Splitting families and complete separability

We answer a question from Raghavan and Stepr{\=a}ns' paper on weakly tight families by showing that $\mathfrak{s} = {\mathfrak{s}}_{\omega, \omega}$. Then we use this to construct a completely separable maximal almost disjoint family under \s \leq \a, partially answering a question of Shelah

Soft skills of Czech graduates

Finding a job is easier for people who are better equipped with soft skills, as they are more productive. Therefore, this article deals with the evaluation of soft skills of graduates from Czech public universities. The results show that the same soft skills are required from university graduates as from the population as a whole (only problem solving is more pronounced with them), but the required level of these skills is 42% higher in the case of graduates. Unfortunately, employers perceive the level of graduates' soft skills insufficient as their level is by 16.46 to 31.15% lower than required. A more detailed analysis showed that, in terms of the development of soft skills, Czech universities provide a very homogenous service. Graduates of universities have nearly the same level of soft skills, while they can also identify similar strengths and weaknesses. These findings suggest that Czech universities should pay more attention to the systematic development of soft skills.Web of Science181604

Future skills needs in EU and skills transferability in 2020 : sector meta-analysis

Employment and its changes caused by restructuring are topics, which European Union pays attention to in long-run horizon, and the experience of current economic crisis confirms the rectitude of this approach. Structural changes always generate a need of the re-emplacement of laid off workers. Possibilities of their emplacement is strongly influenced by knowledge and skills offered by workers and demanded by employers. Acquaintance with future demand on knowledge and skills applicable across whole economy or applicable in different segments of labour market, i.e. in concrete occupations and sectors, enables effective targeting of educational activities at both individual and social levels, which will lead to higher flexibility of labour market mirrored mainly by high occupational mobility and low structural unemployment. The aim of this paper is to analyse future knowledge and skills needs recognized in 18 future-oriented sector analyses, published by European Commission in 2009, and identify knowledge and skills applicable in individual sectors, occupations and on the whole labour market, i.e. identify transferable knowledge and skills

On weakly tight families

Using ideas from Shelah's recent proof that a completely separable maximal almost disjoint family exists when $\c < {\aleph}_{\omega}$, we construct a weakly tight family under the hypothesis \s \leq \b < {\aleph}_{\omega}. The case when \s < \b is handled in \ZFC and does not require \b < {\aleph}_{\omega}, while an additional PCF type hypothesis, which holds when \b < {\aleph}_{\omega} is used to treat the case \s = \b. The notion of a weakly tight family is a natural weakening of the well studied notion of a Cohen indestructible maximal almost disjoint family. It was introduced by Hru{\v{s}}{\'a}k and Garc{\'{\i}}a Ferreira \cite{Hr1}, who applied it to the Kat\'etov order on almost disjoint families

Implications of Business and Economic Environment and Strategic Management and Performance Management in Selected Countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)

This paper focuses on main characteristics of the recent development of the business environment, business education and management procedures in selected countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the Baltic and Balkan countries, and emphasizes important aspects influencing business performance. Our conclusions are based on analyses of 30 international business companies, nonprofit, and public organizations, academic and business sources, and on our personal hands on business experience. We have observed differences especially in long-term development of entities, strategic management, controlling, performance management, employee appraisal, as well as other areas related to performance management. Due to space limitations we do not include a comparative analyses of procedures based on identical aspects for selected countries but rather emphasize the most important elements

50+ employees on Czech and Moravian-Silesian labour market

The ageing of the Czech population brings the problem of insufficient quantitative and qualitative reproduction of the labour force, which influences the competitiveness of the country. National strategic documents emphasize the necessity of using the work potential of older people through the realization of measures supporting their employment. The efficiency of these measures depends on the characteristics of the older people, the attitudes of other labour market subjects towards them, and regional differences. Therefore, the aim of this paper is the detailed description of older people’s characteristics and their situation , and the evaluation of its differences between national and regional levels. The paper did not identify any significant differences between the situation of older people on the national labour market and the labour market of the Moravian-Silesian region, which suggests the applicability of unified approach supporting the employability of 50+ people. However, a lack of interest in employing 50+ workers was identified in the case of small and medium enterprises, as well as insufficient activity by 50+ individuals themselves to lead to any improvement of their current situation

A convergence on Boolean algebras generalizing the convergence on the Aleksandrov cube

We compare the forcing related properties of a complete Boolean algebra B with the properties of the convergences $\lambda_s$ (the algebraic convergence) and $\lambda_{ls}$ on B generalizing the convergence on the Cantor and Aleksandrov cube respectively. In particular we show that $\lambda_{ls}$ is a topological convergence iff forcing by B does not produce new reals and that $\lambda_{ls}$ is weakly topological if B satisfies condition $(\hbar)$ (implied by the ${\mathfrak t}$-cc). On the other hand, if $\lambda_{ls}$ is a weakly topological convergence, then B is a $2^{\mathfrak h}$-cc algebra or in some generic extension the distributivity number of the ground model is greater than or equal to the tower number of the extension. So, the statement "The convergence $\lambda_{ls}$ on the collapsing algebra B=\ro ((\omega_2)^{<\omega}) is weakly topological" is independent of ZFC

The topography of 4 subtraction ERP-waveforms derived from a 3-tone auditory oddball task in healthy young adults

Introduction: Five components were studied in 4 subtraction waveforms derived from ERPs obtained in passive and active conditions of a 3-tone oddball task (common=70%, C, 0.8 KHz; deviant=15%, D, 2 KHz; 1.4 KHz=15%, t, also used as a target (T)). These waveforms reflect different stimulus-mismatch processes and thus their topography could be revealing of different brain regions mediating them. Methods: The following mismatches were studied: stimulus-mismatch (deviant - common, D/C, rarity and pitch confounded, known as the mismatch negativity, MMN), pitch-mismatch (T - deviant, T/D, rarity not target features controlled, known as processing negativity PN), attention - mismatch (T - t), T/t, controlled for pitch and rarity to show the influence of target features, known as the Negative difference Nd). These are compared with Goodin's procedure (G-wv, (T-common (active) - (t-common (passive)- the "Goodin-waveform"). Results: There were main site effects in normalized data in all cases (not P2 and N2 latency). There were separate frontal and posterior contributions to P1, with the former emphasized where target comparisons were involved. Frontal N1 peaks, largest in D/C (MMN), spread posterior and to the right where target matching was involved. P2 posterior maxima were also less localized where target features were involved in the comparison. N2 topography was similar between waveforms but spread slightly more to each side in the T/t comparison (i.e. Nd). Onset was earlier in the D/C comparison (i.e MMN). Parietal P3 peaks in waves based on target-ERPs showed a left temporal shift (vs D/C), though in T/D P3 was in fact maximal on the right (i.e. PN waveform). Conclusions: Thus an attentional effect(controlled processing) is evident as early as 60 ms. Target features modify the anteroposterior distribution of positivity and negativity for the early components and in the lateralization of P3-like positivity. A comparison of waveforms by latency of potential shift (running t-test) vs. peak identification (MANOVA) is illustrated and discussed. D/C (MMN) and T/t (Nd) waveforms, rather than T/D or G-wv (PN & Goodin waveforms) waveforms are recommended for distinguishing comparator mechanisms for stimulus- and task-relevant features