Gender Wage Gap between Homosexual Men and Women

V této práci je zkoumána diskriminace na trhu práce na základě homosexuální orientace, která byla zkoumána pomocí vybraných dat z dotazníkového šetření. Veškerá získaná data jsou z České republiky. Při zapojení všech důležitých faktorů ovlivňující výši mzdy jako je pohlaví, sexuální orientace, kraj, vzdělání, praxe, obor zaměstnání, sektor práce, psychologické faktory, rodinné faktory apod. bylo zjištěno, že se v České republice nevyskytuje diskriminace lidí s homosexuální orientací na trhu práce.This work examines discrimination in the labor market based on homosexual orientation, which was examined using selected data from a questionnaire survey. All questionnaire data are from the Czech Republic. With the involvement of all important factors influencing the amount of wages such as gender, sexual orientation, region, education, practice, field of employment, labor sector, psychological factors, family factors, etc., it was found that there is no discrimination based on sexual orientation in the Czech Republic.156 - Katedra národohospodářskávelmi dobř

Relationship of Emotional Intelligence and Academic Performance among Medical Students: Systematic Review

Introduction: There is a number of research elaborating the role played by the emotional intelligence in educational performance at primary and high school level but seldom among medical students. Objective: The aim of this review paper is to ascertain the relationship between emotional intelligence and academic performance among the medical students. Materials and methods: All articles searched using relevant finalised MeSh (Medical Subject Headings: is the NLM controlled vocabulary thesaurus used for indexing articles for PubMed.) terms are of English language between the years 1980 and 2018 among the following electronic database Ovid - MedLine, ProQuest, Scopus, Science Direct, CINAHL. Articles are further filtered based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria set up by the reviewers with mutual consent. Knowledge about academic output based on the methods involved in measuring emotional intelligence and study design was extracted. Results: The literature review cited 511 relevant articles. These articles are further scrutinised by removing duplicates, considering full text articles, and abstract review availed 07 articles which were considered for final review. It was found that six out of seven showed women had higher EI than men and only one of the seven showed no difference between men and women. Conclusion: In line with literature review, one can safely conclude emotional intelligence (EI), in general, improves academic performance. However, in contrast it is also seen among medical students the EI decreasing over the time of study years. Further research is necessary to find out the cause for this decline in emotional intelligence during the course and whether timely intervention of structured training can improve or not

Deviation from bulk in the pressure-temperature phase diagram of V2O3 thin films

We found atypical pressure dependence in the transport measurements of the metal to insulator transition (MIT) in epitaxial thin films of vanadium sesquioxide (V2O3). Three different crystallographic orientations and four thicknesses, ranging from 40 to 500 nm, were examined under hydrostatic pressures (P-h) of up to 1.5 GPa. All of the films at transition exhibited a four order of magnitude resistance change, with transition temperatures ranging from 140 to 165 K, depending on the orientation. This allowed us to build pressure-temperature phase diagrams of several orientations and film thicknesses. Interestingly, for pressures below 500 MPa, all samples deviate from bulk behavior and show a weak transition temperature (T-c) pressure dependence (dT(c)/dP(h) = 1.2 x 10(-2) +/- 0.3 x 10(-2) K/MPa), which recovers to bulklike behavior (3.9 x 10(-2) +/- 0.3 x 10(-2) K/MPa) at higher pressures. Furthermore, we found that pressurization leads to morphological but not structural changes in the films. This indicates that the difference in the thin film and bulk pressure-temperature phase diagrams is most probably due to pressure-induced grain boundary relaxation, as well as both plastic and elastic deformations in the film microstructure. These results highlight the difference between bulk and thin films behaviors

Validation of equilibrium tools on the COMPASS tokamak

SOFT 2014 conference, submitted to Fusion Engineering and DesignInternational audienceVarious MHD (magnetohydrodynamic) equilibrium tools, some of which being recently developed or considerably updated, are used on the COMPASS tokamak at IPP Prague. MHD equilibrium is a fundamental property of the tokamak plasma, whose knowledge is required for many diagnostics and modelling tools. Proper benchmarking and validation of equilibrium tools is thus key for interpreting and planning tokamak experiments. We present here benchmarks and comparisons to experimental data of the EFIT++ reconstruction code [L.C. Appel et al., EPS 2006, P2.184], the free-boundary equilibrium code FREEBIE [J.-F. Artaud, S.H. Kim, EPS 2012, P4.023], and a rapid plasma boundary reconstruction code VacTH [B. Faugeras et al., PPCF 56, 114010 (2014)]. We demonstrate that FREEBIE can calculate the equilibrium and corresponding poloidal field (PF) coils currents consistently with EFIT++ reconstructions from experimental data. Both EFIT++ and VacTH can reconstruct equilibria generated by FREEBIE from synthetic, optionally noisy diagnostic data. Hence, VacTH is suitable for real-time control. Optimum reconstruction parameters are estimated

The Impact on Anxiety Symptoms of an Immersive Virtual Reality Remediation Program in Bipolar Disorders: A Randomized Clinical Trial

: Background: The objective of this work is to investigate the effectiveness of a cognitive remediation intervention on anxiety symptoms in people with bipolar disorder and the therapeutic effect on people whose anxiety symptoms were above the threshold for a screener and whose comorbidity could be identified as an anxiety disorder. Methods: The experimental intervention included 24 sessions (around 45 min each), two for each week over three months. The entire program was inspired by user-centered rehabilitation principles in a recovery-oriented perspective and an approach to bipolar disorder in an evolutionary and non-discriminating vision. The primary outcomes measure the score of the Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS), hypothesizing a higher decrease in the experimental group than in the control group. The survey has been conducted per the CONSORT guidelines for feasibility studies. Results: We evaluate a decrease in the overall SAS score from T0 to T1 to be higher in the experimental group compared to the control group, indicating an improvement in anxiety symptoms (p < 0.0001). Conclusions: The study suggests that virtual reality could have a role in treating anxiety symptoms and disorders in young adults with bipolar disorders or anxiety symptoms in people with hyperactivity and novelty-seeking behaviorsunder stress and high risk for bipolar disorder

Junctional adhesion molecule-A deficient mice are protected from severe experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis.

In multiple sclerosis and its animal model, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), early pathological features include immune cell infiltration into the central nervous system (CNS) and blood-brain barrier (BBB) disruption. We investigated the role of junctional adhesion molecule-A (JAM-A), a tight junction protein, in active EAE (aEAE) pathogenesis. Our study confirms JAM-A expression at the blood-brain barrier and its luminal redistribution during aEAE. JAM-A deficient (JAM-A-/-) C57BL/6J mice exhibited milder aEAE, unrelated to myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein-specific CD4+ T-cell priming. While JAM-A absence influenced macrophage behavior on primary mouse brain microvascular endothelial cells (pMBMECs) under flow in vitro, it did not impact T-cell extravasation across primary mouse brain microvascular endothelial cells. At aEAE onset, we observed reduced lymphocyte and CCR2+ macrophage infiltration into the spinal cord of JAM-A-/- mice compared to control littermates. This correlated with increased CD3+ T-cell accumulation in spinal cord perivascular spaces and brain leptomeninges, suggesting JAM-A absence leads to T-cell trapping in central nervous system border compartments. In summary, JAM-A plays a role in immune cell infiltration and clinical disease progression in aEAE