Main olive varieties in the area of Dubrovnik- Neretva county with special reference to autochthonous varieties of the Pelješac peninsula

U članku se daje pregled zastupljenosti u uzgoju glavnih sorti masline u Dubrovačko-neretvanskoj županiji. Poseban osvrt donosi se za asortiman poluotoka Pelješca. Opisane su tu autohotone sorte na poluotoku Pelješcu i to: Paštrica, Sitnica i Česminka i data ocjena njihove gospodarske vrijednosti i proširenosti na pojedinim lokalitetima.The article gives a review of the presence of main olive varieties in the Dubrovnik-Neretva County with special reference to the Pelješac paninsula. Described are the autochthonous varieties on the peninsula such as Paštrica, Sitnica and Česminka and their economic value and spread on particular locations are assessed

Uncovering Regional Disparities – the Use of Factor and Cluster Analysis

The aim of this paper is to present a new methodology for the classification of spatial-economic entities in order to support a regional development policy. Such a classification may be obtained through the use of multivariate statistical methods – factor and cluster analysis, and is based on eleven economic and social indicators. The local government units of three Croatian counties are used as the working sample. Those are as follows: the County of Istria, the Lika-Senj County and the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. Factor analysis leads to identification of a small number of socio-economic dimensions that summarise adequately the information contained in the original set of variables. Cluster analysis is used to look for groups of towns and municipalities with similar levels of socio-economic development. Multivariate techniques were successful in identifying the main axes of socio-economic characterisation and the regions of the observed counties with differing degrees of development. The new methodology for spatial-economic entities\u27 classification enables a much more useful characterisation of the territory for policy-making purposes

Uncovering Regional Disparities – the Use of Factor and Cluster Analysis

The aim of this paper is to present a new methodology for the classification of spatial-economic entities in order to support a regional development policy. Such a classification may be obtained through the use of multivariate statistical methods – factor and cluster analysis, and is based on eleven economic and social indicators. The local government units of three Croatian counties are used as the working sample. Those are as follows: the County of Istria, the Lika-Senj County and the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. Factor analysis leads to identification of a small number of socio-economic dimensions that summarise adequately the information contained in the original set of variables. Cluster analysis is used to look for groups of towns and municipalities with similar levels of socio-economic development. Multivariate techniques were successful in identifying the main axes of socio-economic characterisation and the regions of the observed counties with differing degrees of development. The new methodology for spatial-economic entities\u27 classification enables a much more useful characterisation of the territory for policy-making purposes

Service e-Learning Project : State Graduation Online Demo Exam

The service e-learning project described in this paper presents the online demo exam in informatics designed as a preparatory step for the state graduation. It was created in the midst of turbulence caused by the introduction of the state graduation at the end of secondary education in Croatia. With this project we wanted to engage grammar school students in service e-learning and present them with the opportunity to design their own test materials through the collaboration with college students who are experts in the field. We also aimed to gain our own benefit of connecting the theory learned during the study with new practical experiences while at the same time helping the students to achieve at a high level in the state graduation exam. Finally, since its free available online, our project should benefit everyone who wants to test their knowledge in informatics and/or learn something new in an easy and interesting way

What Makes Sense? : Searching for Strong WSD Predictors in Croatian

The goal of this research was to investigate and determine position of strong predictors for word sense disambiguation of Croatian nouns. Research was conducted using supervised learning methods and a corpus of around 70 million words. We have concluded that words in the immediate vicinity of an observed lexeme (1-5 words left and right) have the highest discriminative power. We have also measured the applicability and accuracy of the one-sense-per-discourse method and found it to be very successful as well as the impact of sentence boundaries which proved not to be a good criterion for selecting strong predictors

Stres i nošenje sa stresnim situacijama

Termin stresa u znanosti i u svakodnevnom životu bio je u vrlo širokoj upotrebi, ustvari u toliko širokoj upotrebi da je zadobio mnoga značenja i mnoge oblike. Za njega su se zainteresirale mnoge znanstvene discipline i mnoga područja istraživanja poput biokemije, fiziologije, neurofiziologije od bioloških znanosti, no i psihologija koja je uspjela stres integrirati u većinu svojih disciplina kao socijalna psihologija, razvojna psihologija, klinička psihologija i slično. U današnje ubrzano, tehnološko, nesigurno vrijeme, možemo reći da se stres integrirao u svaki aspekt života, rada i razmišljanja. Naime, često ga se tumači kao nešto negativno, što u većini slučajeva i jeste, no postoji situacija koje se definitivno mogu protumačiti kao stresne kao što je npr. rođenje djeteta, što naravno nije negativna stvar, no naše tijelo se ponaša kao da je pod stresom. Ono je i vrlo relativan pojam u smislu tom da se pojedine situacije ne mogu okarakterizirati kao takve na svim osobama. Stres se toliko često koristi u mnogo različitih konteksta da je dobio mnogorazličitih značenja.Ničiji život ne može proći neopaženo od strane stresa, i bez obzira na to koliko je osoba emocionalno inteligentna i osjetljiva ili možda privilegirana u smislu dobre samokontrole, frustracije, gubitci, promjene i konflikti svih sustignu. Proučavanje čovjekovog suočavanja sa stresom, tj. sami načini odrađivanja istog, tijekom prošlog, ili tokom prošlih dva nekoliko desetljeća se vrlo proširilo i intenziviralo.The term stress in science and everyday life was widely usedso that today stress havemany meanings and also many forms.It has been interested in many scientific disciplines and also many areas of research such as biochemistry, physiology, neurophysiology of biological sciences, but alsopsychology that have managed to integrate stress into most of their disciplines as social psychology, developmental psychology, clinical psychology and osther similar. When we look into todaytime, we can say it is fast-paced, technologicaland alsouncertain andstress is integrated into every aspect of life, work, and thinking. We often interpreted stress as something negative, which in most casesitis, but thereare also situationsthat can definitely be interpreted as stressful, examplethe birth of a child, whichis not a negative thing, but our body behaves in that moment like it is under stress. It is also a very relative term in the sense that certain situations can not be characterized as such on all persons. Stress is so commonly used in many different contexts that it has many different meanings.No person’s life can’t go unnoticed by stress, and no matter how that person is emotionally intelligent and sensitive or perhaps privilegedlike it have a good self-control, but at the end frustration, loss, changes and conflictscome to all of us. Studying man's confrontation with stressduring the pastor the last two decades, has spread and intensified

The legal and economic aspect of money

U ovom radu analiziran je ekonomski i pravni aspekt novca. Novac nije čista pravna pojava niti čista ekonomska pojava, nego je potreban zajednički pristanak da bi neka kulturna pojava poprimila svrhu novca. Iako je novac oduvijek imao svoje pravno i ekonomsko motrište, prvobitno je bila veća značajnost novca kao društvene i ekonomske pojave. Povijesno gledano postojale su brojne situacije kada su države svojim uplitanjem nastojale očuvati vrijednost monetarnih jedinica, što je u konačnici najčešće uzrokovalo razvoj „sivog tržišta“ koje je i dalje djelovalo pod utjecajem ponude i potražnje, ne umanjujući značaj pravnog aspekta novaca. Kako značaj novca u suvremenoj ekonomiji i društvu nije samo ekonomski, javlja se potreba reguliranja monetarnog sustava zakonskim aktima i propisima, radi ispunjenja suverenosti države. Naime, radi se o prilagođavanju potrebama društva i ekonomije radi bolje učinkovitosti. Novac pruža mogućnost participantima koje ne mogu pružiti druge robe svojom pojavom na tržištu, te kao najvažnije funkcije novca možemo izdvojiti bitno skraćivanje vremena i troškova same razmjene.The purpose of this paper is to analyse the economic and legal aspect of money. Money cannot be seen neither as a pure economic or a legal phenomenon, but a common consent is required so that a cultural entity would accept the purpose of money. Though money has always had its legal and economic point of view, initially social and economic aspect of it was more considerable. Looking back in the history, there has been numerous situations where various states interfered in order to preserve the value of their monetary units, which ultimately led to a development of the "grey market" that continued to exist influenced but market's demand and supply and not diminishing the importance of the legal money aspect. Since the importance of money in modern economy and society is not only economic, there comes a need to regulate the monetary system by legal acts and regulations, in order to fulfil the sovereignty of the state. Actually, it is about adapting to the needs of society and the economy for the purpose of its better efficiency. Money provides the opportunity for participants who cannot provide other goods with their appearance on the market, and as the most important function of money, we can identify considerable time and cost saving of the exchange itself

Genomics of Gene Gain and Gene Loss in Eukaryotes

Evolution has often been perceived as a process driving species toward greater complexity at both biological (organismal) and genomic level. However, this view has repeatedly been challenged through writings of authors like Stephen J. Gould and Eugene V. Koonin, rendering the current evidence inadequate for any strong, trend-like (progressive in particular) claims. The current state of this problem is an agreement that despite the diversity of individual case-study evidence, it is still difficult to make any unequivocal conclusion regarding patterns and trends associated to complexity changes without a sufficiently accurate evolutionary reconstruction of ancestral genomes across numerous evolutionary lineages. Such reconstruction in return would provide valuable source of information regarding the change in the number of genes as a function of time and serve as an adequate proxy for monitoring genomic and consequently organismal complexity patterns. Here I propose a novel method for ancestral genome reconstruction in terms of gene families, revealing a consistent, across all investigated lineages, bell-shaped pattern of change in genomic complexity, with complexity periodically increasing throughout Proterozoic eon, followed by a more systematic decrease prevailing the Phanerozoic. Moreover, a global inverse relationship between gain and loss of gene families appears to be a general rule. Furthermore, some evolutionary periods exhibit specific profiles with exceptionally high gene family gain (or loss) rates coinciding with known key evolutionary transition events