Aim. To prove the medical-sociological technique of research of reproductive health of teenagers with the account of modern approaches to the understanding of health and the health-related quality of life. Method. Two ways of data selection are allocated in its frame: the analysis of factors, significant for health of teenagers from the point of view of adults; and research of factors, signific...

objectives: there have been numerous attempts to construct non-monetary indices of social and economic satisfaction by combining in a single statistic a variety of different factors that are thought to influence human well-being. method: the concept of quality of life (qol) as an aggregate measure of people’s well-being in a certain country, region, or social stratum. the economist intelligence...

■ Abstract Sociologists often model social processes as interactions among variables. We review an alternative approach that models social life as interactions among adaptive agents who influence one another in response to the influence they receive. These agent-based models (ABMs) show how simple and predictable local interactions can generate familiar but enigmatic global patterns, such as th...

All over the world, borders are places of separation, distinction and violence on one hand, encounter, mobility everyday practices other. This is particularly true external European Union. When Spain joined Communities in 1986, Ceuta Melilla, two cities North Africa, became such an border six-metre-high fences surrounding them a symbol “Fortress Europe”. But what does this mean for people who l...

In a survey of Chinese attitudes toward near-death experiences (NDEs), 197 respondents were read a hypothetical description of an NDE and asked to choose from a range of explanations and social reactions that might approximate their own. Fifty-eight percent of respondents believed that NDEs were probably hallucinations or dreams. Less than nine percent believed the NDE was evidence of life afte...

This research sought to describe the Ethno-mathematical practices of Eskaya tribe Taytay, Duero, Bohol using ethnographical design explore ethnomathematics through lived experiences informants. Employing purposive sampling, selected teachers, parents, and students from served as key informants study. Data collection took almost a year observation, documentation, interviews. The study was able s...

Calls for interdisciplinary research practice are an increasingly ubiquitous feature of contemporary academic life. However, whilst the claims made for its benefits, or limitations, are diverse in character and provenance, it is possible to identify one significant source as being related to modes of academic governance. This relation has significant effects, but is also obscured by the heterog...

ion Based Information Technology is a way of understanding knowledge, interaction and control in many different domains. It explicitly covers humanities in this sense whereas the approaches mentioned above remained much more on a purely mathematical and/or computational side for better control and easier modeling. The concept “ABIT” (Abstraction Based Information Technology) proposed in (Calmet...