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Social contributions in Romania [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Social contributions have an important impact on payroll policy. Also, social contributions represent a significant budgetary revenue item which can be viewed at the edge between taxation and insurance. Social contributions in Romania experienced many changes which ended in 2008.
Gyorgy, Attila
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The social science contribution to pharmacoepidemiology

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 1991
An understanding of the inappropriate use of pharmaceuticals (the prescribing of unnecessary or ineffective medications, and non-compliance by consumers) can be furthered by considering the psychological, social and cultural contexts in which medicines are used.
N, Higginbotham, D L, Streiner
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Biomedical and social contributions to sustainability

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2011
Over the past two or three centuries, biomedical advances have provided methods to prevent and treat infectious diseases. These changes have greatly reduced human suffering and enhanced sustainability by allowing people to live longer and healthier lives.
Ian, Wilmut   +3 more
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The contribution of the social sciences

Omega, 1977
Abstract The contribution which Social Science has made and may make to policy formulation in modern Europe is described and evaluated. The rapid economic growth of the post war period was accompanied by the growing impact of government economic policy but the contribution made by Social Science in most countries was limited.
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The contributions of the social agencies and the social worker

1978
Concern for the rights of children based on humanitarian principles is chiefly a twentieth century development. It is true that in the past, children have been cherished and esteemed by their parents, yet they have also in other circumstances been exploited and misused to serve the need and greed of the adult world, whether it might be child marriages ...
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The contributions of nursing science to social support

International Journal of Nursing Studies, 1995
Nurse scientists have contributed to the theoretical development of social support through concept refinement, creation of measures, and intervention research. Nevertheless, deficiencies persist pertaining to the conceptualization of the construct and the design of intervention studies.
M J, Stewart, V P, Tilden
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Social factors that contribute to attrition in MOOCs

Proceedings of the first ACM conference on Learning @ scale conference, 2014
In this paper, we explore student dropout behavior in a Massively Open Online Course (MOOC). We use a survival model to measure the impact of three social factors that make predictions about attrition along the way for students who have participated in the course discussion forum.
Carolyn Penstein Rosé   +6 more
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Social Security Contributions

2003
Abstract All available evidence suggests that the great majority of individuals avoid taking unnecessary risks. This is apparent from the fact that most individuals are willing to pay insurance premiums the amount of which exceeds the expected pay-out: the amount of potential damage times the chance that such damage will happen ...
Ken Messere   +2 more
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Does the Social Environment Contribute to Asthma?

Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America, 2008
The impact of the social environment on asthma has recently begun to receive increasing attention. This article reviews the current literature to investigate the impact of the social environment at three levels-the neighborhood level, the peer level, and the family level-and to explore pathways through which the social environment "gets under the skin"
Edith, Chen, Hannah M C, Schreier
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Linking socially contributed media with events

Multimedia Systems, 2014
Recent years have witnessed the blooming of Web 2.0 content such as Flickr and YouTube, etc. How we can benefit from such rich media resources is still an open and challenging question. In this paper, we present a method combining semantic inferencing and visual analysis for automatically finding media (photos and videos) illustrating events. We report
Xueliang Liu, Benoit Huet
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