INTRODUCTION

Author(s): Žaneta Ozoliņa / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The study “StratCom laughs. In search of an analytical framework“ is a multidisciplinary effort to design an analytical framework for analysing humour in scenarios where researchers and practitioners find themselves working through large data collections where humour has been used as a potent tool in the construction of messages designed for strategic communication. The research was conducted in four stages.

HUMOUR AS A COMMUNICATION TOOL: DESIGNING FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYSIS

Author(s): Ivars Austers,Jurģis Škilters,Žaneta Ozoliņa / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Since Russia’s occupation of Crimea and its engagement in the conflict in Eastern Ukraine, the issue of winning people’s ‘hearts and minds’ has become one of the dominating themes in the social sciences and the general public sphere. Geopolitical and political confrontation between states and societies based on different values and principles is also reflected in the strategies and policies that governments of such countries are applying in order to win the hearts and minds of both their own citizens and the citizens of other countries. Consequently, there is no shortage of studies debating and challenging the concepts of information warfare, hybrid warfare, propaganda or soft power.

TOOL KIT – HUMOUR AS A TOOL FOR STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Sexuální výchova na českých školách

Author(s): Lucie Jarkovská / Language(s): Czech Publication Year: 0

Představení projektu Rovné příležitosti v pedagogické praxi

Author(s): Anna Babanová / Language(s): Czech Publication Year: 0

Závěrečná doporučení Gender Studies, o.p.s.

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Czech Publication Year: 0

Forced migration and psychosocial health: meaning-making through autobiographical narratives in the UK

Author(s): Maria Psoinos / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This paper explores how refugees in the UK perceive the relation between their experience of migration and their psychosocial health. Autobiographical narrative interviews were carried out with fifteen refugees residing in the UK. The findings reveal a contrast between the negative stereotypes concerning refugees’ psychosocial health and the participants’ own perceptions. Two of the three emerging narratives suggest a more balanced view of refugees’ psychosocial health, since in contrast to the stereotypes most participants did not perceive this through the lens of ‘vulnerability’. The third narrative revealed that a hostile social context can negatively shape refugees’ perceptions of their psychosocial health. This runs counter to the stereotype of refugees as being exclusively responsible for their ‘passiveness’ and therefore for the problems they face.

Migration, life narratives, memory and subjectivity: Reflections on an archival project on Irish migration

Author(s): Breda Gray / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This article considers three theoretical approaches (late-modern, postmodern and feminist) to the apparent obsession with self-narration and memory in the early twenty-first century as they relate to an archival project on Irish migration. This archival project focused on the life narratives of those who witnessed mass out-migration from 1950s Ireland. The article reflects on the extent to which this project and the motivations of both the researchers and contributors reflect these theoretical accounts of the biographical turn.

Collecting Personal Memories With the Use of Oral History Method

Author(s): Maja Dubljević,Tanja Petrović / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The methodology which Documenta – Centre for Dealing with the Past uses in collecting personal memories is partially grounded in the basic methodological principles of the oral history method. It has been used since 1948, when the oral history method was accepted in the scientific community as a technique of documenting history and it enables Documenta, as a human rights organization working on the process of dealing with the past, to respond to unique request which are set before the organization. Except for trying to respect scientific principles of documenting with the use of oral history method, the methodology we use also includes a step forward towards a social engagement. As part of the wider process of dealing with the past, Documenta, through its activities related to collecting and recording personal memories, tries to provide an opportunity to people, who have neither been active in creating historical events nor have carried any political power during certain periods, to affirm themselves as social actors. On the other hand, by insisting on the principle of multiperspectivity, we try to present to the public plurality of different narratives. Our aim is to contribute to a deeper and all-encompassing understanding of certain historical processes which have significantly affected the lives of people from these areas. The methodology of our work on the project “Personal memories of wars and other forms of political violence from 1941 until today” consists of several phases which follow one after another and are in part complementary.

4. Mezinárodní kolokvium o cestovním ruchu

Author(s): / Language(s): Slovak,Czech

Proceedings are the output of the 4th International colloquium on tourism that was focused on the current issues in tourism. The major concentration is on research questions covering tourism and research topics.

Musica viva in schola XXV

Author(s): / Language(s): Slovak,Czech

Part of the anthology is the 19 papers from the musical-pedagogical conference Musica viva in schola XXV. with the name „Hudební výchova – terra cognita III“. Nine authors work abroad, the remaining ten in our country. The papers are focused on current problems of music education, part of the papers reflects the most recent results of large-scale international empirical musically sociological researches carried out in recent years in cooperation with EAS and ISME.

Výzkum v didaktice cizích jazyků II

Author(s): / Language(s): Czech

The volume of proceedings is a result of the Specific Research project conducted in 2018 with the registration number MUNI/A/1143/2018 – Research on learning and teaching foreign languages. The contributions present research studies of doctoral students in the field of Foreign Language Didactics at the Faculty of Education of Masaryk University. The studies are written in Czech.

Slovanský literární svět: kontexty a konfrontace I

Author(s): / Language(s): Slovak,Russian,Czech,Polish

Pre-conference collection Slavic literary world: contexts and confrontations I. consists of 25 studies of PhD students from 15 institutes of Slavonic 5 European countries, written in five languages. Young authors have focused their attention rather to less common issues of literary research within the wide thematic range of conference bringing the new impulse to the contemporary state and tendencies of research work and at least partly illustrating the potential and directing of the younger generation of literary researches. However in the publication there are also present the papers of authors contributing by their genuine research perspective to the continuous academic discourse about more traditional literary issues. Many works are not methodologically and thematically strictly limited just to the field of literature, but they overlap to related fields as the fine arts, aesthetics or translate studies are.

European Financial Systems 2018 - Proceedings of the 15th International Scientific Conference

Author(s): / Language(s): English

The Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference are aimed at presenting the knowledge of theory and practice in financial systems. Particular emphasis is placed on new conditions, regulatory measures in the financial sector, financial markets, insurance, accounting and tax systems and their impacts on the corporate sphere. In the field of insurance, among other things the issue of covering emerging insurance risks, their prophylaxis and financing. It also includes financial literacy and its impact on finance. Contributions from active participants in the conference will be: - Corporate finance and accounting - financial markets (capital markets, rating, banking) - insurance - financial literacy Publication of the paper in a printed paper, which will be sent to the conference participants, is subject to the payment of the conference fee, delivery within the specified deadline and the required format, presentations at the conference and positive reviews of the reviewers.

Актуальные проблемы обучения русскому языку XIII

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Russian

Collection of papers “Current issues of the Russian language teaching XIII” is devoted to issues of methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language, to issues of linguistics and literary science. This collection of papers is a result of the international scientific conference “Current issues of the Russian language teaching XII”, which took place on 16–18 May 2018 in Brno (Czech Republic).

Poufność a użyteczność informacji statystycznych. Dylematy ochrony udostępnianych danych

Author(s): Andrzej Młodak,Michał Pietrzak,Tomasz Klimanek,Tomasz Józefowski,Paweł Lańduch / Language(s): Polish

Monografię otwiera omówienie ogólnych koncepcji kontroli ujawniania danych (ang. Statistical Disclosure Control, SDC) oraz definicji z tym związanych, a także regulacji prawnych dotyczących ochrony danych wrażliwych stosowanych w różnych krajach, również w Polsce. Zaprezentowano tutaj także najważniejsze typy udostępnianych danych wynikowych oraz rolę metadanych, paradanych, a także danych dodatkowych w SDC. Drugim ważnym poruszanym tematem jest istota i ważność ryzyka ujawnienia informacji wrażliwych oraz ocena jego poziomu. Ukazano tutaj także odmienności występujące w tym zakresie między mikrodanymi a danymi zagregowanymi w postaci tablic częstości i wielkości czy wyników analiz. Szczególną uwagę poświęcono z kolei szczegółowej charakterystyce metod i technik kontroli ujawniania danych wynikowych w przedstawionych powyżej trzech typach. Wskazano ponadto na zagrożenia dla poufności danych, mogące wystąpić w publikowaniu statystyk opisowych, ilustracji i wyników analiz w opracowaniach statystycznych oraz sposoby przeciwdziałania możliwościom odtworzenia danych wrażliwych. W toku dalszych rozważań autorzy scharakteryzowali istotę problemu straty informacji oraz najistotniejsze rodzaje miar oceny owej straty, z pewnymi oryginalnymi propozycjami, a także wpływ straty informacji na jakość estymacji dokonywanej w oparciu o dane poddane SDC. Czytelnik znajdzie w monografii szczegółowe omówienie – wraz ze stosowną egzemplifikacją – narzędzi informatycznych stosowanych w SDC, przede wszystkim programów T–Argus i µ–Argus oraz pakietów środowiska R: sdcTable i sdcMicro. Następnie uwaga została skoncentrowana na organizacji kontroli dostępu do danych i zasadach jej realizacji. W szczególności scharakteryzowano typy udostępnianych mikrodanych, sposobu organizacji funkcjonowania punktów dostępu oraz stosownych zabezpieczeń, przebieg efektywnej kontroli dostępu i zakres odpowiednich uprawnień. Całość wieńczy podsumowanie, w którym wskazano najistotniejsze konkluzje oraz postulaty dotyczące stosowania SDC. Dla wygody czytelnika na końcu opracowania zamieszczono słownik występujących w nim pojęć. Z uwagi na uniwersalność zagadnienia publikacja została opracowana tak, aby mogła służyć metodologom projektującym badania statystyczne oraz odpowiedzialnym za ich jakość i bezpieczeństwo zgromadzonych w ich wyniku informacji. Stąd duży wybór przykładów i praktycznych omówień przedstawianych zagadnień, które pozwalają lepiej zrozumieć przekazywane treści. Monografia ma obszerne angielskie streszczenie.

Finansal Gelişim, Demokrasi ve Beşeri Sermayenin Gelir Dağılımına Etkisi

Author(s): Gamze Destek,Gökçen Sayar / Language(s): Turkish

Although there are many empirical studies examining the effects of financial development on economic growth performance of countries, the impact of the increased national income as a result of financial development on the low-income segments of society and income distribution is mostly ignored. In addition, it is also well-known fact that there are contradictory arguments about the impact of financial development on income distribution. However, according to the hypothesis called "financial Kuznets hypothesis" which has been introduced in recent years, in the initial stages of financial development, high asymmetric information and the high cost of accessing financial resources deteriorates the income distribution. Along with the maturation of the financial system, access to financial resources of the low-income segment is facilitated therefore income distribution is positively affected. To sum up, according to this hypothesis, an inverted U-shaped relationship exists between financial development and income inequality. This study aims to examine the validity of the financial Kuznets hypothesis for the period of 1990-2013 for 23 developing countries. In this direction, it is aimed to examine the effects of economic growth, democracy, human capital and financial development on income inequality. For this purpose, panel unit root, panel cointegration, panel FMOLS long-run coefficient estimator and panel causality tests are utilized to examine the relationship between mentioned variables. As a result of the empirical analyses, it is seen that when the findings are evaluated on the basis of the panel, increasing national income, democracy level and human capital accumulation reduces income inequality. Furthermore, it is found that there is Ushaped relationship between financial development and income inequality and therefore the existence of financial Kuznets hypothesis is not confirmed.

İkti̇sadi̇ ve İdari̇ Bi̇li̇mlerde Akademi̇k Anali̇z ve Tartişmalar

Author(s): / Language(s): Turkish,English

Tanımsal açıdan bakıldığında finansal gelişme, finansal piyasaların, finansal kurumların ve finansal araçların gelişmişliğini ve büyüklüğünü ifade etmektedir. Finansal gelişme, finansal piyasalarda birbirinden farklı birçok menkul varlığın bulunması ve bunların piyasa katılımcıları tarafından daha fazla kullanılabilir hale gelmesiyle tanımlanır. Diğer bir deyişle, finansal gelişme, finansal piyasaların gelişmişliği ile ilgili bir ifadedir. Ekonomik büyüme ise en basit tanımıyla, bir ekonomide üretim kapasitesinin, üretim miktarının ve bu nedenle milli gelirin artışını ifade eder (Erim ve Türk, 2005).

Historiografija/povijest u suvremenom društvu. Zbornik radova s okruglog stola održanog 11. i 12. listopada 2011. u Zagrebu

Author(s): / Language(s): Croatian

The proceedings before you brings together the collected works based on a smaller part of the presentations at the round table "Historiography/History in Contemporary Society". The meeting was held on October 11 and 12, 2011 as part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the scientific work of the Croatian Institute of History. The aim of the meeting was to determine historiographical trends over the past half century and to question the diverse research perspectives and methods of using and processing information about historical heritage, to examine different historiographical discourses and the interaction of these discourses with political and educational discourses and to consider their relationship to the phenomenon of memory. Our desire was also to assess the contribution of the Croatian Institute of History and the scientific work of its employees to historical research.