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Living at a time when the stress level is growing every year, or even day by day, the ecological situation is deteriorating, wars, pandemics, economic recession, racism, and nationalism. It is very important to find a way to connect with yourself and nature. Find a way to tap into spirituality. Find a way to improve our mental state so that later life will be in better ecological and mental conditions. If every person made himself happy, the world would be populated by happy people. With similar roots in spirituality, psychology, linguistics, and philosophy, this thesis mindset is about bringing people's mental health into balance while also understanding the structure and the research behind an audio-meditative installation "Breath of the Wind" based on the Bora wind. This work follows the interrelationship between body, mind, and spirit with a focus on breathing "Breath of the Wind" is a composition, meditative musical landscape, with spatialized sound samples driven by input from nature and digitally processed with MAX/MSP software

In today’s times, when digitalisation is advancing in all areas, travel agencies need to follow trends to optimise their work as much as possible and stay competitive. Business information systems provide a more detailed insight into business processes and their operation, which helps monitor progress and adapt to possible changes to achieve the best results in the business world. Travel agencies need a quality business information system that helps employees shift from using basic office tools to more modern and effective systems for reporting and monitoring work performance. Data is the basis on which agencies adjust, optimise and build their business. Data is available in huge quantities and a variety of formats. Raw data that is not organised into a meaningful whole cannot bring added value to the company. The thesis aims to use Power BI as a tool for editing and integrating databases in travel agencies, as well as their visualisation and display, which is understandable for the user. With the help of the tool, we will create a report which will help the travel agency improve its business and make critical decisions that are critical for success. V današnjih časih, ko digitalizacija na vseh področjih napreduje, morajo turistične agencije slediti trendom da lahko čim bolj optimizirajo svoje poslovanje in tako ostanejo konkurenčne. Poslovno-informacijski sistemi omogočajo podrobnejši vpogled v poslovne procese in njihovo delovanje, kar pomaga sledenju napredka in prilagajanju morebitnim spremembam, da bi lahko dosegli čim boljše rezultate v poslovnem svetu. Turistične agencije potrebujejo kvaliteten poslovni informacijski sistem, ki zaposlenim pomaga pri prehodu z osnovnih pisarniških orodij na sodobnejše in učinkovitejše sisteme za poročanje in spremljanje delovne uspešnosti. Podatki so osnova na kateri agencije prilagajajo, optimizirajo in gradijo svoj posel. Na voljo so v ogromnih količinah in v različnih oblikah. Neobdelani podatki, ki niso organizirani v neko smisleno celoto, ne morejo prinašati dodane vrednosti podjetju. Cilj diplomske naloge je uporabiti Power BI kot orodje za urejanje in integracijo podatkovnih baz v turistični agenciji, ter njihovo vizualizacijo in prikaz, ki je razumljiv za uporabnika. S pomočjo orodja bomo ustvarili poročilo kar bo pomagalo turustični agenciji izboljšati svoj posel in sprejemati pomembne odločitve, ki so bistvene za uspeh.

Color is a powerful tool that helps us set the mood, however, its importance is often left unnoticed while watching any form of media (movies, photography, commercials, books, etc.). Both art theory and human psychology show evidence that color and lighting have a large impact on the perception of the viewer which is why this thesis will focus on exploring what impact color and correct lighting of a scene have on people's minds and how it can be used in animation to convey the correct emotions and enhance the viewer’s experience. Throughout this thesis we will cover topics related to color theory, light and how animation studios work on their films in terms of color and lighting. Each chapter will help understand and learn about different uses of color, such as color psychology and symbolism of colors, color scripts, and lighting, and in the end, a case study to conclude everything mentioned before. To do so, this thesis will take a look at Pixar and Disney and their movies such as Coco (Pixar, 2017), Tangled (Walt Disney, 2010) and Finding Nemo (Pixar, 2003) as well as different color theory studies. We will also use the example of the practical part of the diploma work, animated music video Crystal Clear, to see how the colors were used and what the thought process behind it was. Barva je močno orodje, ki nam pomaga ustvariti razpoloženje, vendar njen pomen pogosto ostane neopažen med gledanjem katere koli oblike medijev (filmi, fotografije, reklame, knjige in tako naprej). Tako teorija umetnosti kot človeška psihologija dokazujeta, da imata barva in svetloba velik vpliv na dojemanje gledalca, zato se bo ta diplomska naloga osredotočila na raziskovanje, kakšen vpliv imata barva in pravilno uporabljena svetloba v prizoru na človeka in kako je to mogoče uporabiti v animaciji za prenos željenih čustev in izboljšanje gledalčeve izkušnje. Skozi to diplomsko delo bomo obravnavali teme, ki so povezane z barvno teorijo in svetlobo ter vprašanjem, kako animacijski studii uporabljajo barvo in svetlobo v svojih filmih. Vsako poglavje bo pomagalo razumeti in spoznati različne uporabe barv, kot so barvna psihologija in simbolika barv, color scripts (barvni scenarij) in osvetlitev, in na koncu študija primera, ki bo zaokrožila vse našteto. V ta namen bodo v tem diplomskem delu obravnavani Pixar in Disney ter njuni filmi kot so Coco (Pixar, 2017), Tangled (Walt Disney, 2010) in Finding Nemo (Pixar, 2003), pa tudi študije različnih teorij barv. Uporabljen bo tudi primer praktičnega dela diplome, animirani glasbeni video Crystal Clear, kjer bo vidno kako so uporabljene barve in kakšen je bil miselni proces za tem.

Culture is one of the fundamental aspects of human existence. Because of that, it is necessary to preserve little aspects of it that make a particular community unique. Popular traditions and local habits are important to create and maintain one's own identity in the context of a vaster society. This research aims to enhance the folk culture of Benečija and to contribute to building a more concrete proof of the existence of this culture. The paper analyzes the history of this border land, focusing on its literature and on a particular legend titled ''Kraljica Vida,” which has been transcribed by the pen of many authors of both Benečija, and elsewhere. Through the comparison of these texts, it is possible to recognize the influence of different cultural currents, that have always characterized the identity of Benečija. Kultura je temeljni vidik človekovega bivanja in ohraniti je treba njene male značilnosti, zaradi katerih je določena skupnost edinstvena. Ljudske tradicije in lokalne navade so pomembne za ustvarjanje in ohranjanje lastne identitete v kontekstu obširne družbe. Cilj te raziskave je poudarjati pomembnost ljudske kulture Benečije in prispevati h gradnji konkretnih dokazov obstajanja te kulture. Prispevek analizira zgodovino te obmejne dežele, se osredotoči na njeno literaturo in na posebno legendo z naslovom "Kraljica Vida,” ki so jo zapisali številni avtorji iz Benečije in drugod. S primerjavo teh besedil je mogoče prepoznati vpliv različnih kulturnih tokov, ki so bili vedno značilni za identiteto Benečije.

Documentary photography is the narrative based on facts and records of events in a report format. Although racial injustice and biased differences were common initially, the underlying objectivity of this thesis involves the main aim to display the utmost reality. It is a way to report stark realities that come into perspective with images of persons, places, or events. On the other hand, it is a form of representation from the photographer’s point of view. Although, there is no denying that a picture represents a thousand words and displays several perspectives. As a source of revealing the importance of documentary photography in the Indian subcontinent, this thesis will help to expose the sore point of a country that belittles a community of transgender persons. This photography documentary is showing the cruelty that is confronted by transgender persons in Pakistan. Based upon the timeline of nine months, the comparative study of two transgender persons reflects the complexity of their survival. My photography documentary has captured and frozen the instances from the daily existence of transgender persons, focusing on their lifestyle, living conditions, community environment, and personal life. Transgender identity, by birth or by choice, is a chilling fact marginalizing a person to a community where existence is difficult. Dokumentarna fotografija je pripoved, ki temelji na dejstvih in zapisih dogodkov v obliki poročila. S tezo poskušam predstaviti vlogo dokumentarne fotografije pri objektivnem prikazovanju resničnega življenja, kljub temu da so njeni začetki zaznamovani tudi z rasno pristranskostjo in krivicami. Dokumentarna fotografija je način poročanja, ki daje vidnost osebam, krajem ali dogodkom, obenem pa je oblika reprezentacije s stališča fotografa. Ob tem ni moč zanikati, da fotografija predstavlja tisoč besed in prikazuje več perspektiv. Pričujoča fotografska serija prikazuje krutost, s katero se transspolne osebe soočajo v Pakistanu. Je pomemben vir razkrivanja nevralgične točke države, ki omalovažuje skupnost transspolnih oseb. Primerjalna študija življenja dveh transspolnih oseb temelji na devetih mesecih sodelovanja, prikazuje pa njihove težke življenjske okoliščine. Transspolnost ob rojstvu ali po lastni izbiri namreč pomeni marginalizacijo v skupnost, kjer je preživetje izjemno težko. Fotografska serija je poskušala ujeti in zamrzniti podobe vsakdana transspolnih oseb, pri čemer se je osredotočila na njihov življenjski slog, življenjske razmere, skupnost in osebno življenje.

The packaging is often a way of product communicating with its' consumer. Nowadays there are tons of different styles and ways to label the product to attract new customers. For every market, there is a certain way of packaging and developing a brand of the products due to the difference of the culture, lifestyle and habits. Our work aimed to determine the preferences of Chinese female consumers on various styles of Slovenian wine labels. Slovenian wines are still a rare guest on the shelves of the Chinese market. Thus, this research work gives us an opportunity of finding the best way of entering the market with a product from an unknown wine-producing country for the public and establish the brand. Due to the lack of information in this particular section, we have conducted an online survey to collect more precise data. Therefore, within the questionnaire we have used 5 wine labels from different Slovenian wine cellars with completely diversified design and styles, to compare customer's preferences. With the obtained online questionnaire it can be concluded that Chinese female consumers are most attracted to the whole package of the wine design from the wine's glass bottle, to its' shape as well as certain color preferences of the wine labels. Embalaža je pogosto način komunikacije izdelka s potrošnikom. Danes obstaja veliko različnih stilov in načinov označevanja izdelka, da bi pritegnili nove kupce. Za vsak trg obstaja določen način pakiranja in razvijanja blagovne znamke izdelkov zaradi razlike kulture, življenjskega sloga in navad. Namen našega dela je bil ugotoviti želje kitajskih potrošnic glede različnih stilov slovenskih vinskih etiket. Slovenska vina so še vedno redek gost na policah kitajskega trga. Zato nam to raziskovalno delo ponuja priložnost, da najdemo najboljši način za vstop na trg z izdelkom iz neznane države, ki prideluje vina in bolj uspešno vzpostavimo blagovno znamko. Zaradi pomanjkanja informacij v tem okviru smo izvedli spletno anketo. Zato smo v vprašalniku za primerjavo želja kupcev uporabili 5 vinskih etiket iz različnih slovenskih vinskih kleti s popolnoma raznolikim dizajnom in stilom. Iz pridobljenih rezultatov na podlagi spletnega vprašalnika lahko ugotovimo, da kitajske ženske potrošnice najbolj privlači celoten paket oblikovanja vina od steklenice za vino, njegove oblike in preference glede barve na etiketah.

Vprašanje varnosti in zasebnosti je izziv že leta. Zaradi tega je pomembno imeti lasten system za nadzor dostopa, ki ga bo uporabnik nadzoroval ob vsakem trenutku, ko ima s seboj svojo mobilno napravo. V tem delu bomo predstavili vgrajen system za nadzor dostopa, temelječ na STM32F4 razvojni plošči. Razvojna plošča temelji na mikrokrmilniku STM32F407VGT6 z jedrom ARM® Cortex™-M4F in vgrajenim pomnilnikom Flash in SRAM. Na plošči so povezani Bluetooth modul HC-05, bralnik RFID in modul z TFT zaslonom na dotik. Avtentikacija uporabnikov v tem sistemu temelji na tehnologiji RFID. Z vsako avtentikacijo se bo na zaslonu TFT izpisalo ime uporabnika, hkrati pa bo preko Bluetootha poslano k Android aplikaciji. Niz znakov bo poslan preko UART-ja. Security and privacy issues have remained a challenge for years. Because of that it is very important to have your own system for access control, which is under your control, in every moment, when you are having your mobile device with you. In this work, we will present an embedded system for access control based on STM32F4 discovery board. The discovery board is based on STM32F407VGT6 microcontroller, with ARM® Cortex™-M4F core with embedded Flash and SRAM. On the board are connected Bluetooth HC-05 module, RFID reader and TFT Touchscreen module. User authentication in the embedded system is based on the RFID technology. With every authentication the name of the user will be shown on the TFT Touchscreen module, and at the same time it will be sent via Bluetooth to the Android application. The string is being sent over UART.

The interviewing of witnesses, victims and suspects normally forms an essential part of a police investigation into criminal activities. There are various factors that affect accuracy in the eyewitness testimonies, one of which are suggestive interviewing techniques (Williamson, 2007). Suggestibility is a personality trait which is often referred to as a type of psychological vulnerability. Suggestibility can challenge the interviewee’s abilities to cope with the demands of the interview as well as the demands of following court procedures. It is due to these characteristics that suggestibility has an important impact on the outcome of the interview (Gudjonsson, 2010). As shown through the work of Ridley and Gudjonsson (2013), there are several varieties of suggestibility and the effects of suggestive influence should be taken extremely seriously during investigations. Our memories can be influenced and distorted in various ways because they are vulnerable and susceptible to decay, inner biases, social demands and expectations, leading questions, misleading information, conformity and mental disability. To support this, Bruck and Melnyk (2004) indicate that individual differences in the susceptibility to suggestibility make it harder to identify exactly where and when the effects of suggestibility are likely to manifest themselves. Reliable information about the types of people who are most likely to be tainted by suggestive interviewing has not been established yet and remains a subject for further research. Intervjuvanje prič, žrtev in osumljencev tvori temeljni del kazenskega postopka. Kakovost in neoporečnost intervjujev sta ključnega pomena pri zagotavljanju pravičnega preiskovalnega postopka, ki posledično omogoča uspešnost same preiskave. Kvalitetni intervjuji zahtevajo oceno verodostojnosti intervjuvancev, kar je ena izmed najzahtevnejših nalog s katerimi se sooča kazensko pravosodje (Gudjonsson, 2006). Sugestivne tehnike intervjuvanja so eden izmed glavnih dejavnikov, ki vplivajo na doslednost pričanja očividcev (Williamson, 2007). Sugestibilnost je osebnostna lastnost, pogosto opredeljena kot neke vrste psihiloška ranljivost, ki ima moč reducirati sposobnost intervjuvanca, da bi se uspešno spoprijemal z zahtevami tako samega intervjuja kot tudi sledečih postopkov na sodišču. Prav zaradi teh lastnosti sugestibilnost kot taka pomembno vpliva na izid razgovora (Gudjonsson, 2010). Da bi identificirali morebitne psihološke ranljivosti posamezne priče, morajo policisti pri svojem delu posegati po znanju psihologije (Gudjonsson, 2010). Sodobna forenzična psihologija ponuja obilo eksperimentalo preverjenga znanja, ki ga v tujini s pridom izkoriščajo za doseganje večje učinkovitost tako preiskovalnega dela kot dela pravosodnih organov in s tem, vsaj načeloma, zagotavljajo boljšo zaščito nedolžnih osumljenih oseb. Forenzični psihologi združujejo znanje in tehnike iz področja psihologije, psihiatrije in drugih vedenjskih ved, ki jim pomagajo sestaviti podrobnejši profil vsakega posameznika vpletenega v preiskovalni postopek (Areh, 2011). Te prakse se poslužujejo predvsem Angleži, ki so po številnih pravnih zmotah v začetku dvajsetega stoletja prevzeli vodilno vlogo pri izboljšanju tehnik intervjuvanja v preiskovalnem postopku. Skrivnost njihovega uspeha na omenjem področju je prav v zavedanju, da morajo policisti pri svojem delu sodelovati z akademiki in strokovnjaki iz različnih področij. Predvsem kadar gre za intervjuvanje ranljivih prič oziroma prič s posebnimi zahtevami je sodelovanje z akademiki ključnega pomena za ugotavljanje najbolj ustreznih metod spraševanja (Gudjonsson, 2010). Ravno nasprotno pa forenzična psihologija v Sloveniji ne sodi med razvite znanosti in je večinoma omejena na delo kliničnih psihologov, ki običajno presojajo o obstoju duševnih motenj, prištevnosti, dodeljevanju otrok staršem pri razvezah ipd. Opazimo lahko nekajdesetletni zaostanek za bolje razvitimi evropskimi državami, ki je najbolj očiten v preiskovalni in sodni praksi, kjer je moč zaznati kritično pomanjkanje psihološkega znanja (Areh, 2011). Cilj tega dela je prepoznati ključne dejavnike, ki sprožajo sugestibilnost v preiskovalnih intervjujih prič in opredeliti najbolj ustrezne metode intervjuvanja s katerimi se je moč izogniti sugestijam.

The conventional approach to order picking optimization divides the process in three main decision areas: storage policy, order consolidation policy, and routing policy. In practice, we encountered variants of randomized storage in warehouses that range from completely ordered to completely unordered. We investigated the effect of the order level of the warehouse on the picking tour length. An additional problem encountered in warehouses with randomized storage that is not addressed by the conventional methods of order picking optimization is item selection. The item selection problem is concerned with selecting a single product to pick from multiple products throughout the warehouse so as to satisfy a customer order. We extended the conventional approach to order picking optimization by proposing a solution to the item selection problem using RTA* algorithm. Alongside established solutions to the order batching and picker routing problems, we integrated this into a complete sequential approach to order picking optimization. We evaluated our approach by experiments in simulated warehouse environment. We demonstrated that low order level of the warehouse is to be preferred compared to high order level as it results in shorter picking tours. Additionally, we have shown that our approach scales well with increasing warehouse size and number of orders.

Today's web has proved to be a vast and valuable resource of information. A large portion of written textual content is published in the form of HTML documents on news sites, blogs, forums and other web sites. Automated extraction of such content from an arbitrary HTML structure has proved to be a non-trivial problem, since the underlying technology and the authors themselves who deliver the content to the end user, tend to wrap the main content with boilerplate elements as navigation, header, footer, advertisements, site-maps and other noisy content. In this diploma thesis we focus on the review and evaluation of algorithms capable of extracting main textual content from an arbitrary web page. Throughout this work we refer to this category of algorithms as text extractors (TE). The main goal is to provide an overview across the sparse literature of content extraction and to evaluate the performance of text extraction methods based on golden standard data. First we provide a detailed survey of methods that we categorize into four categories: wrapper based, template detection, web page segmentation and text extraction (TE) approaches to content extraction. For the evaluation part of our task we focus only on the last category of algorithms. We continue by exploring the means for creating an evaluation environment, which consists of metrics and data. We use two datasets, one representing a cross-domain collection of documents and the other containing mostly news type web pages and then evaluate various TE using precision, recall and F1-score. We conclude our work by presenting the final evaluation results of 17 algorithms on two datasets. Our results analysis includes raw numbers, discussion and various visualizations that help us to interpret the results.

The volume of available structured data is increasing, particularly in the form of Linked Data, where relationships between individual pieces of data are encoded by a graph-like structure. Despite increasing scales of the data, the use and applicability of these resources is currently limited by mistakes and omissions in the linking data. In this diploma thesis, we look at the problem of predicting potential instance properties (types of relations). Given a specific query node in our multigraph dataset, can we correctly rank possibly omitted properties? We propose a method based on leveraging properties from similar nodes in our dataset. In order to compute similar nodes, we define various network structural properties, which induce dissimilarities between nodes. These structural properties are based on either local or global processing of the underlying network. Since their complexity highly varies, a special treatment needs to be considered when dealing with networks containing hundreds of millions of nodes and edges. In our tool LODminer, we use weighted averages of property frequency vectors over a set of similar nodes to determine the most likely missing in¬stance property. We investigate the performance of different dissimilarities and compare them to several other methods on three large-scale datasets, two based on DBpedia and one based on Freebase. Mathematics Subject Classification [MSC2010]: 68R10 [Graph the¬ory], 68T30 [Knowledge representation], 05C82 [Small world graphs, complex networks], 91D30 [Social networks]. CCS Categories and Subject Descriptors [1998 system]: G.2.2 [Graph Theory], I.2.4 [Knowledge Representation Formalisms and Methods]: Seman¬tic networks, H.2 [Database Management]: Database Applications – Data Mining.

This thesis tackles with security aspects of future home networks, where all devices will be connected to a home network and controlled by a control and management platform. Due to inclusion of critical devices e.g., alarm system, front door opener, etc., access to devices will have to be strictly controlled. An access control system will be needed by any such platform. Additionally, devices need to ensure that commands are executed at the intended device and nowhere else. Both problems are solvable with reliable identification and authentication of active network users and devices. The aim of this work is to provide the Autonomous Control and Management Platform (ACMP), which is being developed at the TU München, Chair for Network Architectures and Services with identification and authentication solution for the purposes of access control and reliable device communication. The problem of access control, identification and authentication is analysed, followed by an overview of related work and home environment needs. Based on gathered knowledge a list of system requirements is composed, after which the solution is designed and a prototype displaying key features implemented. The main contribution of this work are the design and implementation of architecture for authenticating identity addressing. The solution is founded on a home network Certificate Authority (CA) which controls home network membership by issuing certificates to devices. Device certificates are used for authentication and home network membership attestation. The combination of DNS and DHT overlay network is used for hierarchical addressing of device identities. With a mechanism for home network trust establishment, secure and reliable collaboration between devices of different home networks is feasible.

The diploma thesis elaborates the problem of integrity and availability of data saved in cloud storage. At first, the reader is introduced with the basics of the studied problem and the reasons why precisely this theme deserves the scope of our attention. The brief introduction is followed by a deeper analysis of the state of the art of the technological evolution, i.e. cloud computing. In order to get a better perception off its meaning and role in today’s technological omnipresence, we present a short description of its history followed by an analysis of the concept’s characteristics, service models and deployment models. As typical as it may sound, we could not disregard the importance of the concept’s advantages and disadvantages. Further, we explain the significance of cloud storage especially for businesses, as well as its positive and negative consequences. As this form of data storage may provoke security issues related to the availability and integrity of data, we pay special attention to the nature of those issues. The third chapter is intended to emphasize the problem of data integrity in general and offer an idea for a solution that may be applied on files stored in cloud storage. The solution will be specialized on checking a remote file’s integrity and consistency. The next chapter presents the programming implementation of the suggested solution and evaluates the testing results of the program. This evaluation is used as a ground for laying our conclusions in the final chapter, as well as our propositions for some unaccomplished ideas that may be realized in a future work.

Modern science and technology are becoming an important part of our daily lives, and so is the world of criminal investigation. When investigating any crime, the evidence collected from the crime scene plays a crucial role in the attempt to put all the pieces together and solve the mystery. Our thesis will focus on the complexity in investigating crime scenes involving bloodshed and on the significance of bloodstain patterns resulting from violent actions. It is of great importance that crime scene technicians, when collecting and insuring physical or biological evidence, take extra precautions to ensure proper handling, storage, identification, and last but not least, the chain of custody. All these measures play a decisive role in later stages of the process when forensic practitioners perform different laboratory tests on the evidence collected, providing for clues leading to gathering more detailed information that would point to the persons present at the crime scene at the time of crime, and, finally, to obtaining such added-value evidence that would be admissible in the court of law. An answer to ''what actually happened'' usually lies in crime scene reconstruction that focuses on leads, visible and latent bloodstain patterns, and all other pointers that indicate what went on at the time of a struggle. It is unbelievable how much a blood trail can tell us about past events: from a few blood droplets or bloodstain patterns, it is possible to determine the exact movements of the victim, the spot and the direction a blood droplet has originated from, the area of origin, and the position of the victim. It is even possible to determine the number of blows received by a blunt object, etc. A combination of the information and the measures listed above may reveal a clear picture of past events, but the case does not end here. On the contrary, this is where it begins, for the most important part of the process is to present all the collected evidence in a criminal trial. Therefore, the evidence needs to be admissible, credible and irrefutable, which is not always easy to achieve. In Slovenian courts, judges are not under any obligation to pursue any formal standards of evaluation of forensic evidence however, they are obligated to respect certain rules governing submission of the evidence. Actually, the entire procedure of submission and evaluation of the evidence is at the complete discretion of the court, which rules over which evidence submitted by prosecutor and the defense is or is not to be admitted. Further, we discuss standards of evidence and the importance of the forensic expert testimony, preparation of the evidence, and the dilemmas related to different interpretations thereof in criminal procedures, either by the prosecutor or the defense. Dr. Katja Drobnič, a forensic expert for DNA and biological traces, shares her opinion about this topic with us, discussing the difficulties encountered at all stages of the process of preparing an expert opinion, as well as the challenges faced with when testifying. What follows is a closer look at evaluation of forensic evidence of bloodstain patterns from a practical point of view. We discuss this topic with Andrej Baraga, judge for criminal offences at Ljubljana District Court, who shares his practical experiences with different interpretations and the dilemmas in evaluating such evidence. Last but not least, we talk to Dr. Darko Maver, professor of Criminalistics and PhD in law, who shares his findings and directions about Slovenian court proceedings and dilemmas in evaluation of forensic evidence of bloodstain patterns. Throughout the whole thesis we pursue the answers to the questions of whether or not are there any unwritten standards or guidelines for evaluation of such evidence, since there are no formal ones in our Criminal law, and if yes, whether or not, are they being taken into a consideration in practice. We also explore the former dilemma of forensic experts of the National Forensic Laboratory taking stand as expert witnesses in criminal tri Moderna znanost in tehnologija vse bolj prevevata naš vsakdanjik in nič drugače ni tudi v svetu kriminalističnega preiskovanja. Vsi dokazi ter indici zbrani pri preiskovanju kraja zločina igrajo ključno vlogo, ne samo pri povezovanju delcev v celoto, temveč tudi pri samem procesu dokazovanja dogodkov ter krivde obdolžencev na sodišču. V tej diplomski nalogi se bomo tako osredotočili na kompleksnost preiskovanja krajev dejanja krvnih deliktov ter pomembnost krvnih sledi, ki nastanejo kot posledica nasilnih dejanj. Previdnost kriminalističnih tehnikov pri odvzemanju in zavarovanju fizičnih ali bioloških dokazov je izrednega pomena, ob tem morajo paziti na primerno rokovanje, hrambo, identifikacijo ter nenazadnje tudi na verigo nadzora nad dokazi (ang. chain of custody). Vsi ti ukrepi imajo odločilno vlogo v nadaljnjih postopkih, ko forenzični strokovnjaki opravijo različna laboratorijska testiranja na zbranih dokazih, vse to z namenom, da bi prišli do bolj podrobnih informacij, ki bi lahko povezale posameznika s krajem kaznivega dejanja. Tako torej pridobijo dokaze z dodano vrednostjo, ki so verodostojni na sodišču. Odgovor na ''kaj se je zgodilo'' navadno leži v rekonstrukciji kraja dejanja,ki je orientirana na preiskavo vidnih in nevidnih oblik krvnih sledi ter drugih indicov, ki nakazujejo potek preteklih dogodkov. Neverjetno je namreč, koliko nam lahko krvna sled izda. Na podlagi le nekaj krvnih kapelj je mogoče določiti gibanje žrtve/storilca, smer iz katere je kri priletela, območje izvora krvne sledi, premikanje ter položaj žrtve, pa tudi število udarcev in položaj storilca med posameznimi udarci, itd. Ukrepi in dejanja našteti zgoraj, skupaj tvorijo širšo, bolj jasno sliko o zločinu, toda primer s tem še ni zaključen, nasprotno, tukaj se šele dodobra prične. Najpomembnejši del, ki zaokroži ves trud preiskovanja je ravno predstavitev zbranih dokazov na sodišču, le-ti pa morajo biti kredibilni in neizpodbitni, česar pa ni vedno lahko doseči. Na slovenskih sodiščih, sodniki niso zavezani k nobenim formalnim standardom vrednotenja forenzičnih dokazov, so pa zavezani k določenim merilom izvajanja le-teh. Celoten postopek dokazovanja in vrednotenja dokazov tako leži na samem sodišču in le-to samo odloča, kateri dokazi predlagani s strani obeh strank – tožilca in obrambe- bodo izvedeni in predstavljeni ter kateri ne. Nadalje razpravljamo o dokaznih standardih ter o pomembnosti strokovnega mnenja forenzičnih izvedencev, o pripravi le-tega ter o dilemah in različnih interpretacijah s strani sodišča, tožilstva in pa obrambe. Forenzična izvedenka na področju DNK in bioloških sledi dr. Katja Drobnič, z nami deli svoje mnenje o tej problematiki ter razpravlja o zahtevnosti procesa priprave strokovnega mnenja in pa tudi o samem izzivu pričevanja na sodišču. Nato preidemo k praktičnemu vidiku vrednotenja forenzičnih dokazov krvnih sledi in se o tem pogovarjamo s kazenskim sodnikom Okrožnega sodišča v Ljubljani, Andrejem Barago, ki z nami deli svoje izkušnje skupaj z dilemami, različnimi interpretacijami in pa tudi smernicami o vrednotenju tovrstnih dokazov. Nenazadnje diskutiramo s profesorjem kriminalistike in doktorjem prava - Darkom Mavrom, ki nam predoči svoje mnenje ter predloge o slovenskih sodnih procesih in dilemah vrednotenja kompleksnih forenzičnih dokazov krvnih sledi. Skozi celotno nalogo torej iščemo odgovore na vprašanja ali mogoče obstajajo kakšna nenapisana pravila ali pa smernice vrednotenja tovrstnih dokazov, saj formalnih standardov v našem kazenskem pravu ni in če torej te smernice obstajajo, ali so upoštevane v praksi. Prav tako raziskujemo nekdanje dileme pričevanja forenzičnih strokovnjakov Nacionalnega forenzičnega laboratorija v kazenskih zadevah in tako nalogo zaključimo na podlagi vseh zbranih informacij, znanj ter izkušenj o tej problematiki, debato pa sklenemo s tehtnimi ugotovitvami ter odgovori na primarno zastavljena vprašanja.

The purpose of this thesis is to design, implement and analyse a hybrid genetic algorithm for solving the MAX-3SAT problem. The problem is a well known NP-complete decision problem. Solving this type of problems is highly motivated by its practical use in industry. The main field of 3SAT solver application ranges from integrated circuit delay optimization to FPGA routing. See section 1.9 for details on practical applications of the MAX- 3SAT solver. The idea behind this hybrid genetic algorithm, is to see just when and how much of local search can still prove beneficial to the overall solution quality. In the results section 4.4, we have shown that this algorithm performs best when the local search is applied periodically and with our best run results (presented in section 4.6) we came very close to a similar implementation described in [14]. Our best average run time on the biggest test instances was trailing behind aforementioned article by about 30 percent. The reason, why our average running time is fairly close to the aforementioned imple- mentation, lies in exploiting parallelism. We used a simple parallelization technique of local searching, which is described in section 4.2. Moreover, our solution quality - that is the number of unsatisfied clauses, was pretty much as good as the one reported in [14]. Ours was worse by only 0,6 percent. It is important to point out that we used exactly the same test instances as used in [14].

ENGLISH: Knowledge of the kinds of organisms eaten by tunas, and the relative importance of different kinds of organisms in different situations, is of importance to our understanding of regional and local aggregations and of the behavior of the tropical tunas. Determination of the relative importance of benthic forms in the stomachs of tunas captured in the vicinity of islands and offshore banks, compared with the forms found in the stomachs of those from oceanic areas, distant from these shoal areas, is useful to the understanding of the mechanisms by which the islands and banks attract tuna. A thorough knowledge of the diet may also reveal more about the seasonal and annual variations in the distribution of these fish along the coasts of Mexico, Central America and elsewhere. A knowledge of the diet of the tunas is basic to quantitative studies of the zooplankton and nekton in the Eastern Pacific Ocean with reference to the production of tunas. Studies of the diet of the tropical tunas by examination of stomach contents was, therefore, commenced in late 1957. SPANISH: El conocimiento de las clases de organismos de que se alimentan los atunes, y la importancia relativa de las diferentes clases de organismos en situaciones diferentes, es de valor para nuestra comprensión de las agrupaciones regionales y locales, y de los hábitos de los atunes tropicales. La determinación de la importancia relativa de las formas bénticas en los estómagos de los atunes capturados en la vecindad de las islas y de los bancos apartados de la costa, comparadas con las formas encontradas en los estómagos de los atunes procedentes de áreas oceánicas, distantes de estas áreas poco profundas, es útil para comprender el mecanismo por el cual las islas y los bancos atraen al atún. Un conocimiento completo de la dieta puede revelar también algo más acerca de las variaciones estacionales y anuales en la distribución de estos peces a lo largo de las costas de México, América Central y otras partes. El conocimiento de la dieta del atún es básico para los estudios cuantitativos del zooplancton y del necton en el Océano Pacífico Oriental, con referencia a la producción de los atunes. El estudio de la dieta de los atunes tropicales mediante el examen del contenido estomacal, fué comenzado, por lo tanto, a fines de 1957. This article is bilingual and contains both Spanish and English translations.