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Uvajanje sistema ISO 9001:2000 v povezavi z HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points) v mesariji "X" : diplomsko delo
No full textHow do social movements take the “electoral turn” in unfavourable contexts? The case of “Do Not Let Belgrade D(r)own”
No full textIn recent years, researchers have investigated many cases of new left social movements' "electoral turns" in relatively favourable contexts that are open for new actors. This article explains how new left movements decide to enter the electoral competition despite an unfavourable context and low electoral prospects, based on the case study of "Do Not Let Belgrade D(r)own", a municipalist initiative in Serbia. The article investigates in particular the role of eventful protests in changing activists' perceptions of the electoral strategy and describes activists' strategic framing in communicating the "electoral turn"
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Study of the possibility of increasing the probing depth by the method of reflection confocal microscopy upon immersion clearing of near-surface human skin layers.
No full textThe possibility of increasing the human-skin probing depth by the method of
reflection confocal microscopy (RCM) upon decreasing the amplitude of spatial
fluctuations of the refractive index of the upper skin layers is considered. A
change in the probing depth is estimated by analysing the spatial distribution
of the probability density of the effective optical paths of detected photons
calculated by the Monte Carlo method. The results of the numerical simulation
are interpreted within the framework of the possible application of RCM to the
study of the human skin exposed to an immersion liquid compatible to it. A
diffusion of the immersion agent into the skin depth involves the equalising of
the refractive indices of the structural elements of near-surface skin layers,
which in turn causes a decrease in the scattering intensity and a certain
increase in the transparency of the upper tissue layers. It is shown that a
decrease in the light scattering in the near-surface skin layers leads to a
significant increase in the probing depth obtained with the RCM technique
Pathways to politics: new left movement parties in Post-Yugoslav space
No full textThis thesis investigates processes behind the formation of new left movement parties in post-Yugoslav space by tracing and comparing the emergence of two movement parties: Initiative for Democratic Socialism (Slovenia) and Do Not Let Belgrade D(r)own (Serbia). Its main aim is to describe mechanisms through which activist groups with long-term experience of nonelectoral activism engage in movement party formation, which is conceptualized as a core change in social movement strategy. The central argument of the thesis is that movement party formation can be explained by two key mechanisms: strategic learning, which takes place over a longer period of time, and cognitive liberation, which is provoked by the experience of eventful protest. In addition to establishing similarities across the two cases, comparative design serves to investigate to what extent and how each of the two contexts structured different movements’ strategic articulations. It identifies two strategic articulations of the electoral new left in the post-Yugoslav space: national-level democratic-socialist pathway and local-level green-municipalist pathway.
Empirically, the thesis combines theory-building process tracing and cross-case analysis, outlining the movement parties’ long-term origins through detailed case studies. In addition to in-depth interviews with activists from various sub-sectors of left-wing activism in Slovenia and Serbia, the case studies draw on the analysis of activists’ strategic framing within protest events, media appearances and organizational documents.
The thesis aims to contribute to the body of research on stability and change in social movement strategy as well as to update the literature on left-wing movement parties with cases that remained relatively underinvestigated. At the same time, the thesis takes a novel approach to postsocialist left-wing activism, going beyond the usual analytical division between electoral and nonelectoral forms of activism. Against the backdrop of the assumptions on the static, transactional and NGO-ized nature of postsocialist activism, it shows activists’ capacity for strategic change
Letter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer, Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, October 2, 1942
No full textLetter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer at The Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, regarding property owned by Dave Tatsuno. Zellick mentions a dispute between current tenants and Tatsuno, and that Tatsuno has asked Goodman to help locate trustworthy tenants.Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
The feasibility of through-the-cycle ratings
No full textIt has been proposed that the potential procyclicality of Basel II could be alleviated by using through-the-cycle (TTC) ratings in IRBA models. A TTC rating would be based on the structural component of the debtor’s credit risk ignoring cyclical fluctuations. This paper tests for the existence of such fluctuations in corporate sector credit risk and finds vietually no evidence for their existence at the company level. It is not possible to assign satisfactory TTC ratings to debtors if there are no cyclical variations to be filtered out.through-the-cycle rating; credit risk; procyclicality
Investigation of the Mode of Action of the Protein VapA of Rhodococcus Equi on Phagosome Membranes
No full textThe intracellular pathogen R. equi manages to survive the phagosome maturation by arresting phagosomes in a prephagolysosomal state. The rhodococcal virulence-associated protein A (VapA) contributes to this process [1]. We propose a pore forming activity for VapA.Based on experiments with model membranes mimicking the phagosome membrane we suggest a five-step mode of action for VapA. Biosensor experiments indicated a binding of VapA to the bilayers (1) being accompanied by an increase of membrane rigidity. In contrast to common pore-forming molecules only a weak intercalation dependent on the lateral membrane pressure occured (2). AFM analysis revealed a strong aggregation of VapA on cholesterol-poor lipid domains (3). This induced a reorganization of the domain structure of the bilayer. Defined and undefined lesions increasing the permeability of the reconstituted membranes (4) and finally the induction of membrane disintegration by VapA (5) were observed using electrophysiological measurements on freestanding membranes and a fluorescence based nanopore dye release assay.We assume two different interaction states for VapA defined by different protein orientation which depend on lipid package, lipid composition and pH value. The potential relevance of these observations for understanding of R. equi virulence will be discussed.References[1] von Bargen, C. and Haas, A., 2009, FEMS Microbiol Rev 33: 870-891
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