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The effect of radical right fringe parties on main parties in Central and Eastern Europe : Empirical evidence from manifesto data
Get PDFDo radical right fringe parties affect main parties in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)? Using data from the Manifesto Project, we analyze the relationship between radical right fringe parties’ and main parties’ policy programs regarding sociocultural issues in six post-communist countries of CEE. Even though radical right fringe parties have participated in government in several of these countries, and in Hungary a fringe party has become the country’s second largest party, our analysis shows that the sociocultural issues in radical right fringe party manifestos do not systematically relate to the changes in main party manifestos regarding those issues. Even if some of the main parties in our study might often agree with the radical right fringe parties, our analysis shows that the latter do not directly influence the policy priorities of the main parties
Governance of Migrant Integration in the Czech Republic: Monitoring report on progress towards the 2030 Agenda in relation to migration
Get PDFThis report evaluates the migration situation in the Czech Republic through the lens of Sustainable Development Goals. The report is structured into five chapters that provide a summary of the developments and most important changes related to migrant rights and social inclusion, access to education and health care, political participation, labour market integration, development cooperation and gender equality
Sociální participace ve vyšším věku ve vztahu k partnerské dráze
Get PDFJak se současná nestabilita a rozmanitost rodinných forem v budoucnu promítne do podoby blízkých sociálních vztahů ve stáří? V textu hledám odpověď na otázku, jak rozdílná podoba partnerských drah ovlivňuje rozsah sociální participace ve vyšším věku. Konkrétně mě zajímá, zda lidé, kteří zažili během svého života rozvod (a rozlišuji, zda jej zažili v relativně mladším, středním, či vyšším věku z hlediska rozložení rozvodovosti) vykazují odlišnosti v trávení času sociálně participačními aktivitami (především kontaktem s rodinou, přáteli, známými, dětmi, vnoučaty). Jako zdroj dat slouží panelové šetření Dynamika změny v české společnosti, zejména jeho unikátní součást, jíž jsou deníky trávení času. Z celkového vzorku respondentů, kteří denní záznam vyplnili, analyzuji odpovědi respondentů ve věku 60 a více let. Stanovené hypotézy o nižší úrovni sociální participace lidí, kteří zažili rozvod a o silnějším negativním vlivu pozdního rozvodu nejsou v souladu s daty. Ukazuje se, že rozsah sociální participace měřený časovými snímky je srovnatelný bez ohledu na partnerskou dráhu a pozici rozvodu v ní. Tyto výsledky v závěru diskutuji mimo jiné ve vztahu ke kritice příliš negativního paradigmatu zkoumání rozvodovosti v sociálních vědách.How will the instability and diversity of family forms today impact the nature of people’s close social relationships in the future when they are older? In this article I examine how the social participation of older adults is impacted by their different partnership histories. I am particularly interested in whether there are any differences in the social participation (activities involving contact with family, friends, acquaintances, children, grandchildren) of people who experienced divorce in life (I use a decomposition of the divorce rate to distinguish between those who had this experience when they were relatively young, middle-aged, or older). The data source for this analysis is the panel survey ‘Dynamics of Change in Czech Society’ and especially one unique component of the survey, which are the diaries on how people spend their time. Out of the total sample of respondents who maintained daily diary entries, I analyse the responses of those over the age of 60. The hypotheses that a lower level of social participation would be observed among people who had experienced divorced and that divorcing later in life would have a stronger negative effect on social participation are not confirmed by the data. The level of social participation measured using time-use diaries is found to be comparable across different partnership histories and irrespective of when in life a person gets divorced. In the conclusion of the article, I discuss these findings in a criticism of the overly negative paradigm that governs research on divorce in the social sciences
Building Agroforestry Policy Bottom-Up : Knowledge of Czech Farmers on Trees in Farmland
Get PDFCzech agriculture is dealing with the consequences of climate change. Agroforestry cultures are being discursively reintroduced for better adaptability and resilience, with the first practical explorations seen in the field. Scholars have been working with farmers and regional stakeholders to establish a baseline for making agroforestry policy viable and sustainable. In a research effort that lasted three years, a large group of Czech farmers was interviewed via questionnaire surveys, standardized focus groups and in-depth personal interviews regarding their knowledge of agroforestry systems, their willingness to participate in these systems, and their concerns and expectations therewith. The information obtained helped the researchers gain better understanding of issues related to implementation of these systems. It was found that although trees are present on Czech farms and farmers appreciate their aesthetic and ecological landscape functions, knowledge about possible local synergies with crops and animals is lacking. This local knowledge gap, together with lack of market opportunities for the output of agroforestry systems and undeveloped administrative processes, have been identified as the greatest obstacles to the establishment of agroforestry systems. The researchers argue that the discovered cognitive and technological "lock-in" of the farmers may represent a risk to climate change adaptability and resilience. For the development of complex and localised land use (e.g., agroforestry) in such a context, the researchers suggest participative on-farm research, which would broaden the local knowledge base related to ecology and entrepreneurship
Graph-Based CPE Matching for Identification of Vulnerable Asset Configurations
Get PDFIn this manuscript, we propose a graph-based approach for identification of vulnerable asset configurations via Common Platform Enumeration matching. The approach consists of a graph model and insertion procedure that is able to represent and store information about CVE vulnerabilities and different configurations of CPE-classified asset components. These building blocks are accompanied with a search query in Gremlin graph traversal language that is able to find all vulnerable pairs of CVEs and asset configurations in a single traversal, as opposed to a conventional brute-force approach
Screening of world approved drugs against highly dynamical spike glycoprotein of SARS-CoV-2 using CaverDock and machine learning
Get PDFThe new severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes pathological pulmonary symptoms. Most efforts to develop vaccines and drugs against this virus target the spike glycoprotein, particularly its S1 subunit, which is recognised by angiotensin-converting enzyme 2. Here we use the in-house developed tool CaverDock to perform virtual screening against spike glycoprotein using a cryogenic electron microscopy structure (PDB-ID: 6VXX) and the representative structures of five most populated clusters from a previously published molecular dynamics simulation. The dataset of ligands was obtained from the ZINC database and consists of drugs approved for clinical use worldwide. Trajectories for the passage of individual drugs through the tunnel of the spike glycoprotein homotrimer, their binding energies within the tunnel, and the duration of their contacts with the trimer's three subunits were computed for the full dataset. Multivariate statistical methods were then used to establish structure-activity relationships and select top candidate for movement inhibition. This new protocol for the rapid screening of globally approved drugs (4359 ligands) in a multi-state protein structure (6 states) showed high robustness in the rate of finished calculations. The protocol is universal and can be applied to any target protein with an experimental tertiary structure containing protein tunnels or channels. The protocol will be implemented in the next version of CaverWeb (https://loschmidt.chemi.muni.cz/caverweb/) to make it accessible to the wider scientific community. (C) 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Research Network of Computational and Structural Biotechnology
Utrata čelovečnosti kak odna iz čert èkspressionizma v proze L. N. Andrejeva.
No full textStat’ja posvjaščena rassmotreniju suščestvennoj problemy, podnimajemoj L. N. Andrejevym v tvorčestve – otorvannosti čeloveka ot obščestva i utraty im čelovečnosti. Avtor stat’ji sčitajet, čto èto sootnositsja s tendencijami èpochi konca 19 – načala 20 veka, kogda osoboje mesto v kul’ture i social’noj sfere bylo otvedeno čeloveku kak individu i jego psichičeskomu, vnutrennemu miru. Na primere rasskazov L.N. Andrejeva («Slučaj», «Ben-Tovit», «V temnuju dal’» i dr.) v stat’je rassmatrivajetsja pokazannyj pisatelem glubokij razlad meždu ljud’mi, vyzvannyj nesposobnost’ju čeloveka ponjat’ drugogo. Takoje tjagotenije k otčuždennosti rassmatrivajetsja avtorom stat’ji v kačestve fenomena èkspressionizma, odnogo iz napravlenij modernizma. V svjazi s ètim v rabote takže podnimajetsja vopros o granicach dannogo literaturnogo napravlenija v tvorčestve L. N. Andrejeva.The article is devoted to consideration of an essential problem that L. N. Andreyev raises in his work – detachment of a man from society and his loss of humanity. The author of the article believes that this correlates with the tendencies of the late 19th – early 20th century, when a special place in culture and the social sphere was given to the individual and his mental, inner world. By means of example of the short stories of L. N. Andreyev (The Case, Ben-Tovit, Into the Dark Far Away, etc.) the article examines the deep discord between people, caused by the inability of man to understand another one, shown by the writer. This gravitation towards alienation is considered by the author of the article as a phenomenon of expressionism, one of the directions of modernism. In this connection, the paper also raises the question of the boundaries of this literary trend in the works of L. N. Andreyev
La literatura del Gran Rechazo: don Julián y Escuela de mandarines
No full textContribución que reflexiona sobre las similitudes entre la noción de Gran Rechazo en H. Marcuse y en dos escritores espanoles. Objetivo: posición crítica, posición intelectual.Příspěvek, který se zamýšlí nad podobností mezi pojmem Velké odmítnutí u H. Marcuse a u dvou španělských spisovatelů. Cíl: kritická pozice, intelektuální pozice
Color in Suger’s Saint-Denis : Matter and Light
Get PDFThe vast examination and analysis of Abbot Suger and the choir of Saint-Denis have mainly focused on the role and importance of the light coming through the stained-glass windows, neglecting the role of color in defining the cathedral’s interior space. The same can be said of the references in Suger’s writings to the colors of the stained-glass windows as well as of other early medieval goldsmithery objects once held in the basilica. This article analyzes mentions of color in Suger’s writings in connection with related works of art. Considerations include the different ways in which color was understood in medieval culture, possible interpretations of the expression materia saphirorum and the vexata quaestio of the links between Suger and the metaphysics of light in Dionysius the Areopagite. Altogether, these considerations show how a full understanding of color-related issues is necessary for a correct interpretation of both Suger’s writings and the stained-glass windows in the basilica’s choir
Morphology: Nanosyntax vs. DM
No full textThis talk is a part of a debate discussing the choice between two current theories of morphology, namely Nanosyntax and DM. I was asked to address the following three questions: Is late insertion necessary, and if so, why? Is lexical insertion governed by the subset or by the superset principle? What explains the lexical integrity hypothesis