In the Czech Republic, autonomy of churches is constitutionally guaranteed in a rather broad manner. The constitutional and legal basis for Church lies Charter Fundamental Rights Freedoms, which part order. It represents both an objective institutional guarantee (religious neutrality state) subjective right religious communities to independence from state self-governance their own affairs (the ...

As traditional methods of municipal solid waste management (MSWM) become increasingly expensive due to increased regulation, many local governments are considering cooperation as a waste management strategy. A theoretical model of cooperation is developed in which cooperation decisions are made as part of a dynamic cooperation process where individual units use their own characteristics and cha...

Purpose: This study builds on research scrutinizing school autonomy in policy and governance by shifting the focus from a formal structural view of to examining how principals negotiate their daily work. Drawing multiple dimensions street-level bureaucracy, this examined principals, as both professionals bureaucrats, work expand strategize practice. Research Methods/Approach: We used portraitur...

This study critically examines the concepts of dignity and liminality at the end-of life, in an effort to better understand the processes of healing within suffering among Chinese terminal cancer patients receiving palliative care services in Hong Kong. Meaning-oriented interviews were conducted with 18 Chinese terminal patients, aged 44 to 98, to elicit the narratives and stories of their illn...

The end of the communist regimes in Europe was regarded initially as a challenge to social sciences. The transformations towards democracy and market economy on which these countries embarked after 1990 spanned the economic and the political spheres. They also involved a swift reinsertion in the world economy. Thus, the need for integrative approaches that could give an account of systemic chan...

This paper examines the effect of maternal socio-economic status in the household, such as their autonomy, ability, freedom and bargaining power, on child birth registration in India using the nationally representative India Human Development Survey-II (IHDS-II), 2011-12. We have estimated a multilevel mixed effects model which accounts for the hierarchical structure of the data and allows us t...

In Brazil, where birthing generally occurs in hospitals and under the care of obstetricians, the incorporation of nurses is a strategy that has been used recently in an attempt to improve obstetric care. This study, conducted in two maternity hospitals in Rio de Janeiro, focuses on representations of obstetricians and nurses regarding teamwork and analyzes how the dimensions of power, cooperati...

The use of replication techniques for data in distributed information systems aims at improving non-functional properties of these systems. Particularly, availability, reliability, and performance should be increased. When considering heterogeneous, autonomy-preserving systems such as distributed digital libraries, the replication techniques employed should be able to adapt to varying propertie...