Previous studies on SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV reported the detection of viral RNA in the stool of both symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals. These clinical observations suggest that municipal and ...hospital wastewater from affected communities may contain SARS-CoV-2 RNA. Recent studies have also reported the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in human feces. Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is a promising approach to understand the prevalence of viruses in a given catchment population, as wastewater contains viruses from symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals. The current study reports the first detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in untreated wastewater in Slovenia. Two sizes of centrifugal filters were tested: 30 kDa and 10 kDA AMICON® Ultra-15 Centrifugal Filters, where 10 kDA resulted in a higher concentration factor and higher recovery efficiency. The results in hospital wastewater show that WBE can be used for monitoring COVID −19 and could be applied in municipal wastewater treatment plants as a potential complementary tool for public health monitoring at population level.
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•The first study in Slovenia that reports the detection of SARS-CoV-2 in untreated wastewater.•66.7% (10/15) of untreated hospital wastewater samples tested positive for at least one SARS-CoV-2 RT-qPCR target.•SARS-CoV-2 RNA was detected in untreated hospital wastewater when only one COVID-19 patient was hospitalized.
The research area is located in south-eastern Slovenia and belongs to the eastern extensions of the Slovenian Basin adjacent to the Adriatic Carbonate Platform. The studied section is 25 m thick and ...consists of grey, brownish and reddish pelagic limestones and calciturbidites, and two bentonite layers 110 and 10 cm thick. Both volcanoclastic horizons consist of greenish, fine-grained muddy material. To date, no other bentonites of similar age are known in the wider Southern Alpine and Dinaridic region. The late Campanian to Campanian/Maastrichtian age of the succession was determined from planktonic foraminifera and calcareous nanoplankton assemblages. XRD analysis revealed the presence of calcite, quartz, muscovite/illite and smectite, which prevails in the clay fraction and is indicative of bentonite clays. We interpret these bentonite horizons as resulting from direct deposition of volcanic ash in a marine environment with a concomitant admixture of detrital material (quartz, muscovite) and later diagenetic carbonatization. The geochemical composition suggests a felsic volcanic origin. The most likely source is the Late Cretaceous–Paleogene bimodal rhyolitic/basaltic volcanism documented along the Sava Suture Zone in present-day Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and North Macedonia. In the Central Apennines three locations with bentonites have been documented. Further spatial and temporal analysis of similar volcanogenic horizons could yield important data on the paleogeographic and tectonic evolution of the Adria/Apulia continental margin.
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•Important discovery of upper Campanian bentonite layers on the eastern Adria margin.•Volcanic ash deposition in a deeper-marine, carbonate dominated environment.•Correlates with Campanian rhyolitic volcanic activity in the Sava Suture Zone.
The article examines the discourse of Slovenia’s official tourism brand I Feel Slovenia. It presents a study of the English version of the official website, focusing on the ways in which the text ...establishes connections between emotions and emotions in the construction of the brand. Special attention is paid to the role of the word green in the discourse construction of Slovenia’s official image. The study is based on the framework of evaluative language (Martin and White 1995). The analysis shows that the word green is primarily used as a value-laden term, functioning as a placeholder for different evaluative meanings. The word green ties different strands of Slovenia’s image into a holistic concept rooted in the English-language slogan I Feel Slovenia and the label Slovenia Green.
Članek obravnava diskurz uradne slovenske turistične znamke I Feel Slovenia. Predstavlja raziskavo angleške verzijo uradne spletne strani, zlasti ugotovitve o tem, kako se v besedilih konceptualno povezujejo čustva in vrednote trajnostnega razvoja. Analiza se osredotoča zlasti na vlogo besede zelen v diskurzni konstrukciji uradne znamke Slovenije. Raziskava temelji na teoriji jezika vrednotenja (Martin in White 1995). Analiza besedil kaže, da se beseda zelen uporablja predvsem kot izraz vrednotenj. Deluje kot označevalec vrednot in sodb in povezuje različne sklope slovenske identitete v celostni koncept, ki izhaja iz slogana I Feel Slovenia in oznake Slovenia Green.
This paper reviews the concept of place brand identity within the supply side aspect of place branding. With no widely accepted model of place brand identity, the paper proposes a new model, which ...has its roots in marketing, tourism and sociological theory. The model focuses on the country brand of Slovenia, representing the first systematic branding process in Slovenia's short history. The development of a research program followed a holistic approach involving key influencers and enactment stakeholders. This novel approach has several advantages over the previously uncoordinated country branding attempts.
INTEGRATION OF MIGRANTS IN SLOVENIA Klopcic, Vera
Innovative issues and approaches in social sciences,
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The paper discusses main characteristics of the contemporary situation concerning the integration of migrants in Slovenia, mainly after the emergence of the refugee crisis in 2015. The Global ...migration pact and relevant European legislation tackles it as a great humanitarian crisis. Majority of members of European Union, and Slovenia as well, have been faced with the dilemma of how much defense and security measures in their own country can be strengthened, and how to cope with the wave of migrants, while respecting accepted human rights standards. In Slovenia, in 2019 the comprehensive Government Strategy for migration was adopted and special Office for the Support and Integration of Migrants was established in 2018, to answer these challenges as comprehensively as possible. Policy measures towards regulation of status and integration of migrants in Slovenia are focused on implementation of rights of migrants who are already legally residing in Slovenia, aimed to provide necessary knowledge of Slovenian language and culture, needed for their integration.
Between 2001 and 2020, Slovenia lost 8,952 lives due to suicides, two thirds of them by hanging.
To analyze trends in suicide methods between 2001 and 2020 and to explore relationships between ...suicide methods and selected sociodemographic characteristic.
We focused on methods accounting for 95.7% of all suicides. We performed joinpoint regression to examine changes in suicide rates by respective methods and multivariate logistic regression analyses to study sociodemographics associated with specific suicide methods.
A gender-specific annual decrease in suicide rates was observed in all methods except for sharp objects and jumping or lying in front of a moving object. Age was statistically significant in the use of firearms and jumping or lying in front of a moving object, while gender was significant in all methods. Associations were found between education, marital status, region of residence, and various suicide methods.
The results are potentially culturally specific.
Certain sociodemographics seem to be associated with the selection of the method.
We report a case of human Dirofilaria repens infection in a woman in Slovenia who had concomitant pleural and subcutaneous manifestations of the infection. This case report illustrates the clinical ...course of a severe symptomatic parasitic infection that had multisystemic manifestations.
The effects of increasing agricultural land use on fluvial morphology have received much attention in fluvial research. However, in several regions in Europe, a reversing trend of decreasing ...agricultural activity and land abandonment, followed by reforestation, is observed. The response of fluvial morphology deserves attention because of its large impacts on landscape and riverine habitats. With the help of geomorphological mapping, multi-date aerial photography and a range of dating techniques, we reconstructed the evolution of the morphology of the riverbed and the floodplain of the Dragonja river in southwestern Slovenia. The results of this study show that the fluvial morphology in this Mediterranean catchment has changed considerably as a result of shifts in agricultural land use, in particular large-scale land abandonment in the second half of the 20th century. Until the first half of the 19th century, floodplain aggradation prevailed. Probably around 1870, a large erosion event occurred from which the floodplain did not fully recover. A terrace standing 2.5 m above the present floodplain was formed. Natural reforestation, due to depopulation since World War II, caused a reduction in discharge and sediment supply to the river. The decreased intensity and frequency of floods allowed invasion of the riverbed by vegetation, causing narrowing and incision of the riverbed. This resulted in the formation of a terrace, which now stands 1.5 m above the present-day river. This terrace is about 60 years old. However, the largest increase in forest area occurred since 1975, which intensified this process of riverbed narrowing and incision, creating a local terrace at 0.5 m at 0.5 m above the presently meandering river.
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