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Network dilemmas. Supplements when income doesn’t cover family expenses

2017

AbstractThe purpose of this article is to explore how families with low income experience network supplements when income does not cover the daily expenses, and to discuss how people look at this supply. The article is based on qualitative data from the Norwegian ‘Children’s level of living – study’. One child and one parent in 26 low income families were interviewed individually about their daily life. This article is based on interviews with the parents, and the analyses are inspired by grounded theory. Results: Despite a universal welfare system, people firstly turn to family and social network when they are in need. This is, however, an ambiguous experience and the informants are concer…

When Social Media Doesn’t Determine All: The Topics and Narratives of Latvian Political Parties on Facebook During the 2019 European Parliament Elect…

2020

Over the last decade, the implementation of campaigns by political parties and their candidates on social media platforms has become an integral part of political communication. Political communication studies have long indicated that elections are becoming personalized, with more focus on party leaders or individual candidates. But studies on communication by political parties to understand the identity of parties and their potential in communication with voters remain relevant. The aim of the paper is to analyse the visual election materials of the political parties from Latvia on the social network Facebook during the 2019 European Parliament (EP) election campaign. The research period i…

Use of Social Reference Groups in Sport Policy Making

1991

Based on reference group theory the purpose of the present study was to determine how sport political decision-makers acted while making decisions, and which reference groups and backgrounds they selected for supporting their behavior. Furthermore, the aim was to find out how the reference group strategy of decision-makers had changed since the middle of the 1970's (Olin, 1982). A sample of 1788 officials and appointed representatives from 167 cities in Finland were selected for the study. The results indicated that the reference groups and backgrounds the majority of the decision-makers chose as bases for their decision behavior in order of descending importance were: the city officials p…

Individual and collective social responsibility into high schools : the impact of stakeholders

2022

Assessing Pension System Reforms in Latin America

2004

During the 1980s and 1990s sweeping structural changes were made to social security systems in a number of Latin American countries. This paper aims to assess the impact of those reforms, showing their possible limitations, risks and internal malfunctions. The impact on the following will be considered: (a) coverage; (b) risks and uncertainty; (c) redistributive aspects; (d) savings; and (e) the administration and management costs of the new system.

Validité et fiabilité des questionnaires d'évaluation de la qualité de vie : une étude appliquée aux accidents vasculaires cérébraux

1996

This article deals with various means, which could be used by designers in order to estimate error terms in questionnaire tests results, thanks to psychometry. The study must be conceived so as to minimize systematic errors (validity) and random errors (reliability). Methods settled to test the validity of a study are very subjective, even if some of them seem to be more "scientific", being based on the principle of correlation. However the last-mentined don't stand up to some theoretic weakness and other explicit subjective methods should be chosen instead : for instance experts consensus.Methods of reliability evaluation have been developed under strong hypothesis to estimate a reliabilit…

Social work transnationally revisited

2017

The transnational interconnectedness of social work is not a new phenomenon. Historical analysis showed that social work has been entangled transnationally in many ways, and transnational studies p...

Transnational social work with young refugees

2016

In late 2014, the UN Refugee Agency counted 59.5 million people around the world on the run (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 2015). This is the highest number that has been r...

Determining the performance of MFI : the case of UEMOA and BRICS

2019

Microfinance is a way for helping poor people and it is used to give financial services to a part of the population excluded from formal bank system, short of guarantee that may lead to risk of default. To this end, to continue their activities in a sustainable way the MFI must ensure economic or financial performance while respecting their social objectives to grant loans to the greatest number of poor. In this way, the questions about economical, financial and social performance of microcredit organization are essential. The economic performance is the profitability of economic asset (equity and financial debt); the financial performance focuses on the return on equity, while social perfo…

Position paper on laboratory testing for patients on direct oral anticoagulants. A Consensus Document from the SISET, FCSA, SIBioC and SIPMeL

2018

Although direct oral anticoagulants (DOAC) do not require dose-adjustment on the basis of laboratory test results, the measurement of their anticoagulant effect is useful in special situations. This position paper issued by the Italian Scientific Societies that are mainly involved in the management of patients on DOAC is aimed at providing guidance to care-givers on which tests should be used and the situations in which testing is useful. The guidance is based on the data from the literature so far available and/or on consensus among experts.