Economic Evaluation of the Management of Municipal Firms at the Level of Rural Local Self-Governments (Case Study)

The municipality generally uses its property to perform self-governing functions, and public or business activities. In the conditions of the Slovak Republic, the municipality operates either as a legal entity in its own name or carries out business activities with the help of a contributory and budgetary organization or business firm established by the municipality. Revenues from business activities form an important part of the revenue of local self-government budgets. The aim of this paper was an economic evaluation of the management of municipal firms at the level of rural local self-governments in the conditions of the Slovak Republic on the basis of selected economic indicators. At the same time, we analyzed the relationship between selected economic indicators in relation to the size, lifespan and number of employees of the firm. The analysis was performed in the time period 2015–2019 on a sample of municipal firms at the level of rural local self-governments. For the analysis, we used selected mathematical–statistical methods (Shapiro–Wilk test, Kruskal–Wallis test, and regression analysis). The analysis showed that the differences in the profitability of municipal firms from the point of view of the region in which they operate as well as from the point of view of the number of employees is not statistically significant. Statistical significance was not demonstrated even within the volume of revenue of municipal firms from the point of view of the region in which the municipal firm operates. The volume of revenues of municipal enterprises with the population of the municipality as well as the length of time of operation on the market is growing, but these are not the only factors on which these results depend.

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Where is semiotic-cultural constructivism in psychology heading? Contemporary reflections on the trajectory of an approach to cultural psychology

Culture & Psychology ◽

10.1177/1354067x211017300 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1354067X2110173

Author(s):

Danilo Silva Guimarães

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Construction ◽

Cultural Psychology ◽

Scientific Progress ◽

Human Action ◽

Point Of View ◽

Cultural Experience ◽

Ethical Implications ◽

Psychological Knowledge ◽

The Relationship

This article aims to discuss the relationship between personal cultural experience and knowledge construction in psychology, from the perspective of the Semiotic-Cultural Constructivism. The thoughts here presented are, at the same time, from within psychology and about psychology. The researcher is culturally situated and science is a field of production of cultural works that aims to create perspectives of knowledge about the world. Researchers can and must create some detachment from their field of study to be able to understand the course of their own knowledge constructions. This detachment is achieved through a historical–philosophical view on the theoretical–methodological propositions of their field of research. As a case study, we selected for analysis the field’s pioneer productions, from the years 1982 to 2004. The material showed that the rationality that characterizes scientific research is directed, in this field, to creating semiotic resources for further developing reflexivity in psychology, as a recursive and open-ended process. The theoretical–methodological work of the researcher concerns its own personal cultural experience and the tradition of the already constructed knowledge, selected to a dialogue about the ethical implications of human action. Therefore, advances in psychological knowledge construction cannot be addressed from an external, allegedly neutral point of view, focused on the efficacy of the instruments resulting from the said “scientific progress.”

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Herman Trunk’s Cubist Crucifix: A Case Study

Religion and the Arts ◽

10.1163/156852911x596264 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 15 (5) ◽

pp. 628-647

Author(s):

Cynthia Fowler

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Modern Art ◽

Alternative Perspective ◽

Time Period ◽

The Relationship

Abstract American modern artist Herman Trunk (1894–1963) serves as a noteworthy case study in a consideration of the relationship between religion and American modern art in the first half of the twentieth century. One of his few overtly religious works, Crucifix (c. 1930), stands out for its intriguing convergence of a most important Catholic subject with Cubist art. This essay examines Trunk’s Cubist Crucifix in relation to other Crucifix and Crucifixion paintings created around the same time period. Trunk’s Crucifix is unique among abstract paintings of religious subjects in the artist’s distinctive use of Cubism to create a quiet meditation on the crucified Christ. In some respects affirming the long tradition of Crucifix and Crucifixion paintings, Crucifix also counters those traditions to provide an alternative perspective on the Crucifix as a subject. Through his Crucifix painting, Trunk successfully brings together two traditions that historically have been viewed as diametrically opposed—Catholicism and Cubist abstraction—to produce a devotional image of the Crucifix as a form of veneration.

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“Claim vs. Reality”—A German Case Study on Modes and Functions of Sports-Pedagogical Communication

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living ◽

10.3389/fspor.2021.775322 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 ◽

Author(s):

David Jaitner ◽

Swen Koerner ◽

Esther Serwe-Pandrick

Keyword(s):

Direct Synthesis ◽

Point Of View ◽

Scientific Texts ◽

Disciplinary Identity ◽

Scientific Disciplines ◽

Functional Point ◽

Supporting Pillar ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

Academic sports pedagogy continuously assures itself of its disciplinary foundations and determines its position in the structure of modern sciences. While communication is based on differences, the distinction between claim and reality plays a crucial role in sports pedagogy. However, the forms and functions in which the distinction appears have not been more closely investigated in sports pedagogic. This article starts with this in mind, exemplarily focusing on academic sports pedagogy in Germany. While analyzing 212 scientific texts of sports-pedagogical provenance, three central variations of the distinction could be identified, which persist until today and are present in the discipline's central discussion lines: (1) hierarchical demarcation, (2) unsystematic approach, (3) direct synthesis. From a functional point of view, the distinction between claim and reality continuously (re)organizes the relationship of sports pedagogy to other scientific disciplines, educational policy guidelines, and school practice expectations, thus proving to be a supporting pillar of disciplinary identity work.

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University and Practice – Cooperation in Research and Science: Case study of the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra

Quality Innovation Prosperity ◽

10.12776/qip.v23i1.1168 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

pp. 136

Author(s):

Jana Jarábková ◽

Marcela Chrenekova ◽

Oľga Roháčiková

Keyword(s):

Slovak Republic ◽

Point Of View ◽

Spatial Proximity ◽

University Environment ◽

Research Activities ◽

Central Register ◽

Practical Life ◽

The University ◽

Science And Research

Purpose: Besides their educational and research functions, universities are currently essential for dissemination of knowledge in innovation processes, thus affecting the economic and social development of their environments. The formalized cooperation of the Slovak University of Agriculture (SUA) in Nitra and its partners in research and science was examined in this context.Methodology/Approach: Formal cooperation of the university with working life partners in terms of their sectoral and geographic affiliation was analyzed in the paper. The Central Register of Contracts and the SUA Internal Register of Contracts were used as principal sources of data. Based on interviews and selected studies conducted in the Slovak Republic we further focused on identification of barriers to the transfer of the results of research into practice.Findings: The paper confirmed cognitive and spatial proximity between SUA and its partners. The sectoral focus of the partners is closely related to the profile of the university. From the spatial point of view, more significant concentration of SUA partners in the region of Western Slovakia was confirmed. We identified several barriers to the transfer of the results of scientific research activities from the university environment into practical life.Research Limitation/implication: We conducted research on the example of one university, thus it is not possible to generalize the results.Originality/Value of paper: The paper analyzes the collaboration of the University in science and research with partners in practical life and identifies weaknesses and barriers to this cooperation.

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An investigation on the relationship between arbitrage and macro-economic indicators: A case study of Tehran Stock Exchange

Management Science Letters ◽

10.5267/j.msl.2014.2.032 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 635-640 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Samira Fazli ◽

Solmaz Sherkati Shlan ◽

Somayeh Radsar ◽

Mostafa Radsar

Keyword(s):

Stock Exchange ◽

Economic Indicators ◽

The Relationship

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Ethics, Wearable Technology, and Higher Education

Human Rights and Ethics ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-6433-3.ch087 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 1581-1596

Author(s):

Marcia Alesan Dawkins

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Wearable Technology ◽

Point Of View ◽

Google Glass ◽

Interactive Instruction ◽

Civic Duty ◽

The Relationship ◽

Communication Culture ◽

Shed Light

This chapter explores the relationship between ethics, wearable technology, and higher education through the lens of teaching with Google Glass. Beginning with an introduction to Glass and to the contemporary concept of the digital citizen, the chapter traces out a pedagogical framework aimed at preparing learners to embrace their civic duty to contribute to the virtual world responsibly. Continuing with an investigation of ethical obligations, educational concepts, and learning exercises made available by advances in HET, the chapter describes how to use Google Glass as a case study for examining the limits and possibilities of a new point-of-view angle on interactive instruction. To this end, students' project-based and experiential learning about how Glass impacts communication culture and technology, commerce, security, access, etiquette, branding, ethics, and law is described. The chapter concludes with a discussion of how technology's ethical consciousness continues to be enacted and embodied via a “collusive” point-of-view angle and third voice that shed light on the ongoing rhetorical and pedagogical processes of expression, experience, and identification in the digital age.

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Trade Openness and Economic Growth in Turkey: A Rolling Frequency Domain Analysis

Economies ◽

10.3390/economies7020041 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 41 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Emrah İ. Çevik ◽

Erdal Atukeren ◽

Turhan Korkmaz

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Frequency Domain ◽

Trade Openness ◽

Frequency Domain Analysis ◽

Causal Relationships ◽

Causality Test ◽

Time Period ◽

The Face ◽

The Relationship

Taking Turkey’s experience as a case study, this study provides further insights into the evaluation of time-varying Granger-causal relationships in the trade openness and economic performance nexus. We reinvestigated the Granger-causal relationships between trade openness and real economic growth in Turkey for the time period 1950–2014. We employed a rolling version of Breitung and Candelon’s frequency domain Granger-causality test, which allowed us to identify the changes in the nature of the causal relationships overtime. Hence, in the face of different results found in the literature overtime, our study provides a more unified evidence on the relationship between trade openness and real economic growth in Turkey. In addition, we found empirical evidence for the possibility of a distinct temporal ordering in a feedback relationship between trade openness and economic growth. We called this situation “sequential feedback”.

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Some Remarks on Manumission and Consecration in Hellenistic Chaeronea

Journal of Global Slavery ◽

10.1163/2405836x-00301009 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 (1-2) ◽

pp. 129-151

Author(s):

Sara L. Zanovello

Keyword(s):

Point Of View ◽

Specific Mode ◽

Central Greece ◽

Legal Perspective ◽

Legal Nature ◽

The Relationship

Abstract This article aims to discuss the relationship between manumission and consecration from a legal perspective, by analyzing as a case study the corpus of inscriptions from Hellenistic Chaeronea, which is usually believed to represent a specific mode of “sacral” manumission, namely, through consecration of a slave to the god. Chaeronea provides the bulk of the evidence for this alleged form of manumission, and the content of its inscriptions are highly formulaic: they typically attest the consecration (anatithemi) of a slave (doulos) as sacred (hieros) to a god, generally Serapis. After pointing out the legal nature of manumission, the article will challenge the traditional scholarly interpretation that holds that, as an effect of consecration, slaves became free individuals. The identification of consecration with manumission, in other words, raises a number of problems. Through a close look at the single elements which characterized the condition of hieroi in Hellenistic Central Greece, the article will argue that while from a legal point of view, hieroi were slaves of the god, the absence of an actual owner exercising the powers descending from his right of ownership meant that their de facto condition resembled in several ways that of free individuals. The inscriptions from Chaeronea do not attest to manumission, but rather to consecration of slaves to the god, which ultimately result in a transfer of ownership over slaves from the human to the divine sphere.

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The Impact of Organizational Silence on a Sustainable Competitive Advantage: A Case Study of the Electrical Industries Company

Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences ◽

10.36941/mjss-2021-0016 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 34

Author(s):

Muayad Abdulkareem Shakir Al-naqeeb ◽

Imad Khaleel Ismael

Keyword(s):

Competitive Advantage ◽

Inverse Correlation ◽

Point Of View ◽

Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽

Organizational Silence ◽

Negative Effect ◽

Descriptive Approach ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship

This study seeks to analyze the factors causing organizational silence and the impact of this on the sustainable competitive advantage of organizations, The researchers used the descriptive approach, being the best approach from the researchers' point of view, to clarify the relationship between the research variables and the achievement of the study objectives, The Electric Industries Company was chosen to understand the reality of organizational silence and analyze what is required in order to make the necessary recommendations that can contribute to sustaining the company's competitive advantage and reducing the phenomenon of organizational silence and its effects. The results of research confirmed the inverse correlation between organizational silence and the sustainable competitive advantage, also that the organizational silence has a negative effect on the sustainable competitive advantage. Received: 11 February 2021 / Accepted: 20 April 2021 / Published: 17 May 2021

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Syntax of the leads of journalistic reports on online and printed newspapers (A case study of Dan Tri, Vietnamnet, Tuoi Tre, and Lao Dong in 2012 and 2013)

Science and Technology Development Journal ◽

10.32508/stdj.v18i1.1046 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 75-83

Author(s):

Van Thi Hanh Dang

Keyword(s):

Statistical Significance ◽

Online Newspapers ◽

The Relationship

With the help of statistics, this paper analyses and compares syntactical characteristics of the leads of journalistic reports on online newspapers, such as Dan Tri and Vietnamnet, to those in printed newspapers, such as Tuoi Tre and Lao Dong. We have achieved results of statistical significance (p < 0,05), which indicates differences between the two types of newspapers on various aspects such as the number of sentences, the length of sentences (depending on syllable), sentences classified by syntax, sentences classified by speaking purposes, and leads classified by topic sentences. Those results work as starters for evaluating the relationship between online newspapers and printed newspapers on various aspects.

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