scholarly journals New challenges for the Slovakian geography of religions in a dynamic society

Geografie ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 126 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-96
Author(s):  
Juraj Majo
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Suburban Areas ◽  
Space Construction ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
Relationship Of

Religion represents an appealing topic for social science research. Especially in Eastern European countries, the resurgence of religious identities and practices poses many questions that are of interest to human geography. We approach this research gap in Slovakia, outlining the main research topics that have dominated the scientific field, especially atlases and census data analyses. This paper proposes several possible points of interest where research in Slovakian (and possibly Eastern Central European) religion can proceed. Topics such as secularization, non-religion and demographic aspects of religion, like research in suburban areas and areas of religious identity diminution, are potentially attractive, yet not thoroughly researched, fields. Geographers of religion should be more audible with their analysis of the relationship of religious/non-religious identity and space construction in certain contexts.

scholarly journals Domestic Final Demand as a Determinant of R&D Activity in Selected Central and Eastern European Countries

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-128
Author(s):  
Iwona Świeczewska
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Final Demand ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Household Demand ◽  
Input Output ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Leontief Model ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
The Impact

This article presents the results of an empirical study conducted based on selected countries in Central and Eastern Europe. The study focused on the impact of domestic final demand for products manufactured by individual industries on the R&D activity in the country. The main research tools are the Leontief model and R&D multipliers. The application of the input-output methods allows domestic R&D expenditures to be broken down into institutional sectors to establish what part of the expenditures is embodied in products manufactured to meet final household demand, in exports, etc.

scholarly journals Relationship of Competitiveness and Social Cohesion in the European Union

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Eperjesi Zoltan
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Financial Crises ◽  
Global Competition ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Core ◽  
Main Emphasis ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
Relationship Of

<p>The current study strives to present how the European Union changed its economic policy due to the economic and financial crises and the fierce global competition. The main emphasis was laid upon competitiveness on contrary of cohesion and social and economic close up of the newly joined Middle- and Eastern European countries. Funds serving the target of competitiveness for growth and employment are increased by 6-7% annually during the budget period 2007-2013 while agricultural spending decreases by 3% annually. The change of paradigm projects the two speed Europe concept and causes severe tensions between the core regions and the peripheries. </p>

Research Based Nursing Home Design: An Approach for Planning Environments for the Aging

1973 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 307-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward R. Ostrander
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Analysis ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Aged People ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Environment And Behavior ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Experts agree that there is limited empirical information available dealing with the impact of the physical and social environment on the behavior of institutionalized aged people. A procedure for pursuing this issue called environmental analysis is developing. Environmental analysis draws on a variety of social science research techniques to form an environmental assessment battery for understanding the relationship of environment and behavior. User-sensitive environmental design requires environmental analysis as a starting point. In contrast to inspection or evaluation, environmental analysis has a problem solving orientation rather than a judgmental one. The generalizations produced through environmental analysis can provide guidance for boards and administrators when planning a new facility, prior to major rennovation and as a basis for reviewing current operations.

scholarly journals Personalized Allocation of English Teaching Resources through Weight Calculation Based on Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. 202
Author(s):  
Yuxin Tian
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Social Science ◽  
International Education ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
New York University ◽  
Teaching Resources ◽  
Main Research ◽  
The Social

Yuxin Tian (1988.2) Female, was born in Shaanxi Xi'an. She graduated from New York University, M.A. in TESOL. Now, she works at School of International Education, Northwest University. Her main research interests include Second Language Acquisition, Second Language Teaching and Technology, Intercultural Communication. During work, she leads the Social Science Research Project funded by the Shaanxi Education Department and was a key participant of the Social Science Project funded by the Shaanxi Academy of Social Sciences.

The Non-Politics of Social Science Information: A Manifesto

1981 ◽  
Vol 14 (02) ◽  
pp. 264-267
Author(s):  
Fred W. Riggs
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Field Trips ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
Science Information

If politics are based on the need, in any collectivity, to allocate scarce resources, then there should long ago have been a lively politics of social science information—but there has not been. However, political inaction can be attributed not only to non-scarcity, but also to the failure—for whatever reason—of affected persons to take action in their own interest.The fact thatscarcities do plague the fieldof social science information—especially at the international level—will be apparent if one reflects on the following facts:• there is a growing output ofsocial science researcharound the world, and much of it is carried out by scholars whose graduate education was completed at American universities;• in more and more countries there is an increasing output ofprimary data—news, survey returns, census data, trade statistics, government documents, plans, maps, archeological findings—that can be used very fruitfully by social scientists in their research;• the capacity of American researchers to securesupport for research overseas, for field trips, for attendance at international conferences, and for the acquisition of foreign data has radically dwindled;

scholarly journals Mobile Phone Indicators and Their Relation to the Socioeconomic Organisation of Cities

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clémentine Cottineau ◽  
Maarten Vanhoof
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Computational Social Science ◽  
Mobile Phone Data ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Heterogeneity ◽  
Statistical Relationships ◽  
Socioeconomic Data ◽  
The City

Thanks to the use of geolocated big data in computational social science research, the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of human activities is increasingly being revealed. Paired with smaller and more traditional data, this opens new ways of understanding how people act and move, and how these movements crystallise into the structural patterns observed by censuses. In this article we explore the convergence between mobile phone data and more traditional socioeconomic data from the national census in French cities. We extract mobile phone indicators from six months worth of Call Detail Records (CDR) data, while census and administrative data are used to characterize the socioeconomic organisation of French cities. We address various definitions of cities and investigate how they impact the statistical relationships between mobile phone indicators, such as the number of calls or the entropy of visited cell towers, and measures of economic organisation based on census data, such as the level of deprivation, inequality and segregation. Our findings show that some mobile phone indicators relate significantly with different socioeconomic organisation of cities. However, we show that relations are sensitive to the way cities are defined and delineated. In several cases, changing the city delineation rule can change the significance and even the sign of the correlation. In general, cities delineated in a restricted way (central cores only) exhibit traces of human activity which are less related to their socioeconomic organisation than cities delineated as metropolitan areas and dispersed urban regions.

scholarly journals Sri Lanka: State of Research on Democracy

PCD Journal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Jayadeva Uyangoda
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The State ◽  
The Body ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Main Research ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
New Research

In Sri Lanka's political science research, the body of work directly on the theme of democracy is somewhat thin. The survey and studies on the 'State of Democracy and Human Security', carried out by the Social Scientists Association (SSA) in 2004-2005 is the main research effort made directly in the field of democracy studies. This was a part of a larger South Asian study. The report on the State of Democracy in South Asia is now published by the Oxford University Press, India. Nevertheless, in the wide body of scholarly literature on political and social change in the post-colonial Sri Lanka written by political scientists, historians, sociologists and anthropologists, themes with direct relevance to democracy studies have constituted a subject of continuing interest.This paper has two main parts. In the first part, it presents a survey of the major themes that have constitued the broadly social science research that are useful to place the problematic of democracy in a new research agenda. In the second, the paper suggests a few possible areas of new research on the theme of democracy.

scholarly journals Social Science Research Findings and Educational Policy Dilemmas

2000 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven I. Miller ◽  
Marcel Fredericks
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Bell Curve ◽  
Science Models ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Relationship Of

The article attempts to raise several distinctions regarding the presumed relationship of social science research findings to social policy making. The distinctions are made using Glymour's critique of the Bell Curve. An argument is made that (1) social science models and research findings are largely irrelevant to the actual concerns of policy makers and (2) what is relevant, but overlooked by Glymour, is how ideological factors mediate the process. The forms that ideological mediation may take are indicated.

Discerning adaptation and disruption in the childbearing behaviour of immigrants in Greece: an analysis using micro-census data

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-204
Author(s):  
Georgia Verropoulou
Keyword(s):  
Regression Models ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Reproductive Behaviour ◽  
High Fertility ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Micro Data ◽  
Recent Immigrants ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
Of Greece

This paper uses micro-data from the 2001 census of Greece to detect changes in the reproductive behaviour of recent immigrants. The analysis is based on descriptive methods and ordinal logistic regression models. Possible disruption and adaptation effects are investigated for different citizenships. The findings indicate that Albanians, who represent over half of the immigrants and originate from a high fertility country, show signs of reducing levels with increasing duration of residence consistent with the adaptation hypothesis. By contrast, for migrants from other Balkan and Eastern European countries there is some indication of a disruption in childbearing among recent arrivals.

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