Trieste and the northeastern Adriatic during the cold war (1945-1975)

Delo in komunizem v Jugoslaviji in Italij

deviance in Yugoslavia between 1941 and 1951

The article focusses on methodological tools for investigating social practice in totalitarian societies. It referes to the work of Hannah Arendt, Pierre Bourdieu, Imanuel Geiss, Reinhart Koselleck, Alf Lüdtke, and others. Its reflections are mostly illustrated by examples taken from the author\u27s research on work relationships in Yugoslav mining industries during and after the Second World War. The concept of deviance refers to those parts of society that were excluded by national socialist and communist "social engineering" practice

Sociocultural approach to assessment of child development and learning in preschool education

Spremljanje otrokovega razvoja in učenja predstavlja sestavni del predšolskega kurikula. Sodobna teorija predšolske pedagogike spremljanje otrokovega razvoja in učenja kot osnove za načrtovanje kurikula umešča med procesne kazalce kakovosti. V prispevku predstavimo razliko med razvojnopsihološkim opazovanjem otrokovega razvoja in učenja ter pedagoškim spremljanjem otrokovega razvoja in učenja. Predstavimo namen spremljanja otrokovega razvoja in učenja v predšolski vzgoji in dva različna pristopa pri spremljanju: dekontekstualiziranega, to je osredotočenega na spremljanje otroka zunaj konteksta, in sociokulturnega, ki poskuša spoznati in razumeti otroka in njegovo učenje v fizičnem in socialnem kontekstu.Assessment is integral to preschool curriculum. Within contemporary preschool pedagogy, the assessment of child development and learning, which represents a basis for curriculum planning, is considered one of preschool standards of quality. In this paper, we present the difference between scientific observation which is based on developmental psychology, and the pedagogical assessment of child development and learning. We outline the purpose of assessing child development and learning in early childhood and introduce two different approaches to assessment, namely, the decontextualised approach which focuses on monitoring a child out of the context and the sociocultural approach which aims to identify and understand a child and his or her learning in the physical and the social context

The Second World War in Southeastern Europe: Historiographies and Debates

The author reflects on the conditionalities of a better balancing of research agendas on the Second World War in Southeastern Europe in terms of the interdependencies between local dynamics and wider scales - be they the regional, national and transnational, or global dimensions of the war. She draws attention to the role the European Union has played in crafting public history, in which processes of 'internationalizing' and of 'nationalizing' the past have been entangled. She concludes that Southeast Europeanists could greatly enhance international research agendas by taking the lead in fostering a bottom-up, multiscale, and multiperspective history of postimperial, nationalizing societies at war

Containing Conflict and Enforcing Consent in Titoist Yugoslavia: The 1970 Dockworkers' Strike in Koper (Slovenia)

The port of Koper (It. Capodistria) in the Slovenian part of the Istrian peninsula was built in the second half of the 1950s as a socialist modernization project. In 1970, it witnessed the only violently escalating dockers’ unrest in its socialist history. Using the personal archive of Danilo Petrinja, the port’s second director, which has been pre-served in the Regional Archive of Koper, the author takes a micro-historical approach to this incident, and views it at the historical moment in Yugoslavia between the student protests of 1968 and the ‘Croatian spring’ of 1971. She adds a perspective on the interconnectedness of the early 1970s and the late 1980s, when social unrest was an integral part of Yugoslavia’s demise. The episode of public violence in the Yugoslav border city of Koper offers proof of the multi-layered nature of explanatory tropes: the border perspective from Koper is interwoven with the perspective of Yugoslavia as a whole, and a comparison with workers’ violence in neighbouring Trieste during the same years adds yet another twist to a reassessment of the applicability of the Cold War framework to an examination of labour relations and violence

Geometric and Combinatorial Properties of Self-similar Multifractal Measures

For any self-similar measure $\mu$ in $\mathbb{R}$, we show that the distribution of $\mu$ is controlled by products of non-negative matrices governed by a finite or countable graph depending only on the IFS. This generalizes the net interval construction of Feng from the equicontractive finite type case. When the measure satisfies the weak separation condition, we prove that this directed graph has a unique attractor. This allows us to verify the multifractal formalism for restrictions of $\mu$ to certain compact subsets of $\mathbb{R}$, determined by the directed graph. When the measure satisfies the generalized finite type condition with respect to an open interval, the directed graph is finite and we prove that if the multifractal formalism fails at some $q\in\mathbb{R}$, there must be a cycle with no vertices in the attractor. As a direct application, we verify the complete multifractal formalism for an uncountable family of IFSs with exact overlaps and without logarithmically commensurable contraction ratios.Comment: 46 pages, 1 figure. Added missing technical assumption to Theorem 1.2, with additional discussion in Section 4.3. Other results unchange

Geometric and Combinatorial Properties of Self-similar Multifractal Measures

For any self-similar measure $\mu$ in $\mathbb{R}$, we show that the distribution of $\mu$ is controlled by products of non-negative matrices governed by a finite or countable graph depending only on the IFS. This generalizes the net interval construction of Feng from the equicontractive finite type case. When the measure satisfies the weak separation condition, we prove that this directed graph has a unique attractor. This allows us to verify the multifractal formalism for restrictions of $\mu$ to certain compact subsets of $\mathbb{R}$, determined by the directed graph. When the measure satisfies the generalized finite type condition with respect to an open interval, the directed graph is finite and we prove that if the multifractal formalism fails at some $q\in\mathbb{R}$, there must be a cycle with no vertices in the attractor. As a direct application, we verify the complete multifractal formalism for an uncountable family of IFSs with exact overlaps and without logarithmically commensurable contraction ratios.Comment: 43 pages, 1 figure, some numbering changed from previous versions as well as fixed statements and proofs (main results unchanged

670 nm light mitigates oxygen-induced degeneration in C57BL/6J mouse retina

BACKGROUND Irradiation with light wavelengths from the far red (FR) to the near infrared (NIR) spectrum (600 nm -1000 nm) has been shown to have beneficial effects in several disease models. In this study, we aim to examine whether 670 nm red light pretreatment can provide protection against hyperoxia-induced damage in the C57BL/6J mouse retina. Adult mice (90-110 days) were pretreated with 9 J/cm2 of 670 nm light once daily for 5 consecutive days prior to being placed in hyperoxic environment (75% oxygen). Control groups were exposed to hyperoxia, but received no 670 nm light pretreatment. Retinas were collected after 0, 3, 7, 10 or 14 days of hyperoxia exposure (n = 12/group) and prepared either for histological analysis, or RNA extraction and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR). Photoreceptor damage and loss were quantified by counting photoreceptors undergoing cell death and measuring photoreceptor layer thickness. Localization of acrolein, and cytochrome c oxidase subunit Va (Cox Va) were identified through immunohistochemistry. Expression of heme oxygenase-1 (Hmox-1), complement component 3 (C3) and fibroblast growth factor 2 (Fgf-2) genes were quantified using qPCR. RESULTS The hyperoxia-induced photoreceptor loss was accompanied by reduction of metabolic marker, Cox Va, and increased expression of oxidative stress indicator, acrolein and Hmox-1. Pretreatment with 670 nm red light reduced expression of markers of oxidative stress and C3, and slowed, but did not prevent, photoreceptor loss over the time course of hyperoxia exposure. CONCLUSION The damaging effects of hyperoxia on photoreceptors were ameliorated following pretreatment with 670 nm light in hyperoxic mouse retinas. These results suggest that pretreatment with 670 nm light may provide stability to photoreceptors in conditions of oxidative stress.This work was supported by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Vision Science