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User-Centred Design of a Final Results Report for Participants in Multi-Sensor Personal Air Pollution Exposure Monitoring Campaigns
Get PDFUsing low-cost portable air quality (AQ) monitoring devices is a growing trend in personal exposure studies, enabling a higher spatio-temporal resolution and identifying acute exposure to high concentrations. Comprehension of the results by participants is not guaranteed in exposure studies. However, information on personal exposure is multiplex, which calls for participant involvement in information design to maximise communication output and comprehension. This study describes and proposes a model of a user-centred design (UCD) approach for preparing a final report for participants involved in a multi-sensor personal exposure monitoring study performed in seven cities within the EU Horizon 2020 ICARUS project. Using a combination of human-centred design (HCD), human-information interaction (HII) and design thinking approaches, we iteratively included participants in the framing and design of the final report. User needs were mapped using a survey (n = 82), and feedback on the draft report was obtained from a focus group (n = 5). User requirements were assessed and validated using a post-campaign survey (n = 31). The UCD research was conducted amongst participants in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and the results report was distributed among the participating cities across Europe. The feedback made it clear that the final report was well-received and helped participants better understand the influence of individual behaviours on personal exposure to air pollution
Ageing and Caring in Rural Environments : cross-national insights from Central Europe
Get PDFDrawing on interdisciplinary, cross-national perspectives, this open access book contributes to the development of a coherent scientific discourse on social exclusion of older people. The book considers five domains of exclusion (services; economic; social relations; civic and socio-cultural; and community and spatial domains), with three chapters dedicated to analysing different dimensions of each exclusion domain. The book also examines the interrelationships between different forms of exclusion, and how outcomes and processes of different kinds of exclusion can be related to one another. In doing so, major cross-cutting themes, such as rights and identity, inclusive service infrastructures, and displacement of marginalised older adult groups, are considered. Finally, in a series of chapters written by international policy stakeholders and policy researchers, the book analyses key policies relevant to social exclusion and older people, including debates linked to sustainable development, EU policy and social rights, welfare and pensions systems, and planning and development. The book’s approach helps to illuminate the comprehensive multidimensionality of social exclusion, and provides insight into the relative nature of disadvantage in later life. With 77 contributors working across 28 nations, the book presents a forward-looking research agenda for social exclusion amongst older people, and will be an important resource for students, researchers and policy stakeholders working on ageing
Vztah mezi koresidencí s prarodiči a školními výsledky patnáctiletých žáků z úplných a neúplných rodin
Get PDFČlánek se zabývá asociací mezi koresidencí s prarodiči v třígeneračních domácnostech a školními výsledky patnáctiletých žáků v Česku. Konceptuální část shrnuje poznatky týkající se mezigeneračních vztahů a mezigeneračního soužití v Česku a předchozí výzkumy studující vztah mezi soužitím s prarodiči, strukturou rodiny a školními výsledky dětí či adolescentů. Cílem studie bylo odpovědět na otázky, zda je koresidence s prarodiči asociována se školními výsledky žáků, jestli se tato asociace liší v závislosti na struktuře rodiny a zda je ji možné vysvětlit socioekonomickým statusem rodin. K zodpovězení výzkumných otázek byla použita česká data z mezinárodního výzkumu PISA 2012 a jako indikátor školních výsledků bylo v analýze použito skóre v testech matematické, čtenářské a přírodovědné gramotnosti. Analýza odhalila slabou pozitivní asociaci mezi koresidencí s prarodiči a výsledky adolescentů, která se při kontrole socioekonomického statusu stává statisticky signifikantní. V úplných a neúplných rodinách se asociace mezi koresidencí s prarodiči a výsledky adolescentů významně neliší. Výsledky naznačují, že třígenerační soužití je s výsledky patnáctiletých žáků asociováno pozitivně, ale socioekonomický status rodin tuto asociaci částečně potlačuje.This article investigates the association between coresidence with grandparents in three-generational households and the academic performance of 15-year-old students in the Czech Republic. The conceptual part focuses on intergenerational relationships and multigenerational coresidence in the Czech Republic and summarises past research on the links between coresidence with grandparents, family structure, and academic performance. The aim of this article is to find out if there is an association between coresidence with grandparents and an adolescent's academic performance, and if there is to discover whether the association is different for two-parent and one-parent families and whether it can be explained by the families' socioeconomic status. Data from PISA 2012 are used to investigate the association with mathematics, reading, and science literacy test scores as an indicator of school achievement. The results of the analysis revealed a weak positive association between coresidence with grandparents and adolescents' academic performance. The association becomes statistically significant when controlling for socioeconomic status and is not significantly different in two-parent and one-parent families. The results suggest that there is a positive association between three-generational coresidence and 15-year-old students' academic performance, but it is partially suppressed by the families' socioeconomic status
European Legal Regulation of Cryptocurrencies through the AML Scope
Get PDFThis article deals with cryptocurrencies and its impact nowadays on the AML field at a European Union level . The article will be divided into an introduction, four chapters and a conclusion; it will define elementary information and defitions, will identify ways of practical use of cryptocurrencies, will introduce risks connected with the use of cryptocurrencies and will introduce legal regulation of cryptocurrencies by the V . AML Direction . In the conclusion the quality of communitary regulation will be evaluated and a few de lege ferenda tips will be devised to improve regulation for the future.This article deals with cryptocurrencies and its impact nowadays on the AML field at a European Union level . The article will be divided into an introduction, four chapters and a conclusion; it will define elementary information and defitions, will identify ways of practical use of cryptocurrencies, will introduce risks connected with the use of cryptocurrencies and will introduce legal regulation of cryptocurrencies by the V . AML Direction . In the conclusion the quality of communitary regulation will be evaluated and a few de lege ferenda tips will be devised to improve regulation for the future
The Rule of Law Framework and its Effectiveness
Get PDFThe article gathers information about the Rule ofLaw Framework and analyzes the Rule ofLaw Framework and its implementation. Itstarts byintroducing the Framework itself. Itfurther maps out its implementation via the Recommendations made against Poland. The Recommendations are set within their context, and their reception byPoland follows. Building onthe experience, the European Commission opened adiscussion onthe future ofthe Framework and its potential improvement. The discussion istouched upon inthe article aswell. The article analyzes the effectiveness ofthe Framework inacase study inPoland. Itconcludes that the Framework was ineffective with regard toachieving its three functions
Zur Deutung des Lehrberufs durch Lehrer und Lehrerinnen. Eine Geschichte berufsbezogener Deutungsmuster. Projektskizze
No full textThe scope of this project will be about how teachers perceived their professional role and the role of their profession in society and how these patterns of perception changed in a historical perspective. The project would take up main insights from my dissertation. There, I examined the debate on rural school-reform in Austria (approx. 1920-1965) from a teachers’ perspective. My inquiry showed that there was another topic playing a significant role in the debate, apart from a concrete reform agenda: the teachers’ professional role, their professional tasks and their position in society. One important idea in this context was that school would be able to shape the future of society, preventing undesirable tendencies in society and culture and facilitating desirable ones. Therefore, teachers imagined that their own role in society would be of great significance. Those constructs were an important source for their engagement in school-reform and for their professional engagement as a whole. In my new project, I want to examine how such self-perceptions relating to the professional role and social significance of teachers changed over time in a more general perspective. Which guises of this idea can be discerned? What else were crucial aspects of teachers’ professional self-perceptions? How did the ideas about the teachers’ power to shape the future relate to other aspects of their professional self-perception? How did these ideas change and how where these changes related to changes of the social position of teachers on the one hand and to changes of societal discourses (outside the field of pedagogy) on the other hand? And how did such ideational concepts interact with concrete attitudes pertaining to their professional tasks? The period I want to examine would span from the establishment of state schooling in the 19th (resp. late 18th) century up to the present. The methodical framework would lean on sociology of knowledge (Wissenssoziologie). I plan to consider multiple sorts of sources, among which teachers’ journals and autobiographical material would play an important role. As far as I see now the outcome of this inquiry might reveal a kind of dilemma: Teachers regularly were deceived when they believed that their professional engagement was a straight remedy for social ills or would directly lead to the kind of future they longed for. However, this idea was an important resource for their professional engagement enabling them to find sense in their professional role even under adverse circumstances
Member States and Audible Communication within the EU Council Working Groups
Get PDFEU Council working groups still represent a topic that is neglected in EU research. If they are analysed, the effect of socialisation is particularly tested while rationally motivated factors such as a Left-Right position, green/alternative/libertarian (GAL) and traditionalism/authority/nationalism (TAN) positions or approaches towards the EU are left aside. This article analyses how such factors shape the member states’ oral communication at the working groups level. Based on a dataset gathered by non-participatory observation of interventions, the analysis suggests that none of the rationally constructed variables plays a significant role in shaping the audible communication of representatives of the EU member states. The article thus confirms the effect of socialisation on oral communication as well as the influence of structural factors such as member states’ power and the character of the document under discussion
Výroční obyčeje na Moravě – tradice a současnost
No full textMultimediální elektronická výuková publikace Výroční obyčeje na Moravě – tradice a současnost si klade za cíl seznámení studentů s historickými okolnostmi, formami a projevy výročních obyčejů vyskytujících se především na území Moravy. Analyzuje však také jejich genezí a geografickou lokalizací v průběhu 20. století, stejně tak jako vznik zcela nových festivit v posledních desetiletích. Teoretické materiály jsou zde doplněny o řadu interaktivních map, procvičovací testy a množství odkazů na další literaturu, videozáznamy, a další zdroje informací. Učebnice je určena studentům předmětu FF:ETMA132 Etnologie v praxi.Multimedia electronic educational publication “Annual Folk Customs in Moravia – Tradition and Current Situation” focuses on getting students acquainted with the historical circumstances, forms and other manifestations of annual folk customs celebrated mostly in Moravia. It also analyses their evolution during the 20th century, as well as the emergence of completely new festivities during the last decades. Theoretical chapters are accompanied by a number of interactive maps, practice exercises and links to other thematic sources (literature, videos and more)
Warlords, the United States, and the state of anarchy in Afghanistan
Get PDFAs part of its “War on Terror”, the United States (US) provided immense sums of money and advanced equipment to Afghan warlords in order to defeat and dismantle the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. Nearly two decades after the 2001 US-led intervention in Afghanistan that toppled the Taliban regime, the US continues supporting the warlords in various ways. As the intervention was also aimed at establishing a functioning state and reconstruction of the war-torn country, the US needed the support of local warlords to achieve its goals. However, over time, warlords and warlordism became a major challenge to the post-Taliban state-building project and in many ways undermined the overall security and the state monopoly on violence. These warlords, who had been mostly expelled and defeated by the Taliban regime, returned under the aegis of the B52 bombers, recaptured parts of the country and reestablished their fiefdoms with US support and resources. They not only resist giving up the power and prestige they have accumulated over the past few years, but also hamper the effort to improve governance and enact necessary reforms in the country. In addition, many of them run their private militias and have been accused of serious human rights abuses as well as drug trafficking, arms smuggling, illegal mining and extortion in the areas under their control or influence. In many ways, they challenge the government authority and have become a major hurdle to the country’s emerging from lawlessness and anarchy. This paper explores the emergence and re-emergence of warlords in Afghanistan as well as the evolution of chaos and anarchy in the country, especially after the US-led intervention of late 2001. It also analyzes the impact of the post-9/11 US support to Afghan warlords and its negative consequences for the overall stability and the US-led state-building process in Afghanistan
Geography of new employment dynamics in Slovakia
No full textThe report focuses on regional socio-economic developments in Slovakia from 2013 to 2020 and draws attention to likely impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. It presents evidence on Slovak labour market conditions, business demography, education trends, and population and migration dynamics, focusing on recent trends in the knowledge economy (KE) in the country. The report also summarises the development of policies and institutions in the relevant areas vis-à-vis the recommendations of international organisations. The findings of the report point to high territorial segmentation. The Bratislava region, in particular, stands out with high values for KE indicators, favourable labour market and socio-economic conditions, and a positive population dynamic in comparison to other regions in the country