Linking a publication with scientific research results and the use of information resources is a key component of the collection, development and assessment of an academic library. Librarians often ...use quantitative data, but it is not easy to come by. Directly connecting library and information services to the impact they have can be quite difficult. Focusing on the 2010–2014 period, we have linked the quality and quantity of published papers to usage statistics for the newly acquired consortia access to scholarly journals in three international publisher databases: ScienceDirect, SpringerLink and WileyOnline. We found that the share of scholarly journals from the ScienceDirect, SpringerLink and WileyOnline consortia cited by University of Primorska researchers’ in their scholarly papers has gradually increased every year, ranging from 13.5% in 2010 up to 24.8% in 2014. The share of scholarly papers published by University of Primorska researchers’ in scholarly journals with the highest impact (measured in Web of Science and Scopus) has also increased substantially, from 18.03% in 2011 to 31.55% in 2014. Study shows that better access to quality information resources for scientific researchers lead to an increase in its use and results in higher quality research shown by the gradual increase of publications of research results in higher impact scholarly journals.
On the basis of unpublished material, periodicals, and printed matter as well as reference literature, this paper offers a reconstruction of a part of the biography of Dr Mirko Buić, a prominent ...personality of public life in Split between the world wars. Buić’s political orientation was unambiguously Yugoslav and pro-royalist, though he never actively participated on the political stage of interwar Split. In the professional sense, Buić left the deepest impression on the Chamber of Trades and Crafts in Split, where he acted as secretary from late 1924 to mid-1938, when he was appointed as the mayor of Split. For a short time, Buić served as the mayor of Split and the Minister of Physical Education of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Mirko Buić was the ban (governor) of the Littoral Banovina from September 1938 until the new administrative division of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the formation of the Banovina of Croatia were implemented following the Cvetković-Maček Agreement in August 1939. In addition to his professional work, Buić made a significant impression on the Sokol Society of Split, where he played a leading role through most of the interwar period.
Erasmus Exchange program was developed to increase possibilities for education at international level (ECDG, 2008; Pyvis & Champan, 2007; Keog & Russel-Roberts; 2009; Goodman et al., 2008). The ...number of students participating in the programme has been growing since the program's implementation. This survey was conducted on the Erasmus outgoing 2008/09 generation at the University of Primorska (UP) with the aim of analyzing the main motives for enrolment on the programme. The research was designed to elicit whether professional or leisure related motives are more important than educational desires. The main motives identified have little to do with formal education, thus the authors suggest that some amendments of the Erasmus program at UP could be implemented in order to follow the guidelines and objectives of the Erasmus Exchange program as well as to argue for opportunities for the host cities and universities when addressing this important market segment.
This essay attempts to assess whether the perceptual issues posed by the contemporary interface culture, and the constant attitude shift demanded by the new media between the "natural" and the "as ...if" modes, might be considered a significant challenge for phenomenological aesthetics as understood in terms of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception. To demonstrate how the use of a particular interface profoundly shapes the form and structure of an activity as well as enabling perception of a particular kind, the author does not focus directly on the state-of-the-art smart interfaces, but describes the experience of cycling in a large city, with the interface in the form of the bicycle upgraded with an imagined ride simulator. While the former enables a very particular entrance into the world of perception, shaped by its moderate speed and detachment from the ground, the latter enables techno-shaped perception in the "as if" screenic mode. The experience described raises questions concerning the kinaesthetic, proprioceptive and motor features contributing to the cyclist's mobile perception, as well as pointing to issues related to the reading of the city's network as a particular spatial configuration generated by the cyclist's realtime activity. This is the space-time-event-ridescape maintained and modified by the corporeal act of cycling. The spatiality of such a ride does not presume the notion of a space that contains the cyclist, but builds on notions of being-in-the-ridescape (as a kind of cityscape), in terms not only of full corporeal and mental engagement, but also of bodily literacy. The reading of the cityscape enabled by the combination of two interfaces, the bicycle and the ride simulator, is discussed in relation to de Certeau's account of pedestrian (walking) experience in a big city, his distinction between strategies and tactics, and the notion that each cyclist contributes a novel story to ridetext, which is viewed not as an aesthetic object but as the production of puzzles for the rider to solve. The paper concludes by questioning the capacity of phenomenology to accommodate the contemporary phenomenon of a "mixed" or "augmented reality" either in concept or in relation to the demands of the phenomenological reduction and the ends of the epoché.
Rad se bavi varijabilnošću padalina u dijelu Hrvatske s maritimnim pluviometrijskim režimom. Varijabilnost padalina analizirana je korištenjem godišnjih i mjesečnih vrijednosti srednje relativne ...varijabilnosti za 18 postaja od 1950. do 2007. godine. Utvrđeno je da godišnja varijabilnost padalina ima relativno veliki raspon – najveću varijabilnost padalina ima postaja Lastovo, a najmanju postaja Parg. U godišnjem hodu varijabilnosti padalina glavni maksimum varijabilnosti je na području sjevernog Jadrana u listopadu, dok se prema jugu maksimum varijabilnost javlja u ljetnim mjesecima – srpnju ili kolovozu. Glavni minimum varijabilnosti u većini postaja s maritimnim pluviometrijskim režimom javlja se u travnju, osim na postajama srednjeg Jadrana, gdje se javlja u studenom. Najmanju varijabilnost padalina ima područje Gorske Hrvatske u gotovo svim mjesecima. Najveće vrijednosti varijabilnosti padalina javljaju se ljeti na području južnog Jadrana. U gotovo svim mjesecima varijabilnost padalina na području Kvarnera je relativno viša u odnosu varijabilnost padalina okolnih postaja.
U kontekstu preispitivanja učinkovitosti suvremenoga prostornog uređenja
u Hrvatskoj te usporedbe s naslijeđem uređenja prostora koje je utjecalo na njegovo
oblikovanje od druge polovice 20. ...stoljeća, u radu je izložen razvoj prostornoga
planiranja za područje Šibensko-kninske županije (upravno-teritorijalno organizirane
1997.). Prema dostupnim izvorima rekonstruiran je slijed izrade i donošenja prostornih
planova kroz tri razvojna razdoblja, te analizirani planovi višega reda prema osnovnim
planskim postavkama. Prvo razdoblje trajalo je od završetka rata do sredine 1970-ih,
kada je dovršena izrada prvoga republičkog prostornog plana. Drugo razdoblje trajalo
je do 1992. Krajem ovoga razdoblja donesen je drugi Prostorni plan Hrvatske, a nakon
stjecanja neovisnosti uveden je novi upravno-teritorijalni ustroj državnoga prostora.
Treće razdoblje započelo je 1992. godine. Unutar svakoga razdoblja prepoznatljive
su: makrorazina (republička/državna), mezorazina (makroregionalna i regionalna) i
mikrorazina (lokalna).
Unatoč u planovima propagiranim težnjama za optimalnim i racionalnim gospodarenjem
prostorom te zaštitom okoliša, na području Šibensko-kninske županije ostaje niz
naslijeđenih i novih konflikata u prostoru: od problema prevelike koncentracije
stanovništva i gospodarskih funkcija u priobalnim središtima, pogodovanja parcijalnim
interesima i kapitalu, prevelikoga zauzimanja prostora građevinskim područjima, te
objektima sekundarnoga stanovanja s velikim udjelom bespravne gradnje u priobalnom
pojasu, do nedovoljno osmišljenih razvojnih alternativa. Važan mehanizam u nošenju s
prostorno-razvojnim disparitetima trebalo bi biti sustavno planiranje koje će integralno
promatrati prostor, a koordinacija planiranja trebala bi biti jača na (makro)regionalnoj
razini. Preduvjet održivoga prostornog razvoja jačanje je prostorno-planskih službi i
institucija, među ostalim stručnjacima različitih disciplina, kvalitetna izrada prostornoplanske
dokumentacije interdisciplinarnom suradnjom i, nadasve, primjena planskih
postavki strožim mehanizmima nadzora i sankcija.
Traditionally, suicide and depression (SD) have been viewed from a treatment point of view, i.e. what are the best steps to treat a suicidal or a depressed patient. These are usually related to the ...pharmacological treatment of depression. With the implementation of the European Green Paper on Mental Health (2005), and the development of Mental Health Pact (2008), the strategic importance of mental health promotion (MHP) and illness reduction as keystones of Europe-wide mental health policy and practice has never been greater. PROMISE (Promoting Mental Health Minimising Mental Illness and Integration through Education) is an international project, with the specific aim of developing and disseminating comprehensive training guidelines and model programmes for professionals working in health and social care. The present article describes the role of the University of Primorska: adapting the guidelines with regard to SD prevention and developing and implementing a model training programme in SD prevention. Added value was supplied through collaboration with European level health and social service professional bodies, university networks, civil society organizations and non-traditional actors to identify the needs of organisations that provide training in MHP. The project also took into account different countries' policy and legislation on MHP as well as best practice models; liaising with national governmental and non- -governmental organisations working in the area of SD; developing effective working relationships with the local mental health service users and organisations. Adapted from the source document.
Cilj je ovog rada analizirati i utvrditi utjecaj zračnog prometa na turizam Primorske Hrvatske pretežito uz korištenje podataka dobivenih iz zračnih luka i redova letenja. Tom se prilikom analiziraju ...podatci o broju putnika u zračnim lukama i zračnim pristaništima posljednjih godina te se stavljaju u korelaciju s brojem dolazaka turista i brojem ostvarenih noćenja. Tu se uočava međuovisnost broja prevezenih putnika i broja dolazaka turista, odnosno broja ostvarenih noćenja tijekom godine. Podatci se detaljnije razrađuju za godine 2008., 2009. i 2010., kada se broj putnika u zračnim lukama i zračnim pristaništima po mjesecima diferencira u četiri kategorije: putnici prevezeni konvencionalnim zračnim prijevoznicima, low-cost zračnim prijevoznicima, čarterima i generalnim zrakoplovstvom. Osim toga, na osnovi podataka o ostvarenim vezama između europskih i zračnih luka Primorske Hrvatske, definiraju se emitivna turistička tržišta. U radu se poseban naglasak stavlja na utvrđivanje značenja niskotarifnih zračnih prijevoznika u turizmu Primorske Hrvatske. Razlog tome je što niskotarifni zračni prijevoznici posljednjih godina čine sve značajniji segment cjelokupnoga zračnog prometa.
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