This study is an attempt to construct a new biblical creationism as solution to the problem of the relationship between religion and science. It examines the challenge of modern evolutionism and the churches' responses against it. The modern evolutionism as the acting hypothesis of many modern scientific disciplines helps the Church to re-examine its traditional doctrine of creation. There are two Christian responses against the challenge: individually, various positions are active, such as the theistic evolutionism, the recent special creationism, and the old earth creationism; collectively, the Christian churches have not given careful consideration to the challenge. This study examines the creation account in Genesis 1 according to the Kantian epistemology of the writer's Th. M dissertation, an examination of modern eschatology. It proposes a presentist understanding of creation as the tentative alternative to the traditional creationism. It suggests that: 1) In evolution debate both creationists and evolutionists seem to assume there is an examined scientific creationism. 2) Because the traditional divine report model is unverifiable, we need to construct a scientific model. 3) The account seems to follow the ancient clay tablet format. 4) This study proposes a 'new habitat orientation week' model: the assumed observer's report of daily recognition of the wonderful world. 5) It informs us both of the responsibility for the world and of the significance of communal life. 6) It may provide a balanced foundation both for the sound relationship between science and religion and for the positive Christian worldview. / Thesis (Ph.D. (Dogmatics))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2004.

Tension has been the most significant and constant factor in the relationship between North and South Korea over the past sixty years. The differences in the political systems and the economic disparity between the two countries have resulted in what was once one nation moving in two radically divergent directions. These differences have led to a state of imbalance and resulted in constant political instability that has been playing out within the boundaries of the two countries, explicitly in no-man’s land, the demilitarized zone (DMZ). As one of the world’s most heavily militarized borderline, the DMZ embodies a wide range of political and social tensions. Among these is the action-reaction relationship between the Imnam Dam of North Korea and the Peace Dam of South Korea; the Imnam Dam was built as an act of offence to flood Seoul by bombing the dam down, and the Peace Dam was built as an act of defense to prevent overflow of water into Seoul. The historical and present conditions of this relationship maximize the military limitations and the possibilities of greater exchange between the two Koreas in creating a mutually beneficial relationship. In this thesis, this relationship is realized through “faction space”, a specific space situated in a fictional reality that does not reflect on its immediate surroundings, but of its own world, a speculative fictional idea of what it could become. Four different types of borderline conditions are studied to find out how these conditions can be translated into opportunities of creating spaces not only for the military, but also for the public. Each condition focuses on a topic derived from the existing surroundings. The final faction spaces perform as architectural stimuli within the feuding landscape of the two Koreas, striving to relieve or intensify the social and political tension between each other. Conditions of these faction spaces may begin to exist in various places around the DMZ, redefining the borderscape. A time may come when the most heavily militarized zone in the world shifts its focus to become a space for reciprocity.

Esta tese analisa a política educacional do Plano de Desenvolvimento da Educação, apresentado pelo Ministério da Educação do Brasil, em abril de 2007, tendo como eixo articulador de descentralização da política, o Plano de Metas Compromisso e sua execução através do Plano de Ações Articuladas nos estados e municípios. Trata-se de um estudo de natureza qualitativa, tendo como focos de estudo a relação do MEC com os entes federados e a gestão educacional. Inicialmente, o Plano reunia ações e programas novos anunciados, outros já em andamento (em torno de 40), e muitos outros se somaram a esses no período de sua implantação. Evidenciou-se a elaboração de um plano sem debate com as entidades científicas e sindicais do campo educacional. A integração dos entes federados ao Plano se efetivou através da assinatura de termo de adesão, traduzido “em compromisso” na adoção das vinte e oito diretrizes (Decreto n° 6.094/2007) na gestão de suas redes e escolas, como garantia de acesso à assistência técnica e financeira do MEC. As diretrizes têm como foco central a aprendizagem do aluno. Essa forma de integração pode ser entendida ao mesmo tempo como ingerência do poder central com permissão de permeabilidade das instâncias inferiores, redução da autonomia dos entes federados, assim como trabalho colaborativo, com maior apoio da União aos municípios e estados. A construção da política educacional no Plano caracterizase pela centralização e descentralização, mantendo-se a histórica relação entre os entes federados, marcada por avanços e recuos, definida também como gestão compartilhada, descentralização convergente. Ficou demonstrado que o equilíbrio na relação intergovernamental só pode ser alcançado através do debate, de acordos pactuados com base em relações horizontais, preservando-se a autonomia do entes federados. A manutenção de sistema avaliatório em larga escala, orientado para busca de resultados e focado na aprendizagem dos alunos, e a instituição de mecanismos de indução para cumprimento de metas do IDEB são elementos da gestão gerencialista. Contudo, a tese da redução da intervenção do Estado (via privatização, transferência direta de responsabilidades) não se confirma nesse processo, também não ocorreu a definição de adoção direta de uma lógica administrativa pautada nos pressupostos mercadológicos. Formas variáveis de gestão foram adotadas na implantação do Plano. Coexistem, portanto, concepções opostas de gestão pública, um misto de gestão burocrática/gerencial e democrática. Assim, o estudo revela a permanência da disputa existente na sociedade brasileira entre a concepção de gestão democrática e a condução da gestão gerencialista/burocrática mantida pelas elites. O estudo referenda pressupostos construídos historicamente pelas entidades representativas dos educadores, como a necessidade de ampliação dos investimentos na educação de 7% para 10 % do PIB e ultrapassar a visão mercadológica presente em alguns programas do PDE/Plano de Metas Compromisso, dando supremacia às visões referenciadas na gestão democrática. / The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the educational policy of the Plan for the Development of Education, presented by the Educational State Department of Brazil, in April 2007, which bases on the decentralization of the policy, the Plan of Goals and Commitments and its execution through the Articulated Actions Plan in states and districts. This is a quality research, which mainly focuses the relationships between the MEC, the Federative Entities, and the educational administration. The collection of data and information, literature review, document analysis, interviews, and the written report were all conducted at the same time. At the beginning, the Plan reunited new programs and actions that were about to be implemented, and also already existing programs (about 40), but many other programs gathered to them during the period of implantation. Evidences of the elaboration of a plan without a debate with the worker unions and the scientific institutions of the educational field were found. The integration of the federal entities to the Plan was accomplished through the signing of an adhesion term, translated as “in commitment”, and adopting the twenty-eight guidelines (Edict number 60.094/2007) in the management of its networks and schools, as a guarantee of access to technical and financial assistance of the MEC. The guidelines have mainly been focused on students learning. This form of integration can be understood, at the same time, as an intervention of the central power, with permission of permeability and reduction of the autonomy of the federal entities; homogenization of the management which ignores the regional diversity; or as a collaborative work, with total Union support of cities and states. The administration of the educational policy in the Plan is characterized by centralization and decentralization, a historical relationship that is sustained between the Federative Entities and that experiences forward and backward movements; characterizes itself as a shared administration, with converging decentralization. It is admitted that the equilibrium of the inter-governmental relationship could only be reached through debate and pact contracts with base on horizontal relationships, sustaining autonomy. The permanence in this Plan of a large scale evaluation system orientated to the quest of achievements and focalized on the student learning, and the institution of induction of mechanisms to fulfill the IDEB goals, turn into a managerial logic. However, neither the thesis of the reduction of the intervention of State (via privatization, direct transfer of responsibilities) nor the direct adoption of a marketbased administrative logic, were verified in this process. Varied forms of administration were adopted during the implementation of the Plan, with the coexistence of opposite conceptions of public administration, a mixture of managerial and democratic administration and the conduction of a managerial administration supported by elites. The research points out the need to enlarge the investment in education from 7% to 10% of the PIB and to overcome the market-based view that is present in some programs of the PDE/Plan of Commitment Goals, giving most importance to a view which is closer to the democratic administration reference that has been historically claimed.

The diploma thesis is divided into a theoretical and a practical part. The first part describes the current state of the issue of informed consent in a general context and related topics. To obtain the data, I used the qualitative research, the method of questioning, and the data collection technique of a semi-structures interview. The research sample group consisted of 11 patients and two doctors. The objective of the thesis was to identify and describe the differences between the theory and the practice of informed consent in the hospital, and to find out whether there has been any shift in the mistakes and errors associated with informed consent as stated by Haškovcová (2007). The research results have shown that the interviewed patients are not familiar with the concept of informed consent. The knowledge of the informed consent concept was more accurate by doctors as presumed. On the issue of viewed benefits of informed consent, it is clear from respondents? answers that informed consent is viewed primarily as doctors? legal protection against any complaints or lawsuits made by the patients in the performance of their profession by making the patient familiar with any complications that may occur during the performance. This benefit is perceived by both patients and doctors. Doctors see its benefit also as the protection of patients. Another benefit viewed by doctors is the written informed consent form. Six of the interviewed patients stated that informed consent was submitted to them to sign by the nurse/male nurse without proper instructions. Furthermore, doctors? answers show that the timing of instructions depends on the nature of the surgery, whether it is planned or acute. However, some patients said that they were not even instructed with the sufficient time after giving informed consent even when related to a planned procedure. The most stated form was the combination of written and oral instructions, so the patient was first instructed orally and then he was also handed a detailed description of the particular procedure in the written form. There was no uniformity about the question of the amount of submitted information among the interviewed patients as well as doctors ? some of them prefer just basic information, some of them want to know all the information. One of the interviewed doctors favored just the adequate informed consent and saw the detailed informed consent as problematic, another doctor preferred introduction of all the details, although in the written form, mainly because of legal protection. In terms of quality of the provided information, it is clear from the statements of the patients that two most important facts for them are that the performance is in their benefit and the duration of hospitalization. All patients have agreed on the fact that it is very good that they are informed about the procedure which will be performed on them. However, they were not united regarding the issue of participation in the decision ? two patients stated that not even the properly informed patient should participate in the decision about their treatment. Only one doctor expressed his stance to the patient?s participation in the decision stating that he tries to persuade his patients that his proposed solution is the optimal. The standard for the patients is to ask questions when they are concerned about something or interested in it. However, the statements showed that they do not always get the answer they are satisfied with. When the patients stated that they do not ask their doctors about anything, their reasons were enough information, lack of staff and a feeling of unwillingness on the part of doctors. If the patients did not receive enough information from the medical staff, they looked for it in other sources of information. This thesis points to the broader psychosocial context of informed consent, so its results may help during the training of staff in the assisting professions.

Esta tese analisa a política educacional do Plano de Desenvolvimento da Educação, apresentado pelo Ministério da Educação do Brasil, em abril de 2007, tendo como eixo articulador de descentralização da política, o Plano de Metas Compromisso e sua execução através do Plano de Ações Articuladas nos estados e municípios. Trata-se de um estudo de natureza qualitativa, tendo como focos de estudo a relação do MEC com os entes federados e a gestão educacional. Inicialmente, o Plano reunia ações e programas novos anunciados, outros já em andamento (em torno de 40), e muitos outros se somaram a esses no período de sua implantação. Evidenciou-se a elaboração de um plano sem debate com as entidades científicas e sindicais do campo educacional. A integração dos entes federados ao Plano se efetivou através da assinatura de termo de adesão, traduzido “em compromisso” na adoção das vinte e oito diretrizes (Decreto n° 6.094/2007) na gestão de suas redes e escolas, como garantia de acesso à assistência técnica e financeira do MEC. As diretrizes têm como foco central a aprendizagem do aluno. Essa forma de integração pode ser entendida ao mesmo tempo como ingerência do poder central com permissão de permeabilidade das instâncias inferiores, redução da autonomia dos entes federados, assim como trabalho colaborativo, com maior apoio da União aos municípios e estados. A construção da política educacional no Plano caracterizase pela centralização e descentralização, mantendo-se a histórica relação entre os entes federados, marcada por avanços e recuos, definida também como gestão compartilhada, descentralização convergente. Ficou demonstrado que o equilíbrio na relação intergovernamental só pode ser alcançado através do debate, de acordos pactuados com base em relações horizontais, preservando-se a autonomia do entes federados. A manutenção de sistema avaliatório em larga escala, orientado para busca de resultados e focado na aprendizagem dos alunos, e a instituição de mecanismos de indução para cumprimento de metas do IDEB são elementos da gestão gerencialista. Contudo, a tese da redução da intervenção do Estado (via privatização, transferência direta de responsabilidades) não se confirma nesse processo, também não ocorreu a definição de adoção direta de uma lógica administrativa pautada nos pressupostos mercadológicos. Formas variáveis de gestão foram adotadas na implantação do Plano. Coexistem, portanto, concepções opostas de gestão pública, um misto de gestão burocrática/gerencial e democrática. Assim, o estudo revela a permanência da disputa existente na sociedade brasileira entre a concepção de gestão democrática e a condução da gestão gerencialista/burocrática mantida pelas elites. O estudo referenda pressupostos construídos historicamente pelas entidades representativas dos educadores, como a necessidade de ampliação dos investimentos na educação de 7% para 10 % do PIB e ultrapassar a visão mercadológica presente em alguns programas do PDE/Plano de Metas Compromisso, dando supremacia às visões referenciadas na gestão democrática. / The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the educational policy of the Plan for the Development of Education, presented by the Educational State Department of Brazil, in April 2007, which bases on the decentralization of the policy, the Plan of Goals and Commitments and its execution through the Articulated Actions Plan in states and districts. This is a quality research, which mainly focuses the relationships between the MEC, the Federative Entities, and the educational administration. The collection of data and information, literature review, document analysis, interviews, and the written report were all conducted at the same time. At the beginning, the Plan reunited new programs and actions that were about to be implemented, and also already existing programs (about 40), but many other programs gathered to them during the period of implantation. Evidences of the elaboration of a plan without a debate with the worker unions and the scientific institutions of the educational field were found. The integration of the federal entities to the Plan was accomplished through the signing of an adhesion term, translated as “in commitment”, and adopting the twenty-eight guidelines (Edict number 60.094/2007) in the management of its networks and schools, as a guarantee of access to technical and financial assistance of the MEC. The guidelines have mainly been focused on students learning. This form of integration can be understood, at the same time, as an intervention of the central power, with permission of permeability and reduction of the autonomy of the federal entities; homogenization of the management which ignores the regional diversity; or as a collaborative work, with total Union support of cities and states. The administration of the educational policy in the Plan is characterized by centralization and decentralization, a historical relationship that is sustained between the Federative Entities and that experiences forward and backward movements; characterizes itself as a shared administration, with converging decentralization. It is admitted that the equilibrium of the inter-governmental relationship could only be reached through debate and pact contracts with base on horizontal relationships, sustaining autonomy. The permanence in this Plan of a large scale evaluation system orientated to the quest of achievements and focalized on the student learning, and the institution of induction of mechanisms to fulfill the IDEB goals, turn into a managerial logic. However, neither the thesis of the reduction of the intervention of State (via privatization, direct transfer of responsibilities) nor the direct adoption of a marketbased administrative logic, were verified in this process. Varied forms of administration were adopted during the implementation of the Plan, with the coexistence of opposite conceptions of public administration, a mixture of managerial and democratic administration and the conduction of a managerial administration supported by elites. The research points out the need to enlarge the investment in education from 7% to 10% of the PIB and to overcome the market-based view that is present in some programs of the PDE/Plan of Commitment Goals, giving most importance to a view which is closer to the democratic administration reference that has been historically claimed.

Esta tese analisa a política educacional do Plano de Desenvolvimento da Educação, apresentado pelo Ministério da Educação do Brasil, em abril de 2007, tendo como eixo articulador de descentralização da política, o Plano de Metas Compromisso e sua execução através do Plano de Ações Articuladas nos estados e municípios. Trata-se de um estudo de natureza qualitativa, tendo como focos de estudo a relação do MEC com os entes federados e a gestão educacional. Inicialmente, o Plano reunia ações e programas novos anunciados, outros já em andamento (em torno de 40), e muitos outros se somaram a esses no período de sua implantação. Evidenciou-se a elaboração de um plano sem debate com as entidades científicas e sindicais do campo educacional. A integração dos entes federados ao Plano se efetivou através da assinatura de termo de adesão, traduzido “em compromisso” na adoção das vinte e oito diretrizes (Decreto n° 6.094/2007) na gestão de suas redes e escolas, como garantia de acesso à assistência técnica e financeira do MEC. As diretrizes têm como foco central a aprendizagem do aluno. Essa forma de integração pode ser entendida ao mesmo tempo como ingerência do poder central com permissão de permeabilidade das instâncias inferiores, redução da autonomia dos entes federados, assim como trabalho colaborativo, com maior apoio da União aos municípios e estados. A construção da política educacional no Plano caracterizase pela centralização e descentralização, mantendo-se a histórica relação entre os entes federados, marcada por avanços e recuos, definida também como gestão compartilhada, descentralização convergente. Ficou demonstrado que o equilíbrio na relação intergovernamental só pode ser alcançado através do debate, de acordos pactuados com base em relações horizontais, preservando-se a autonomia do entes federados. A manutenção de sistema avaliatório em larga escala, orientado para busca de resultados e focado na aprendizagem dos alunos, e a instituição de mecanismos de indução para cumprimento de metas do IDEB são elementos da gestão gerencialista. Contudo, a tese da redução da intervenção do Estado (via privatização, transferência direta de responsabilidades) não se confirma nesse processo, também não ocorreu a definição de adoção direta de uma lógica administrativa pautada nos pressupostos mercadológicos. Formas variáveis de gestão foram adotadas na implantação do Plano. Coexistem, portanto, concepções opostas de gestão pública, um misto de gestão burocrática/gerencial e democrática. Assim, o estudo revela a permanência da disputa existente na sociedade brasileira entre a concepção de gestão democrática e a condução da gestão gerencialista/burocrática mantida pelas elites. O estudo referenda pressupostos construídos historicamente pelas entidades representativas dos educadores, como a necessidade de ampliação dos investimentos na educação de 7% para 10 % do PIB e ultrapassar a visão mercadológica presente em alguns programas do PDE/Plano de Metas Compromisso, dando supremacia às visões referenciadas na gestão democrática. / The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the educational policy of the Plan for the Development of Education, presented by the Educational State Department of Brazil, in April 2007, which bases on the decentralization of the policy, the Plan of Goals and Commitments and its execution through the Articulated Actions Plan in states and districts. This is a quality research, which mainly focuses the relationships between the MEC, the Federative Entities, and the educational administration. The collection of data and information, literature review, document analysis, interviews, and the written report were all conducted at the same time. At the beginning, the Plan reunited new programs and actions that were about to be implemented, and also already existing programs (about 40), but many other programs gathered to them during the period of implantation. Evidences of the elaboration of a plan without a debate with the worker unions and the scientific institutions of the educational field were found. The integration of the federal entities to the Plan was accomplished through the signing of an adhesion term, translated as “in commitment”, and adopting the twenty-eight guidelines (Edict number 60.094/2007) in the management of its networks and schools, as a guarantee of access to technical and financial assistance of the MEC. The guidelines have mainly been focused on students learning. This form of integration can be understood, at the same time, as an intervention of the central power, with permission of permeability and reduction of the autonomy of the federal entities; homogenization of the management which ignores the regional diversity; or as a collaborative work, with total Union support of cities and states. The administration of the educational policy in the Plan is characterized by centralization and decentralization, a historical relationship that is sustained between the Federative Entities and that experiences forward and backward movements; characterizes itself as a shared administration, with converging decentralization. It is admitted that the equilibrium of the inter-governmental relationship could only be reached through debate and pact contracts with base on horizontal relationships, sustaining autonomy. The permanence in this Plan of a large scale evaluation system orientated to the quest of achievements and focalized on the student learning, and the institution of induction of mechanisms to fulfill the IDEB goals, turn into a managerial logic. However, neither the thesis of the reduction of the intervention of State (via privatization, direct transfer of responsibilities) nor the direct adoption of a marketbased administrative logic, were verified in this process. Varied forms of administration were adopted during the implementation of the Plan, with the coexistence of opposite conceptions of public administration, a mixture of managerial and democratic administration and the conduction of a managerial administration supported by elites. The research points out the need to enlarge the investment in education from 7% to 10% of the PIB and to overcome the market-based view that is present in some programs of the PDE/Plan of Commitment Goals, giving most importance to a view which is closer to the democratic administration reference that has been historically claimed.

Abstract This study examines the relationship between theory and practice in the science of education. In the first part of the study, theorists’ views about the relationship are examined in three continental orientations of pedagogy or science of education: hermeneutic-humanistic pedagogy (geisteswissenschaftliche Pädagogik), empirical-analytic science of education and critical pedagogy. In the context of empirical-analytic orientation, the science of education takes the shape of a technical discipline allowing practitioners of education to make diagnoses, prognoses, and technical prognoses. However, in reality the practical application of empirical-analytic knowledge about education is a highly complex and demanding enterprise. In hermeneutic-humanistic pedagogy and critical pedagogy, the relationship between theory and practice is more clearly structured according to the notion of practical or moral science. For pedagogy or science of education, it is not sufficient to merely describe or interpret phenomena of education and their socio-historical context. Education must also have orientation, and educational theories are to serve possible or future practice. In the second part of the study, drawing from the interviews of practitioners from various fields of education, five practitioner’s views about the relationship between theory and practice in education are reconstructed. According to the first view, the source of the problems concerning the relationship between theory and practice in education lies in the questionable scientific status of the science of education and educational theories. The core of the second practitioner’s view is that the problems encountered when applying educational theories to practice stem from the failure of the science of education to acknowledge the pedagogical difference between educational theory and practice. The third practitioner’s view holds that in order to act in the practice of education, the practitioner must focus reflection on the task at hand. The fourth practitioner’s view reconstructed in this study is a notion about the unrealistic and unempirical character of educational theories: instead of describing what really happens in the practice of education, educational theories often outline the actions of ideal educators and subjects of education. According to the fifth practitioner’s view, the practitioner must function as the personal and individual element bridging the gap between theory and practice. / Tiivistelmä Tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan kasvatustieteen teoria–käytäntö-suhdetta. Työn alkuosassa eritellään teoria–käytäntö-suhdetta koskevia teoreetikkojen näkemyksiä henkitieteellisessä pedagogiikassa, empiiris-analyyttisessa kasvatustieteessä ja kriittisessä kasvatustieteessä. Empiiris-analyyttisesta kasvatustieteestä on muodostunut teknologinen tiede, jonka avulla käytännön kasvattajien on periaatteessa mahdollista diagnosoida, prognosoida ja teknisesti prognosoida. Empiiris-analyyttisen kasvatusta koskevan tiedon soveltaminen käytäntöön on kuitenkin todellisuudessa huomattavan monimutkaista. Henkitieteellisessä pedagogiikassa ja kriittisessä kasvatustieteessä teoria–käytäntö-suhde on rakentunut edellistä selvemmin praktisen tieteen mallin mukaiseksi. Kasvatustieteen tai tieteellisen pedagogiikan osalta ei tällöin riitä, että tutkimuskohteena olevaa toimintaa ja sen yhteiskunnallis-historiallista kontekstia vain kuvataan tai tulkitaan. Pedagogista toimintaa on myös orientoitava, ja teorioiden on palveltava mahdollista tai tulevaa inhimillistä käytäntöä. Tutkimuksen loppuosassa rekonstruoidaan kasvatuksen eri alueilla toimivilta kerätyn empiirisen haastatteluaineiston perusteella viisi praktikon näkemystä kasvatustieteen teoria–käytäntö-suhteesta. Ensimmäisen näkemyksen mukaan kasvatustieteen teoria–käytäntö-suhteen ongelmien alkulähteenä on kyseenalainen tieteellinen status. Toisessa näkemyksessä teoria–käytäntö-suhteen ongelmat seuraavat kasvatustieteen epäonnistumisesta paikanmäärityksessään pedagogisen differenssin suhteen. Kolmannen näkemyksen yhteydessä esitetään ajatus siitä, että jotta pedagoginen toiminta käytännössä olisi mahdollista, on reflektio välttämättä tarkennettava käytännön toiminnassa käsillä olevaan kohteeseen. Neljäs praktikon näkemys on ajattelutapa, jonka mukaan kasvatustieteelliset teoriat ovat epärealistisia ja epäempiirisiä: ne kuvaavat reaalisen sijaan idealisoidun kasvattajan ja idealisoitujen kasvatettavien toimintaa. Viides praktikon näkemys kiteytyy ajatukseen siitä, että praktikko itse on teoriaa ja käytäntöä välittävä persoonallinen ja yksilöllinen silta.

Magister Curationis - MCur / Background: Health care workers, more specifically, nursing students are at increased risk of occupational injury and exposure to blood borne pathogens. Compliance with universal precautions (UP) will minimise risk or transmission of HIV and HBV (Hepatitis B virus) according to the Department of Health of South Africa. Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the knowledge and practice of universal precautions amongst nursing students and their fear of occupational exposure to blood borne pathogens. Rationale: The rationale for the study was to investigate what the studentss knowledge and practice of UP were, to see if this could be a possible contributing factor to occupational exposure. Research design: The study was a quantitative, cross sectional survey using a questionnaire that included one open ended question. Participants: The participants for the study were the undergraduate nursing students in year levels two to four (n = 253) who and were selected by means of stratified random sampling. Procedures: A questionnaire was administered to the participants by the researcher. Analysis of the data collected was done through statistical package for social sciences (SPSS 16.0) and content analysis. Results: The researcher established that there is indeed a lack of knowledge regarding UP and that the students’ self reported practice of UP is poor. No statistically significant correlation between knowledge and practice of UP were found. There is underreporting of occupational exposures to staff at the School of Nursing. The majority of students reported a moderate to severe fear for occupational exposures and contributing factors raised by them are reality in the clinical facilities. / South Africa

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LAW AND MORALITY IN LEGAL FILMS Abstract This diploma thesis entitled "The relationship between law and morality in legal films" deals with an unusual topic written by a law student. However, legal films are being used by some teachers at law faculties to make the teaching of law more attractive. Films can also help them bring the law closer to the young generation. In this diploma thesis, law, morality and their relationship, which in filmography is most often reflected in characters of film lawyers, are viewed through legal films. The author focuses not only on how the relationship between law and morality is portrayed in legal films, but especially on how it is presented in the political and historical context of our country. Therefore, the diploma thesis is subtitled "Selected Czech and Czechoslovak legal films in the shadow of the history of our country from the 50s' of the 20th century to the present." In the first chapter, the author introduces the term "legal film" and its division into individual groups. The author also explains their meaning. The second chapter briefly discusses the concept of "law" and "morality" and how their relationship can look like not limited to legal films. The third chapter is devoted to the main characters of legal films, lawyers and their morals,...

The relationship between trademark protection and copyright protection Abstract The theme of this thesis is the relationship between trademark and copyright protection. The aim of the thesis was to describe the area of trademarks and copyrights, to describe their mutual relationship and to focus on aspects where both of these protections differ significantly. The thesis focuses in more detail on trademarks, which is always addressed at the beginning of each chapter and then compares them with copyright. The first four chapters deal with the key areas of both protections, especially the introduction of the main institutes and their purpose, the systematization of trademarks and copyrights, the origin, duration and termination of both protections, subjective rights and as last but not least exclusions from trademark and copyright protection. The fifth chapter deals with the relationship of both protections and describes the mutual differences that occur especially in the origin, duration, form, and scope of legal protection. It also discusses the possibility of the concurrence of both protections, its causes, types, and consequences. The outcome of this thesis is an overview of trademark and copyright protection and analysis of their mutual relationship with emphasis on the approximation of common features...