Aims
To verify the applicability, reproducibility and predictive value of a proposed unified classification (amended Ljubljana classification) for laryngeal squamous intraepithelial lesions (SILs).
...Methods and results
Six internationally recognized experts and three pathologists from Ljubljana contributed to this study by evaluating a set of laryngeal SILs using the new system: low‐grade SIL, high‐grade SIL, and carcinoma in situ (CIS). The overall agreement among reviewers was good. Overall unweighted and weighted κ‐values and 95% confidence intervals were 0.75 (0.65–0.84) and 0.80 (0.71–0.87), respectively. The results were stratified between the international reviewers and the Ljubljana pathologists. The former had good overall agreement, and the latter had very good agreement. Kaplan–Meier survival curves showed a significant difference (P < 0.0001) between patients with low‐grade and high‐grade SILs; 19 of 1204 patients with low‐grade SILs and 30 of 240 patients with high‐grade SILs progressed to malignancy in 2–15 years and in 2–26 years, respectively.
Conclusions
The proposed modification to the Ljubljana classification provides clear morphological criteria for defining the prognostic groups. The criteria facilitate better interobserver agreement than previous systems, and the retrospective follow‐up study demonstrates a highly significant difference in the risk of malignant progression between low‐grade and high‐grade SILs.
•First published isotopic tracing of humans in Slovenia.•Baseline measurements on small archaeological animals.•Out of 32 analysed samples a few of the highest/lowest values might be ...non-local.•Individual with one of the earliest LBA iron objects was very likely a foreigner.•The majority of non-locals can be dated to the very beginning of the EIA period.
The cemetery at Dvorišče SAZU in Ljubljana, Slovenia, was in use for a long period, continuously from the Late Bronze Age into the Early Iron Age. More than 300 excavated graves offer a great potential for the analysis and discussion of chronological issues, demography, social inequalities, funeral attires, as well as burial customs within the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age societies. This site was thus chosen as a reference point for our pilot study on mobility and migration in prehistoric Slovenia. The article presents results of the analysis of strontium isotopes (87Sr/86Sr) performed on the 32 cremated petrous part of the temporal bone (pars petrosa) from the cemetery Dvorišče SAZU in Ljubljana and 9 animal bones of small mammals from other sites in the region for baseline information. The stable isotope analysis and the study of mobility in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age presented here is one of the first such investigations involving the osteological material from the south-eastern Alpine region.
Richard Klemen was the first teacher of enzymology at the University of Ljubljana. His early career in Ljubljana ended in January 1942 when he moved to Vienna, Austria. During the war he conducted ...experiments that led him to describe the so-called Hofmann-Klemen effect in clay. Later he was a research assistant and titular associate professor in the field of biochemical technology at the Vienna Technical University and finally a lecturer at the University of Natural Resources in Vienna. His life is an interesting example of a scientist and educator whose Gottscheer German origin would probably prevent him from continuing his career in post-war Yugoslavia. At the same time, he did not achieve in Austria the positions and status that his former colleagues and students had achieved in Slovenia. Although he was almost forgotten, he remains important as the first trained enzymologist and teacher of enzymology in Slovenia. This article also presents his full bibliography.
El presente trabajo se inscribe en el debate contemporáneo sobre la corporalidad, entre la perspectiva del constructivismo queer, y por otro a los estudios de la diferencia sexual. Estas dos ópticas ...teóricas apuestan a una corporalidad claramente antagónica, ya que desde el constructivismo queer se piensa al cuerpo como el topos donde se produce la subjetividad metaforizándolo como un campo de batalla donde intervienen múltiples fuerzas que terminan siendo equivalentes a la subjetividad. En cambio, desde los estudios de la diferencia sexual, en especial la Escuela de Liubliana, el cuerpo es siempre un cuerpo sexuado, límite de toda pretensión omnipotente y fisura que provoca la imposibilidad de un lenguaje total. Se abordarán las principales aristas teóricas de ambas concepciones, así como también las consecuencias de la disputa de la corporalidad. Palabras clave: Teoría Queer; Diferencia sexual; Escuela de Liubliana; Somateca; Cuerpo sexuado. This work is part of the contemporary debate on corporality, from the perspective of queer constructivism, and on the other, to the studies of sexual difference. These two theoretical optics bet on a clearly antagonistic corporality, since from queer constructivism the body is thought of as the moles where subjectivity occurs metaphorizing it as a battlefield where multiple forces intervene that end up being equivalent to subjectivity. On the other hand, from the studies of sexual difference, especially the Ljubljana School, the body is always a sexed body, the limit of all omnipotent pretense and fissure that causes the impossibility of a total language. The main theoretical edges of both conceptions will be addressed, as well as the consequences of the corporality dispute. Keywords: Queer theory; Sexual difference; School of Ljubljana; Somateca; Sexuated body.
The 14 April 1895 (Mw 6.1, in the area of Ljubljana, Slovenia) earthquake is still not fully understood. The aim of this work is to derive information about its source from the inversion of an ...updated dataset of intensities (evaluated with EMS-98). This was done via automatic non-linear geophysical inversion
KF-NGA
, which was performed using a Niching Genetic Algorithm and has been presented in other articles. The distribution of damage caused by this earthquake is not homogeneous and often shows significant intensity differences between neighbouring sites. Statistical analysis of the intensities, epicentral distances and geologic nature of the sites suggests some site effects. Nevertheless, the resulting solution is consistent with regional seismotectonics, i.e. an almost pure dip-slip mechanism: strike 282° ± 5°, dip 38° ± 7°, rake 86° ± 9° (± 180° because of the intrinsic ambiguity of the
KF-NGA
-inversion). Since the rake angle is close to 90°, there is an almost perfect ambiguity between the two planes of the focal mechanism. Therefore, our solution has a Dinaric direction and could be associated either with a fault plane that dips NE or with one that dips SW.
The study area is located in cental Slovenia, and geologically located at the junction between the Alps and the Dinarides. The Middle Triassic of this region is characterised by intense rifting ...manifested by differential subsidence and volcanism. This led to a major paleogeographic reorganisation of the region, where three paleogeographic domains formed in the Upper Triassic: The Julian Carbonate Platform in the north, the intermediate Slovenian Basin, both parts of the Southern Alps, and the Dinaric (Adriatic, Friuli) Carbonate Platform in the south, which today is a part of the External Dinarides that host the area of investigation. Prior to the installation of the Dinaric Carbonate Platfrom, i.e. in the Ladinian, the entire area of the preset-day External Dinarides broke up into numerous tectonic blocks that were exposed to either erosion or continental, shallow-marine, and deep-marine sedimentation. In this study, we analyse at small scale a complex transitional area between a local carbonate platform and the Kobilji curek basin (depositional area dominated by deeper marine sediments), located in the Rute Plateau in central Slovenia south of Ljubljana. During enhanced subsidence, the basin was filled with volcanic material (tuffs and volcanogenic clays and subordinate extrusive material), while the adjacent platform aggraded. The slope was positioned above active paleofaults. During relative sea level lowstand, the platform prograded across the basin. The study area is divided into four major tectonic paleoblocks. The NW paleoblock experienced the most enhanced subsidence, and the platform prograded twice in this area and was submerged again by the rejuvenated subsidence and/or sea-level rise. The second and third paleoblocks subsided only during discrete major subsidence events, and the carbonates of the platform and slope were soon reinstated therein. In the fourth paleoblock to the east the platform persisted during the Ladinian. In the Carnian, the entire study area became emerged, and continental clastics were deposited. These were then replaced by a uniform shallow marine/intertidal Hauptdolomit (Dolomia Principale) formation at the onset of the Norian. This study provides the first detailed reconstruction of the sedimentary evolution of small-scale Ladinian basin and platforms system in the northern External Dinarides.
Purpose and Originality: ‘Greenness’ and sustainability are moving from an abstract concept toward a measurable state, using the triple bottom line approach considering environmental, social, and ...economic dimensions. How the ‘greenness’ and sustainability of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, are achieved and estimated, is determined by comparing two indices. European Green Capital Award represents its‘greenness’, while its sustainability is analysed by A New Sustainability City Index Based on Intellectual Capital Approach. Originality of the research is the analysis of the potential of Ljubljana city through contrasting these two indices. Method: Quantitative and qualitative methods were used. Two comparable indices have been chosen as a multidimensional concept which both clearly involve economic, environmental (ecological) and social aspects, with available and published results for Ljubljana. Both indices are comparable, the category scores were aggregated according to equal weighting, and the index results were expressed as percentages. Results: The results showed that ranking of Ljubljana as a‘green’ and sustainable city respectively is different. Total index score of 52 % for European Green Capital Award places Ljubljana 22ndamong the ‘green’ cities of Europe and ranks it in the upper half of the 58 European cities in the study. A New Sustainability City Index Based on Intellectual Capital Approach x of 44.92 ranking Ljubljana on the 102nd position in a scale of 158 European cities, places it in the lower half. The results confirm that Ljubljana is more ‘green’ than sustainable, according to these studies. Society: There are many studies, which make a concerted effort toward capturing the ‘greenness’ and the sustainability of cities. Therefore, indices include three independent dimensions and are decisive in positioning the city. These are important tools in making environmental (ecological), social-cultural, and economic decisions in cities’ policy, which directly affect companies, management and society. Limitations / further research: The main research limitation of this proposal is unavailability of complete database for both indices. Further research is more than needed, with the most recent available data.
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