This article identifies health promotion activities for the oldest people, who often become users of social services due to a loss of capabilities, solitude and raising care needs related to worsening health status. The analysis is based on a literature overview, experts’ consultations and interviews on the role of social sector institutions in health promotion in selected countries. Examples o...

To address the unacceptable levels of disease in developing countries and the lack of vaccines to address infectious diseases, the public sector has been expanding its funding for, and involvement in, vaccine research and development. The public sector is becoming a full participant in the spectrum of translational research taking candidates from the laboratory to use in national immunization p...

Cis-element encyclopedias provide information on phenotypic diversity and disease mechanisms. Although cis-element polymorphisms and mutations are instructive, deciphering function remains challenging. Mutation of an intronic GATA motif (+9.5) in GATA2, encoding a master regulator of hematopoiesis, underlies an immunodeficiency associated with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and acute myeloid le...

The use of arrays and the possibility of electronic beam steering, focusing and side lobe suppression allows a better defect classification and reconstruction of defective areas in work pieces, components and industrial plants. Because of synthesizing a large sector by a narrm'i ultrasonic beam, the advantage of a narrow beam for oood signal/noise ratio is combined with the advantage of a broad...

Marital satisfaction is an essential element for successful family life and personal growth. The fulfillment and positive development will be possible only when the relationship between couples is coherent and satisfactory. Different factors have significant influence on the marital satisfaction, like personality of the partner, nature of job, child rearing responsibility, sexual satisfaction a...

To remain competitive, organizations need to continuously develop their knowledge. While knowledge work is performed similarly in organizations across different sectors, the measurement and assessment of its results currently lacks standardized approaches. This paper sets out to identify indicators that are suitable for making knowledge development transparent to support monitoring of knowledge...

In this paper, in order to study the impact of o¤shoring on sectoral and economywide rates of unemployment, we construct a two sector general equilibrium model in which labor is mobile across the two sectors, and unemployment is caused by search frictions. We …nd that, contrary to general perception, wage increases and sectoral unemployment decreases due to o¤shoring. This result can be underst...