scholarly journals Integration and independence in the perspective of rural municipalities

2009 ◽  
Vol 55 (No. 12) ◽  
pp. 596-604 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Hudečková ◽  
M. Pitterling
Keyword(s):  
Local Identity ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Empirical Survey ◽  
Cultural Terms ◽  
Lower Ability ◽  
Rural Municipalities ◽  
Depth Interviews

In order to develop the quality of life in small rural municipalities, their representation faces the thoughts about the perspective of these municipalities in economic terms (the capacity to finance long-term investments) as well as in the socio-cultural terms (the development of participation in public life embedded in the local identity). This article presents the results of the pilot empirical survey in one micro-region of the Czech Republic. The results of the in-depth interviews clearly indicate the preference of the investigated communities to choose the strategy of supporting their independence (which might result in the risk of lower ability to deal with economic problems) prior to the strategy to strengthen the economy of the community through merging the municipalities (and to risk the potential loss of local identity). The conclusions consider the possible forms of municipal cooperation reinforcing the capacity to address economic problems while preserving the autonomy of small rural municipalities. However, the low ability of the partnership cooperation of these municipalities is demonstrated.

Ensuring Integrity of High Energy Piping in the NPP’s of the Czech Republic

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiri Zdarek ◽  
Jan Dotrel ◽  
Vaclav Jarolimek
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Piping Systems ◽  
Defense In Depth

An approach of ensuring the quality of piping of NPP’s on the Czech Republic is described, with focus on high energy piping systems. Basic principles of this approach are described that are aimed to ensure the safety goals while maintaining the effectiveness of NPP operation during its long-term life. This approach ensures defense in depth of the piping. Its application on the high energy piping on +28.8 m level of WWER 1000 type NPP is demonstrated.

The struggle for good care: moral challenges during the COVID-19 lockdown of Dutch elderly care facilities

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy van der Geugten ◽  
Gaby Jacobs ◽  
Anne Goossensen
Keyword(s):  
Moral Distress ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Personal Ethics ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Insight Into

The COVID-19 lockdown of Dutch long-term care facilities between March and May 2020 affected the quality of lives of residents and opposed professional and personal ethics of care. This article, based on 25 in-depth interviews with healthcare chaplains, gives insight into what moral challenges appeared for care professionals. Moral challenges were related to: ‘family ruptures’, ‘residents’ loneliness and despair’, ‘cold-hearted deaths’ and ‘response and responsibilities’. The findings illuminate the complexity of providing care during the lockdown and show variation in the impact of these ethical experiences, in which both moral distress and moral resilience occurred.

scholarly journals Influence of nitrogen fertilizer injection (CULTAN) on yield, yield components formation and quality of winter wheat grain

2009 ◽  
Vol 55 (No. 12) ◽  
pp. 536-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Kozlovský ◽  
J. Balík ◽  
J. Černý ◽  
M. Kulhánek ◽  
M. Kos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Winter Wheat ◽  
Grain Quality ◽  
Vegetation Period ◽  
Control Treatment ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Small Plot ◽  
Ammonium Nutrition ◽  
Time Injection

The CULTAN (Controlled Uptake Long Term Ammonium Nutrition) system is based on one-time injection of the whole dose of nitrogen required for the vegetation period. The effect of this method on yield and grain quality of winter wheat was observed in a 2-year small-plot trial at 4 different experimental sites in the Czech Republic. The experiment comprised two treatments with the total amount of nitrogen applied during fertilization of 150 kg N/ha. At the CULTAN treatment the whole dose was applied all at once using the GFI 3A injection machine (Maschinen und Antriebstechnik GmbH Güstrow), whereas at the control treatment, the dose was divided into three applications. The average grain yield of winter wheat in 2007 was 9.56 t/ha (control) and 8.78 t/ha (CULTAN); in 2008 it was 9.91 t/ha (control) and 9.63 t/ha (CULTAN). The differences in 2008 were not statistically significant. The contents of nitrogen and gluten were significantly lower at CULTAN treatment in both years. The values of falling number, Zeleny test and bulk density were generally similar at both treatments.

Quality of care in long-term care departments in mental health facilities across the Czech Republic

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 885-890 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucie Kalisova ◽  
Marek Pav ◽  
Petr Winkler ◽  
Jiri Michalec ◽  
Helen Killaspy
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Health Facilities ◽  
Term Care ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Mental Health Facilities

Client experience of street-level activation practices: Implementation of discourage policy in the Czech Republic

2020 ◽  
pp. 026101832098058
Author(s):  
Barbora Gřundělová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Formal Policy ◽  
Activation Policy ◽  
Depth Interviews

Despite the fact that the unemployment rate in the Czech Republic is one of the lowest in Europe, the country suffers from stagnating long-term unemployment. At the same time, there is a large number of people who fall out of the system as a result of harsh sanctions. The article aims to examine how the activation policy is implemented from the perspective of job seekers and to identify street-level activation practices using a micro-institutionalist perspective. To meet the objective, we used a qualitative research strategy and in-depth interviews. The results of the study show how particular levels of activation intertwine and how they strengthen and create a comprehensive normative system around work, unemployment, and financial support, thus enabling the implementation of the street-level activation practices. Street-level bureaucrats pursue formal policy goals that seek to discourage people from entitlement to benefits and services to cut down expenditures and improve statistics.

scholarly journals Was Viktor Orbán’s Unorthodox Economic Policy the Right Answer to Hungary’s Economic Misfortunes?

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcin A. Piasecki
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Communist Revolution ◽  
The Right

Abstract This paper assesses whether the unorthodox policies implemented in Hungary since 2010 were, given a four-year perspective, the right answer to Hungarian economic problems. The paper draws on findings from the author’s August and November 2014 study trips to Hungary, during which Hungarian government officials and scholars from Budapest University of Technology and Economics were interviewed. These findings were supplemented by publications and data from Eurostat and World Bank databases. Statistical data from May 2015 demonstrate that significant improvements took place in most (if not all) areas of the Hungarian economy since 2010. The country avoided bankruptcy and its 2014 GDP growth outpaced that of the Czech Republic and Poland. Viktor Orbán’s economic reforms therefore seem to have been the appropriate response to the Hungary’s economic misfortunes. The jury is, however, still out on whether those policies laid lasting fundaments for long-term growth. Hungary is the first Central European country (since the anti-communist revolution triggered by Solidarność movement) that is experimenting with an independent economic policy. The results of Viktor Orbán’s experiment, if ultimately judged positive, could have profound consequences for the other countries in Central Europe and beyond.

scholarly journals Bližšia košeľa ako kabát? Sociálne siete rodiny a komunity seniorov v slovenských mestách

Český lid ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 108 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-321
Author(s):  
Marcela Káčerová ◽  
Juraj Majo ◽  
Ľubica Voľanská
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Friendship Networks ◽  
Intergenerational Relationship ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
Family Networks ◽  
Kinship Networks ◽  
The Social ◽  
Depth Interviews

The quality of social networks influences the quality of life in old age because the absence of them leads to social exclusion and loneliness, which are, according to the literature, the most serious concerns perceived by seniors. We focused on the social networks of seniors and loneliness in the urban environment. We were interested in how seniors reflect their social networks. Do they place emphasis on family or community networks? The paper was based on a mixed-method with a questionnaire on a sample of 1,026 seniors living in cities in Slovakia in combination with in-depth interviews. In connection to the assumption of the influence of long-term patterns of family structures on intergenerational relationship and relationships with friends, it was found that there is a preference for family networks. Friendship networks are long-lasting, transforming and, unlike kinship networks, do not extend geographically beyond city boundaries.

scholarly journals Results of agricultural enterprises economy in 2004

2012 ◽  
Vol 52 (No. 1) ◽  
pp. 31-44
Author(s):  
F. Střeleček ◽  
J. Lososová ◽  
R. Zdeněk
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Continuous Analysis ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Agricultural Enterprises ◽  
External Conditions ◽  
The Eu

The study has been elaborated on the basis of a continuous analysis of economic results of a selected sample of agricultural enterprises operating in different climatic and productional conditions. Long-term tendencies and their influencing factors are defined on the basis of this analysis. The goal of this study is to evaluate the influence of external conditions on the economy of agricultural enterprises and on their economic results and to analyze the influence of the accession of the Czech Republic to the EU on the change of economic conditions of agricultural enterprises. On the basis of this study, the authors measures which would intensify the influence of agricultural enterprising on the rural development and which would improve the quality of life of rural inhabitants.

scholarly journals Purchasing behavior of Fairtrade customers

2013 ◽  
Vol 61 (7) ◽  
pp. 1957-1967 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariana Ambrožová ◽  
Ondřej Částek
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Target Group ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Purchasing Behavior ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The Public ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Empirical Survey ◽  
Corporate Social

The volume of corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities is increasing worldwide; the European Union considers CSR to be one of the ways to achieve the most competitive economy and CSR awareness is also rising among companies in the Czech Republic, their customers, and the public. Bearing this in mind, Fairtrade goods, a subset of CSR and sustainable development, is an attractive step for vendors to take towards their customers. In this paper, we try to learn who the buyers of Fairtrade products are and what their motivation is in order to help Fairtrade dealers know their target group better, while at the same time helping expand this target group for organizations such as Fairtrade Czech Republic. We utilize an empirical survey and employ both univariate and bivariate statistical analyses (descriptives, associations, correlations) for this purpose. While some previous findings were confirmed, such as (the influence of age and education on Fairtrade purchasing behavior, moral principles and quality of the product being stated as the most important motives to buy Fairtrade products, the significance of the Fairtrade logo and certificate for the buyers’ awareness) one was disproved. According to the gathered data, the economic situation of a household does not affect Fairtrade purchasing behavior.

scholarly journals PROBLEMS OF PARENTS CARING FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 268
Author(s):  
Maryna Lekholetova ◽  
Tetiana Liakh ◽  
Nataliia Zaveryko
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Medical Problems ◽  
Raising Children ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Access Problems ◽  
Educational Potential ◽  
Depth Interviews

The development of integrated social services for parents raising children with disabilities is one of the priorities of social policy in Ukraine. The purpose of this article is to identify the typical problems of parents raising children with disabilities. Based on the in-depth interviews conducted by parents raising children with disabilities in two regions of Ukraine (n=60), groups of typical problems they face (discrimination, medical problems, imperfection of regulatory support, information problems, access problems, problems of early diagnosis / early intervention, psychological problems, risk of institutionalization, financial and economic problems) and their analysis. In-depth interviews identified issues that could provide brief guidance on social work with families raising children with disabilities.The authors draw attention to the urgent and structural changes needed to improve the access of parents of children with disabilities to quality social services and to improve the quality of their social and pedagogical support, including enhancing the educational potential of such parents.  

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