Analiza položaja osoba sa intelektualnim teškoćama u Bosni i Hercegovini

Author(s): Katarina Marjanović / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 16/2020

Demokracija i ljudska prava su utemeljeni na načelu kako je pravo na život svakog čovjeka neotuđivo i nepovredivo, te kako su sve osobe rođene jednake i imaju neotuđiva prava, kao što su pravo na život, slobodu i pravo na sreću. Osobe sa invaliditetom imaju apsolutno pravo i odgovornost u potpunosti i jednako sudjelovati u društvu i poboljšati kvalitetu svoga života onako kako oni to odaberu. Vlade, privatni sektor, nevladine organizacije i svi pojedinci trebaju sudjelovati u realiziranju obećanja utkanih u temeljna načela demokracije, jednakosti i ljudskih prava - kako bi se svim osobama sa invaliditetom omogućio neovisan život, produktivnost i uključenost u sve oblike privatnog i javnog života.

Analiza porównawcza rozwoju regionalnego krajów Grupy Wyszehradzkiej

Author(s): Marcin Salamaga / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 12/2012

The article contains the comparative analysis of the quality of regional development in Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. The quality index of social and economic development has been proposed for this purpose which has been calculated on the basis of a certain aggregation of the results of Principal Component Analysis made on the correlation matrix of standardised variables being the components of the index. The calculated values of the index have allowed for ordering the regions of the Visegrad Group Countries in various aspects of regional development and the evaluation of changes in the development level from the dynamic perspective. Eurostat’s Data has been used in calculations.

Analiza potenţialului uman al Republicii Moldova-României-Ucrainei în contextul schimbărilor inovaţionale

Author(s): Alina Suslenco,Marilena Doncean / Language(s): Romanian / Publication Year: 0

As society develops and competitive pressures rise, there is an increasing need for companies and institutions address multiple pressures such as strategic changes, innovation changes, dynamic economic conditions, which creates major challenges for both the private sector and the public sector. This research paper reports on a theoretical and practical research into the process of assessing human potential of the Republic of Moldova, Romania and Ukraine. In order to develop this research, we employed the following methods: induction, deduction, abduction, analysis, synthesis, quantitative research, scientific abstraction.

Analiza szans, możliwości i wyzwań związanych z wykorzystaniem Internetu Rzeczy przez współczesne organizacje gospodarcze

Author(s): Janusz Wielki / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 11.1/2016

The paper is devoted to the next phase of the Internet’s development i.e. Internet of Things. This concept provides organizations with numerous new possibilities in the context of their functioning and the process of value creation. Simultaneously, it heightens existing challenges, expanding their scope and scale. These aspects have been analyzed in the paper. It also focuses on implications for organizations arising from the development of the Internet of Things in the context of its utilization by them and their role in the emerging IoT ecosystem.

Analysis of the Effect of Social Support on Sustainable Competitive Advantage in Tourism Industry – Based on the Perspective of Living-Ecology-Production Integrated Space

Author(s): Shan-Lin WANG,Yun-Chao LI,Chang-Ping ZHANG / Language(s): English / Issue: 71/2020

A series of problems, such as disordered development of urban production and living space, low land use efficiency, and ecological environment pollution, appear in the rapid industrialization and urbanization process to seriously hinder the sustainable development of human social economy and ecological environment. In this case, scientifically planning national space and coordinating spatial function become the key problems in the construction of sustainably developing ecological civilization under the background of new-style urbanization and new rural development. The establishment of national spatial system living-ecology-production integrated function coevolution mechanism is the current scientific problem for solutions as well as the key in the implementation of future national spatial planning. Aiming at employees in tourism industry in Guilin, Guangxi, total 460 copies of questionnaire are distributed. After deducting invalid and incomplete copies, 362 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 86%. According to the results to propose suggestions, it is expected to help promote the sustainable competitive advantage of industry with the application of living-ecology-production integrated space.

ANALYSIS OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL CHARTER AND ITS IMPORTANCE FOR THE PROTECTION OF SELECTED GROUPS OF WORKING WOMEN

Author(s): Zdenka Dudić,Branislav Dudić,Branka Agbaba / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

Both the 1961 European Social Charter and its revised version of 1996 constitute international social and economic rights treaties ratified by the Member States of the Council of Europe. Together with the European Treaty for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, they are the cornerstones of the contractual system for the protection of human rights in the member countries of the Council of Europe. Moreover, these contracts have contributed significantly to the development of European human rights standards in the areas of personal management, labour law and social security law. Nevertheless, it receives minimal attention from legal theorists. This leads to problems in its interpretation in practice. Through scientific and doctrinal interpretation, authors examine the various provisions of the European Social Charter. They seek answers to practical application problems through scientific literature as well as the case-law of the European Court of Justice. The aim and result of the authors’ work is to examine individual documents, to compare them and analyse the differences. The aim of the authors' work is also to evaluate the impact of the case law of the European Court of Justice in connection with the implementation of the Charter into the legal order as well as application practice. The benefit of this article is also the analysis of the impact of the Charter on the rights of working women.

Annual Report: Serbia 2008 - Human Rights, Democracy and – Violence

Author(s): / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2009

The trend of institutional disintegration continued in 2008 in parallel with economic standstill, all of which negatively affected citizens’ mood. The pro-European coalition that won the spring 2008 election failed to meet their expectations as it was not politically courageous enough to make a breakthrough in fundamental reforms. In the meantime Serbia, like all other countries in the region, entered recession. The global economic crisis will only aggravate Serbia’s recession caused by domestic crisis. Eight years after Milošević’s ouster it turned out that Serbia had failed to get transformed – for, its elites have basically remained the same and it has not distanced itself from Milošević’s program. The national program has not been defeated yet: its ideology still enjoys strong support from a part of the Serb elite. This is about the elite that had inspired the Memorandum of the Serb Academy of Arts and Sciences and created the program itself. The ICTY has never examined the part academicians, the Serb Orthodox Church, the Writers’ Association, journalists and cultural elite from this circle played in the Greater Serbia project. Their role has not been morally condemned either in Serbia or beyond it. So their activity in the post-Milošević era remained the same. They are still dictating a cultural matrix and “moral” values for the society as a whole. And this is what mainly obstructs establishment of a moral vertical without which the Serbian society can hardly recuperate. In addition, territorial aspirations are still present, which is best mirrored in the case of Bosnia-Herzegovina, i.e. Republika Srpska.

Anti-Modem Social Conscience at the Post-Modem Surrounding

Author(s): Anđelka Milić / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 1-4/1993

Pred strahotama ratova u sada već bivšoj Jugoslaviji, analitički pokušaj razumevanja ovih zbivanja mogao bi izgledati kao maloumnost;kako je moguće toliku količinu ponovljenog istorijskog ludila objašnjavati racionalnim sredstvima? A drugo, nije li već pokušaj traženja razjašnjenja za to što se dešava neka vrsta prećutnog opravdanja, izgovora, ublažavanje počinjenih strahota? Da li pozicija analitičara neminovno sadrži izvestan stepen samodistanciranja od grube stvarnosti i time makar i nesvesno pruža priliku za skidanja odgovornosti sa sebe za ono što se dogadja? Nije li u takvoj situaciji ćutanje primereniji i efektniji iskaz ličnog gnušanja, nepristajanja na zadatu situaciju? Ali, ako se racionalno-analitičko stajalište ostavi po strani i zameni moralno-emotivnom reakcijom da li postoje ikakve šanse da se izadje iz vrtloga sunovrata i iznova počne graditi iole podnošljivija društvena situacija? Ne sumnjam da je ovakvim ili sličnim pitanjima, dilemama i sumnjama ophrvan ne mali broj pojedinica u sadašnjim društvenim okolnostima. Medjutim, u slučaju sociologa one se mogu manifestovati u obliku blokade profesionalnog delovanja, jer je pritisak profesionalne svesti i osećaj profesionalne ogovornosti za aktualna dogadjanja daleko jači nego u drugim profesijama, a šanse da se na njih utiče vlastitom ili organizovanom profesionalnom aktivnošću kako bi se izbegli najnepovoljniji ishodi neznatne.

Application of Tawarruq in Islamic Banking in Malaysia: Towards Smart Tawarruq

Author(s): Muhammad Faruq Roslan,Omar Bamahriz,Aishath Muneeza,JinZi Chu,Zakariya Mustapha,Mohamad Zabidi Ahmad / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2020

The objective of the paper is to discuss the application of tawarruq in Islamic banking generally. The modus operandi of tawarruq in Islamic banking is an essential discussion in jurisdiction like Malaysia, where most Islamic banks use tawarruq to structure Islamic banking products. This paper employs a systematic literature review on best practice models and mechanism of current tawarruq application. The outcome of the research helps to understand the modus operandi of tawarruq transactions practically with a view towards understanding its future prospects in the era of Fintech. It is envisaged that this research will assist the growing understanding of the existing application of tawarruq in Islamic banking as well as its future development using technology.

Are there competition issues associated with fake news during COVID-19?

Author(s): Ivana Ž. Rakić / Language(s): English,Serbian / Issue: 3/2020

Fake news is getting more attention because of the Internet and the rise of the online platforms and social networks, particularly in the age of COVID-19. Its sudden popularization creates important issues regarding how this phenomenon affects the society and democracy, as well as the consumers, competition and market. The question is what happens when fake news are spread (online) and misused during pandemic – whether to apply the European Union competition law in such cases? The author considers that European Commission should not deal with fake news challenges in the context of potential anticompetitive conducts. It is pointed out that fake news problem is not a competitive problem because the struggle against fake news is about the content not the competition and market power.

Around the Bloc-Thursday, 17 September

Author(s): Ioana Caloianu / Language(s): English / Issue: 09/21/2020

Regional headlines: Jewish pilgrims stuck in Belarus; Bosnian war crimes suspects; attack on Bulgarian journalist; education and COVID-19 in the Caucasus; and ancient bear found in Russia.

ARSIMI GJATË MBRETËRISË SHQIPTARE NË OPOJË DHE GORË TË KOSOVËS

Author(s): Muharrem Qafleshi / Language(s): Albanian / Issue: 49/2019

Quite a few archival resources found in the Inter-municipal Archive and different enquiries and studies made on the history of education in Opoja and Gora during the Albanian Kingdom 1941-1942 and 1943-1944 reveal the efforts of education enthusiasts to spread through and expand education in the sub-prefecture of Dragash, namely in the area of Opoja and Gora to open as many schools as possible. Thus, at the beginning of World War II, with the establishment of the Albanian Kingdom, education in Albanian language took on a new form, schools and summer courses for adults against illiteracy were opened, which marked a widespread dissemination in Opoja and Gora, too. Teachers who came from Albania and those from Kosovo were undoubtedly the headmen having patriotic duty to guide the education in these areas and laid the foundation of the Albanian education and paved the path to knowledge and prosperity in Opoja and Gora. According to the archive documentation in the sub-prefecture of Dragash, schools in Albanian language were opened in following villages of Opoja and Gorani: Blaç, Buce, Brrut, Rapçë, Vranishte, Brod, Restelicë and Dragash. But there was a barrier in educating children and young people in these two provinces because there was no tradition of education for of a single reason - this population was solely dealing with cattle breeding and a bit of agriculture, so every individual was more than needed to carry on their daily work and thus the number of students was not in satisfactory numbers.

ART AND SOCIETAL DEVELOPMENT: IMPORTANCE AND ROLE. CASE STUDY ON APPLIED ARTS IN ALGERIA

Author(s): Yahya Hadji,Nadia Guedjal / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2021

This article was generated for the sake of illustrating the importance of art in society, its effective role in stimulating the capacities of research, thought, dialogue and innovative performance. Also, it aims at driving individuals to develop and regenerate lifestyles through the development of different means of art, which means that the arts affect individuals and societies in intentional and unintended ways. This is the highlighted purpose of art in general. The effects of the arts on individuals and societies are reflected in the characteristics and features of each society and the extent to which it is influenced by different types of art. Throughout this article we are going to try to illustrate the reality of applied arts in Algeria, which is still looking for recognition and interest in order to ensure that it takes its place and its role in economic development. This is far from the disposable oil revenues, by trying to address the reality of applied arts in the institutes and universities, as well as to clarify the interactive relationship between university graduates and labor market training institutes, namely, the public and private sectors.

ASEEES 52nd Annual Convention, Washington – Report from the panel “Cities between history and memory; Cities between History and Memory in post-1989 Central Europe: The Example of Budapest, Košice, and Western Romania”

Author(s): Róbert Balogh,Veronika Szeghy-Gayer / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2020

ASEEES 52nd Annual Convention, Washington – Report from the panel “Cities between history and memory; Cities between History and Memory in post-1989 Central Europe: The Example of Budapest, Košice, and Western Romania”, Washington, November 5th – 8th and 14th – 15th, 2020. – online

Asistent sociální péče jako alternativní instrument podpory setrvávání jedinců v jejich přirozeném sociálním prostředí

Author(s): Miroslav Pilát / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 3/2021

The article addresses the engagement of social care assistants as a tool to support individuals remaining in their natural environment. The introductory part of the paper is devoted to defining both the needs of users and potential users of social services and options for identifying such needs. The main part of the paper addresses the institute of the social care assistant and the legislative anchoring thereof in the Czech legal system. The concept of introducing social care assistants is based on the fact that some needs are often overwhelmed with activities other than the provision of registered − and often for the user unnecessarily expensive − social services. The article also considers the conditions relating to the provision of social care assistant services and the social and inspection mechanisms that direct such activities, including the issue of violations and sanctions in this area. The author notes the very limited expansion of the institute of social care assistants to date, the main reason for which is that persons who depend on assistance from others tend to prefer registered social services, which they consider to be more professional and accountable.

Aspects Regarding Modeling and Simulation of Evolution Organic Aspects of Human Communities

Author(s): Cristian-Sorin Pruna / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2020

The defining landmarks of the paper have in view the identification of scientific premises that would allow, in a systemic perspective, the modeling and simulation of the organic evolution of human communities. The proposed approach aims at establishing some elements (constants, variables, parameters and relationships) characteristic of politically and politically significant components from a politico-strategic point of view, to be used in building a model for their evolution in the context of building the world system. In an effort to organize such a scientific fund, we have tried to achieve as clear and concise boundaries as possible through research methods - induction and deduction, analysis and synthesis of factors relevant to the dynamics of nations and, implicitly, states and subsystems formed during globalization, both from the perspective of political geography and geopolitics, using the following general procedures: description, explanation and forecast / prevision. The scientific approach also aimed at clarifying the differences and existing relationships between political and geopolitical geography, which contribute to the understanding and structuring of the forms of manifestation of socio-political entities. The identified aspects are intended to be premises for building a model of organic evolution of human society, an approach that also involves making the connection with the global strategic system and with the national strategic ones (integrative, extended and sectoral strategies).

Aspiring, Ambivalent, Assertive: Bulgarian Middle-Class Subjectivities and Boundary Work through Migration

Author(s): Polina Manolova / Language(s): English / Issue: 02/2020

This article investigates the subjectivities of a group of aspiring middle-class Bulgarians and their boundary work in the context of their migrations to the United Kingdom. Drawing on Lamont’s critique of Bourdieu’s theory on class formation and reproduction, it shows how people from underprivileged social backgrounds can lay claims to middleclassness by strategically drawing on cultural and moral markers of distinction revolving around the notions of “civilization,” “culturedness,” and the “West.” The adoption of such narratives and their enactment in the cultivation of personal attributes, however, fails to guarantee full-fledged middle-class membership for people who lack the necessary economic and social capital. Thus, boundary building becomes the key mechanism for negotiating ambivalent middle-class subjectivities and rejecting objectively assigned positions in the social structure. The article traces the emergence of ideal-type models of middle-class belonging since 1989, their adoption by aspirational middle-class people, and the boundary work and self-differentiation by which they try to reassert their superior status both before during and after their migrations to the UK. It concludes that the observed everyday processes of group classification through the defining of and distancing from cultural, moral, and racial “others” reproduces class antagonisms that preclude a more critical understanding of the discontents of Bulgaria’s capitalist transition.

Assessing Pure Water for the World’s Menstrual Hygiene Management Program in Honduran Schools

Author(s): Olivia Laramie,Annette Butty / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Pure Water for the World’s Menstrual Hygiene Management program aims at improving knowledge of menstrual health. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the MHM program in schools for menstruating girls, non-menstruating girls, boys, and teachers. Surveys and focus groups conducted in Trojes community schools have concluded that PWW’s MHM program has improved knowledge amongst teachers and menstruating girls. The knowledge of school-aged boys and non-menstruating girls though can still be improved. Of the 209 students surveyed, 49% reported that they had knowledge of the menstrual cycle and menstrual hygiene. Although issues such as response bias could have played a role in this large proportion of students without knowledge of menstruation, the number of students who benefited from the education and training has increased. It is recommended that the teachers use a pre-/post-test system to track the results of the MHM programs in their classrooms. By 6th grade, the students should be receiving lessons on menstruation, sexual health, puberty, and other topics amongst all genders. We recommend that PWW creates a partnership with an organization focused on nutrition to create a program in the schools geared towards menstruating girls, as study results indicate that this is an area of concern. PWW should work more closely with the Ministry of Health to ensure that the importance of menstrual hygiene and sexual health are relayed to the teachers as a way to de-stigmatize menstruation and empower teachers to provide accurate information.

Assessment of the Relationship between Health and Sustainable Development in the Countries of the European Union

Author(s): Magdaléna Drastichová / Language(s): English / Issue: 06/2020

The social dimension of sustainable development (SD) and those aspects of it related to human health are crucial for SD. By means of hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) and principal component analysis (PCA) the European Union countries and other three developed countries were assessed using selected indicators reflecting aspects of health related to SD. Five indicators reflecting these aspects at the macroeconomic level were used. These were a pair of objective indicators, a pair of subjective indicators and one indicator reflecting resources for health care. They were applied in order to cluster the 31 countries for each year in the period 2011 – 2015 and also for the whole period. Four clusters were created for the years 2011 – 2014, three clusters for 2015, and five clusters for the overall period. Switzerland was evaluated as the best performing country in the sample, and Lithuania as the worst. Czechia exhibited a significant shift towards higher sustainability.

Attitudes of the student population and the Serbian intellectual diaspora members about the causes and consequences of the Serbian “brain drain” phenomenon

An Overview of the Results of the Empirical Research

Author(s): Dragana Lj. Mitrović / Language(s): English,Serbian / Issue: 1/2020

Currently unfolding before us is the process of globalization, which has led to the networking of the global society and the intensification of transnational mobility of human educational capital. In the conditions of regional and class division, the process of asymmetrical globalization is also reflected in the unequal labour exchange in the gray matter market between countries belonging to different areas of the global world system. Of course, Serbia today is also under the effect of the aforementioned process. The subjects of this paper are the global, regional and national causes and consequences of the brain drain from Serbia and the innovative-creative potential of the Serbian intellectual diaspora for the development of Serbia and the protection of its interests in the contemporary world. This research is of a multidisciplinary character – sociological-demographical, ethno-culturological and communicological. Following the dictates of the so-called integral paradigm, efforts have been made to obtain valid results for scientific conclusions through a unity of theoretical problematization and synthesis of the results derived from empirical research. The paper consists of the analysis and interpretation of the results of empirical research done on the topic of causes and consequences of the brain drain, as well as the potential of the Serbian intellectual diaspora, conducted on a two-fold sample: one part consisting of the student population of Serbia and the other of the Serbian intellectual diaspora. The focus of the research was on the beliefs of the respondents regarding the motives, causes and consequences of the brain drain happening in Serbia, as well as the motives and the possibilities for the return to the native country. The sample consists of more than 950 respondents (545 students from Serbia and 413 diaspora members). The results of the research have shown that students and members of the Serbian intellectual diaspora hold identical beliefs regarding the perception of the main cause behind the brain drain in Serbia, with both groups citing the economic underdevelopment of the country and low levels of the quality of life, with both of the aforementioned factors influencing the ability to keep cadres within the country or to encourage their return. Of course, this fact is also conditioned by, among other things, the level of Serbia’s involvement in the processes of globalization, as well as by its position in the contemporary division of labour. The very end of the paper also highlights the program of possible measures and recommendations which have an action-oriented character, for the purpose of resolving this problem and creating a new policy regarding diaspora.