Razprava obravnava ideološko zaznamovane primere preimenovanj naselij na zahodnem robu slovenskega ozemlja. Med letoma 1948 in 1955 so komunistične oblasti na tem območju preimenovale številna ...naselja, pri čemer jih je vodila želja po preobrazbi podobe pokrajine, iz katere naj bi izginili sledovi preteklosti, ki se niso skladali z njihovo vizijo nove družbene ureditve. Kot problematični so se s tega vidika kazali predvsem toponimi s katoliško etimologijo, a tudi tisti, izvirajoči iz nemškega jezika, tako da je pri preimenovanju prišlo do spajanja revolucionarne in nacionalistične sporočilnosti. Vendar proces preimenovanja kljub jasnim ideološkim mejam (ne)sprejemljivega ni bil preprost ali hiter, saj se je zavlekel vse do leta 1955.
Recent developments in local public finance management in Slovenia indicate the local governments’ growing interest in introducing participatory budgeting as a decision-making tool, wherein part of ...local resources are used with citizen participation. Usually, the literature on participation budgeting analyses its effects, but our main research objective was to analyze the possible determinants influencing its implementation. The influence of political factors, sociodemographic factors, economic factors, and the capability of municipalities are examined here using binary logistic regression to predict a dichotomous dependent variable from a set of predictor variables. In binary logistic regression, predictable variables are the probability of one category being chosen. In this case, the authors calculated the probability that a municipality, described by selected prediction variables, would implement a participatory budget. The results of the analysis suggest six indicators that impact the probability of participatory budgeting adoption, proving the influence of four determinants on the decision to adopt such a measure.
Previous research has mostly overlooked the hotel employee-related perspectives on (occupational) health, including its relation to pandemics (such as COVID-19). This research examines this ...perspective focusing on the case of the Slovenian hotel industry. An anonymous web questionnaire, as the only practical option, was sent during the lockdown to potential respondents from hotels throughout the country. For the analysis, the following approaches were employed: univariate analysis, the check of reliability and confidence intervals for the means, principal component analysis with Varimax rotation, and Spearman's and Pearson's rank-order correlations. The majority of respondents changed their attitude towards health during the pandemic (chi square = 2.66). Using PCA, dimensionality-reduction of the dataset was implemented. A five-component solution, in which components account for 60.3% of the total variance, was identified. Due to low r.sub.s and r.sub.p, all components are negligibly correlated to demographic characteristics as well as to the respondents' changing health concerns due to COVID-19. Keywords: hotel industry, employees, COVID-19 pandemic, occupational health, Slovenia Prethodna istrazivanja uglavnom su zanemarivala misljenja hotelskih zaposlenika o zdravlju (na radnom mjestu), ukljucujuci njegovu povezanost s pandemijama (kao sto je COVID-19). Ovo istrazivanje ispituje ta misljenja usmjerujuci se na slucaj slovenske hotelske industrije. Anonimni web-upitnik, kao jedina prakticna mogucnost, poslan je tijekom pandemije potencijalnim ispitanicima u hotelima diljem zemlje. U analizi primijenjeni su sljedeci pristupi: univarijatna analiza, provjera intervala pouzdanosti za srednju vrijednost, analiza glavnih komponenti s Varimax-rotacijom te Spearmanov i Pearsonov koeficijent korelacije ranga. Vecina ispitanika promijenila je svoj stav prema zdravlju tijekom pandemije (chi square = 2,66). Analizom glavnih komponenti (PCA) uvedena je redukcija dimenzionalnosti skupa podataka i izdvojeno je pet komponenti koje cine 60,3 % ukupne varijance. Zbog niskog r.sub.s i r.sub.p, sve su komponente zanemarivo povezane s demografskim karakteristikama, kao i s promjenom zabrinutosti za zdravlje ispitanika zbog pandemije COVID-19. Kljucne rijeci: hotelijerstvo, zaposlenici, pandemija COVID-19, zdravlje na radu, Slovenija
The Local Self-Government Act has given explicit legal ground for the use of optional participatory budgeting (PB) on the municipal level in Slovenia since 2018. This means municipalities and their ...inhabitants have absolute discretion regarding the nature of proposed and later (if chosen) implemented projects in a certain municipality if the projects fall under municipal authority. The article presents research results that reveal that a legislative soft approach to PB, resulted in small municipal engagement in PB projects. They on average spent up to one percent of budgetary expenses for PB purposes, resulting mostly in inclusive, peoplecentered projects promoting facilities for socializing, and different kinds of public infrastructure capacities (sports infrastructure, etc.). The projects implemented in Slovenia so far are prevailingly "public infrastructure projects " in line with the municipal social sustainability agenda promoting equality and diversity, social cohesion, democracy and governance, and quality of life in a certain municipality.
This report assesses the Slovenian public sector salary system. In doing so, it examines the salary structure; the job classification framework; wage relativities - level of compensation and method ...for determining wage increases, and the wage negotiation framework; use of cash supplements; use of performance incentives; and the role of social dialogue in bargaining employment conditions.
Purpose
The dissertation focuses on time series analysis and is based on several research strategies
and methods.
The methodology used in the research process was published in four papers as part of
...international scientific journals indexed in the Web of Science database. Since tourism
is one of the most lagged industries in science there is need for new and innovative
approaches in key tourist sector determinants modelling and forecasting.
This doctoral thesis introduces an extension of time series methodology that focuses
on investigating and testing the normal distribution of residuals, as a key adequacy
prerequisite of econometric models. This issue has not systematically been considered in
quantitative approaches in tourism.
The motivation for research of the doctoral thesis are multidimensional: to filter previous
research on time series in tourism and to theoretically and empirically improve and
redesign time series methodology and methods for tourism. Both issues were successfully
presented in one of the published papers. Finally, tourism forecasts should be based on
reliable models as evident, from the most recent shocks, ex-ante tourism forecasting has
to be considered crucial in evaluating model efficiency.
The dissertation aimed to research and develop appropriate econometric models able to
capture the specifics of multiple interactions in the tourism market. The research seeks
to develop econometric models for the Republics of Slovenia and Croatia, two countries
whose economic development is predicated on tourism. Four goals and four specific objectives have been specified during the research process:
1) To introduce an improved time series approach in cointegrated panels. The first specific
objective (SO1) is to test at least ten econometric modelling structures that reduce cycle
breaks. 2) To examine previous theoretical thinking regarding the cointegration of
time series, cross-sectional data, and panels. The second specific objective (SO2) is to
outline at least 250 previous empirical studies for the tourism industry. 3) To examine
cointegration in tourism data for Slovenia and Croatia. The third objective (SO3) is
to model at least three econometric time series equations and mathematical theorems/
lemmas for the tourism industry. 4) To improve and better understand unit root tests in
tourism. The specific objective (SO4) is to approach the design of at least three stable
and innovative models.
The Balkans are still an imprecisely defined and relatively unknown area in southeastern Europe. They are a historical‐political term, often provoking negative associations that are synonymous with ...underdevelopment, backwardness, and primitiveness. This research is aimed primarily at exploring how the Balkans are perceived by students of geography in Zagreb and Maribor and what associations they provoke. It further seeks to investigate whether the Balkans are primarily a cognitive construct that is spatially determined on an individual level, based on an individual’s own insights, attitudes, values, and other determinants. Therefore, a questionnaire survey regarding perceptions of the Balkans was conducted. The results indicate that the Balkans can be seen as a sort of vernacular anti‐region: the kind from which states in or near its boundaries attempt to exclude themselves, while simultaneously trying to include their neighbors to the south and east.
Delayed sleep phase disorder and advanced sleep phase disorder cause disruption of the circadian clock and present with extreme morning/evening chronotype with unclear role of the genetic etiology, ...especially for delayed sleep phase disorder. To assess if genotyping can aid in clinical diagnosis, we examined the presence of genetic variants in circadian clock genes previously linked to both sleep disorders in Slovenian patient cohort. Based on Morning-evening questionnaire, we found 15 patients with extreme chronotypes, 13 evening and 2 morning, and 28 controls. Sanger sequencing was used to determine the presence of carefully selected candidate SNPs in regions of the
,
and
genes. In a patient with an extreme morning chronotype and a family history of circadian sleep disorder we identified two heterozygous missense variants in
gene, c.1243C>G (NM_001377275.1 (p.Pro415Ala)) and c.1250A>G (NM_001377275.1 (p.His417Arg)). The variants were significantly linked to Advanced sleep phase disorder and were also found in proband's father with extreme morningness. Additionally, a rare SNP was found in
gene in a patient with
Delayed sleep phase disorder. The novel variant in
(NM_022817.3):c.1901-218 G>T
. We identified a family with autosomal dominant inheritance of two
heterozygous variants that can be linked to Advanced sleep phase disorder. We revealed also a rare hereditary form of Delayed sleep phase disorder with a new
variant with autosomal dominant inheritance, shedding the light into the genetic causality.
This paper uses a rich data set of Slovenian manufacturing firms active in the period 1994–2002 that contains information on outward FDI and exports to different markets in order to test three ...empirical hypotheses that relate the decision for outward FDI to total factor productivity. First, the evidence supports the hypothesis proposed by Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2004) that more productive firms are more likely to invest in a foreign affiliate. Second, the hypothesis proposed by Head and Ries (2003) that less productive firms may be encouraged to invest in low‐income countries is rejected by the data. However, the main contribution of the paper is to confirm the third hypothesis that required firm's productivity increases with the number of markets that the firm serves, i.e. there is a positive relationship between the number of a firm's foreign affiliates and its total factor productivity.
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