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They grew up in institutions where sexuality was punished and suppressed with drugs. Or they’ve remained involuntarily single. But the disabled too have sexual needs.
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They grew up in institutions where sexuality was punished and suppressed with drugs. Or they’ve remained involuntarily single. But the disabled too have sexual needs.
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What determines that we feel connected with certain places and attached to them, that we care for them and express warm feelings of belonging even when living far away from them for a long time? The answers to these questions inevitably lead to the fundamental issue of personal identity. The present article analyses one of the aspects of the place identity phenomenon, namely, the dynamics of the relationship of self-perception of Lithuanians with certain places. For this purpose, the latest data from the European Values Survey, completed at the end of 2017, and the data of previous waves of this survey are employed. They reveal that Lithuanians give priority to local areas (first of all, to their own city, to Lithuania, and somewhat less to their own region), meanwhile their identification with Europe and the whole world is not so strong. However, the empirical data confirm the theoretical assumption that local and global self-awareness cannot be opposed: the comparison of the strength of place identities in different socio-demographic groups and among respondents with different value orientations has shown that the boundaries of places important for a person’s self-awareness are intertwined in a very complex way.
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Understanding cohabitation not only as a sign of the institutional crisis of the traditional marriage, but also as a recognition of the objectivity of this phenomenon necessitates consideration in sparsely populated remote regions of the country. At present in Yakutia every sixth married couple prefers to not register their marriage relationship and this without a doubt is one of the reasons for simplification and the deterioration of the family composition of the population of the Republic. From 2002 to 2010 the total number of married people remained almost the same, while the number of cohabitants rose 1,4 times. Very significant territorial differences can be found in the character of the changes in this indicator for both the general population and representatives of the three cohorts. Based on the materials of the survey and the group-focused interviews, causes and possible demographic consequences of the phenomenon of cohabitation are analyzed. The respondents mentioned “the opportunity to test this marriage” factor as the main one. This answer prevails in the responses of both men and women, regardless of their place of residence. Among other arguments of loyal and even sympathetic attitudes toward cohabitation, the respondents mention such notions and opportunities as: trusting each other and the ease of termination in case of failure. In each focus group, it was noted that illegitimate forms of marriage is brought from outside, is — in a way — some kind of “fashion”. This fashion for Yakuts mentality is detrimental. An important argument for the critical attitude of the society towards the phenomenon of cohabitation is also its restrictive effect on the birth-rate.
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This article deals with trends in women’s marriage migration from Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Difficulties of registration of marriage migration are singled out. They are connected with, on the one hand, emigrants wish not to notify the authorities about their intentions, and on the other hand, with the fact that other forms of emigration often lead to marriage emigration. The data of foreign statistics and surveys of experts show that the phenomenon of “Russian wife” became a very common phenomenon on a global scale. The factors and causes of marriage emigration of women from Russia are analyzed in the article. Push and pull factors are highlighted. The first group includes socio-economic and demographic factors. The second group includes subjective-psychological factors. Foreign suitors are attracted by the beauty of Russian women, their complaisance and lack of commitment to the ideas of emancipation. Russian women are attracted by economic status of foreign men, attention to their wife and children. Authors attempt to estimate the scale and geography of the phenomenon of marriage migration from Russia based on comparative analysis of Russian and foreign statistics. The key directions of emigration of Russian women after the collapse of the USSR are highlighted. They include USA, European countries, and in recent years Asian countries (Japan, Korea, China, Middle East countries) are gaining popularity. The structure and institutions promoting marriage emigration of women and their entry into the international marriage market are determined. Risks associated with the move of women abroad with the purpose of marriage are identified. These risks include involvement in trafficking, sexual and labor exploitation, becoming dependent. The consequences of marriage emigration are identified both for women and for the country as a whole.
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A brand represents some added value to the product, facilitates customer decision-making, reduces purchase-related risks, and express the producer’s promise that the product will satisfy the customer’s needs and fulfill its expectations in the same quality as the product declares. Brand building is therefore not just about design but also strategy, that is even more important in the process. Sustaining and improving a brand’s position in the market is not a simple process in the current competitive environment. For that reason, there is a scope for application of progressive communication marketing tools such as viral marketing. Viral marketing can be characterized as spreading brand awareness, product or service through text, video, images, games. The aim of the article includes to provide a literature review on the issue from several foreign and domestic authors. It discusses the essence of a viral marketing on social networks and also analyses its use as a support tool for building brand value in practice through secondary research data. The important part of the paper represents the marketing survey focused on perception of viral marketing by Slovak consumers’ generations X, Y, Z and its impact on their purchasing behaviour. Based on the results of the survey were proposed measures to improve the implementation of viral marketing on social networks as a brand value-enhancing tool in Slovak conditions.
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Aim: The article deals with aging of populations, respectively. the quality of life of seniors, with an emphasis on its socio-economic level, retirement and the pension security system. Describes social services and health care for seniors in Slovakia, including institutional care. It characterizes the old age, concepts such as population aging, quality of life, ageism, and other. Scope: To analyze and compare the resulting socio-economic dimensions of the quality of life of seniors living in the home environment and the quality of life of seniors who are clients of social services facilities. Another goal is to measure the age-old experience of seniors' experiences, and compare this depending this whether seniors are or are not a social service provider. Methods: A questionnaire method was used, the research had the character of a quantitative analysis. The research sample was slovak seniors aged 62 years and older. The number of respondents was 224, of which 95 (42.4%) in institutional (residential) care and 129 (57,6%) respondents living in an own home environment. Conclusion: Personal experience with age discrimination reported almost half of the respondents (46.9% of all respondents). More experience with these negative phenomena have seniors who are clients of the institutional facilities (56.8%).
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This paper intends to establish direct demographic losses suffered in the temporarily occupied area of the municipalities Daruvar and Grubišno Polje in 1991, based on the confiscated official documentation of rebel Croatian Serbs; this documentation is in safekeeping at the Croatian Memorial and Documentation Centre of the Homeland War in Zagreb. Special attention has in this regard been paid to the status of the killed individuals (members of the Yugoslav National Army; members of the Serbian paramilitary units; civilians); their date and place of birth, or residence; as well as the date, place and circumstances of their killing. Since the majority of the mentioned persons had been killed in Croatian liberation operations Otkos-10 and Papuk-91, the course of events during these operations was briefly analysed as well; additionally, the independence-gaining process in the Republic of Croatia, and the beginnings or development of Serbian mutiny in the area of the present Bjelovar–Bilogora County were reviewed in general. The research has, inter alia, proved that the majority of Serbian victims from the areas around Daruvar and – even more – Grubišno Polje, whose circumstances of death are known to us, were killed in close combat with members of Croatian units, in most cases as the result of shooting. It was further established that – in the same period – rebels had in this territory suffered far less human losses than their compatriots from the neighbouring western Slavonian municipalities (Pakrac, Novska and Nova Gradiška). This text should – as this topic is exceptionally interesting yet almost entirely unresearched – contribute to a better understanding of the extremely complex events, which had taken place during the war-struck 1991 in the territory of the municipalities Daruvar and Grubišno Polje.
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Analyzing Biographies of Foreign-born Academics in Slovakia: Why Highly Skilled Employees Decide to Choose a Peripheral Country. This paper summarizes findings from qualitative research conducted in Slovakia in early 2018. One of the main research questions was related to factors attracting foreign-born academics to Slovak higher education institutions. This data supplements limited knowledge derived from the official statistics. Using individual in-depth interviews (IDI), six types of foreign-born academics were distinguished: family-tied academics, commuters, socioeconomic migrants, transnational scholars, local enthusiasts, and last resort scholars. The paper includes a detailed characteristic of each category supported by extensive excerpts from the interviews. It facilitates a discussion regarding another dimension of the distinction between global academic centers and peripheries.
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This paper presents the results of a study on socio-economic and demographic factors that affect the intensity of right-wing radicals’ activity in the framework of the Russian-based social network VKontakte. Right-wing radical ideas expressed within the VKontakte network are most actively supported by the population of the regional centres (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnodar Krai) and areas around these centres, which are defined as the semi-periphery in the core-periphery model. The intensity of the online activity of right-wing radicals is mostly influenced by demographic factors, including the average age of the population, the net migration rate coefficient; however, it is not affected by the indicators of economic well-being. The authors hypothesise that support for right-wing radical ideology on social media is determined not by the objective characteristics of the social and economic well-being of the population, but by subjective emotional factors (irritation, feelings of social injustice).
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In thè end of October 2007, a hundred and fifty years passed since the first census, corresponding to thè basic criteria of modem censuses, has been carried out in the Austrian monarchy. In this sense the Austrian monarchy became the leading European country. The solutions that the Austrian statistics came up with in some of its parts are definitely unique. That is especially true of its occupational statistics, the so-called Berufsstatistik. Austrian occupational statistics offers us a range of possibilities not only for statistic but, due to its specifics, also for interpretative analysis.
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The first part of the paper presents a birth rate statistics for Ljubljana during the Second World War, based on archive sources, such as the birth protocols of the Hospital for Women's Diseases in Ljubljana from the 1941-1945 period and annual reports on the health situation ill the city for the same period by Dr Mavricij Rus, a city physician. Although the annual report for 1942 has not been preserved, fragments of data for the missing year were retrieved from the reports for other years. In the second part, health and social care of mothers and infants is outlined using the aforementioned annual reports, material from the municipal socio-political office and daily newspapers. The author mainly focuses on infants and preschool children in Ljubljana.
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In 1826, upon the abolition of the Janissaries, the census was carried out in order to meet the military needs of the state and to determine its financial status and started to be recorded in the population books of Muslim and non-Muslim men. The first general population census was completed in 1831 in the Ottoman territory in this sense, and later the records were updated in the form of population surveys. When the population books kept together with the counts started to be sent to the center, organizational structures related to the subject started to be formed in Istanbul and in the provinces. Kütahya was the center of the Anatolian Beylerbeylik since the second half of the 15th century and the center of Hüdavendigar province since 1841. In the Prime Ministry's Ottoman Archives, Hüdavendigar State, Kütahya Sanjak, Kütahya Kazası Reaya Population Book and the book registered with NFS.d./1622 are the most important sources for the determination of non-Muslim population living in various parts of Kütahya accident in 1834. Based on this book, an examination and evaluation of the non-Muslim population living in Kütahya was carried out in this study.
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Since its foundation, Ottoman State classified and recorded in the Tahrir Defterleri (Tax Registers) the territories it conquered according to their revenues. Based on these records, researchers endeavour to have estimated demographic data on the Ottoman State. Similar practices continued as part of other practices in the later periods of the Empire such as Avârız Defterleri, Temettü’ât Defterleri, etc. In the Ottoman State, the first census in modern sense was conducted in Anatolia and Rumelia provinces during the reign of Mahmut II in 1831 (H. 1251). This census included only male population. It appears that the census starting in 1831 continued for 3-5 years. At the time, the census in Ardanuc sanjak of Cıldır province was carried out in 1251 in the Islamic calendar (A.D. 1835). This census recorded Muslim and non-Muslim populations in central Ardanuc and its villages. Ardanuc register of 1835 including Muslim, non-Muslim and Copt registers provides information about the male population in a total of 48 settlements with Ardanuç Kal’ası as the centre in Ardanuc sanjak. Some of the villages mentioned in the study may not be within the borders of Ardanuc municipality today.
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The aim of the study is to determine whether the levels of social anxiety of cabin personnel employed in the aviation sector on organizational commitment. In the study, an applied research was carried out on the 130 cabin personnel working in the leading enterprises of the aviation sector and the collected data were analyzed by the questionnaire form. The demographic factors of the cabin staff in the research group were observed. While there was no statistically significant difference in social anxiety in terms of gender and education, there was statistically significant difference in social anxiety in terms of marital status, duration of study, age and duty. As a result of the study, it was detected that the level of social anxiety of cabin personnel is low and organizational commitment of cabin personnel is high. It has been found that the social anxiety has a negative effect on the subordinate dimensions of emotional and organizational commitment.
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Although 3D printing was created more than thirty years ago, there are nowadays more and more applications of this type of real-world printing. One of the main areas of increasing interest in 3D printing is in the field of education and its application in various subjects and with different age groups. The implementation of technology in training provides a constructivist approach, i.e. a person actively builds what they know and does not receive knowledge passively.
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In 1552, after the Tımışvar ( Timisoara) and then the region of Lipova entered the Ottoman Empire administration, Timisoara governorship (Timisoara Beylerbeyliği) was founded in 1554 and the Lipova Sanjak was transformed into the center of this province. The tahrir book ( registration book) of Sanjak which has boundaries corresponding to Banat’s territories approximately, is found as a detailed one volume of mufassal book which was published in H.974 ( Hegira 974) in the Ottoman Archives of the Prime Ministry. According to this book dated with H. 974 / M.1566, the Sanjak of Lipova, Södin, Bireznuk (?),Great Vidnik, Pavlis, Vilagos, Kaprivar, Kapuluna, Hoste, Vipraj, Bucdunik, Kapucca, Varadia (Varadia), Sarvudnik, Filib and Almaj are separated into 16 townships. In this study, the administrative, economic and demographic situation of the Sanjak will be examined according to the Lipova Sanjak detailed report of H.974 dated.
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Rising unemployment among the youth has become a major social issue for many nations globalwide. This paper would be discussing the rising unemployment among the youth in South Korea. Also, a policy proposal to increase the employment rate would be suggested. It is the objective of this paper to present the policy aiming to increase the employment rate and address the rising unemployment among the youth. In this paper, we surveyed 100 university students to study the effect of their career decisions and job search anxiety as they prepare for employment. The employment rate calculation is based on the data obtained from ‘Higher Education in Korea’ by the Minister of Education of South Korea. The result of the analysis show that job search anxiety had a positive effect on job-seeking activities. Also, career decisions did not have a positive effect on job-seeking activities. First, we discussed the problem of rising unemployment among the youth. Then, the causes of unemployment among the youth were analyzed through the examination of demand and supply at the labor market. The employment rate of university majors was analyzed to determine the employment trends among the youth in South Korea. The employment rate for Medical Science and Engineering majors was higher than the employment rate for Art, Physical Education, Humanities, and Education majors. This paper presents and discusses the solution to the rising unemployment among the youth through a policy proposal aimed at improving youth employment rate.
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The demographic history of the village Krasne (the Krasne parish included also other villages) from 1786 to the second half of XIX century was presented in the article, and was based on the parish registers. The Krasne parish in the examined period of time demonstrated a continuity of the pastoral cast. The demographic rates used to assess the credibility of the source are positive. During the examined period there were 3794 baptisms, 725 marriages and 2 645 deaths in Krasne. They were all analyzed using a number of statistical methods. Moreover, the following aspects were analyzed, based on a reconstruction of families method: unmarried births, women performing function of midwife, deaths due to epidemics in families, generation transformations in peasant families, individual fates of given members of the rural population, persons of the underclass of rural population, owners of the village: Skrzyńscy, Kochanowscy.
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The author refers to biomedical and genetic aspects of human cloning, and their influences on the ethical and legal aspects of human cloning. Human cloning is a part of genetic engineering, however it is still in an experimental phase. It refers to gene cloning, DNA cloning, cell and tissue cloning, and organism cloning. Organism clone is a genetically identical duplicate of the original entity, and it is produced by somatic cell nuclear transfer, in which the nucleus of an egg cell (containing its genetic material) is removed and replaced with the nucleus of a somatic cell taken from the body of an adult. Another method refers to splitting of an embryo in early stages. As to applying cloning methods, there are two methods, the fi rst implies reproduction of entire organisms, and the second refers to stem cells production, that are used for therapeutical purposes. The cloning implies questioning of identity and purpose of the clone itself, and draws numerous ethical and legal implications. The ethical issue of cloning is still lingering, and remains unsolved and therefore the whole problem is shifted to the legal grounds.
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Theory of evolution is by far the most important theory in biology. Evolution’s integral role in science is well known – it is the milestone of modern biology. Dobzhansky’s famous dictum that “nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution“ is even more true today than it was half a century ago. The concepts and principles of evolution are fundamental in many fi elds in the biological science. Evolutionary explanations pervade all fields of biology and bring them together under one theoretical umbrella. A general knowledge of evolutionary mechanisms of biochemical adaptation is essential. Evolutionary biology has had implications to a new century of medicine; agriculture, biotechnology, and even law. Some of the most promising areas for the future use of evolutionary biology lie in drug development and the biotechnology industry. Thus, evolution, especially microevolution, has been fundamental to certain social imoprovements of this century, and it promises to be profoundly important to biomedical technology. There are many applications of evolutionary theory: from treatment of human disease, to forensics and software engineering. Finally, understanding the evolutionary history helps us conserve endangered species.
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