The article deals with increasing cross-border education, namely students from Slovenia attending upper-secondary level minority schools in Austrian Carinthia. We conducted interviews with school ...management and focus groups with students, who also completed a short questionnaire. Based on qualitative and quantitative data, we drew conclusions about the motives of students from Slovenia for enrolment in Slovene minority schools in Austria and about the consequences of their decision – their well-being, their knowledge and use of languages, their plans for the future – as well as in relation to their sense of Europeanness and their varying identities. Cross-border schooling turns out to be a success story. The outcome seems to be particularly favourable for the Slovene minority in Austrian Carinthia as it maintains the scope and quality of minority education, while also having the positive consequence of giving the members of the Slovene minority much greater exposure to the Slovene language, especially spoken language, with which they otherwise have less direct contact.
Over the last few decades, economists and psychologists have quietly documented the many ways in which a person's IQ matters. But, research suggests that a nation's IQ matters so much more.As Garett ...Jones argues in Hive Mind, modest differences in national IQ can explain most cross-country inequalities. Whereas IQ scores do a moderately good job of predicting individual wages, information processing power, and brain size, a country's average score is a much stronger bellwether of its overall prosperity. Drawing on an expansive array of research from psychology, economics, management, and political science, Jones argues that intelligence and cognitive skill are significantly more important on a national level than on an individual one because they have "positive spillovers." On average, people who do better on standardized tests are more patient, more cooperative, and have better memories. As a result, these qualities—and others necessary to take on the complexity of a modern economy—become more prevalent in a society as national test scores rise. What's more, when we are surrounded by slightly more patient, informed, and cooperative neighbors we take on these qualities a bit more ourselves. In other words, the worker bees in every nation create a "hive mind" with a power all its own. Once the hive is established, each individual has only a tiny impact on his or her own life. Jones makes the case that, through better nutrition and schooling, we can raise IQ, thereby fostering higher savings rates, more productive teams, and more effective bureaucracies. After demonstrating how test scores that matter little for individuals can mean a world of difference for nations, the book leaves readers with policy- oriented conclusions and hopeful speculation: Whether we lift up the bottom through changing the nature of work, institutional improvements, or freer immigration, it is possible that this period of massive global inequality will be a short season by the standards of human history if we raise our global IQ.
Zakonom o izmenama i dopunama zakona o radu, koji je usvojen 2014. godine, regulisana je naknada štete kao posledica nedozvoljenog otkaza ugovora o radu, čime je nastavljen proces harmonizacije našeg ...prava sa međunarodnim radnim pravom. Članom 191 Zakona o radu predviđena je ne samo naknada štete kao posledica u situaciji kada reintegracija zaposlenog nije moguća, već i u slučaju kada zaposleni uopšte ne zahteva povratak na rad. Predmet rada je odnos dve naknade štete koje se mogu potraživati u slučaju nedozvoljenog otkaza ugovora o radu, uz kritički osvrt na nova zakonska rešenja, a sve to prikazom argumenata koji idu u prilog mogućnosti njihovog opravdanog kumuliranja, a potom i argumenata koji to opovrgavaju.
Članek sloni na rezultatih mednarodnega projekta iz 5. Okvirnega programa EU pod naslovom URBS PANDENS: Urban Sprawl: European Patterns, Environmental Degradation and Sustainable Development ...(EVK4-CT-2001-00052) sofinanciran iz sredstev EU. Namen projekta je splošno razumevanje o naravi in razsežnosti procesa širjenja mestnega območja ter ugotovitve specifičnih evropskih vzorcev in vzorčno-posledičnih odnosov v procesu širjenja mestnega območja na primeru vzorčnih mest. Projekt združuje ustrezne izkušnje, informacije in znanja potrebne za nadaljnje usmerjanje trajnostnega razvoja poselitve na ravni EU.
In this paper there were developed statistical models for estimation of accident frequency, accident severity and empirical risk, that correspond to local characteristics of crossings in Serbia. The ...goal was to identify high risk locations. The data used were from five year period. Several regression models were tried (Poisson regression, Zeroinflated Poisson – ZIP, negative binomial model – NB, Zero-inflated NB model – ZINB). The most suitable model for modeling accident frequency was ZIP model. For modeling accident severity multinomial logit model was used, whereas the best model for empirical risk was ZINB model. The variables significantly linked to accident frequency and severity were identified. Finally, the calibrated models together with two ranking criteria were used in order to identify high risk crossings in Serbian railway network. The first criterion was mean total risk at a crossing, and the second one was based on mean empirical risk. The accepted models for accident frequency and severity were used for estimating the reduction of accidents at railway crossings applying the corresponding technical procedures for safety improvement. In order to accomplish this, there has been performed a complete analysis of technologies and procedures from various regions, which are used nowadays or are in phase of examining there efficency. Their results and experience were used to estimate the efficency that those procedures would have in Serbia. In this paper the drivers' behaviour on railway crossing was also studied, both with road signs and with active warining devices. This upgrade from one system to another was useful for examining drivers' behaviour in two different systems, as well as the safety effects that concequently appeared.
U ovom radu su istraženi statistički modeli za procenu frekvencije nesreća, težine posledica nesreća i empirijskog rizika koji najviše odgovaraju lokalnim karakteristikama putnih prelaza Srbiji u cilju identifikacije mesta visokog rizika na mreži. Uzorak putnih prelaza lociranih na železničkoj mreži u Srbiji je korišćen za istraživanje sa istorijskim podacima o nesrećama od pet godina. Korišćeni su modeli regresione analize (Puasonova regresija, Puasonov model sa viškom nula – ZIP, negativni binomni model – NB, NB model sa viškom nula – ZINB). Za modeliranje frekvencije nesreća najbolje se pokazao ZIP model. Kod modeliranja i procene težine posledica nesreća korišćen je multinomni logit model. Za modeliranje empirijskog rizika podacima najviše odgovara ZINB model. Identifikovane su promenljive koje su značajno povezane sa brojem i posledicama nesreća. Konačno, kalibrisani modeli zajedno sa dva kriterijuma za rangiranje koji su primenjeni u ovom radu su poslužili za identifikaciju putnih prelaza visokog rizika na mreži Železnica Srbije. Prvi kriterijum je srednji totalni rizik na putnom prelazu, a drugi kriterijum je procena rizika koja je zasnovana na srednjem empirijskom riziku. Prihvaćeni modeli frekvencije i posledica nesreća su poslužili za procenu redukcije nesreća na putnim prelazima primenom odgovarajućih tehničkih mera za podizanje nivoa bezbednosti. U tu svrhu urađena je sveobuhvatna analiza tehnologija i mera iz drugih regiona, a koje se danas primenjuju ili se ispituje njihova efikasnost. Koristeći njihova iskustva data je ocena efikasnosti koju bi te mere imale na putnim prelazima u Srbiji. U ovom radu vršeno je i neposredno istraživanje ponašanja vozača na putnom prelazu osiguranom drumskom signalizacijom, kao i nakon osiguranja istog putnog prelaza aktivnim sistemom. Ovaj prelazak sa jednog sistema osiguranja na drugi sistem bio je pogodan da bi se sprovelo istraživanje u cilju sagledavanja ponašanja vozača u dva različita sistema, kao i bezbednosnih efekata koji su proizašli iz toga.
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War through children's eyes - "children's phones," during the war days, children arriving from the colony by bus, meeting with parents.
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...Vojna skozi otroške oči – “otroški telefon” med vojnimi dnevi, govori Marjan ČONČ, prihod otrok iz kolonije z avtobusi, srečanje otrok s starši.