This article presents the findings of a study on long-term land-use changes in eight areas of various Slovenian landscapes. The emphasis is on comparing changes on terraced and non-terraced land from ...the early nineteenth century to the present and on a typological classification of land-use change, whereby a fifth type (i.e., extensification) is added to the established four types in Slovenia: afforestation, grass overgrowth, intensification, and urbanization. The article explains which factors have a decisive impact on land-use changes, especially in terms of abandoning terrace cultivation. The methodology used proves that there are important differences in the rate of land-use change between terraced and non-terraced land.
Microaerophilic, Gram-negative Campylobacter jejuni is the causative agent of campylobacteriosis, the most common bacterial gastrointestinal infection worldwide. Adhesion is the crucial first step in ...both infection or interaction with the host and biofilm formation, and is a critical factor for bacterial persistence. Here we describe the proteins and other surface structures that promote adhesion to various surfaces, including abiotic surfaces, microorganisms, and animal and human hosts. In addition, we provide insight into the distribution of adhesion proteins among strains from different ecological niches and highlight unexplored proteins involved in C. jejuni adhesion. Protein-protein, protein-glycan, and glycan-glycan interactions are involved in C. jejuni adhesion, with different factors contributing to adhesion to varying degrees under different circumstances. As adhesion is essential for survival and persistence, it represents an interesting target for C. jejuni control. Knowledge of the adhesion process is incomplete, as different molecular and functional aspects have been studied for different structures involved in adhesion. Therefore, it is important to strive for an integration of different approaches to obtain a clearer picture of the adhesion process on different surfaces and to consider the involvement of proteins, glycoconjugates, and polysaccharides and their cooperation.
Avalanches cause the highest number of fatalities in the Alps, threatening many areas and facilities, as well as transport and communications infrastructure. An integral part of avalanche protection ...is risk communication and warning, which is within the domain of the avalanche service of the Slovenian Environmental Agency. As part of the ‘Crossrisk Project’, the ZRC SAZU Anton Melik Geographical Institute has prepared a ‘Snow Field Manual’ which will allow for the standardised collection of field data on snow, snow cover and avalanches. This data forms the basis for determining the current avalanche hazard level. The ‘Snow Card’ supplement, which is an integral part of the manual, contains a condensed view of the most important contents and also includes two forms (there are a total of 14 forms in the manual) for entering the snow cover cross-section data. It also includes instructions for preparing and performing cross-sections of snow cover and avalanche tests. All information is provided along with a clear explanation key. Finally, a description of typical avalanche problems and types of avalanche hazards follows. The full applicability of the Snow Field Manual and the Snow Card is achieved by entering the digital data of the cross-section and the avalanche test into the appropriate web application.
Slovenski eksonimi Ciglič, Rok; Hrvatin, Mauro; Kladnik, Drago ...
Geografija Slovenije,
2013
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This volume (‘A List of Slovenian Exonyms’) is a contribution to fostering greater consistency in the use of Slovenian exonyms, or geographical names adapted to Slovenian. It provides material for ...their standardization and at the same time ensures that this important aspect of Slovenian will not to sink into oblivion. The volume has three parts. Part one contains theoretical and methodological reflections on exonyms, with an emphasis on explaining basic concepts, the use of exonyms, gathering and selecting them to design a collection of exonyms, and presentation of an analysis of their frequency. It concludes with two chapters that serve as links to the other two parts of the volume. The first presents the format of the table in detail. This table, with a list of the most frequently used exonyms (3,818), comprises the second part of the book and is supplemented by a table with a list of over 350 of the most established alternative exonyms. The third part of the volume contains color maps containing exonyms from the table in part two, arranged by part of the world and divided according to semantic type of exonym.
The Catalogue of Good Practices of Sustainable Culinary Heritage Experiences in Mediterranean Area provides a detailed description of 18 culinary experiences from 8 different Mediterranean countries: ...Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Croatia, Greece, Cyprus and Slovenia. The good practices cover various types of culinary experiences, namely tourist sites networks dedicated to food or culinary products, services connected to food products, professional activities linked to food highlighted through a touristic activity, culinary events, specific tourist sites dedicated to food or culinary products. The Catalogue reveals how culinary experiences work, who is involved, and what are the “ingredients” which make them successful. Each culinary experience is described through a story in which you will find valuable information on: local (territorial) anchoring and relationship to heritage, organising and managing aspects, relation to existing policies and strategies, sustainability aspects, innovative aspects, monitoring and stakeholders’ views.
Achromatopsia has been proposed to be a morphologically predominately stable retinopathy with rare reports of progression of structural changes in the macula. A five-grade system of optical coherence ...tomography (OCT) features has been used for the classification of structural macular changes. However, their association with age remains questionable. We characterized the Slovenian cohort of 12 patients with pathogenic variants in CNGA3 or CNGB3 who had been followed up with OCT for up to 9 years. Based on observed structural changes in association with age, the following four-stage classification of retinal morphological changes was proposed: (I) preserved inner segment ellipsoid band (Ise), (II) disrupted ISe, (III) ISe loss and (IV) ISe and RPE loss. Data from six previously published studies reporting OCT morphology in CNGA3 and CNGB3 patients were additionally collected, forming the largest CNGA3/CNGB3 cohort to date, comprising 126 patients aged 1–71 years. Multiple regression analysis showed a significant correlation of OCT stage with age (p < 0.001) and no correlation with gene (p > 0.05). The median ages of patients with stages I–IV were 12 years, 23 years, 27 years and 48 years, respectively, and no patient older than 50 years had continuous ISe. Our findings suggest that achromatopsia presents with slowly but steadily progressive structural changes of the macular outer retinal layers. However, whether morphological changes in time follow the proposed four-stage linear pattern needs to be confirmed in a long-term study.
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