1. Policy-induced welfare losses from limited decumulation options : the case of Slovenia’s DC pensionsDino Šterpin, Suzana Laporšek, Boštjan Vovk, 2026, original scientific article Abstract: This study examines restricted decumulation options for retirees with Defined Contribution (DC) in Slovenia and shows how these constraints create an implicit tax on accumulated assets. Using the Money’s Worth framework, we find that Slovenian annuities offer lower value than comparable products in advanced markets. We develop a utility-based model with loss aversion to quantify welfare losses across eight retiree types, differing in loss aversion, bequest motive, replacement rate, and time preference. Seven out of eight retiree types achieve higher utility under currently unavailable strategies. We introduce the Implicit Tax on DC Assets to capture the opportunity cost of restricted product availability.
Keywords: decumulation strategies, defined contribution pensions, loss-aversion utility, money’s-worth ratio, Slovenia, utility-equivalent wealth
Published in RUP: 20.04.2026; Views: 47; Downloads: 2
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2. Religion, spirituality, and health values among young adults in Slovenia : a qualitative studyMirko Prosen, Mojca Baša, Ines Batista Križaj, Andrejka Presl, Sabina Ličen, 2026, original scientific article Abstract: This study explores how young adults in Slovenia perceive religion and spirituality and how they relate these dimensions to health, values, and health-related habits. In modern secular societies, religion and spirituality are increasingly seen as influencing health indirectly, mainly through personal values, identity, and coping strategies. However, little is known about how young adults themselves experience this relationship. A qualitative descriptive approach was used, with data collected through semi-structured interviews with 21 participants aged 18–34. Interviews were conducted in late 2025, recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed using thematic analysis supported by Atlas.ti software. The trustworthiness of the study was ensured through established qualitative research criteria. Five key themes emerged: personal perspectives on religion and spirituality, the influence of family and socio-cultural environment, religion as a source of moral values, perceptions of the relationship between religion and health, and the role of religion in coping with stress and supporting mental well-being. Participants generally viewed religion as a personal and selective aspect of life with limited influence on physical health behaviors. Instead, its importance was mainly related to mental well-being and stress management. The findings indicate that religion and spirituality functioned primarily as psychosocial resources rather than direct determinants of health behaviors among young adults in Slovenia.
Keywords: religion, spirituality, young adults, health values, health habits, health behaviors
Published in RUP: 20.04.2026; Views: 39; Downloads: 1
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3. Glasbena umetnost : učni načrt z didaktičnimi priporočiliInge Breznik, Silvan Baša, Rebeka Bračič, Manca Černe, Suzana Čopi Stanišić, Sonja Đevenica, Mojca Dolinar, Ada Holcar, Barbara Kopačin, Anamarija Krvišek Zavec, Danijela Terbižan, 2025, professional monograph Keywords: glasba, glasbena vzgoja
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4. Osnove kvalitativnega raziskovanja na pedagoškem področjuNina Krmac, Majda Cencič, 2025, reviewed university, higher education or higher vocational education textbook Abstract: V knjigi je poudarjena pomembnost kvalitativnega raziskovanja v pedagoškem prostoru, saj omogoča poglobljeno razumevanje izkušenj, pomenov in procesov v vzgoji in izobraževanju. Knjiga je namenjena predvsem začetnikom ter ponuja dostopen, praktičen in razumljiv uvod v kvalitativni pristop, brez zapletenih teoretičnih razprav. Bralca vodi skozi celoten raziskovalni proces – od oblikovanja raziskovalnega problema do zbiranja, obdelave in predstavitve podatkov. Poleg metodoloških osnov izpostavlja tudi pomen etike, refleksije in raziskovalne občutljivosti. Namen knjige je spodbuditi raziskovalno razmišljanje ter prispevati k profesionalnemu razvoju in izboljšanju pedagoške prakse.
Keywords: kvalitativno raziskovanje, intervju, opazovanje, analiza dokumentov, obdelava podatkov
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5. Health and well-being of military nurses in high-reliability, high-stress environments : a qualitative study in the slovenian armed forcesZlatko Kvržić, Mirko Prosen, 2026, original scientific article Abstract: Aim: To investigate how female military nurses experience high-reliability, high-stress environments and how these conditionsshape their well-being.Background: Military nursing involves complex demands that extend beyond clinical care, including dual professional roles,operational unpredictability, and gendered expectations. These pressures can undermine physical, psychological, and social well-being, yet the lived experiences of military nurses, particularly women, remain underexplored.Design: A qualitative descriptive design was used.Methods: Ten female military nurses were recruited through purposive sampling and interviewed individually in semi-structuredonline interviews. Data were analysed using qualitative content analysis. Trustworthiness was ensured through reflexive coding,an audit trail, and adherence to COREQ guidelines.Results: Five overarching categories captured the factors shaping well-being: organisational and structural demands; high-stressoperational environments; emotional and psychological burden; coping and resilience; and gendered identity and work–familybalance. Participants described constrained autonomy, communication gaps, and role ambiguity within hierarchical structures.Psychological pressures were heightened by moral tensions, responsibility for colleagues, and expectations of emotional control.Coping relied mainly on informal peer support, as formal services were rarely used due to stigma. Gendered norms and familyresponsibilities further influenced well-being and career decisions.Conclusion: Military nurse well-being is shaped less by individual resilience and more by organisational culture, operationaldemands, and gendered expectations. Addressing these systemic factors is essential for sustaining the military nursing workforce.Implication for Nursing: Strengthening leadership support, communication, psychological safety, and professional autonomymay improve working conditions and support nurses’ well-being in demanding operational contexts.Implications for Health Policy: Policies should promote supportive organisational cultures, reduce stigma around help-seeking,and facilitate work–family reconciliation to sustain and retain the military nursing workforce.
Keywords: military medicine, occupational health, psychological stress, qualitative research, work–family conflict, work environment
Published in RUP: 17.04.2026; Views: 136; Downloads: 7
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6. Fast prediction of protein flexibilityJure Pražnikar, 2026, original scientific article Abstract: Motivation Advances in hardware have made molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of protein structures faster and more accessible to the scientific community. However, accurately estimating protein flexibility using MD remains computationally demanding, especially for large systems and long time scales. Several MD-based resources—including MdMD, the DynamD database, and more recently ATLAS and mdCATH—now provide MD trajectories for thousands of proteins, enabling the development of predictive models. Results Here, the Graphlet Degree Vector (GDV) is introduced as a lightweight, fast, and easy-to-implement linear model for predicting protein flexibility directly from atom coordinates. GDV is a 15-dimensional feature vector that captures local packing and the spatial connectivity of each atom with its nearby neighbors. Trained on a subset of globular-like proteins from the ATLAS database, the GDV model achieves a Spearman correlation of 0.828 compared to MD data. The model trained on ATLAS dataset was further evaluated on independent Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and cryo-electron microscopy datasets, demonstrating the robustness and generalizability of the GDV-based approach. A key advantage of the GDV model is that it requires no additional external or experimental data and can be applied in near real time (on the order of 10 seconds) even for large proteins with 20,000 atoms on a standard desktop or laptop. Overall, the results show that a lightweight, fast, and purely coordinate-based model can provide accurate and generalizable predictions of protein flexibility across diverse folds and sizes.
Keywords: protein flexibility, graphlets, predictive model
Published in RUP: 16.04.2026; Views: 127; Downloads: 10
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7. Hotena nevednost in vrline mišljenja : vzgoja za kritični spoznavni značajTomaž Grušovnik, 2025, independent scientific component part or a chapter in a monograph Abstract: Ena glavnih težav tradicionalnega »modela informacijskega deficita«, ki se je uveljavil v komuniciranju znanosti, je motivirano izogibanje informacijam. Del tega je tudi hotena nevednost, ki postavlja pod vprašaj tradicionalni izobraževalni model »prenosa« ali »transfera« znanja, saj nevednost velikokrat ni posledica neinformiranosti, pač pa izmikanja spoznanju. To pa pomeni, da mora skrb za razvoj kritičnega mišljenja zajemati tudi posebno vzgojo mišljenja, ki mu sprejemanje potencialno neljubih zaključkov ne bo tuje. Hipoteza, ki jo ponuja pričujoče poglavje, je, da se zato morda splača dodatno posvetiti vrlinski epistemologiji in vzgoji spoznavnega značaja s poudarkom na spoznavnem pogumu in radovednosti.
Keywords: hotena nevednost, vrlinska epistemologija, radovednost, spoznavni pogum, vzgoja in izobraževanje
Published in RUP: 16.04.2026; Views: 107; Downloads: 7
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8. O marginalnosti Kozjanskega na primeru občin Dobje in KozjeStanko Pelc, Matija Jenko, 2025, original scientific article Abstract: V tem prispevku obravnavamo koncept geografske marginalnosti v Sloveniji na primeru občin Dobje inKozje. Obe občini sta bili zgodovinsko del manj razvitih območij, zato smo v raziskavi ugotavljali, ali juje mogoče opredeliti kot marginalni. Raziskovalna metodologija je temeljila na analizi 16 kazalnikov, izra-čunanih iz javno objavljenih statističnih podatkov. Ti kazalniki so bili razvrščeni v štiri kategorije:prebivalstveni, gospodarski, izobrazbeni kazalniki ter kazalniki kakovosti življenja, pri čemer so bili v glav-nem uporabljeni podatki iz obdobja 2008–2024. Občino smo šteli za potencialno marginalno, če se je uvrstilav spodnji decil pri kazalnikih, kjer so ugodne visoke vrednosti, ali v zgornji decil pri kazalnikih, kjer sougodne nizke vrednosti, pri več kot polovici kazalnikov za več kot polovico letnih ali obdobnih vrednosti.Analizo smo dopolnili z intervjuji z županom občine Dobje in županjo občine Kozje. Rezultati kažejo, daniti občine Dobje niti občine Kozje ni mogoče opredeliti kot geografsko marginalno; čeprav se občasno uvrš-čata v najmanj ugoden decil pri dolo čenih kazalnikih, kot je na primer saldo selitev, medtem ko sta pridrugih, kot je izobraževanje, blizu ali celo nad državnim povprečjem. Občina Kozje je dosegla pomem-ben napredek na področju turizma, medtem ko v občini Dobje vlagajo v infrastrukturo za ohranjanje mladegaprebivalstva. Kljub prisotnosti znakov marginalizacije in izzivov, povezanih z obrobno lego, nobena odobčin ne izkazuje izrazitih in dolgotrajnih socialno-ekonomskih prikrajšanosti, značilnih za marginalnaobmočja. Za boljše razumevanje marginalizacije na ravni posameznika in skupnosti bi bilo treba izvestipodrobnejšo kvalitativno raziskavo v tistih slovenskih občinah, ki v skladu s kriteriji, ki smo jih postaviliza obravnavani občini, sodijo med marginalne.
Keywords: marginalizacija, obrobnost, središče-obrobje, razvojno zaostala območja, manj razvita območja, gospodarska nerazvitost
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10. Kvalitativni vpogled v doživljanje, stiske in potrebe ljudi med epidemijo in po njejEva Sedlašek, Nina Krohne, Vita Poštuvan, 2025, independent scientific component part or a chapter in a monograph Keywords: epidemija, kvalitativna študija, Delfi študija, doživljanje, potrebe, varovalni dejavniki
Published in RUP: 14.04.2026; Views: 130; Downloads: 2
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