Ethical Education is a compulsorily optional subject in primary and secondary schools. The Ethical Education objective is the education of a personality with one ́s own identity, with interiorized ethical standards, with mature moral judgement and therefore with the behaviour determined by one ́s own beliefs; with a positive attitude to himself/herself and other people and that is why he/she is a...

ICT has a very short history in Slovakia. A majority of Slovak schools accessed computers and internet only after 2000. Different financial support and schools’ participation in various projects resulted in non-random distribution of computers across Slovakian elementary schools. We examined whether 1) attitudes toward computers could be affected by the accessibility of computers at schools and...

The Slovak Republic (SR) is a small sovereign state in Central Europe which gained independence on the 1 January 1993 by separation from the Czech/Slovak Federal Republic. From 2002, the SR was divided into eight semi-autonomous Regions (“krajov”); each named after its principal city; with their self-governing bodies referred to as UpperTier Territorial Units (V UC). These regions are subdivide...

As a result of dramatic political and economic changes in the beginning of the 1990s, Q-fever epidemiology in Bulgaria has changed. The number of goats almost tripled; contact between goat owners (and their families) and goats, as well as goats and other animals, increased; consumption of raw goat milk and its products increased; and goats replaced cattle and sheep as the main source of human C...

Abstract This contribution fills the Diptera biodiversity knowledge gap of two National Nature Reserves in east Slovakia. In total, 53 flies species from 24 families were confirmed NNR Dreveník and Sivá Brada. Among them tree new records Dolichopodidae for fauna Slovakia: Campsicnemus magius (Loew, 1845), Chrysotus palustris Verrall, 1876, Ephydridae: Notiphila ( Agrolimna ) uliginosa Haliday, ...

The aim of the paper is to explain beef consumption through economic indicators and prediction tendencies consumption. There are countries like Slovakia that confirm opposite trend despite global growth. In terms ecosystems' sustainability, production should be adjusted accordingly, as in case Slovakia. We focus on aspect from perspective sustainability. Commodity prices considered a significan...

BACKGROUND Information on cancer prevalence is either absent or largely unavailable for central European countries. MATERIALS AND METHODS Austria, Germany, The Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland cover a population of 13 million inhabitants. Cancer registries in these countries supplied incidence and survival data for 465 000 cases of cancer. The prevalence of stomach, col...

BACKGROUND Policies on waste disposal in Europe are heterogeneous and rapidly changing, with potential health implications that are largely unknown. We conducted a health impact assessment of landfilling and incineration in three European countries: Italy, Slovakia and England. METHODS A total of 49 (Italy), 2 (Slovakia), and 11 (England) incinerators were operating in 2001 while for landfill...