The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a surge in scientific publications, some of which have bypassed the usual peer-review processes, leading to an increase in unsupported claims being referenced. ...Therefore, the need for references in scientific articles is increasingly being questioned. The practice of relying solely on quantitative measures, such as impact factor, is also considered inadequate by many experts. This can lead to researchers choosing research ideas that are likely to generate favourable metrics instead of interesting and important topics. Evaluating the quality and scientific value of articles requires a rethinking of current approaches, with a move away from purely quantitative methods.
Artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools are making scientific writing easier and less time-consuming, which is likely to further increase the number of scientific publications, potentially leading to higher quality articles.
AI tools for searching, analysing, synthesizing, evaluating and writing scientific literature are increasingly being developed. These tools deeply analyse the content of articles, consider their scientific impact, and prioritize the retrieved literature based on this information, presenting it in simple visual graphs. They also help authors to quickly and easily analyse and synthesize knowledge from the literature, prepare summaries of key information, aid in organizing references, and improve manuscript language. The language model ChatGPT has already greatly changed the way people communicate with computers, bringing it closer to human communication. However, while AI tools are helpful, they must be used carefully and ethically.
In summary, AI has already changed the way we write articles, and its use in scientific publishing will continue to enhance and streamline the process.
For almost nine decades, the fortification of foods with vitamin D has been proven effective in preventing rickets. This study aims to build and economically evaluate a fortification model based on ...egg biofortification and milk (including yoghurt) fortification.
A cross-sectional study was carried out between 1. March and 31. May 2021. Three hundred and nineteen healthy women from the Central Slovenian region aged between 44 and 65 were recruited for the study, with 176 participants included in the final analysis. For the fortification model calculations, the vitamin D contents of unenriched milk (including yoghurt) and eggs were replaced by enriched foods containing vitamin D. The economic evaluation was done using available drug and food supplement prices. Fortification costs were calculated using vitamin D prices provided by suppliers.
Mean vitamin D intake from food was 2.19±1.34 µg/d. With fortification Model 1 (enriched eggs), it would be: 6.49±4.45 µg/d, and with Model 2 (enriched eggs and milk): 10.53±6.49 µg/d. Without fortification, none of the participants would reach a daily vitamin D intake >10 µg. With fortification Model 1 (egg fortification), 15.3% would reach >10 µg and with Model 2 (egg and milk fortification) 46.2% would reach >10 µg. The economic comparison of the annual cost of 10 µg vitamin D/d/person was EUR 6.17 for prescription drugs, EUR 6.37 for food supplements, EUR 0.09 for direct milk fortification and EUR 0.12 for egg biofortification with vitamin D.
Egg and milk (including yoghurt) fortification could cost-effectively increase vitamin D intake in the Slovenian population of women between 44 and 65 by almost five-fold, and could significantly lower the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency. Additional research and changes to legislation are needed before this can be introduced.
Usvajanje medkulturne kompetence je pri učenju tujega jezika danes eden izmed pomembnih ciljev. Težave se pojavijo, ker je ocenjevanje še vedno nekako tradicionalno usmerjeno v preverjanje ...slovničnega znanja, slušnega, pisnega izražanja ter sprejemanja, vrednotenje medkulturne kompetence pa s testi in številčnimi ocenami skorajda ni možno. Pripročnik Developing and Assessing Intercultural Competence, ki so ga izdali 2007 v Centru za Moderne jezike v Gradcu, predstavlja, na kakšen način lahko vrednotimo različne komponente/sestavine medkulturne kompetence.
The monograph focuses on corpus analysis of texts, exploring the interface between lexical and discursive aspects of pragmatic meaning. As the concept of evaluation is key to understanding how ...language works, our aim is to shed light on semantic prosody – a traditionally neglected evaluation-related phenomenon in Slovenian linguistics – as shown in some specific areas of applied linguistics, especially lexicography and translation. The locus of this phenomenon, which determines the pragmatic function of a unit of meaning, is in the textual, not the lexical meaning. This poses a challenge to modern lexicography. The introduction is followed by a brief outline of the history of pragmatic research and an analysis of selected lexical units, while in the second part of the book pragmatic aspects of textual and discursive analysis, including evaluation and metaphor, are presented. The importance of semantic prosody for linguistics is confirmed by tradition, as well as by insights in many areas closely related to language and interpretation of meaning, such as digitization and (language) technology, media discourse and policy, or law.
Cultural practices of exploring, revitalizing, interpreting and developing cultural heritage have become an important driving force in alleviating the social, cultural, environmental and economic ...challenges of today's world and in initiating sustainable progress in local communities. The interpretation of cultural uniqueness is not only in the hands of professionals from heritage institutions or research centres, but also in the hands of local residents, who are recognized as heritage bearers, cultural activists, practitioners and transmitters of heritage to the younger generations. The main objective of the model is to describe steps to achieve community involvement in cultural heritage projects and guidelines for carrying out the valorisation process with the active participation of the local population. The model outlines interesting and instructive case studies of how different interactive and “soft” methods can be used to build communities by following both top-down and bottom-up approaches. In addition, presented practices also show how to convince the younger generation that local heritage offers many opportunities to put bold ideas into practice.
Javni potniški promet v Sloveniji nazaduje že nekaj desetletij, spremlja pa ga močan porast motorizacije. Slovenija je doživela motorizacijo v zadnjih desetletjih še bolj izrazito kot večina drugih ...držav EU, kar je privedlo do netrajnostnega prometnega sistema, ki je drag in povzroča prekomerno onesnaževanje ter krni kakovost življenja v mestih. Zato je v zadnjih letih ponekod opaziti znake oživljanja praks trajnostne mobilnosti. Prispevek se posveča stanju in primerjavi javnega potniškega prometa ter ukrepom podpore mestnega potniškega prometa v izbranih slovenskih občinah.
Spoznanje, da je družba postala kompleksna, pomeni, da resnica o družbenih zadevah kot o tem, kaj je skupno dobro ali kako uspešno je njegovo doseganje, ni več ena sama, tista na oblasti, ampak o ...pomembnih stvareh obstaja več do- bro utemeljenih in enako veljavnih resnic. Zadeve iz domene javnega upravljanja so kompleksne, zato različni pogledi nimajo skupnega imenovalca in jih je treba obravnavati kot nesomerne oziroma globoke in nepremostljive. Družbene pojave je zato treba proučevati v zlatem rezu njihove dvojnosti, razpenjajoči se med razlago primarnih pomenov, ki so za sistem konstitutivni, vendar na nesomeren in razdvajajoč način, in razlago sekundarnih pomenov, ki edini podajajo celovit pogled na vrednoteni pojav, vendar le v vsebinah, ki za nikogar niso bistvene.
The research used different indicators to objectively evaluate the quality of residential environment in Ljubljana at the outset of the second decade of the 21st century. Residential environment was ...defined as the characteristics of the dwelling and its immediate and wider surroundings that are pertinent for satisfying general human needs and for performing basic human functions. The elements of the residential environment were arranged into seven groups: dwelling characteristics, safety, aesthetics, accessibility to urban amenities, environmental strain, social environment, and transportation conditions. The quality of the residential environment as a whole was measured accurately to the building using the method of summing the unweighted standardised indicators. We concluded that the quality of the residential environment in Ljubljana differs significantly between areas. The study results can be useful to city authorities and spatial planners as a support in the decision-making for management as well as planning purposes~for example, as the basis for improving the residential environment or for determining the appropriate locations for residential construction.
V prispevku razpravljamo o vlogi naravnih dejavnikov, kot so plazovitost, poplavnost, osončenost, razglednost, količina meglenih in jasnih dni, vetrovnost, kakovost zraka, hrup ter pogostost toče in ...žleda, pri vrednotenju nepremičnin. Izhajamo iz hipoteze, da v Sloveniji ne obstaja kakovostna baza podatkov, primerna za neposredno vključitev v proces ocenjevanja vrednosti nepremičnin, ter da je subjektivno zaznavanje naravnih dejavnikov najbolj izraženo pri poplavnosti. Osrednji pripomoček za merjenje stališč je vprašalnik,na katerega je odgovorilo 307 udeležencev. Rezultati kažejo, da udeleženci največji vpliv na ceno in zadovoljstvo z nepremičninami pripisujejo smradu, plazovitosti in poplavnosti, pri odločitvi o nakupu nepremičnine pa poplavnosti, hrupu in osončenosti. Udeleženci menijo, da naravni dejavniki niso dovolj upoštevani, predvsem pri modelu množičnega vrednotenja nepremičnin, saj je njihov vpliv na cenomanjši od njihovega vpliva na zadovoljstvo. Kot razlog navajajo neustrezno zakonodajo in neustrezne standarde ocenjevanja vrednosti nepremičnin. Primerjalna analiza vključevanja poplavnosti v procesvrednotenja nepremičnin v Sloveniji in ZDA pa kaže, da Slovenija na tem področju zaostaja. Ugotavljamo, da je razlog pomanjkanje ažurne evidence nacionalnih kart poplavne nevarnosti, kar pomeni pomanjkanjevhodnih podatkov v procesu ocenjevanja. Ugotavljamo, da bi bilo upoštevanje naravnih dejavnikov korak k bolj objektivnemu vrednotenju nepremičnin in tudi k pravičnejšemu sistemu nepremičninskega obdavčenja ; This article discusses the role of natural factors, suchas landslides, floods, sun exposure, panoramic views, the amount of foggy days, the amount of clear days, wind, unpleasant smells, air quality, noise, and the frequency of hail and ice, in real estate appraisal. The discussion is based on the hypothesis that Slovenialacks a quality database of natural factors that would be adequate for direct inclusion in the real estate appraisal, and that subjective perception of natural factors is the most explicit in the flooding factor. The main tool used for evaluating the participants’viewpoints was a questionnaire through which 307 answers were collected. The results show that the biggest impact on the price is attributed to unpleasant smells, landslides and floods, while the biggest impact when buying a real estate is attributed to floods, noise and sun exposure. The participants think that natural factors are not sufficiently considered in the appraisal process, as their impact on the value is smaller than their impact on satisfaction with real estate. As the main cause, they define unsuitable legislation andunsuitable standards of the real estate appraisal. The comparison of inclusion of flooding in the real estate appraisal process in Slovenia and the US shows that Slovenia lags behind the US. It has been determined that the main cause for this lies in poor and not upto-date national flooding maps, which is reflected in insufficient input data in the real estate appraisal. It has been concluded that consideration of natural factors would contribute to more objective real estate appraisal and also to a more just real estate taxation system.
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