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Neprofitne organizacije imaju značajnu ulogu u društvu jer djeluju ondje i u onom trenutku gdje država i tržište ne mogu ispuniti društvene potrebe. One potiču rast i razvoj društva te nastoje zadovoljiti interese i pojedinaca i javnosti bez namjere ostvarivanja profita. Upravo zato što imaju tako važnu ulogu u društvu javlja se interes za analizom njihove financijske održivosti koju ovaj rad pruža kroz analizu financijskih izvještaja istih s osvrtom na samo računovodstvo financiranja. Predmet analize su dvije neprofitne organizacije, Udruga za prirodu, okoliš i održivi razvoj Sunce te Udruga SOS Dječje selo Hrvatska. Na temelju financijskih izvještaja navedenih organizacija provodi se vertikalna i horizontalna analiza, izračunavaju odabrani pokazatelji neprofitnih organizacija, a potom se pomoću dobivenih rezultata iznosi zaključak o održivosti financiranja istih. Postavlja se pitanje jesu li prihodi ostvareni iz vlastitih izvora gore navedenih organizacija dostatni za njihovu financijsku održivost, ulažu li prikupljena sredstva na odgovarajući način, te koliko koristi svojim djelovanjem uistinu donose društvenoj zajednici. Rad daje teorijski uvod u pojmovno određenje, vrste, obilježja i specifičnosti neprofitnih organizacija, te regulatorni okvir unutar kojeg posluju, uz detaljnu razradu obilježja računovodstva, te načela sustava financijskog poslovanja. Ključan dio odnosi se na analizu računovodstva financiranja dviju odabranih organizacija, gdje se kroz temeljnu horizontalnu i vertikalnu analizu računa prihoda i rashoda, kao i bilance dolazi do ocjene održivosti financiranja promatranih organizacija koristeći se dodatno odabranim pokazateljima. Potvrđuje se glavna hipoteza rada, a to je da prihodi ostvareni iz vlastitih izvora odabranih analiziranih neprofitnih organizacija nisu dostatni za financijsku održivost istih. ; Non-profit organizations play a significant role in society because they operate at a time when the state and the market cannot meet all social needs. They stimulate the growth and ...

How do non-state armed groups (NSAGs) survive and even thrive in situations where state armed groups (SAGs) collapse, despite the former's often greater material adversity? We argue that, optimizing under their different constraints, SAGs invest more in technical military training and NSAGs invest more in enhancing soldiers' intrinsic payoffs from serving their group. Therefore, willingness to contribute to the group should be more positively correlated with years of service in NSAGs than in SAGs. We confirm this hypothesis with lab-in-the-field and qualitative evidence from SAG and NSAG soldiers in Nepal, Ivory Coast, and Kurdistan. Each field study addresses specific inferential weaknesses in the others. Assembled together, these cases reduce concerns about external validity or replicability. Our findings reveal how the basis of NSAG cohesion differs from that of SAGs, with implications for strategies to counter NSAG mobilization.

Mexico shows unexpected breakthroughs in civil rights despite the fact that it is a country that has "laws but no justice." Mexican law is characterized by arbitrary applications, unjust imprisonments, racism, & genderism, but there are some advances on human rights. The federal government criminalized domestic violence in 2006, & domestic gay & lesbian rights have made advances. Mexican laws & views about reproductive rights, persons testing HIV-positive, & ex-offenders have changed. Despite brutal government repressions in Oaxaca and Atenco, Mexicans continue to organize for basic human rights. Citizens, human rights organizations, journalists, & indigenous people now work together to build alternative structures of power founded on recognition of the rights of all. J. Harwell

This paper presents the results of a web-based survey of economic educators who were asked about their knowledge and experience with human subjects research and the mandated federal protocols that govern such research at most American universities. The results indicate that while economic education researchers are experienced in conducting human subjects research and are aware of the federal regulations, they are not well informed about key details of the regulations. They are skeptical of the net benefits of the mandated protocols because of the perceived discouraging burdens of the paperwork that rarely result in significant modifications of their research projects. The authors conclude that recent calls for modifications to the federal regulations for classroom-based research projects may be justified given the opportunity costs of adhering to the regulations compared to the relatively low levels of perceived benefits.

This volume employs new empirical data to examine the internationalization of the social sciences and humanities (SSH). While the globalization dynamics that have transformed the shape of the world over the last decades has been the subject of a growing number of scientific studies, very few such studies have set out to analyze the globalization of social and human sciences themselves. Arguing against the complacent assumption that Science is 'international by nature', this work demonstrates that the growing circulation of scholars and scientific ideas is a complex, contradictory and contested process. Arranged thematically, the chapters in this volume present a coherent exploration of patterns of transnationalization, South-North and East-West exchanges, and transnational regionalization. Further, they offer fresh insight into specific topics including the influence of the Anglo-American research infrastructure and the development of social and human sciences in postcolonial contexts. Featuring contributions from leading international scholars in the field, this work will advance the research agenda and will have interdisciplinary appeal for scholars from across the social sciences.

Hong, Christine: Reframing North Korean human rights : introduction#Han, Ju Hui Judy: Beyond safe haven : a critique of Christian custody of North Korean migrants in China#Hong, Christine: The mirror of North Korean human rights : technologies of liberation, technologies of war#Shin, Sanghyuk S. ; Choi, Ricky Y.: Misdiagnosis and misrepresentations : application of the right-to-health framework in North Korea

Abstract. We modify the probabilistic seismic hazard analysis
(PSHA) formulation by replacing the Gutenberg–Richter power law with the SCP (Sotolongo-Costa and Posadas)
non-extensive model for earthquake size distribution and call it NEPSHA. The SCP
claimed to model the regional seismicity better than the classical models.
The proposed method (NEPSHA) is implemented in the Tehran region, and the
results are compared with the classic PSHA method. The hazard curves show
that NEPSHA gives a higher hazard, especially in the range of practical
return periods. The uniform hazard spectra of NEPSHA provide more spectral
accelerations, especially for the medium-height buildings, which are the
most common urban structures.

Until relatively recently, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), a regional intergovernmental political and economic union consisting of the Arab states of the Arabian Gulf (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE), was predominantly a nonurban region. Most of its inhabitants were nomadic Bedouins who were constantly traveling in search of scarce water resources, traders who were always between destinations, and a smaller number of agriculturalists and fishermen. A small minority constructed and occupied several residential agglomerations, compact and confined, consistent with the limited economic and social needs of people at that time. This trend remained true until the 1950s, when larger social, economic, and political shifts dramatically and permanently changed the landscape of the region. The major trigger was the exploration of oil, leading to economic wealth, in addition to other factors, including globalization, aspirations for modernity, and technological advancements, especially those enabling water provision. In the context of a harsh natural setting, this meant that urbanity would become the new favored form of living. What followed was rapid urbanization, mostly machine-like, with little regard for humans living in the newly formed cities. In Saudi Arabia, for example, urban residents made up only 10 percent of the total population in 1950. By 2005, this figure skyrocketed to 85 percent (Figure 1). The present-day urban scene in the Gulf is globally unique in many respects. Not only did the process of city building occur in a short period of time, but the intensity and scale have been largely unprecedented. About 80 percent of the region's population now lives in urban areas, making the Gulf one of the most urbanized regions in the world. In Kuwait, for example, 99 percent of the population occupies only 8 percent of the country's land area. In Qatar, the capital city of Doha alone is home to about 55 percent of the country's total population. The physical characteristics of this urbanism are also unique. It resulted in an urban form mostly characterized by suburban-like downtowns and low densities in expanding territories.

1 Arbeits- und Organisationsgestaltung: Ein interdisziplinäres Forschungsfeld 1.1 Managementansätze 1.2 Mikropolitik als neues Querschnittsfeld 2 Erfolgsfaktoren: Was ist das? 2.1 Zielsysteme: Von der Schwierigkeit, Erfolg zu haben 2.2 Erfolgsfaktoren: Innovationen im Gestaltungsfeld Arbeitssystem 3 Erfolgsfaktoren im Spiegel der Managementliteratur 3.1 Organisatorische Idealtypen 3.2 Beschreibung und Bewertung der Erfolgsfaktoren 4 Arbeits- und Organisationsgestaltung in jungen Unternehmen 4.1 Die Verheißungen der New Economy 4.2 Befunde 4.3 Die Lehren der New Economy 5 Erfolgsfaktoren in der betrieblichen Praxis 5.1 Arbeitsaufgaben und Arbeitsabläufe 5.2 Informationsflüsse 5.3 Arbeitsumgebung 5.4 Qualität der Produkte und Prozesse 5.5 Personalrekrutierung und Personalentwicklung 5.6 Arbeitszeitgestaltung 5.7 Strategisches Human Resource Management 5.8 Unternehmenskultur 5.9 Betriebliche Mitbestimmung 5.10 Partizipation und Einbeziehung der Mitarbeiter 5.11 Betriebliche Zusatz- und Sozialleistungen 5.12 Führung 5.13 Innovationen und Projekte 5.14 Gestaltungsstrukturen und -prozesse 5.15 Durchgängigkeit der Gestaltungsfaktoren 6 Die wichtigsten Erfolgsfaktoren im Betrieb 6.1 Führung ist der zentrale Erfolgsfaktor 6.2 Kontinuierlicher Verbesserungsprozess bringt nachhaltigen Erfolg 6.3 Eine innovationsförderliche Unternehmenskultur ist die Basis für den Unternehmenserfolg 6.4 Ganzheitlicher Aufgabenzuschnitt ist erfolgreich 6.5 Mitbestimmung und Mitarbeiterbeteiligung sind wichtige Erfolgsfaktoren 6.6 Methoden und Konzepte des Veränderungsmanagements 7 Gestaltungsfaktoren mit bisher nachrangiger Bedeutung 7.1 Arbeitszeitgestaltung: künftig weitere Veränderungen im Angestelltenbereich 7.2 Qualität der Arbeitsumgebung: Nur ein "Hygienefaktor"? 7.3 TQM/EFQM: Erfolgsfaktor noch nicht erkannt 7.4 Betriebliche soziale Fördersysteme: Sehr langsamer Erkenntnisprozess 8 Künftige Herausforderungen 8.1 Gelebtes Unternehmen: TQM - EFQM - Mikropolitik 8.2 Techniker und Gewerbliche nicht links liegen lassen 8.3 Die "Selbst-"Gesellschaft: Human Resource Sustainability 8.4 Arbeitsgestaltung im demographischen Wandel: Förderung von älteren Mitarbeitern und Gleichstellung von Frauen 9 Voraussetzungen und Methoden 9.1 Fragestellungen und Organisation des Forschungsprojekts 9.2 Planung und Ablauf des Vorhabens Literaturverzeichnis Stichwortverzeichnis Anmerkungen Die Managementliteratur produziert am laufenden Band Konzepte zur Steigerung d ...

The United States established itself as a cohesive and internally policed nation-state through a process of exclusion through border making and racialized violence. Above all, the construction and regimentation of the state involved practices that sought to naturalize the borders of the United States in order to endow its barriers with an immutable solidity. This solidity was ratified through physical demarcation, legislation and violence directed at those deemed "other," both human and non-human. By relying on a constructed archive that documents the federally organized Gray Wolf eradication programs in the borderlands of Arizona and new Mexico from 1880 until 1930, I demonstrate how the delineation of the United States/Mexico border was both preceded and continues to be perpetually defined by policies that enact precisely these kinds of exclusionary measures. I will show how this federally mandated dominance over the lives and the habitats of non-human animals was utilized by analogous procedures to surveil and police the border in their effort to bolster and sustain the United States as a settler-colonial state. By revealing otherwise concealed historical insights, I hope to undermine the prevailing conceptions of national boundaries by denaturalizing the illusion of fixed, constant, and enduring lines of demarcation and consequently offer opportunities to envision a world without such divisive separations. Such a vision would allow for the recognition of borders not as sites of inclusion, but as spaces built on methodical exclusion of both human and non-human beings.

'Development and Human Rights' presents a full-length study examining the promotion of human rights through development assistance in a single country. It shows how rights promotion changes UN development assistance, and the political implications of these changes. It focuses on UNICEF, the World Bank, the UN Development Programme, and other agencies

A review essay on books by (1) Rosemary Foot, Rights beyond Borders: The Global Community and the Struggle over Human Rights in China (Oxford: Oxford U Press, 2000); (2) Michael J. Perry, The Idea of Human Rights: Four Inquiries (New York: Oxford U Press, 1998); (3) Advisory Council International Affairs, Humanitarian Intervention (The Hague, Netherlands: 2000); (4) Danish Instit International Affairs, Humanitarian Intervention: Legal and Political Aspects (Copenhagen: 1999); (5) Independent International Commission on Kosovo, The Kosovo Report (2000); & (6) Albrecht Schnabel & Ramesh Thakur (Eds), Kosovo and the Challenge of Humanitarian Intervention: Selective Indignation, Collective Action and International Citizenship (Tokyo: United Nations U Press, 2000). In a critique of the contents of these five texts, the ideals, rationalizations, & players involved in international intervention are examined. MaKinda claims a dearth of attention to NGOs' influence on policy. There is an attempt to fill that void & to note coverage included in Kosovo and the Challenge of Humanitarian Intervention. The emergence of new forms of sovereignty in the post-Cold War years is discussed. Thomas G. Weiss's argument about humanitarian values is contrasted with the views of Michael J. Perry & Michael Ignatieff. There is exploration of terms & meaning around "human rights," with a focus on the use of "strangers" to characterize aid recipients. Values & limitations found in these texts are summarized. M. C. Leary