In the Czech Republic, community responsibility for care of bereaved after pregnancy loss, and specifically perinatal is a recent phenomenon. Using sociological, qualitative, explorative framework, paper analyses practices contexts establishing as emerging bottom-up initiatives. The research, funded by Science Foundation 2016– 2019, traces significant change in status quo loss associated bereav...

A great amount of literature has demonstrated a connection between obesity, visceral fat and the metabolic disorders such as hyperglycemia, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia. Lately, there has been an increased interest in understanding if cancer is related to obesity and visceral fat accumulation. The prevalence of both obesity and cancer are increasing and there has been keen interest in the r...

Publishers of news information are keen to amplify the reach of their content by making it as re-sharable as possible on social media. In this work we study the relationship between the concept of social deviance and the re-sharing of news headlines by network gatekeepers on Twitter. Do network gatekeepers have the same predilection for selecting socially deviant news items as professionals? Th...

This paper examines the relationship between simulation and experiment. Many discussions of simulation, and indeed the term “numerical experiments,” invoke a strong metaphor of experimentation. On the other hand, many simulations begin as attempts to apply scientific theories. This has lead many to characterize simulation as lying between theory and experiment. The aim of the paper is to try to...

In today’s fast growing digital environment, firms are keen that their strategies should take advantage of the Internet’s capacity to access, organize and communicate information in fractions of cost involved before the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) revolution. Considering the vital role of strategic planning to business success, this paper proposes a path analytic framework to...

NVESTORS, world over, are currently demanding more shareholder value than just high returns. Maximising shareholders value has always been the ultimate aim of every company. Investors are very keen in assessing the corporate financial performance that correlate with shareholders wealth particularly the market price of a share. Traditional performance measures like return on investment, earnings...

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