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The objective of the paper is to present an overview of the findings about the attitudes to (and perceptions of) sexuality in adults with intellectual disability (ID). The overview was produced by means of an analysis, comparison, discussion and synthesis of relevant scientific findings in accordance with the defined criteria. The search procedure was performed in line with the specifics of the research strategy using keywords; the search focused fulltexts of scientific papers published between 2000 and 2017 (prim...

The article studies concepts of “company competitiveness”, “strategic sustainability of a company”, and analyses their interrelation. Relevant issues of supporting competitiveness of printing companies have been found out by signs of micro-, meso-, and macro level. Basic ways of coping with the found out problems are defined. It has been established that under conditions of competition growth at the printed product market maximization of strategic sustainability of the company is becoming a critical factor of its ...

As a result of intense, rapid development of civilization that took place in the previous century, facades of the architectural objects has gone through huge evolution. In historical times, the outer walls of the buildings were designed in such way to ensure the safety of users in the first place. The aesthetic value was the result of the applied material. Nowadays, in most cases we are dealing with multi-layer exterior walls. The reason is the increasing number of functions, they have to perform. With the develop...

The article presents the results of an insufficiently discussed issue in the Bulgarian literature about the professional burnout of social workers in the service "Protected Housing". In the real practice, the social worker is a typical social mediator between the vulnerable groups of people and regulating social institutions, civil communities and generally accepted moral norms. At the same time, he is assigned to perform his tasks in a social environment in which social relations are regulated by different legal ...

Today we see the emergence of new forms of political self-organization of the society (active development of interregional relations within international organizations as well as new forms of autonomy of different territories. According to authors, one of the most effective methods of their investigation is interdisciplinary activity-geospatial approach as a method of learning the spatial forms of self-organization of a society, especially of it’s geopolitical self-organization. Disclosure of the theoretical conte...

The author of the article suggests an analysis of the names of a person in modern Russian from the point of view of words’ structural and semantic features and she made an attempt to separate neostructured words in accordance with their derivational-semantic models, according to which semantic derivation took place. In each model subgroups of nouns (united by the word-formation potential and similar semes) are observed. All neostructured words are examined from the point of view of the basic processes of semantic ...

In the article the author analyses an open issue of calculating proxy votes in the takeover threshold according to Croatian Law. Since the Takeover Bids Directive does not specify the percentage of voting rights, which triggers the obligation to launch the takeover bid, nor the method for calculating the threshold, Member States are left to decide on these issues. The Croatian legislator has adopted the provisions on calculating the number and percentage of voting rights in Article 8 of the Croatian Takeover Act. ...

The principle of separation of powers, explained more simply, means that the three basic functions (activities) of the state need to have different bodies: the one who approves the law should not judge and govern, and vice versa, thus, the one who judges must not approve the law or the one ruling should not judge. Each function must have its own particular organs, they must not all join in the hands of a man or a body. Among the fundamental values of the constitutional order of the Republic of Macedonia exhibited ...

The purpose of this paper is to identify consumers' preferences for Geographical Indication wines from the Mini? M?derat vineyard, wines that are traditionally in the area and at the same time are also km 0, favoring a sustainable development of the area. Two wine centers, Mini? and M?derat, although they are close, shows important differences. Mini? climatic conditions and soil conditions favor the production of quality red wines, and at M?derat, located further north, the climate is less generous and soils more ...

The Second Vatican Council was followed with concern and with interest in communist countries, especially by those responsible for managing the relationship between State and Church. The works of the Council, its decisions and documents and then the implementation of those documents had the potential to affect and destabilize the religious policies of this regimes declared atheist. The communist regime in Bucharest was no exception and tried that the "aggiornamento" targeted by the Catholic Church would not spread...

The proposed paper introduces the research focused on the implementation of mobile technologies into Physical Education lessons. Mobile technologies can shorten the users´ time spent in physical (particularly motoric) activities. Our intention was to exploit the attractiveness of mobile devices and implement them in common lessons of Physical Education at the lower secondary school, and thus use their potential to support motoric activities. The paper is a follow-up to the pilot research conducted in 2016. It aims...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present some alternatives/ solutions for the organizations from Romania affected by migration phenomena and also EU impact, from organization point of view. Based on data collected in a research, which can be extended correlated with EU statistics for the current situation in Romania and Europe the same, this paper will present the case of Romanians which intend to emigrate abroad temporary for Students Programs: Internships/ Practice in abroad organizations and can be a sta...

Security is one of the basic human needs. Without the formation of a secure social and economic system, a person cannot fully realize his need for security. We considered various definitions of security. Our objective was to examine a system of concepts that are close to the notion of security – danger, risk, threat, stability, vulnerability, reliability, harm, damage, loss, sustainable development. Firstly, the interaction of these concepts was presented graphically. Secondly, the authors have proposed a new conc...

Hard coal in Poland is a fuel used mainly for the production of electricity. For this reason coal is essential to ensure the country's energy and social security. Currently there are 80 000 workers employed in the Polish mines (as of 31.12.2016) who maintain their families, drive the economy and pay taxes. The annual cost incurred by the state in connection with the functioning of only one unemployed person is approx. 2100 EURO taking into account only the health insurance costs, opportunity costs [1]. Mining is t...

The purpose of this article is to attempt of the authors which is based on an analysis of current theoretical approaches to develop a model for the professional identity of civil servants, which will contribute to the systemic and structural solvation of the problems of the public administration system. In the methodological plan, numerous studies do not give an unambiguous definition of the concept of professional identity, nor a single understanding of its essence. Special attention is paid to the acmeological a...

Relevance of the research problem is caused by a number of factors, most important of which - the increasing importance of intangible factors of economic growth associated with the development of human potential. The most significant of these problems is the ability to innovate, and the perception of the latest technological advances, which are based on the human, intellectual and social capital. This fact sets the economic imperatives of business socialization. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the best pra...

Social media have become one of the most influential communication phenomena of the 21st century. It is therefore no surprise that publishing journalistic content via social networks is quickly overcoming the rather “articificially” created distinctions between professional journalists, civic activists and “regular” members of the media audiences. As the institutionalized press is now just one of the many existing ways of reaching the general public, journalism theorists as well as professional journalists have to...

The article discusses the transformation of the concepts of sacredness in the context of the changing linguistic situation in Germany, due to specific historical conditions and the specificity of the German form of Protestantism. The formulation of commonlinguistic norm, prepared by the writings of Luther, accompanied the emergence of the German version of Christianity and caused the especial importance of national content. Exploring the series of events with the greatest impact on the development of axiological s...

The goal of the study consisted in describing the working conditions of the target group of Ukrainians living in the Czech Republic and in finding connections to their health condition. The questionnaire investigation was carried out with 237 Ukrainians in 2013–2014. The results show that the target group of migrants is exposed to adverse working conditions. Methods: The study implemented a questionnaire investigation (201 questions) in form of controlled selection. The collected data were statistically processed ...

This article is devoted to the description of the gender representation of the lexeme muzhik in Internet-discourse. Currently, the study of the specific of online communication and of the functioning of language as a means of electronic communication are refers to the most relevant and current areas of linguistics. Scientific novelty of work is defined by the choice of material and a source of a research – the new technique of identification of a gender component of the men's and woman's speech by comparison of me...

The family has a key role in a child's development. Numerous studies have shown the negative impact of domestic violence and parental conflict on the child's functioning and adaptation and these negative impacts also have long-lasting consequences on adolescent self-efficacy. The research goal was to examine the influence of students’ perception of parental conflict on their social, emotional and academic self-efficacy. 448 secondary school adolescents participated in the study, 62% were boys and 38% were girls (t...

The paper presents the results of a quantitative research, based on a questionnaire, study of the opinion of the hospitality industry organizations in Romania regarding the necessity to develop a food safety management system (SMSA), designed according to the requirements of the international ISO standards, and the continuation of the investments for the implementation and its certification. After a decade of applicability of the ISO 22000: 2005 standard, there was a remarkable success in Romania regarding the evo...

Investigation of dynamics of language in use, representing an important tendency that contributes to forming of modern predominant approach in linguistic science, meets the cherished objective of solving a wide range of issues arising from the functioning of language, which can be efficiently viewed in the context of cognitive approach. In the theoretical framework of the cognitive paradigm of linguistic researches the cognitive approach in translation, as we opine, is to be profiled through the prism of intertext...

Positivism has been the dominant paradigm across the social sciences. Its quasi-monopoly has been broken only in the last several decades when with the publication of Thomas Kuhn’s grounbreaking study The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), other meta-theoretical stances have managed to assert themselves. From the 1980s onwards, the field of International Relations (IR) has witnessed the emergence of a reflectivist current characterized by the embrace of post-positivism. Reflectivist theories – from postst...

The article is devoted to the problem of prosodic interference in the situation of artificial (classroom) multilingualism which is characterized by interaction of three languages with different prosodic systems. The article reveals how intonational transfer of English special question manifests itself in the speech of students, the bilinguals of the Yakut and Russian languages, who learn English as a foreign language. The results of comparative analysis of English special question, produced by the Yakut-Russian bi...

In order to develop the model of analysis there is a need for definitions of a variety of approaches and policies with regard to conflict sensitivity and social inclusion. One of the precondition of building multiethnic society is to design public policies that are conflict sensitive and socially inclusive for all the segments of the society. This analysis will focus on policy making process in terms of ethnic inclusiveness and sensitiveness. For the purpose of this report at this stage, we will present the follow...

Background. Recent psychological research focuses on different factors influencing concern and satisfaction with appearance (Harris et al, 2014; Moss et al, 2012, 2014; Mulgrew & Cragg, 2015; Nergiz-Unalet et al, 2014; Pliner et al, 1990; Stock, 2014). Especially, satisfaction and concern with physical appearance, body form, and body parts has been investigated till now. At the same time due to operationalization of appearance through physical characteristics the impact of evaluation of various appearance componen...

In this paper, we consider the cult of horse in religious beliefs of the Yakut people, its role in the myth and epic traditions and its place in the ritual culture. We’ve attempted to make a cultural analysis of an image Horse and horse cult in traditional ritual culture of Yakut people from symbolic, semiotic and sacral point of view, i.e. horse is worshipping and honorable animal, that has sacral nature. In former times, every family keep a horse. Its’ pattern as symbol of traditional culture exists almost in al...

Paper will shortly define the notion of minority, identify the basic issues of a sense of identity, and clarify the role of language in the maintenance of minorities and their identities. We will ask what the role of language in different state formations is and whether identity maintenance plays a role in the maintenance of minority languages and linguistic diversity. The data are provided as results of a questionnaire survey. The target groups of the research were university students as future intellectuals cons...

In the article the authors put a strong emphasis on the whole system of education (higher vocational and additional vocational for adults) for the preparation of competitive specialists-managers of social control in public administration and business administration spheres in modern Russia, taking into account national socio-cultural characteristics, as well as accumulated foreign progressive experience. From this point of view the opportunities of achieving qualitative and effective impact of society and the stat...

Proverbs and sayings, traditions and customs of the country serve as a bright reflection of national identity. They are collected and transmitted from generation to generation in written texts, primarily in works of fiction. In the process of reading and translating texts containing a large amount of linguistic and cultural information, foreign students are faced with the problem of understanding these words. This is due to the fact that they belong to the layer of nonequivalent lexis, which is present in every la...

The submitted paper deals with a specific target group of citizens living below poverty line in South Bohemian Region and it is a part of Project RVO: ZGO2016_001 „Health literacy of selected groups of population of South Bohemian Region“. The project is further focused on several target groups, including children and adolescents, adults, seniors and the Roma. The poverty line for households in the Czech Republic is calculated as the proportion of total net monthly income of the household and the sum of consumptio...

The purpose of the paper is to consider literary translation in reference with the notion of image which has become essential for the philosophy of arts and intercultural artistic communication. Imagery is regarded as one of typological properties of a literary text constituting its essence along with artistic ideas, emotivity and lingual form. The comparative analysis of originals and their translation has allowed us to discover how the source text (ST) imagery may change in the target text (TT) and to distinguis...

The concern for intellectual integrity appears to be a relatively recent phenomenon in the history of the West. Not ranked among the cardinal virtues of Greek and Christian thought, in spite of some noteworthy prefigurations, it is generally regarded as a modern virtue that belongs to Western history after the dominance of Christianity: it reveals a restructured value system that extends beyond Christianity and its Kantian legacies. Generally, intellectual integrity is defined as a consistent, wholehearted and unc...

The paper analyses the reception of the Irish-born British writer Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) in Latvia following the translations of his works into Latvian and the most vivid expressions in Latvian authors’ creative writing. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the poetics of cross-cultural influences in Latvia was very diverse: one of the most striking being the aesthetic vector marked by the crucial influence of Wilde’s personality and his literary heritage. The dialogue held between Latvian national and f...

The paper presents results of studies devoted to assess the role of social capital and its relation to innovations, including social innovations, and development, particularly in rural areas. As an example of an indicator or category of social capital and innovation, the development of cooperatives in rural areas has been evaluated. Moreover, the benefits (i.e. for farmers, consumers and society) of rural, especially agricultural, cooperatives are estimated. Besides, the nature and impact of state support for agri...

Migration is nowadays much discussed topic in Europe. Despite the fact that in the past migration has been associated with development, it is now more associated with uncertainty, fear and resistance of many inhabitants in European developed countries. In different parts of the world, causes of migration are different. However, factors that motivate people to emigrate can be unified into several: political instability, low standard of living, poverty, diseases, armed conflicts, religious contradictions etc. Factor...

This paper is the materialisation of the work of a team who participated in the „Design & Business workshop - innovative Romanian products. Creative Industries, Creative Communities, Creative Cities”, which took place in 2015 in Arad, Romania at Aurel Vlaicu University - Faculty of Design. The team consisting of four students was coordinated by PhD. Prof. Ionescu Claudiu Emil and Ass. Arch. T?m??an Maria. Arad County, Romania is located in the DKMT cross-border area. In spite of this favourable geographical positi...

The purpose of the study is to develop methodological bases for diagnosing promising labor markets to forecast the staffing needs for the high-tech and innovative sectors of the regional economy. The complexity of the task is in the need to identify intellectual and human resources for promising commodity and labor markets, which currently do not have business customers. Existing methods for assessing the staffing needs cannot fully consider the changes in the strategic priorities for the regional development. As ...

Innovation policy is the interface between research and technological development policy and industrial policy and aims at creating a conducive framework for bringing ideas into market. Innovation is an important improvement and development element in all areas of economic and social life, business environment as well as regional processes. The correct risk approach helps eliminate the negative trends in activities carried out by innovation and because of that it may increase the interest of other stakeholders to ...

The protection of life, health and property of individuals is now in the center of public interest. Without distinction, whether private or public sector secures the providing of such protection. Private security services plays an important role in protection of persons and property. The subject of protection is not only persons and property, but also sensitive information, which are relevant for the state interest or business entities. Based on research, private security service are not systematically selecting e...

The present article is primarily devoted to the issue of the idea of culture as a factor that helps to create a symbolic level of specific form of the identity. In the first level, we are dealing with different definitions of the term culture. In the second level, we are talking about mythology as an aspect, which also forms a kind of cultural and political context. In the second level then we are talking about mythology as the aspects which also shapes the social and political identity. Social identity helps shap...

According to the Rssian tradition, an activity is regarded as a purposeful activity which implements the needs of the person. Soviet scientists while exploring the human in all aspects of the life, have come to realize that the activity itself, the conditions for its implementation, implements, etc. have a strong impact on both physical and mental health. The activities of the students as the subjects of the educational process have their own characteristics. On the one hand, in activity the students realize their...

Nowadays youth feel freer and less limited by rules and dogmas. Is family influence on the choice of specialty as strong as before? This paper analyzes the changes in family influence on students’ career choices last five years in Russia (2010/2014). The factor of interest is the correlation between the students’ and graduates’ specialties and what some family members previously studied. Based on the RLMS-HSE data collected in series of nationally representative surveys the panel data discrete choice model is cons...

The purpose of the article is to identify the features and trends of the migratory intentions of modern Russian students, caused by revolutionary changes in the education system. The authors rely on the theory of academic revolution, globalization and transparency of education, global circulation of talents, etc. Methods of research were the analysis of data from sociological research, social and statistical data, and a mass survey of students of several universities in the Urals. As a result of the analysis it wa...

The goal of the article is to examine and classify fundamental and specific factors of Russian spatial development in the context of increasing efficiency of the state spatial policy. The article gives a comparative analysis and a classification of urbanization processes in the Russian resource regions, points out the factors of urbanization, positive and negative effects of this process. The influence of urbanization processes on inter-regional social-economic asymmetry of regions was investigated by the example ...

Gothic fiction of the 18th and the early 19th centuries has caused a significant influence not only on the mass literature but also on the works of many forthcoming generations of writers and poets. These authors created an atmosphere of anxiety, fear and uncertainty in their works by adopting a range of Gothic romance novel creative methods and techniques. The present article attempts to give an overview of the Gothic romance novel tradition in the 19th century American literature. Charles Brockden Brown, one of ...

Currently, under the influence of digital technologies, there is a rapid transformation of economic relations and forms of interaction of economic agents, innovative goods and services form new segments of the world economy related to information and communication technologies. These sectors are gradually becoming the drivers of the economic development of the global economic system, although at present their direct contribution to the economy is rather modest in both developed and developing countries. The proces...

The purpose of the article is to demonstrate the efficiency of the ethnomethodical model of teaching Russian as a foreign language (RFL) on various aspects of language and types of speech activity. The article analyzes various approaches to teaching Russian as a foreign language. An intensive approach based on ethno-oriented methodology seems to be the most promising. Taking into account the results of the analysis, the authors created an ethnomethodical model of intensive teaching of Russian as a foreign language...

Analysis of the main trends of migration flows at the level of the Russian Federation does not give a complete picture of the nature of the monitoring process. The structure of Russia includes 85 regions, which differ significantly from one another depending on the socio-economic situation. In this regard, migration flows are multidirectional. A detailed assessment of population migration requires an assessment of territorial differences. To solve this problem, the cluster analysis method was used. For the formati...