The Neutrality of Switzerland

1919 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-241
Author(s):  
Gordon E. Sherman
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Occupied Territory ◽  
The World

It has been finely said of Switzerland that while the present war has demonstrated in a sinister manner Swiss dependence upon its powerful neighbors for fuel and food, and thus for its very existence, nevertheless neither these neighbors nor the world at large could for a moment spare the example of heroism and devotion so constantly and consistently set by the Swiss nation in its political and social life. This quality of devotion has been illustrated during the war not alone by the struggles unavoidable in the maintenance of neutrality, but also in the far-reaching activities of the International Red Cross at Geneva. Indeed, the work accomplished through the agencies of this wonderful organization in the internment and care of wounded soldiers and their repatriation where permissible under belligerent agreement, in the repatriation of civilians driven from occupied territory, the transmission of mail to prisoners, and the discovery of vast numbers of the missing, constitute one of the most striking chapters in the war’s history.

scholarly journals A Review of Potential Antiviral Drugs and Vaccines to Treat COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 765-774
Author(s):  
Sanjeet Singh ◽  
Jayaram R.
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Patient Monitoring ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Drug Repurposing ◽  
Patient Handling ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
The World ◽  
Muscle Ache

Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) is a challenge to the whole humanity. COVID-19 was first reported in China and rigorous researches are going on for developing vaccine for the pandemic. This review was prepared by following PRISMA guidelines and used the resources from the Web of Science and PubMed. This research focuses on the niches of symptoms and vaccines for COVID-19. The research for vaccine involves research for new vaccine and drug repurposing. Out of various drug repurposing options, Remdesivir, and Favipiravir, Chloroquine and Lopinavir/Ritonavir were found to be the popular ones for treating COVID-19 patients across the world. Even though there are concerns regarding asymptotic patients, the most dominant symptoms of COVID-19 are fever and cough, followed by Dyspnoea and muscle ache. This review concludes that the COVID-19 related research should focus on developing immunity vaccines, and repurposing of drugs. Research on the problems of quarantine life, patient monitoring, and usage of information technology in facing COVID-19 will improve the quality of patient handling during the pandemic. The research on the effectiveness of various models of lockdown and regulation of social life during lockdown periods, improving the safety of health care workers in the workplace will definitely help the governments in their fight against COVID-19.

scholarly journals COMMON-SENSE LEGITIMATION OF INFORMAL PRACTICES IN PRESENT-DAY SERBIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-120
Author(s):  
MILOŠ JOVANOVIĆ
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
The World ◽  
Negative Orientation ◽  
Informal Practices

As a part of a larger research within the Horizon 2020 project Closing the Gap Between Formal and Informal Institutions in the Balkans, 38 semi-structured interviews with citizens of Serbia have been conducted in the period  July – October 2017. These comprise the database used for analysis of “narratives of informality” – stories of how the research participants legitimize (or rationalize) informal practices (using connections and acquaintances to “get things done”, giving/receiving bribe, exchange of favors, etc.), supplemented by the analysis of participants’ attitudes towards informal practices, particularly when using them themselves. An insight into the respondents’ ideas of informality was gained through describing and understanding doxa – beliefs of an individual as “a quasi-perfect correspondence between the objective order and the subjective principles of organization (with which) the natural and social world appear as self-evident” (Bourdieu) or senso comune (Gramsci) – “naturalized”, unreflected, practical knowledge taking the form of self-explanatory content of common sense, that which is taken for granted, what “everybody knows“, the knowledge of the world that is undisputed – “just the way it is”, the domain of indefinite beliefs and incoherent views of the world, the knowledge which “legitimizes with the absence of legitimizing”. The assumption is that the “quality” of doxa, in the sense of its positive or negative orientation, has a large impact on the possibility of changes in formal practices and procedures – in some cases serving as a stimulus for change, and as an obstacle to changes in others – situations in which the new/imported rules remain “empty shells” with little influence in social life.

From globalization to post-globalization: enclaves of augmented modernity and prospects of social development

2019 ◽  
pp. 12-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitry V. Ivanov
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Divide

The article presents an attempt to reconceptualize social development and to measure its level for societies facing the post-globalization as globalizing networks and flows paradoxically are localized in super-urban areas. The economic and social divide between the group of the largest cities and the rest of the world supports the idea that globalization has resulted not in the ‘world society’ or ‘worldwide sociality’ but rather in networked enclaves of globality where people experience borderless, multicultural, and mobile social life in the regime of augmented modernity. In the post-globalization age, the ‘core’ of socioeconomic order is dispersed into networks of enclaves of augmented modernity contrasting with exhausted modernity outside them. The nations’ prospects of social development depend on number, size, and influence of cosmopolitan super-urban areas attracting and generating transnational material, human, and symbolic flows. The super-urbanization index is elaborated to measure nations’ prospects under post-globalization conditions. Traditional indices of standard of living and quality of life have to be augmented in the new theoretical model and system of empirical indicators of social development under post-globalization conditions.

PENDIDIKAN ANAK BERWAWASAN KEWIRAUSAHAAN

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-57
Author(s):  
Francisca R Sinay
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Active Role ◽  
School Level ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Education Model

Efforts to improve the quality of education in Indonesia have long been carried out. Improving the quality of education is one of the development priorities in the field of education. Seeing these conditions, the world of education must be able to play an active role in preparing educated human resources who are able to face the challenges of life both locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. It is not enough to master theories, but also be willing and able to apply them in social life. Not only able to apply knowledge in primary, secondary and tertiary education, but also able to solve various problems encountered in everyday life. Entrepreneurial education is education that applies principles and methodologies towards the formation of life skills for students through an integrated curriculum developed in schools. This paper tries to offer an entrepreneurial insight education model for pre-school level and primary school. With this model, if it is implemented, it is expected that the world of education will contribute significantly to improving the quality of human resources in Indonesia. The framework of entrepreneurship development among educators is felt to be very important. Because educators are 'agents of change' who are expected to be able to instill the characteristics, nature and character as well as the spirit of entrepreneurship or the soul of 'entrepreneur' for their students. Besides that the spirit of 'entrepreneur' is also very necessary for an educator, because through this soul, educators will have a work orientation that is more efficient, creative, innovative, productive and independent. Keywords: Children's Education, Entrepreneurship.

scholarly journals Study on the European framework for the application of the active ageing index

2021 ◽  
Vol 342 ◽  
pp. 10001
Author(s):  
Gianina Chirugu ◽  
Felicia Andrioni
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Active Ageing ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Continuous Growth ◽  
European Area ◽  
The World

The challenges associated with the ageing population are important and continuous growth across the world, especially in Europe, the continent with the oldest population. The fundamental objective of active ageing interventions is to optimise opportunities for health, participation and security so as to increase the quality of life of the population with ageing. The Active Ageing Index is a flexible comparative analysis tool that has the mission to help promote and implement active ageing. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to analyse the phenomenon of active ageing from the perspective of the active ageing index in the European area. The methodology used consisted of document analysis, study for several countries in the European space such as: Italy, Germany, Poland, Spain, Romania, analysis and comparison of statistic data. The results obtained show that the role of this active ageing index is to capture the various facets of active ageing, measuring the contribution of older people (women and men) to economic and social life and to the extent to which the environment in which they live stimulates them in this regard to provide more active participation in employment, social life and to lead independent lives.

scholarly journals The Analysis of The Effects of Variables Used in the Formation of PISA Scores on Job Index Values for OECD Member States

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Ozlem Deniz Basar ◽  
Elif Guneren Genc
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Direct Proportion ◽  
Better Life Index ◽  
Ordinal Logistic Regression Analysis ◽  
The World

The quality of an adult’s daily working life comprising the major part of his life, will also increase the quality of his social life. Having a good working life is also associated with having a job that one desires and regards it as suitable for himself. But as will be acknowledged all over the world, the quality of a job that one can have will be affected in direct proportion to the quality of his education and his ability to meet company’s demands. Starting from this point of view, some of the variables used to obtain PISA scores for the year 2015 were identified for the purpose of the examination of qualified education, and that to which extent they influence the job index variable, included in the OECD Better Life index to represent a decent work, was investigated using ordinal logistic regression analysis.

scholarly journals Comparative analyses of Kyrgyz, Turkish, Russian phraseological units

2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (4) ◽  
pp. 139-148
Author(s):  
Ch. T. Sydykova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The World ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Ethical Norms ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
General Opinion ◽  
Culture And Language

The research is conducted on the material of phraseological expressions of communicative nature - proverbs and sayings of Kyrgyz, Turkish and Russian languages, which will be subjected to comparative analysis in order to identify similarities and differences in the perception of the world, the definition of national character, national and cultural values of these ethnic groups. Proverbs and sayings are extremely brief, they do not give a detailed image of life. But only one statement or phrase built n well-aimed figurative forms, expresses a general opinion about this or that phenomenon of life. Comparative analysis of phraseological units in different languages revealed similarities and differences in the perception of the world by their representatives: Kyrgyz, Turks and Russians. The number and quality of phraseological expressions, reflecting a positive or negative assessment of the concepts presented for analysis, can be considered as an indicator of accepted in society ethical norms of behavior, the rules of social life, the attitude of the ethnic group through its culture and language to the world.

scholarly journals O potrzebie wiedzy humanistycznej. Ku wychowaniu człowieka zintegrowanego. Próba wskazania tropów

2020 ◽  
pp. 283-299
Author(s):  
Magdalena Joachimowska
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Scientific Fields

The content of the article was created during the search for justification for, stated in the subject literature, the need for the existence of an integrated (trans-disciplinary) science about humans; this need to gather existing knowledge which allows for a comprehensive and holistic understanding about an individual, their essence (both humans and their humanity) and their activity encouraging the education of a person ready to take responsibility for the quality of their life resulting from reflection and understanding. Bringing up self-aware and thinking people, who realize themselves in their personal, professional and social life, who are responsible for themselves, others, and the world around them. The aim of the conducted analysis was also to search for a common language (common categories and meanings) of researchers from various scientific fields (philosophy, anthropology, sociology, pedagogy, physics, law, history, mathematics and others) and various cultures concerned about their existence, and thus about the existence of an individual and their humanity.

The phaleristic items (1919–1939) which are collected in the Institute of Research of Library’s Art Resources of Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv

2019 ◽  
pp. 516-530
Author(s):  
Roman Holii
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Public Organizations ◽  
International Congress ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Memorial Award ◽  
Made In

The library holds 87 phaleristic awards 1919–1939, from Austria, Great Britain, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Sweden, Ukraine, USA. Among these awards we can conditionally distinguish the following thematic groups: Ukrainian and Ukrainian related awards, foreign phaleristic, international professional congresses. In these groups it is possible to distinguish subgroups representing different individual aspects of social life in Ukraine and in other countries in 1919–1939. Ukrainian and Ukrainian related honors include: Ukrainian-language honors made in Ukraine; honors of the Ukrainian Diaspora; non-Ukrainian-language honors made on Ukrainian lands. Foreign phaleristics are represented by thematic subgroups: state distinctions (Serbian Order of Saint Sava, Polish medals, etc.); non-state public awards; phalleristics of public organizations (the Red Cross, associations of librarians, doctors, electricians, technicians and others); German and Polish phaleristics on the occasion of a plebiscite in Silesia in 1921; monuments of cultural and artistic events; business awards (ASEA, Leica, Germany) and more. Distinctions of international professional congresses concern mainly medical organizations: I General Congress of Slavic Physicians in Warsaw 1927; The 1st, 2nd and 3rd Congresses of the Union of Slavic Dermatologists (in Warsaw in 1929, in Belgorod in 1931 and in Prague in 1934); The Third International Pediatricians Congress, London, 1933; IX International Congress of Dermatologists in Budapest 1935. Available in the library’s collection a memorial award of the International Congress of the World Union of Electricity Producers and Distributors in Paris, 1928 (two variants of decoration with different mounting methods). Keywords: phaleristics, awards, international professional congresses.

scholarly journals The COVID-2019 Pandemic as a Catalyst of the Potential Loss of Democratic Foundations of Society’s Social Life

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 275
Author(s):  
Victoria Vadimovna Perskaya ◽  
Valery Leonidovich Аbramov ◽  
Victor Yakovlevich Pishchik ◽  
Peter Viktorovich Alekseev ◽  
Marina Borisovna Medvedeva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
World Order ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
The World ◽  
On Line ◽  
The Government ◽  
Line Work ◽  
Great Possibility ◽  
Modern Technologies

The pandemic-2020 has come quite unexpectedly despite the repeated warnings from WHO. It turned out that the infection’s spread in all countries of the world and the new-how to resist it depends on the ability to mobilize national system of health protection. So, on the quality of the provided medical service, on the accessibility to all levels of the society and on the ability of countries’ governments to provide with proper regulation of social life self-isolation, on-line work and quarantine regimes became the most effective tools in the world. It demanded the appropriate control mostly based on new technological solutions. Remote work and the possibilities of modern technologies to track and identify people may get elaboration after the end of the pandemic-2020. There is a great possibility to lose a part of democratic freedom of society due to using new systems of social life control in order to increase countries functioning effectiveness as the main units of a polycentric model of the world order. It is emphasized that polycentrism should lead neither to the totalitarianism of power nor to the loss of democratization of social life. The government should promote this process by increasing the effectiveness of its activity not substituting it for total control based on ICT.   Received: 15 July 2021 / Accepted: 12 October 2021 / Published: 5 November 2021

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