Attention and Memory: Classroom Considerations Regarding Cognitive Processes Involved in Transfer and Retrieval

　During the past fifteen years or so we have witnessed the emergence of increasing knowledge about the mind and brain to better inform teaching and subsequently learning. Teachers wield significant influence in the students’ learning process and even slightly modify their brains on a daily basis. Various difficulties confront the modern-day teacher such as motivation and more specifically the challenge of sustaining student’s attention. It is often falsely assume that students are merely empty vessels ready to be filled with knowledge, a simplified view far from reality. With greater understanding of the learning process from the students’ perspective, teachers may be better equipped to provide more effective learning experiences and to primarily ascertain whether knowledge has been stored in long-term memory. Students have strengths and weaknesses, variable executive functioning and coping mechanisms for managing emotions and dealing with stress. The human brain is constantly shaped by environmental interaction, experienced through the senses. This is the essence of learning and is based on the crucial connected factors of attention and the process of memory, so if they are not adequately functioning, learning will be compromised. Deeper understanding of cognitive processes and more effective teaching approaches should be an aim towards better enabling attention, facilitating memory storage through transfer and retrieving the information for use in different contexts

Public Administration: Main Factor in Successful Management of Coastal Area Development in Republic of Croatia

The modern society requires a rational, professional, stable and socially accountable public administration that serves its citizens. Analysis of the status and functioning of the Croatian public administration shows that there are still many shortcomings and problems that must be solved. This paper outlines the basic characteristics of public administration as a set of structures and processes aiming to start and implement the policies in accordance with the public interest. Also, it explores the way and the level of success of managing the common good, with special attention given to the management of the coastal area, whereas the management of the coastal area is defined as an activity comprising different levels of management - local, regional, national and international. The author stresses the need to coordinate the different levels and emphasize the importance of organizing the work process and the capabilities of the managing structure. This is necessary because the public administration often makes decisions directly influencing the citizens' quality of life on a local and individual level. Given that the public administration has a great amount of power in all countries, it must be controlled. The author states that beside self control of public administration it is also needed to conduct the additional control. That kind of control is necessary due to the inestimable value of Croatia's coastal and other resources. Based on the results of the research the author suggests measures to improve a continued and efficient control.public administration, management, coastal area, organization, strategy, control

Making for Change: Waltham Forest showcase

Making for Change: Waltham Forest is a partnership project developed by London College of Fashion, UAL (LCF) and Waltham Forest Council for London Borough of Culture 2019 and the Great Place scheme. The project uses fashion activism as a catalyst for positive change in the borough, aiming to ensure a lasting legacy within the community. Led by Dr Francesco Mazzarella (Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Centre for Sustainable Fashion, UAL), this exhibition comprises of three main areas – education, manufacturing and community – all of which examine the narrative of the artefacts, the makers and the stories. The education theme showcases Making for Change: Waltham Forest’s contribution to embedding sustainability and future thinking in young people’s education. This section displays the teaching resources developed by LCF staff and a number of works produced by students from Waltham Forest schools. Paying attention to issues of social, cultural, environmental and economic sustainability within the manufacturing industry, the second theme presents the research of three LCF staff members who have undertaken residencies across three (micro, medium and large) textile and fashion businesses – Cactus Leather, Blackhorse Lane Ateliers and Wagland Textiles. The final area of the exhibition focuses on the local community, and those who participated in a number of making activities and creative workshops. On display are slogan t-shirt designs, upcycled garments from the art performance ‘I Wanna be me, I Wanna be (E)U’, and embroidery work, all of which showcase the creative skills gained by local people. This exhibition is kindly funded by the Sheepdrove Trust. The Making for Change: Waltham Forest project is part-funded by London Borough of Culture 2019, Waltham Forest Council and Great Place: Creative Connections, a programme supported by Arts Council England and the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The Great Place Scheme is designed to put arts, culture and heritage at the heart of the local community. ‘Making for Change: Waltham Forest’ Project Manager Dr Francesco Mazzarella, Centre for Sustainable Fashion, UAL Curator Fiona McKay, Centre for Sustainable Fashion, UAL Exhibition Coordinator Mina Jugovic, Centre for Sustainable Fashion, UAL Graphic Design LP Studio Exhibition Design Dean Slydell Technical and AV Install: Matt Carter Photography Andrew Mallinson Francesco Mazzarella Adam Razvi Guillaume Valli Nicole Zisman Film Short For

Utjecaj ispaše, sukcesije i košnje na proljetnu faunu danjih leptira (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) na suhim krškim livadama i pašnjacima

Karst meadows belonging to the class Festuco-Brometea are regarded as species-rich habitats of national and European importance. Biodiversity in these areas is relatively high, but unlike most other semi-natural habitat types, it is highly influenced and facilitated by human activities. In the present study we document the presence and estimate abundance of butterfly species from three sampling plots in Kraški rob (SW Slovenia): two dry karst meadows and one pasture, which also includes an overgrown area. Over 16-day sampling occasions in May and June 2012, 63 species (including species complexes) were recorded. Nearly all of the species were recorded from dry karst meadows (60 ssp., 95%), while pasture (34 spp., 54%) and the overgrown site (28 spp., 44%) were less diverse. The abundance of butterflies was the lowest on the overgrown area. Although both grazing and overgrowth result in a decline in the number and abundance of species, we believe that traditional land use positively affects butterfly diversity, as it maintains open grasslands, a habitat that is preferred by most butterfly species to the later phases of succession. We therefore recommend the maintenance of a mosaic landscape structure, as it supports a wide range of butterfly fauna.Krške livade razreda Festuco-Brometea su vrstama bogata staništa od nacionalne i europske važnosti. Bioraznolikost na tim područjima je relativno visoka, no u suprotnosti s nekim drugim poluprirodnim staništima, njihova bioraznolikost je pod velikim utjecajem ljudske aktivnosti. U ovom istraživanju smo zabilježili prisutnost i procijenili brojnost danjih leptira na tri uzorkovane plohe na Kraškom rubu (jugozapadna Slovenija): dvije krške livade i jednom pašnjaku koji je uključivao i zarasla područja. Tijekom 16-dnevnog terenskog istraživanja u svibnju i lipnju 2012., zabilježili smo 63 vrste leptira (uključujući i komplekse vrsta). Gotovo sve vrste su bile zabilježene na suhim krškim livadama (60 vrsta, 95%), dok je na pašnjaku (34 vrste, 54%) i na zaraslom području (28 vrsta, 44%) raznolikost bila manja. Brojnost leptira je bila najmanja na zaraslim površinama. Iako i zaraštanje i ispaša imaju za posljedicu opadanje u broju vrsta i brojnosti, smatramo da tradicionalno korištenje zemlje pozitivno utječe na raznolikost leptira. Razlog za to je prije svega sprječavanje zaraštanja livada, koje leptiri preferiraju više od staništa u kasnijim fazama sukcesije. Zato predlažemo održavanje mozaične strukture krajolika, jer će na taj način on biti primjeren za veći broj vrsta leptira

Comparison of traffic signalization in Slovenia and some other European countries

Traffic signalization is the basic communication between a road and a driver. Its purpose is to provide safe and pleasant use of the traffic infrastructure. This diploma thesis comprises the survey of vertical traffic signs of five countries: Slovenia, Italy, France, Germany and Croatia. It establishes and presents the non-conformity of signalization in the above-mentioned states. The comparison of their shapes, sizes, colours used and contents is presented. The visible non-conformity in these four sections is presented in some degree. A proposal how to eliminate these differences is made based on the non-conformity. The elimination of differences presents an idea on the uniformity of traffic signalization in the four substantive sections under consideration

Cave shrimps Troglocaris s. str. (Dormitzer, 1853), taxonomic revision and description of new taxa after phylogenetic and morphometric studies

FIGURE 1. Distribution map of eight taxa of the subgenus Troglocaris s. str., with phylogroup/subgroup designation (in brackets, as in Zakšek et al. 2009). Different symbols denote taxa, their coloration denotes method of the analysis: black – molecular and morphometric analysis; grey – morphometric analysis; white – molecular analysis.Published as part of Jugovic, Jure, Jalžić, Branko, Prevorčnik, Simona & Sket, Boris, 2012, Cave shrimps Troglocaris s. str. (Dormitzer, 1853), taxonomic revision and description of new taxa after phylogenetic and morphometric studies, pp. 1-31 in Zootaxa 3421 on page 6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20881

Abstractive summarization for Slovene language

The thesis focuses on automatic summarization of Slovene documents. There are large numbers of documents in digital form which we want to summarize in order to make them accessible to humans. This cannot be done manually so we want to automate the process. Our system, uses a parser for Slovene language to find triplets consisting of a subject, predicate (or verb) and object. We build a graph using the words in the triplets and weight the connections. We rank the nodes with P-PR algorithm, which assesses the importance of words in triples. We weight P-PR values of words in the triples with measures TF-IDF, Okapi BM-25, and word frequency. We chose the best triplets and use them to generate summaries. Generated summaries are evaluated with ROUGE-N and ROUGE-S measures. Evaluation is performed on a corpus, built from Wikipedia, and also with manually created summaries. The results show that humans create significantly better summaries. The best computer generated summaries are created when graph connections are weighted with the number of bigram occurrences and P-PR values are weighted with the frequency of word occurrence in triplets