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Solvency II and Basel III regulations introduced on the European level brought about certain conditions to be fulfilled by the financial entities that are offering financial services to end users. One of the biggest change due to Solvency II is for the insurance undertakers to be aware of the risks profile of the their clients and of the markets (external risks) but in the same time to evaluate and counteract the negative effects of the operational risks - these are, after 5 years or more of discussions at Europea...

At international level there is a clear concern for the comparative analysis of the academic education systems of the member states of the European Union. In this context, through this work we intend to bring into the attention of those interested a comparative study of the funding mechanism of academic education in Romania and Spain, aiming to highlight the convergence elements and the particular aspects of each of the two financing models. For this, our debate will begin with the presentation of the two paradigm...

Given the recent economic downturn and the limited scope of monetary policy to provide additional stimulus for the economy, fiscal policy was regarded as the main tool for the economic recovery. The mix of expenditure and revenue measures has important implications with respect to output growth, as well as to other key macroeconomic variables. The literature on the determinants of successful fiscal consolidations generally favours spending-based over revenue-based adjustments and in particular, the empirical liter...

Urinary Tract infection (UTI) is one of the most common infection among the worldwide women. The aim of this study is to make a comparison between the performances of 2 methods - Disc Diffusion Agar (DDA) and E-test, for antimicrobial susceptibility testing on Escherichia coli (E. Coli) isolated in women urine samples with UTI. Methods: The study group comprised 78 females (aged 25-65 years), with clinical symptoms of UTI. They were examined in the private clinic during 1.01-1.04.2015 and were included in the stud...

The paper describes the results of a research study focusing on the attitudes of university students to health and lifestyle. The research method was an optimised version of ATER semantic differential standardized for the Czech population. The research study involved students from the Faculty of Education, Palacky University, Olomouc in fields of study primarily associated with health promotion at the turn of 2014 and 2015. These were students of the Bachelor's study Health education with a focus on education, fol...

Based on the neo-institutional methodology, the article analyzes the peculiarities of the behaviour of elites in Georgia and its impact on the economy in the process of post-Soviet institutional transformation. This process was taking place in Georgia under the strong influence of political and economic elite which was characterized by “normative fetishism,” without taking a public interest into account. The concentration of violence potential seized by elites and diverse forms of abuse of institutions – the...

Stress has become a growing problem, frequently encountered in everyday life. Many indulge in everyday problems, while others try to find solutions to relieve the stress caused by different responsibilities or inconveniences. The bases of the capacity to do physical exercises independently are set during the practice of formal physical education and then continued during the practice of non-formal and/or informal physical education. This study was designed to investigate the beneficial role sport and physical acti...

Social workers may experience a higher level of stress in their profession of the ensuing burnout syndrome more than comparable working groups. The authors refer about the presence of burnout syndrome among social workers (women) in the context of health moderators. According to the nature of work the study file (was divided into 3 groups: 28 social workers- officers, 25 were working as caregivers at a home for the elderly and 28 were informal caregivers. The results of the study research file confirmed (pursuant ...

The study is focused on corporate philanthropy, one aspect of the extensive concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR). CSR requires corporations to optimize rather than maximize their profits, taking into considerations a triple bottom line of economic, social, and environmental values. CSR has been characterized as the concept in a variety of ways such as legally complying with the letter of the law, complying with the social and environmental codes of conduct engaging in corporate philanthropy, and the br...

In public discourse we often encounter teachers, ministers, caregivers, psychologists, pedagogues speaking about the negative consequences of parents' migration for their children. Do we indeed have a problem of euro-orphans indeed and scope of formal and informal childcare in Poland. The situation of a child whose parents migrated is undoubtedly difficult. Lack of one or both parents affects the entire development and upbringing of the child. Can caregivers replace a parent? What does a child miss most when the p...

Developmental dyslexia is a cognitive difficulty with the written form of language; it specifically impairs the individual's ability to read, write and spell, despite adequate instruction, normal intelligence and intact sensory abilities. Much of our current understanding of dyslexia pertains to difficulties with the English language. In learning to read English, the child first has to become aware of the sound structure of language –that spoken language is composed of words which, in turn, are composed of sylla...

We live in the world, which, being rich in various nations and cultures, communicates and collaborates using not only technology but also trying to behave in a similar way by sharing the same preferences regarding music, clothes, entertainment, etc. According to Lewis [1], people of different nationalities might have difficulties communicating with each other due to the difference in their traditions and norms. When it comes to values and anti-values, the situation is more similar. But how similar is it? The autho...

Health education has been included in the system of elementary education of the Czech Republic since the development of the curricular document entitled Framework educational programme for elementary education (education has followed this document since 1 September 2007). In order to ensure uniform quality of education for all pupils, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic started to develop Educational standards. The standards were developed according to the results of international res...

The development of today's business environment is influenced by the emergence of new technologies and the associated the rule changes of competition and social development accompanied by changes of preferences in the file of socially-accepted values. Individual businesses (in order to maintain their current competitive position and business performance) must quickly and flexibly react to this turbulent development by adequate changes (innovations) in their social behavior. It is necessary to create conditions wit...

The importance of the cohesion of the therapeutic group has been previously identified as a necessary condition for ensuring the efficacy of rehabilitation in the therapeutic community. This paper deals with the drug addiction treatment of inpatients (n=402) in a cross-cultural dynamics. Primary data were collected in Peru, Nicaragua and Czech Republic for the period between September 2013 and August 2014. Using a “Dimensions of Change Instrument” scale, the results show a significant difference in opinions of...

Dynamic sociology is the sociological approach that studies the effects of the social forces present and operating in social and cultural systems on the personality systems of individuals, determining the different forms of psychological organization which they assume through cultivation or primary and secondary socialization processes. The paper tries to explain how the original idea of dynamic sociology formulated by Howard Washington Odum in 1947 has developed into current social theory through the integration ...

The purpose of this research is to develop the models of psychological supports for diabetic patient through peer supports with an aim to design peer supports. Since the functions of the peer supports are context-dependent, the models need to be tailored to each context. In order to identify the context-dependent models, incremental approaches are taken. Firstly, context-independent models are assumed with reference to previous findings. Secondly, the models are applied to designing peer supports. Thirdly, the app...

In recent years, both in the scientific literature and in public speeches of public figures around the world more and more often using the terminology, either directly or indirectly related with the notion of demographic security. At the same time, several states are actively involved in the work aimed at the development and adoption of legislation regulating the principles and methods of providing demographic security. The article analyzes the theoretical aspects of demographic security. Considered and analyzed i...

Background: Despite the remarkable technical advances in renal nursing and renal replacement therapy, mortality and morbidity remain high in patients with chronic kidney disease, fact particularly true in older patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), who often have a great number of coexisting diseases. In this population, life expectancy and quality of life may be rather poor, raising important ethical issues about the decision of initiating or withdrawing renal replacement therapy. Aim of study: was to eva...

Based on our previous studies of foreign literature dealing with person centered psychotherapy (PCP) in specific groups of clients and based on our own experience from working with clients with intellectual impairment, we were interested in the conditions of providing psychotherapy to clients with intellectual impairment within the person centered approach (PCA). The paradigms forming the system of care for intellectually impaired adults in the Czech Republic have brought us to several questions. The question of d...

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of the phenomenon of human trafficking for sexual exploitation by capturing the evolution of the phenomenon in a changed political-economic context after Romania joined the European Union. The data analyzed were obtained in a qualitative research ANIMANOVA (2009-2012) coordinated by The Partnership for The Equality Center Bucharest. Based on the interviews with professionals and victims from Romania we will present the changes in the magnitude or...

For several decades, aging of the population in many countries of the world has been visible. This is particularly evident in Western Europe where people aged 60 and 65+ account for about 1/5 of the population. A further increase in the number of people in this age group in the world is anticipated. According to forecasts, by 2050 the number of elderly people will still grow intensively. Forecasts of the Department of Economics and Social Affairs of the United Nations estimate an increase in the number of eldest p...

The damages of musculoskeletal system arising as a result of incorrect ergonomic arrangement of man – machine interface are current problems nowadays. The article discusses the application of ergonomic evaluation methods of routine working position. These include standardized methods but also physical methods Rapid upper limb assessment (RULA) and Rapid entire body assessment (REBA). They were used for evaluation of hand manual work completion lightweight components. The positions were considered separately for ...

This article is connected with main problem of dynamic social practices and their relationships with everyday means of life. Health of society and a person are connected through culture practices. The main goal of research is investigation of a social typical opinions and behavior of people as social actors who can understand reasons and consequences their usual activity. The research based on results of sociological research of 418 people (citizen of Yekaterinburg). We used questions about meanings of healthy foo...

Situation of aging and appearance of the 1st generation of elderly who prefer other consumer practices than medical services reflects in the article. The article highlights the results of our study which deals with the elderly, their information practices in Russia and trend of its utilization. The main goal of our quality research on a base 22 deep interviews was to evaluate the need of elderly computer users to continue them elaboration. The analysis of computer literacy training programs for elderly people led ...

The paper focuses on some aspects of the intimate relationship between personality and vision. The aim of our article is to relocate the eye pathology and its understanding, through the perspective of those who live with this problem. The eye pathology is reported to the suffering human being, who is aware that he risks to lose the richest source of information, an important support of social life and relations, and, of course, he risks to lose the pleasure of seeing. The article also presents some aspects concern...

Festivities and holidays have to be regarded as the antithesis of everyday life and routine. Nowadays social isolation is one of the reasons leading to the collapse of the most popular traditions followed by a human. The social change initiated by historical and political events, progress and development, on the one hand, and decline of moral and ethical values, on the other, marks out the contemporary epoch as the one shaped by loneliness and †mental' paralysis. The shift that might become crucial in the percep...

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...