Person to Person in Ireland

While still in the midst of their study abroad experiences, students at Linfield College write reflective essays. Their essays address issues of cultural similarity and difference, compare lifestyles, mores, norms, and habits between their host countries and home, and examine changes in perceptions about their host countries and the United States. In this essay, Emily Ing describes her observations during her study abroad program at the National University of Ireland in Galway

THE TAX POLICY AND ITS IMPACT ON LABOUR MARKET IN SLOVAKIA

The global financial crisis has manifest unfavorably also in Slovakia namely in economic growth decline and in the increase unemployment. The labor market is depressed by excess labor supply over labor demand. Under the impression of global crisis the Slovak republic, as well as the other states, takes in arrangements for reduction its impacts on economy and on entrepreneurs and citizens. Received measures of labor market policy against crisis should affect labor demand, i.e. willingness to employ and incentive to find a job. Tax policy measures against crisis should support low consumption through lowering tax burden of income and improvement business environment.tax policy, labor market, unemployment, tax stabilization function, employment policy, employee premium

Welcome address: Alois Posch on behalf of the Austrian presidency for the European Union (A)

In Austria, organic farming has been playing an important role in the national agricultural policy. Thus, Austria has advocated to foster the development of organic farming also at the level of the EU. It is the aim of the Austrian Presidency to support the European Commission in its actions. Like other EU countries, Austria is trying to make use of the Action programme for organic farming in the best possible way for the further development of organic farming. The rural development programme is playing a central role in this process. The compensatory payments for environmental services comprise the largest part of the agri-environmental programme. About 25 % of this budget are paid to organic farms. The recognised environmental services are the reason why organic farming makes up for a large part in the implementation of the sustainability strategy, the biodiversity strategy and Natura 2000 objectives. Among other things, the following activities are also means to support organic farming: Farmers’ initiatives regarding innovation, processing and marketing. Other important aspects are extension, subsidisation of investments, public relations and efficient self-management of the Austrian organic farmers’ association BIO AUSTRIA. Apart from the subsidisation of rural development, the support of research is also very important, like it is in our host country Denmark. I am convinced that this meeting will contribute essentially to the further development of organic farming

Loads and calculations of army airplanes

By comparing airplanes of known strength that have resisted all the usual and even extreme air loads with those that under like conditions were found to be insufficiently strong, the researchers, aided by scientific investigations, developed standards which are satisfactory for the calculation of airplane structures. Given here are standards applicable to loads on wing trusses, load factors for use in stress analysis, load factors required in sand testing, loads on control surfaces, loads on wing ribs, loads on landing gear, and rigidity of materials

THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF FINANCING HIGHER EDUCATION

This article deals with theoretical aspects of financing higher education, to which primarily belongs the issue of the character of education as a good, but also particular reasons for the state intervention to the education and a question about student’s financial participation on the costs allied to their education.higher education, public good, intervention, externality, benefit, student’s financial participation, tuition fees.