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Our paper tackles the long-discussed processes of internationalization and globalization that is taking place in the sphere of higher education. The purpose of the research is to determine the underlying factors in studentsВ’ choice of a university and a country of study. We carry out comprehensive evaluation of attractiveness of high education in the world according to the student mobility criteria. A research of English-language programs offering by the Russian top universities included in the QS World Universit...

The paper is devoted to the issues of lawyersВ’ communicative competence and intercultural interaction which are given the priority in international professional activities of lawyers. The authorВ’s experience of teaching English to Bachelors and Masters studying at the Institute of Law, PeoplesВ’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) is analyzed. The process of studying the interlocutors, involved into professional communication in tactical and strategic aspects, should precede professional contacts; ...

Life satisfaction and related work-life balance is often discussed in connection with working professionals, but it concerns everybody, including students. We attempted to identify what the key factors that influence life satisfaction in university students are and how these may influence their work-life balance. The case study included four selected sets of respondents from among university students of all ages, both in full and part-time study programmes of School of Business Administration in Karvina, Silesian ...

Providing opportunities of lifelong learning is the actual problem of modern system of training in the field of education. The last research to achieve the lifelong learning allowed to set that it is not only the articulation between all the existing institutions with administrative measures which could include high school and training system. The matter of this appearance is providing for individ the problem area for a continuous process of self-realization and creative self-development. In our research work the ...

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...

Health concepts are dealt with by a multitude of professionals: presenting, analyzing, systematizing, debating, adding new and meaningful elements and then re-analyzing, debating and systematizing them [9]. There are few basic concepts like health that most people define as very simple, but experts beliefs this issue are very complex and multi-dimensional. The European Union's White Paper sets out important strategies for school health promotion, which provides as a guideline for Member States. In addition to the ...

The risk of having a musculoskeletal injury or work-related disorder may be high in dental practice. Sit-down dentistry is not without potential harm to the dentist or if equipment or other constraints create postural problems. Surveys of musculoskeletal disorders of dentists are few, and lower limbs pathology is sometimes neglected. {{The aim}} of this paper is to investigate occupational health problems involving lower limbs in Romanian dentists who work in Constanta city. {{Method}}. A pre-tested, self-administ...

This work is dedicated to the formation of the management strategy of human resources of Government autonomic health institution "Children's Republican Clinical Hospital of Ministry of Health of the Republic of Tatarstan" on the basis of the implementation of the principles of process management using strategic management tools. The relevance of the study is the transition to a new stage of development of the institution in connection with the completion of the implementation of the regional program of modernizati...

The current educational system and market economy orientation, in the context of the European UnionВ’s educational policy, create an interconnected and complex relation. Therefore, the integral topic of the European educational system is to flexibly react to socio-political changes and increase a nationВ’s productivity. Thus, pressures from the economy significantly influence not only educational policy, but also pedagogical theory and practice. Schools and universities increasingly adopt the new public management...

The paper focuses on some medical and sociological problems of Inborn Gender Identity Disorder Syndrome (IGIDS), the so-called transsexualism. It reflects on an in-depth reading of publications exploring the question of transsexualism, as well as the experiences resulting from medical care of such individuals. In short, the analysis bases on both medical experience in diagnostics and treatment of people with this syndrome, as well as several publications in the field of social sciences. The aim of the paper is an ...

The paper deals with metacognition and metacognitive skills in university teacher students. The main goal is to identify the key didactic competences of students which lead to the development of their critical thinking. The level of pre-graduate students’ critical thinking is a determining factor for developing of this thinking in pupils at elementary and secondary schools (ISCED 2 and 3), for which teacher students are prepared. Metacognition can be defined in various ways. Almost all definitions take in consid...

The objective of this study is to identify the methodological features of the use of DGS in teaching students geometry. In this article, the technical possibilities of modern DGS such as Geometer's Sketchpad, GeoGebra and Mathematical designer were reviewed and compiled. Based on the analysis of the technical capabilities of DGS and pedagogical literature, the methodological features of the use of IHS and the ways of their effective application in the process of teaching the geometry of students in the main school...

Many women who give birth vaginally experience some degree of perineal trauma either because of spontaneous tearing or episiotomy. The routine midwivesВ’ care for women with perineal trauma after childbirth is very important. Interventions of midwifery are oriented to promote healing and restore tissue. The aim of this paper was to identify, analyse and evaluate the midwivesВ’ care for women with perineal trauma after childbirth at postpartum ward in the first days of puerperium. Research sample was consisted of 5...

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 article discusses the relevance of key competencies in the education system, once analyzed various approaches to the definition of key competences, existing in domestic and foreign science. The article focuses on the fact that one of the priority strategic educational benchmarks are the key competencies that serve as a possible mechanism for enhancing the potential of human capital and the level of development of the economic welfare of the country. The classification of the components of the competencies that...

Environmental problems related to the pollution and protection of the natural resources; deterioration of the air quality; pollution of water and soil; hygiene and influence of chemical substances on living organisms; waste and the proper usage and disposal of the waste; resources of energy by their rational utilization; material cycles and energy in the nature are not unknown issues. All these concerns are taken into account within science lessons such as chemistry, geography, ecology, biology and physics at prim...

One of the main vectors of the educational development in the digital age is to improve the quality of education and to increase the effectiveness of educational process by using new educational technologies and advanced teaching methods. A key role in this process remains for the teacher, who must master both in innovative pedagogical technologies (blended learning, collaborations, personalized training, etc.) and information technologies (MOOC platforms, learning management systems (LMS), systems for web confere...

Background: Some recent studies showed a growing interest regarding the motivation influencing the career choice in medical field, because right choice can directly influence the academic performance and the career evolution. These studies suggest that the career choice of dental and medical students may be very different. The aim of this study was to provide a comparison of motivation regarding career choice of dental and medical students studying in the same university. Methods The questionnaire for this study w...

The increasingly noticeable Polish population ageing is attracting more and more interest in the problems of ageing. Successful ageing means reaching an old age with insignificant risk of disabilities and illnesses, with high intellectual and physical fitness and maintaining high level of activity. Meeting the needs is the most basic human act that is regarded as extending the humanity. On the one hand, it is expressed by solidarity and commitment to support other members of society and overcoming difficult situat...

Background: For the modern Russian society is characterized as a violation of institutional links between higher education, business, and academic science. This is due to a number of reasons. First of all, the tradition of managing these areas under a centralized state regulation and radical reform of higher education, which is associated with deep restructuring of the entire it system. The One of the priority ways of development of higher education is the expansion of its network of relationships with stakeholder...

The purpose of this study is to examine (on the basis of the analysis of regulatory support) and identify the models for implementation of educational programs, based on networked learning practices, in institutions of higher education. The study is based on a benchmark method that allowed to compare and analyze national (Russian) and foreign networked training and learning practices, as well as statutes, standards and other legal documents, related to regulation of the implementation process of networked learning...

The present paper presents new approaches in orthopaedic and rehabilitation training within the framework of COR-skills project. COR-skills is an ERASMUS+ funded project that started in december 2015 and will finish in december 2017, based on collaboration between hospitals and Higher Education Institutes from different European countries. The project aimes to develop, test and adapt a continous vocational educational medical programme, developed on an exhaustive needs analysis and focusing on a “real-life” tr...

In modern Russian conditions, the system of social services is being upgraded. These processes are regulated by the new Federal Law "On the foundations of social services to citizens in the Russian Federation", which entered into force on 1 January 2015. According to this law, any legal entities and individual entrepreneurs might be social service providers. And clients are entitled to choose the supplier of services and to participate in the drafting of individual programs. In this situation, the social service a...

Grammar is viewed as an essential element for communication because it shows how language is used. The process of grammar teaching is more successful when it deals with grammatical points that can be used for communication. The communicative view of language extended the structural view of language adding situational and functional aspects. When teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) the four language skills - listening, reading, speaking, and writing, are usually stressed equally while in English for Specifi...

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is an intermediate state between normal ageing and dementia. This means that subjects with MCI may get worse with the passage of time, and possibly progress to dementia. However, there are also individuals with sustained MCI whose cognitive impairment remains constant for many years, and even such who get better over time. The distinction of persons with different prognoses of MCI is a difficult task. As we do not know who is at risk, non-pharmacological interventions should be inco...

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 ai...

The article discusses the problem of choosing the system and general applied software for the support of distance learning by the teacher and the principles of the choice between proprietary and free software for its subsequent use in the educational process. Remote forms of instruction are formulated and appropriate recommendations are given. Distance learning more and more covers today not only extended education, but also main education itself, in particular, systematically they are applied in a case of the pos...

The aim of this study was to identify if there is a possible correlation between the salivary secretory Immunoglobulin A (IgAs), 8- hidroxydeoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) and the clinical status in aggressive periodontitis (AgP). This disease has a high incidence around the globe of between 15-20% according to WHO. It is generated by the periodontopathogenic bacteria that lead to an imbalance in the production of oxygen reactive species resulting cell destruction and teeth loss in young adults. Due to evolution of technol...

The problem of organization of personally-oriented independent work with the minimal direct impact on students by teachers is currently among the most topical problems of pedagogy and the methodology of teaching foreign languages. In the conditions of transition to a credit-modular system of teaching, independent work becomes the main source of knowledge acquisition and the formation of various methods of studentsВ’ activities. Today the Russian higher school formes the preconditions for a paradigm shift in educat...

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...

In the context of the gloablizing world and the developing Russian society with its ethnopolitical and ethnocultural specifics arises the necessity of organzing intercultural dialogue both internally and externally. History education is essential for achieving this goal. Before reaching its modern state, history education in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) passed through several stages which are outlined in this article. The most important changes took place in the 1990s. That stage saw the emergence of new types ...

Mastering a foreign language today is of vital importance to specialists as it has become the terms of successful international cooperation. Although there are lots of foreign language teaching methods, graduates experience great difficulties in producing even a low level speech. Therefore, the key aim of the article is to deal with the problem of overcoming the language barrier for vocationally oriented foreign language teaching due to appropriate teaching terms, ways and techniques. The research is based on the ...

The aim of our research is to create an adequate preoperative education in order to reduce anxiety of patients, therefor it is necessary to understand their emotional experiences, cognitive processes and behavioral aspects as well. This article presents the development of a measure of pain in patients in whom vascular procedures using prosthetic grafts are indicated. The test battery is based on the Dynamic Model of Psychological Processes in Chronic Pain primarily used in clinical practice. Dynamic Model includes...

Background. Immune causes of miscarriages are not well known. Toll-like receptors (TLR) are receptors of innate immunity, situated on innate immunity cells, including epithelial cells, and capable to recognize structures of pathogens (bacteria, viruses, fungi and protozoa) and activate immune response. Toll-like receptors, recognizing bacterial structures, are membrane receptors, which through MyD88-dependent pathway activate synthesis of proinflammatory cytokines. TLR1, TLR2 and TLR6 recognize lipopeptides of Gra...

This article discusses the formation of Russian young generation personal and civil identity problems. The basis of identity includes the common culture with the common values, history, myths, and life standards. Obviously, the most important mentality forming function, in the conditions of radical social changes, is performed by the education method based on the activity approach and studentsВ’ involvement into the real socially-reformative activity. The article analyzes the sociological poll results of 300 stude...

The purpose of the paper is to explore the impact of childrenВ’s congenital maxillofacial pathology on the social development of young patients. We applied many survey techniques to measure attitudes. We conducted a 2-stages study among adolescents with congenital maxillofacial pathology at the medical and social rehabilitation center. Important advantage is that we also included in the random sample former adult patients of the center and the parents of the children. At the first stage, for the attitude questions...

One of the main types of tourism is recreational tourism, aimed at providing the rest necessary for the restoration of the physical and mental strength of human beings. In addition, ecological tourism has recently become very popular, due to travel to places with relatively untouched nature, which does not violate the integrity of ecosystems and creates favorable economic conditions for the protection of natural resources by the local population. A special kind of tourist activity, combining the tasks of both the ...

In modern society, which is developing rapidly, any teacher should try to find a successful solution of his or her goals of activity, to maintain composure and to stay as a role example of tactful and calm behavior for his or her students, no matter what stressfull factors influence him or her. However, numerous research shows the fact of emotional tension in teachers, caused by endless situations of decision-making in curriculum, evaluation, and communications wits pupils, their parents, colleagues, etcВ… The syn...

Binding the outgrowing of educational content, often observed just as a group of rules throughout history, with ethical ideas of good and philanthropy that have the power to change the image of the world, this paper aims to demonstrate the factors and social conditions in which processes that have contributed to the science of nurturing, namely pedagogy, take place, as an independent and autonomous scientific discipline in today's Croatian territory. Over the course of history, the pedagogy systematized from the p...

Introduction: Assessing various physiological parameters at the second ventilatory threshold (ATV2) is one of the ways of determining a person's cardiovascular fitness. The intensity of exercise that accompanies the reaching of ATV2 is sufficient to act as a training stimulus. The purpose of this paper is to assess whether a period of one yearВ’s sport specific training produced any metabolic, circulatory, and respiratory changes in athletics runners (AR) and race walkers (RW) when tested at a level of physical ex...

The paper aims to present and discuss the results of a research study conducted to investigate the role of the narrative photovoice in stimulating metacognitive talk and reflection. A longitudinal design was preferred to conduct the study. A number of 35 subjects were selected to participate in the study, but 11 of them left earlier the project. In the first phase, all the subjects completed the COMEGAN-ro questionnaire to assess the initial level of metacognition. In the second phase of the research, the particip...

The approach is considered, which allows the decision maker to determine not only the need for the announcement of admission to a current master educational program, but also the number of students enrolled in master educational programs. For decision-making on the announcement of foster campaign authors offer to use a majority block on the basis of the recommendations obtained by the classical methods of cluster analysis, Kohonen neural network (which make it possible to divide educational programs into clusters,...

Media play an important role in shaping public opinion about social problems and issues related to social work. There is a strong believe among social workers in Slovakia that media has been reporting negative picture of social work profession. The paper explores how the social work profession is portrayed in print media in Slovakia. The author analyzed the 5 most popular newspapers. Articles from year 2016 containing key words „social work“ and/or „social worker“ were analyzed (N=105). Content analysis was ...

Studying of the motivational mechanisms determining our activity is actualised again in line with those problems which exist in modern society on the way of realization of civil ideals. Reasoning about positive motivation under the conditions of society modernization, we can speak about the necessity of striving for motivational balance, which is reflected in the balanced external and internal conditions for the development of harmonious personality. Balanced conditions do not mean quiet conditions without movemen...

Background: Nowadays young people have to take longer way to adulthood. They try to get a degree, a good job and get married. They can reach the traditional adult roles minimum 5 years later than 30 years ago. This new term is called “emerging adulthood” which is between the adolescence and young adulthood. Emerging adulthood is characterized by freedom, unsettled life, freedom to discoveries and from consequences, low level of risk perception and risky health behaviour. Therefore, health promotion has to work...

Our undergoing research is focused on the field of study Teaching for Primary Schools – Level 1 at the Faculty of Education of the University of Ostrava. The aim of the research is a qualitative and quantitative change in the concept of the professional undergraduate preparation of the mathematics teaching. In this paper, the part of the research of expectations of the undergraduate students from the practical aspects of a preparation in a mathematics teaching for the first level of primary schools is presented....

The paper is devoted to insufficient pre-university IT teaching that is considered a problem in Russian education. The paper examines some issues in school computer science course in the context of informatization of society and new requirements for the orientation in the information space. The authors have been conducting a survey and entry testing of students for several years. First-year students of the Institute of Management, Economics and Finance KFU participated in the study. The article presents the result...

The main goal of this research was to analyze the difference in general ideological orientations between the free citizens and those that are currently incarcerated, as well as to identify the principal predictors of their ideological position among the examined socio-demographic variables. The initial hypothesis of the research was that the convicted citizens are a distinctive group, not only by their socio-demographic profile, but their social, political, moral and religious view of the world. The study included...

Healthcare research pursues, most of the time, to find natural sources of bioactive compounds for treatment of various diseases. A source of natural compounds with therapeutically effect is represented by plants that have been used, for thousands years, in traditional medicine. Usnea barbata L. is a lichen – a symbiotic organism with a special structure: fungus and alga. In this case, the resulted thallus, is very different in structure, properties and natural compounds, to the two plants taken separately. These...

Within the project VEGA 1/0223/16 Classroom Management at Primary Schools, the research team, in the first stage, was studying teachersВ’ opinions on unwanted pupil behaviour. Following the partial project results, the second stage of the project was focused on the selection of an optimal model of classroom management. Looking for, finding and using the suitable programmes of preventive and intervention measures can help many teachers to manage the classroom more effectively and thus improve the classroom climate....