Tko se (još) druži sa susjedima? Prilog analizi lokalnih društvenih odnosa

Disembedding of social relations from a local context has often been pointed out as one of the main characteristics of contemporary social changes. Taking that as a starting point, this paper explored the role of neighborhood social relations in contemporary Croatian society. The analysis presented in this paper had two aims. The first aim was to get insight into structure of local social relations in Croatia and the second one was to determine whether dynamics of local social relations are related to some demographic, socioeconomic or spatial characteristics. Data analyzed in this paper were collected through the survey entitled Pilar’s Barometer of Croatian Society. The survey was conducted in the spring of 2014 on the national representative sample of Croatian citizens aged 18 years and older (N=1000). Findings from the analysis indicate that neighboring is a usual form of social interaction for majority of the target population. Furthermore, analysis showed that the level of education and the size both of settlements and buildings where respondents live are the most important determinants of neighborhood social relations. In addition, the analysis revealed that years of residence at the present address are particularly important for density of neighborhood social relations.Izvlačenje društvenih odnosa iz lokalnog konteksta često se spominje kao jedno od bitnih obilježja suvremenih društvenih promjena. Upravo polazeći od toga ovim radom se propitivala uloga koju danas društveni odnosi u susjedstvu imaju u hrvatskom društvu. Dva su osnovna cilja ovoga rada: prvi cilj je dobiti uvid u obilježja strukture lokalnih društvenih odnosa u Hrvatskoj, a drugi cilj je utvrditi je li dinamika lokalnih društvenih odnosa povezana s nekim osnovnim sociodemografskim, socioekonomskim te prostornim čimbenicima. U analizi su korišteni podaci prikupljeni anketnim istraživanjem Pilarov barometar hrvatskog društva. Istraživanje je provedeno u proljeće 2014. godine na reprezentativnom uzorku građana Hrvatske starijih od 18 godina (N=1000). Dobiveni nalazi upućuju na to da je u hrvatskom društvu druženje sa susjedima još uvijek uobičajeni oblik socijalne interakcije za većinu stanovništva. Kao najznačajnije odrednice društvenih odnosa među susjedima pokazale su se stupanj obrazovanja te veličina naselja i zgrade u kojoj ispitanici žive. Osim toga, posebno važnim za gustoću društvenih odnosa u susjedstvu se pokazao broj godina provedeno na sadašnjoj adresi stanovanja

LEAN METHODOLOGY AND ITS DERIVATES USAGE FOR PRODUCTION SYSTEMS IN MODERN INDUSTRY

With lean methodology usage being the only way to stay competitive on nowadays market, it is important to implement it and spread it through the organization. In this paper, purpose of lean is explained, the most important definition and tools are given and differences between problem solving approaches are explained. It can be concluded that problem solving approaches are in first look different, having also different number of steps, but they are adapted to the company in which they are used and that they depend on the size, complexity and expected closing time of project

Energy, cost, and CO 2 emission comparison between radiant wall panel systems and radiator systems

The main goal of this paper is to evaluate the possibility of application or replacement of radiators with low-temperature radiant panels. This paper shows the comparison results of operations of 4 space heating systems: the low-temperature radiant panel system without any additional thermal insulation of external walls (PH-WOI), the low-temperature radiant panel system with additional thermal insulation of external walls (PH-WI), the radiator system without any additional thermal insulation of external walls (the classical heating system) (RH-WOI), and the radiator system with additional thermal insulation of external walls (RH-WI). The operation of each system is simulated by software EnergyPlus. The investigation shows that the PH-WI gives the best results. The RH-WOI has the largest energy consumption, and the largest pollutant emission. However, the PH-WI requires the highest investment

What are the factors that determine risk-adjusted returns of Croatian life insurers?

Purpose: When conducting their business, insurers face various risks that are controlled for in order to mitigate them and protect the insured, inter alia. Moreover, being aware of the factors that determine the reward-to-risk ratio for insurers is also of crucial importance. Thus, the aim of this research is to identify potential factors that influence risk-adjusted returns of life insurance companies. Methodology: The analysis is conducted on a sample of life insurers that operated in Croatia in the period from 2016 to 2020. For this purpose, risk-adjusted ROA, i.e. the Sharpe ratio, is used as a risk-adjusted return measure, while independent variables encompass several insurance firm-oriented and insurance industry-specific variables, as well as variables depicting the level of macroeconomic development, stock market, bond market and institutional development. Results: After conducting dynamic panel analysis, the obtained results suggest that the premium growth rate, asset-based size, the net premium to surplus ratio, i.e. leverage, as well as bond market development are significant factors when determining risk-adjusted returns. Conclusion: Risk-adjusted returns are determined by insurance firm-oriented factors which are important not only to investors but also to insurance market regulators and insurance firm managers

UTJECAJ OBJAVE DIVIDENDE NA KRETANJE CIJENA DIONICA U REPUBLICI HRVATSKOJ

The aim of this research is to analyze the connection between dividend announcement and stock price on Croatian capital market using event study methodology. Research period was the period from the year 2007 to the year 2009. Results have confirmed that dividend change has statistically significant value for investors. Dividend increase and dividend decrease resulted with statistically significant stock price change in the same direction, while dividend retention resulted with no statistically significant stock price change.Cilj ovog istraživanja je ispitivanje veze između objave dividende i cijena dionica na hrvatskom tržištu kapitala uporabom metode studije događaja. Za period istraživanja uzet je period od početka 2007. godine do kraja 2009. godine. Rezultati istraživanja potvrdili su kako promjena dividende ima statistički značajnu vrijednost za ulagače na hrvatskom tržištu kapitala. Povećanje i smanjenje dividende rezultiralo je statistički značajnom promjenom cijena dionica u smjeru objave dividende dok objava očekivane isplate dividende nije rezultiralo statistički značajnom promjenom cijena dionica

Yugoslav defense policy (1945-1958): ideas and practice

Докторска дисертација Политика одбране Југославије (1945–1958): Идеје и пракса је заснована на необјављеној архивској грађи Архива Југославије, Војног архива у Београду, Дипломатског архива Министарства спољних послова Републике Србије, Историјског архива Београда, Историјског архива у Чачку и Музеја ваздухопловства, на објављеним документима, мемоарским записима, штампи, као и на стручној историографској литератури. У складу са темом као посебно корисни показали су се архивски фондови који су се односили на рад Савезне владе, Савеза Комуниста Југославије и Југословенске народне армије. Рад хронолошки обухвата период од 1945. године, када је завршен Други светски рат и створена социјалистичка Југославија до 1958. године када је донет нови Закон о народној одбрани, чиме је систем одбране који је до тада примењиван измењен. Најшире посматрано, основни циљ нашег истраживања састојао се у анализи југословенске одбрамбене политике. Анализом њених главних токова настојали смо да утврдимо како се она мењала у току времена, као и који су фактори на то имали највећи утицај. Намера нам је била да покажемо у којој мери су спољнополитички и геостратегијски положај Југославије, али и безбедносни проблеми који су из њих произилазили утицали на развој југословенске одбрамбене политике и на који начин су се у складу са тим променама, мењали и југословенски ратни планови. Исто тако, циљ нам је био да анализом дођемо до сазнања како се и на који начин током посматраног периода мењала и развијала југословенска војна доктрина. С обзиром на то да је одбрана земље у условима савременог рата захтевала да се још у миру најбрижљивије изврше све неопходне припреме било је неопходно одредити ко ће се о томе старати и ко ће одређивати за то потребне мере. Пошто је људски фактор, један од најбитнијих у систему одбране, циљ нам је био да покажемо како су се школовале војне старешине Југословенске (народне) армије и како се старешински кадар у посматраном периоду трансформисао од партизанских кадрова без потребног теоријског војног знања, до савремених официра спремних да својим знањем решавају све проблеме који су пред њих постављани. Настојали смо и да кроз анализу војне обуке и ванармијског војног васпитања установимо у којој мери су југословенски грађани били способни да бране своју земљу у случају стране агресије на њу. Приказ и анализа развоја југословенске војне привреде, која је готово у потпуности била уништена у току Другог светског рата, развоја саобраћајне инфраструктуре, изградње војних објеката и њиховог утицаја на одбрамбену моћ земље, али и на укупни друштвени развој у Југославији, такође је представљао један од значајних циљева нашег истраживања. Посебну пажњу посветили смо и анализи утицаја науке на политику одбране, пре свега кроз примере рада војнотехничких, војноисторијског и војногеографског института, али и кроз нуклеарна истраживања која су 1950-их почела да се спроводе у Југославији.Phd thesis Yugoslav defense policy (1945–1958): Ideas and practice is based on the unpublished sources from the Archive of Yugoslavia, Military Archive in Belgrade, Diplomatic Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, Historical Archives of Belgrade, Historical Archives of Čačak, Aeronautical Museum in Belgrade, on the published resources, memoir notes and press, as well as on the professional historiography literature. In accordance with the topic, the archives that referred to the work of the Federal Government, the League of Communists of Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav People's Army proved to be especially useful. The work chronologically covers the period from 1945, when the Second World War ended and socialist Yugoslavia was created, until 1958, when the new Law on National Defense was passed, which changed the defense system that had been applied until then. Broadly speaking, the main aim of our research was to analyze Yugoslav defense policy. By analyzing its main trends, we tried to determine how it changed over time, as well as which factors had the greatest influence on it. Our intention was to show the extent to which the foreign policy and geostrategic position of Yugoslavia, as well as the security problems that arose from them, influenced the development of Yugoslav defense policy and how Yugoslav war plans changed in accordance with these changes. Also, our aim was to use the analysis to find out how and in what way the Yugoslav military doctrine changed and developed during the observed period. Considering that the defense of the country in the conditions of the modern war demanded that all necessary preparations be made most carefully in peace, it was necessary to determine who would take care of them and who would determine the necessary measures for that. Since the human factor is one of the most important in the defense system, our aim was to show how the military officers of the Yugoslav (People's) Army were educated and how the officers in the observed period were transformed from partisan personnel without the necessary theoretical military knowledge to modern officers ready to use their knowledge to solve all the problems that are set before them. We also tried to establish, through the analysis of military training and non-military military education, the extent to which Yugoslav citizens were able to defend their country in the event of foreign aggression against it. Review and analysis of the development of the Yugoslav military economy, which was almost completely destroyed during the Second World War, the development of transport infrastructure, construction of military facilities and their impact on the country's defense power, but also on overall social development in Yugoslavia, was also one of significant aims of our research. We also paid special attention to the analysis of the impact of science on defense policy, primarily through examples of the work of military technical, military history and military geographic institutes, but also through nuclear research that began to be conducted in Yugoslavia in the 1950s

Die Einstellung der Lokalbehörden zu bestimmten sozioökologischen Folgeerscheinungen des Baus von Ferienwohnungen auf der Insel Vir

Empirijski podatci upotrijebljeni u ovom radu prikupljeni su u okviru širega anketnog istraživanja o prostornim, gospodarskim i socijalnim aspektima izgradnje za povremeno stanovanje na jadranskom području. Jedno od promatranih naselja u tome istraživanju bio je i Vir, no razlog fokusiranja ovoga rada na Vir nije slučajan. Izbor je ponajviše motiviran time što u Hrvatskoj gotovo da i nema javne rasprave o problemu nekontroliranoga turističkog razvitka te s time povezane bespravne gradnje koji kao primjer ne navodi upravo slučaj otoka Vira. Može se reći da je Vir postao sinonim za sve loše što se veže uz izgradnju stanova za odmor. Upravo u tom kontekstu ciljevi ovoga rada jesu istražiti u kojoj je mjeri lokalno stanovništvo zadovoljno dosadašnjim razvitkom naselja, koje koristi i štete njihovoj sredini nosi izgradnja stanova za odmor te, na kraju, kakav je generalni stav ispitanika prema izgradnji stanova za odmor. Ukratko, rezultati pokazuju da među anketiranim mještanima, dakle na lokalnoj razini, prevladava relativno benevolentan stav o posljedicama izgradnje stanova za odmor te da na lokalnoj razini nema većeg protivljenja postojećem smjeru razvitka otoka, odnosno da se izgradnja stanova za odmor ne doživljava inkompatibilnom s otočnim interesima.Empirical data used in this paper were collected within the research project "Spatial, economic and social aspects of building second homes on the Adriatic coast" conducted during autumn 2004 by the Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar. One of the observed places was Vir and the reason why we took it as the subject of this study was not unintentional. There has not been any discussion in Croatia about illegal building connected with tourism development without mentioning the case of Vir, which has become a synonym for all the unpleasant socio-spatial changes produced by unplanned second homes development. Therefore, with Vir in the background the aims of this paper were to explore residents\u27 satisfaction, perception of costs and benefits from second home development and general attitudes about second home development. The results show that the host community finds the consequences of mass building of second homes unthreatening and there is no serious opposition to island development based on second homes and residential tourism. In other words, residents consider second home development mostly compatible with their personal and community interests.Die diesem Artikel zugrunde liegenden empirischen Angaben entstammen einer breiter angelegten Umfrage über räumliche, wirtschaftliche und soziale Aspekte des Baus von Ferienwohnungen im adriatischen Küstenraum. Zu den in der Umfrage untersuchten Orten gehörte auch die Insel Vir. Die Wahl war nicht zufällig auf diesen Ort gefallen, vornehmlich deshalb, weil es in Kroatien so gut wie keine öffentliche Diskussion zum Problem der unkontrollierten touristischen Entwicklung und der damit verbundenen unrechtmäßigen Verbauung gibt, in der nicht der Fall Vir genannt würde. Man kann sagen, dass Vir zum Synonym für alles Negative geworden ist, das mit dem Bau von Ferienwohnungen in Verbindung gebracht wird. Gerade in diesem Kontext möchte der Verfasser ermitteln, inwiefern die Lokalbevölkerung mit der bisherigen Ortsentwicklung zufrieden ist, welche Vor- und Nachteile der Bau von Ferienwohnungen bringt und welche Einstellung schließlich die Befragten zur genannten Bautätigkeit haben. Kurz gefasst: Die Umfrageergebnisse zeigen, dass unter den befragten Ortsansässigen, also auf Lokalebene, eine verhältnismäßig benevolente Einstellung zu den Folgen des Baus von Ferienwohnungen vorherrscht. Daher ist unter der Lokalbevölkerung kein größerer Widerstand zur bestehenden Richtung in der Entwicklung ihrer Insel zu vermerken, bzw. man betrachtet den Bau von Ferienwohnungen nicht als etwas, das mit den Interessen der Insel inkompatibel wäre