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Future social and health workers will be implemented in a complex, multifaceted, difficult activity that needs professionals prepared to work flexibly and effectively with people who have social and health problems. ?hey are responsible for performing different social roles: provider of information /related to documents on social policy and practice/ generator of new ideas / in connection with problem solving/, partner in the process of communication, organizer, assistant in the performance of various practical ta...

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 students’ involvement into the real socially-reformative activity. The article analyzes the sociological poll results of 300 studen...

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...

Religion is a form of social consciousness that represents a basis of the deepest human reflections through specific theories and practices. This reflects the continuous tendency of human mind: to know, to question in connection with what is known, to overcome concrete existence, to enter a world that is beyond the objective aspects. Man as a multidimensional being, relates to existence, not only by reason and pragmatism but also by feeling and contemplative experience, ranging restlessly between the profane socia...

{{Background: }} The aim of the study was to find out the way of providing information preferred by patients after implantation of vascular prosthesis in lower extremities or abdominal aorta in order to develop a new educational material. {{Methods: }} The participants involved in the study had achieved at least 24 points of Mini Mental State Examination and had undertaken the surgery. The study was agreed by the institutions`s ethical committee and all the participants who had been informed about the study purpos...

In adolescence, reproductive capacity and even physical growth gradually reaches. In terms of health, it is important to pay attention to the sexual behavior of adolescents, their health education within the meaning of minimizing the possible risks and incidence of sexually transmitted diseases (STD). Design: The study was designed as a descriptive cross-sectional study. {{Materials and methods: }} The aim of this study was to determine the level of sexual behavior of adolescents in relation to use of contraceptio...

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 year’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 exe...

Melodic interpretation of an instrument (the piano) is the main part of piano performance. One of the most important criteria of the quality of a pianist’s performance is an ability to show piano’s melodic potential, to convey the vocal expressiveness to the sound of a melodic “tapestry”. Many well-known concert pianists used exquisite piano cantilena, a piano “sang” in their performances, relaying a palette of nuances of vocal intonation using the means of pianistic sonority. The study and research of the subject...

The role of the Diagnostic Center is to help children and parents to identify the most common causes of child behavioral disorders and to promote the development of their social skills. The Decree of the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic states that the role of the diagnostic centers is to involve children in the re-socialization, reeducation and also in the diagnostic process. Resocialization is the process of reeducation, the task and the goal is to alleviate or overcome the long-term social need of t...

This article represents the result of research on the transformation of modern pilgrim practices. In a crisis of religious identity, defensive reactions on the level of social behavior and interaction of the various religious and pseudo-religious groups and communities become actual. According to the authors such reactions have both destructive and constructive potential that is proved by questionnaires and statistical analysis. The article states the emergence of new types of pilgrimage as a spiritual tourism, id...

In this article the author analyzes the influence of amendments in the religious sphere of postsoviet society on strengthening anomie in it. Among factors, that influence anomie and characterizes the religious sphere state of the modern Russian society, he names the existence of many religious confessions due to missionery activities, traditional confession restoration (Orthodox, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Lutheranism), actualization of religious identity matter, phenomena of “out of confession heresy” and interrel...

The problems of crimes against families, which include domestic violence, have been present in society for many years. Nevertheless, with all changes in functioning of society and progress in the systems used to prevent violence and help both victims and offenders, it is worth analysing this topic further. On the one hand, the social awareness of the problem of violence and methods to react if it is observed are improving. On the other hand, violence is perceived as a problem concerning only women: it is often hea...

The article describes the effectiveness of education system, which is the foundation element in the process of human capital formation. Nowadays higher education stands as the main element of a stable development in the modern world. It is intended to use its great potential to reproduce human capital. Education is the most efficient way to increase labor quality and productivity. This idea is massively supported by the human capital theorists all over the world As the result of the fulfilled analysis the authors ...

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 wit...

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 goal of the article is to determine the factors that cause changes in the attitude of the youth toward migrants based on the regular monitoring results. It deals with the socio-cultural consequences of modern migration processes and their influence on the modern communicative space as well as on the youth value system and priorities. A ten-year social survey shows that the youth value system is volatile and dependent on both external and internal factors. The expansion of anti-migrant attitudes of young people...

Improving the quality of the teacher's professional competences is currently the subject of professional discussion in Slovak education. The intention is to improve and expand the theoretical and practical teacher training. Examination and reflecting on the issue of evaluation of the work of pupils in the process of education is considered to be an important aspect of undergraduate study. Effective and objective evaluation of the process and the results of education are among the basic pedagogical competencies. Th...

Mechanical systems for producing mechanical vibrations gained more and more the role of training equipment and the vibrations obtained have an effect on muscles, facilitating the contraction or relaxation reflex depending on the possibilities of adjusting their parameters. Vibration platform training generates a tonic stretch reflex in all the muscles involved in the effort. During this reflex, the muscles contract and relax at very high speeds and the amount of active fibers reach 95% of muscle fibers involved in...

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...

Background: Professional self-determination in the educational system of modern Russia have no common policy in the sphere of it organization. UrFU is working with the secondary school students by the different technologies of professional self-determination. The University organizes the activities of schools and programs in various areas of training, such as "Test drive", "Pro debut, testing centers," Academy of power". Methods: The purpose of the article is empirical research’s results of three years of experien...

The relevance of this study in the context of the intensification of integration processes occurring in the world community in all spheres of human activity, including the system of higher education, is determined by the need to manage the processes of enhancing international academic mobility of students. The process of developing the migration of academically oriented young people, whose pace is very significant, provides access to recognized centers of knowledge - the place for the formation of leading scientif...

Information and communication technologies now provide a wide range of opportunities for improvement of the educational process, but the constant evolution of information and communications technology, including its implementation in education, places new demands on teachers who have to be prepared to work with modern didactic tools and technologies, and at the same time create appropriate educational materials for such tuition. That is why new demands are placed on the teacher in this modern teaching paradigm and...

The State Forests National Forest Holding (PGL LP), which manages the forest resources of the State Treasury, has a great impact and largely contributes to building ecological awareness of the society through taken activities in terms of forest education and the development of educational and natural infrastructure. These activities are an element of sustainable forest management. The objective of the article is to present the forest education system in Poland. For the purposes of this study, fundamental documents...

The number of older adults is increasing in all European countries and these tendencies are also noticeable in Poland. Older adults are a group with substantial intellectual and social potential that can be used in many areas. The precondition for successful ageing is to maintain a good psychophysical status through participation in various forms of activity. With respect to the activity theory, the gerontologists emphasize that each human, even at older age, needs to be active and to feel needed while lost social...

The paper is devoted to the issues of lawyers’ communicative competence and intercultural interaction which are given the priority in international professional activities of lawyers. The author’s experience of teaching English to Bachelors and Masters studying at the Institute of Law, Peoples’ 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; the...

In the context in which healthy nutrition, institutionalized nutrition and combating of childhood obesity are a strategic interest in improving the health of young people, this paper is constituted as a nutritional analysis of the quality of menus for school catering in Romania. An efficient system of products quality evaluation provided by the commercial and the social catering system can lead to optimizing the production processes, to improve the legal framework for beneficiaries and to support the education sys...

Background: There are not many phenomena in life that are common to all people. One of such phenomena is death, but people´s perception of death differs, even though everybody is aware of their own mortality. In the formation of attitudes to death, which can be positive, negative and neutral, the spirituality of the individual is crucial, which means the life experience, the way of perception and personal assessment of what goes above and beyond us. The aim of this article is to present partial results of the rese...

The article is about written exercises which are necessary to use at the Russian lessons for foreign students. Students should watch and write written exercises at the same level as oral exercises during developing Russian pronunciation skills. Urgency of the research of this theme is in its importance. Intonation and phonetics lessons take a special place in teaching Russian language for foreigners because correct pronunciation of the words is the most important for communication in Russian language and the devel...

The problems emerging from the damage to the environment cause changes, conflicts and injustice in the social sphere. For this reason, sociology discipline deals with environmental problems. A result of the activities of humans, who have lost harmony with nature, which damage the environment is “Global Climate Change and Global Warming”. As a result of “Global Climate Change and Global Warming”, it is predicted that arid regions on the Earth’ surface will expand, erosion will accelerate, productive soils will decr...

During our life, our values and value orientation are shaped by many factors. Values form a dynamic structure of beliefs which, in many ways and with varying intensity, influence our everyday decision making. In the research carried out in 2016, we asked if and how the value orientation is influenced by the economic situation of the family the person lives in. Since the economic situation of the family plays an important role in many areas of our life, we assumed it also had a significant role in the area of value...

The article concerns the most important feature of «social competence» essence as country cultural and social value and environment. The problem of social competence studying as a modern phenomenon is relevant and useful, because it defines the criteria of the individual’s success in all social life spheres. In scientific discourse has found a clear interpretation of «social competence» phenomenon essence, as an integrative personality quality that combines axiological understanding of social reality, social knowl...

The purpose of the research is to study the issue of training highly skilled professionals in the sphere of international economic relations in nonlinguistic universities. The chosen methods of research are the method of studying the teaching techniques, as well as the comparative method. The study shows that it is essential to train professional language on early stages of the education programme. Early training of professional language contributes to the forming of professional cross-cultural communication compe...

To eat rationally means to follow the general rules of healthy eating based on its basic principles. People have fed since they live on the ground, but rational nutrition has become an acute public health issue in the last two decades after an observation and some research showed that most of the diseases that currently affecting humanity, which cause early disability and shorten the thread of life are largely due to an uncontrolled diet. The present paper proposes, in the context described above, to emphasize rig...

There has been an increasing interest in studying associations among physical fitness, motor coordination and physical parameters in early childhood over the past decades. Available research data on the relationship between childhood obesity and motor competence at early ages remains rather inconclusive. The aim of the study was to analyze the association between physical fitness, motor competence indicators and somatic parameters in primary school-aged children. Data were collected from 213 prepubertal children. ...

The attitude towards disabled people and to disability is one of the most important indicators of the maturity of society and development of human rights. In the late seventies of the 20th century Europe comes to the historical stage, when attempts of integration of disabled people into normal public life, with full recognition of their civil rights, that fully coincide with the rights of citizens without disabilities, are made. Russia is now only on the way of transition to the fifth stage, when the biopsychosoci...

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 ...

The major research objective was to study the social role of the paternity in a modern family. Nowadays the family has been transformed as a social institution, and its importance in the life of both men and women is decreasing. More and more people choose a career at the expense of the family, childfree phenomenon becomes popular. On the one hand, there is an increase in single-parent families and a decrease in the father's overall contribution to the upbringing of children. On the other hand, there is a reorient...

This article analyses the sources for forming a common social identity between migrants of different ethnicities from Central Asia and a host community, the citizens of Ekaterinburg. Ekaterinburg is a big city hosting a large number of migrants belonging to different ethnicities. The ethnocultural characteristics possessed by the migrants and the citizens of Ekaterinburg are different; this makes it problematic to form a common social identity. The authors consider the formation of a social identity as a process t...

Requirements for specialists in the tourism market in the modern world determine the training of students specializing in tourism, which has a recreational and environmental focus. This is due to the changed conditions of their professional activities, which should take into account not only the needs of society for recovery and recreation, but also existing environmental problems. In the presented work practical implementation of the model of recreational-ecological training of students of the specialty Tourism i...

Aim: The purpose of the present study was to compare the levels of Interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) and Human beta 3 Defensin (hBD-3) in peri-implant crevicular fluid (PICF) and to assess if there is a correlation between this two parameters and the orodental clinical status in peri-implantitis. Microbial colonization of dental implants and infection of the peri-implant tissues can cause peri-implant bone destruction and may lead to implant failure. Inflammatory mediators of the host, such as IL-1beta, and antimicrobi...

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...

Internationalization at home is a term that appeared at the turn of the century largely describes the process of acquiring intercultural competence by students without leaving their native city/country. The article aims at conducting the experimental analysis of MOOCs used as a tool to promote and enhance internationalization at home. The MOOCs were used as part of law students’ independent learning of foreign (English) language, which is a compulsory subject for lawyers-to-be. To attain the set purpose we conduct...

Within the project VEGA 1/0223/16 Classroom Management at Primary Schools, the research team, in the first stage, was studying teachers’ 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. ...

People are affected by the influence of various chemical substances in everyday life. How do chemical substances affect human body and which of them can actually threaten the health or damage it? The answers to these questions lead us to prepare the series of lectures and special seminars with practical samples of first aid course for the pupils of 6.-9. grade of elementary school and students of 8-year high school. Chemical substances are an important and inseparable part of our lives. They might have a negative ...

Introduction: Pregnancy is a period that imposes intense requirements on women’s bodies. Anxiety is a very common problem of a pregnant women. It results from indefinite reasons and feelings, which are typical for pregnancy. The aim of the study was to investigate the anxiety symptoms of pregnant women. Methods: A standardized questionnaire, the Beck Anxiety Scale (BAI), was used as an exploratory method to measure symptoms of anxiety in pregnant women. Cronbach’s ? for the BAI was 0.68. The participants were 304 ...

Background: Sexual risk behaviour is one of the most significant forms of risk behaviour in adolescence. Therefore, the demand for a systematic sexual education in primary and secondary schools has been rising in the Czech Republic. Recently, a discussion has taken place about the need of sexual education in Czech schools. That is why many authors pay attention to sexual risk behaviour as a part of the general risk behaviour of children and youth. The contribution pays increased attention to the respondents aged l...

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” transn...

The authors focus on the issue of pupils’ preparation for school at home the first years of compulsory school attendence from the parental optics. During this period a basic sense of obligation to school duties by pupils is created. Parents acquire new social roles - the role of parents of a schoolchild. According to the Slovak School Act No. 245/2008 Coll., one of the parents’ duties is to support schoolchildren to prepare for lessons at home. The aim of the study is to determine and analyze the current views of ...

Student’s research work management is work experience-centred and it is intended to mould certain competencies. One of the main competencies in the current social and economic conditions is preparedness to carry out professional activities. The psychological structure of preparedness includes such a component as the ability to self-manage activities. In the Russian science, activities self-management is associated with the characteristics of the professional’s personal qualities structure and with their values, mo...

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,...