Pokémon GO hit the world with a bang in the summer of 2016 and has since then set new records regarding revenue on multiple occasions. It has been researched extensively, although first and foremost from a HCI (human-computer interactions) and healthcare/public health perspective. In particular, studies approaching the phenomenon from a human geography and urban planning perspective have been very limited. This study therefore takes an inductive and exploratory approach and explores the ways in which Pokémon GO influences how players use and experience the city and how urban planners can use Pokémon GO in their work. To do this, nine interviews were conducted, six with currently active players and three with completely new players. A number of different themes emerged from the interviews and was subsequently used to structure the results. Physical activity, social interactions and benefits and exploration and discovery were the most prominent themes and also the most frequently mentioned reasons why players enjoy the game. Finally the findings are discussed in relation to planning with a focus on participatory planning practices but also in more general terms regarding urban and spatial planning.

The thesis is devoted to the conditions and quality of living of people who are dependent on social benefits. Based on the assumption that state expenditures are disproportionately high compared to the real conditions of housing. The price is inadequate and owners make use of helplessness people and the generosity of the state. The survey will take place in several social excluded quarters in Ústí nad Labem. The field will then be collected information such as service in the flat, state of the building, the legal form of contracts, apartment size, number of people in the apartment and the price. The aim is to determine whether the benefits are used adequately and people from vulnerable groups live in a suitable and stable environment.

The master's thesis deals with the Social Policy of the European Union, its development and current trends. Approaching the process the Social policy at the European level has undergone such directions managed its integration, and what has remained the exclusive competence of the individual Member States. The aim of the paper is a summary of developments up to the present, whether the European Union is to acquire competence in this field, which belonged for a long time largely outside the integration process. The second objective is to analyze whether the European Union sets achievable goals in the field of Social Policy. The analysis is primarily focused on the two most recent strategies, namely the Lisbon Strategy (from 2000 - 2010) and the current strategy Europe 2020 (term 2010 - 2020). These particular cases were selected because European Union has set clear objectives for which it is easy to point out whether they were accomplished or not. The results of the analysis is that the EU has done in the Social Policy field a great achievements, but often sets very ambitious goals, which is not currently able to provide. Social policy has remained in the control of national states, but the Commission has managed, at least partly, to coordinate the processes and practices that each Member State has...

My thesis deals with reproductive politics of socialist Czechoslovakia, focusing on the effect of abortion committees decision and its members in matter of legality of abortions since 1957. The theoretical part summarize knowledge about reproductive policy of socialist Czechoslovakia and the effect of abortion committees. The empirical part includes interviews with witnesses who had personal experience with abortion committees. Interviews are analyzed by means of encryption techniques inspired by grounded theory. The thesis includes analysis of six interviews with applicant of abortion, one interview with a partner of the applicant, five interviews with doctors - gynecologists and one with a former member of abortion committee. This thesis also process documents of National population comitee regarding on abortion comitees issues. Keywords: gender, reproductive politics, socialism, abortion, abortion committee, witnesses, social benefits

The diploma work "Evaluation of the impact of welfare reform in the area of non-insurance social welfare" is about one of the parts of Social Security in the Czech Republic about area of benefits whose claim is not conditional on participation in insurance. The focus is on the legislative creation and organizational structure ensuring this instrument of the social policy. Because of it the basic of the diploma work is the creation of the political processes, mainly their implementation and evaluation. There are characterized the development and current status of state social assistance, material poverty and benefits for people with disabilities. An analyze of legislative changes that this area has undergone in the context of social reform which started in 2011 is the part of the diploma work. There is the characterization of the process of implementation reforms into practice and it is made their evaluation in the connection with the organization, technical support and legitimacy benefits systems. Resources for diploma work were a combination of primary and secondary data. The base is consisting mainly from professional literature and the relevant legislation. Actual information in which are considered changes is taken from press releases, time series and conclusion from the survey. The methods...

This thesis focuses on employees' incapacity to work as a factor that negatively affects the functioning of an organization. The resulting negative financial impact is felt not only at the level of specific organizations, but also can affect a country's macroeconomic performance. To be able to understand the issue of work absence, it is necessary to consider it in the context of a state's political and social situation. It is also essential to take into account legislative regulations regarding absenteeism that dictate the procedures required for both employees and employers. A serious problem associated with sick leave is the unauthorized absence of employees from work that results in significant burden on employers as well as hinders the macroeconomic functioning of the state. Although there are public institutions involved in activities for reducing absenteeism, the task of investigating the reasons for increased work absence is usually left up to the employer. That includes a responsibility to find and incorporate into the organization's policy an effective and appropriate solution for reducing work absence and stabilization of amount of absence. It is also important to avoid creating an environment that leads to so called "presenteeism," which is the presence of employees in the workplace...

Graduation theses deal with social security system in the Czech republic. Theoretical part describes social policy and their functions, provide supplementary benefits, personality of social workers, their personality, professional and educational requirements. In next thesis deal with clients characteristic and possibility of social consulting. The questionarries of staff engaged in public services are analysed in the empirical part of the thesis. Individual questions are orientation on provided supplementary benefits, their motivation, fairness and provided social consulting and educational influencing.

Verifica-se, na atualidade, grande multiplicação dos conflitos envolvendo a Previdência Social e seus segurados. Embora sejam vários os motivos que levam ao ajuizamento de ações previdenciárias, identifica-se em grande parte dos casos uma linha condutora que unifica os diversos litigantes (segurados e dependentes) em torno de uma questão comum. Olhando-se de longe, o que se vê é uma série de ações individuais, cada uma com suas peculiaridades, que buscam as mesmas reparações e ajustes. Há, nesses casos, o ajuizamento em massa de ações com conteúdo semelhante, o que irá gerar sentenças, recursos e execuções múltiplos e, em vários casos, apresentando soluções divergentes. Desse modo, ainda que se tratem de direitos que podem ser tutelados individualmente, há que se buscar a tutela por um prisma coletivo, de modo a se trazer efetividade e segurança na área previdenciária. E uma dessas formas consiste no uso da ação civil pública em questões previdenciárias. Mecanismo relativamente recente em nosso ordenamento, introduzido em 1985, a ação civil pública encontra-se hoje plenamente integrada àquilo que se chama de microssistema de tutela coletiva, admitindo tanto a defesa de direitos difusos, quanto de coletivos stricto sensu e mesmo de direitos individuais homogêneos. O esforço que merece atenção, portanto, consiste na caracterização do Direito Previdenciário numa dessas três categorias de direitos coletivos lato sensu, vez que a tutela no plano coletivo molda-se de acordo com o tipo de direito que se está a tutelar. Ademais, é necessário também que se afaste a interpretação restritiva já superada pela jurisprudência mais atual que exclui os Direitos Previdenciários da esfera de objetos da ação civil pública. / There are, at present, a great multiplication of conflicts involving the Social Security and its policyholders. Although several reasons leads to the prosecution of social security actions, its possible to identify a conductive line that unifies the various litigants around a common issue. Looking from outside, there are a series of individual actions, each one with its own peculiarities, seeking the same repairs and adjustments. In this cases, the prosecution consists in mass actions with similar content, which will generate multiple sentences and multiple executions - and, in many cases, will define divergent solutions. Thus, even if dealing with rights that can be protected individually, we must seek the protection of a collective point of view, in order to bring effectiveness and safety in the social security area. And one of those ways is the use of public civil action (called ação civil pública, in Portuguese), a kind a class action, in social security issues. Introduced in 1985, this collective action is now fully integrated to the microsystem of collective protection, assuming both the defense of diffuse and collective rights, as well some kind of individual rights by a collective way. The effort that deserves attention, therefore, is the characterization of the Social Security in one of these three categories of collective rights. Moreover, it is also necessary that departs the restrictive interpretation which excludes Social Security Rights from the sphere of objects of class action called ação civil pública.

Verifica-se, na atualidade, grande multiplicação dos conflitos envolvendo a Previdência Social e seus segurados. Embora sejam vários os motivos que levam ao ajuizamento de ações previdenciárias, identifica-se em grande parte dos casos uma linha condutora que unifica os diversos litigantes (segurados e dependentes) em torno de uma questão comum. Olhando-se de longe, o que se vê é uma série de ações individuais, cada uma com suas peculiaridades, que buscam as mesmas reparações e ajustes. Há, nesses casos, o ajuizamento em massa de ações com conteúdo semelhante, o que irá gerar sentenças, recursos e execuções múltiplos e, em vários casos, apresentando soluções divergentes. Desse modo, ainda que se tratem de direitos que podem ser tutelados individualmente, há que se buscar a tutela por um prisma coletivo, de modo a se trazer efetividade e segurança na área previdenciária. E uma dessas formas consiste no uso da ação civil pública em questões previdenciárias. Mecanismo relativamente recente em nosso ordenamento, introduzido em 1985, a ação civil pública encontra-se hoje plenamente integrada àquilo que se chama de microssistema de tutela coletiva, admitindo tanto a defesa de direitos difusos, quanto de coletivos stricto sensu e mesmo de direitos individuais homogêneos. O esforço que merece atenção, portanto, consiste na caracterização do Direito Previdenciário numa dessas três categorias de direitos coletivos lato sensu, vez que a tutela no plano coletivo molda-se de acordo com o tipo de direito que se está a tutelar. Ademais, é necessário também que se afaste a interpretação restritiva já superada pela jurisprudência mais atual que exclui os Direitos Previdenciários da esfera de objetos da ação civil pública. / There are, at present, a great multiplication of conflicts involving the Social Security and its policyholders. Although several reasons leads to the prosecution of social security actions, its possible to identify a conductive line that unifies the various litigants around a common issue. Looking from outside, there are a series of individual actions, each one with its own peculiarities, seeking the same repairs and adjustments. In this cases, the prosecution consists in mass actions with similar content, which will generate multiple sentences and multiple executions - and, in many cases, will define divergent solutions. Thus, even if dealing with rights that can be protected individually, we must seek the protection of a collective point of view, in order to bring effectiveness and safety in the social security area. And one of those ways is the use of public civil action (called ação civil pública, in Portuguese), a kind a class action, in social security issues. Introduced in 1985, this collective action is now fully integrated to the microsystem of collective protection, assuming both the defense of diffuse and collective rights, as well some kind of individual rights by a collective way. The effort that deserves attention, therefore, is the characterization of the Social Security in one of these three categories of collective rights. Moreover, it is also necessary that departs the restrictive interpretation which excludes Social Security Rights from the sphere of objects of class action called ação civil pública.

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