The influence of German language onto Croatian language has been going on for centuries. It was most intensive during the 19th century. Therefore we can find German loanwords all over Croatia. The focus of the research is put onto the presence of German loanwords in the carnival newspapers of Sinj in the time span from 1929 till 2015. The German loanword is presented in context in a corpus, contrastively analysed on the semantic level in the process of secondary adaptation, ie. the extention of meaning in a number and in a field.

The minimum wage, as a labour market policy with distributive impact, is widely debated in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). This paper estimates the effect of increasing the minimum wage on poverty and income inequality in BiH, providing the first empirical evidence on the minimum wage in the country. Using data from the Household Budget Survey (HBS) for 2015, the effects of four changes (two per entity) in the minimum wage were simulated using the microsimulation model BiHMOD. First, the effect of the latest changes implemented in the previous period was calculated using the previous minimum wage level as the baseline. Second, the effect of recently proposed changes was simulated using the current level as the baseline. The findings suggest that increasing the minimum wage in BiH has a significant positive effect on poverty reduction, but a limited effect on the level of income inequality. The estimated effects were also calculated for different types of households. The results suggest that a single policy may have unexpected effects if other policies are not taken into account and harmonized accordingly. The findings provide empirical evidence for decision-makers and future policy debate, which is generally missing for this and similar policy issues in BiH.

The unimaginable speed of the development of information and communication technologies has led to the fact that in the time period from 2009 to 2012, human society generated and saved more information than in the entire history until then. As estimated in 2013, approximately 1,200 exabytes were generated around the world, and this vast amount of information is doubled every three years. This would mean that estimated amount of generated data for 2019 is approximately 4800 exabytes, that is, three times more than the total amount information generated throughout the history. Since such a large amount of information cannot be stored or processed (and especially not in real or reasonable time) using the common methods of storing and processing data, a new paradigm of storage, processing and management of large quantities, variety and data processing speed has emerged under the name big data concept.

Cloud computing is a new technology that represents the realization of an old idea that computer data processing is executed and charged as a service. The goal of this chapter is to define the basics of the cloud computing concept and how this technology works, and then explain where is all the data that cloud computing uses, how they are distributed, how and to what extent are available, who are the ultimate beneficiaries, what are the advantages and the disadvantages of applying this concept. This cloud computing model consists of five essential features, three service models, and four application models, and the elaboration of these concepts will be an integral part of this chapter. Particular attention will be paid to the possibility of data abuse in cloud computing and regarding that data protection against manipulation from service providers as well as the financial aspect of cloud computing.