scholarly journals Patterns of Energy Consumption in Polish One-Person Households

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 5699
Author(s):  
Marlena Piekut
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Comfort ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Energy Poverty ◽  
Energy Carriers ◽  
Single Person ◽  
Degree Of Satisfaction ◽  
Research Goal ◽  
And Cluster Analysis ◽  
Different Characteristics

Poland belongs to a group of countries with the highest share of expenditure on energy carriers in total household expenditure among the EU-28 countries. This fact adversely affects the quality of life of Polish citizens. One of the types of households which are most severely burdened with expenditure on energy carriers are households run by a single person. The scientific objective of the study was to identify the consumption patterns of energy carriers in Polish one-person households. The findings of the research were used to assess the correlation between the risk of energy poverty and particular socio-economic and demographic characteristics of the representatives of these households. Many statistical methods were used to achieve the research goal: analysis of variance, regression analysis, and cluster analysis. An aggregated index of energy comfort has been designed. Social factors, such as the level of education and the fact of holding non-manual positions, are strongly related to the level of expenditure on energy carriers and the degree of satisfaction of the needs related to the thermal comfort. The types of one-person households particularly vulnerable to energy poverty were individuals who had a number of different characteristics. The group included individuals who were unemployed, disabled, with low disposable income, with a low education level, living in the rural areas as well as elderly people. Polish one-person households can be divided into four groups according to the expenditure on energy carriers and meeting their needs related to thermal comfort.

e-Government in the Stavropol Region: Assessment of the Level of Citizens' Satisfaction with the Provision of Public and Municipal Services

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 2206
Author(s):  
Irina Vladimirovna NOVIKOVA ◽  
Aleksandr Ivanovich P'YANOV ◽  
Slavko Brankovich RUDICH ◽  
Valentina Anatolievna IVASHOVA
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Current Model ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Municipal Services ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Level Of Satisfaction ◽  
Degree Of Satisfaction ◽  
Stavropol Region

The article analyzes the measures to introduce the model of the organization of ʽe-governmentʽ in the Stavropol Territory and presents the results of a specific sociological study to determine the level of satisfaction of citizens with its functioning. The sociological research was carried out on the basis of probabilistic (random) sampling in 5 urban and 6 rural municipalities of the Stavropol region. As a method of collecting primary data, a survey was used in the form of questionnaires and interviewing. In addition to the study of the degree of satisfaction of residents of cities and rural areas of the Stavropol Territory the quality of the work of multifunctional centers, we set out to identify the main problems in the provision of public and municipal services by these centers. An analysis of the results of the research showed that the current model of the organization of ʽe-governmentʽ in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation is ineffective and requires an institutional reorganization of the mechanisms of inter-agency cooperation.

scholarly journals Heterogeneity in ‘High Fertility’ Societies. Insights From Compositional Demography

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 106-111
Author(s):  
Hilde Bras
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Demographic Transition ◽  
Farm Workers ◽  
Low Fertility ◽  
High Fertility ◽  
Reproductive Behaviors ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
Reproductive Management ◽  
And Cluster Analysis ◽  
Different Characteristics

Demographic transition theory has been conducive to a rather dichotomous view of global fertility: traditional versus modern, high versus low fertility. The knowledge that high fertility could be achieved by subpopulations with different characteristics and reproductive behaviors somehow vanished from (historical) demographers' attention. This study unpacks heterogeneity in a 'high fertility' society, i.e. 19th-century Zeeland, the Netherlands. Sequence and cluster analysis were employed to distinguish groups with disparate reproductive trajectories with data from Genlias/LINKS including 15,014 full birth histories and 87,204 observed live births over the period 1811–1911. Multilevel binomial logistic regression models of membership of the two discerned high fertility subgroups were then estimated. The 'Traditional 1' subpopulation, with 10.5 children per woman on average, was composed of skilled, unskilled, and farm workers living in rural areas. Couples married early and were characterized by large spousal age gaps. The 'Traditional 2' subpopulation had on average 7.2 children per woman, more often lived in towns, married significantly later, and had more equal gender relations. Compositional demography, revealing subpopulations with divergent cultures of marital self-restraint and reproductive management, not only nuances previous (historical) demographic findings, but may well offer more tools to develop family planning and reproductive health policies than the demographic transition model does.

Analisis Kualitas Pelayanan Dengan Penerapan Metode Quality Function Deployment Pada Pasien Unit Rawat Jalan Poliklinik Penyakit Dalam Badan Rumah Sakit Umum Daerah �45� Kuningan

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (08) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Lili Karmela Fitriani Karmela Fitriani
Keyword(s):  
Quality Function Deployment ◽  
Technical Characteristic ◽  
Importance Value ◽  
Quality Function ◽  
The Public ◽  
Water Closet ◽  
Degree Of Satisfaction ◽  
Voice Of Customer ◽  
Level Of Importance

AbstrakThe data of year 2006 show that amount of polyclinic patients care unit of BRSUD�45� Kuningan is the most among other polyclinics. The result of observation and interviews tell that the degree of satisfaction got by the patients is in the level(category) of middle (enough) and the degree of importance is in the level of high (important). The purpose of doing this research is to analyze the quality of service to improve the patients satisfaction using Quality Function Deployment method involving 96 respondents. The data were taken from the result of applying quality Function Deployment method in BRSUD�45� Kuningan tells that the attribute owning the highest level of importance is the competence or the skill of the doctors in handling their works while the attribute owning the lowest level is the availability of the public service facilities such as public phones, televisions, and ATM. The attribute that owns the most satisfaction value is the dressy of the officials while the attribute that owns the least satisfaction value is the comfortable, hygiene water closet. The technical characteristic owning relatively the highest importance value is the standard officers� performance; therefore, such attribute gets the highest attentive priority of technical characteristic (technical response)Keywords : QFD, House of Quality, Voice of Customer, Technical Characteristic, Technical Response

The Relationship between the Development of Human Capital and the Agricultural Economy in Rural Areas

2020 ◽  
pp. 61-65
Author(s):  
B.A. Voronin ◽  
◽  
I.P. Chupina ◽  
Ya.V. Voronina ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Standard View ◽  
Household Factors ◽  
Economic Transformations ◽  
The Relationship

The article discusses a non-standard view of the formation of human capital for work in organizations of the agricultural sector of the economy, in the context of modern socio-economic transformations. In the classical sense, human capital for agriculture should be formed and developed in rural areas. But in real life, this is not always the case, because there are many factors that prevent the classical solution of this problem. First, the demographic factor affects, second, social and household factors, and third, in many rural areas there are no working agricultural organizations where qualified agricultural specialists can work. All these and other circumstances actualize the problem of the quality of human capital in rural areas in relation to the development of agricultural production.

Augmented Reality Tools in Physics Training at Higher Technical Educational Institutions

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 47-57
Author(s):  
Тетяна Грунтова ◽  
Юлія Єчкало ◽  
Андрій Стрюк ◽  
Андрій Пікільняк
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Training Process ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Theoretical Substantiation ◽  
Research Goal ◽  
Augmented Reality Technology ◽  
Cognitive Activities

Hruntova T. V., Yechkalo YU. V., Stryuk A. M. and Pikilʹnyak A. V. Augmented Reality Tools in Physics Training at Higher Technical Educational Institutions. Research goal: the research is aimed at theoretical substantiation of applying the augmented reality technology and its peculiarities at higher technical educational institutions. Research objectives: the research is to solve the problems of determining the role and place of the technology in the educational process and its possible application to physics training. Object of research: teaching physics to students of higher technical educational institutions. Subject of research: the augmented reality technology as a component of the training process at higher educational institutions. Research methods used: theoretical methods include analysis of scientific and methodological literature; empirical methods include studying and observation of the training process. Research results: analysis of scientific publications allows defining the notion of augmented reality; application of augmented reality objects during laboratory practical works on physics is suggested. Main conclusions. introduction of the augmented reality technology in thetraining process at higher technical educational institutions increases learning efficiency, facilitates students’ training and cognitive activities, improves the quality of knowledge acquisition, provokes interest in a subject, promotesdevelopment of research skills and a future specialist’s competent personality.

QUALITY OF LIFE IN URBAN AND RURAL AREAS OF FIVE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES: SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES

2004 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
HEIDRUN MOLLENKOPF ◽  
ROMAN KASPAR ◽  
FIORELLA MARCELLINI ◽  
ISTO RUOPPILA ◽  
ZSUZSA SZÉMAN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas

UNDER-GRADUATE STUDENTS AND THE ROLE OF E- LIBRARIES TO UPLIFT THE QUALITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (26) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dharambeer Singh
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Multiple Access ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Brick And Mortar ◽  
Education Status

Digital libraries, designed to serve people and their information needs in the same way as traditional libraries, present distinct advantages over brick and mortar facilities: elimination of physical boundaries, round-the-clock access to information, multiple access points, networking abilities, and extended search functions. As a result, they should be especially well-suited for the disables. However, minorities, those affected by lower income and education status, persons living in rural areas, the physically challanged, and developing countries as a whole consistently suffer from a lack of accessibility to digital libraries. This paper evaluates the effectiveness and relevance of digital libraries currently in place and discusses what could and should be done to improve accessibility to digital libraries for under-graduate students.

Evaluation of health-related quality of life in adults with and without dyslipidaemia in rural areas of central China

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 925-939
Author(s):  
Hui Wu ◽  
Huijun Li ◽  
Haibin Li ◽  
Yu Ding ◽  
Chongjian Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Central China ◽  
Health Related Quality ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Health Related

scholarly journals Population-Level Prevalence, Bother, and Treatment Behavior for Urinary Incontinence in an Eastern European Country: Findings from the LUTS POLAND Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 2314
Author(s):  
Mikolaj Przydacz ◽  
Marcin Chlosta ◽  
Piotr Chlosta
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Urinary Incontinence ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Eastern European Country ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas ◽  
Eastern European Countries

Objectives: Population-level data are lacking for urinary incontinence (UI) in Central and Eastern European countries. Therefore, the objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence, bother, and behavior regarding treatment for UI in a population-representative group of Polish adults aged ≥ 40 years. Methods: Data for this epidemiological study were derived from the larger LUTS POLAND project, in which a group of adults that typified the Polish population were surveyed, by telephone, about lower urinary tract symptoms. Respondents were classified by age, sex, and place of residence. UI was assessed with a standard protocol and established International Continence Society definitions. Results: The LUTS POLAND survey included 6005 completed interviews. The prevalence of UI was 14.6–25.4%; women reported a greater occurrence compared with men (p < 0.001). For both sexes, UI prevalence increased with age. Stress UI was the most common type of UI in women, and urgency UI was the most prevalent in men. We did not find a difference in prevalence between urban and rural areas. Individuals were greatly bothered by UI. For women, mixed UI was the most bothersome, whereas for men, leak for no reason was most annoying. More than half of respondents (51.4–62.3%) who reported UI expressed anxiety about the effect of UI on their quality of life. Nevertheless, only around one third (29.2–38.1%) of respondents with UI sought treatment, most of whom received treatment. Persons from urban and rural areas did not differ in the degrees of treatment seeking and treatment receiving. Conclusion: Urinary incontinence was prevalent and greatly bothersome among Polish adults aged ≥ 40 years. Consequently, UI had detrimental effects on quality of life. Nonetheless, most affected persons did not seek treatment. Therefore, we need to increase population awareness in Poland about UI and available treatment methods, and we need to ensure adequate allocation of government and healthcare system resources.

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