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The main problem of modern young peo ple is social change and indefinite cultural samples. We explored person's social potential in context of sociology. We investigated t heoretical concept of Person's Social Potential. We developed empirical model of sociological research. 16 -34 years old ci tizen, Yekaterinburg city, Russia. December 2013 - March 2014. Essential characteristic of social potential are abilities of constructing of ideal social projects, which is connected with social experience of a person. Soci...

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 ...

This paper deals with the issue of the social security of persons at risk of social exclusion in the form of providing social services. Health is one of the most valuable assets of each person. The good health of the individual is very important not only for people, but also for society as a whole. An unsatisfactory state of health of the population has a negative impact on the economy of the state. For this reason, the funds deposited into health treatment and healthcare of the state in question are an indispensa...

International migration is one of the manifestations of globalization processes. International migration has an influence not only on a country of origin but also on a receiving country. In Slovakia, there is not a big number of migrants, about 1% of the whole Slovak population are migrants. We carried out a research on opinions and actual issues connected with migrations among adult population of the Slovak Republic and here we present our results. The fieldwork phase of nationwide representative research was rea...

The paper summarizes the main results and findings concerning lifestyle limitations in persons with chronic illnesses. The research study had the following four objectives: the first objective was to design a specific quality-based methodology to identify lifestyle limitations in people with chronic illnesses. The second objective was to identify, analyse and describe lifestyle limitations in individuals suffering from chronic illnesses. The third objective was to demonstrate that the specific quality-based method...

This paper deals with the legal and social aspects of a child's life with regard to the legal regulation of the given issue in the Czech Republic. Social and legal protection of children means ensuring a child's right to life, its positive development, parental care and family life, the identity of the child, freedom of thought, conscience and religion, education and employment and also includes protecting the child from any physical or mental violence, neglect, abuse or exploitation. Child protection, which is a ...

This paper deals with regional media and their status in the media field. The fundamental problems of media regionality are being analyzed from the point of view of a specialized social discourse related to the status, importance and the further perspectives of local and regional media in the international context. We are trying to answer the question of how to explicitly define the concepts of local and regional in mass media communication. Our study resulted in the trichotomic stratification of the mass audience...

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...

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...

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 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 e...

The main goal of our research was to evaluate the need of elderly computer users for special training on cybersecurity. The article highlights the results of our study which deals with the elderly and their information practices. We used 268 questionnaires from Russia, Belarus, Lithuania, Denmark and Sweden. Only members of social organiza tions were included in the sample. It was important to find out whether pensioners use the Internet and what for. It turned out that the spectrum of used features is quite narro...

The first decade of the 21st century was marked by a rather radical and important transformations in sexual culture at the level of everyday practices, normative base and political discourse about sexuality, both in Europe and in Russia. This is largely due to political changes and peculiarities of in these regions. The sphere of politics always had a significant influence on the formation and reproduction of the sexual culture of society through political and legal institutions and mechanisms which actions are la...

The study deals with the problem of the assessment of the living situation in vulnerable families with children within the system of social-legal protection of children in the current conditions of Slovakia. The basic starting position is to answer the question of how to assess such vulnerable family and at the same time protect minors from the negative impacts of existing threats and their consequences. It is with an emphasis on how to deal with the dilemma of maintaining the autonomy of the family while ensuring...

Slovakia ranks among the European countries with the lowest efficiency of the health system. If Slovakia will use of its potential to increase efficiency in the health care system, it can according to the OECD findings manage to save up to 2.7% of GDP per year, it is a third of public expenditure in health care. Measuring the health systems effectiveness is becoming a fundamental problem because of its methodological complexity and problems associated with variations in health care systems, infrastructure, market ...

Context: There are many scientific articles and studies, both at national and international level, analyzing the adolescents smoking behavior and its influencing factors. One could find much information from these studies about the adolescents smoking habits and about different prevention methods. The present article originality – at least in Romanian context – consists in two new dimensions: one is to analyse not only the smoking behavior of the adolescents, but also their exposure to second hand smoking (SHS...

The research aim is to create an innovative concept which includes different technologies helping students to cope with the difficulties connected with healthy nutrition. Nutrition of a student in such an intense way of life is a problem of many universities including the Tomsk Polytechnic University. The problem is not just in price. Students usually do not have time for lunch because of the small breaks between classes and long lines in canteens. And if the student takes homemade food with him/her, it can quickl...

Considered one of the most actual in modern sociological science problems – social community and its main features, among which the temporal characteristics play an important role. The purpose of the article is to analyze the role of social communities in everyday life and discovering of their temporal structures. For proof of this thesis are used in the unity of three main approaches – communities, activities, and temporal. Basic methods of the research: the study of value orientations, attitudes, forms and t...

Students have different levels of motivation, some don not explanation of their goals, some students gain experience of social life during studying, and a small part thinks of self-development. This highlights sociological research of importance of social environment and social conditions and interactions during studying. Theoretical and empirical model sociological research, survey by questionnaire, interviews. Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg city, Russia. December 2013 – March 2014. Basic stimulus of st...

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 exi...

The journey towards sustainability requires sustainable production and consumption and also requires social responsibility of organizations. Improvements of social performance of companies along with sustained economic profitability and environmental responsibility contribute notably to sustainable development. Company stakeholders – mostly consumers, local communities and society, but many others as well, are more and more asking themselves questions about social impacts of products and production processes. Un...

Social marketing is a systematic planning process that imports methods and techniques from commercial marketing as a way to find innovative solutions to social problems and foster voluntary behavior change through active involvement. Still, in Romania, few scientists report its use and it is a pity for both professionals and potential beneficiaries not to engage in, and benefit from, the strategic framework it proposes. In order to bring social marketing closer to our communities, besides local practice examples, ...

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...

Activities of each company are provided by its employees. Their work is significantly under the influence of not only their physical abilities but also their psychical stability. It is necessary to pay attention a lot to the social climate in the company for this stability to be secured. Social welfare of a company represents one of the basic conditions of its prosperity. During production strong attention is paid to the processes leading to a final product. However, evaluation of social aspects of these processes...

The paper describes the authors metodics of drama therapy for people with drug addiction.To begin all paper is targeted to the specifics of approach used on detoxifical department. Consequently the article points out the complex therapy, incidentally this expressive therapy and its methods. The author discusses her five-year practical experience of drama therapeutical procces with drug addicted people, in addiction presents her methodology of approach, demonstrations of techniques and examples work of client’s. ...

The author analyzes in her study a process she calls carnivalization of media production in the society of post-millennium era. She shows anti-intellectualism as an indicator of world image in which traditional moral and educational principles are pushed to the edge of society’s interest. She claims that based on the transformation of media production paradigm the hedonistic approach is superior to the creative principle and becomes a base for creating media reality affected by hyper-consumerism, anti-intellectu...

This paper discusses the social representation and the teacher identity in Education and Training Course, one of the most discredit and stigmatized educational provision in Portugal which aims to combat school failure and dropout. For this purpose we interviewed 10 teachers of Education and Training Courses on three public schools in Lisbon. The findings show that teachers shared a positive social representation despite raised major problems on the functioning and on the attributes of student population. This posi...

Background This paper aims to assess the activity of salivary cotinine in a study group before and after the use of an aqueous solution obtained from Prunus spinosa, and also the evaluation of a possible correlation between its action and levels of salivary cotinine. Methods The study group was made of 50 volunteers: 25 volunteers that used for a week aqueous solution made from dried fruit pulp of the species Prunus spinosa and 25 volunteers who used a blank solution at the same time, evaluating the comparative re...

The research aims at finding certain tendencies to language simplification in modern British society focusing on the changes in the official functional style (register). Lexical and syntactic peculiarities of the official document texts produced by three British social departments (Government Equalities Office, which is part of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport; Department of Health; Department for Education) are analyzed in the work. In order to evaluate the complexity of grammar in the texts addressing...

This study proposes to analyze the socioeconomic background of the senior high school students from the two main educational tracks from Romania (theoretical and technical), their career related expectations as well as the factors with effect on the education and career related plans of these students. The sample analyzed is nationally representative and is composed of 3509 high school students in their final school year (12th grade), who were surveyed in the first wave of the research "Outcomes of Adolescence. A ...

Introduction: Health Education is a subject that became a part of the educational system in elementary schools in the Czech Republic after the introduction of the curricular reform, i.e. the introduction of the Framework educational programme for elementary education (FEP EE), which came into effect at the beginning of the school year of 2007/2008. The objective of the paper is to present the results of a research project called “Teaching Health Education in elementary schools in the Czech Republic”, specifica...

This work has revealed dates about cytotoxic potential of benzoic acid (E210), citric acid (E330) and sodium phosphate (E339) currently used as pharmaceutical or food additive. The testing was made in experimental conditions with nauplius larvae of Artemia sp., brine shrimp biotester method. The Artemia salina bioassay was chosen because it is versatile, viable, fast and low cost screening assay. Furthermore, there is a good correlation between the in vivo and the in vitro tests, and this method is a useful tool f...

The aim of this paper is to present the various aspects of the development of e-accessibility of public administration web portals for people with visual impairments in 2008 - 2013. During the six years we have tested a total of 822 web portals, including more than 150 portals that were evaluated at least 2 times. We found, that despite the overall improvement in the rating of accessibility of public administration, the development is in fact, stagnant. From the repeatedly evaluated portals, 41% had lower level of...

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...

The work we present is part of a project made in collaboration with Institute of Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases „N. Paulescu”.The group also followed throughout the study a diet based on a reduced caloric diet and an independent physical activity program. Hypothesis: the start of a program of aerobic exercise, carefully selected, may improve the clinical status of overweight and obese students who suffer from type 2 diabetes. Results: The statistical processing of the experimental data showed signi...

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 ...

During the last decade, it became apparent for Romanian organisations either for profit or nonprofit the potential represented by Internet, but the organisations‘ presence in the virtual world has to be done by following certain rules. The end-result being in attracting an ever increasing number of Internet surfers that are interested in the products and services promoted online. Lately, also representatives of Romanian nongovernmental organizations are becoming aware of the need to ensure their presence on the ...

The demographic crisis in Russia actualizes the search of very different ways of escaping it. One of such way could become the growing focus of the education system to the demographic problems of the society. The acquisition of competencies in the demographic sphere is necessary by all different subjects at all levels - from fundamental to additional education. Notably the public servants who are professionally involved in the regulation of demographic processes at the municipal and regional levels should be educa...

It is known that complex polysaccharides (polyuronides) are natural macromolecular compounds located in all the plant organs in special histological formations (cells and canals), as well as in the external seminal tegument. In contact with water, they form colloidal solutions or gels. Under the action of the intestinal flora they are split and form a protective film for mucous membranes as well as create a pH unfavorable for the development of the pathogenic microbial flora involved in the degradation of the inte...

Monitored incomes from the sale of advertising space in print media have continuously declined since 2009, and despite a slight increase in 2013, the volume of sold advertising in newspapers and magazines significantly lags behind the advertising in the electronic media, especially in television. And it is despite the fact that several studies conducted on the effectiveness and efficiency of the so-called print advertising confirm that advertising in newspapers and magazines positively influences buying behavior o...

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 number of malignant diseases has been increasing worldwide. The situation in the Czech Republic is similar, seen from the epidemiologic perspective, as we rank among those countries with the highest incidence in Europe. Malignant disease is continually perceived as one of the most serious. It is difficult for patients to come to terms with the diagnosis of malignant disease and may trigger strong emotional reactions. If the patient suffers from a life-threatening disease, it poses a source of chronic stress. S...

Background: Knowing the real values of enamel mechanical properties, both at macro and microscopic scale, it is highly significant to select those compatible dental materials, in terms of behavior, as close as possible to the natural structures. The aim of the study was to assess human enamel microhardness both in normal enamel samples (control) and in demineralized enamel samples, using the Vickers microhardness test, and also to analyze the effect of indentation loads (100gf, 200gf, 300gf) applied for 10s on the...

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 t...

The paper describes the mission of universities and colleges in general. Furthermore, their roles and relationships to the region and institutions in the region in which they operate, the importance of universities in the development of Europe and its European regions. Universities can have a great impact on regional development in terms of employment, expenditures and other economic factors, education, social and cultural function. The author point to the importance of relations between universities and business....

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 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. Disabili...

Background. Subjective well-being and health measurement instruments have undergone a major evolution in the last 40 years. One of the more used health-related quality of life instruments for children and adolescent in European countries is the KIDSCREEN questionnaire in its three different versions: -52, -27 and -10 items. Despite of his (mainly linguistic) cross-cultural validation, not many research attempt to asses and go into cultural groups differences. The aim of this paper is to describe and analyze physic...

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 for...

Dental caries development is considered to involve a triad of indispensable factors: bacteria (dental plaque), carbohydrates (the diet), and susceptible teeth (the host) Since earlier studies the mutants streptococci are considered major etiologic agents in dental caries in humans. Strpetococcus mutants is a Gram- positive oral commensally species that is commonly recognized to be one of the primary organisms associated with the development of dental caries (cavities). In the study are included 240 children of pre...