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Social aspects of the power of the state on the example of the visegrad group countries

2018

The article presents the social dimension of the power of the state. A comparative analysis of the dynamics of social progress of the Visegrad Group countries and a statistical analysis of social power-building factors have been carried out. The results presented in the article are the next stage of the author’s work on developing an analytical sub-model of the power of the state in the social area

The effect of early career social capital on long-term income development in Finland

2020

PurposeIn this study, the authors examine whether social capital embedded in individuals' social networks is connected to employees' long-term income development in Finland.Design/methodology/approachAnalyses are based on 25–35-year-old employees from the Finnish Living Conditions Survey of 1994 combined with register data on earned incomes from 1995 to 2016. The authors used questions addressing the frequency of meeting parents or siblings, spending free time with co-workers and participation in associational, civic or other societal activities as measures of the extent of network capital. Ordered logistic model was used to examine whether the size and composition of social networks differ…

Katolicka nauka społeczna wobec zagadnień społeczno-politycznych

2018

The crisis of values, authority and identity that affects contemporary Europe encourages the Church to act that will protect Christians from axiological and morał degradation. One of the areas that can do this through their methods is Catholic social teaching. The article is a presentation of the most important assumptions of Catholic social science and an indication of how concepts of the nation and State together with goals and rights and obligations should be implemented so that both the Citizen and the rulers can strive for the common good.

L'assistenza delle società a partecipazione pubblica nell'attuazione del PNRR

2022

Si esamina l’assistenza tecnica fornita dalle società a partecipazione pubblica alle amministrazioni nell’attuazione dei progetti inclusi nel piano nazionale di ripresa e resilienza. In particolare, ci si sofferma sulla funzione di ausilio assicurata sia dalle società a prevalente partecipazione pubblica, sia dalle società in house che già svolgono attività di committenza centrale. Ci si domanda se tale forma di assistenza costituisca una attività del tutto inedita per tali società e ci si interroga sulla sua qualificazione giuridica: in particolare, si ritiene opportuno distinguere tale attività da ipotesi affini, come l’esternalizzazione di funzioni o l’azione svolta in passato dagli enti…

Análisis conjunto y espacios naturales: una aplicación al Paraje Natural del Desert de les Palmes

2007

We use stated preference methods to analyze consumer preferences on the attributes of protected natural areas and to estimate the willingness to pay for reducing the risk of fires in the site. For the first goal, conjoint analysis is used. Three attributes are considered: biodiversity, dimension of the natural area and the economic contribution that would have to be made for its maintenance and preservation. The willingness to pay for reducing the risk of fires has been estimated using choice experiment. The data have been gathered from a mail survey conducted among people living near the Desert de les Palmes Park, a protected area located in the Valencian Community (Spain). En el trabajo s…

Density of States evaluation of Molybdenum Oxide for c-Si solar cell

Silicon-based heterojunction technology (HJT) is one of the most promising candidates for high performance and low cost solar cells with world-record efficiency close to 27% in IBC architecture. The HJT exploits the excellent passivation properties of hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H); although, the use of doped a-Si:H has drawbacks such as parasitic absorption and low-thermal budget to cope with back-end metallization. Replacing the p-type a-Si:H with molybdenum oxide (MoOx) is a viable alternative. Optimizing this hole-selective layer is needed; however information on the defect density of states (DOS), linked to oxygen vacancies is still lacking.

Solid state NMR studies of gels derived from low molecular mass gelators

2016

Tailoring of the solid state properties of Al-Nb mixed oxides: A photoelectrochemical study

2013

Al-Nb containing mixed oxides were grown by anodizing sputter-deposited Al-Nb alloys of different compositions. A photoelectrochemical investigation was carried out in order to estimate the band gap, flat band potential, and conductivity type of these oxides as a function of their composition. The dependence of the band gap on the composition of mixed sp-d metal oxides has been rationalized by using a semiempirical correlation between the difference of electronegativity and band gap of oxides proposed in the literature some years ago and recently tested for regular d-d metal mixed oxides. The band gap increase observed as a function of Al content into the oxides seems mainly depending on th…

Financialization of Eldercare in a Nordic Welfare State

2022

Abstract The increasing presence of for-profit service providers in publicly-funded eldercare has transformed care in Nordic welfare states which have a strong tradition of public care provision. Macro-level research on care policies has mainly focused on public institutions, national policies, and marketization. The financialization of eldercare has not received much scholarly attention, and existing studies mostly focus on the UK. The financialization of eldercare refers to the ways in which care is both a site of profit extraction and financial engineering. The Nordic system is relatively universal, and, with rapidly ageing demographics, there is a secured demand for eldercare services. …

The Human Right to Social Security and Its Impact on Socio-Political Action in Germany and Finland

2017

Social human rights have rarely been given attention in social work research or comparative studies on welfare states. The paper aims at filling the gap by analysing the conception of human beings inherent in human rights and in unemployment policy documents in Germany and Finland. Its focus lies on the right to social security, a central norm of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The main question is what impact does the right to social security have on socio-political action in Germany and Finland. The results of the analysis, which was based on the objective hermeneutics, revealed a structural similarity between the conceptions of human beings in both cou…