A compatible statistical interpretation of a wave packet is proposed. De Broglian probabilities which unite wave and particle features of quantons are evaluated for free wave packets and Jor a superposition of wave packets. The obtained expressions provide a very plausible and physically appealing explanation of coherence in apparently incoherent beams and of the characteristic modulation of the momentum distribution, found recently in neutron interferometry combined with spectral filtering. Certain conclusions about dualism and objectivity in quantum domain are also derived.

The new techniques and ideas in quantum interferometry with neutrons, photons, atoms, electrons, and Bose condensates that fluorished in the last two decades have influenced in a decisive way the thinking and the research in the foundations and interpretation of quantum mechanics. The controversies existing among different schools on the reality of matter waves of quantum theory, the postulates of quantum measurement theory, and the (in)completeness of quantum mechanics have to be approached now in a new way. Our argumentation follows (...) the spirit of the Paris school. (shrink)

America’s increasing obesity problem requires federal, state, and local lawyers, policymakers, and public health practitioners to consider legal strategies to encourage healthy eating and physical activity. The complexity of the legal landscape as it affects obesity requires an analysis of coordination across multiple sectors and disciplines. Government jurisdictions can be viewed “vertically,” including the local, state, tribal, and federal levels, or “horizontally” as agencies or branches of government at the same vertical level. Inspired by the successful tobacco control movement, obesity (...) prevention advocates seek comprehensive strategies to “normalize” healthy behaviors by creating environmental and legal changes that ensure healthy choices are the default or easy choices. With many competing demands on diminishing municipal budgets, strategic coordination both vertically and horizontally is essential to foster the environmental and social changes needed to reverse the obesity epidemic. (shrink)

Mounting evidence documents the extraordinary toll on human health resulting from the consumption of unhealthy food products and physical inactivity. In response to America's growing obesity problem, local policymakers have been looking for legal strategies that can be adopted in their communities to encourage healthful behaviors. In order to provide practical tools to policymakers, this article examines four possible venues for local policy change to improve the health of a community: the school environment the built environment () community facilities and (...) the point of sale environment. Finally, the article examines the use of taxes or fees as a means of paying for nutrition policy work as well as potentially reducing the consumption of unhealthy products. This article illustrates that local laws and policies can be a valuable tool in changing a community's environment in order to improve nutritional options and increase opportunities for physical activity. (shrink)

Mounting evidence documents the extraordinary toll on human health resulting from the consumption of unhealthy food products and physical inactivity. Diseases related to poor nutrition – such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and some cancers – are among the leading causes of disability and death in the United States. Poor diet and lack of exercise come second only to tobacco use in actual causes of preventable death in this country. It is estimated that 6% of all adult health care, 7% (...) of Medicare, and 11% of Medicaid expenditures are attributable to obesity. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the direct medical cost associated with physical inactivity was nearly $76.6 billion in 2000.In response to America's growing obesity problem, local policymakers have been looking for legal strategies to adopt in their communities to encourage healthful behaviors. Taking the lead from the successful tobacco control movement, nutrition advocates are seeking strategies to “denormalize” unhealthy behaviors, rather than pursuing education-based approaches that encourage individuals to change their own personal behavior. (shrink)

We consider topological pairs,, which have computable type, which means that they have the following property: if X is a computable topological space and a topological imbedding such that and are semicomputable sets in X, then is a computable set in X. It is known, e.g., that has computable type if M is a compact manifold with boundary. In this paper we examine topological spaces called graphs and we show that we can in a natural way associate to each graph (...) G a discrete subspace E so that has computable type. Furthermore, we use this result to conclude that certain noncompact semicomputable graphs in computable metric spaces are computable. (shrink)

Der verfasser analysiert den umschwung der philosophie der reflexion in der positiven philosophie, der sich im spaten deutschen idealismus ereignet hat und der unvoraussehbare konsequenzen fur die gesamte entwicklung des posthegelianischen denkens gehabt hat. dieselbe tendenz findet der verfasser im heideggerschen werk "sein und zeit" (1927). in der analyse der befindlichkeit und der faktizitat zeigt er, wie jedes denken von der ursprunglichen versetzung des daseins in seinem "dass es ist" abhangig ist. diese umkehr des denkens war schon am werk bei (...) marx wie auch bei vielen nachfolgern seines denkens. (edited). (shrink)

It is known that a semicomputable continuum S in a computable topological space can be approximated by a computable subcontinuum by any given precision under condition that S is chainable and decomposable. In this paper we show that decomposability can be replaced by the assumption that S is chainable from a to b, where a is a computable point.

America’s increasing obesity problem requires federal, state, and local lawyers, policymakers, and public health practitioners to consider legal strategies to encourage healthy eating and physical activity. The complexity of the legal landscape as it affects obesity requires an analysis of coordination across multiple sectors and disciplines. Government jurisdictions can be viewed “vertically,” including the local, state, tribal, and federal levels, or “horizontally” as agencies or branches of government at the same vertical level. Inspired by the successful tobacco control movement, obesity (...) prevention advocates seek comprehensive strategies to “normalize” healthy behaviors by creating environmental and legal changes that ensure healthy choices are the default or easy choices. With many competing demands on diminishing municipal budgets, strategic coordination both vertically and horizontally is essential to foster the environmental and social changes needed to reverse the obesity epidemic. (shrink)

Just as burnout is manifested through changes in behavioural and communication patterns, it is important to examine whether certain aspects of communication can affect student burnout development. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the relationship between communication and academic burnout. To achieve this, the study proposes an integrated model examining the effects of three communication dimensions – support from academic staff, support from colleagues, and participation in decision-making – on four different dimensions of academic burnout, as well as students’ overall (...) burnout. The model is tested using structural equation modelling (SEM) analysis. High coefficients of determination regarding particular burnout dimensions validate the strength of the proposed model. The results show that support from academic staff and support from fellow students significantly and negatively influence academic burnout, and might be instrumental in its reduction. Unexpectedly, participation in decision-making is shown to be positively related to academic burnout. (shrink)

We examine topological pairs (\Delta, \Sigma) which have computable type: if X is a computable topological space and f:\Delta \rightarrow X a topological embedding such that f(\Delta) and f(\Sigma) are semicomputable sets in X, then f(\Delta) is a computable set in X. It it known that (D, W) has computable type, where D is the Warsaw disc and W is the Warsaw circle. In this paper we identify a class of topological pairs which are similar to (D, W) and have (...) computable type: we prove that (\Delta, \Sigma) has computable type if \Delta can somehow be approximated by a 2-cell whose boundary circle approximates \Sigma. Moreover, we examine higher-dimensional analogues of such pairs. (shrink)

Global interests in bioethics have increased drastically since the end of 20th century. The reason for this should be ascribed to a broad application of molecular-genetic methods introduced in human bio-medicine. This has, in turn, produced an involvement and development of numerous inter-disciplines, which have started to apply bioethics as a part of their own subject of interest. This article presents more than a decade of experience of teaching bioethics in our country, particularly under the auspices of the National Com?mittee (...) for Bioethics of UNESCO-commission of Serbia. Globalni interes za bioetiku drasticno se povecao krajem dvadesetog stoleca, sto treba pripisati sirokoj primeni molekularno-genetickih metoda uvedenih u oblasti humane biomedicine. Ovo je dovelo do prikljucenja i razvitka brojnih interdisciplinarnih oblasti koje su bioetiku prihvatile kao deo svog opsega interesa. U ovom se clanku iznosi iskustvo dugo preko deset godina o primeni edukacije bioetike u nasoj zemlji, posebno u organizaciji i pod okriljem Nacionalnog komiteta za bioetiku UNESCO-ve komisije R. Srbije. (shrink)

We examine conditions under which, in a computable topological space, a semicomputable set is computable. It is known that in a computable metric space a semicomputable set S is computable if S is a continuum chainable from a to b, where a and b are computable points, or S is a circularly chainable continuum which is not chainable. We prove that this result holds in any computable topological space.

U ovome se članku kritički prikazuje i valorizira hrvatski prijevod Hegelove "Znanosti logike" . Radi se o vrlo dobrom prijevodu , koji je važan naročito zato što je danas sve manji broj mladih filozofa u stanju čitati djela na njemačkom jeziku. Nadalje, promišljaju se najvažnije dimenzije Hegelove "Znanosti logike", s posebnim osvrtom na pitanje o dokidanju metafizike. "Znanost logike" trebala bi služiti kao priručnik za postmetafizičko mišljenje.In diesem Aufsatz wird die kroatische Übersetzung von der Hegels Wissenschaft der Logik kritischdargestellt und (...) valorisiert. Es geht um eine sehr gute Übersetzung , die deswegen besonders wichtig ist, weil heute immer wenigen Anzahl jungenPhilosophen in der Lage ist, auf Deutsch zu lesen. Weiter werden die wichstige Dimensionen HegelscherLogik nachgedacht mit besonderen Aufmerksamkeit auf die Frage über die Aufhebung derMetaphysik. Die Wissenschaft der Logik sollte als Handbuch für nachmetaphysiches Denken dienen. (shrink)

U ovom se članku kritički analiziraju i komentiraju neki najznačajniji momenti knjige Slavoja Žižeka "Nedjeljivi ostatak". U mjeri vlastita oslobađanja od metafizike, Žižek je oblikovao jedno nadahnjujuće tumačenje klasične njemačke filozofije.In diesem Aufsatz werden die wichtigsten Moment edes Buchs von Slavoj Žižek "Unteilbarer Überrest" kritisch analysiert und kommentiert, In dem Maß eigener Befreiung von der Metaphysik gestaltet Žižek eine einleuchtenden Deutung der klassischen deutschen Philosophie.

U ovom se članku kritički razmatraju i uspoređuju bitni momenti knjiga Williama McBridea Od jugoslovenskog Praxisa do globalnog patosa i Marijana Krivaka Protiv!. Obje knjige predstavljaju važne priloge kritici ideologije, a obojica filozofa misle perspektive budućnosti čovječanstva s onu stranu vladavine dominantne logike profita.In diesem Aufsatz werden die Schwerpünkte der Bücher von amerikanischen Philosoph William McBride und Kroatischen Philosoph Marijan Krivak kritisch analysiert und verglichen. Beide Bücher stellen die wichtige Beiträge zur Ideologiekritik dar. Beide Philosophen denken die Zukunftperspektiven der Menschheit (...) jenseits der Herrschaft der dominanten Logik des Profits. (shrink)

Filozofija prava jest jedan od najvažnijih i temeljnih dijelova Hegelova mišljenja. U radu se pokazuje kako Hegel uopće nije državni filozof, nego povijesni mislilac, koji nasuprot nasilju i proizvoljnoj vlasti afirmira povijesnu, tj. ljudsku proizvedenost prava, pri čemu se suvremenoj samosvijesti suprotstavlja autoritarna prošlost. Stoga se Hegel imade razumjeti kao zastupnik autentične demokracije. Država služi tek kao jamac ljudske slobode, nipošto kao samosvrha. Dakle, Hegel je povijesni mislilac građanskog svijeta.Die Philosophie des Rechts stellt eine von den wichtigsten und grundlegenden Seiten (...) des He­gelschen Denkens dar. Es wird gezeigt, dass Hegel kein Staatsphilosoph ist, sondern ein ge­schichtlicher Denken, der gegenüber der Gewalt und willkürlichen Macht die geschichtliche,d.h. menschliche Genese des Rechts affirmiert, wobei er die gegenwärtige Selbstbewusstsein alsAntithese zur autoritären Vergangenheit stellt. Des wegen sollte man Hegel als Vertreter eineautentische Demokratie verstehen. Der Staat gilt nur als Garant der menschlichen Freiheit,Keineswegs als Selbstzweck. Also, Hegel ist ein geschichtlicher Denker der zivilen Welt zu definieren. (shrink)