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Authors describe the collaborative learning strategies and basic procedures before and during the realization of the Good Behavior Game program in the second classes of primary school in Slovakia. The article was funded by the project VEGA No. 1/0223/16 The discipline management in the classroom at primary school. 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...

The article discusses the role of art in the city, particularly its transformative role in merging the processes of public participation and the regeneration of public spaces. It discusses the practical aspects of citizen engagement in the artistic projects in public city space. The process of promoting social participation in creating public space and public art, involving a variety of artists and forms of expression leads to experimentation in the public sphere. This experimentation results in an improved qualit...

Job satisfaction (JS) can be more difficult to measure in the health field in view of the complexity of roles, duties and responsibilities. Objectives: To determine the psychometric properties of Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) for the medical field, with different job levels. Materials and Methods: A 20-item five-option Likerttype draft questionnaire on MSQ was distributed for anonymous self-reporting by medical and paramedical staff of two hospitals in the Arad County region of Romania (n=307). The ou...

Social work is a particular type of psycho-prophylactic assistance to persons in a crisis situation or experiencing difficulties in adapting to changed social conditions. In the training of students in social activities it is of particular importance to know all three types of empathy (cognitive, emotional and intellectual) as well as their formation in the process of learning. In this sense, it is extremely important to include trainings for the development of these skills, their practical application on terrain....

The educational demands for accountability as well as transparency, have obliged schools to broaden internal evaluation activities . Since the school evaluators' role is multifaceted, and since the school evaluator is the school principal's subordinate, this paper aims to present the school evaluators' complex position in order to achieve a better understanding of its functioning. Two critical dimensions connected to the above are introduced here: The school evaluators' credibility and the school principal's leade...

Artistic representation of a human figure, as a subject of interests of many researchers, became the subject of investigation regarding both development of children’s drawings as well as studies on intelligence and personality. Researchers often focused on drawings from childhood period, mainly due to diversity of used forms and domination of their subjective nature. Psychologists used various techniques, tools and analysed the subject matter closest to children, including “a human figure”. The aim of the con...

The article contains a sociological analysis of Russian studentsВ’ position in relation to an important problem of science meddling into human reproduction sphere, to new scientific reproduction technologies that are supposed to meet the challenges of new generation reproduction and population control. The research covers the attitude of the young people to traditionally discussed technology of induced termination of pregnancy (abortion). The respondents included representatives of the most reproductively active p...

The article deals with activating methods for geography teaching in out-of-school environment in Slovakia, particularly in the Nitra City. Moreover, it focuses on the popularization of geography among different age categories via the activating methods such as didactic games and experiments. Activating methods lead teaching so that educational goals are achieved mainly on the basis of pupils' own activity with the emphasis being placed on solving problems. Teaching by exploration and discovery by pupils themselves...

The contribution is connected with the previous research realized between the years 2016 and 2017 with the group of seniors who are in danger of cognitive disorders. In this previous research basic communicative categories were set apart in order to establish and develop an interaction with clients. The aim of a following survey was to furher analyse individual manifestations of verbal and non-verbal communication and on the basis of ascertained findings to create functional models that would be helpful to workers...

Background: Sepsis is a severe medical condition associated with multiple organ failure. Acute kidney injury is a severe and frequent complication in patients with sepsis, especially in the elderly, causing prolonged hospitalization and additional costs. Aim of study was to evaluate clinical features, risk factors, evolution and costs of AKI induced by sepsis in elderly .Material and methods: A retrospective study was performed over the past 6 months based on medical records in our Nephrology department and Nephro...

Antimicrobial resistance is a serious threat to global public health and requires action across all government sectors and society. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), an EU agency, monitors 52 communicable diseases, having programmes which cover antimicrobial resistance. The highest rates of non prescription use of antibiotics are in Romania (20%). Objectives: To determine if there is any significant difference between antimicrobial resistance of Gram negative bacteria isolated in hospi...

Considered a common product, cheap food, poor peopleВ’s food and the plant of poor areas, the potato is actually a product that helps improving the daily diet being rich in carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. For Romania, the potato is a strategic food, contributing to the national food safety system. Our country is ranked on the third position in Europe in terms of area cultivated with potatoes (after Poland and Germany). In particular, potato components have been shown to have favorable impacts on several meas...

The aim of the study was to evaluate the relationship between the anxiety score, the quality of life and the functional status of the patients with occupational lung diseases. We have conducted a cross-sectional study on patients with occupational lung disease, referred to the hospital for their annual evaluation. The exclusion criteria were the presence of an acute disease, the presence of the exacerbation of the lung disease and a severe deterioration of the lung function. Beside the regular clinical and functio...

The current system of higher education is undergoing significant changes. The ongoing changes are not only a requirement of the time, but also an opportunity to reach a qualitatively new level of development. Ensuring the continuity and stability of the education system, preventing distortions and imbalances of the current system, requires today administrative methods of influence on homogeneous groups of universities. With the help of the modified correlation coefficient in the article, an attempt is made to make...

In the present paper the author discuss architecture as an art and its language which is architectural drawing, the oldest and most efficient system of its representation. Although drawings such as sectional views or projections are expressed by means of unequivocal symbols that are generally understood and leave no margin for interpretation, there exists a whole sphere of more abstract notions which includes sketches as records of individual ideas that often only remain on paper but sometimes create a new reality...

The curriculum reform was introduced in practice in the Czech Republic in 2005. The previous detailed curriculum for the courses was newly defined by the Framework Educational Program (FEP). This program declares the minimum educational content for longer periods of time; specifically for the first level of elementary schools in the 3rd to 5th year of study. In addition, individual school education programs (SEP) were prepared for schools in which individual ways of achieving educational content were selected. The...

The aim of this work was to obtain and analyze information concerning the perception of the landscape by children from one of the Kenyan slums. The paper presents the results of research carried out at the MCEDO school located in the Mathare slum (Nairobi, Kenya). Research was carried out in January 2015. The preparation stage consisted in making contact with the school management, preparing the materials needed to carry out the workshops, selecting respondents and conducting the library query. The research consis...

Glass in architecture, on the one hand, is an extraordinary, colourful detail ranging from the stained glass in Saint Chapelle to the door of the Church of the Sacred Heart in Munich. On the other hand, it is also a timeless vision of the new art connected strongly with architecture, which reflected and still reflects the avant-garde aesthetics, like the Crystal Palace. A series of prophetic visions of architects links "glass" as a synonym of progress in the technology and understanding of architectural detail as ...

Drug use in Romania is a dynamic phenomenon, being heavily influenced by a multitude of social and economic factors. Romania was initially a transit country, but soon it became one of the profitable areas of drug trafficking. This work started with an attempt to highlight the reasons for young people to initiate consumption, but also to see the importance of methadone substitution treatment for former heroin users in their effort to achieve abstinence. For this study, we selected 20 former heroin users currently u...

Background: Recently, health literacy, in connection with trans-cultural problems and associated cultural competences, has become a hot topic of a number of specialties as a result of the globalized world, where the frontiers between individual states have become just imaginary lines on the map. The trans-cultural approach is closely associated with the individuals` integration in the society. The Romany, whose care of health has often been problematic, represent the most numerous minority in the Czech Republic th...

The voice of every child is individual and depends on its anatomic and psychical qualities. Therefore, the aim of teacher is to show the direction for correct formation of the voice and to disclose individual vocal abilities of every child. The aim of the research is to reveal peculiarities of teaching singing to junior school children in the context of various musical activities. The methods of the research include semi-structured interview with teachers, qualitative content analysis and educational project. On t...

Czech Republic is a member of NATO since 1999. The Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic, in its 2015 framework document entitled 2030 Long-term Outlook for Defence, confirmed the political-military ambitions of the Czech Republic, where one of the priorities was the fulfilment of the obligations arising from NATO membership. These requirements include healthcare requirements. Military medicine has a long tradition and czech military healthcare service is a very important part of many foreign military missions...

This study seeks to improve the training process of the students in the representative football team of the University “Politehnica” of Bucharest. The paper aims at promoting a complex of methods and means for improving the strength of the lower limbs and at experimentally validating their efficacy. This scientific research purpose was to make a contribution to improving and assessing the level of development of the lower limbs muscles in the training lessons. This was due to the methodology applied in the tra...

Background. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a highly prevalent progressive condition, with an increased impact on quality of life. Depression and anxiety are frequently encountered in patients with chronic diseases, especially in those with impaired health-related quality of life. The aim of the study was to identify and evaluate the burden of depression and anxiety in patients with COPD. Material and methods. We enrolled patients admitted in our hospital with the diagnosis of COPD, in which we eva...

In a world of perpetual transformation, the awareness of social responsible education gains valuable meaning for higher education institutions which have the mission to frame and disseminate knowledge related to ethics, social responsibility, and sustainable practices. The paper aims to investigate the effects of teaching activities in social responsibility and civic skills, and to assess the outcomes of an intensive study programme (ISP) in this topic, designed and tested in UPB, during five teaching and learning...

While analyzing various models of socialization and construction of self, it is argued in favour of Milton Bennett's developmental model of intercultural sensitivity and the importance of intercultural communicative competence. Classical developmental models elaborated by authors such as Sigmund Freud, Lawrence Kohlberg, Peter Berger and, Thomas Luckmann emphasize the relevance of primary and secondary socialization; some of them also considered defence mechanisms against alternative cultural and symbolic worlds. ...

The purpose of this paper was to study the degree of students' satisfaction by the quality of teaching the discipline “philosophy”. The research method was the survey. Introductory questionnaire allowed to clarify the expectations of students in relation to lectures and seminars, the qualities of the teacher and the role of philosophy in broadening their world view. The analysis of the final survey demonstrated an increase of students' interest in this subject, a high degree of satisfaction with the assimilati...

Introduction: Motherhood is an important part of life of every woman. The aim of our study was to find out views on motherhood among adolescent girls. Methods: The non-standardized questionnaire of our own design was employed in the study. The study sample consisted of 141 female students of secondary school. The age of the respondents ranged from 17 to 20; the average age was 18 В± 0,79 years. For data processing we used a simple descriptive statistics. Results: In analyzing the results, we found that most respon...

This reflection is an attempt to determine the scope of audiovisuality research in literary text, taking into account theories of connection of literary work with media coverage. It is accompanied by transferring the focus from adaptive thinking (including one medium into another) to transmedia one, where literariness and audiovisuality function on similar rights. Such move is based on an assumption that a context for created new literature is no longer another written text but a media event or an audio-visual com...

Aim-This paper presents a pilot study on the application of the Best Worst Model to evaluate the teaching style and the lessons from the perspective of the secondary school students and from the perspective of their parents. The study was conducted in a secondary school from Romania, in June 2017. I used as respondents both genders, boys and girls, mothers and fathers, in almost equal proportions. Design/Methodology/Approach-Three traditional methods (Best minus Worst, the rank weights and the square root of the r...

The data quoted on the legal employment of foreigners do not show the actual employment rate of immigrants in our country. Firstly, due to Poland's membership in the EU, citizens of other EU countries who take up employment in Poland do not need to register this fact, do not need a work permit and are (in accordance with EU legislation) treated as employees of the target country1. Secondly, and it is resulting from the first fact, there is a lack of statistics on the number of actually employed citizens on the bas...

The study aim was to determine the papers published on “critical thinking in primary education” in Web of Science Core Collection Index database. The papers in all categories in this database were checked without a time limit being restricted to "critical thinking" and "primary education". There was retrieved 47 publications published between 1900 and 2018. The publications of the concerned topics start just in 2006. The average citations for an item is 0.74, and there are only 3 publications (6.3%) reaching h...

The article is devoted to topical issues of application of the blended learning methodology for teaching foreign languages in a higher educational institution. According to the author, blended learning, mediated by network interaction using computers and the Internet, can be successful if the role of students and their autonomy is strengthened in the learning process, and the emphasis is shifted from teaching to training, from teacher to student. Based on conducted practical experience, comparative analysis and in...

The article shows the relationship between the development of information technologies, the characteristics of the information society and digital art. The broad possibilities of the digital world related to recording, storing and processing data (cyber text, big data, smart services) and the creation of virtual worlds are pointed out. The influence of the development of information technologies on the character of the works of art (their variability and availability) is also considered. On the basis of representa...

Business ethics is a wide subject that can be applied to all moral or ethical issues that arise in a business environment. Recent business ethics scandals have created a moral minefield of shifting expectations and growing uncertainty about the responsibilities of business. Economies fare better thriving in environments free of scandals, in morally cleaner firms. Firms often start out making good, ethical decisions, but the line separating right from wrong can be easy to cross. The article aptly illustrates that 1...

With the advancement of the Internet, the rise of the Big-data, rapid evolution of the computer science, huge progression in robotics and programming caused the development of the Artificial Intelligence, which leads it to deal with complex issues and task. Further, this technology seems to be able to generate contents as different as music, poems, paintings, movie or news scripts, jokes along with creative problem-solving. However, can machines create paintings or produce images as an art? Firstly, this paper bri...

Background & Aim: To investigate the potential of cardiovascular disease as risk factor for periodontal disease in the context of current etiology model. Methods: It was used a cross-sectional sample consisting of 374 dentate adults, age >30 years. Subjects were selected from patients attending periodontal care between years 2016-2017 in the Faculty of Dentistry Constanta Romania, South-Eastern Europe. Ethical approval was obtained from the local ethics committee and each patient signed an informed consent form. T...

This article aims to demonstrate how career counsellors perceive discrepancies between requirements of the labour market and education of job seekers. We delivera closer perspective of view of a young and employed people on the labour market as well as the requirement that employers have on job seekers. Young graduates are disadvantages by the lack of work experience. Employees often prefer people with larger work experience although they may have lower qualifications as well as job seekers who speak some foreign ...

Cervical cancer is a major worldwide health problem that can be prevented by using a simple exam, a cervical-vaginal cytology or Pap smear. Romania has the highest incidence of and mortality from cervical cancer in Europe. Romanian people have a strong fear towards cancers and, paradoxically, toward screening measures for cancer. Objectives: To determine the efficiency of Romanian Health Programmes regarding cervical cancer. Materials and Methods: The last six decennial periods were analysed from the point of view...

In European countries, including Poland, parents and psychologists are starting to pay more and more attention to overload of children with school duties and additional classes and tutoring before starting attractive studies or even working to earn extra money. According to UNICEF, around 150 million children all over the world aged 5 to 14 years are forced to work, with the highest number in African and Asian countries and in Central and Eastern Europe, which represents ca. 5% of global population. This has a neg...

The article summarizes of materials sociological monitoring of student of Sverdlovsk region (1995-2016) – in terms of the motivation of choice University. Monitoring materials published [1], disclosed in the publication methodology and research technique, unsubstantiated picks and sample size. The sample included monitoring student survey III course on four main areas of learning (socio-economic, humanitarian, scientific and technical). A number of issues (in particular, of the reasons for the choice of the Univ...

The purpose of the publication is to classify the European Union countries with an application of the modified HDI indicator for year 2005 and 2015 The index, which will be created, is treated as a modified Human Development Index due to the fact that it will be completed with the added information. The modified synthetic index will be calculated for the following determinants: economics, science and technology, health, education and living conditions. The source data will be obtained from Eurostat databases. The ...

In our paper we have examined in what way Czech elementary schools implement dialogic communication in teaching. The basis for our research was the finding that teaching is no longer dominated by frontal methods, but that dialogic form of teaching is increasingly growing in significance. Therefore, we have not observed the teaching dialogue from a quantitative viewpoint but we have focused on its quality. In particular we have been trying to discover whether the cognitive potential of dialogue is utilized, which e...

It would be appropriate to use various forms of activity for students in order to effectively educate at the lessons of foreign languages at higher education institutions. They include the combination of collective, group, frontal and individual forms of work. Collective or team work stimulates studentsВ’ cognitive activity, promotes development of their creative abilities, makes discipline, forms application to work, partnership and other moral qualities. It is better to couple the collective form of work with th...

Professional communication of the professionals in social work and healthcare can be seen as a system based on internal language resources needed for an effective interpersonal interaction in the professional-professional and professional-client (patient) interpersonal systems and focused on exchange of professional information and providing of social or healthcare assistance to the persons who need this. A precondition for the success of the professional communication is the formation of a positive communication ...

Until September 2017, only children who had a diagnosis were entitled to help and support in education in the Czech Republic. Whether the amendment to the Education Act is criticized by experts, it has mainly brought comprehension to Czech education. Not only in its theoretical level, it should offer and, of course, provide support and training aid to all who need it. One of the groups that did not apply to the original section 16 on special educational care was also a group of children living in substitute family...

This article deals with the issue of the state of media literacy and the level of interpersonal and communication skills of social pedagogy university students. The theoretical basis of the thesis is based on the definition of basic concepts such as literacy and competence, especially with regard to information literacy and the definition of media socialization, critical media literacy. Reflected is education leading to the acquisition of media linguistics. The paper presents the results of a research study aimed ...

The aim of the study was to analyze the factors influencing the depression score in patients with occupational lung diseases. We have conducted a cross-sectional study on patients with a diagnosis of occupational lung disease evaluated for their current health status in the Colentina Clinical Hospital during October 2017. Patients with severe reduction in lung function or during exacerbations periods were excluded from the study. The patients' status was evaluated based on the standard medical procedures of the cl...

This article proposes the concept of development of the method for teaching Italian as a second foreign language based on the three most common foreign European languages - Spanish, English and French. Basing on the experience of teaching Italian as a second foreign language, the main problems encountered in the course of study and preventing the achievement of the minimum required level of preparation in the second studied language were identified. Primarily, there is significant heterogeneity of the students in ...

The study is based on the hypothesis that various extracts from Usnea barbata L. have antibacterial action. In this work, six lichen extracts of different concentrations in: 96% ethanol, acetone and water, have been studied. Their inhibitory action was tested by diffusimetric antibiogram method, on Gram-positive bacteria from the oro-dental cavity: two Streptococcus species: Streptococcus intermedius and Streptococcus oralis and two Staphylococcus species: Staphylococcus epidermidis and Staphylococcus aureus. Our ...