ASYLUM UNDER PRESSURE: INTERNATIONAL DETERRENCE AND ACCESS TO ASYLUM

Author(s): Vasiliki Kakosimou / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

As a result of mass refugee influxes, few states have the willingness and capacity to assess each entrance individually. Faced with many challenges, receiving States have responded to the increase in the number of migrants by increasing border surveillance and reinforcing migration controls. The measures taken include visa restrictions, push-backs by building fortresses, financing third states for capacity building or bilateral agreements to patrol their borders. All these measures are aimed at preventing refugees and other migrants from entering a state's territory by controlling or managing migration flows or maintaining internal security even though these deterrence policies imply breaching obligations of states under national and international law. The deterrence policies do not comply with the nonderogable principle of non-refoulement and violate the right to have access to protection from persecution, torture, degrading or other inhuman treatment.

AYLIK KONUT SATIŞLARININ MODELLENMESİ VE ANTALYA ÖRNEĞİ

Author(s): Hilal Yilmaz,Ömür Tosun / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 21/2020

Forecasting is one of the most important activities that must be undertaken in order to take the strategies and measures that the businesses and the individuals will implement in the future. This process is determining the future demand for a service or product in the most accurate and errorfree manner, and in today's competitive environment it has vital importance for the sustainability of the products or the services of the enterprises they provide. In addition to statistical estimation methods, artificial intelligence techniques are effectively used for demand forecasting. In this study, housing demand in Antalya province were estimated using multi-variable linear regression analysis with the EViews program. Estimations were also made using feed forward backpropagation artificial neural networks for the same data set using the Matlab program, and the validity of the results and network performance were compared against the results obtained with the regression model. According to the performance comparison, regression analysis has 9% mean error whereas artificial neural networks shows 1%. Therefore, for the regional housing sale prediction model artificial neural networks show better results.

Az oktatás és az oktatáspolitika közgazdasági ideológiái

Author(s): István Polónyi / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1/2011

Finally, István Polónyi writes about the ideological background of economic theories in education policy in his essay entitled The Economic Ideologies of Education and Education Policy. He believes that issues of education efficiency and quality assurances are connected with globalization – and are a consequence of the predominance of economics. The author argues that economic ideologies barely make an impact on education in schools, though education policy tends to adopt and redefine the language and goals of economic and fiscal policies.

Az Ubuntu világa

Author(s): Tamás Kozma / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2012

Ubuntu is a Linux-based computer operating system. Sponsored by Mark Shuttleworth, a South African entrepreneur, Ubuntu is distributed as a free and open source software. Shuttleworth and his company Canonical Ltd. is committed to the principle of free software development. Ubuntu is named after an African philosophy, in which Ubuntu means “humanity towards others”. The different releases of the operating system are named after protected species (Warty Warthog, Hoary Hedgehog etc.). Ubuntu is designed primarily for use on personal computers, though a server edition also exists. Ubuntu is more than just an operating system – it is a symbol of a movement that encourages its members and participants to fight against closed source softwares, against developers and distributors of closed source softwares and, more widely, against the trans-national monopolisation of information. This movement goes hand in hand with the environmental movement and looks at the possibilities within and the reality of Tim Jackson’s “prosperity without growth”.

Badania typu foresight w Polsce

Author(s): Monika Wojtkiewicz / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 27/2012

Thinking about the future can create a lot of questions which are important for long term planning. Foresight method was successfully applied by majority of European Union countries. A key element of this method is to predict the possible directions of scientific development by creating a platform of discussion between scientific environment, industry and public opinion in a range of scientific and technological priorities as well as social issues. We have to know how to manage our future otherwise we can face with failure. Due to a strong demand for such expertise Foresight Project was activated in Poland as well.

BADANIE EFEKTYWNOŚCI PROGNOZ ZMIENNYCH OPISUJĄCYCH WYBRANE ASPEKTY FUNKCJONOWANIA PORTU SZCZECIN-ŚWINOUJŚCIE

Author(s): Mariusz Doszyń,Bartłomiej Pachis / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 36/2/2014

In the article an attempt to compute forecasts of variables that characterize selected activities of Szczecin-Świnoujście Harbour in a systematic way was made. Analysed time series include data from January 2006 to December 2012. Predictive properties of three kind of models were considered: trend models with dummy variables as a seasonal variables, trend models with Fourier analysis and adaptive Holt-Winters models. At the first stage, model comparison was made on the basis of adjusted determination ratio as well as AIC, BIC and HQC information criteria. Then efficiency of forecast was investigated with using ex post forecasts errors. In most cases trend models with seasonal dummy variables and with Fourier analysis turned out to be the most effective.

Bankruptcy prediction in Visegrad group countries using multiple discriminant analysis

Author(s): Tomáš Klieštik,Jaromír Vrbka,Zuzana Rowland / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2018

The problem of bankruptcy prediction models has been a current issue for decades, especially in the era of strong competition in markets and a constantly growing number of crises. If a company wants to prosper and compete successfully in a market environment, it should carry out a regular financial analysis of its activities, evaluate successes and failures, and use the results to make strategic decisions about the future development of the business. Purpose of the article: The main aim of the paper is to develop a model to reveal the unhealthy development of the enterprises in V4 countries, which is done by the multiple discriminant analysis. Methods: To conduct the research, we use the Amadeus database providing necessary financial and statistical data of almost 450,000 enterprises, covering the year 2015 and 2016, operating in the countries of the Visegrad group. Realizing the multiple discriminant analysis, the most significant predictor and the best discriminant of the corporate prosperity are identified, as well as the prediction models for both individual V4 countries and complex Visegrad model. Findings & Value added: The results of the research reveal that the prediction models use the combination of same financial ratios to predict the future financial development of a company. However, the most significant predictors are current assets to current liabilities ratio, net income to total assets ratio, ratio of non-current liabilities and current liabilities to total assets, cash and cash equivalents to total assets ratio and return of equity. All developed models have more than 80% classification ability, which indicates that models are formed in accordance with the economic and financial situation of the V4 countries. The research results are important for companies themselves, but also for their business partners, suppliers and creditors to eliminate financial and other corporate risks related to the unhealthy or unfavorable financial situation of the company.

Bendrojo lavinimo mokyklos vadovo vadybinių funkcijų raiška

Author(s): Valdonė Indrašienė,Odeta Merfeldaitė / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 1/2010

The current national or global society life requires constant changes in the school activity in order to ensure the progress of science and to meet every person‘s needs for acquisition of relevant knowledge and skills matching with the labour market needs. Science and education are one of the most important national development priorities stipulated in the National Sustainable Development Strategy (Official Gazette 2003). Lithuania’s development in the Provisions of the National Education Strategy for 2003-2012 (Official Gazette 2002) is projected by highlighting three priorities: knowledge society, safe society and competitive economy; it also envisages the responsible management system based on a regular analysis of the state of all education levels, management culture directed toward the development of education, information and participation (involvement) of society. Thus, in order to realise one of priority trends of the National Education Strategy it is necessary to ensure the education quality at school directly related to the management quality. Successful activity of a school as an organisation is predetermined by certain factors, features and prerequisites. In order to manage every day work of a multiple school team, a school head shall co-ordinate resolution of constantly emerging problems with the establishment and verification of an organisational structure. The Article analyses the function of managerial leadership in a contemporary school, peculiarities for application of management functions in an education institution, and highlights main managerial functions from the point of view of school heads of a contemporary school. Object of the survey: the approach of school heads toward the expression of managerial functions in school management. The following methods were applied for the achievement of the objective and tasks of the survey: analysis of scientific literature, questionnaire inquiry of school heads. The survey involved 206 directors and deputy directors of comprehensive schools within the Lithuanian municipalities. The analysis of the survey results revealed that the key areas of importance for school heads were planning, organisation, motivation and managerial functions in organising school activities. The key action in planning school activities is assessment of needs, setting the goals and establishment of operational plans. The most important action in organising school activities is establishment of working groups (teams). For a successful management of school activities it is instrumental to initiate and co-ordinate activities and to provide relevant information. According to school heads, the control of school activities requires strict work discipline and encouragement for changes. Less important actions for school teachers in planning school activities are: presentation of operational plans to society, anticipation of expected results and selection of operational methods; in organising activities of an educational institution: publicity of a school’s activity, distribution of resources, and establishment of responsibility areas or intercommunication. According to school heads, establishment of a strict work discipline and encouragement for changes are less important for the control of activities of an educational institution.

BETON - Kulturno propagandni komplet br. 173, god. XI, Beograd, utorak, 19 jul 2016.

Author(s): Mirnes Sokolović,Đorđe Krajišnik,Aleksandra Sekulić,Robert Kozma,Shpetim Selmani / Language(s): Serbian / Publication Year: 2016

MIXER, Mirnes Sokolović: Povratak dioskura; CEMENT, Đorđe Krajišnik: Kako parodirati Mirka Kovača; ŠTRAFTA, Aleksandra Sekulić: Proleća 2016; ARMATURA, Robert Kozma: Protiv privatizacije grada; VREME SMRTI I RAZONODE, Shpetim Selmani: O drevnoj gluposti. Zašto pišem?

Beveridge curve shifts – Europe 2020 perspectives

Author(s): Marina Ferent Pipas / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2016

The present paper aligns to the economic policy body of research granting intensive efforts to the sphere of analysing the unemployment rate’s evolution as well as its primary drivers and effects in the context of the Europe 2020 strategy. Considering one of the agenda’s main targets – increasing employability among the European Union’s states, this paper analyses the areas funded by the European Social Fund as well as the country policy specifics in deriving the behaviour of the Beveridge curve associated with the EU-13 countries given the shift of European Union’s funds from old member states to newer ones. As such, the study employs the tools of Simultaneous Equations Systems and examines the impact of four categories of components on the Beveridge curve’s behaviour - structure of the unemployed, labour market and business environment factors as well as business cycles.

BEYOND THE FRINGE: THE ROLE OF RECREATION IN MULTI-FUNCTIONAL URBAN FRINGE LANDSCAPES

Author(s): Ian Gilhespy / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2013

This paper reviews some of the academic literature and policy documents that relate to and promote the need for urban design and the re-invigoration of the processes and practices of ‘masterplanning’. Specifically, this paper concerns the implications for recreation in areas that have been conceptualised in a number of ways including ‘urban fringe’ and ‘fringe-belt’ and the ways in which these areas are being re-developed as multi-functional spaces in the planning process. The paper pays particular attention to the proposed development of the ‘North Plymouth Community Park’ examining the claims made for the sustainable characteristics of the development and questioning the absence of the cultural aspects of recreation.

Bezpieczeństwo energetyczne Japonii w kontekście stosunków z państwami Zatoki Perskiej w latach 2007−2016

Author(s): Ewa Trojnar / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2017

Japan, the third largest economy in the world in terms of GDP, estimated at $4.9 trillion in 2016, the fourth largest exporter and importer with turnover of more than $ 1.2 trillion in 2016, has enormous energy needs and it lacks natural resources. Compete with very low energy self-suffi ciency i.e. 7.7% in 2015, Japan remains the fourth largest importer of energy raw materials in the world, for example, in 2016, it bought 6.4% of world traded oil. In the vast majority the Japanese import of fuels comes from the Middle East − about 80% of crude oil and 25% of natural gas. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), i.e.: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, and United Arab Emirates, in 2016 were responsible for 24.4% of world crude oil production, with reserves of nearly 29.1% and 11.8% of global natural gas production and 22.1% reserves. Maintaining good relations with such key players on energy markets shapes Japan’s energy security. Accordingly, this article aims at identifying determinants of Japan’s energy security in the context of relations with the GCC states in the years 2007−2016. It also analyzes the change of Japan’s relations with the GCC states as a consequence of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster in March 2011 as well as an impact of global phenomena, such as changes in oil prices on Japan’s energy security. In this context, cooperation between Japan and with the GCC countries has gained new signifi cance. Besides that, so far, partners have failed to fi nalize negotiations on the creation of a free trade area.

Bezpieczeństwo energetyczne we współczesnych stosunkach międzynarodowych. Wyzwania, zagrożenia i perspektywy, red. nauk. Marek Pietraś, Justyna Misiągiewicz

Author(s): Anna Bałamut / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2018

Bezpieczeństwo gazowe Słowacji. Perspektywy i bariery dywersyfikacji

Author(s): Łukasz Wojcieszak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2019

After the gas crisis in 2009 Slovakia tried to diversify the sources and directions of gas supply. The Slovak authorities are aware that its position as a transit country grows less and less; this country is particularly important for transit of Russian gas, passing over Ukraine. Therefore, it is important to expand the infrastructural connections linking Slovakia with other Central European countries, also as part of the North-South Corridor project. According to the analysis neither now nor in the foreseeable future there is a country that could replace Russia as the most important gas importer. If the volumes of natural gas sent through Slovakia are significantly reduced this may lead to instability of gas supply to this country.

Bezpieczeństwo w hotelarstwie polskim

Author(s): Izabela Kapera,Jacek Kapera / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2014

The aim of the study was to present risks in the hotel industry and certain aspects relating to security in the hotel and the presentation of examples of solutions affecting the safety improvement. Analysis of source materials including legislation and police statistics yet have purpose to complement, systematize and update security issues in hotel industry. The article consists of five main parts. The first presents the terminology of hotel services, terms and place of supply and information on the number of accommodation facilities in Poland over ten years. The second part addresses the issues of hoteliers’ responsibilities. Risks are approximate at the next, the third part. Then presents some aspects related to safety at hotels. Then there are presented some aspects related to security at the hotel. Examples of solutions that improve security in the accommodation are a subject to consideration within the last part. In 2011, Poland had more than seven thousands of tourist accommodation places. The types and categories of hotel facilities were established in the Act of 29 August 1997 on tourist services. Requirements for equipment and services for the various types and categories of hotel facilities determines the minister in charge of tourism in the way of regulation. Furthermore, with discussed issue corresponds number of other regulations, including those relating to the responsibility of the proprietor. The scope of this responsibility is broad and involves the responsibility for the proper execution of the service, for things brought to the facility for creating or contributing to the development of life-threatening or health visitors, for damage to health or loss of life. Risks in the hotel industry may have its origin in external factors which include the presence of pathological phenomena, or may be associated with an object and its location. As shown by the data in the case of hotels, inns, hotels and workers camp and campsites are usually made of offenses relating to the theft of someone else’s property. However, increasing the security cannot be reduced to the prevention of theft. Among the resources neutralizing threats are such resources as: legal, organizational and tactical, architectural and construction, mechanical, electronic, physical. The important is the collaboration between hoteliers, police and other securityrelated services in an area where the facility is located.

BIOTECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN UKRAINE FOR SOLVING ENERGY, MEDICAL-BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL-ECOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN 2009-2015 TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT WITH THE EU

Author(s): Igor Yu. Matyushenko / Language(s): English / Issue: 28/2018

This article summarizes the main results of the biotechnological research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine aimed at solving energy, medical-biological and medical-ecological problems during the period from2009 to 2015. The prospective bio resources and directions of implementation of the latest technologies of bioenergy conversion for the production of liquid biofuels and expansion of their use for biodiesel were determined. The latest medical and biological and bioengineering technologies for human health and the national economy, biologically active substances for human health, ecological and economic mechanisms of rational use, protection and monitoring of natural resources, new technologies for the efficient use of energy resources were presented in the article. The authors systematized the results of the current research of theNational Academy of Science of Ukraine aimed at the development of modern methods for the prevention and diagnosis of diseases in humans and animals, modern methods of cell biotechnology and metabolic engineering for the creation of super products of biologically active substances, new forms of plants and microorganisms, the genetic design of improved microorganisms and lines of plant and animal cells for the development of medical and agricultural biotechnology. The authors proved that these directions of research fully correspond to the world-wide trends in research in biomedicine.

BÖLÜM I GÖÇ, EKONOMİ ve SOSYAL POLİTİKA - Türkiye’de Kadınların Göç Etme Sebeplerini Belirleyen Faktörlerin Ekonometrik Analizi

Author(s): Sibel Selim,Yunus Purtaş / Language(s): Turkish / Publication Year: 0

Tarih boyunca insanlar çeşitli nedenlerden dolayı sürekli göç etme eğilimindedir. Ülkeler ve insanlar bu göçten olumlu ya da olumsuz bir şekilde etkilenmektedir. İnsanların göç etmelerindeki temel neden onların daha rahat ve daha huzurlu bir yaşam sürmek istemeleridir. Ancak her zaman beklenen bu refah seviyesi gerçekleşmemektedir. İnsanlar bazen kendi istekleriyle bazen de zorunlu olarak göç etmek durumunda kalmışlardır. Bu duruma neden olan etmenler ise doğal, ekonomik, sosyal, dini ve siyasidir. Göçler bir kişi, bir grup ya da kitlesel olarak gerçekleşebilmektedir. Literatürde göçler; yerine, oluşumlarına ve niteliklerine göre farklı türlerde ifade edilmektedir. En basit anlamda göçler iç göç ve dış göç olmak üzere iki farklı türde ele alınmaktadır. Ancak bunların dışında zorunlu göç, gönüllü göç, uluslararası göç, kitlesel göç gibi farklı türleri de mevcuttur.

BÖLÜM III KENTLEŞME, SİYASET ve GÖÇ POLİTİKALARI - 1980 Sonrası Göçler ve Kentle Bütünleşme Sorunu

Author(s): Gülsen Demir,Kadir Şahin / Language(s): Turkish / Publication Year: 0

Dünya tarihinin değişmez olgularından biri olan göç, sosyolojinin de temel araştırma alanlarından birini oluşturmaktadır. Göç üzerine yapılan tanımlardaki ortak özellik ise göçün “bir yer değiştirme” hareketi olduğudur. Göç, “bir yerden kalkıp başka bir yere yerleşmek” gibi bir fiziksel hareketi ifade etse de, yer değiştiren birey ya da bireylerin yaşadığı sosyal değişim ya da yaşam alanlarında meydana gelen değişim, büyük dönüşümleri kapsamaktadır. Özellikle “göç sorunsalını” önemli kılan da göçün yol açtığı sosyal, kültürel ve ekonomik içerikli olan bu dönüşümlerdir.

Borders, Exception and Sovereignty: Australia’s Migration Policies as Instruments of Suspension of (Human) Rights and (International) Obligations

Author(s): Ana Carolina Macedo Abreu / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Hostility towards migrants of non-European origin is a recurring subject in contemporary political space, especially among Western/developed states. In fact, the move towards stricter migration and border control in relation to some forms of migration has led authors to characterize such phenomena as a war on migration (Hyndman and Mountz, 2007) or a new ubiquity of borders (Balibar 2002). The crusade against irregular migration has particularly affected prospective asylum seekers who, fleeing from conflict and persecution in their countries of origin, attempt to reach safety and protection through unauthorized border crossings. The Australian border regime presents a paradigmatic case in this context of increasing hostility and control, having been described as “the most original yet retrograde means of repelling and excluding asylum seekers from its shores” (Hyndman and Mountz 2007, 83) and “the most fully developed policy regime that is oriented around control” (Johnson 2014, 67). This chapter focuses on the policies and practices of border/migration control that were/are employed in the context of the Pacific Solution (2001-2007) and Operation Sovereign Borders (OSB) (2013-present). The practices of control implemented during this period include interception and turnback of boats outside of territorial waters, forced return, detention and exclusion of parts of Australian territory from the migration zone (excision).

Brexit-ul – simptom al acutizării slăbiciunilor structurale ale Uniunii Europene

Author(s): Gheorghe CIASCAI / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 12/2016

The aim of this paper is to analyze and to highlight the political, economic and strategic consequences of the British referendum concerning the United Kingdom exit from European Union for the identity of the European Union and for the political nature of European construction.