astronomy

Nada Kostić

Nada Kostić is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Nada Kostić rather than just read about it. In short: Nada Kostić (Serbian Cyrillic: Нада Костић; born 17 May 1956) is a Serbian medical doctor, academic, and politician. She briefly served as Serbia's minister of health in the transitional government that was established after the fall of Slobodan Milošević's administration in 2000.

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Reference excerpt

Nada Kostić (Serbian Cyrillic: Нада Костић; born 17 May 1956) is a Serbian medical doctor, academic, and politician. She briefly served as Serbia's minister of health in the transitional government that was established after the fall of Slobodan Milošević's administration in 2000. She has also served in the National Assembly of Serbia on two occasions. Kostić promoted conspiracy theories related to COVID-19 in 2020.

Early life and private career Kostić was born in Belgrade, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. She is a graduate of the University of Belgrade, having studied at its faculty of medicine and faculty of philosophy (department of clinical psychology). She received a master's degree in 1989 and a Ph.D. in 1993. Kostić has served as a professor at the university's faculty of medicine and as director of the internal medicine clinic at the Dedinje Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases.

Politician

Early years Kostić joined the Democratic Party of Serbia (Demokratska stranka Srbije, DSS) on its formation in 1992. The party contested the 1992 Serbian parliamentary election as part of the Democratic Movement of Serbia (DEPOS) alliance, and Kostić received the twenty-fourth position on its electoral list in Belgrade. The party won fifteen seats in the city, and she was not afterwards selected as part of its parliamentary delegation. (From 1992 to 2000, Serbia's electoral law stipulated that one-third of parliamentary mandates would be assigned to candidates from successful lists in numerical order, while the remaining two-thirds would be distributed amongst other candidates on the lists by the sponsoring parties. It was common practice for the latter mandates to be assigned out of numerical order. Kostić could have been awarded a mandate despite her relatively low position on the list, although in the event she was not.) The DSS had left DEPOS by the time of the 1993 Serbian parliamentary election and contested the election on its own. Kostić received the sixth position on the party's list in Belgrade. The DSS won four seats in the city, and she was not initially selected for its delegation. She did, however, receive a mandate on 30 June 1997 as the replacement for Dragoljub Popović. Her first term in parliament was brief. The 1997 parliamentary election was called shortly after she received her mandate, and the DSS chose to boycott the vote. Her mandate ended when the new assembly convened on 3 December.

Serbian cabinet minister After the fall of Slobodan Milošević's administration in October 2000, Serbia was governed by a coalition of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS), and the Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) until new elections could be called and a new government formed. The DOS was itself a coalition of several opposition parties, including the DSS. The party received the ministry of health in the new coalition government, and Kostić was appointed as minister on October 24, 2000. In January 2001, Kostić indicated that the ministry of health would appoint a commission of scientists and doctors to monitor the possible long-term effects on the Serbian population of depleted uranium munitions fired by North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces in the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. She added that "there [was] no reason for panic" in the matter, and her ministry indicated that there was no evidence of immediate danger. The Democratic Opposition of Serbia won a landslide victory in the 2000 Serbian parliamentary election. After the election, the Democratic Party of Serbia nominated Obren Joksimović to replace Kostić as health minister. Joksimović's nomination was criticized by many in the health sector; a group of doctors in Požarevac referred to him as unsuited for the role while describing Kostić as "the kind of person whose professional and ethical qualities fully suit a ministerial role, something that she has demonstrated in the work in the Serbian interim government and in her public appearances so far." This notwithstanding, Joksimović's nomination went through and Kostić stood down from the ministry on January 25, 2001. She resigned from the Democratic Party of Serbia on the same day.

September–October 2002 Serbian presidential election Kostić joined the political group of the Christian Democratic Party of Serbia in November 2001 and was their candidate for president of Serbia in the September–October 2002 Serbian presidential election. Her slogan was "Nada for Serbia" (the word "Nada" means "hope" in Serbian). She withdrew from the election prior to the vote, when the party decided to back the candidacy of Miroljub Labus. During the early part of her political career, Kostić did not express the controversial views with which she was later associated.

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Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Nada Kostić

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Nada Kostić claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Nada Kostić before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Nada Kostić ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Nada Kostić

In research: Nada Kostić appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Nada Kostić in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Nada Kostić is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1956 births, 21st-century Serbian women politicians, Academic staff of the University of Belgrade, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Nada Kostić outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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