Geography Matters: Explaining Education Inequalities of Latvian Children in England

This article explores the issue of "geography of education" focusing on the pivotal contribution of place to one's education. The geographic location of schools and the administrative organisation of local authorities that are responsible for state schools in England create sociospatial inequalities that are associated with individual life‐course trajectories and can contribute to the intergenerational transfer of disadvantage. This article focuses on Latvian migrant families for whom better status often can be achieved through being included in the education system of the country. Therefore, the educational achievement of the children who speak Latvian at home but live and attend schools in England is the main focus of this article. The academic attainment of these children is well below not only the national average across all levels of compulsory education but also compared to both monolingual English speakers and all pupils speaking English as an additional language. The article provides evidence that in addition to the sociodemographic individual and family‐level factors geography also plays a significant role in explaining the educational achievement gaps. As the descriptive quantitative analysis of the geographical and educational data indicates, Latvian children are disproportionally present in local authorities where there is a relatively high proportion of low‐quality schools, a higher‐than‐average proportion of individuals with low qualifications and those in low‐qualified jobs

Online Medical Appointment Scheduling System

[EN] The accessibility to services of web clinic is of utmost importance for success of any companies. Internet is a great way to make a clinic known to a large number of people that might potentially be interested in the services that the clinic might provide. Therefore, a creation of a website that would provide different information about the clinic and allow the management and scheduling of appointments online might benefit in many ways to an existing clinic. In order to minimize the costs and time needed to develop, deploy and maintain the website for appointments, different researches have to be conducted until finding the optimal technologies to be used in the process. While researching we found out the existence of CMS systems that potentially reduce the cost and time spent of all the three steps spoken before. The different technologies, such as webserver, programming language and DBMS to be used, were chosen in base of what CMS was chosen. The interest fell on WordPress, one of the most used systems worldwide, which is very easy to use and maintain. The resulting system allows current and future patients to easily make appointments with different doctors of the clinic 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year. In addition, this allows to unload the clinic’s staff from a lot of work that had to be done before the website creation.[ES] La accesibilidad a los servicios de una empresa a través de la web es de suma importancia para el éxito de cualquier empresa. Internet es un gran medio para conseguir que una clínica médica sea conocida por un gran número de personas que potencialmente podrían estar interesados en los servicios que la clínica puede proporcionar. Por lo tanto, la creación de una página web que proporcione toda la información necesaria sobre la clínica y permita la gestión de citas online puede beneficiar de muchas maneras a una clínica. Con el fin de minimizar los costos y el tiempo necesarios para desarrollar, implementar y mantener el sitio web para las citas, hemos realizado diferentes investigaciones hasta encontrar las tecnologías óptimas a utilizar. Durante la investigación nos dimos cuenta de la existencia de sistemas CMS que potencialmente reducen el costo. Las diferentes tecnologías, como servidor web, lenguaje de programación y base de datos a utilizar, se eligieron a partir del sistema CMS elegido: WordPress. El sistema resultante permite que los pacientes actuales y futuros realicen fácilmente las citas con los doctores de la clínica 24 horas al día, los 365 días del año. Esto además permite descargar de mucho trabajo a los trabajadores de la clínica.Cara Rudnic, O. (2017). Online Medical Appointment Scheduling System. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/88831.TFG

Epidemiological supervision of HIV / AIDS diseases, tendencies in the period of 2006-2011 years

Catedra Economie, Management şi Psihopedagogie în medicinăThis article describes some features of epidemiological research and their significances. It emphasizes the importance of prevention and the need to control HIV / AIDS among people. In this work are described the phenomena of morbidity population and the prevalence of HIV / AIDS, as well as the results of test prevention in pregnant women and other risk groups. Articolul respectiv descrie unele particularităţi a cercetărilor epidemiologice a maladiei HIV/SIDA și însemnătatea acestora. El elucidează importanţa profilaxiei şi necesitatea controlului infecţiei HIV/SIDA în populaţie. În această lucrare sunt descrise prevalenţele fenomenelor morbidităţii populaţiei cu infecţia HIV/SIDA, rezultatele examenelor profilactice la femeile gravide şi a altor grupe de populaţie expuse riscului de infectare