In this short essay the author sets out to demonstrate the relevance of the sociological perspective in examining the role of legal professions and shed light on the somewhat neglected field of legal sociology. In this regard there are valuable historical analogies to draw on, but the new democracies of Central Europe also constitute a rich field of research for exploring this role. Given that constitutional institutions in this region still suffer from a poor level of legitimacy and the effects of a pre-democratic cultural background, the impact that professional legal actors, as active agents, have on the rule of law and democracy can be of exceptional significance. In newly established legal traditions, lawmakers become the architects of the emerging democracy. In some cases, however, this historical role is encumbered by an etatist, pre-democratic value system, which is the legacy of forty years of state socialism.
This research concerns with the mineralogical and geochemical composition of the Gulf of Aden shallow subsurface beach sands to identify the composition and tectonic setting of source area. The study discusses the limitation of using weathering indices and the factors hampered using these indices. Three shallow cores (1-1.5 m long) were collected from the coastal area at the mouth of wadis; Fuwwah (I), Ar Rukayb (II) and Shuhair (III) near Al-Mukalla, Yemen. The sediments are dominated by well to moderately well sorted fine-grained sands. The mineralogical composition is dominated by quartz followed by calcite with traces of plagioclase, k-feldspars, dolomite, clay minerals and amphiboles. The chemical composition is consistent with the mineralogy where the SiO2, CaO, Zr and Sr are the dominant oxides and trace elements, whereas other major and trace elements are strongly depleted. The sediments are compositionally mature and geochemically classified as quartz arenite to sublitharenite derived mainly from recycled sedimentary rocks that is consistent with the passive margin tectonic setting. The Chemical Index of Alteration (CIA) values suggest a low to moderate degree of weathering for the sediments of core I, whereas they show unweathered to poorly weathered source rocks of the sediments of cores II and III. Recycled sandstones mixed with carbonate sources and the hydraulic sorting minimized the effective usage of weathering indices in this study.
In this article the hydrologic measurements at selected Slovak streams writing 75 years observation period in term of low flow are evaluated. We entertain with deficit characteristics like low flow duration and deficit volumes for threshold discharge level Q90 (90% flow accidence). We calculate the appearance frequency, the distribution function of the maximum deficit volume and the maximum duration of low flow. We analysed also the most important low flow events for the whole observation period. This procedure was applied for hydrologic year and for selected characteristics also for summer and winter seasons. and V predloženom článku hodnotíme hydrologické pozorovania na vybraných slovenských vodných tokoch za 75-ročné obdobie z hľadiska malej vodnosti. Hodnotíme charakteristiky: trvanie malej vodnosti a nedostatkový objem pre prahovú hodnotu prietoku Q90 (90% zabezpečenosti prietoku). Určili sme frekvenciu výskytu, zákon rozdelenia maximálnych nedostatkových objemov a maximálneho trvania malej vodnosti. Analyzovali sme charakteristiky pre najvýznamnejšie zaznamenané udalosti malej vodnosti - historické suchá v celom období pozorovania. Postup sme aplikovali na hydrologický rok a pre vybrané charakteristiky aj na letnú a zimnú sezónu.
V posledních letech se můžeme v gerontologické literatuře setkat s novými termíny reflektujícím jevy nové či nově sledované. Mezi tyto termíny patří tzv. „SuperAging“. Tato stať seznamuje čtenáře s obsahem termínu ve dvou hlavních souvislostech: 1) v rámci společnosti – sociologie a demografie, 2) v rámci neuropsychologie a kognitivního stárnutí jedinců. Cílem je rozšířit tyto pojmy a jejich obsah mezi českou psychologickou obec. and Novel terms have been introduced in gerontology, reflecting new or newly observed phenomena. „SuperAging“ is one of those terms. This text introduces its content to the readers in the main areas of interest: 1) societal view of sociology and demography, 2) neuropsychology and cognitive ageing of individuals. Our goal is to make the aspects of SuperAgeing familiar to Czech psychologists.