Book Title: 3rd International Symposium on Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion - mESC-IS 2018, Program and the Book of Abstracts Conference Chair Jasmina Grbović Novaković, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Conference Vice chair(s) Bojana Paskaš Mamula, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Sandra Kurko, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Nikola Novaković, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Sanja Milošević Govedarović, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia International Advisory Board Dag Noreus, Stockholm University, Sweden Daniel Fruchart, Neel Institute, Grenoble, France Volodymyr Yartys, Institute for Energy Technology, Kjeller, Norway Amelia Montone, ENEA, Casaccia, Italy Patricia de Rango, Neel Institute, Grenoble, France Nataliya Skryabina, Perm State University, Russia Jose Ramon Ares Fernandez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Tayfur Öztürk, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Kadri Aydınol Middle East Technical University, Ankara Ruth Imnadze, Tblisi State University, Tbilisi Saban Patat, Erciyes University, Kayseri Slavko Mentus, Faculty of Physical Chemistry, University of Belgrade, Serbia Šćepan Miljanić, Faculty of Physical Chemistry, University of Belgrade, Serbia Jasmina Grbovic-Novakovic, Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Belgrade Branimir Banov, IEES, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria Fermin Cuevas, ICMPE/CNRS, Paris, France Darius Milčius, LEI, Kaunas, Lithuania Junxian Zhang, ICMPE/CNRS, Paris, France Montse Casas-Cabanas, CIC Energigune, Álava, Spain 4 mESC-IS 2018, 3rd Int. Symposium on Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion, Belgrade, Serbia Program committee Tayfur Öztürk, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Adam Revesz, Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary Dan Lupu, INCDTIM, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Georgia Charalambopoulou, NCSR Demokritos, Greece Miran Gaberšček, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia Nikola Biliškov, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia Maja Buljan, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia Branimir Banov, IEES, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria Tony Spassov, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Sofia University, Bulgaria Perica Paunovic, FTM, Skopje, Macedonia Siniša Ignjatović, UNIBL, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina Dragana Jugović, Inst Tech Sci SASA, Belgrade, Serbia Ivana Stojković Simatović, Faculty of Physical Chemistry, University of Belgrade, Serbia Igor Pašti, Faculty of Physical Chemistry, University of Belgrade, Serbia Nenad Ivanović, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Ivana Radisavljević, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Milica Marčeta Kaninski, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Jasmina Grbović Novaković, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Nikola Novaković, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Sandra Kurko, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Organizing committee Bojana Paskaš Mamula, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Jelena Milićević, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Tijana Pantić, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Sanja Milošević Govedarović, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Jana Radaković, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Katarina Batalović, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Igor Milanović, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia,Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Andjelka Djukić, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Bojana Kuzmanović, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Mirjana Medić Ilić, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Jelena Rmuš, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Željko Mravik, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Dear Colleagues, Welcome to 3rd International Symposium on Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion - mESC-IS 2018 and the town of Belgrade! The aim of the symphosium is to gather the researchers from Balkans, and all over Europe dealing with energy related materials to discuss on the important issues regarding energy storage, harvesting and conversion. First two very succesful symposia were organised in Turkey in 2015 and 2017 by professor Tayfur Öztürk, METU. The symposium, as before, will provide a forum for discussion in recent progress made in three major activity areas, namely batteries, solid state hydrogen storage and fuel cells. The symposium have a fair balance of plenary sessions covering cross-cutting issues and the state of the art reviews and parallel sessions with contributed papers and poster presentation. The papers from this conference will be published in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy Special Issue in order to disseminate the knowledge and to improve the visibility of symposiun Dr. Jasmina Grbović Novaković Dr. Nikola Novaković Dr. Sandra Kurko

Research topics, 2018 Nuclear Reactions and Structure Hyperfine Interaction and Intermetallic Phases Local Structures and Clusters Nuclear Instruments and Methods Hydrogen storage Ecology and Sustainable Development

Fifteen in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2018 measures aspects of regulation affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity: • Starting a business • Dealing with construction permits • Getting electricity • Registering property • Getting credit • Protecting minority investors • Paying taxes • Trading across borders • Enforcing contracts • Resolving insolvency These areas are included in the distance to frontier score and ease of doing business ranking. Doing Business also measures features of labor market regulation, which is not included in these two measures. The report updates all indicators as of June 1, 2017, ranks economies on their overall “ease of doing business†?, and analyzes reforms to business regulation †“ identifying which economies are strengthening their business environment the most. Doing Business illustrates how reforms in business regulations are being used to analyze economic outcomes for domestic entrepreneurs and for the wider economy. It is a flagship product produced in partnership by the World Bank Group that garners worldwide attention on regulatory barriers to entrepreneurship. More than 137 economies have used the Doing Business indicators to shape reform agendas and monitor improvements on the ground. In addition, the Doing Business data has generated over 2,182 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals since its inception. Data Notes; Distance to Frontier and Ease of Doing Business Ranking; and Summaries of Doing Business Reforms in 2016/17 can be downloaded separately from the Doing Business website.

This book gathers the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Measurement and Quality Control – Cyber Physical Issues (IMEKO TC 14 2019), held in Belgrade, Serbia, on 4–7 June 2019. The event marks the latest in a series of high-level conferences that bring together experts from academia and industry to exchange knowledge, ideas, experiences, research findings, and information in the field of measurement of geometrical quantities. The book addresses a wide range of topics, including: 3D measurement of GPS characteristics, measurement of gears and threads, measurement of roughness, micro- and nano-metrology, laser metrology for precision measurements, cyber physical metrology, optical measurement techniques, industrial computed tomography, multisensor techniques, intelligent measurement systems, evaluating measurement uncertainty, dimensional management in industry, product quality assurance methods, and big data analytics. By providing updates on key issues and highlighting recent advances in measurement and quality control, the book supports the transfer of vital knowledge to the next generation of academics and practitioners.

This report analyses the regional energy landscape, potential and costs, policy and investment needs, and expected socio-economic impact from a shift to renewables.

This publication highlights the use of wood for energy and includes the most recent statistics on wood energy markets across the UNECE region. It aims to communicate the relevance of wood energy in the region and help bridge information about the forest and energy sectors. It also intends to offer some of the best-available information on the role that wood energy can play in various sectors to support environmental, energy, and socio-economic strategies toward a greener economy. It focuses on commercial wood energy uses in the UNECE including energy generated for cooking, heating and electricity generation.

The background for conducting country study on the challenges, needs and constraints of smallholders and family farms in the Republic of Serbia has been a wish to further strengthen the Regional Initiative on Empowering Smallholders and Family Farms and develop it towards a stronger programmatic approach at both the regional and the country level. In order to provide support to smallholders and family farms, there has been a need to develop a better understanding and knowledge platform of the main challenges, needs and constraints of smallholders and family farms in the specific country context. The objective of the country study is first to analyse the development trend and current state of smallholders and family farms, second to study the current political priorities and policies affecting smallholders and family farms, and finally, based on the conclusions made, to provide recommendations, mainly at the policy level, on how to further support the development of family farms and at the same time ensure in general inclusive growth, improved rural livelihood and the reduction of rural poverty.

The interdisciplinary research and development work carried out in the last ten years which is presented in this book aimed at replacing the conventional airport control tower by a new “remote tower operation” work environment (RTO) which should enhance work efficiency and safety and reduce costs. This revolutionary human–system interface allows for remote aerodrome traffic control without a physical tower building and enables the establishment of remote airport traffic control centers (RTC) of which each may serve several airports from a central location.

In a rapidly changing world, there is an ever-increasing need to monitor the Earth’s resources and manage it sustainably for future generations. Earth observation from satellites is critical to provide information required for informed and timely decision making in this regard. Satellite-based earth observation has advanced rapidly over the last 50 years, and there is a plethora of satellite sensors imaging the Earth at finer spatial and spectral resolutions as well as high temporal resolutions. The amount of data available for any single location on the Earth is now at the petabyte-scale. An ever-increasing capacity and computing power is needed to handle such large datasets. The Google Earth Engine (GEE) is a cloud-based computing platform that was established by Google to support such data processing. This facility allows for the storage, processing and analysis of spatial data using centralized high-power computing resources, allowing scientists, researchers, hobbyists and anyone else interested in such fields to mine this data and understand the changes occurring on the Earth’s surface. This book presents research that applies the Google Earth Engine in mining, storing, retrieving and processing spatial data for a variety of applications that include vegetation monitoring, cropland mapping, ecosystem assessment, and gross primary productivity, among others. Datasets used range from coarse spatial resolution data, such as MODIS, to medium resolution datasets (Worldview -2), and the studies cover the entire globe at varying spatial and temporal scales.

The ever-increasing need for higher efficiency, smaller size, and lower cost make the analysis, understanding, and design of energy conversion systems extremely important, interesting, and even imperative. One of the most neglected features in the study of such systems is the effect of the inherent nonlinearities on the stability of the system. Due to these nonlinearities, these devices may exhibit undesirable and complex dynamics, which are the focus of many researchers. Even though a lot of research has taken place in this area during the last 20 years, it is still an active research topic for mainstream power engineers. This research has demonstrated that these systems can become unstable with a direct result in increased losses, extra subharmonics, and even uncontrollability/unobservability. The detailed study of these systems can help in the design of smaller, lighter, and less expensive converters that are particularly important in emerging areas of research like electric vehicles, smart grids, renewable energy sources, and others. The aim of this Special Issue is to cover control and nonlinear aspects of instabilities in different energy conversion systems: theoretical, analysis modelling, and practical solutions for such emerging applications. In this Special Issue, we present novel research works in different areas of the control and nonlinear dynamics of energy conversion systems.