A double occurrence word (DOW) is a word in which every symbol appears exactly twice; two DOWs are equivalent if one is a symbol-to-symbol image of the other. We consider the so called repeat pattern (αα) and the return pattern (ααR), with gaps allowed between the α’s. These patterns generalize square and palindromic factors of DOWs, respectively. We introduce a notion of inserting repeat/return words into DOWs and study how two distinct insertions into the same word can produce equivalent DOWs. Given a DOW w, we characterize the structure of w which allows two distinct insertions to yield equivalent DOWs. This characterization depends on the locations of the insertions and on the length of the inserted repeat/return words and implies that when one inserted word is a repeat word and the other is a return word, then both words must be trivial (i.e., have only one symbol). The characterization also introduces a method to generate families of words recursively.
Introduction: The history of palliative care dates back to the 1950s. Purpose: To examine the perceptions of hospice workers and family members of hospice patients related to hospice care in Podlaskie province in Poland. Materials and methods: The present study included 103 hospice workers and 104 family members of patients in hospice. The survey approach was used. Results: 56.7% families and 95.1% hospice workers considered hospice comprehensive care for terminally ill patients. In all, 84.6% of the families and 91.3% of the staff thought positively about hospice. Lack of knowledge of family on dying patients (43.3% families and 61.2% hospice workers), low level of funding for hospices (50% families and 64.1% hospice workers) and a small number of hospices and palliative care clinics (47.1% families and 53.4% hospice workers) are the most common problems in palliative care. According to 78.8% of the families and 84.5% of the staff, a specialist of palliative medicine should work in hospice. 62.5% of the families and 75.7% of the hospice workers were convinced that a nurse with a specialization should also work in hospice. According to 92.9% of the families and 96.9% of the staff, the patient and their family receive support in hospice. Conclusions: Most of the respondents were convinced that hospice is an appropriate place for terminally ill patients. Lack of knowledge of family on dying patients, low level of funding for hospices, a small number of hospices and palliative care clinics are the most common problems in palliative care.
Rural poverty appears in several European regions, particularly in post-socialist countries effected by a rapid transformation of socioeconomic system. In the past decade, rural regions may have reacted to challenges of contradictory processes. Migration trends are heterogeneous; unemployment, underemployment and lack of labour power are existing problems at the same time, in the same locality. In addition, the nature of poverty has changed recently. Traditional forms of pauperization are combined with helplessness and inability for future planning and saving up. Goods and status symbols of the consumer society have high importance in families with low incomes and high debt. The aim of this paper is to describe some crucial processes triggering the transformation of family life in rural Hungary by means of a qualitative research conducted in the South Transdanubian region of Hungary. We explored the actual problems and challenges from the viewpoints of local experts (social workers and mayors) and mothers from families connected to local social systems. We also aim to examine family attitudes to labour market, services and consumption, the most important factors effecting socioeconomic conditions of deprived social groups.
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This paper focuses on the constitutional perspective of surrogacy in Colombia and identifies four key elements relevant to its analysis. It analyzes the autonomy of will as the basis of the surrogacy agreement; incorporation of the international principle of the child’s best interests in surrogacy; guarantee of the fundamental rights of the participants in the surrogacy agreement, especially sexual and reproductive rights; and impact of surrogacy in the constitutional idea of family. Finally, the paper considers the situations wherein the constitutional elements may come into dispute. The potential legal regulation of surrogate motherhood represents a challenge for the legal system, as it involves various constitutional values, principles, and rights that may contradict each other in the practical development of the concept. This paper reveals what these values, principles, and rights entail and how they are defined within the framework of surrogacy, thereby contributing to the debate on the optimal legal framework of the full validity of these values, principles, and rights.
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Using the example of a Rapid Re-Housing project, this article aims to open up a more general social-scientific debate within the context of critical discussions about ending homelessness in the Czech Republic. It at the same time seeks to refine the usage of the ‘urban assemblages’ concept in sociological and anthropological research. A Rapid Re-Housing project was piloted in Brno in 2016–2018. Its objective was to house 50 families in need of housing in municipal apartments and to provide social support in the form of intensive case management. The project included a randomised controlled trial and a qualitative evaluation. This research showed that the effects of the intervention were positive for the vast majority of indicators monitored, with some of the intervention families experiencing significant changes in their financial situation. Discussing the effects of the Brno ‘housing first assemblage’ we respond to to the reservations that have been voiced about the practice of housing First programmes. We base our responses here on empirical data and the concept of ‘relations of exteriority’ and show that even projects based on solving ‘only one component’ can initiate broader socio-material transformations of contemporary societies.
This article examines some of the opportunities and challenges associated with using archived qualitative data to explain macro-social change through a biographical lens. Using examples from a recent research project on family change in Ireland, I show how working across qualitative datasets provided opportunities for generating new explanations of social change by ‘reading against the grain’ of established social science narratives and tracing innovation in social practices. I also discuss some of the methodological challenges associated with working across datasets and how we addressed them in the study.
“International Migration in the Age of Crisis and Globalization. Historical and Recent Experiences” represents a work of major interest in the field of migration and globalization. Apparently two concepts that relate one to another, on a background of major population dynamics, the two notions are the two important pillars in what might perfectly be described as a complex analysis of migration, starting from the elements that have initiated it, and culminating with a fine comparison of positive and negative aspects of this phenomenon. In the present paper, we acknowledge the vast “semantic” bound implied by the concept of migration. Apart from inherent aspects such as the importance of remittances, the unravelling of families or the frequently discussed brain-drain, we are presented an image of Latin America, a region dominated by contradictions, since it may well be considered as both destination region and net immigration labour force.
The family in the lives of people with intellectual disabilities is not only their closest and most essential social group, but often also their basic or even the only source of support in everyday life from childhood to the late old age. In a situation of adults with intellectual disabilities who start a new romantic relationship (of a formal or informal nature), the family of origin may play different roles and occupy different places in their everyday lives. The research using the phenomenographic method of qualitative research on experiences related to being in long-lasting romantic relationships conducted with adults with intellectual disabilities allowed the author to show the place of family members (parents, siblings, extended family) in their everyday lives and in their relationships with partners.
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In Québec, one of Canada’s 10 provinces, 26% of the population will be over 65 in 2031. No country can escape the new challenges and the issues resulting from population aging in different areas including that of social work with older adults and their families. This article has two objectives: a) to describe gerontological social work in non-profit organizations (NPOs) as well as in the public sector (Public Health and Social Services, PHSS); b) raise the issues and the challenges of this practice which is in constant evolution. The article first situates the context of social work in Québec, then describes gerontological social work and the issues and challenges faced in working with older adults and their families.
Artykuł charakteryzuje zagadnienia związane z migracjami oraz imigrantami i uchodźcami poruszane na łamach kwartalnika Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies w latach 2002–2013. Wszystkie artykuły z kwartalnika (264) podzieliłam na sześć części i w tym artykule przeanalizowałam cztery z nich: zdrowie psychiczne i fizyczne uchodźców i imigrantów; problemy adaptacyjne młodych imigrantów i uchodźców w domu i w szkole w kraju przyjmującym; obraz imigrantów w mediach; imigranci w krajach Trzeciego Świata. Mam nadzieję, że poruszane w artykule zagadnienia będą pomocne w zrozumieniu problemów, z jakimi borykają się imigranci i uchodźcy w kraju przyjmującym i w nowych warunkach kulturowych.
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The paper describes the issues connected with migration, immigrants and refugees discussed in the pages of Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies in the years 2002–2013. I divided all the articles from the journal (264) into six parts and in this paper, I analyzed four of them: refugees’ and immigrants’ mental and physical health; adaptation problems among adolescent immigrants and refugees at home and at school in the host country; immigrants in the media and immigrants in Third World countries. I hope that the issues raised in the article will be helpful in understanding the problems immigrants and refugees face in the host country and in new cultural conditions.
Aim. The article provides an analysis of Polish national censuses data in order to track changes that families and households in Poland have undergone over the past few decades and in order to answer the question whether these changes are in compliance with the assertions of the second demographic transition theory. Methods and materials. Moreover, the article uses data of the National Statistical Office on marriages, divorces, births and deaths, since the processes of marital formation and dissolution, as well as fertility and other demographic trends, impact directly on the number and structure of families and households. Emphasis is on the decade between the last two censuses of 2011 and 2021. Analysis is supplemented by conclusions from relevant research on the same topic. Results and conclusion. In the first place, changes affecting families and households in Poland are strongly influenced by the aging of the country’s population. As a result, the number of both households and families is declining. Also, some of the tenets of the second demographic transition theory are evidenced in the changes of the structure thereof: reduced average number of household members, reduced number of children in families and dynamic increase in the number of informal unions. These phenomena refer in particular to the inhabitants of urban areas.
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Cel. W artykule przedstawiono wyniki analizy danych polskich spisów powszechnych, dotyczących rodzin i gospodarstw domowych. Celem jest w szczególności odpowiedź na pytanie o to, czy zmiany, jakim podlegały gospodarstwa domowe i rodziny w trakcie ostatnich kilkudziesięciu lat, były zgodne z twierdzeniami sformułowanymi na gruncie teorii drugiego przejścia demograficznego. Metody i materiały. Artykuł opiera się na analizie danych zastanych. W analizie wykorzystano dodatkowo dane ze sprawozdawczości bieżącej Głównego Urzędu Statystycznego (na temat małżeństw, rozwodów, urodzeń i zgonów), ponieważ procesy zawierania i rozpadu małżeństw, dzietności kobiet itp. trendy demograficzne wpływają bezpośrednio na omawiane zjawiska. Nacisk położony został na dekadę, która upłynęła między dwoma spisami powszechnymi z lat 2011 i 2021. Analizę uzupełniono o wnioski z innych badań prowadzonych na ten temat w ciągu ostatnich kilkunastu lat. Wyniki i wnioski. Zmiany, jakim podlegają rodziny i gospodarstwa domowe w Polsce, wynikają w pierwszej kolejności ze starzenia się populacji kraju. Na skutek tego procesu następuje systematyczny spadek liczby zarówno gospodarstw domowych, jak i rodzin. W ich strukturze widoczne są także symptomy zmian, o których mówi teoria drugiego przejścia demograficznego, takie jak zmniejszanie się przeciętnej liczby osób w gospodarstwach domowych, zmniejszanie się liczby dzieci w rodzinach oraz dynamiczny wzrost udziału związków nieformalnych. Zjawiska te dotyczą w szczególności ludności zamieszkującej miasta.
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