application of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods to support the selection of a printing machine in a small Serbian printing company. The study aims to select the most suitable machine among thethree alternatives preselected by the company owner. In the decision-making process, seven limiting factors, i.e., criteria, were taken into consideration. The selected criteria were ranked using the AHP method, while the alternatives were evaluated and ranked using t...

The aim of the research is to shed light on the possibilities that a childhood image can possess in the context of fantasy in art. Archeology is, therefore, a metaphor for moving towards childhood, but not in the sense of an ’antique store’ of personal memories and simplified associations/elementary evocation of events. Our archaeological endeavor is not an escape from reality, it takes place in the context of fantasy, reverie as a creative ambiance. We start our journey towards childhood ima...

In this article, we analyze the translation techniques of fifteen neologisms coined by the Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno in his four prose works. From a broader corpus, we selected representatives of several subgroups of neologisms for translation analysis ‒ simple words, derivatives formed through prefixation and suffixation, imperative compounds, and semantic neologisms. The analysis shows that the translation employs techniques of generalization, descriptive translation and paraphrasing...

The subject of the paper is the folklore pattern of female warriors and avengers reshaped in the works of Serbian romanticism. Through the analysis of the romantic poems, as well as an insight into the oral literary spheres from which the pattern was taken and decontextualized, it was observed that the figure of the warrior woman, the dividing girl, and the avenger, is often repeated in a new poetic and genre context, but is brought to extreme limits of transformation, primarily due to the im...

The paper examines the status of stage directions in Borislav Mihailović Mihiz’s play The Commander Sailer. Contrary to the traditional understanding of stage directions as secondary dramatic units, we will point out their expanded functions both on the structural and ideological- semantic levels of Mihiz’s play. In this regard, stage directions are explained primarily as elements of the organization of dramatic space – as a more broadly understood space in which the dramatic action unfolds, ...

El objetivo del trabajo es analizar la queerificación de Emiliano Zapata, uno de los líderes de la Revolución Mexicana, en la novela Morir de pie (2019) de Pedro J. Fernández. Señalamos que Fernández emplea las técnicas de la nueva novela histórica y escribe una historia alternativa de la vida de este revolucionario mexicano basando la narración en los rumores de su homosexualidad. Fernández cuestiona la relación entre Zapata e Ignacio de la Torre, el yerno de Porfirio Díaz, partiendo de la i...

This paper investigates the collexemes of the modal expression be obliged to, i.e. the construction be obliged to V in terms of which infinitival complements are attracted to and which are repelled by the construction. Starting from the viewpoint of Construction Grammar, that constructions are form-meaning pairings of varying degrees of complexity and schematicity, this paper aims to investigate which verbs are more likely to fill the open slot in the construction examined. Moreover, relying ...

Natasha Brown’s debut novel Assembly (2021) positions its black, female, British narrator at the intersection of colonial racial legacy, immigrant experience, class divides and exploitative (neo)liberal practices, insidious misogyny, and a tectonic shift introduced by a cancer diagnosis. This paper’s research methodology encompasses interpretations of the dynamics of power, modes of oppression, and structures of privilege within theories of intersectionality. Specifically, the “imperialist wh...