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At the present stage of development of Russian society increasing attention from various social actors is given to diverse theoretical, practical and ethical issues of sexuality and sexual culture. For their successful solution seems necessary, first of all, scientific revision, critical analysis of existing ideas about the sexual culture taking into account qualitative transformations of social and cultural reality of the 21st century. Thus, researchers have traditionally allocated structure of sexual culture, wh...

A territorial variety (natural, economic, ethnic, ecological, medical and sanitary, etc.) of the Russian Federation is so great that almost any actions directed on strengthening of population health, can lead to good results in one region and to negative consequences in other. For regional classification of the Russian Federation depending on a population state of health, we made the decision to use integrated indicators of health. Integrated indicators of health are widely applied to obtain the complex characteri...

What do we really know about the close ties between identity and social action? This article focuses on this problem, encompassing the case of the community, located on the Solovetsky archipelago in the White Sea. This settlement has a brief history. It begun to take shape after the second World War after the Solovetsky Camp of Special Designation and the prison were disbanded. If we look deeper at the history beyond the border of the twentieth century, we’ll see five centuries of Solovetsky monastery, which exist...

Conventional energy sources are, at the same time, the source of global warming, heat island, atmospheric distortion, green house effect, carbon emission, growing scarcity of water, the Climate Change and more damages to our mother earth. In this research, we will be discussing the following issues together with possible sample cases such as (1) negative results and reasons of these dangerous developments to our World and our Future; (2)the measures the governments should take, financing bodies should consider, in...

The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been the subject of debate and research with non-profit organizations in the CR since the early 1990’s. CSR has been embedded in Czech society by the Czech based subsidiaries of multinational corporations (MNC’s). It is a strategy whereby the corporations take responsibility for the economic, social and environmental consequences of their business activities. In so doing, they undertake to limit/eliminate the negative impact which they have on their ‘stakeho...

The purpose of the paper was to investigate the idea of intergenerational dialogue as a toolkit, beneficial for societies that recognised their need for adapting the “all ages” perspective. Such an outlook is hitherto a case of an ideal social structure type, yet Poland and other European countries already experience the need for flexibility of social roles available throughout entire life cycle, essential in the discussed structure type. By desk research the paper addressed steps to be undertaken in order to achi...

Region is a territory united by common features that differentiate the concrete area from other neighbouring territories. It is characterized by persistent and stable cultural models, which have formed and continue shaping in the course of history and which determine its pace and direction of development. The cultural space in its essence cannot be viewed only horizontally, it should be viewed also vertically as a depository of intangible values. The mundane or traditional that is concerned with the worldly matter...

The paper cover covers topic related to the signific ance of ideal /model of mother and father in the family for child, parents but also and mainly for society . It speaks about motherhood, fatherhood (parentage) in past and in present. Specifically it talks about fatherhood after break break-up and about jo int /shared parentage and generally about aspects of ch anges in the values of family frame in relation to the social structure of society society.

The issue of health, demographic changes and quality of life as well as food security has become a part of the current challenge of the new EU program for research and innovation, Horizont 2020. The paper follows up the findings of the first European survey on health EHIS 2009, that was elaborated on the basis of a harmonized methodology developed by Eurostat in Slovakia. It seeks to find a link between demography, health, access to healthy food and retail management, which should respond more flexibly to the need...

Atmospheric Explosion is crucial point in occupational safety in modern industrilized economy. That is because ex-proof materials should be used in the explosive environments. Legistlation and governmental regulations aim to protect employees from explosions. In Turkey, this topic is an emerging issue in many sectors such as mine, metal, chemical and so on. In this research, we will not only present the structural building of ex-proof materials Technologies but also mandatory legistlations in Turkey by giving some...

The study focuses on the primary associations that are evoked by the city of Prague, as well as on the differences that can be seen between the professionals and the general public in this regard. One of the main objectives is to highlight the growing importance of the city branding in today's hyper-competitive environment, which creates a demand for empirical studies of a similar nature. Therefore, in this paper, we pay attention to the analysis of selected attributes of the brand of Prague. Special attention is ...

Media education is in an international scientific community considered to be one of the most effective means to acquire key competencies necessary for an interactive and inclusive use of media and critical perception of constantly growing spectrum of media messages. Successful implementation of media education requires innovative research strategies, techniques and procedures which can integrate suitable and reliable methods of media literacy evaluation and measurement into research and social practice. The study ...

This research deals with the issue of social pollution practices, expressed in reducing the level of welfare and deterioration of physical and psych osoci al wellbeing of workers and other members of social community triggered by enterprises. The purpose of this paper is detection of the most sig nificant components of social pollution, which require control in order to decrease its development and influence on the wellbeing of the workers. On the basis of literature review was elaborated the classification of soc...

In this article, we examine problems of professional and educational trajectories choice by students of universities in the conditions of transforming society. This article based on the results of sociological poles taken of students of universities, conducted from the middle 90th to this time using the same instruments. We have revealed several tendencies in the professional self-determination of Russian students, among them are: the decline of orientation on employment according to specialty gained in the univer...

In this paper we will tackle the role of translators and translation within the sociology of culture as can be seen from the Romanian discourse on translation from the 19th century to present day. Therefore, we will account for the reasons behind the translation process and the role of translators as social agents in the Romanian culture. We will particularly focus on key moments in the Translation Studies discourse in our culture such as the debate on the role of translations and translators in society in the 19t...

The purpose of our research was to investigate male caregiving via a status of being hidden and forgotten in East-Central Europe, where caregiving itself had only lately been emancipated, and only as provided by women. In Poland and in other European countries the gender bias is clear: men provide less care than women, the care is less intensive and of a different character. By desk research, own research interpretation and literature review, the paper addressed informal, family caregiving towards frail older adul...

It is well known that the pathogenic mechanism of algic posttraumatic syndrome is still incompletely understood. Although multiple attempts have been made to reduce chronic regional pain syndrome to a single pathophysiologic mechanism (e.g., sympatho-afferent coupling), it has become increasingly accepted that there are multiple mechanisms involved. Only in the past few years, has it been recognized that chronic regional pain syndrome is not simply a sympathetically mediated peripheral pain condition but rather is...

The current research highlights the influence of specific means in dance sport, on developing psychomotor abilities in beginner dancers, starting from the idea that childhood age is the most opportune period for acting on this subject. The subjects for this research (n=24), age group 6-9 years old, were divided into two groups (experiment=12 and control=12). The experiment group is formed by beginner dancers from the Katamis Dance Sport Club, Craiova, Romania and the control group is formed by pupils that have nev...

Confirming the importance of marketing communication while building a brand value in the case of KRAFT in the 90s caused a strong increase in its use. While in 1996 the money inserted into the communication was counted as an expense after this year many companies started to consider them as an „investment“. On the other hand the interest of companies to communicate with their customers caused information blindness by flooding the media with commercial messages. Last 10-15 years produced a large number of innovatio...

Introduction. Adolescents represent a key target population for primary prevention of tobacco. School-based intervention included into curricula play an important role in prevention. The article evaluates basic indicators of tobacco use in teachers and school-based interventions. Changes between 2003 and 2013 are analyzed. Material and methods. The Global School Personnel Survey (GSPS) is a school-based questionnaire survey producing a national representative sample of teachers teaching students in grades associat...

This paper exposes the current statistics on indicators of demographic analysis on the subject, both worldwide and in Romania until 2013 and conducted research in Arad, on the prevention of abortion, unwanted pregnancy in crisis. Due to demographic trends of Arad County in recent years, in terms of birth rates and abortion, and the reasons for termination of pregnancy, was meant to provide this research with the aim of improving the demographic indicators in Arad. This research was conducted in the city of Arad, w...

The article looks at the problem of overcoming the real condition of marginalized high-status posts of Russia within the context of global geopolitical system in respect of the aspect of its intelligent innovative content. This article supports the conceptualization necessity of intelligent and workforce capacity implementation of Russian society as a key factor of negative trend overcoming in Russian civilizational development, framework of new society type, based on technological and social cultural groundwork o...

Man is a communicative being that needs to exchange information in order to survive. We have to rely upon mutual communication and we just cannot exist without it. Everything we do, anything we look at, the ways we move – all these things are related to communication. Ludwig Wittgenstein subsequently explains these means of communication through terms. However, he actually speaks about the things that are not expressed by them. Robert Cialdini defines these processes by so called “switches”. Sometimes one word is ...

In current ageing society with low fertility rates the population moves to the cities and large urban areas. According to WHO [1], it is expected that 70% of population in 2050 will be urban. The size of population in small towns and rural areas is shrinking and this trend is supposed to continue. Fall in population size brings along other consequences, such as downsize of business and social, health and other public services. All these processes may be particularly problematic for elderly people inhabiting lowly ...

Roma communities around Europe create estimated amount of 8 – 12 millions of Roma people living prevalently in Eastern and Central Europe. Identifying Roma as an ethnic group brings the problem due the national policy in former CEE countries where nationality is voluntary in the census and the person can conceive a nationality as a personal feeling. This topic brings the problem to Roma ethnicity assessment. Roma themselves do not like to be called Roma or Gypsies, most of identification is coming from external ob...

Nowadays there is a growing trend of aging population in the whole world, which occurs due to the reduction of fertility in developed countries and to increase life expectancy. By 2050 more than a quarter of the world population will be aging people. Therefore becomes relevant to examine the factors that provide life satisfaction and well-being of older people. These reasons have caused the proposal of the research – to identify the key factors that determine the emotional well-being of aging people. The methodolo...

Occupational health and safety (OHSAS) is very important issue in all industrial workplaces. In literature, there are many theoretical frameworks for studies of occupational health and safety management. In all enterprises, from small enterprises to the larger one, there are a number of definitions of management and safety management procedures. The most famous one is OHSAS 18000 which is an international occupational health and safety management system specification. A conceptual approach for OHSAS 18000 is propo...

Background Hepatic hydrothorax is defined as a significant pleural effusion (usually greater than 500 ml) in a cirrhotic patient, without an underlying pulmonary or cardiac disease. The incidence of hepatic hydrothorax varies from 0.4% to 10% according to different reports, and it occurs much more often in the right thorax than in the left. Several observations indicate that the most likely cause of pleural effusions in patients with cirrhosis is the passage of a large amount of ascites from the peritoneal to the ...

Canada is a favorite destination, a target state for immigrants, adding around 200 000 people annually, including Romanian citizens. It was the first country in the world to adopt multiculturalism officially (1971), thus ensuring the preservation of identity, acceptance of diversity and emphasizing racial and ethnic harmony and cross-cultural communication. It has since promoted equality in front of the law and equal opportunities regardless of race, origin, culture, ethnicity, religion. Immigrants enjoy freedom o...

Age, obesity, sex and previous injuries are considered to be significant risk factors for osteoarthritis. Mud is a therapeutic agent used since ancient times to treat osteoarthritis. Although extensively used, the mechanisms by which balneal therapy acts are poorly studied, sometimes we can even say that they are "full of surprises". The complexity of its biochemical composition, the rich microbial flora, the inter-relationships between its components, slow down the detection of the physiological and therapeutic e...

Ethical and legal aspects of the enforcement of the basic principle of bioethics which is the principle of respect for individual autonomy in the Russian legislation and clinical practice are considered. The authors reveal the essence of the concept of ‘personal autonomy’, analyze Russian laws from the standpoint of congruence with bioethical and world legal standards, and present the results of their research.

Submitted scientific paper deals with the influence of selected factors on the systolic and diastolic blood pressure and also with impact of anthropometric parameters on blood pressure. The aim of this work was to define the significant differences between boys and girls in health status parameters, to evaluate the impact of socio-economic, environmental and medical history factors on blood pressure. In the practical part is analyzed the sample group of school children from eastern Slovakia (770 children, 385 boys...

This article is devoted to the issue of self-safe behavior of Russians. The importance of research of ageing process of the nation and the right of citizens to a long and qualitative life expectancy are explained. The results of study of Russians’ attitudes towards the maintenance of their own health and prolongation of life are discussed. The research brings us to the conclusion that there is a national problem of declarativity of self-safe attitudes which are not proved by real activities. The combination of ext...

The study deals with the issue of creative economy and cultural industries in the context of media production and creation in conditions of contemporary society. In the paper the author critically evaluates new paradigm of creative economy and cultural industries, which according to her have become a part of concept of official cultural policy both of the European Union and its individual member states. She points out the paradoxicality of implementing this political concept into a specific field, which is media i...

According to a number of scholars, the rise of Twitter publishing had to lead a new level of informational openness in social networks and to increase of press freedom. At the same time, some recent studies have shown significant criticism towards political efficacy of Twitter [7]. We analyze Twitter as a part of the hybridized media system [6] suggesting after Adam and Pfetsch [1] that political dimension of hybridization and spill-over effects between different media will be specific to the socio-political conte...

Creative economy encompasses various forms of creativity: beginning with the creations of highly-specialized professionals, though commercial activities leveraging selected features of art, to hobbies, interests and voluntary activities, The current recommendations of the European Commission emphasize that is necessary to methodically and specially utilize all the functions of culture in manner that is profitable foremost for the local community, and consequently for the whole society. An important catalyst in sma...

Freedom to provide cross border healthcare services has been regulated under Directive 2011/24/EU of the European Parliament and Council from 9 March 2011 (OJ L 88, 4.4.2011). It was implemented in the EU Member States by the end of 2013. Taking into account principles of universality, access to quality health care, justice and solidarity, cross border health care is provided in accordance with the rules of the Member State of treatment, standards on quality and safety as established by the Member States of treatm...

The issue about the development of civil society in Russia is open to discussion among Western and Russian scientists. The inconsistency of the Russian practice of civil society formation does not often fit itself within the framework of foreign socio- and political theories and is subjected to criticism. Meanwhile, this social institution is immanently appropriate to any society. In this regard it is more reasonable to speak about the features of social practices and conditions of the formation of civil society r...

The research corpus consists of newspapers that were in circulation in the first decade of democratic changes in the republic of Croatia, from 1990 to 2000. In this corpus I have included the newspapers defined as such by the current Media Act of the Republic of Croatia. By this criterion, the following newspapers were published in Zadar at the time: Narodni list (a weekly), Zadarski list (a weekly/daily), Zadarski tjednik (a weekly), Fokus (a monthly) and Zadarski Regional (a weekly). The research covered a total...

In the structure of the world's population in 2020 is expected to be significantly increase by the proportion of the elderly it will increase the workload on outpatient institutions. Arterial hypertension and disorders of carbohydrate metabolism have the greatest prevalence among ambulatory patients than 60 years of age. In these conditions there is a need to find more effective ways of rendering medical aid, which is especially important for disabled patients. The use of remote monitoring opens new possibilities ...

The article presents the manner in which people with disabilities of varying degree perceive the architectural barriers they encounter while using the services of the City Hall of Katowice. 23 variables connected with different types of architectural barriers were taken into account in the analysis; the perceived quality was graded on a 7-point scale. A further analysis was also carried out, exploring the relationship between the degree of a person’s disability and the perceived quality of the facility. Disabiliti...

Consumers' decisions to buy the goods depends on the consumer's perception of the individual factors and environmental factors in which one lives. [1] These factors can be classified also as media, which „... have an important role in shaping social consciousness.“ [2] Part of this conviction is also the fact that the media influence the behavior, attitudes and opinions of individuals. On the other hand, it may expand the horizons of knowledge, educate, and assist consumers in decision making or to influence the l...

The aim of this paper is to present and evaluate the new – alternative to the judicial – system of liability for medical which was introduced to the Polish legal system in 2011. It allows to obtain compensation or redress by taking extrajudicial action, under special conciliatory and mediatory procedure conducted before the provincial committees for the adjudication of medical events. Analogous systems of compensation of damage regardless of fault exist in many countries including New Zealand, France, Scandinavian...

In this article author investigates transformational changes in Russian society connected to the professional development of individuals and development of their professional careers. The author supposes that from 1990th to nova days in Russian society taking place a change of the professional career model. This process is in connection to the change of the social scheme of the professional career and professional identity correlation. As the most important element in such social scheme we highlight a development ...

The analysis of informal payments in Russian education and healthcare is presented in the article. Sociological debriefing was in Ekaterinburg (Russia). Its results show that there is a corruption in social sphere. Government proclaims free education and healthcare but, in practice, doctors and educators, patients and parents justify payments and use it in their life.

Aim: The present study assesses the percentages of cases with deep pockets attributable to cigarette smoking in an adult urban population from Constanta. Methods: A randomly-selected sample comprising 483 dentate individuals from 528 eligible individuals for the survey was chosen among patients addressing for dental treatment in Constanta Dental Faculty. A full-mouth clinical examination was performed and an interview using a structured written questionnaire was undertaken. A multivariate analysis for complex surv...

People develop and form their ways of thinking throughout all their lives. These processes are inevitably associated with certain pressures from society and our surroundings and we may either resist or give in to them. Thanks to the people around us and environment we live in, we are able to form particular views of the world; we can reappraise our sets of values and act in accordance with our conscience. Since men are social beings, one of our basic needs is to maintain relationships with other people. The proble...

The focus of this article is on adolescents’ internet usage. Researchers’ attention is usually attracted either by internet risks and harms to adolescents, or by the use of internet as a new education technology, or tool. At the same time methodology is deemed by the author as insufficient and the approaches to the internet – which should be viewed as an environmental equivalent – are inadequate. Self-adaptation of adolescents (10–11 years old) to internet usage is discussed. The author’s data (from a survey of 80...

Presented data indicate the prevalence of client violence against social workers in Slovakia. The issue of client violence in Slovakia and neighbouring countries is not adequately explored and its prevention is far from being solved. In this paper are presented preliminary results of the first survey of client aggression against social workers in Slovakia (first part of the national research – project VEGA no. 1/0332/12). Verified were the impact of selected factors and the incidence of client violence. Main forms...

Gender equality is an important issue, international consensus is to achieve gender justice and it is as well one of the Millennium Development Goals. Vietnam is known for its remarkable achievements in educational sphere during socialistic era, anyway also through socialist policies (implemented in the north in 1954 and in the south in 1975) it lead to narrowing the gender gap. Aim of the survey was to analyse gender issue on biogas plant owners and farmers in central Vietnam with focus on relations between educa...