The Ismail Qemali University of Vlorë (Albanian: Universiteti "Ismail Qemali" i Vlorës) is a public university located in Vlorë, Albania. It was founded in 1994 as Vlorë University of Technology Ismail Qemali. As of 2014, it offers degrees in economics, public health, and humanities, in addition to engineering and technology..
Background Despite effective prevention and control strategies, in countries of the Balkan region, cancers are the second leading cause of mortality, closely following circulatory system diseases.Objective To describe trends in the burden of breast, cervical, and colon and rectum cancer in the Balkan region and per country between 1990 and 2019, including a forecast to 2030.Methods We described the 2019 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) estimates for breast, cervical, and colon and rectum cancers in eleven Balkan countries over the period 1990-2019, including incidence, years lived with disability (YLD), years of life lost (YLL), and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) rates per 100,000 population and accompanied 95% uncertainty interval. With the Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average, we forecasted these rates per country up to 2030.Results In the Balkan region, the highest incidence and DALYs rates in the study period were for colon and rectum, and breast cancers. Over the study period, the DALYs rates for breast cancer per 100,000 population were the highest in Serbia (reaching 670.84 in 2019) but the lowest in Albania (reaching 271.24 in 2019). In 2019, the highest incidence of breast cancer (85 /100,000) and highest YLD rate (64 /100,000) were observed in Greece. Romania had the highest incidence rates, YLD rates, DALY rates, and YLL rates of cervical cancer, with respective 20.59%, 23.39% 4.00%, and 3.47% increases for the 1990/2019 period, and the highest forecasted burden for cervical cancer in 2030. The highest incidence rates, YLD rates and DALY rates of colon and rectum cancers were continuously recorded in Croatia (an increase of 130.75%, 48.23%, and 63.28%, respectively), while the highest YLL rates were in Bulgaria (an increase of 63.85%). The YLL rates due to colon and rectum cancers are forecasted to progress by 2030 in all Balkan countries.Conclusion As most of the DALYs burden for breast, cervical, and colon and rectum cancer is due to premature mortality, the numerous country-specific barriers to cancer early detection and quality and care continuum should be a public priority of multi-stakeholder collaboration in the Balkan region.
Because of information, the media performs another function: raising public awareness on environmental problems. The more aware the public is about environmental issues, the stronger the debate will be, and a solution will be found as a result. Due to a stronger and defined agenda, the print press continues to play a role in community awareness, but new media, the web and social media strongly influence the younger generation. You can go back to a newspaper and read it, while information on television or social networks is short and for a limited time. However, both classical and Internet media play an essential role in raising public awareness. The more knowledge the public has about the environment, the more it demands the design and implementation of policies for the protection of the environment and nature.
Word formation in Albanian studies represents many problems that have been identified not only in university level but even in the pre-university one. This paper intends to examine the concept of the head as part of the word formation process, as this is a term, which is not encountered in the Albanian traditional studies. It will be introduced in this study from the perspective of the generative grammar theory. The aim of this paper is to discuss and argue about the similarity of the process and of the terminology when used at the syntactic and morphological level. Furthermore, there will be introduced some criteria based on which the head is defined at each level, and by providing arguments that some of these criteria are not applied at both levels. Then, it will be examined how the term head is applied at the morphological level, by describing its features when it is a derivational morpheme, or when it is the root/base form. Finally, two ways of approaching word-formation will be presented: one of them is based on the morpheme and it includes the concept of the head (morpheme-based morphology), and the other is based on the word (word-based morphology), where the concept of the head has not been excluded, while word-formation rules are being drafted. The approach of the study will be from an analytical and comparative perspective. Received: 22 August 2023 / Accepted: 27 September 2023 / Published: 5 November 2023
In this chapter, we will present the constructionist perspective of social problems, on the sociological aspect, as a framework for analyzing and understanding the role of media and communication with regard to environmental issues. An analysis is made of the complaint-making process used by complaints-makers or claimants, by analyzing them at the moment the complaint was published, processing and putting into contest the environmental issues. The discussion on the construct of social problems leads into analyzing rhetoric idioms. The styles, motives and descriptions of complainers are taken into consideration along with the public arenas as essential components of the body of a debate. Social problems go through a series of phases in "issue-attention" cycles. The different viewpoints on an issue help with the analysis and understanding the roles of media in building environmental debates.
These documents relate to the stakeholder consultation performed within the ENABLE COST action (European Network to Advance Best practices & technoLogy on medication adherencE, CA 19132) regarding a new terminology of medication adherence enabling and supporting activities. They include the data and quantitative analysis of the eDelphi survey performed in Malaga, Spain in May 2022, as part of this consultation.
