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Tax Reform in Slovakia
No full textThe paper evaluates recent tax legislation in Slovakia, effected January 2004, according to principles of optimal taxation and optimal tax systems. The author evaluates Slovak tax reform with particular regard to personal income tax and commodity taxes. The adoption of a flat personal-income-tax rate and a uniform VAT rate is viewed as in line with the optimal taxation theory, and the projected lessening of administrative costs and degree of tax evasion is positively evaluated.tax reform; flat tax; Slovakia
Idiopathic combined, autoantibody-mediated ADAMTS-13/factor H deficiency in thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura-hemolytic uremic syndrome in a 17-year-old woman: a case report
No full textIntroduction Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura-hemolytic uremic syndrome is a life-threatening condition with various etiopathogeneses. Without therapy approximately 90% of all patients die from the disease. Case presentation We report the case of a 17-year-old Caucasian woman with widespread hematomas and headache. Due to hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, and schistocytosis, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura-hemolytic uremic syndrome was suspected and plasma exchange therapy was initiated immediately. Since her thrombocyte level did not increase during the first week of therapy, plasma treatment had to be intensified to a twice-daily schedule. Further diagnostics showed markedly reduced activities of both ADAMTS-13 (a disintegrin and metalloproteinase with a thrombospondin type 1 motif, member 13 - also known as von Willebrand factor-cleaving protease) and factor H. Test results for antibodies against both proteins were positive. While plasma exchange therapy was continued, rituximab was given once weekly for four consecutive weeks. After the last dose, thrombocytes and activities of ADAMTS-13 and factor H increased into the normal range. Our patient improved and was discharged from the hospital. Conclusions Since no clinical symptoms/laboratory findings indicated a malignant or specific autoimmune-mediated disorder, the diagnosis made was thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura-hemolytic uremic syndrome due to idiopathic combined, autoantibody-mediated ADAMTS-13/factor H deficiency
The Kindergarten of Today for the Children of the Future
No full textDiplomska naloga govori o vrtcu danes za otroke prihodnosti.
Za to temo smo se odločili, ker imamo v Sloveniji različne predšolske vzgojno-varstvene ustanove, na eni strani javne vrtce in na drugi strani zasebne vrtce. Vsaka izmed predšolskih vzgojno-varstvenih ustanov sledi svojemu programu dela in poskuša ponujati kakovostno vzgojno-varstveno celoto. V času svoje prakse v različnih vrtcih po Sloveniji smo opazili, da se vrtci med sabo razlikujejo, vendar kljub temu vsak na svoj način ponujajo kakovost in težijo k temu, da se razvijajo ter bogatijo svoja delovanja. Zato nas zanima, v kakšno smer se bodo razvijali današnji vrtci, kaj je tisto, kar lahko ponujajo prihodnjim generacijam.
Vrtec, ki teži h kakovostni prihodnosti je zagotovo ključnega pomena za vse nadaljnje generacije, saj je ves čas otrokom potrebno omogočati ustrezno predšolsko vzgojo, varstvo, okolje, oz. kakovostno celoto, ki bo zadostila otrokovim potrebam.
Vzgojitelji ter starši otrok, ki obiskujejo vrtce se zagotovo vsak dan srečujejo z vprašanji, kaj je tisto, kar želijo otrokom ponuditi, kaj želijo izboljšati, oziroma, kako želijo obogatiti vrtce v današnjem prostoru, da bi ti zadovoljili vse njihove potrebe.
Vrtci v današnjem prostoru ponujajo kakovost, ki je v koraku z današnjim časomker pa zunanji dejavniki vsak dan znova zahtevajo spremembe, se tudi vrtci temu prilagajajo in poskušajo ponuditi vedno več. Vrtec lahko tudi danes postane prostor za prihodnje generacije.This graduate thesis deals with the kindergarten of today for the children of the future.
We chose this subject matter because Slovenia has various preschool institutions – public and private kindergartens. Each of these preschool institutions follows its own work programme and aims to provide quality care and education. During our practical training in various kindergartens in Slovenia, we noticed that kindergartens differ but still, each in its own way, offer quality and try to further develop and enrich their operation. This is why we wished to examine the direction in which today’s kindergartens are developing and what they can offer future generations.
A kindergarten striving for a quality future is undoubtedly of key importance for all future generations, as we need to provide children with appropriate preschool education, care and an environment, which make a high quality unity that meets their needs.
Educators and parents of preschool children are daily faced with questions of what they wish to offer the children, what they would like to improve and how they would like to enrich kindergartens in order to meet all the children\u27s needs.
Today, kindergartens offer quality in line with the current times but, as outside factors require daily change, kindergartens are adapting and trying to offer more. Today, kindergartens can become the place for future generations
A 2 h periodic variation in the low-mass X-ray binary Ser X-1
No full textSpectroscopy of the low-mass X-ray binary Ser X-1 using the Gran Telescopio Canarias have revealed a ?2 h periodic variability that is present in the three strongest emission lines. We tentatively interpret this variability as due to orbital motion, making it the first indication of the orbital period of Ser X-1. Together with the fact that the emission lines are remarkably narrow, but still resolved, we show that a main-sequence K dwarf together with a canonical 1.4 M? neutron star gives a good description of the system. In this scenario, the most likely place for the emission lines to arise is the accretion disc, instead of a localized region in the binary (such as the irradiated surface or the stream-impact point), and their narrowness is due instead to the low inclination (?10°) of Ser X-1
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
H-index and research evaluation: A suggested set of components for developing a comprehensive author-level index
No full textThe H-index has been investigated in various studies; this index has many strengths that have made it popular. However, it also has weaknesses, due to which other indicators have been developed. This study aims to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the H-index and provide the minimum set of necessary components for developing a comprehensive author-level index. In this systematic literature review, Scopus, PubMed, Web of Science, Emerald, and ProQuest databases were searched to identify relevant studies. From the number of 14,253 retrieved studies, after two stages of screening, 81 studies were selected according to the eligibility criteria for data extraction. The findings of the study led to the identification of 15 strengths in the three categories of Quality Features, Simplicity, and Suitability, and 13 weaknesses in the six categories of Publications, Citations, Academic Age, Author Credit Allocation, Variety of Fields, and mathematical calculation for H-index. Finally, 28 components were identified as the minimum set of necessary components to develop a comprehensive author-level index to help evaluate researchers more realistically and fairly. The minimum components that need to be considered in developing a comprehensive author-level index can be proposed as follows: Quality Features, Simplicity, Suitability, Publications, Citations, Academic Age, Author Credit Allocation, Variety of Fields, and mathematical calculation
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
A new erythropoietin gene polymorphism in the hypoxia responsive region is correlated with essential hypertension
No full textContribution of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Country’S H-Index
No full textThe aim of this study is to examine the effect of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) development on country’s scientific ranking as measured by H-index. Moreover, this study applies ICT development sub-indices including ICT Use, ICT Access and ICT skill to find the distinct effect of these sub-indices on country’s H-index. To this purpose, required data for the panel of 14 Middle East countries over the period 1995 to 2009 is collected. Findings of the current study show that ICT development increases the H-index of the sample countries. The results also indicate that ICT Use and ICT Skill sub-indices positively contribute to higher H-index but the effect of ICT access on country’s H-index is not clear
Measuring industry-science links through inventor-author relations: A profiling method
No full textIn this pilot study we examine the performance of text-based profiling in recovering a set of validated inventor-author links. In a first step we match patents and publications solely based on their similarity in content. Next, we compare inventor and author names on the highest ranked matches for the occurrence of name matches. Finally, we compare these candidate matches with the names listed in a validated set of inventor-author names. Our text-based profile methodology performs significantly better than a random matching of patents and publications, suggesting that text-based profiling is a valuable complementary tool to the name searches used in previous studies.innovation; industry-science links; text-based profiling;
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