Geoinformatics represented by its most powerful technology -Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has become an important part of many disciplines and cuts across all areas of modern information society. Geoinformation industry has seen in the last few years a huge boom. Development of spatially oriented databases, Web map services, navigation and localization using GNSS have brought leap in the use of GIS technology general public. With the development of GIS is directly related to the need for training in GIS issues in higher education. Education of GIS experts in the field of development services using GIS technology requires the establishment a quality bachelor and engineering study programs. Study program with such orientation was established in 2005 at the Faculty BERG, Technical University of Kosice (Slovakia) titled "Surveying and Geographic Information Systems". Since its establishment the program has been improved several times and his corpus reflects the current needs of the European knowledge-based society. Study program educates mainly GIS professionals with a focus on geodesy and cartography, but graduates are also applicable in other areas of the European labor market too.

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Autogenic training (AT) is a well-established self-induced relaxation technique based on autosuggestion. From the past two decades, an increasing number of AT studies strongly suggests the practical usefulness of psychophysiological relaxation in the area of medicine. Despite this interest, to date, limited critical clinical reflection on the application and effects of AT in mental disorders exists. The present paper reviews psychophysiological, psychopathological, and clinical aspects of AT in persons with mental disorders with emphasis on implications for future research and practice. Based on a formal literature search, 29 reported studies (7 meta-analyses/systematic reviews) were identified that examined the effects and impact of AT on mental disorders. The main psychophysiological effects of AT include autonomic cardiorespiratory changes paralleled by central nervous system activity modifications and psychological outputs. Studies demonstrate consistent efficacy of AT in reducing anxiety and medium range positive effects for mild-to-moderate depression. The impact on bipolar disorders, psychotic disorders, and acute stress disorder remains unexplored. As an add-on intervention psychotherapy technique with beneficial outcome on psychophysiological functioning, AT represents a promising avenue towards expanding research findings of brain–body links beyond the current limits of the prevention and clinical management of number of mental disorders.

Neurosis-personality disorders and eatingdisorders; old age psychiatry GlobalAssessmentof Functioning scale.d) CAGE(Ewing. 1984). e) the alcohol modulefrom a 1981version of SCAN.all with estimated reliability. Results: 160 patients with variety of diagnoses (without schizophrenia and organic conditions) were assessed: 61 with BPD. 39 with other PDs. and 60 withoutPDs. 6-monthprevalence of BPD in a Sofia psychiatric sample is 3.19% for the Clinic. 1.43% for the outpatient service, and 5.17% for the day hospital. The symptoms with highest discriminative value for BPD (i.e. descriptive validity). and the factor structureof the "borderline" syndrome(thus givingevidencefor its constructvalidity) were estimated. Acute psychoses and dysthymia are significantly more frequent in patients with BPD.The absence of any PD predicts moderately higher probability for major depression, and BPD and female sex have positive predict ive power for dysthymia. Conclusions: While evidencefor the syndromevalidity of BPD is good. it is a rarer condition. although not uncommon, in a nonWestem psychiatric sample. where constructs like "cultural anhedonia" may be relevant. Although there is modest predictive powerof axis II diagnoses for some axis I disorders,the diagnoses of "personality"and "illness" are relatively independent.