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Although topics related to political orientation are always current and in the focus of many sociological theorists, studies on general ideological orientations are relatively rare in Croatia and other countries in the region. Since there have been significant changes in the economic and political system in the last twenty years precisely in these transitional countries, along with a significant change in general and social values, the aim of this study was to assess general ideological orientations of the student...

The fundamental issues of increasing the level of training of social workers necessarily include the system of education. It is an essential part of the performance of the work of each social worker. In recent times, the training of workers in the social sphere of the Czech Republic has undergone extensive changes. Mandatory training of employees is reflected in the activities of officials of both state administration and local authorities, whilst taking into consideration the specifics of these areas. In relation...

Introduction. Lack of physical activity daily life of adolescents, along with the adoption of incorrect posture on desk or playing video games can lead to the emergence of poor attitudes that can turn into physical impairments. Method. Two pupils (aged 12), diagnosed with scoliosis in S followed for 5 weeks, 2 times per week rehabilitation programs with specific exercises GPR (global postural re-education). Their posture was determined using a professional Global Postural System. We've photo subjects from the ante...

Czech society tends to avoid topics related to death and dying. This fact has significant consequences for the care for patients in the terminal phase of a disease. One of these is low preparedness for dying, and inability to accept death as a part of life. During long a long illness or an illness with a negative prognosis, the patient thinks about end of her life, and she has a certain idea about how and where to die. If the reality differs too much from this idea, it results in a sense of discomfort. A survey by...

The aim of this paper is to point out the importance of blindness in the contemporary world and its impact on individual personality. Blindness represents a hard social burden for developing countries. Beside individual distress, blindness means high financial costs for any society, and obviously these costs are even harder to bear by developing economies. Blindness knows no geographic, economic or cultural bounds. It respects neither age no gender. The number of individuals who are avoidably blind and visually di...

Background: Performance sportive training induces plastic cortical changes, characteristic to each studied sportsman, through the repetitive character of the specific set of movements of each sporting discipline practiced by the sportsman. The purpose of our study was to evaluate some of the somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP) wavesВґ parameters at sportsmen from different sport categories: volleyball, handball, fencing and to compare the obtained data, in order to emphasize specific cortical plastic functional ...

Considered either a determiner of personal life quality, or a determinant of the latter, the population's health state and health state self-perception is studied nowadays by numerous governmental and non-governmental organizations, in order to “agree” upon what really influences our health state. The study's objectives followed in what measure the person's health state (presence or absence of disease) is correlated to his/her perception regarding own health state (in other words, if we have a good health stat...

Discussions about a sustainable development provoked the initiative to focus to methods based on evaluation of environmental, social and economical production impacts. The interest in taking into consideration also the social point of view appears recently more and more often in connection with the environmental evaluation of any product life cycle. This way a motion to formation of the SLCA (Social Life Cycle Assessment) has been made. This paper describes the results of a research in some selected companies in t...

Nowadays the quality and the tools of the quality management are attracting more attention of the general public, the health professionals, managers, policymakers and financers. The healthcare systems can not afford to ignore the quality of its services. Due to unfavourable demographic trends, poor health status of the whole population and to narrow financial circumstances the Hungarian healthcare system is facing with serious problems to which special attention should be paid. The European Union has never issued ...

The objective of the paper was to describe the main categories (semantic dimensions) in the area of perception/presence of multiple sclerosis (MS) in 37 adult individuals. This disease brings numerous limitations and also changes in the perception and behaviour, particularly in situations where individuals are simultaneously diagnosed with depression or long-term stress. Our research of a qualitative design used an incomplete sentences technique (incomplete sentences test) combined with the “three wishes” tech...

The author focuses on arguably the most significant phenomenon of networking in the last third of the 20th century, public computer networks which are largely connected into a single global information network, the Internet. The predecessor of the Internet - ARPAnet - was the US defence project, thus international cooperation of any sort was initially out of the question. But further such cooperation got objective causes: development of technologies, the need to operate and control a complex global infrastructure,...

Freedom of expression is understood differently in different countries. On one side we can see the arguments of an egalitarian viewpoint; meanwhile on the other side we observe the liberal arguments. The resistance to restrict the freedom of expression is rooted in the fear that the slightest restrictions, willingly or unwillingly, open the space for further restrictions, which are then followed by additional restrictions. I argue that a complete freedom of expression cannot be realized even in those cases where t...

The results of sociological research in the student's environment of the provincial Russian higher education institutions are the basis of this article. As stress symptomatology for a self-assessment the behavioural, intellectual, physiological and emotional forms of manifestation of a stress, which are traditionally used in stress psychology, were used. Authors show that manifestations of information overloads of students correlates with stress symptomatology, especially strongly it becomes apparent in an emotion...

Patient aggression against nurses is of increased incidence all over the word including Slovak clinical nursing practice thus there is a tendency to call for implementation of effective strategies to manage it. Usage of the MAVAS instrument to measure nurses' perception of various strategies is underpinned by an assumption that beliefs on causative factors of patient aggression influence the choice of particular management strategies to be used while facing it. The aim of the study was to identify nurses' percepti...

Introduction and Objective Dental caries as one of the most widespread diseases in the world among others is influenced by economic conditions. Fushe Kosova , Kastrioti and Hajvalia is a small town in the central part of Kosovo, which is characterized by poor economic development. The aim of the study was to assess caries prevalence, oral hygiene index and treatment needs among children in these municipalities. Material and methods The number of 426 children (6- to 14-year old) were randomly selected, in only one ...

In terms of reproductive health indicators, Slovakia Roma women have in comparison to other CEE countries relatively low numbers of unattended births (3\%) and relatively high access to gynaecological testing (88\%). According to the UNDP survey, 93.7\% of Roma women claimed they had attended regular medical check-ups during their last pregnancy, and in most cases (95.5\%) had been examined by a doctor. We collected data in Gynaecologic and obstetric department of University hospital in Kosice, the form of the stu...

1. Management of physician – patient communication One of the most important tools used in any profession is communication. Communication involves a better knowledge and use of the arts of conversation, a lot of goodwill and adaptation, it involves not only the spoken word but also what is transmitted through inflection , voice-timbre, facial expression, gestures, tics and other behavioral manifestations. The purpose of communication is understanding . 2. Research or studies on the prevalence and risk factors of...

The Canadian policy of multiculturalism encouraging, which emerges in financial support of multilingual press, schools teaching in languages of various ethnic groups, activity of numerous cultural societies and folklore festivals is considered. The Canadian multicultural policy experience reveals to be in demand and to serve as an sample of positive governmental decisions in relation to ethnic and cultural groups aspiring conservation of their identity and cultural originality

Background: Periodontal disease is an inflammatory disorder which affects periodontal structures. Oxidative stress is involved in mechanisms of periodontal destruction. 8–hydroxy–2–deoxyguanosine (8–OHdG) is the product of oxidative DNA damage and its levels increase in saliva of patients with periodontal disease. Uric acid (UA) is a major salivary antioxidant and its levels decrease in periodontitis. Objective: This study aims to evaluate the levels of 8–OHdG and UA in saliva and to correlate with CPITN...

The main objective of the research study was to investigate the onset of menarche and the use of hormonal contraception in girls in the Olomouc Region, to compare the results of the research with other studies, and to confirm or disprove the secular trend in girls in the area of menarche. Partial objectives of the study are as follows: To find out whether girls in various age categories menstruate or not, to find out the age of menarche, to find out whether the cycle is regular or not, to find out after how many d...

Ectopic pregnancy is a major cause of morbidity in reproductive age women. Surgical treatment was replaced recently by medical conservative treatment such as methotrexate therapy. Primary outcomes of conservative methotrexate treatment are evaluated through success and failure rates. We performed a retrospective study in two Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic Hospitals in Bucharest (Gheorghe Polizu Hospital) and ConstanЕЈa in order to compare the efficacy of methotrexate single-dose (ConstanЕЈa) versus multi-doses (...

As Pinheiro [9] stated in the UN Report on Violence, and all other research whether new or old confirm, only a slight percentage of the widespread prevalence of violence against children is reported and followed up. This is due to several causes and results in children not receiving the help they need: the low capacity of collecting, recording and investigating reports of violence against children, the unfriendly character of child protection services, lack of common definitions, etc. We will present the similarit...

In this article authors examine questions arising from the development of Emerging technologies (NBIC) which influence the process of human conception and birth. Authors identify two sets of problems, and therefore, areas of sociological studies caused by the development of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART). First set of questions is associated with the transformation of traditional understanding of nature and functions of family as a social institution and with changes of parent's - children's roles and stat...

Visual images in contemporary advertising significantly contribute to the way people perceive their gender identities. Gender identities are not only presented and reflected but are again resented through the interplay of various visual elements. Thus, lifestyle magazines have important role in the construction of feminity either in stereotypical or in new ways. Although various researches have shown that women are pictured in traditional modes some analyses indicate that presentation of feminity depends on variou...

This article provides the idea of changing cultural patterns in the image of the elderly in the Russian feature films shot in the late 1970s - early 1980s and in the 1990s and 2000s. The source base consists of popular movies where the main heroes are the elderly people. We use structural analysis of Vladimir Propp and identify key signs of cinematic texts. We discuss the ways of verbal and visual poeticization and social control of romantic emotions in the latter years. The authors are interested in observing the...

The paper deals with defining the nature and a brief description of the contents of the quality of life on the basis of foreign and domestic literary sources. It refers to its essence, the fundamental aspects and factors (subjective and objective) that will determine its level. At the same time it deals with the problem domains and indicators of quality of life (subjective) that could be measured. It briefly presents selected findings from subjective understanding of quality of life in the region of Liptov (Slovak...

Introduction.Lifestyle marks in a specific manner the health and disease through health-risk behaviors, that kind of prosanogene behaviors that it shows up. Risk behaviors can be avoided or at least reduced, and the prosanogene behaviors can be learned and assumed.We intend to have a complete and concrete image on lifestyle components of the University of BucharestВґs students and identify and quantify the risk factors for health; Research methods used in this study were: scientific documentation; Survey method: T...

Aim of study: The main aims of our work were to ascertain the degree of requirements of food and fluid intake as well as the amounts of fluids and food currently served to women during labour. We focused also on the reasons for restrictions in fluid and food intake per os, occurrence of nausea and vomiting following oral intake, as well as the women's foreknowledge about fluid and food intake during labour. Materials and Methods: The respondents were represented by 100 women during the postpartum period, after spo...

Chemical companies can be considered as ones of the most important companies affecting changes in climatic conditions and other environmental elements, and they also show strong impacts on the society in the social context. The growing interest of the important stakeholders in the problems of social impacts of the produced items, have brought a lot of important questions concerning the rate of influence of the produced items on the environment and society. Social impacts assessment methods of chemical companies on...

The article focuses on spiritual communities, and on possible implications for community social work. Czech society is characterized by low level of social capital, and high level of secularization. Community social work on the other hand works with tightly knit groups. For this reason we focused on spiritual groups as a means to create some level of community. Our inquiry focuses on meditation groups based on the principles of so called Christian meditation, in particular the form developed by John Main and furth...

This paper is focused on a new way of stimulating the elderly people. The authors focused on the use of Entertaining Exercises for Developing Reading Skills to stimulate the eye movements, phonemic perception and short-term memory in a group of elderly clients. This Exercises has been created on the base of Eye Movements Test – T 256. [8]. The text obtains a short explanation of Eye Movements Test which was the basis of these Exercises. Based on an investigation it was found that these Exercises are not only sui...

Organization of collective solutions to social and environmental problems of the urban environment requires the active use of technology for the purpose of crowdsourcing. The latter in turn is possible with certain active life position of citizens. The study showed low desires residents to participate in solving social and environmental problems that narrows the social base of the introduction of social and environmental technologies and crowdsourcing requires organization PR activation procedure populations.

Leadership is a fundamental function of management. It can be depicted as a system of influencing people so that their activities contribute to the achievement of organizations goals. Leadership is also the ability to persuade colleagues to achieve the goals of an organization; therefore leadership is a part of manager workload. Motivational approaches aimed to the fulfillment of tasks can be described as one of the priority areas of manager's work. The aim of the submitted paper is to analyze the selected issues ...

Introduction: Preoccupations for oro-dental health are a constant practice of the Romanian healthcare system, as oral diseases are getting higher prevalence and alter the individual's quality of life. The potential technical difficulties found in fixed partial denture technology are a reality, being a fact of observation, not a pretext for theoretical discussions. Their occurrence is always a particularly difficult moment, being mostly noticeable by their detection rather than by the impossibility to remedy them. ...

Health care system is conventionally regarded as an important determinant in promoting the general physical and mental health and contributes to the ultimate goal of societal well-being. Is health care system ready to meet every person's needs considering age and different traumatic experience? Several aspects of psychological well-being, such as level of happiness, hope, good everyday feeling, etc., subjective attitude towards own life and traumatic experiences were assessed in the study. The participants indicat...

These current paper analyses the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility in relation to Human Resource (HR) management in the Czech Republic. Corporate culture and its capabilities become resources for the competitive advantage and employee perceptions of CSR activities play an important role in employee attachment to their company as well as corporate performance. Therefore, this paper examines the CSR activities of social pillar and their actual use among companies involved in research in perspective that emp...

The deepening of the economic crisis, the alarming increase in unemployment and the continuous degradation of the living standard have affected the Romanian society in general, but especially the vulnerable categories of population, among which the Roma ethnic group. In spite of the restrictions regarding the access on the labour market in the E.U., the Roma families have initiated real survival strategies, and the emigration to the developed countries of the European Union represented, in the majority of the case...

In recent decades attention has become a scarce resource not only in politics and economics, but also in the social sphere. Problematization may be considered a way of attracting attention to negative circumstances and situations. The list of current social problems is not determined by their scale and impact, but by their attractiveness to different public groups. In this regard, the theory of social problems focusing on the rhetoric of statements (claims-making activity) is of particular relevance. Based on soci...

Among the drug classes recently introduced into therapy in the second half of the 20th century, drugs with depressant action on the central nervous system are indisputably in the lead. Given the changes occurring in the daily lifestyle, as well as the stressful daily challenges and their impact on the functionality of the CNS, research and trials aimed towards combating nervous tension have led to the emergence of a drug class currently called anxiolytics. A major success in this regard was achieved by the introdu...

This paper analyzes reproduction of discrimination in visual communication through the investigation into discourse on lookism in contemporary Russian children's animation (2000-2014). The lookism is considered to be a form of discrimination on the grounds of appearance, which can be produced by film or cartoon with help of transmitting discrimination situations as well as stereotypes and myths regarding peoples' appearance. Using methods of discourse analysis and semiotics, we study visual and verbal films' disco...

The Internet audience is increasing every year, and the age group of the elderly people also increases very constantly. But the elderly is a specific audience with specific requirements for the usability and content of Internet web-sites. Web-interface is the main communication channel between the person and the system. The concept of the user interface includes not only the picture which the user see at a screen, but also the ways of user interaction with the system. Each new program or web-site can have its own ...

Aim: To investigate the potential systemic risk factors for periodontal disease in a population from Constanta, Romania. Method: A cross-sectional sample consisting of 740 dentate adults 18-85 years of age (mean 39,9В±17,89) were selected from patients attending dental clinics of Constanta Faculty between 2012-2013. The charts of patients were examined to determine patient's self-reported systemic condition: diabetes, cardiovascular pathology. In addition, periodontal probing depth (PPD) and bleeding on probing (B...

The focus of this article is to discuss and analyze the therapeutic principles and ethical dilemmas that might be encountered in our medical practice during cerebral palsy (CP) rehabilitation. Because of the complex nature of cerebral palsy, health care can be a context in which the persons with cerebral palsy are confronted with important ethical and social challenges. Child's family, life environment and health care professionals are the specific external factors with direct implications in case management. To a...

The article deals with the attitude of the Russian Orthodox Church to the human prenatal development. Due to the increase of high reproductive technologies application around the world including Russia the Russian Orthodox Church admits the necessity of stating its own opinion of the human embryo value. The research is based on the analysis of hagiographical materials, biblical texts, liturgical tradition, church iconography, patristic heritage. The paper concludes that the Russian Church considers the human Embry...

The way one culture perceives another one is a multifaceted social and historical phenomenon. Historical, political, social context forms the basis of attitudes and perceptions. The perception of the “Hebrew text” demonstrated by European cultures is a specific model. The traditional opposition “self-other” becomes actualised in the relations towards the Jews. The opposition is a universal indicator of the attitude towards other people within the same culture. A specific model of religious, social and dome...

The aim of this article is to understand deeper the relationship between the communion with God carried out through the most important Christian celebration, the Eucharist, and the community that celebrates it, the Church, as seen by the Catholic theologian Odo Casel (1886-1948). First we explain why Odo Casel is considered to be the greatest liturgical theologian of the beginning of the 20th century. It was he who found the real and the earliest meaning of terms „mystery” or sacrament and „memorial”, but ...

Every human being, endowed with a healthy mind and body, at an appropriate age, enters into the normal labour climate. We see everywhere people who work with their arms and minds. Work is an existential dimension of the human being. Depending on how it is designed and built, work has unsuspected potentialities. Some people see the work as their chance to acquire as many material possessions, and considers it as the only source to acquire it, in order to meet their tastes, pleasures, their own convenience or vaingl...

The practice of religious tourism is a complex phenomenon that aims visiting the religious buildings, as well as promoting the cultural and spiritual values. Social behaviours, ritual practices, motivations, destinations and manifestations of the pilgrimage have become more diversified throughout history, depending on the requirements and on the specificities of socio-cultural realities. The analysis of the pilgrimage phenomenon can be addressed both quantitatively and qualitatively (the analysis of pilgrims relig...

Man has always had in front of him the problem of eternity and has noticed that the priority given to the matters related to the organization of the eartly life, without the perspective of living the spiritual dimension of life, leads to man's confinement into the social and political dimension of life. Constrained by the limits of his own life, man feels the need to look for the Truth, fact which proves that he is made up of body and soul, having not just bodily needs but also especially psychic (related to the s...

The aim of this paper is to describe some aspects of faith, a way of human righteousness in front of God in Paul's Letter to the Romans. In order to respond to the question of faith as a way of righteousness, after some premises that concern the confessional debates about the main theme of the epistle, our attention will turn to the exegesis of Romans 3:21-26. The exegetic analysis will highlight the two important poles: on one side the righteousness of God, on the other side the faith of the people. The second pa...