PARTICIPATION OF V4 COUNTRIES IN AFRICAN PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS

Explaining Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Peacekeeping Missions: The Role of Female Peacekeepers and Gender Equality in Contributing Countries

Sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) is an endemic problem in UN peacekeeping missions. It is not only a gross human rights violation, but also threatens to challenge the legitimacy of the peacekeeping mission, poses a health problem, and undermines the promotion of gender equality in host countries. We examine if the composition of peacekeeping forces along two dimensions—the proportion of wome...

Prevalence of hepatitis A across various countries in the Middle East, African and Eastern European countries

fertility rate and women’s participation in labor force case study: middle eastern and north african countries

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Surgical missions to developing countries: Ethical conflicts.

Each year scores of American physicians and nurses travel overseas, usually at their own expense, aiming to improve the lot of desperate patients in developing countries. Our journals are filled with images of smiling children who have benefited from these gifts of care. Still, practicing medicine, and especially surgery, in a sporadic fashion in distant lands can lead to poor outcomes. It does...

State space description of national economies: The V4 countries

We present a new approach to description of national economies. For this we use the state space viewpoint, which is used mostly in the theory of dynamical systems and in the control theory. Gross domestic product, inflation, and unemployment rates are taken as state variables. We demonstrate that for the considered period of time the phase trajectory of each of the V4 countries (Slovak Republic...