University of Maribor

About: University of Maribor is a education organization based out in Maribor, Slovenia. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & KEKB. The organization has 3987 authors who have published 13077 publications receiving 258339 citations. The organization is also known as: Univerza v Mariboru.

High-statistics measurement of neutral-pion pair production in two-photon collisions

Abstract: Reference EPFL-ARTICLE-154391doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.78.052004View record in Web of Science Record created on 2010-11-05, modified on 2017-12-10

On Herstein’s Lie map conjectures, I

Abstract: First published in Transactions- American Mathematical Society in Vol.353, No.10, pp.4235-4260, published by the American Mathematical Society

Police Self-Legitimacy, Use of Force, and Pro-organizational Behavior in Slovenia

Abstract: Previous empirical analysis of police legitimacy had focused mainly on legitimacy as perceived by people over whom police exercise power (e.g., offenders, victims, and the general population). We know relatively little about police officers’ sense of their own legitimacy, what predicts such self-legitimacy, and the consequences of self-legitimacy for behavior and decision choices officers make. This chapter draws on survey data from police officers in Slovenia to explore these issues. Officers with a greater sense of self-legitimacy were officers who received fair treatment from their supervisors, had good interpersonal relations with colleagues, and who believed the recognized them as legitimate. Self-legitimacy, in turn, was found to predict the decision of officers to choose verbal warning rather than threat of physical force to take control of situations. It was associated with a greater likelihood to engage in pro-organizational behavior. The quality of interpersonal relations with colleagues was the strongest predicted of pro-organizational behavior but not decision to use force.

Glucose-Stimulated Calcium Dynamics in Islets of Langerhans in Acute Mouse Pancreas Tissue Slices

Abstract: In endocrine cells within islets of Langerhans calcium ions couple cell stimulation to hormone secretion. Since the advent of modern fluorimetry, numerous in vitro studies employing primarily isolated mouse islets have investigated the effects of various secretagogues on cytoplasmic calcium, predominantly in insulin-secreting beta cells. Due to technical limitations, insights of these studies are inherently limited to a rather small subpopulation of outermost cells. The results also seem to depend on various factors, like culture conditions and duration, and are not always easily reconcilable with findings in vivo. The main controversies regard the types of calcium oscillations, presence of calcium waves, and the level of synchronized activity. Here, we set out to combine the in situ acute mouse pancreas tissue slice preparation with noninvasive fluorescent calcium labeling and subsequent confocal laser scanning microscopy to shed new light on the existing controversies utilizing an innovative approach enabling the characterization of responses in many cells from all layers of islets. Our experiments reproducibly showed stable fast calcium oscillations on a sustained plateau rather than slow oscillations as the predominant type of response in acute tissue slices, and that calcium waves are the mechanistic substrate for synchronization of oscillations. We also found indirect evidence that even a large amplitude calcium signal was not sufficient and that metabolic activation was necessary to ensure cell synchronization upon stimulation with glucose. Our novel method helped resolve existing controversies and showed the potential to help answer important physiological questions, making it one of the methods of choice for the foreseeable future.