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Successful self-marketing and launching your translation business – you need to be an entrepreneur and look at your activities like you would managing an entire company even when you are a one-person translation company. This worksop is intended for the translators engaged in the translation process, willing to increse the productivity and enlare the networking opportunities, but also for translators in companies, institutes, managers. more...

Collaboration, especially the team work one, and implementation of projects are common in business environment nowadays the same way are the collaboration possibilities of mostly used office applications. The author of this article analyzes possibilities of collaboration by using Microsoft Office's business applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access. The versions of Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office 2010 with Web Apps are included in this article. We can monitor the options mostly from offline collaboration by using Microsoft Office 2003, through the combination of online and offline collaboration, by using Office version 2007 to mostly online collaboration, by using Office version 2010 and especially by using Web Apps and Microsoft Office365 at Cloud. From each version of Microsoft Office to another one, it is possible to notice the evolution up to online synchronous collaboration options. Some of these features are: comments, tracking changes, document workspace, comparing and combining documents, publishing and sending documents, linking to other sources, collecting data through e-mail etc. Moreover, we can notice collaboration as being asynchronous or synchronous one, or either client- based (desktop) or server-based (the Internet), extended by using other Microsoft business technologies like SharePoint sites and Groove workspaces with additional communication and collaboration tools. Furthermore, what is very important in collaboration activities is the security of documents (files) and information, distribution channels and permission levels. This area is also covered, but only in basics. more...

This paper announces the beginning of the work on the standardization of filing of electronic medicinal dossiers in agencies for medicinal products. Medicinal products electronic dossiers have to be preserved for the long-term because of the requirements for protection of patients’ safety and standardization of ar¬chiving procedures. more...

This paper focuses on the analysis of the relationship between culture and media through presence of institutional culture in daily newspapers – Jutarnji list (JL) and Večernji list (VL). The aim was to get a quantitative indicator of the presence of institutional culture in two analyzed newspapers. In the course of research the following hypotheses were made: 1) Despite the existence of a culture column in the analyzed newspapers, the amount of cultural content is relatively small, 2) There is no significant difference in size of the culture column and the number of published texts on culture in the two analyzed newspapers, 3) The largest number of published texts is in the form of news. The timeframe of the study was one month (from 23 November 2009 to 20 December 2009) and the used method of research was content analysis. Found texts related to culture were sorted by type of text into the following categories: news, short articles, articles and interviews. The total number of found texts related to culture in JL was 315, and 355 in VL. The results of the study have confirmed the hypothesis related to low presence of culture in daily newspapers (first and third hypothesis) since most of the published texts were in the form of news and short articles (in JL they accounted for 79% and in VL as much as 87% of published texts). The second hypothesis was not fully confirmed. In fact, a significant difference in the size of the JL and VL culture columns was not established (both amount to approximately 2 pages), but there is a difference when it comes to the comparison of texts by type. more...

In the introduction, institutional repositories and Open Access movement are explained. In literature review, citation impact of Open Access articles are discussed. Further on, differences between scientifically mainstream and peripheral countries are emphasized. Two important factors in defining peripheral scientific communities - language and economy - are explained. Scientists in peripheral scientific communities sometimes communicate in "small" language, and sometimes their countries' economy is marked as "developing" or "semi-developed". Problems of seven European semi-developed and developed countries with official languages other than English are discussed (Italy, Poland, Greece, Hungary, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia). Institution repositories, especially if they are Open Access repositories, can significantly increase research impact of their institutions. Number and productivity of Open Access institutional repositories in the seven countries will be discussed. more...

Monografija "INFuture2011 - Information Scieces and e-Society"

Primjena novih obrazovnih tehnologija u obrazovanju studenata i učenika kao i svih osoba uključenih u obrazovni sustav imperativ je današnjeg vremena. LMS tvrtke Cognita je programski alat za izradu elektronskih obrazovnih sadržaja koji se koriste kako u obrazovanju na daljinu, tako i kao dopuna tradicionalnom načinu obrazovanja. U ovom radu daje se prikaz upotrebe LMS tvrtke Cognita kao sustava za učenje na daljinu u obrazovanju studenata. Ispitivanje je provedeno na uzorku od sto studenata Sveučilišta u Zadru koji su imali priliku koristiti sustav za učenje tvrtke Cognita. Metodom anketnog upitnika studenti su nakon korištenja sustava za učenje na daljinu procijenili nastavne sadržaje, online testove, funkcionalnost samoga sustava, te komunikaciju unutar sustava. Ovim radom istražila se kvaliteta kreiranih obrazovnih sadržaja i korisnost informacija i ovakvog načina obrazovanja studenata, kao prednosti i nedostatci ovakvog oblika obrazovanja u odnosu na tradicionalnu nastavu. Istovremeno se istražilo koliko studenti koriste obrazovne tehnologije. Podaci dobiveni istraživanjem obrađivani su metodama deskriptivne statistike pomoću programskog paketa Statistica. Informatizacija obrazovanja postaje dijelom obrazovanja društva i temeljnom pretpostavkom kvalitetnijeg obrazovanja mladih. more...

Text-to-speech systems convert text into speech. Synthesized speech without prosody sounds unnatural and monotonous. In order to sound natural, prosodic elements have to be implemented. The generation of prosodic elements directly from text is a rather demanding task. Our final goals are building a complete prosodic model for Croatian and implementing it into our TTS system. In this work, we present one of the steps in implementation of prosody into TTSs – detection of intonation events using Tilt intonation model. We propose a training procedure which is composed of several subtasks. First, we hand-labelled a set of utterances and within each of them, marked four types of prosodic events. Then we trained HMMs and used them to mark prosodic events on a larger set of utterances. Finally, we assigned parameters to each of the event and generated f0 contours from the parameters .We evaluated the obtained f0 contours. more...