Rola państwa w osiąganiu celów zrównoważonego rozwoju w Słowenii

The article analyses the importance of an active role of the state in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Its starting point is that despite the fact that today there is a growing recognition in the world that for the implementation of sustainable development an active role of the state and local self-governing communities is indispensable and despite the fact that in Slovenia such a role of the state in implementing sustainable development stems from its Constitution, so far, too little has been done in Slovenia to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. The purpose of this article is to analyse theoretical arguments and the Constitution in order to show the need for an active role of the state in implementing sustainable development goals, and also to discuss basic steps to be implemented in order to achieve an active role of the state in Slovenia. In this article comparative and analytical methods were used in studying the literature and regulation. The article, based on theoretical arguments and the constitutional analysis, identifies the need for an active role of the state in implementing sustainable development goals, and proposes arguments for it and also basic steps toward an active role of the state. The discussed topic is new and this article contributes to the field some fundamental arguments for the active role of state and for the more comprehensive policy-making. The article offers theoretical and constitutional arguments to be implemented in order to transform the present role of the state from a passive one into an active role and its findings are meant to be used by policy-makers and law-makers as a significant argument to pursue more active role of the state in implementing sustainable development goals.W artykule przeprowadzono analizę znaczenia aktywnej roli państwa w osiąganiu celów zrównoważonego rozwoju. Punktem wyjścia jest fakt, że mimo iż współcześnie na świecie wzrasta uznanie dla wdrażania zrównoważonego rozwoju, to niezbędna jest aktywna rola państwa i lokalnych wspólnot samorządowych. W Słowenii taką rolę odgrywa państwo, co wynika z Konstytucji, jednak uczyniono tu zbyt mało, aby osiągnąć cele zrównoważonego rozwoju. Celem opracowania jest analiza argumentacji teoretycznej oraz Konstytucji w celu wykazania potrzeby aktywnej roli państwa w realizacji celów zrównoważonego rozwoju, a także omówienie podstawowych kroków, jakie należy podjąć. Wykorzystano metody porównawcze i analityczne w badaniu literatury i regulacji. Autor, opierając się na argumentacji teoretycznej i analizie konstytucyjnej, identyfikuje potrzebę aktywnej roli państwa w realizacji celów zrównoważonego rozwoju, a także przedstawia argumenty przemawiające za tym oraz proponuje podstawowe działania. Omawiany temat jest nowy, a niniejszy artykuł wnosi do tej dziedziny kilka podstawowych argumentów przemawiających za aktywną rolą państwa i bardziej kompleksowym kształtowaniem polityki. Ponadto opisano argumenty teoretyczne i konstytucyjne, które należy zastosować w celu przekształcenia obecnej roli państwa z roli pasywnej w rolę aktywną, a poczynione ustalenia mogą być wykorzystane przez decydentów i ustawodawców jako istotny argument do kontynuowania bardziej aktywnej roli państwa w realizacji celów zrównoważonego rozwoju

O ulozi ljubavi u vođenju javnog sektora u Sloveniji

The article discusses the importance of self-love in public sector leadership and public sector employees engagement. Given the importance of leadership in our civilisation, the almost complete absence of self-love in leaders is especially detrimental to the organisations they lead and their employees. This is especially important in the public sector–due to the importance of the goods and services it provides, and the fact that it does so with the taxpayers’ money. Leaders who love themselves and lead with love, know how to step into the employees’ shoes, understand them; know how to find the best in each one of them and encourage the development of that aspect; they are sincere and warm; know how to listen to employees and impress them; they are respectful of them; they inspire a sense of security and confidence; spread positive energy and know how to make decisions. Also, the connection between self-love and sustainable development social model is discussed. Due to the unilateral orientation of our civilisation toward material development, individuals have almost eliminated the pursuit of spiritual development from their lives. However, love and happiness can only be achieved with the balance of both. The integral principle of sustainable development, which, in addition to economic growth, encompasses spiritual growth, is a model that offers us a way out of our (bad) state–in the world and in Slovenia. Of particular importance–primarily because of the long absence–is the spiritual side. People need to reintroduce it into their lives. In doing so, the state and the law should be “utilised”, and to set as their main task the provision of conditions for (in addition to economic) spiritual growth and thus love and happiness.Članak raspravlja o važnosti samoljublja u vođenju javnog sektora i angažmanu zaposlenika u javnom sektoru. S obzirom na važnost vodstva u našoj civilizaciji, gotovo potpuno odsustvo ljubavi prema sebi kod vođa posebno šteti kako organizacijama koje vode tako i njihovim zaposlenicima. To je posebno važno u javnom sektoru - zbog važnosti dobara i usluga koje isti pruža i činjenice da se to čini novcem poreznih obveznika. Vođe koji vole i upravljaju s ljubavlju, umiju biti u poziciji zaposlenika, razumjeti ih; znati pronaći najbolje u svakom od njih i potaknuti razvoj tog aspekta; oni su iskreni i topli; znati slušati zaposlenike i impresionirati ih; oni ih poštuju; nadahnjuju ih osjećajem sigurnosti i samopouzdanja; šire pozitivnu energiju i znaju donositi odluke. U tekstu se govori i o o povezanosti ljubavi prema sebi i socijalnog modela održivog razvoja. Zbog jednostrane orijentacije naše civilizacije prema materijalnom razvoju, pojedinci su gotovo eliminirali potragu za duhovnim razvojem iz svog života. Međutim, ljubav i sreća mogu se postići samo obostranom ravnotežom. Sastavno načelo održivog razvoja, koje uz gospodarski rast obuhvaća i duhovni rast, model je koji nam nudi izlaz iz našeg (lošeg) stanja - u svijetu i u Sloveniji. Od osobite je važnosti - prvenstveno zbog dugog zapostavljanja - duhovna strana koju ljudi trebaju ponovno uvesti u svoj život. Pritom bi se država i zakon trebali „iskoristiti“ tako da im se kao glavni zadatak nametne osiguravanje uvjeta za (uz ekonomski) duhovni rast, a time i ljubav i sreću

Upravljanje ambalažnim otpadom u Sloveniji: ustavnost postojećeg zakonodavstva

In this paper, the legal regulation of packaging waste treatment in Slovenia is analyzed, in particular the legal position of packaging waste management company. For them the main question in regard of legal regulation of waste packaging treatment is what is the extent of their obligation: are they obliged to pick up all the packaging waste from the public services providers, even though that exceeds the quantity of packaging waste put on market by packaging waste management company.U radu se analizira pravna regulativa postupanja s ambalažnim otpadom u Sloveniji, posebno pravni položaj tvrtke za upravljanje ambalažnim otpadom. Za tvrtke je glavno pitanje pravnog uređenja postupanja s ambalažnom otpadom i opseg njihih obveza: pitanje je - jesu li iste dužne pokupiti sav ambalažni otpad od pružatelja javnih usluga, iako to premašuje količinu ambalažnog otpada tržište od tvrtke za gospodarenje ambalažnim otpadom

Slip Estimation from Real-Time GPS in Cascadia

Current systems for rapidly characterizing earthquakes are based on seismic, teleseismic, and Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami (DART) buoy data. These systems have significant limitations that hinder them from making rapid and accurate assessments of large earthquakes used for local tsunami warnings where run-up can occur minutes after the earthquake. Seismic and teleseismic networks saturate around Mw 7.0. Tsunami waves take tens of minutes to reach the buoys, so rapid assessment is impossible. GPS overcomes these limitations for large earthquakes. GPS does not saturate, and the offsets being detected occur very quickly after an earthquake. This thesis develops the algorithms necessary for detecting and characterizing large earthquakes from GPS measurements. Point positioned GPS solutions are acquired from the CWU Geodesy Lab and filtered to detect offsets. Any detected offsets are then inverted to determine slip along the relevant faults. The moment and moment magnitude are calculated based on the estimated slip. The final solutions, detected offsets, calculated offsets and other relevant data are continuously pushed out to a database even when no earthquake is detected. The produced solutions can be used with existing methods to better inform tsunami estimates immediately following a large earthquake

Methods of Regularities Searching Based on Optimal Partitioning

The purpose of discussed optimal valid partitioning (OVP) methods is uncovering of ordinal or continuous explanatory variables effect on outcome variables of different types. The OVP approach is based on searching partitions of explanatory variables space that in the best way separate observations with different levels of outcomes. Partitions of single variables ranges or two-dimensional admissible areas for pairs of variables are searched inside corresponding families. Statistical validity associated with revealed regularities is estimated with the help of permutation test repeating search of optimal partition for each permuted dataset. Method for output regularities selection is discussed that is based on validity evaluating with the help of two types of permutation tests

About New Pattern Recognition Method for the Universal Program System “Recognition”

In this work the new pattern recognition method based on the unification of algebraic and statistical approaches is described. The main point of the method is the voting procedure upon the statistically weighted regularities, which are linear separators in two-dimensional projections of feature space. The report contains brief description of the theoretical foundations of the method, description of its software realization and the results of series of experiments proving its usefulness in practical tasks

Coherent Imaging Spectroscopy of a Quantum Many-Body Spin System

Quantum simulators, in which well controlled quantum systems are used to reproduce the dynamics of less understood ones, have the potential to explore physics that is inaccessible to modeling with classical computers. However, checking the results of such simulations will also become classically intractable as system sizes increase. In this work, we introduce and implement a coherent imaging spectroscopic technique to validate a quantum simulation, much as magnetic resonance imaging exposes structure in condensed matter. We use this method to determine the energy levels and interaction strengths of a fully-connected quantum many-body system. Additionally, we directly measure the size of the critical energy gap near a quantum phase transition. We expect this general technique to become an important verification tool for quantum simulators once experiments advance beyond proof-of-principle demonstrations and exceed the resources of conventional computers

Pravni aspekti premještanja jaružanog materijala s morskog dna u Republici Sloveniji

The paper deals with the question of whether it is permissible to relocate the dredged material from the seabed from the port of Koper to another location within the territorial sea of the Republic of Slovenia. At first glance, the simple issue is considered from the point of view of the legal permissibility of such conduct, recognizing that it is a highly multidisciplinary issue. Aspects of international law, EU law, Slovenian law, and Italian law are discussed. The latter because Italy faces the same problems of dumping or relocation of dredged material in the Gulf of Trieste basin as Slovenia, unlike Croatia which does not have major ports in this area. The Slovenian and Italian regulation and experiences may be of interest to Croatia for its local ports or major ports in other parts of Adriatic.Rad se bavi pitanjem dopustivosti premještanja iskopanog materijala s morskog dna iz luke Kopar na drugo mjesto unutar teritorijalnog mora Republike Slovenije. Na prvi pogled jednostavno pitanje razmatra se sa stajališta pravne dopuštenosti takvog ponašanja, uvažavajući da je riječ o izrazito multidisciplinarnom pitanju. Raspravlja se o aspektima međunarodnog prava, prava Europske unije, slovenskog i talijanskoga nacionalnog prava. Potonje se razmatra jer se Italija suočava s istim problemima odlaganja ili premještanja iskopanog materijala u bazenu Tršćanskog zaljeva kao i Slovenija, za razliku od Hrvatske koja nema većih luka na tom području. Međutim, slovenska i talijanska regulativa i iskustva mogu biti zanimljiva i korisna Hrvatskoj za njezine lokalne luke ili veće luke u drugim dijelovima Jadrana