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{{Background: }} The aim of the study was to find out the way of providing information preferred by patients after implantation of vascular prosthesis in lower extremities or abdominal aorta in order to develop a new educational material. {{Methods: }} The participants involved in the study had achieved at least 24 points of Mini Mental State Examination and had undertaken the surgery. The study was agreed by the institutions`s ethical committee and all the participants who had been informed about the study purpos...

Using Big Data in organizations, regardless of their size and specific, offers significant opportunities for growing the business performance. Through the study conducted, we intend to explore the perception of managers on the use of Big Data for business development. The data collected through a questionnaire applied to 1,152 managers, from companies of different sizes and from different fields, were the basis for the creation of a database subsequently processed with appropriate software, the Statistical Package...

This paper analyzes a political phenomenon as a process of sequential information exchange which connects all groups of individuals in a dynamic system in space and time. The symbolic essence of information exchange assumes paramount importance in relation to political communications because symbols, representing imperiously significant meanings in texts, constitute grounds for identifying political objects in human perception. It is approved that in political context information is modified, constructing social m...

The article explains that the information function of the financial market is the key for pricing of a financial asset. Information acts as an argument of nonlinear function of returns, prices and risk level. At a time when the information becomes a hefty price, the information value of the financial market becomes comparable to its interests effect. It gives the basis to include information factor as a variable in the model of capital asset pricing and the financial market model. In turn, secondary market prices ...