Two Cheers for Czech Democracy

The New Subversives - Czech Environmentalists after 1989

Between the 1980s and late 1990s the Czech environmental movement has developed from two official national conservationist groups, which were recognized by the communist regime and which in their activities overlapped with more independent initiatives, into a complex network of diverse groups. Early in this past decade the standing of the environmental movement shifted from champions of democra...

The Czech Republicans 1990-1998: A populist radical right outsider in a consolidating democracy

Between Apprehension and Support: Social Dialogue, Democracy, and Industrial Restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe

This article explores the attitudes of trade union organizations to restructuring and privatization of their enterprises to strategic foreign investors in Central and Eastern Europe’s biggest steel producers: Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, and Slovakia. Contra advocates of insulating technocratic decision-makers from social partners, this article argues that higher quality of democracy and co...

F-TRANSFORM FOR NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF TWO-POINT BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM

We propose a fuzzy-based approach aiming at finding numerical solutions to some classical problems. We use the technique of F-transform to solve a second-order ordinary differential equation with boundary conditions. We reduce the problem to a system of linear equations and make experiments that demonstrate applicability of the proposed method. We estimate the order of accuracy of the proposed ...

Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards (CHEERS)--explanation and elaboration: a report of the ISPOR Health Economic Evaluation Publication Guidelines Good Reporting Practices Task Force.

BACKGROUND Economic evaluations of health interventions pose a particular challenge for reporting because substantial information must be conveyed to allow scrutiny of study findings. Despite a growth in published reports, existing reporting guidelines are not widely adopted. There is also a need to consolidate and update existing guidelines and promote their use in a user-friendly manner. A ch...