Kragujevac

a town in E central Serbia and Montenegro, in Serbia; capital of Serbia (1818--39); automobile industry. Pop.: 145 890 (2002)

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Kragujevac

a city in Yugoslavia, in the Socialist Republic of Serbia, on the Lepenica River (a tributary of the Morava). Population, 71,000 (1971).

In the past, Kragujevac was known mainly as the center of the agricultural district of the fertile Sumadija Valley, where grain, melons, tobacco, and vegetables are grown. Under the people’s power, Kragujevac has become an industrial city. It has a variety of machine-building enterprises, including an automobile plant. Local plants produce metal parts, radio equipment, and agricultural implements. There are leather, wood-products, flour, and dairy plants.

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A lot of these rifles were churned out of the Kragujevac Arsenal--now renamed "Zastava"--continuing into the early '50s.

Yugoslavian M24/47 Mauser-Pattern Rifle: These cheap postwar variants offer perhaps the best value on the vintage-Mauser market

Meteorological conditions: The data in Table 1 for the investigated period (2008-2011) clearly indicate that the years in which the researches were conducted differed from the typical multi year average of Kragujevac region.

EFFECT OF LONG TERM FERTILIZATION ON GRAIN YIELD AND YIELD COMPONENTS OF WINTER TRITICALE

Milojevic, "Analyzing the Impact of Variable Compression Ratio on Combustion Process in Diesel Engines," in Thesis, University of Kragujevac Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Kragujevac, Serbia, 2005.

Determination of Combustion Process Model Parameters in Diesel Engine with Variable Compression Ratio

This work was supported by grants from the Serbian Ministry of Science and Technological Development (175071 and 175069), Serbia, and from the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac (Project JP 15/16), Serbia.

Diverse Expression of IL-32 in Diffuse and Intestinal Types of Gastric Cancer

The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Clinical Centre Kragujevac (No: 01/43).

Previous Antibiotic Exposure and Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns of Acinetobacter spp. and Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolated from Patients with Nosocomial Infections

Our study was designed as a prospective non-randomized study and it included patients undergoing lumbar disc surgery during the three-year period at the Center for Neurosurgery, Kragujevac Clinical Center in Kragujevac, Republic of Serbia.

STANDARD LUMBAR DISCECTOMY VERSUS MICRODISCECTOMY--DIFFERENCES IN CLINICAL OUTCOME AND REOPERATION RATE

The survey was conducted as a clinical, retrospective study in the period of 11 years in the Clinical Center Kragujevac, Serbia.

Cannulation Technique and Arteriovenous Fistula Survival in Older Adult Patients on Hemodialysis