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772. ‘The social managers are back in town’: the challenges of housing management in a residualised public housing sector
- Creator:
- Costarelli, Igor
- Format:
- počítač and online zdroj
- Type:
- model:article and TEXT
- Subject:
- housing management, residualisation, tenant participation, welfare policy, and Italy
- Language:
- English
- Description:
- The residualisation of social housing sectors requires housing managers to intensify social management activities aimed at promoting tenants’ wellbeing and social cohesion. This paper discusses the implementation of such activities in the Italian public housing sector. It juxtaposes the vision conceptualised at the policy level with the daily activities of housing managers in practice on the ground and highlights the gaps between policy goals and realities of tenants’ involvement. While social management activities are expected to contribute to breaking the vicious circle of financial, technical, and social decline that has long affected public housing estates, the short timeframe of the planned interventions raises the question of the potential for structural change.
- Rights:
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ and policy:public
773. 'The son has ploughed', but a foreign son: five case studies on transformation strategies in Czech agriculture after 1989
- Creator:
- Nešpor, Zdeněk R.
- Format:
- Type:
- model:internalpart and TEXT
- Subject:
- sociology of agriculture, economic sociology, Czech Republic 1993-, transformation, and migrations
- Language:
- Czech
- Description:
- European agriculture has recently undergone important changes connected with the reorientation of EU policy towards regional, recreational, and land-use subsidies, and owing to the internal divergence in agriculture itself, which has led to large 'industrial' farming companies on the one hand and small, ecological farms on the other. During the period of transformation, the Czech agricultural sector has been forced to confront these changes and full stability remains a long way in the future. Transformation has thus brought both advantages and disadvantages to all the players involved. The former include the existence of large-scale farms, relatively highly skilled workers, and a cheap labour force, which make Czech agriculture competitive on a European scale. On the other hand, Czech attitudes towards work and respect for the property of others are inadequate; production efficiency and quality are low, whereas the expectations of farmers are high. Czech entrepreneurs have opted for relatively strict, unsocial, win-win strategies and understand their business simply in terms of material profit. Conversely, Western businessmen active in the Czech Republic more highly value the long-term profit, social ties and the symbolic functions of agriculture, though that does not mean they would not prefer 'industrial' forms of farming. The main problem of Czech agriculture is thus the absence of family-type farms rooted in their local, social environment, and there is only limited potential for this to develop. Unfortunately, this fact creates the threat of a 'two-speed' European agriculture: the Western model, combining both small and 'industrial' farms, and the Eastern model, focusing solely on extensive large-scale farming.
- Rights:
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ and policy:public
774. ‘They seemed like super businessmen’: financial instruments in social housing policy
- Creator:
- Čada, Karel
- Format:
- počítač and online zdroj
- Type:
- model:article and TEXT
- Subject:
- poverty neighbourhoods, social housing, financialisation, and Czech Republic
- Language:
- English
- Description:
- This article explores the trajectory of so-called guaranteed social housing in the Czech Republic as an example of penetrating financial instruments into the public policy realm. The project, promoted by the government’s Agency for Social Inclusion, was intended to encourage private landlords to rent their properties to people in need through commercial insurance against the risk of rent defaults. Using policy documents, media and interviews with governmental officers, the article describes the performative strength of financial instruments in the sphere traditionally occupied by the welfare state. In financialisation literature, the proliferation of financial instruments is often described as a one-way process in which these instruments colonise public domains. However, the empirical case discussed in the article shows that this process is much more complex and contingent, and financial instruments are not used as the best option but rather as a last resort in a situation marked by weak policies.
- Rights:
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ and policy:public
775. 'Whence come these terrible images...' :
- Creator:
- Machalíková, Pavla,
- Type:
- text and studie
- Subject:
- Výtvarné umění, Mánes, Josef,, Führich, Joseph von,, Pinkas, Soběslav Hyppolyt,, kultura lidová, umění výtvarné, recepce umění, malíři, české země 1792-1918, and malířství, malíři
- Language:
- English
- Description:
- "Odkud pocházejí ty hrozné obrázky..." K počátkům zájmu o lidovou kulturu a lidové výtvarné umění v 19. století v Čechách.
- Rights:
- unknown
776. 'Zenevská musea se zajištují
- Creator:
- Tj
- Format:
- electronic
- Type:
- model:article and TEXT
- Language:
- Czech
- Rights:
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ and policy:public
777. (22)
- Type:
- model:periodicalitem and TEXT
- Language:
- Czech
- Rights:
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ and policy:public
778. (Copernican) Experiences and the (Copernican) Bible in Galileo’s Letter to Castelli
- Creator:
- Vesel, Matjaž
- Format:
- print, bez média, and svazek
- Type:
- model:article and TEXT
- Subject:
- teorie vědy, theory of science, Galileo, dopis Castellimu, heliocentrismus, biblická hermeneutika, zkoumání přírody, Letter to Castelli, heliocentrism, Biblical hermeneutics, natural investigation, 12, and 00
- Language:
- Czech
- Description:
- Článek se zaměřuje na Galileův Dopis Castellimu z 21. prosince 1613. Autor analyzuje Galileovy hermeneutické principy představené v první části dopisu (bible by měla být vyloučena ze zkoumání přírody) a jeho doslovnou interpretaci pasáže z knihy Jozue (10: 12–13), v duchu kopernikanismu, která se objevuje ve druhé části dopisu. Zdá se, že Galileo užívá bibli jako vědeckou autoritu a na podporu svých kopernikánských názorů, a tak se ocitá v rozporu se svými vlastními hermeneutickými principy. Autor tvrdí, že Galileovo stanovisko je konzistentní, zvláště pokud se vezme v úvahu historický kontext jeho vzniku, tj. kontext stálých, teologicky motivovaných útoků na Koperníka, Galilea a jeho věrnost heliocentrickému systému světa (pohyb Země odporuje bibli) a kontext jeho nedávných teleskopických pozorování a objevů., The article focuses on Galileo’s Letter to Castelli, 21 December 1613. The author analyzes Galileo’s hermeneutical principles established in the first part of the letter (the Bible should be excluded from natural investigation) and his literal interpretation of the passage from the Book of Joshua 10, 12–13, in Copernican terms, in the second part of the letter. Galileo appears to use the Bible as a scientific authority, supporting his Copernican views, and thus he seems to contradict his own hermeneutical principles. The author argues that Galileo’s position is consistent, especially if one takes into account the historical context of its genesis, that is, in the context of the constant, theologically-inspired attacks on Copernicus and Galileo and his commitment to the heliocentric world system (the movement of the earth contradicts the Bible) and in the context of his newly-made telescopic observations and discoveries., and Matjaž Vesel.
- Rights:
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ and policy:public
779. (E)straperlo: začiatok konca Druhej španielskej republiky? :
- Creator:
- Timko, Maroš
- Type:
- text and studie
- Subject:
- Dějiny států a území na Pyrenejském poloostrově, aféry politické, korupce, politici španělští, Španělsko, světové dějiny 1918-1945, and vnitřní politika
- Language:
- Slovak
- Description:
- (E)straperlo: the beginning of the end of the Second Spanish Republic? The example of the political corruption and comparison of the reflection on crisis in Madrid and Asturias.
- Rights:
- unknown
780. (Far) Outside the box: Genomic approach to acute porphyria
- Creator:
- Thunell, S.
- Type:
- article, model:article, and TEXT
- Subject:
- Acute porphyria, Acute attack, ALAS1, Caffeine, CAR, Fasting, FOXO, Ghrelin GR, HCC, HPA-axis, HNF4, Infection, Inflammation, Leptin, Nicotine, PGC1 alpha, Review, Stress, Steroid, Smoking, STAT5, Pathophysiology, PXR, Sex hormone, Steroids, Transactivation, and Trauma
- Language:
- English
- Description:
- The question of the reasons for the extreme variation in morbidity among the gene carriers of acute porphyria and the great diversity of the precipitating factors are approached by the aid of a model of interacting genomic circuits. It is based on the current paradigm of the acute porphyric attack as a result of a toxic proximal overload of the enzyme- deficient heme-biosynthetic patway. Porphyrogenic influx of precursors is seen as a consequence of uncontrolled induction of its gate-keeping enzyme, ubiquitous 5-aminolevulinate synthase (ALAS1), due to attenuated post-translational control of the enzyme combined with activated gene transcription. Focus is directed on the genomic control of the master-regulator of ALAS1-transcription, the nuclear receptor pair constitutively active receptor (CAR) and pregnane xenobiotic receptor (PXR). On activation by their ligands, i.e. lipophilic drugs, solvents, alcohols, hormonal steroids and biocides, these DNA-binding proteins transform xenobiotic or steroid stimuli to coordinated activations of gene transcription-programs for ALAS1 and apo-cytochromes P450 (apo-CYPs), thus effecting the formation of xenobiotic-metabolizing cytochrome P450 enzymes. The potency of the CAR/PXR-transduction axis is enhanced by co-activators generated in at least four other genomic circuits, each triggered by different external and internal stimuli clinically experienced to be porphyroge nic, and each controlled by co-activating and co-repressing modulators. The expressions of the genes for CAR and PXR are thus augmented by binding glucocorticoid receptor (GR) activated by a steroid hormone, e.g, cortisol generated in fasting, infection or different forms of stress. The promotor regions of ALAS1 and apoCYPs contain binding sites for at least three co-activating transcription factors enhancing CAR/PXR transduction: i.e. the ligand-independent growth hormone (GH)-pulse controlled hepatocyte nuclear factor 4 (HNF4), the insulin-responsive forkhead box class O-(FOXO) protein pathway activated in stress and infection, and the proliferator-activated receptor gamma co-activator 1 al pha (PGC-1alpha) circuit responding to glucagon liberated in fasting. Many interactions and cross-talk take place within the tangle of genomic circuits that control ALAS1-transcription, which may explain the extreme inter- and intra-individual variability in morbidity in acute porphyria. Reasons for gender-differences are found in sex-dependent control of HPA- and GH-activity as well as in direct, or GR-mediated effects on CAR/PCR activation. Constitutional differences in individual porphyric morbidity may be discussed along lines of mutations or duplications of genes for co-activating or co-repressing nuclear proteins active at different levels within the circuits.
- Rights:
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ and policy:public