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Dana JAKŠIČOVÁ – Miroslav NOVOTNÝ, Služebníci pod zákonem. Zlatý věk řeholních kongregací v českobudějovické diecézi, Jihočeský sborník historický, supplementum 13, České Budějovice 2021, 424 s. ISBN 978-80-7646-016-4; ISSN 0323-004X.
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Alain CORBIN, Dějiny ticha: Od renesance do naší doby, Praha, Argo 2022, 114 s. ISBN 978-80-257-3857-3.
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ZVÝŠENIE BEZPEČNOSTI A REDUKCIA KRIMINALITY NA VYBRANEJ ŽELEZNIČNEJ STANICI PROSTREDNÍCTVOM KONCEPCIE CPTED: INCREASING SECURITY AND REDUCING CRIME AT A SELECTED RAILWAY STATION THROUGH THE CPTED CONCEPT
No full textSoft targets represent a relatively simple and often sought-after target of terrorists or criminals. To such objects, or space, among others, we recommend railway infrastructure. Railway stations are public spaces in which a large number of people are concentrated, and which are not sufficiently secured. From the analysis of the selected railway station, it was found that the most frequent crimes are theft, vandalism, etc. It is against such threats that there is a modern preventive tool, which is the concept of CPTED (Crime prevention through environmental design). The concept in question represents the prevention of crime through the layout of objects, or premises. By implementing the CPTED concept, we can reduce crime to a certain extent, but also improve the visual aspect of the premises.Mäkké ciele predstavujú pomerne jednoduchý a často vyhľadávaný terč teroristov, prípadne páchateľov trestnej činnosti. K takýmto objektom, resp. priestorom radíme okrem iných železničnú infraštruktúru. Železničné stanice sú verejné priestory, v ktorých sa koncentruje vysoký počet osôb, a ktoré nie sú dostatočne zabezpečené. Z analýzy vybranej železničnej stanice bolo zistené, že najčastejšími trestnými činmi sú krádeže, vandalizmus a pod. Práve voči takýmto hrozbám existuje novodobý preventívny prostriedok, ktorým je koncepcia CPTED (Crime prevention through environmental design). Predmetná koncepcia predstavuje prevenciu kriminality prostredníctvom dispozičného riešenia objektov, resp. priestorov. Implementáciou koncepcie CPTED vieme do istej miery redukovať kriminalitu, ale aj zlepšiť vizuálnu stránku priestorov
Trauma Narratives of Scottish Childhood in Janice Galloway’s Short Stories
No full textJanice Galloway represents one of the most strikingly original voices in new Scottish fiction, which breaks with the tradition of conventional narratives looking back at the national history and looking up to larger-than-life male heroes. Instead, Galloway writes deftly crafted short stories of everyday life in contemporary settings, finding that the past informs the present and proceeding to explore how the stateless nation’s cultural heritage affects her characters. This paper analyses selected stories from Galloway’s collections Blood (1991) and Where You Find It (1996) from the perspective of trauma criticism, which seems a particularly fitting approach to the author’s often disturbing narratives of violence and abuse. The focus is on child characters and on the ways that historical trauma, as introduced by Sigmund Freud and further refined by Cathy Caruth, is passed down to them. Finally, the paper provides examples from the individual short stories which illustrate how the traumatic experience can be acknowledged, witnessed, and ultimately communicated
The Social Impact of the American Eugenics Movement
No full textThis paper explores the American eugenics movement and the manifestation of its ideas in society. Americaneugenics thought is mainly characterized by its strong focus on the elimination of socially undesirable individuals. The two main targets of American eugenics, the feebleminded and new immigrants, are discussed in this text, with the main focus legally implemented measures such as forced sterilization and restrictions on immigration, along with the legacy of these actions. This examination of American eugenics points out a clear continuity with Nazi ideology, an association which in the end also contributed to the fall of the official American eugenics movement. To explore the theoretical framework of the movement, works by Charles Davenport and Madison Grant are examined
INVESTIGATING THE PREVALENCE, PATTERNS AND PREDICTORS OF RATIONED NURSING CARE AT INTENSIVE CARE UNITS
No full textBackground: Rationed nursing care is a significant and widespread problem jeopardizing patient safety and quality of nursing care, mainly in an outpatient setting.
Objective: To explore the prevalence, patterns and predictors of rationed nursing care among nurses working in intensive care units in Slovakia.
Method: The study has adopted a cross-sectional design. Data were collected using the Perceived Implicit Rationing of Nursing Care instrument (PIRNCA). The respondents were intensive care nurses (N=279) from seven hospitals in Slovakia.
Results: The mean level of rationed nursing care was 1.68 (SD = 0.91). The prevalence of rationed nursing care was significantly predicted by nurse education, specialization training, overtime hours, intention to leave the profession, perceived staff adequacy. Quality of patient care and job satisfaction were the most significant predictors of rationed nursing care (p ≤ .05).
Conclusions: Hospital management should immediately address the predictors of rationed nursing care in intensive care units to increase quality and safe care, thus improving patient outcomes. Further examination of the quality of patient care and job satisfaction of nurses and their associations with rationed nursing care is needed in intensive care units
OPTIMIZATION OF TOLL SERVICES USING QUEUING THEORY IN THE CASE OF ETHIOPIA
No full textThe toll road service is planned and built to fund road construction and management of traffic operations. Although the toll service has several benefits, it also has challenges by creating a queue in the event of high traffic. Queues at a toll service in addition to pollution and waiting time costs also expose drivers to road traffic accidents and affect the economy of the country. Queuing problems at highway gates and exits due to toll service have become the main concern for transport managers and planners because of the randomness of inter-arrival and service time. The critical point in the management of toll road services is finding the optimal number of servers. This paper aims to analyze the queue feature to optimize the toll service using analytical and simulation models by considering the Addis-Adama expressway toll service in Ethiopia. The paper used a mathematical model and a simulation model using the CPN tools to investigate the queuing parameters. Then the model results helped us to get the optimum output by using economic analysis and identifying the minimum waiting time and operating cost without expense. The performance of the toll service highly depends on the number of servers, the number of vehicles in the system and queue, waiting time in the queue, service time, and inter-arrival time
Transgressive Spatiality and Multiple Temporality in Jim Crace’s Arcadia
No full textArcadia (1992), Jim Crace’s most distinctively urban novel, bears the idiosyncratic features of its author’s writing: it is a deceptively simple story of vague geographical and historical setting conceived as a parable of the current world concerns, it portrays a community in a transitional moment of its existence, and it places special emphasis on spatial representations of its fictitious environment which assume metaphorical properties that convey the story’s rich ideas. Moreover, as a writer focusing on moral issues with a leftist political outlook, Crace has been consistent in his criticism of the neoliberal market economy and its negative impacts on communal values, a view which is also voiced in the novel. This paper makes use of the theoretical premises of Transmodernism as well as analytical tools of phenomenologically focused geocriticism to demonstrate that Arcadia can be subsumed within so-called transmodern fiction. This critique of globalized capitalism is carried out through sites Eric Prieto terms as the entre-deux, the in-between. Accordingly, the paper attempts to demonstrate how the novel’s liminal and heterogeneous places display non-linear and complexly interrelated temporalities which are indicative of their role within the city’s progress
Interpretation of the mass possession in Morzine by contemporary Austrian press
No full textThis paper describes the mass possession in Morzine in the mid-nineteenth century. The main aim is to analyse how the contemporary media reflected such a case of possession. Contemporary articles presented six discourses. In the first discourse, we can find descriptions of Morzine as a remote area where superstitions still survived. The second discourse is a reflection of Morzine as a wonder or sensation. The next discourse focuses on the description of the condemnation of Morzine as a case of superstitions belonging to the past. The case of Morzine as a disease of women is presented in the fourth part of the study. The last two discourses focus on the medical context of the case and the connection of the symptoms to Christianity