Meditation—that great and mysterious subject which in the past has always conjured up the image of the solitary Asian ascetic sitting in deep trance—is fast appearing in unexpected places throughout modern American culture. Secretaries are doing it as part of their daily noon yoga classes. Preadolescent teenagers dropped off at the YMCA by their mothers on a Saturday morning are learning it as ...

Considering the importance of Brazil's Information System on Public Health Budgets (SIOPS) as a tool for planning, management, and social control of public expenditures in health, this article aimed to evaluate the relationship between the regularity of data entry into the SIOPS and knowledge and use of the system by municipal health administrators in Pernambuco State, Brazil. Ten municipalitie...

ABSTRACT The article analyzes the implementation of two Full-Time Teaching Programs in state public education system São Paulo, seeking to understand their effects on dynamics with a focus expanding segmentation educational offer and inequalities. For that, we resorted analysis documents that guide programs, interviews former secretaries members State Department Education, as well producing, fr...

A change in technology can redefine roles in society. Skills that were previously considered specialties and/or optional can become required for the general population. Some recent examples include typing and drafting. Neither skill was expected from engineers before the widespread availability of personal computers. Secretaries performed the overwhelming majority of typing, and drafting techni...

Territorial entities in Colombia are bound by the law to register and report different instances control information of government programs they administer. However, so much is distributed on various state owned platforms that result processed generated formats. This situation makes comprehensive management territorial data difficult, since, although exists, it isolated, its analysis carried ou...

Soviet funeral practices for members of the state elite are built on two factors. They use achievements antiquity and Bible, depend position deceased at time their death. On one hand, ‘elite’ refers to highest-ranked representatives authorities (primarily first secretaries party marshals army sometimes very meritorious activists). The custom mummification, which was taken from used Lenin Stalin...

Internal control is a management built by managers to achieve organizational goals and ensure sustainability. COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations), consisting five independent organizations in the USA (United States America), pioneered internal system become standard structure. COSO's model covers primary dimensions: environment, risk assessment management, activities, information commu...

POLITICAL LEADERSHIP OF THE FIRST SECRETARIES IN PERIOD REAL SOCIALISM The subject of the analysis is issue political leadership leaders communist parties in countries Central and Eastern Europe. Formed functioning systems were characterized by an undemocratic centralized internal character. Although degree repressiveness system evolved changed (from condemnation crimes so-called distortion Sta...