Liberal drug policy reform is often criticized for ‘sending the wrong message’, particularly to youth. Reform opponents argue that liberal policies such as decriminalisation and medical marijuana laws will cause marijuana to be perceived as less risky and lead to an increase in use....

The measurement of the quality of research has reached nowadays an increasing interest not only for scientific reasons but also for the critical problem of researchers' ranking, due to the lack of grant assignments. The most commonly used approach is based on the so-called $h$-index, even if the...

There are many meanings given to the notion of culture. Various contents related to it are delimited according to the specialty field or the investigated area. Moreover, the overlapping or distinction between culture and civilization also occurs. An inventory and an analysis of the...

Liberal drug policy reform is often criticized for 'sending the wrong message', particularly to youth. Reform opponents argue that liberal policies such as decriminalisation and medical marijuana laws will cause marijuana to be perceived as less risky and lead to an increase in use. We seek to...

The importance and different aspects of autocatalysis in evolution was analyzed. The behaviour of autocatalytic reactions mainly the Lotka-Volterra and the Schlögl equations were discussed in terms of phase change, entropy, and their oscillation frequency. The increase of complexity as the...

The idea of team-thinking or we-thinking is increasingly drawing the attention of economists. The main claim of scholars who analyze we-thinking is that it is a coherent mode of reasoning people may use when they face a decision problem. But, if there is a general agreement on the existence of...

In this study, we utilize data from the first wave of the Generations and Gender Surveys to investigate relationship quality among currently married and cohabiting individuals aged 18 to 55 (N = 41, 666) in eight European countries (Bulgaria, France, Germany, Hungary, Norway, Romania, Russia,...

Moderné Írsko si zakladá na vytváraní moderného, neoliberálneho, progresívneho, mnohokultúrneho obrazu, ktorý je modelovaný v súlade s potrebou priaznivého medzinárodného ohlasu a nezaťažuje sa svojou minulosťou. Hodnoty novej podnikateľskej triedy sa stali hodnotami...

Článok vychádza zo Spolskeho štyroch faktorov, ktoré ovplyvňujú konečnú podobu jazykových politík súčasných nezávislých štátov, ako aj nadnárodných zoskupení. Sú nimi jazyková situácia, resp. jazyková ekológia, prevládajúce predstavy týkajúce sa výberu určitého...

Autorka skúma otázku aké miesto pripisujú teoretici funkciám kultúr v medzinárodných procesoch. Vychádza z predpokladu, že všeobecná teória medzinárodných vzťahov je založená na štyroch dimenziách, a to na politickej, ekonomickej, bezpečnostnej a kultúrnej. V článku sa...