Studio portrait of Mara Šola

Upper body shot of a woman in a dark urban dress.Mara Šola (née Todorović) was the wife of Vojislav Šola from Mostar and the sister-in-law of Jeftan Despić

Kako ravnatelji_ce zaznavajo fzicni ucni prostor kot dejavnik pouka?

School leaders are a central factor of the quality of learning and teaching in schools. It is generally believed that the staff model their behavior on leaders, which means if school leaders understand the physical school environment to be an important factor of learning, school staff (teachers and other professional staff) will also do so. To discover how school leaders assess the school environment as a factor of learning, 150 school leaders in primary education in Slovenia were invited to complete an online questionnaire. They were asked about their views regarding to what extent their school as physical environment encouraged certain factors. Fourteen listed factors were assessed on five-point numeric scales. The results show that in their school environment, school leaders assessed ecology, movement, and respect the highest, and feelings, imagination, and space the lowest. Their estimates of the assessed factors differ depending on the type of school building (new, old, renovated) only on the factors of movement, creativity, and logic and mathematics in favour of old schools. The results provide interesting information especially for school policy and everyone involved in the planning, building, or renewal of school premises. (DIPF/Orig.

Seed coat development

Razvoj sjemene lupine najbolje je istražen u vrste A. thaliana. Razvoj sjemene lupine iz vanjskih i unutarnjih ovojnih listova sjemenog zametka počinje nakon oplodnje, a signal za početak dolazi iz endosperma. Proces se temelji na diferencijaciji, te u maloj mjeri na rastu stanica. Vanjski ovojni list se diferencira u epidermalni sloj, dok od unutrašnjeg nastaje endotelij. Stanice epidermalnog sloja sintetiziraju i izlučuju mucilago, a u kasnijim stadijima razvoja stvaraju sekundarne stanične stijenke. Mucilago prekriva površinu zrele sjemenke, a u doticaju s vodom dolazi do imbibicije i mucilago se otpušta, te okruži sjemenku. Tijekom sinteze i izlučivanja mucilaga unutrašnjost vanjskog epidermalnog sloja poprima oblik vulkana, što se odražava i u vanjskom izgledu stanica. U stanicama unutrašnjeg sloja endotelija se sintetiziraju proantocijanidini (PA), koji nakon oksidacije u zreloj sjemenci poprimaju smeđu boju. Vanjska dva sloja unutrašnjeg ovojnog lista u ranijim stadijima razvoja prolaze kroz programiranu smrt stanica. Zbog rasta embrija i endosperma u unutrašnjosti sjemenke, svi slojevi osim vanjskog epidermalnog se potisnu i unište. Razvoj sjemene lupine predstavlja dobar model za proučavanje programirane stanične smrti, te usmjerenog izlučivanja tvari iz biljnih stanica. Ovo područje razvojne biologije biljaka stavlja znanstvenike pred brojne izazove, od određivanja puteva kontrole diferencijacijskih procesa, do otkrivanja funkcija strukturnih gena.Seed coat development is best described for Arabidopsis thaliana. Development of a seed coat from two ovule integuments starts right after fertilization. Signal for this process comes from an endosperm. Changes occuring during seed coat development are based on differentiation and, to a small degree, on cell elongation. Outer integument differentiates into epidermal layer, while the inner becomes endothelium. Cells of the epidermal layer synthesize and secrete mucilage and, at late stages, secondary cell walls. Mucilage covers the surface of a mature seed, thus in contact with water it can imbibe and be released. During mucilage synthesis and secretion the cell interior is volcano-shaped, which is evident on the outside. Cells of the innermost endothelium layer synthesize proanthocyanidins (PA), which oxidize at late stages of development and turn from colourless into brown. Two outer layers of the inner integument go through programmed cell death (PCD) in early stages. Growth of embrio and endosperm causes all layers except the outermost to compress and break. Seed coat development can serve as an excellent model for PCD research, as well as for targeted secretion. This area of plant developmental biology is still challenging, since differentiation control pathways and some structural gene functions still have to be elucidated

NEUROMARKETING – SCIENCE AND PRACTICE

The excessive number of brands on the market leads to information overload. Technical specifications on most products prevent a regular consumer from determining the product’s real value. Urbanisation of a modern society creates an environment with too many shops offering similar products. This is precisely why it is essentially important to explore the methods of a neuroscientific discipline, in order to find out whether marketing choices that have been made lead to maximum consumer satisfaction. Neuromarketing, as a scientific discipline in the field of marketing research, represents an implementation of neuroscientific methods, with a purpose of a better understanding of human behaviour. As a sublimation of two scientific disciplines-consumer behaviour and neuroscience - neuromarketing replaces the traditional types of marketing research. The purpose of this article is to introduce the postulates and the methodology of neuromarketing application, from the scientific and professional point of view. Therefore, it offers an overview of empirical research, analysis of techniques used in practise while conducting neuromarketing research, and the effect of their mutual interaction on the economy. With a comparative analysis of the influence neuromarketing has on the promotion of a marketing campaign, this paper determines the technological and general limitations in doing research, which have a direct influence on: product development, graphic design, distribution and promotion of products/services in general. In conclusion, we could claim that neuromarketing is a discipline that represents a quality addition to marketing research, in which the provided data analyses can be used in a way for companies to produce and sell products in accordance with consumer preferences

Environment protection and university technical curriculum

This paper deals with a university degree in Environmental \ud Engineering as a part of university studies in Engineering \ud and shows engineering fields in which environmental \ud engineering studies have been established as stand-alone \ud studies globally. Furthermore, the paper gives a short \ud overview of environmental engineering education in \ud Slovenia, and then looks in detail at the integration of \ud environmental engineering studies with study programmes \ud offered at the Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, \ud University of Ljubljana. In 1998, the first ever in \ud Slovenia technical studies in environmental engineering \ud were introduced, i.e. the four-year university study Water \ud Management and Communal Engineering (VKI). In \ud 2009, it was transformed into a new two-stage Bologna \ud study programme Water Management and Environmental \ud Engineering (VOI). The paper presents the basic indicators \ud of the VKI studies (enrolment, graduates, average grades, \ud study duration, drop-out), which formally expires in the \ud academic year 2015/16, and compares them with those \ud of the pre-Bologna university study programme in geodetic \ud engineering

SWOT ANALYSIS OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA AS AN INVESTMENT DESTINATION

Research has shown that foreign direct investments benefit the economic development of a host country. However, numerous examples of an inadequate investment structure point to the possible damages for an economic, as well as socio- political development of a country. The purpose of this paper is to looks into the structure of total foreign direct investments realised in the Republic of Croatia and, by using scientific methods, analyse the importance and the effect of foreign direct investments on the Croatian economy. Through following world’s the best practice, the paper offers a comparative analysis of the Republic of Croatia and the countries of the region, with the purpose of identifying the institutional obstacles for investment and producing a detailed SWOT analysis of the Republic of Croatia as an investment destination. Despite numerous existing conventions and protocols, a desired degree of adjustment to international conventions has not yet been achieved, which hinders investment. The Government should create a protection mechanism in order to keep the investors in the times of crisis, as well as policy of attracting the strategically oriented investments that will facilitate long-term economic growth. The first method through which it is possible to define a strategy of attracting strategically oriented investments into the economy, is the qualitative identification of the Republic of Croatia as an investment destination through SWOT analysis

Injury epidemiology in the first Croatian basketball league

The aim of this study was to provide a retrospective overview of injuries during one basketball season and to analyse injury rates and potential risks among professional male and female basketball players in the First Croatian National league. A hundred and forty-two (89 males and 53 females) of 223 basketball players (64%) sustained an injury during the previous season. Body height, total game exposure and total on-court time per game (p<.05) were the identified risk factors for females, while the number of training hours per week was found to be a risk factor for males (p<.05). The highest proportion of injured players was found among centers for men (74%) and forwards (70%) for women. Forty-three percent of injuries were moderately serious, 31% were minor, and 20% serious injuries. Majority (80%) of all injuries were to the lower extremities and men sustained fewer lower extremity injuries compared to women (IRR=0.88 95% CI=0.6 to 1.3). Ankles were the most prevalent injury site for both men and women followed by the knee. Men sustained significantly fewer knee injuries compared to female athletes (IRR=0.44 95% CI=0.17 to 1.11). The most common injury type was ligament injuries (31%), followed by muscle tears/strains (20%). Game incidence injury rate for males was significantly lower than for females (IRR=0.55, p=0.01 [95% CI=0.34-0.89]). Those athletes who, on average, played more than 20 minutes in games were almost twice more exposed to an injury (OR=2.09, 95%CI=1.17,3.72). This is the first descriptive epidemiological study estimating rates and risks of injuries among the Croatian professional basketball players