Homeopathic products and homeopathic treatment in veterinary medicine in Republic of Slovenia

Doctors and veterinarians in many countries of the world have an opportunity to select between allopathic or homeopathic drugs. The selection of an appropriate method for medical treatment should be performed from the individual point of view.

La integración hombre-máquina : lo concebible y lo realizable en la ciencia real y en la ciencia ficción

L'arribada de les Tecnologies de la Informació i la Comunicació (TIC) va produir canvis d'ordre qualitatiu en el tecnològic realitzable i en el tecnològic concebible. Aquestes transformacions s'han expressat respectivament en canvis de registre material i conceptual en el nostre esperit d'època, una nova era en la història de la humanitat marcada per l'ús quotidià i natural de les noves tecnologies. Tant en el domini de la ciència real com en el de la ciència ficció, els discursos relatius a la integració home-màquina, que discorren sobre la fusió entre biologia i tecnologia, apunten a la idea central que les TIC donaran lloc, en un punt proper del seu desenvolupament, a una singularitat tecnològica, punt històric d'inflexió i canvi transcendental expressat en l'aparició d'androides i poshumans, figures artificials ontològicament idèntiques, i fins i tot superiors, als éssers originals en què s'inspiren.La llegada de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) produjo cambios de orden cualitativo en lo tecnológico realizable y en lo tecnológico concebible. Estas transformaciones se han expresado respectivamente en cambios de registro material y conceptual en nuestro espíritu de época, una nueva era en la historia de la humanidad signada por el uso cotidiano y natural de las nuevas tecnologías. Tanto en el dominio de la ciencia real como en el de la ciencia ficción, los discursos relativos a la integración hombre-máquina, que discurren acerca de la fusión entre biología y tecnología, apuntan a la idea central de que las TIC darán lugar, en un punto cercano de su desarrollo, a una singularidad tecnológica, punto histórico de inflexión y cambio trascendental expresado en la aparición de androides y posthumanos, figuras artificiales ontológicamente idénticas, e incluso superiores, a los seres originales en que se inspiran.The arrival of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) produced a qualitative change in the technological feasible and technological conceivable realities. These transformations are expressed respectively in changes in the conceptual and material register of our time spirit, a new era in human history marked by the natural and everyday use of new technologies. Both in the field of real science and in that of science fiction, discourses on human-machine integration, which run about the merge between biology and technology, point to the central idea that ICT will generate, in the near future, a technological singularity, a historical turning point expressed in the appearance of androids and posthumans, artificial figures ontologically identical, or even superior to the original beings in which they are inspired

Ancient mathematical ideas and their applicability in technology and teaching

We present two simple but very applicable mathematical ideas. The idea of an arithmetic mean, is used in car differential (differential gear). The idea of continuous and discrete functions is applied in modern electronic communications. Both ideas are very useful to present and motivate the interdisciplinary approach and intuitive value of abstract mathematical ideas in teaching

Using Lidar Data to Analyse Sinkhole Characteristics Relevant for Understory Vegetation under Forest Cover\u2014Case Study of a High Karst Area in the Dinaric Mountains

In this article, we investigate the potential for detection and characterization of sinkholes under dense forest cover by using airborne laser scanning data. Laser pulse returns from the ground provide important data for the estimation of digital elevation model (DEM), which can be used for further processing. The main objectives of this study were to map and determine the geomorphometric characteristics of a large number of sinkholes and to investigate the correlations between geomorphology and vegetation in areas with such characteristics. The selected study area has very low anthropogenic influences and is particularly suitable for studying undisturbed karst sinkholes. The information extracted from this study regarding the shapes and depths of sinkholes show significant directionality for both orientation of sinkholes and their distribution over the area. Furthermore, significant differences in vegetation diversity and composition occur inside and outside the sinkholes, which indicates their presence has important ecological impacts

A comparison of tree segmentation methods using very high density airborne laser scanner data

Abstract. Developments of LiDAR technology are decreasing the unit cost per single point (e.g. single-photo counting). This brings to the possibility of future LiDAR datasets having very dense point clouds. In this work, we process a very dense point cloud (~200 points per square meter), using three different methods for segmenting single trees and extracting tree positions and other metrics of interest in forestry, such as tree height distribution and canopy area distribution. The three algorithms are tested at decreasing densities, up to a lowest density of ~5 point per square meter. Accuracy assessment is done using Kappa, recall, precision and F-Score metrics comparing results with tree positions from groundtruth measurements in six ground plots where tree positions and heights were surveyed manually. Results show that one method provides better Kappa and recall accuracy results for all cases, and that different point densities, in the range used in this study, do not affect accuracy significantly. Processing time is also considered; the method with better accuracy is several times slower than the other two methods and increases exponentially with point density. Best performer gave Kappa = 0.7. The implications of metrics for determining the accuracy of results of point positions’ detection is reported. Motives for the different performances of the three methods is discussed and further research direction is proposed. </jats:p

Estimating the accuracy of volume tables and volume equations for Silver fir

Primerjali smo postopke za ocenjevanje volumna debeljadi jelke na podlagi Huberjevega, Smalianovega in Newtonovega obrazca. Podatke za primerjavo smo dobili z interpolacijo kubičnih zlepkov na podlagi merjenja posekanih dreves. Newtonov in Huberjev postopek sta bila najnatančnejša pri ocenjevanju volumnovstarih jelk (starost do 200 let, povprečni premer 59 cm). Na podlagi izračunanih volumnov smo ocenjevali volumne stoječih dreves v sklopu gozdne inventure. Slovenske Čoklove tarife (1959) so se kljub svoji preprosti zasnovi izkazale s sprejemljivo natančnostjo (povprečno odstopanje v odstotkih od povprečnega volumna < 1 %, R2=0.87). Delež pojasnjene variabilnosti volumnov dreves se je povečal za 5 % pri dvovhodnih deblovnicah in za 11 % pri triparametrskih volumenskih funkcijah.Comparisons of stem volume estimation techniques were performed based on equations of Huber, Smalian and Newton, and a cubic spline interpolation of points along the silver fir tree stems. Results indicate that Newton`s and Huber`s equations were the most accurate in determining volumes of old silver fir trees (age up to 200 years and average dbh 59 cm). The obtained tree volumes were the basis for the standing timber estimation in the forest inventory. Despite their rather simple structure, the Slovene Čokl (1959) tariff functions proved to be sufficiently accurate (average residual in percentage of the mean volume < 1%, R2=0.87). The proportion of the individualtree volume variance explained increased by 5 % for standard two-entry volume tables and by 11% for three-parameter volume functions

Dethinning Extensive Air Shower Simulations

We describe a method for restoring information lost during statistical thinning in extensive air shower simulations. By converting weighted particles from thinned simulations to swarms of particles with similar characteristics, we obtain a result that is essentially identical to the thinned shower, and which is very similar to non-thinned simulations of showers. We call this method dethinning. Using non-thinned showers on a large scale is impossible because of unrealistic CPU time requirements, but with thinned showers that have been dethinned, it is possible to carry out large-scale simulation studies of the detector response for ultra-high energy cosmic ray surface arrays. The dethinning method is described in detail and comparisons are presented with parent thinned showers and with non-thinned showers