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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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Background It is still a challenge for physicians and researchers to identify the patients at risk, to make an early diagnosis and to do a correct monitoring for the progress of periodontitis. According to the research literature, Immunoglobulin A (IgA) is the first line of oral mucosal defense against bacterial invasion, including periodontitis. Also, 8-Hidroxy-2-Deoxy Guanosine (8-OHdG) is a result of DNA modification suffered by the attack of free radicals resulted from the oxidative stress processes in periodo...

Despite substantial improvements in oral health in some eastern European countries, several epidemiological studies indicated that the prevalence and severity of dental caries in Romania is still high in all age groups. Aim: the aim of the study was to evaluate the caries experience in permanent teeth of 6-11 year-old schoolchildren from Constanta District, and its relationship with socio-economic status (SES) of the family. Methods: an epidemiological cross-sectional clinical study was carried out in 2013 (april-...

The main aim of the article is to discover whether there is a relationship between the self-reported health status presented in the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU SILC) and between the economic situations in the EU Member States. Although people’s assessment of their heath is subjective, we suggest that there exists a statistically significant relationship between the answers to the health status question in EU SILC questionnaire: “How is your health in general?” and the living standard in...

In recent decades, like the rest of EU countries, Romania faced the same problem of aging population. Differences in vision and approach between health systems in the EU states are found in the health indicators, the management of health system having a major impact on health status. Despite of a slight improvement, the average life expectancy in Romania continues to one of the lowest values among EU countries. In Romania, patterns of morbidity and mortality have undergone important changes, increasing the prevale...

State of reproductive health of the population is the major aspect of the social and demographic development of the country which in many respects defines also the development level of the society as a whole. Without reliable and qualitative information about reproductive population health, first of all — women, without knowledge about their relation to the health, the birth of children, to family values, their estimate of maternity obstetric service it is impossible to pursue successful demographic policy. In 2...

Aging is one of the most amazing biological processes. There are more than 300 theories that try to explain the phenomenon of aging from biological but also social perspective. The most involved in this process are those that secrete hormones from the ovary (estradiol), from the testis (testosterone), from the adrenal (DHEA, cortisol) and from the pituitary gland (GH - growth hormone). This paper focuses on the study of endocrine changes of pituitary-adrenal axis as an indicator of biological aging under the influ...

The article substantiates the idea that urban communities, called avant-garde, produce special strategies, the core of which is the special attitude to the social time. Such strategies can be called temporal. They are the foundation of innovation, mobility and success of representatives of these social groups. Actuality of the study of the temporal behaviour strategies is determined by attention to such В«leadingВ» communities (and their separate strata), as students, volunteers, business community, freelancers. T...

The paper summarizes results of several qualitative researches in this area (from 2006 to 2014). They were focused on the phenomena of employing theatrotherapy in the system of care of persons with specific needs in Czech Republic, on the integrative potential of theatrotherapy within lessons at primary art schools and on the paradox of theatrotherapeutic focus. This paradox is the specific that makes theatrotherapy an independent and non-substitutable approach. Regarding theoretical basis, we focus on comparison ...

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 classification system for the factors which make up a toxic workplace is based on previous research which was carried out on this issue. Some researchers state that organizational stress is affected by such factors as a toxic work environment, negative workload, isolation, types of hours worked, role conflict, role ambiguity, lack of autonomy, career development barriers, difficult relationships with administrators and/or co-workers, managerial bullying, harassment, and organizational climate. While others poi...

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...

Carpal tunnel syndrome presenting as symptoms of the patients is mainly expressed as pain and paresthesia. It is an emerging issue to be considered regarding occupational health and job diseases. All we know form medicine, the first three fingers pain and numbness are the most common symptom of the Carpal Tunnel Syndrome that are caused by the increased pressure within carpal tunnel. In medical literature, there are many researches about carpal tunnel syndrome. In this research our aim is not to consider the theor...

The urban language situation attracts attention of many linguists nowadays. Using the notion of sociolect, which is understood as socially marked language subsystem, the research of urban speech is very effective. A sociolect is a set of language codes used by individuals who belong to the same social group. There are two types of sociolect models: partial and general ones. Partial models are based on the single factor. The general model is based on several social factors and exactly this model can give an integra...

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.

This article is a part of a project reminding women philosophers in history of philosophy, their achievements and a story of women emancipaction in scientific world, esspecialy on the Polish lands, and later – in Poland. Presented text shows biography and thought of Zofia Daszynska-Golinska (1866-1934). In my presentation I would like to acquaint the audience with the biography and thought of Zofia Daszynska-Golinska (1860-1934), a philosopher, an economist, a feminist, a social activist and a stateswoman. In th...