University of Ljubljana

DIRECT 1.0: a diffusion-based generative model for dense sea surface temperature reconstructions from sparse satellite observations

Satellite sea surface temperature (SST) observations are frequently obscured by cloud cover, creating large gaps that must be reconstructed for many oceanographic and climate applications. Because multiple high-resolution SST fields may be consistent with the same sparse observat...

GPT-like transformer model for silicon tracking detector simulation

Abstract Simulating physics processes and detector responses is essential in high energy physics and represents significant computing costs. Generative machine learning has been demonstrated to be potentially powerful in accelerating simulations, outperforming traditional fast si...

Flooding the others: The vanished minority riverscapes of Ada Kaleh and Sorbian Lusatia

In this article, I focus on the construction of dams and reservoirs in places inhabited by minoritised ethnolinguistic groups on the so-called margins of Europe. I argue that the damage caused by the construction of dams and the consequences of resettlement affect not only the ph...

Suppressing Deep Ion Trapping in TiO2 Electrochromics via Interfacial Engineering of WO3–Al2O3/VOx Heterostructures

Single-component metal oxide electrochromic films suffer poor charge utilization and deep-site ion trapping, giving non-uniform charge injection. Targeting heterostructure engineering rather than new material discovery, bare TiO2, TiO2/WO3, TiO2/WO3-Al2O3 and TiO2/WO3-Al2O3/VOx f...

Do Androgens and Sex Hormone–Binding Globulin Mediate Sex Differences in the Risk of Stroke and Myocardial Infarction? The KORA Study

BACKGROUND: Sex differences in cardiovascular disease are well established, but the role of androgens and sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) remains unclear. We investigated whether these hormones and SHBG mediate sex differences in the risk of stroke and myocardial infarction (...

Incremental Graph Construction Enables Robust Spectral Clustering of Texts

Abstract Neighborhood graphs over document embeddings are a common component of text-mining pipelines, supporting topic discovery, deduplication, semi-supervised label propagation, and retrieval-index construction, and they are a critical but fragile step in spectral clustering o...

Field-Programmable Topological Torons in Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystals

Abstract Torons are three-dimensional double-twist solitons in chiral nematic liquid crystals (LCs), bounded by closed defect loops, that behave as particle-like entities while retaining a fully reconfigurable optical response. Here, it is shown that individual torons can be crea...

Survival benefit of deceased donor kidney transplantation versus continued dialysis: international target trial emulation

Abstract Objective To quantify the survival benefit of deceased donor kidney transplantation versus continued dialysis according to patients’ characteristics (age, diabetes, cardiovascular disease), donor quality (standard criteria donor or expanded criteria donor) and donor retr...

The resilience of Slovenian NGOs

Purpose Along with other Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries that emerged from the socialist system, Slovenia went through a process of transforming its political, economic and welfare systems. The fact that, like in the preceding period, the public sector is today prima...

The greenwashing dilemma: Understanding tolerance to sustainability deception in buyer-supplier relationships

As ESG claims increasingly shape B2B markets, buyers face a dilemma: how to safeguard sustainability integrity when supplier disclosures may be misleading yet difficult to verify. Drawing on 19 semi-structured interviews with EU-based procurement and sustainability managers and E...

Evaluating fine-tuned, embedding-based, and zero-shot models for aspect-based sentiment analysis in South Slavic news

In the contemporary digital media landscape, the ability to automatically distill public opinion from a vast and continuous stream of information is highly important. Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) offers this granular capability. In this work, we address a specific, indu...

Subdued surface expression of deep cave collapse

Cave systems can be difficult to recognise where karst landforms are subdued or overprinted with other landscape processes. Subtle linear depressions on carbonate platforms are commonly interpreted as fluvial or tectonic landforms, but may also mark collapse above underlying cave...

Bioelectrical Recovery After Knee Injury in an Elite Alpine Skier: A Longitudinal 19-Frequency Bioelectrical Impedance Vector Analysis Case Report

Return-to-play (RTP) decisions after severe knee injury in elite athletes remain challenging because functional recovery may not coincide with physiological tissue recovery. This longitudinal case report evaluated Advanced 19-Frequency Bioelectrical Impedance Vector Analysis (A19...

On association between the research performance of academic advisors and their PhD students

Abstract In this paper, we examine whether and how the research performance of advisors is associated with that of their PhD students. We analyze the entire population of PhD students in Slovenia who successfully defended their theses, along with their advisors, between 1988 and...

Lazy or Busy Lives? Leisure Reading and Cultural Practices Among Slovenian Teacher Education Students

The paper examines the leisure-time activities of students enrolled in teacher education programmes in Slovenia, with particular emphasis on reading habits, engagement with current political affairs, and participation in cultural activities. The authors present the results of qua...

The hidden redundancy in psychological trait measures: A general factor of personality (GFP) perspective

In psychology there is a plethora of different measures and constructs. However, the literature also shows that many of these measures overlap and may even sometimes be redundant. Recognizing such overlap in measures is essential for consolidation and for moving the field forward...

Consistency of Judging Under the World Boxing 10-Point Must Scoring System: Single-Judge and Five-Judge Aggregate Reliability Across the 60 kg, 75 kg, and 90+ kg Categories at the 2025 World Boxing Championships

Background: Reliable judging is essential to the fairness of elite boxing, yet inter-judge reliability under the current World Boxing 10-Point Must Scoring System remains largely unexplored. This study aimed to evaluate inter-judge reliability across rounds and weight categories...

Small Activating RNAs: A Curated Database and an Overview of Rational Design Principles

RNA activation (RNAa), mediated by small activating RNAs (saRNAs), upregulates endogenous gene expression through recruitment of the Argonaute proteins to the promoter, natural antisense transcripts, or other noncoding RNAs. This mechanistically distinct modality addresses an unm...

Exchange: What Can We Learn from Two Decades of Everyday Nationalism?

Abstract In their landmark article on nationalism in the everyday, Jon E. Fox and Cynthia Miller-Idriss (2008a, 537) set out an ambitious research agenda which endeavored to observe “the actual practices through which ordinary people engage and enact (and ignore and deflect) nati...

Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Validation of the Cancer Survivors’ Unmet Needs Measure (CaSUN) in Russian- and Kazakh-Speaking Cancer Survivors in Kazakhstan

Background/Objectives: The growing population of cancer survivors has increased the need for reliable, culturally appropriate instruments to identify unmet supportive care needs. The Cancer Survivors’ Unmet Needs Measure (CaSUN) is a survivorship-specific assessment tool, but val...