Родителски практики и управляемост: естественост, женственост и самодостатъчност на съвременната майка

Author(s): Maria Martinova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 44/2/2015

This article examines contemporary forms and practices of parenthood. The main focus is on mothers who have regular access to Internet, good education and standard of living. The effort to understand new maternal practices goes through the Foucauldian concepts of governmentality and technologies of the self. The fi gure of the mother is discussed both as important for the biopolitical strategies of the modern family and as a main target of different parental suggestions. New practices devoted to the enforcement of child creativity and adaptivity are regarded as a means to achieve relative security and as a part of the process of inheriting social statuses. Empowerment of the mother is discussed as crucial in these forms of governing the self. Three topics are spotlighted as significant for the self-actualization of the mother and for bringing up 'successful'children. The importance of naturality, femininity and self sufficiency and their specific interpretations and correlations are discussed.

TERMAL TURİZMİN SORUNLARINA İLİŞKİN YÖNETİCİ GÖRÜŞLERİ

Author(s): Gazi Uçkun,Bariş Demir,Asiye Yüksel,Levent Can / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 31/2016

In recent years, the number of people participating in the movement of thermal tourism is increasing rapidly, especially in developed countries. Health tourism is an important kind of tourism which appreciated all over the world in recent years. Medical, thermal, provide significant economic income to the place where the elderly care strengthening health tourism sub-branches. The purpose of this study; That our country has a great potential, but considered not sufficiently considered the problems of thermal tourism, to identify problems with and opinions of top managers and mid-level assessments, and to contribute to solutions.

Lateralizacja i lokalizacja funkcji językowych w mózgu (przegląd najważniejszych zagadnień)

Author(s): Katarzyna Brzezinka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 5/2016

The article has the nature of a general overview (inter alia it furnishes an overview of publications in the field of neurolinguistics). The author seeks an answer to the following question: where (and) how the units of speech (of language and speech) are located in the brain. The work consists of a number of parts. In the first chapter the author focuses on the nervous system (the object of neurological research). In the second chapter the author focuses on the linguistic capacity (the object of linguistic research). Both chapters distinguish the units of the brain and speech to which researchers refer in their attempts to describe the relationship between language and the brain. The third chapter alludes to (and classifies) the most recent achievements in the field of neuroscience about the lateralisation and localisation of the linguistic functions in the brain. Eventually the units of human speech are ascribed to the selected areas in the brain. The final part of the work contains a comprehensive bibliography of the subject.

Disruption and the Changing Concept of Leadership

Author(s): M S S El Namaki / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

Leadership is a catch all concept and the subject attracts intensive attention. Yet the concept, as it stands today, is obsolete. The prime parameters of people and tasks have lost content with people performance parameters going through palpable change and the fundamentals of the task seriously disrupted. Those developments are rendering concepts of leadership in their current professional and conceptual framework, blurred. Gamely and fashion prone colourful presentation of “leadership” are taking over. A serious search into the heart and soul of leadership and a formulation of building blocks is, therefore, needed. It should be serious and it should be conceptual and operationally cogent.

Around the Bloc: Georgian Anti-Hep C Project an Overwhelming Success

Author(s): TOL TOL / Language(s): English Issue: 05/16/2017

Large-scale elimination of virus is the result of pilot program launched by U.S. pharmaceutical manufacturer, which offered free treatment to hepatitis patients.

Czynniki biologiczne i kulturowe we współczesnych dyskusjach socjologicznych i antropologicznych

Author(s): Jarosław Rokicki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2008

Kritička procjena jednog viđenja eugeničkog nasljeđa u biotehnološkom dobu

Author(s): Tonči Matulić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 03/2005

The article is an expanded critical evaluation of a book Sudbina odabranih. Eugeničko nasljeđe u vrijeme genske tehnologije (The Fate of the Chosen: Eugenics’ Heritage in the Age of Gene Technology) by Darko Polšek. Taking into consideration that the author of the book a priori approves the idea of laissez-faire eugenics, i.e. of non-interventions into eugenics by the State, as his departure point, which means that total freedom of individual choice and decisions conceming the issues of birth, children and the quality of life - has been predicted, the author of the article tries to point out some unacceptable epistemological and ethical theses of such an approach to eugenics’ praxis. Namely, the author of the article demonstrates that the book does not offer convincing arguments, which should epistemologically, anthropologically, and, as a consequence, ethically, prove the main difference between the praxis of classical, so called, »rightist eugenics«, on one hand, and, so called, »new«, »private« or »leftist eugenics», on the other hand. In the article, the contents and the ideas of the book were followed. The author of the article makes efforts to mediate the main theses of the book, but sticking to its abovementioned defficiences, this results in critical examination and challenges to the book’s author visionary basic theses of laissez-faire eugenics.That fact, however, does not underestimate the value of the book as a pioneering work in Croatian language on eugenics, i.e. on libertarian concept of eugenics, and demands also significant intellectual and spiritual courage. According to the author of the article, in the context of libertarian concept, however, we have to deal with the certain praxis which transcends the border of specifically human and enters the spheres of in-human.

Złocień maruna – starożytny lek na współczesne choroby

Author(s): Katarzyna Popiołek-Barczyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2023

The feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium L.), also known as the Chrysanthemum parthenium, is a perennial plant belonging to the Asteraceae family, growing mainly in gardens and open spaces, can be found growing in the regions of Southern Europe and Asia Minor. The healing effects of feverfew were known in antiquity. In folk medicine, this plant has been used to treat fever, migraine headaches, as well as rheumatoid arthritis, stomach and toothache, and insect bites. The active compounds contained in the feverfew include sesquiterpene lactones, and the most important of them – is parthenolide, which is considered to be the main ingredient determining the biological activity of extracts from this perennial. Feverfew preparations, containing parthenolide, reduce the production of prostaglandins, inhibit the release of serotonin and histamine, and antagonize the 5-HT2A receptors, thus showing the anti-migraine effects. Moreover, feverfew extract has anti-infl ammatory properties and reduces allergy symptoms by inhibiting the secretion of histamine from mast cells. Currently, studies are being conducted on the use of parthenolide in the treatment of neuropathic pain. This type of chronic pain is caused by damage to the somatosensory nervous system, which is observed in the development of diabetes, stroke, cancer, or after mechanical injuries (e.g. as postoperative complications or after traffic accidents). In in vivo studies parthenolide showed a strong analgesic effect, moreover, its use allowed for the reduction of morphine doses in neuropathic animals. This important clinical implication raises great hopes for designing a multimodal therapy for neuropathic pain. In addition to its anti-infl ammatory and analgesic properties, parthenolide exhibits antitumor activity by inhibiting the NF-κB and STAT transcription factors and inducing the permanent activation of JNK kinase and p53 protein, thereby sensitizing neoplastic cells to radio- and chemotherapy. Interestingly, parthenolide induces apoptosis of cancer cells but has no toxic effects on normal cells. Currently, preparations from the feverfew are used in the phytotherapy of migraine headaches, however, the results of the preclinical research open up new perspectives for the use of this perennial, in particular parthenolide, in modern therapy.

Mniszek (Taraxacum) w fitoterapii europejskiej i azjatyckiej

Author(s): Jolanta Marciniuk,Katarzyna Kowalcze / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2023

The genus Taraxacum (family Asteraceae) belongs to the largest and most complicated apomictic complexes. So far, over 2,800 species classified in 60 sections have been described. The natural range of the genus is almost cosmopolitan, with monk seals found on every continent except Antarctica, but their distribution is very uneven. The largest centers of Taraxacum diversity are in Central Asia and Southern Europe. Species belonging to the genus Taraxacum have long been used as food. Young leaves are eaten raw in salads, and dried as an addition to teas or used as spices. Dried roots are used to prepare teas and a coffee substitute, while the flowers and infl orescences are used to produce syrups, wines and are added to beers and soft drinks. Above all, however, dandelions are valued herbal plants since ancient times, used in traditional European, Chinese and Indian medicine to treat liver diseases, kidney stones, stomach diseases, abdominal pain, diarrhea, cough, bladder diseases, gout, edema, and even cancerous. In the modern, very rich scientific literature, the medicinal properties of dandelions have been partially confirmed, but the results are often ambiguous and in some cases contradictory.

Józef Warszewicz (1812–1866) and taxonomical history of Warszewiczia coccinea (Vahl) Klotzsch

Author(s): Alicja Zemanek,Bogdan Zemanek,Tomasz Głuszak,Marcin Nobis / Language(s): English Issue: 20/2021

Józef Warszewicz (1812–1866) – traveler and naturalist, the main horticulturist (inspector) of the Botanic Garden of theJagiellonian University in Kraków, was one of the first plant collectors in the tropical regions of Central and South America. From his travels (1844–1850, 1850–1853) he sent and brought to Europe hundreds of previously unknown plants, primarily orchids, in addition to representatives of other families.One of the collected species was Warszewiczia coccinea (red warszewiczia in English, warszewiczia czerwona in Polish), described by Johann F. Klotzsch and named after the collector. It is a small tree or shrub with large, red inflorescences, growing wild in the American tropics and often cultivated as an ornamental. It plays a significant role in the culture of the island country of Trinidad and Tobago in the Little Antilles archipelago, where it is considered a “national plant”.The aim of this article is to highlight one of the chapters in the history of systematics (taxonomy) relating to Józef Warszewicz and the plants described on the basis of his collections, especially red warszewiczia.Many of the so-called “Warszewicz species” have survived in the taxonomy to this day. His unique collection is stored in the Herbarium of the Jagiellonian University – Herbarium Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis – KRA. There are specimens important to the science – lectotypes (model representations) of the species Warszewiczia pulcherrima (= W. coccinea).

Rośliny lecznicze Rzeczypospolitej w pracach Jeana-Emmanuela Giliberta (1741–1814) – kilka refleksji na temat fitoterapii w Exercitia phytologica

Author(s): Piotr Daszkiewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2023

J.-E. Gilibert spent eight years (1775–1783), in the Polish-Lituanian Commonwealth. In Grodno, he created a medical school and the first natural history cabinet, botanical gardens in Horodnica and Vilnius, he was a professor of botany, pharmacy and natural history in Vilnius (1781). Supporter of the classification system of Carl Linnaeus, Gilibert was the author of the first of Lithuanian flora Flora Lituanica Inchoata and some others publications dedicated to Lithuanian plants. Gilibert was not only a taxonomist and florist but also the author of a biogeographic (comparison of Lithuanian and Lyon vegetation) or ecological concepts (disparition and the appearance of species or the concept of the primary forest). In the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth he was also interested with diseases and organization of healthcare. In 1790 he published in Lyon Exercita Phytologica. J.-E. Gilibert gave a list of 40 species of Lithuanian medicinal plants. The information provided by J.-E. Gilibert is undoubtedly an interesting contribution for the history of medicinal plants in the first Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The article presents and analyzes the list of given species.

Powrót do przeszłości V: pandemia. Nostalgia a świat postpandemiczny

Author(s): Olga Kosińska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2023

One of the phenomena which scope expanded during the period of restrictions related to COVID-19 was a social turn towards the past, observed especially in social media, identified as a nostalgia trend. Understood as a sentimental longing for something that has already passed that causes sadness or pleasure by remembering something and wishing it could be experienced again, nostalgia was one of the tools for dealing with the hardships and uncertainty of the pandemic times. Individual users of social media willingly undertook communication focused around memories, expressing regret for times long gone that had been seen in their idealized form as easier and happier. This trend has been effectively used in marketing focused on nostalgia. It was only effective when it evokes positive memories and evokes good feelings in the recipients that encourages the more to reach for the product or service offered. This specific turn towards this period of time was used as a tool that allowed not having to face terrifying moments and often difficult present, and even more so the unknown future. Thus, uncertain of the future and terrified of the present, the pandemic consumer was all the more susceptible to peaceful and happy images from the past, which both algorithms and commercial entities gave him. In these circumstances, one can point to a specific management of pandemic nostalgia by entities that are essentially external to the individual user.

Man’s fate is not tragic but cosmic

Author(s): Slavka V. Gvozdenović / Language(s): English,Serbian Issue: 1/2024

Slobodan R. Vukićević: Cosmic Sociology and the Fate of Humanity. Beograd: Publishing Enterprise Albatros plus, 2023, 376 pp.

ABORDĂRI CONCEPTUALE ȘI METODOLOGII DE MĂSURARE A CALITĂȚII VIEȚII. O ANALIZĂ DESCRIPTIVĂ

Author(s): Bianca Buligescu,Sebastian Țoc / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 3/2021

The main objective of this paper is to describe the logic of the conceptual approaches regarding the quality of life, and to identify the main dimensions and measurable indicators of quality of life. The identification of the main conceptualizations of quality of life is an essential step, in the context in which quality of life is often ambiguous or has multiple meanings. Although often used as an umbrella term which encompasses many aspects of human life, we aim to describe the logic of the integrative approaches regarding well-being/ quality of life. The identification of the main dimensions and measurable indicators of quality of life with a brief description of those, will serve to operationalize a list of life quality dimensions.

OLD AGE SOCIAL EXCLUSION: FROM DATA TO AGE-FRIENDLY POLICIES

Author(s): Diana-Alexandra DUMITRESCU / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2022

International Conference, University of Bucharest, Online, AMASE October 22, 2021.

Ion Ungureanu (1990). Paradigme ale cunoașterii societății

Author(s): Narcis-Claudiu RUPE / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2021

This paper aims to review a fundamental book for any sociology student. In “The paradigms of Society knowledge” social scientist Ion Ungureanu organizes in an original manner the “theoretic core of sociology”: sociology’s main paradigms. He argues that sociology is a multi-paradigmatic science: it does not have an universal paradigm, but several paradigms which are competing for hegemony. The Romanian sociologist establishes the main fields of sociological studies: the constitution, organization, change and evolution of society. Although synthetic, the book is a vast one, and the review will be limited to the presentation of the links between some of the paradigms. Each paradigm has scientific potential, and from this point of view, Ion Ungureanu's work can open entire fields of research in Romanian sociology and beyond.

THE SNOWFLAKE GENERATION - THE IMPLICATIONS OF OVERDEVELOPED EGO ON SOCIAL REALITY

Author(s): Samira Cîrlig / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2022

This material deals with the effects of the main traits of the Snowflake generation, namely, exacerbated ego (hypersensitivity), overdeveloped individualism (selfishness) and fear. This typology of young people born between 1980 and 2000, known as the "Me Generation" has been approximated in the past by Constantin Rădulescu Motru by the concept of "anarchic personality", which is the opposite of "energetic personality". To understand whether the young people of the "Me Generation" belong to one of the two categories, I will first make some theoretical clarifications.

ILIE BĂDESCU AND JOSEPH LIVNI. A CIVIL SOCIETY WITH NO HIERARCHY. THE COVENANTAL SOCIETAL MODEL

Author(s): Angelica Helena MARINESCU / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

Review of: Ilie Bădescu And Joseph Livni, 2023. A Civil Society With No Hierarchy. The Covenantal Societal Model, Lexington Books: Lanham, Boulder, New York, London.

Population Growth and GDP Per Capita Growth: Identifying the Causal Variable in 30 African Countries

Author(s): Michal Mec,Klára Čermáková / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

Within a wider framework of institutional factors of economic growth and the relationship between population growth and GDP growth, this article focuses on the population growth and GDP growth per capita for 30 countries in Africa between 1960 and 2020. We provide a comparative analysis of approaches to methodology and results obtained in the impact of population growth on GDP/pc growth discourse. By performing the Bootstrapped PanelGranger Causality test, the estimation results show that half of the countries showed no causality and other half of countries showed different levels of significant causality. The most seen causality is the unidirectional causality from GDP growth per capita to population growth. In addition, unidirectional causality is observed from population growth to GDP growth per capita and bidirectional causality. Overall, the results add more evidence into the research of endogenous population growth theory, which implies that there is country-specific environment which determines the causality between these two variables.

VALUE ASPECTS OF THE SAFE EXISTENCE OF SOCIAL SYSTEMS IN AN UNSTABLE WORLD

Author(s): Oleg Danilyan,Yurii Yu. Kalynovskyi,Olexander Dzоban,Yurii Kalynovskyi,Mykola Saltanov / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2023

The paper analyzes the axiological aspects of the safe existence of society in conditions of global instability. The authors defined the essence of social solidarity as a factor of increasing stability in social systems. The importance of social justice for reducing the level of conflict in the existence of modern societies has been proven. The institutional importance of democracy and democratic values for the safe development of social systems is substantiated.