Rethinking resilience: home gardening, food sharing and everyday resistance

Resilience and food self-provisioning (FSP), terms that until recently were deployed primarily in the study of livelihoods in the Global South, are now attracting attention from alternative food scholarship in the Global North. Drawing on a large-scale survey conducted in the Czech Republic, this article investigates FSP as a social resilience-enhancing set of practices. In addition to the traditional reading of FSP as a passive, defensive and crisis-deflecting form of resilience, this article puts forward an alternative conceptualisation of resilience as a proactive, preventative, future-oriented and transformation-enabling capacity that runs counter to the tenets of neoliberalism

Analýza dopadů programu podpory podnikání pro nezaměstnané v České republice

Článek se zaměřil na zhodnocení podpory pro zahájení podnikání, která je poskytována v rámci aktivní politiky zaměstnanosti. Provedli jsme kontra-faktuální dopadované zhodnocení efektu programu u účastníků zapojených v roce 2014. Výsledky studie ukazují na menší přítomnost podpořených uchazečů v evidenci Úřadu práce a jejich menší návratnost do evidence Úřadu práce než v kontrolní skupině. Více než 90 procent podpořených účastníků se ve sledovaném období tří let nevrátilo do evidence Úřadu práce. Tento výsledek může být interpretován jako pozitivní dopad programu. Článek také nabízí podněty pro další cílenost programu a pro další výzkum.The article aims to analyse the effects of the start-up subsidy programme for unemployed in the Czech Republic, which is provided by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. We explored to what extent participants in the programme in 2014 returned to unemployment three years after the end of the programme, i.e., 2014-2017. Methodologically, we conducted counterfactual impact analysis, where we matched participants in the programme with those who were not supported by any measures of active labour market policy. The results show that participants in the programme return to unemployment to a lesser extent. In total, they spent fewer days in unemployment during the follow-up period, and they returned to unemployment fewer times when compared with non-participants. Overall, 91.3% of participants never returned to unemployment during the analysed period. These results can be interpreted as a positive outcome of the programme. The article also offers implications for targeting the programme and for future research

Laser-based flow cytometric analysis of genotoxicity of humans exposed to ionizing radiation during the Chernobyl accident

An analytical technique has been developed that allows laser-based flow cytometric measurement of the frequency of red blood cells that have lost allele-specific expression of a cell surface antigen due to genetic toxicity in bone marrow precursor cells. Previous studies demonstrated a correlation of such effects with the exposure of each individual to mutagenic phenomena, such as ionizing radiation, and the effects can persist for the lifetime of each individual. During the emergency response to the nuclear power plant accident at Chernobyl, Ukraine, USSR, a number of people were exposed to whole body doses of ionizing radiation. Some of these individuals were tested with this laser-based assay and found to express a dose-dependent increase in the frequency of variant red blood cells that appears to be a persistent biological effect. All data indicate that this assay might well be used as a biodosimeter to estimate radiation dose and also as an element to be used for estimating the risk of each individual to develop cancer due to radiation exposure. 17 refs., 5 figs

Russia’s Legal Transitions: Marxist Theory, Neoclassical Economics and the Rule of Law

We review the role of economic theory in shaping the process of legal change in Russia during the two transitions it experienced during the course of the twentieth century: the transition to a socialist economy organised along the lines of state ownership of the means of production in the 1920s, and the transition to a market economy which occurred after the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. Despite differences in methodology and in policy implications, Marxist theory, dominant in the 1920s, and neoclassical economics, dominant in the 1990s, offered a similarly reductive account of law as subservient to wider economic forces. In both cases, the subordinate place accorded to law undermined the transition process. Although path dependence and history are frequently invoked to explain the limited development of the rule of law in Russia during the 1990s, policy choices driven by a deterministic conception of law and economics also played a role.This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40803-015-0012-

Study of the design, validation and evaluation of nursing audit tool in perioperative care

Management perioperační péče je vymezen jako péče o klienta, která mu je poskytovaná bezprostředně před operací, v průběhu a bezprostředně po skončení operace. Pro monitoring kvality poskytované péče je za vhodný nástroj považován ošetřovatelský audit. Ten slouží pro přezkoumání stavu zavedených procesů a vede především k prevenci rizik. Cílem příspěvku je představit vytvořený kontrolní list, určený pro audity ošetřovatelské perioperační péče. Příspěvek popisuje metodiku tvorby kontrolního listu a postup, jakým byl validován. Dílčím cílem je představit výsledky získané externími audity za použití navrženého kontrolního listu.Prvním krokem ve výzkumném rámci byla rozsáhlá rešerše legislativy a relevantní literatury v databázích Scopus a Medline za období 2010–2015. Následně byl navržen kontrolní list pro ošetřovatelské audity na operačních sálech. Ten byl dále evaluován pilotním auditem a expertními rozhovory s odborníky z praxe. Reliabilita i validita kontrolního listu byla ověřena pěti provedenými audity ošetřovatelské perioperační péče a jejich porovnáním. Audit byl uskutečněn v průběhu celého perioperačního procesu, tedy od počátku operace po její ukončení. Následně byl kontrolní list znovu diskutován společně s výsledky auditů na jednotlivých pracovištích.Studie ověřila použitelnost a validitu kontrolního listu a taktéž přinesla zpětnou vazbu o úrovni ošetřovatelské péče pěti nemocnic akutní péče. Nejzávažněji byly vnímány odchylky v procesech hygienicko-epidemiologického režimu. V průběhu všech auditů byly zaznamenány minimálně tři nežádoucí události.Hodnocení auditů byla předložena managementu nemocnic jako podklad pro plánované zdokonalování ošetřovatelských postupů v rámci operačních traktů. Kontrolní list dále projde kvantitativním ověřením v rámci nemocnic akutní péče České republiky.It is expected that health care will be provided at the highest quality. To achieve a high level of quality in nursing perioperative care is necessary the continuous monitoring, measurement and subsequent evaluation of quality indicators.An audit is appropriate instrument for the monitoring of quality of care. Audits inspect the status of the established processes and lead to the prevention of risks.Quality of perioperative care focuses on the safety and health protection as patients so staffs of operating theatres.Aim of the paper is to present the checklist, designed for audits of nursing perioperative care.Another aim is to present the results of the external audits, when the proposed checklist was used.First step in the research framework was extensive search of relevant legislation and literature in the databases Scopus and Medline for the period 2010–2015.Checklist was evaluated by a pilot audit and expert interviews with experts. Reliability and validity of the checklist was verified by the five audits of nursing perioperative care and with comparison of the audit´s results. e audit was realized in the course of the entire perioperative process. e. from the beginning of an operation to finishing of the surgery. Subsequently the checklist was again discussed together with the results of the audits on the individual departments.The study has verified the applicability and validity of the checklist and brought a feedback about the level of nursing perioperative care from five acute care hospitals. Perturbations in processes of hygiene-epidemiological regime were the most serious. Least three adverse events were logged in the course of all audits. The evaluation was submitted to the management audits of hospitals as the basis for the planned improvement of nursing practice within the operating tract. e control sheet on quantitative verification passes within acute care hospitals in Czech Republic