Matej Bel University

About: Matej Bel University is a education organization based out in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Tourism & Fuzzy set. The organization has 721 authors who have published 1497 publications receiving 11573 citations. The organization is also known as: Matej Bel & Univerzita Mateja Bela.

Minimal extensions of flows with amenable acting groups

Abstract: We construct minimal extensions of flows with locally compact amenable acting groups Γ in the form of fibre-preserving flows on fibre bundles and affine flows on group bundles. We use these constructions to show that for a large family of groups Γ, the class of the compact second countable spaces, on which Γ acts in a (point-free and) minimal way, is closed with respect to countable products.

Applicaton of innovations in tourism destinations

Abstract: Decreasing number of visitors, decreasing number of overnight stays and decreasing sales are characteristics of the market environment in tourism destina-tion in Europe (Tourism statistics from Eurostat 2015). It is now a prerequisite for success in tourism to offer new, unique products to help tourism destinations, as well as the individual providers of services, who should be able to differentiate them-selves from the competition. Innovations represent a new idea or concept that is clearly creating new jobs, even in remote tourism resorts far from shopping centers. The goal of this paper is to define the categories of innovation including, process, marketing, institutional, management, product and service innovations, as well as the knowledge applied to examples of products, organizational and procedural inno-vations in tourism.

GnIOWA operators and some weights allocation methods with their properties

Abstract: This study proposes some standard and general forms of induced ordered weighted averaging (GnIOWA) operators where the inductive information is ordered weighted averaging (OWA) weight vectors instead of real numbers. It shows the usefulness of such type of generalized induced OWA in decision‐making and evaluation and many other applications. We propose three weights allocation methods that are specifically designed for the proposed GnIOWA operators. For each of the proposed weights allocation methods, a numerical example is also attached accordingly. With the use of convex/concave Regular Increasing Monotone quantifiers, we further discuss some mathematical properties of these weights allocation methods.

People in the Process of Innovation and as the Factor Increasing Business Performance

Abstract: The article deals with the importance of human resources (HR) in the process of innovation. The employees stand for the important component of increasing innovativeness, performance and competitiveness of an enterprise. The aim of the article is to analyse the components of creativity, as well as its barriers and to propose the recommendations for its improvement, as an important prerequisite for creating innovations and increasing the overall business performance. The corporate culture and people in the context of innovation were discussed. The questionnaire with 44 statements was used with the aim to identify the type of the corporate culture, its strengths and weaknesses and its connection with the innovations at particular university department. Two typologies were used, F. Trompenaars’ typology and R. Goffee and G. Jones’ typology. 25 employees were asked and 18 answers were processed. Two predominant types of culture were identified and the main characteristics regarding the innovations were analysed in order to set the potential base for further improvements.

Enhancement of the second-order NLO responses of boron–nitrogen oligomers by copolymerization with polyyne

Abstract: The enhancement of the static electronic second-order NLO properties of the linear boron–nitrogen chains by copolymerization with polyyne that is related mainly to the changes in the bond length alternation (BLA) parameter has been investigated at the HF and MP2 levels using the 6-311G(d,p) and 6-311+G(d,p) basis sets. The non-zero BLA parameter combined with ununiform electron distribution along the chain yields a unit cell asymmetry necessary for large second-order NLO responses. Alternance of the single and triple bonds brings an efficient electron delocalization resulting in large polymeric electronic dipole polarizability (186 ± 1 a.u. per unit cell). The unit cell asymmetry and large delocalization lead to sizeable longitudinal first hyperpolarizability (5850 ± 100 a.u. per unit cell).