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Quality of life in today's world has a positive connotation which, in society, becomes a precondition for successful aging. Indivisibility of quality of life and successful aging is conditioned by the integration of the causal factors and participants directly involved in the lives of people located in homes for the elderly and infirm. According to analytical indicators, population of Croatia is characterized by very old age, the most unfavorable type of age group, and Croatia is in the group of ten European count...

The article addresses the problem of militarization in the East Asian region in the context of the unfolding crisis in Japan-China relations. Numerous territorial disputes between China and Japan and other countries in East Asia being divided into two hostile sides in the recent past, the complicated history of the last century along with innumerable military conflicts, the deficiency of effectively operating security organizations in this region, the inequality of economic development between countries, all these...

The topics and research related to positive education have become increasingly widespread over the last couple of years. Psychologists were the first ones to conduct research within this field, mostly focusing on primary and secondary schools, and to a lesser extent on higher education. However, studying this topic within the higher education system, especially teacher education, from a pedagogical perspective is of the utmost importance because teachers are the ones who will one day practice positive education. I...

Down syndrome (DS) and intellectual disabilities (ID) persons from Romania need to have leisure activities (LT) that can be a good modality to integrate them into the society. Also it can be a physical activity form that can take many enjoying form. Objectives. The purpose was to characterise the LT activities of persons with SD from Romania. Methods of research. The article brings into the attention the leisure time activities that can be the expression of being physically active of SD and ID, what kind of activi...

The study was aimed at new knowledge finding of child’s giftedness in the art-creative process. The methodology was to use the method “Art+”. It helped the teacher to notice signs of giftedness, which remain hidden in other conditions. Findings: the concept of “giftedness” has new aspects in modern art; the method “Art+" is based on the “Art-composition” teaching technology and included creative tasks, indicates the relationship of different types of giftedness. The results of the study were not exhaustive, but th...

Background: The goal of the study was to find out how and to which extent patients are informed before and after their vascular prosthesis implantation. The criterion for being included in the study was to achieve at least 24 points of Mini Mental State Examination and to meet the established indication criteria for the surgery. The ethical committee of the health care facility and all participants, who were informed on the purpose of the study, agreed with the study. Crohnbach`s alpha was calculated to identify i...

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 conducte...

Introduction The heterogeneous distribution of clinical manifestations in psoriatic arthritis has a major influence on the quality of life and physical function in these patients. Although impairment of peripheral joints is less severe than in patients with rheumatoid arthritis for an equal duration, the impact on functional and quality of life indices has been similar [1], with predominance of joint pain and socio-emotional disorders in patients with PA. Aim To determine the relationship between functional status...

The purpose of this study is to explore the coping with disease in adolescents with type 1 diabetes in its complexity – from the viewpoint of emotional distress, perception of the disease, and equally that of preferred coping strategies in the context of differing levels of metabolic compensation. Set of questionnaires consisting of Big Five Inventory (BFI), Brief-Cope, Problem Areas in Diabetes Questionnaire (PAID), Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (BIPQ) and Diabetes Adolescent Problem Solving Questionnair...

The article deals with the actual problem of territorial disputes between China and Japan, as well as the role of the two countries in the settlement of the “Taiwan problem”. In recent years, there has been a rapid growth of contradictions and negative trends in Sino-Japanese relations, periodically exacerbated by the unraveling conflict around the Senkaku Islands, processes of general militarization of the region, including the activation of military cooperation between Japan, the United States and Taiwan. Agains...

The article deals with the results of an empirical study conducted within the framework of the project "Social risks of international youth migration in contemporary Russia". The purpose of the presented study is to identify and assess the main social risks that are constructed in the Russian society in the context of international migration. The telephone survey was used as the main method of gathering empirical information. In 2017, two surveys were conducted covering 15 regions in all federal units; the total n...

At present, the packaging is the seller of the goods. In many cases, the quality of goods and packaging design should be interrelated, because the overestimated design and the average quality of the goods are not compatible. This can lead to a failure in the introduction of the product to the market. Overabundance of goods and packages made consumers of products "capricious buyers." In a store, a buyer more often buys a product known to him and there is an ever smaller percentage of buyers who buy a new product, l...

The following thesis focuses on the issues regarding life satisfaction and the impact of well-being on physical and mental health of coalition soldiers during their deployment on a military operation in the Middle East area. The authors’ fundamental research question is how the military operational environment affects the life satisfaction of deployed soldiers and thus affects their health. Obviously, life satisfaction is influenced by the military work activities and specifically in an armed conflict environment....

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. ...

In the Czech Republic is possible to see a new trend in emergency medicine – building new departments of urgent medicine (DUM). These workplaces we can call Emergency or urgent reception department. Creation of these departments is connected with high development of urgent medicine and new styles and possibilities of care about patients. Emergency departments are officially an education centers for all medical personnel (medics, paramedics and nurses) too. Unfortunately, we don’t have some recommendations and meth...

The main aim of the paper is to examine the role of creative placemaking in shaping the urban environment in Polish cities. It also focuses on challenges and obstacles that creative placemaking projects encounter in Polish realities. Creative placemaking is a “micro-development” strategy (Johnson 2009) that focuses on cultural participation, community engagement and highlights the social role of arts and culture. Artistic interventions provide new perspectives that are not only aesthetic, but also connected with s...

Online education has become a widespread phenomenon, the dynamic development of which contributes to global educated community formation. The paper reviews changes in educational paradigm that took place in the last decades. These changes concern role of online learning in the present-day society and technologies used for its implementation. Online language learning requires special methodological and technological solutions. The concept of online learning for the Arabic language is fundamentally different from th...

Health education has been part of lower secondary education in the Czech Republic for a decade. It is included in the Framework educational programme for elementary education under the educational are Man and health. The purpose of Health education is to promote an active and responsible approach to health, shape adequate lifestyle habits, develop students’ health literacy, and take a formative role in the prevention of risk behaviour. The objective of the research study entitled ‘Health education from the perspec...

Background: Healthcare associated infection generally poses a major risk for healthcare professionals. In addition, acute and intensive care is specific because there is often a very first contact between the health care worker and the patient. Blood-borne infections, which represent a major complication for healthcare professionals, are perceived as one of the most risky injuries, particularly in connection with needle-stick injuries. The first objective of the research was to verify the selected theoretical know...

Some basic characteristics of university culture are considered from the viewpoint of socio-cultural, structural and resource approaches, some formal and informal features of a group of professors as an elite professional group in the professional entity of academic staff are showed, for they are the guardians of traditions and they transfer the university culture. The deformation ratio of formal and informal features of that professional group is reported. The emphasis is laid on the importance of the traditions ...

In this paper, one of the "problem zones" of mathematics is presented by computer and mathematical modeling. The study concerns the problem of learning of complex concept of the surface area mastering by students understanding. Students construct the multifaceted surfaces of Schwartz cylinder (or "boot") using computer and mathematical and adapt the most important generalized constructions to the actual position of mathematical knowledge concerning the analysis and the essence of the "problem zone" of surface area...

This paper deals with the topic of selected social determinants and their influence on the choice of leisure-time activities. Our intention is to present the results of own research which was carried out in the form of a questionnaire survey in 2016. One of its main objectives was to find out whether the selected social determinants (gender, age, education, fathers and mothers education and employment status) have the influence on choice of leisure-time activities within different types of social groups. For this ...

The article presents a brief analysis of sound environmental, economic and technological policy in solving the problem of education in the field of municipal solid waste (MSW) management. The authors make emphases on methodology features of educational activity when training specialists in the field of solid waste management. It is revealed that the creation of a new productive industry is impossible without professional training of specialists, who comprehend the problem, have a good handle in the solid waste pro...

The article presents the results of a regional study devoted to the study of strategies and practices of self-preserving behavior of young people. The results of the sociological research showed that most young people consider health to be one of the important values and try to lead a healthy lifestyle, namely: to look at life with optimism, exercise, watch their weight, eat right, pay attention to the shelf life and composition purchased products, do not smoke, limit alcohol consumption, etc. The main factors tha...

The ACA (Adult Children of Alcoholics) syndrome is a group of relatively well-established patterns of inadequate response in social situations which arose during the trauma of childhood in a family of alcoholics. As a result of painful experiences taken from home an adult child of an alcoholic is experiencing disturbances in cognitive and emotional processes of both the surrounding reality and himself. The cognitive and emotional distortions concern also the perception of parental attitudes. The idea of the ACA sy...

Nowadays, there is an increase in the requirements with regard to the training of the future social workers in university considering the socio-economic processes in Bulgaria which are radically changing the social sphere and resulting in a more complicated professional interaction with the society.This triggers the need of finding innovative methods and forms whose inclusion in the educational process would lead to its intensification and better quality. In this respect, at university level there is an increasing...

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...

With studies on soft skills on the rise worldwide, they obviously play a very important role as a basis for employability requirements on the labour market. In Russia, soft skills are beginning to find ways into university curricula. The broad mismatch of the term connotations among educators, students and employers forces researchers to dwell upon the content and scope of soft skills. As there are various and often controversial perceptions and understandings of soft skills, the authors’ primary goal was to defin...

A man nowadays lives in a world characterized by changeability, unstoppable progress and development. Political, economic and socio–cultural changes inscribed in the variability, apart from the positive effects, i.e. compensation for many civilizational neglects, also have negative consequences and affect the life of an individual or social groups. More and more problems and threats are emerging nowadays: poverty, unemployment, migration, addictions, family dysfunctionality, crime or other disturbing phenomena. Be...

Background: The article discloses some problems of upbringing in recreational activities of children and young people based on innovative trends, forms and methods of work that contribute to their inclusion into the proclaimed humanitarian ideals and values both declaratively and objectively. Special attention is given to SpArtan games that are conditioned by the necessity to solve important modern socio-cultural and pedagogical problems that contribute to recreation and leisure, as well as spiritual and physical ...

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 ...

International trade is the oldest and most development form of international relations. The current conditions of globalization of the economy have become a powerful stimulus for the development of international trade, especially within the existing customs, trade and economic unions. Despite the fact that the USA and Mexico are traditionally the main partners of Canadian foreign trade policy in the framework of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), in recent years the countries of the European Union (E...

Both in current and earlier theories of crime and risky behaviour, the quality of close relationships is considered to be one of the key risk and protective factors. In accordance with these theories (mainly Hirschi, Bowlby etc.) are as the key family factors mentioned basic emotional ties, namely the quality of attachment and acceptation by parents. Another crucial relationship in the early age of children and youth is that with friends and peers. The aim of the research was to find out how the quality of relatio...

Background: The monitoring of the skin lesions in clinical practice varies significantly. For the necessity of unified pressure ulcers monitoring, the care process, and the treatment of pressure ulcers (hereinafter named PU), a specially prepared and pilot-tested dataset was compiled. The aim of the research is to analyse the completeness and availability of data according to the created dataset in the individual centres (faculty hospitals) involved in the research. There were observed items evaluating incidence a...

Low bone mineral density (BMD) is associated in patients with NAFLD, but the mechanisms behind the reduced BMD in NAFLD are still not completely known. Several factors may influence bone mineralisation such as : cytokines, vitamin D deficiency, limited physical activity. Aim of our study was to establish the relationship between osteoporosis and the degree of fibrosis in NAFLD patients estimated by transient elastography (TE) . Methodes: We include 145 patients with NAFLD and we performed for all of them TE, abdom...

Learning aspirations reflect personality dispositions and pupils’ ability to achieve certain goals; they are the pupil’s ideas about these goals at school formed by the pupil’s self-concept and previous successes or failures. In pupils of younger school age, aspirations are strongly determined by parenting and parents’ attitudes to the child’s school career. In the operational phase, a socio-psychological approach was chosen, according to which aspirations are not only the conscious and rational disposition of a p...

Background: The new content of mathematical education should ensure the achievement of state, social and personal needs and interests of students. Current situation related to the methodological and psycho-pedagogical aspects in-depth studying of mathematics is considered by authors. The rethinking of traditional methods of teaching and searching new techniques to form independent and cognitive activity occurs at the step of transition to the new quality of education. It happens in the process of teaching mathemat...

The article analyzes the innovative potential of game technologies for developing students’ professional dialogical competence. The authors make a historical journey to look at the game theory in the format of interdisciplinary scientific interests, examine a technological model of a training business game in relation to speech studies, and show the educational attractiveness of game technologies for a modern higher school. Consideration is given to didactic aspects of innovative learning models aimed at developin...

The article deals with the problem of the second language acquisition from the point of view of a new and quickly evolving learning technology, named edutainment. This article provides an overview of edutainment technology and how it can be applied to the learner experience. The method applied is constructivism. Several parameters were taken into account: learners’ age, visualization and entertainment. The main objective of the project is to organize learners’ leisure time by providing them with a set of fascinati...

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...

The main purpose of these studies was to prepare for the publication of a textbook on the subject of "quality Management", widely used for the training of students in the areas of training MGUPP: «Computer science and engineering», «Applied informatics», «Automation of technological processes and productions (in the food industry)», «Biotechnology», «Food products from vegetable raw materials», «Food products of animal origin», «Technology of production and organization of public catering», «Standardization and Me...

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...

The article focuses on the professional competence of the teacher to cooperate with the family of the pupil. It emphasizes the importance and meaning of the cooperation in the primary and secondary environment of the individual. The authors analyse the cooperative competence of the teacher and its contents with the emphasis on the communicative skills. The aim of this article is to clarify the concept of self-efficacy. The authors perceive this concept as the conviction about human abilities and all the possibilit...

The paper introduces the general model of andragogical vocational consultancy. Based on the theoretical research drawing from theoretical approaches of Slovak and foreign authors and arguments resulting from the current socio-cultural and socio-economic conditions, this paper explains the meaning of the educational consulting support aimed at adults who are healthy and (potentially) productive in their work during their vocational life. The authors consider the andragogical vocational consultancy as a process para...

This paper aim to introduce a project Development of independent movement through tactile and auditory means. The project‘s purpose is an adaption of people with visual impairment to the modern technologies and to make these technologies available for newly designed teaching aids and didactic procedures. Making these technologies available to a wider spectrum of users will result not only in a socialization but also in the independence of people with visual impairment. The project focuses on the development of 3D ...

To implement the various forms of training in MSUFP, there are two educational environments: Moodle and iSpring. Moodle environment is used to organize the educational process for full-time, part-time and part-time forms of study for students in the areas of higher education. The iSpring environment is used for full-time, correspondence and correspondence forms of education with the use of distance educational technologies for advanced training and retraining. The Moodle system has been used in MSUFP as an e-learn...

The article deals with the topic of the mobility of socially excluded Roma women. It is aimed at analyzing how mobility can work as a reaction strategy of solving social exclusion and the related poverty. The topic is based on the theories describing space mobility as motivation for improvement of life conditions, particularly in case of poverty. The study was implemented by the qualitative research strategy, the method of questioning and the technique of biographic-narrative interview. The research set consisted ...

Background: The authors analyze the current situation associated with the methodological aspects of the forming of research competence of medical students in the process of their learning fundamental natural scientific disciplines. The task of forming research competence of students of medical universities in the process of their education is socially significant and is called for by the need to increase the scientific potential of modern medical education. Despite this, scientific and methodological research on t...

The history of food comfort has its roots somewhere in the 1960s in the US, when they first tried to define them taking into account the psychological aspect, "they produce comfort or consolation, protection and nutrition." For the consumer, it is essential that the consumed food provide the amount of nutrients necessary to maintain daily balance, satiety, to be healthy and to provide satisfaction during and after consumption. From the perspective of the hospitality industry, the food comfort product contributes t...

In today's global world an image of a certain country and its society plays a significant role in international relations. The creation of such image depends largely on the attitude of the mass-media and their owners’ policy. For the past several decades research is done over many different aspects of the modern communication processes in search for better target audience impact methods and models. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the principal model of forming an inter-country communication within a spec...