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Urban areas are among those most endangered with the potential global climate changes. The studies concerning the impact of global changes on local climate of cities are of a high significance for the urban inhabitants' health and wellbeing. This paper is the final report of a project (Urban climate in Central European cities and global climate change) with the aim to raise the public awareness on those issues in five Central European cities: Szeged (Hungary), Brno (Czech Republic), Bratislava (Slovakia), Kraków (Poland) and Vienna (Austria). Within the project, complex data concerning local geomorphological features, land use and long-term climatological data were used to perform the climate modelling analyses using the model MUKLIMO_3 provided by the German Weather Service (DWD).

The impacts of summer heat events on the mortality of the Slovak population, both in total and for selected population sub-groups,

Knowledge on snowfall and precipitation variability is one of the most important information about climate changes. The presented study is based on daily data for precipitation totals and new snow cover depths and monthly air temperature from 29 meteorological stations in Slovakia. The aim is to determine to what extent the change of monthly air temperature mean affects the snowfall in the mountainous area of Slovakia. In order to achieve the aim of the research work, the snow days and precipitation days (SD/PD) ratio is calculated for the months from October to April and the trend is investigated. On the basis of correlation analysis it is determined that the main factor for changes in the SD/PD ratio is the mean monthly air temperature while precipitation plays an important role only for the stations with the altitude above 1300 m. Spatial distribution of the changes in the SD/PD ratio for the winter time (December -January -February) during the period 1981-2011 was investigated by cluster analyses. The results show that the stations are grouped according to their geographical location and relief of the territory.

This paper deals with psychological and diagnostic examination of the personality of employees and candidates for work, an unexplored subject in the ield of labour law and human resource (HR) management in Slovakia. Based on legal analysis of national and international laws and regulations as well as medical knowledge in clinical and occupational psychology, the authors surveyed employers in various industry sectors to test several hypotheses. The results of this study and other empirical data are the foundation for conclusions and the legal basis for drafting a proposal to amend the current legal framework in Slovakia as well as in-house company procedures known as 'best-practices'.