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{"title":"THE SOCIAL CARE SYSTEM AND FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS FOR CHILDREN WITHOUT PARENTAL CARE IN NORTH MACEDONIA","authors":"Abdula Azizi, Lindita Neziri-Ceka","doi":"10.20472/iac.2019.049.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20472/iac.2019.049.003","url":null,"abstract":"Since children are an important part of any society, there should be no lack of institutions, mechanisms and activities responsible for building public policies for children without parental care. Positive laws in the North Macedonia have also included some of the international standards (reflected in relevant international conventions); and there is also a care system for children without parents; while there are also missing \"symbolic\" budgetary tools foreseen to develop activities in this area.","PeriodicalId":111232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 49th International Academic Conference, Dubrovnik","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126427941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"THE IMPORTANCE OF CULTURE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONS: A COMPARATIVE BETWEEN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES AND EMERGING MARKETS","authors":"J. Douat, M. Ponchio","doi":"10.20472/iac.2019.049.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20472/iac.2019.049.011","url":null,"abstract":"The paper evaluates the influence of cultural aspects on innovation, comparing emerging markets to developed countries. The assumption that guide the paper is that individualistic nations are risk-takers and tend to show higher innovation rates; whereas countries whose relations are more hierarchical, and therefore with high power distance, tend to be less innovative. It was conducted a multivariate data analysis from 56 nations, divided into developed and emerging countries, according to the International Monetary Fund criteria, that defines 36 countries as \"advanced economies\". The results indicate that confidence in population is related to a country?s degree of innovation. Nations with greater trust between individuals who are related tend to have a higher innovation index, while, on the other hand, countries in where people tend to have greater confidence in their neighborhood and community, have a lower chance of being innovative.","PeriodicalId":111232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 49th International Academic Conference, Dubrovnik","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116531967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"THE LEARNING STYLES OF LAW STUDENTS (AT A CARIBBEAN TERTIARY INSTITUTION)","authors":"Ronnie R. F. Yearwood, Rashad L. Brathwaite","doi":"10.20472/iac.2019.049.046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20472/iac.2019.049.046","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this research is to assess the learning styles of law students at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Law School in the Caribbean, using the Grasha-Riechmann survey. On the basis of the outcomes of the survey, a number of themes will be explored. Firstly, do law students (at the UWI, Cave Hill Campus) have different learning styles from other students at the UWI Cave Hill Campus? The basis of comparison will be a study of learning styles of UWI Cave Hill students (Corbin, 2017) which applied the Grasha-Riechmann survey. Secondly, having understood the learning styles of the law students through the survey, can it be argued as a policy position that the Law School should be encouraged to assess the learning styles of each incoming student year in order to align teaching methods for the better performance of law students. Thirdly, though understanding learning styles can be useful to improving student performance, it is critical to recognize that it can be misleading to teach according to the dominant learning styles. This critical insight is important for law students because lawyers as professionals need to be competent in all learning styles, so perhaps a better approach would be to teach to various learning styles across the entire Law School. Fourthly, the survey of the learning styles of the law students can be the start of a longitudinal study to assess whether the learning styles change over the life-time of their legal education.","PeriodicalId":111232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 49th International Academic Conference, Dubrovnik","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125259059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"UNCONSTRAINED SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE ESTIMATION METHOD CONSIDERING THE ULTRADIAN RHYTHM TIME DYNAMICS OF THE BLOOD PRESSURE DURING THE NIGHT","authors":"M. Kohama, Keita Nisio, T. Kaburagi, S. Kumagai, T. Matsumoto, Y. Kurihara","doi":"10.20472/iac.2019.049.024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20472/iac.2019.049.024","url":null,"abstract":"Hypertension is a very common disease in the modern world. It requires daily measurements of blood pressure to reduce the risk of developing other associated diseases. It is especially difficult to measure blood pressure at night because the present measurement method requires compressing the patient?s arm using a cuff, which cannot be performed during sleep. In this study, we propose an unconstrained systolic blood pressure estimation method that considers time dynamics of blood pressure change during sleep on the basis of a transfer function model. In the proposed method, 12 features that relate to stroke volume, heart rate, blood vessel diameter, and vascular hardness are calculated in an unconstrained manner from the heartbeat signal measured by the pneumatic method. Taking time dynamics into account, a transfer function is constructed using the 12 features calculated from the heartbeat signal as inputs to estimate blood pressure at the current time. The features are measured for the past 70 minutes considering the ultradian rhythm.We conducted a validation experiment in six healthy subjects. The subjects were asked to sleep during the night on an ordinary bed equipped with a pneumatic bio-signal measurement system. To obtain the true systolic blood pressure as a reference, the subjects wore the cuff of an automatic sphygmomanometer around the left arm. True systolic blood pressure was measured every 10-minutes. The heartbeat signal of the subject was obtained by applying a band-pass filter with a range of 0.8?6 Hz to the output signal from the pneumatic method. The 12 features were then calculated from the heartbeat signal. To obtain the transfer function model, we performed subspace identification with the 12 measured features as input signals, and one output signal corresponding to blood pressure. Leave-one-subject-out cross-validation was applied to evaluate the accuracy of the proposed method; i.e. the transfer function was identified using five subjects? heartbeat signal data, and the blood pressure of the left-out-subject was estimated by the transfer function. Finally, we calculated the correlation coefficient between all estimated blood pressure and true blood pressure measurements. The correlation coefficient between the systolic blood pressure estimated by the proposed method and the true blood pressure measured by the sphygmomanometer was 0.81. This shows that systolic blood pressure estimated by our method is comparable to true measures of blood pressure using a sphygmomanometer. This method may be useful for monitoring blood pressure at night without disturbing sleeping patients.","PeriodicalId":111232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 49th International Academic Conference, Dubrovnik","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123584435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"UNCONSTRAINED APNEA DETECTION SYSTEM UTILIZING COMPRESSED TIME-FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION BY AN AUTOENCODER","authors":"M. Kohama, Keita Nisio, Ikuya Takao, T. Kaburagi, T. Matsumoto, S. Kumagai, Y. Kurihara","doi":"10.20472/iac.2019.049.023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20472/iac.2019.049.023","url":null,"abstract":"Currently, ischemic heart disease is the most common cause of death worldwide, with 9.48 million people dying of the disease. More than 30% of ischemic heart disease patients have sleep apnea syndrome. Since it is difficult to detect whether a patient has sleep apnea syndrome; the consultation rate remains at 15%. Hence, routine monitoring is necessary to identify suspected patients. Many kinds of research on apnea detection have been conducted so far. The authors have also proposed a pneumatic method to measure a respiration signal unconstrainedly. In this study, we propose an unconstrained system to detect each occurrence of an apnea event by applying an autoencoder with two layers to the respiration signal. In the proposed method, we measure a signal from a pressure sensor placed under a mattress on which a person is lying. To obtain the respiration signal, a digital band-pass filter with cut-off frequencies ranging from 0.15 to 0.45 Hz is applied to the output signal from the pressure sensor. Wavelet transform is applied to the filtered respiration signal to obtain time-frequency distributions that represent frequencies characteristic for each time step. Then, the time-frequency characteristic sends inputs to an autoencoder with two layers and the dimensions of the time-frequency distribution is compressed. The proposed method consists of two phases: a training phase and a detection phase. In the training phase, the compressed data with supervised data that is expressed as 0 or 1(0: respiration, 1: apnea) is used to train a classification model including softmax function. In the detection phase, to detect an apnea event, the compressed data without supervised data is applied to the trained classification model.In the verification experiment, we prepared five subjects with variations in height and weight and acquired each subject?s data in four recumbent positions. Data obtained was a total of 20 (five subjects×four recumbent positions). The dimension of time-frequency distribution was set to 113. In the first layer, the dimension was compressed to 75 dimensions; and in the second layer, 75 dimensions were compressed to 50. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated by the leave-one-subject-out and leave-one-recumbent-position-out cross-validations. Based on results of cross-validations on all 20 data, the average correct answer rate was 0.90 for both the subjects and the recumbent positions. These results demonstrate that the proposed system was not susceptible to the subject and the recumbent position.","PeriodicalId":111232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 49th International Academic Conference, Dubrovnik","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126393740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"RECRUITMENT MARKETING: DO WE UNDERSTAND WHAT GENERATION Z EXPECTS FROM ITS FUTURE EMPLOYERS?","authors":"Andreas Zehetner, Daniela Zehetner","doi":"10.20472/iac.2019.049.047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20472/iac.2019.049.047","url":null,"abstract":"The struggle for finding good employees in Austrian companies is in full swing, and it rests as a big problem on the desks of recruitment marketers and HR departments. Aside from a general shortage due to demographic developments, a new generation of future employees (the ?Z? generation) is growing up, and will be present on the labour markets in a very short time. These young people have been raised under completely different (technological, economic, and social) conditions and, in turn, have different expectations of their future job life and employers. Experience as well as literature on employment related expectations, motivation, and behaviours of Gen Z representatives is scarce, which makes it hard for companies to shape their job offerings in an efficient and effective way, matching the demands of this group. In order to contribute to a better understanding of this phenomenon, a large-scale mixed-method research was undertaken, six focus groups with 43 participants and 550 personal interviews with pupils and young students were conducted in Austria. The motivation was to identify and categorize criteria, which might distinguish an ?attractive from an average job? in the eyes of a Gen X candidate. Factor analysis methods were employed to reveal the categories that matter for this group.The findings suggest that the most important criteria for Gen X members are predominantly ?social?, namely team spirit, working atmosphere, job-life-integration. ?Factual? arguments like salary, job security, career advancement and task diversity only play a secondary role. The HOW is more important than the WHAT. A paradigm shift seems to gain momentum: Currently, most current job descriptions emphasize \"what\" statements: \"What are your tasks??; \"what are opportunities for development?\"; or \"what is expected from you?\". However, Generation Z seems to be much more concerned about the \"HOW\": \"How does it feel to work here?\"; \"how does my team function?\"; \"How will my working day in this company look like?\"; or \" how diversified and exciting is my job?\" Salary, job security and a financially stable company are still relevant, but they are not in the foreground. In addition, trends such as home office or high tech equipment of the office appeared to be not too catchy.The paper ends with recommendations for HR-representatives, including a better visualization of team spirit and working atmosphere, raising awareness for the social aspect of work, and establishing tangible elements of ?how it is to work in that company?.","PeriodicalId":111232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 49th International Academic Conference, Dubrovnik","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121948479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"INTERDISCIPLINARY CLASSIFICATION STUDIES","authors":"D. Bielinska-Waz, Joanna Cieszyńska, Agnieszka Bielinska, M. Majkowicz, P. Wąż","doi":"10.20472/iac.2019.049.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20472/iac.2019.049.004","url":null,"abstract":": Classification of different kinds of objects is an important source of information in different areas of science. We show examples of classification diagrams of objects related to bioinformatics, medicine, and social science. In particular, we present a bioinformatics method designed by us and called 2D-Dynamic Representation of DNA/RNA Sequences [1,2]. In this non-standard approach the sequences are represented as point-masses in a 2D space. This mathematical method facilitates the creation of the classification diagrams in which different kinds of sequences are separated. Analogous diagrams we have obtained in social science - different groups of people are separated according to some, properly selected, criteria. In this case, a classifier is a kind of an answers to some questions. We have shown that this method can be a good tool for studies of the retirement threshold [3,4]. In the present work we also show some unpublished results related to the quality of life of the patients with voice disorders in inflammatory, neoplastic and neurological diseases of the larynx. DNA/RNA","PeriodicalId":111232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 49th International Academic Conference, Dubrovnik","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127173220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"LOVE AS A KEY ELEMENT TO WELLBEING","authors":"K. Määttä, Marju Määttä","doi":"10.20472/iac.2019.049.027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20472/iac.2019.049.027","url":null,"abstract":"This presentation is based on the new scientific book Love Around Us - The Role of Love in Education, Parenting and Romantic Relationships (Kaarina Maatta & Satu Uusiautti, eds.) published by Peter Lang in 2018, and also the previous book Many Faces of Love (Kaarina Maatta & Satu Uusiautti, authors), published by Sense Publishers. In the presentation it will be discussed research on love as a key element of health, wellbeing and positive human development. People live in a network of relationships and their ability to build and maintain realationships is an important strength. Love has many definitions and also many forms and faces. The presentation provides a comprehensive analysis on love in various areas of human beings? life ? the emergence and manifestation of romantic love in various phases of life, love in education, love for work, for fellow humans ? and in relation to other phenomena, such as friendship, play, and creativity. When dissecting love along the course of life, parental love and also grandparental love secures children's well-being and teachers´ pedagogical love trusts in pupils' learning. The first taste of falling in love can manifest itself in the form of the sweet poison of love and still is quite far from actual love. The ability to love is an important, yet difficult, skill. There are numerous theories that explain the phases of long-lasting marriages and divorces, too. Nevertheless, love does not retire and the fascination of love does not fade, not even in senior age. Other topical phenomena of love are, for example, love for work and the successful combination of work and family.Love in its whole gamut is connected to human wellbeing and development in different areas and phases of human life. Love, as its best, is manifested by the endeavor to make things develop, grow, and come forward, whether love falls on other people, art, science, ideas, or nature. A world where it is safe to love is a world where it is safe to live. The presentation concentrates on the best sides of love and I conclude that love, in its various forms, makes the best health insurance.","PeriodicalId":111232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 49th International Academic Conference, Dubrovnik","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130186397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"THE UNKNOWN NOTIFICATION OF XVI CENTURY FRENCH DIPLOMAT ABOUT OTTOMAN-PERSIAN RELATIONS AND GEORGIA","authors":"Tea Tsitlanadze, T. Karchava, M. Papashvili, Andro Gogoladze","doi":"10.20472/iac.2019.049.039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20472/iac.2019.049.039","url":null,"abstract":"The issue (which is the little part of joint scientific work, regards French communiques unknown so far for Georgian Historiography. They belong to French diplomat Juie who visited Constantinople in XVI century. The letters comprise quite interesting information. Their scientific value is determined by the fact that they belong to the person, who got notifications from a direct informer. The importance of the given documents grows, because there are very scanty contemporaneous sources depicting a domestic as well as a foreign political situation of Georgia of the 16thcentury. It is not doubtful that the author of the letters was well acquainted with the political peripeteias of the Ottoman-Iranian War, which began in 1578. It had a great importance for the history of Georgia, because the Georgians actively participated in the war against Ottomans on the basis of the ?political Iranophilia?. Therefore, a factual material delivered by the diplomat is very interesting for the consideration of a political orientation of the Georgian principalities of the last quarter of the 16th century. It indirectly indicates that political Iranophilia of the Kingdom of Kartli resulted from a real assessment of the international situation created in western Transcaucasia and Near East. Military, political and diplomatic relations with Iran enabled the King of Kartli (Simon I) to base his plans on the usage of Iran and to involve this country as well as the Kingdom of Kartli in anti-Ottoman coalition of the European states. Therefore, Christian Georgia was a connecting bridge for Iran, which looked for an ally in Catholic west (Spain, France, Italy, Germany). This fact enabled Simon I to carry out the policy in relation to the Europeans.Three letters of French diplomat Juie reveal the Ottomans? preparation for a military expedition. These letters vividly depict how the Iranian government prevented the aggravation of the situation in the region. The position of the Georgian kings had a great significance in this respect. Therefore, these letters (together with the analogues Spanish and Italian sources) enable us to present a foreign policy of our country in the context of international relations and particularly, for the determination of the place occupied by Georgia in the Ottoman-Iranian diplomatic rivalry in western Europe.","PeriodicalId":111232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 49th International Academic Conference, Dubrovnik","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131074206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ADSORPTION OF ROOT EXUDATES ONTO CORN STRAW-DERIVED BIOCHAR: CHARACTERIZATION AND ADSORPTION ISOTHERM STUDIES","authors":"S. Hosseinzadeh","doi":"10.20472/iac.2019.049.020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20472/iac.2019.049.020","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of using corn straw biochar for adsorption of the selected root exudates (organic acids) present in reused nutrient solution (RNS). Qualitative screening (GC/MS) of the RNS revealed the presence of fourteen organic acids and among all, benzoic and phthalic acids as the main inhibitors were selected for quantitative (HPLC) analysis.The biochar was prepared at temperature of 300 °C and the obtained biochar was subsequently characterized by SEM, BET and FTIR analysis. In order to evaluate the adsorption isotherm, Langmuir and Freundlich adsorption isotherm models were fit to the experimental data. The Langmuir model best represented the experimental data for both benzoic and phthalic acids, exhibiting high linear correlation coefficients (R2 ≥ 0.98).The study revealed this biochar is a promising alternative for granular activated carbon with respect to RNS recovery at a greatly reduced cost.","PeriodicalId":111232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 49th International Academic Conference, Dubrovnik","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124877172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}