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Approximately from the beginning of the 21st Century China has changed its approach towards UN peacekeeping missions, and has become more active, especially in Africa. This process has been accompanied by sharp rise of Sino-African trade. These two parallel processes created the need or better to say a suitable environment for establishment of the first permanent Chinese military base on African soil. The need for this base has been further increased by Chinese experience from operation of evacuation of Chinese ci...

Background: The number of foreigners living in the Czech Republic amounts to about 4-5% of the population (i.e. 493 000 persons by 31. 12. 2016, Czech Statistical Office, 2018). The largest numbers consist of persons from Poland, Ukraine, Vietnam, Slovakia, Germany and Russia. The generation of immigrants above 50 years of age is an interesting and diverse group of persons who are often perceived as seniors and face ageism in different areas of life. The generation of foreigners of that age constitutes a group of ...

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 paper deals with selected aspects of educational differences in physical training methods employed in the training process of hearing-impaired pupils. Training methodology issues related to the physical training process in pupils with hearing impairment are hereby addressed. A number of specific model situations pertaining to the didactic process in physical education are presented, including examples and recommendations for practice. The problem areas related to motor skills training in hearing-impaired stude...

The article deals with the influence of the special intervention exercise programme focused on specific physical activities among hearing-impaired young people. In terms of methodology, an experiment with a single experimental group was selected as the basic empirical procedure. The key experimental factor was the specific physical used to collect data was a survey aiming to determine participantsВ’ interest administered at the beginning and at the end of the experiment. The hypothesis, which assumed that in resul...

Sentiment analysis for the French language remains an under-developed research area. At the same time, sentiment analysis works well for identifying conflictual discourses in English. Today, identifying sentiment in social networks and microblogs, including Twitter, is a growing area of studies, but despite French is one of the most popular post-colonial languages online, the studies of user sentiment in this language are still rare enough. Also, there are practically no studies that would link sentiment analysis ...

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...

Old age is associated with a number of significant losses, the loss of spouse being regarded as the most important. Seniors respond to the death of their life partners in various ways. Even though the grieving process is a highly individual matter and the manifestations of grief are multi-determined, in accordance with the existing knowledge, it is possible to postulate a hypothesis that siblinghood in old age may be an important salutoprotective factor and a source of natural (informal) social support for widowed...

In the last decade much attention is paid to a problem of sleep disorders at young age. The dream is one of the most important aspects of human activity. Research objective: to reveal the factors promoting a sleep disorder and to compare a sleep disorder of the students studying at different faculties of the University. 50 respondents (18 young men and 32 girls) of students Medical (27 people) and Financial-economic (23 persons) the Institutes studying at the 1 on 5 courses, mainly at the fourth year have taken pa...

The purpose of the study is to design a results-based management system aimed at the smart education efficiency improving, as well as improving the structure, tools and methods of management in smart integrated environment for the continuous development of the competences of participants during the educational process. The basis of the research is the main provisions of the strategic management theory, the methodology of a balanced system of indicators with a projection on a non-profit organization, fuzzy modeling...

Background: Smoking during pregnancy is the leading cause of prenatal morbidity. Women who smoke during pregnancy do not only increase the risks to develop serious adverse health events but also put their child at considerable risk. The purpose of this study was to assess the demographic factors and to evaluate smoking behavior in a group of pregnant women, contributing to the existing literature in order to improve maternal and child health care. Methods: A questionnaire conceived by a pulmonologist that assessed...

The article studies the different aspects of the personВ’s integration into culture and the society. Namely there is a characteristic of the Internet society represented by some leisure groups or clubs united by the shared interests that contribute to the integration of the personality into the leisure space. There are given the pedagogical possibilities of Internet communities as a communicative-integration space of Internet. The author shares the view that the Internet communities function according to the commu...

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 Questionna...

This paper describes some basic characteristics of the social policies for the elderly people in four countries, namely Russia, Italy, Finland and the UK. Maian focus is at the analysis of neo-liberal policies impacts on welfare policies: covering a conceptual analysis of some issues as eligibility and risk, transforming models of the social policy and its institutional setups. Modern research agenda includes theorizing, analysis and evaluation of welfare institutions, organizations and policies along with the way...

The article deals with social and legal problems faced by persons with Inborn Gender Identity Disorder Syndrome (IGIDS) in fulfilling social roles consistent with the perceived gender. It seems that the social functioning of these persons is extremely difficult, because disapproval of the somatic/phenotype sex hinders their self-fulfilment. Legal (formal) conditions of their social existence depend on medical procedures, which in turn are related with many diagnostic problems. In Poland, there is no specific diagn...

Unemployment is a phenomenon that the citizens of the Slovak Republic have been encountering since the beginning of the process of economic transformation, i.e. since the end of 1989. The rate of unemployment varies by region, social group and economic cycle. With economic growth, creation of new jobs and measures adopted by the state the possibilities of becoming employed broaden, the number of employed persons rises, and the rate of unemployment falls. The role of the state, via active and flexible state policie...

The article substantiates the relevance of socio-pedagogical work with internally displaced persons in the context of the current socio-political situation in the state. Different approaches to the definition of socio-pedagogical work are considered. Pedagogical, psychological, and sociological literature on the identified problem is analyzed. The essence of the concepts of "internally displaced persons," "socio-pedagogical support for internally displaced persons" is revealed. Based on the analysis of the statist...

The article deals with the usefulness of science experimental activity and interpersonal communication of school students analysing socio-significant issues (SSI). SSI is a controversial topic which discloses the positive and negative impact of research and innovation discoveries for the society. SSI has a scientific component and also incorporates other disciplines (political, economic, ethical), which allows to involve the evaluation of ethical and moral issues. The evaluation of the negative and positive side o...

From the perspective of social constructivism, the cultural shock is one of the possible forms of individual experiencing a clash with an alien socio-cultural reality. Both the actualization of otherness, and the cultural shock, belong to the subjective reality. This is the result of the mental activity of a particular person, the product of his consciousness. It is important that these elements of subjective reality can be objectified by a person within the framework of social interactions in the form of verbaliz...

Does social justice in postmodern societies exists and how it is implemented? This is an issue which worries not only sociologists, lawyers, journalists, politicians, but most of all citizens. In Macedonia we are witnessing a continuous process of issuing the laws, regulations, guidelines, codes of ethics, etc. But all this is not enough to reduce crime and often what writes in the law is inconsistent with the basic needs of man and his expectations. Sociologists often defend the position that we are often faced w...

The article is intended to prove that effective education in a form of e-learning may trigger development of soft competences among students. There were critical literature studies and a statistical description of surveys carried out among students of economic majors. Furthermore, the necessity for education as an action based on adequate selection of communication forms was defined (those existing among the education participants) along with education methods embedded in the classes scenario, intended to achieve ...

The study, which was supported by the grant project VEGA 1/0625/16 “The effect of physical activities on the development of motor abilities in integrated children with behavior disorders”, deals with the effects of exercise programs on the development of children’s motor abilities. The purpose of the study was to assess the levels of coordination abilities among nine and ten years old children by administering the KTK standardized test battery and to determine the relationship between their somatic parameters...

Currently ecology is a special scientific discipline, which is of great importance both for society as a whole and for an individual. The protection of the environment and the conservation of biological diversity on the whole planet depend significantly on the results of environmental education. The purpose of environmental education should be not only the training of future environmental specialists, but also environmental upbringing aimed at the formation of a certain ethic of attitude towards nature. This is gr...

The article discusses the development of attention in hearing-impaired adolescents using a special exercise programme. The objective of the research was to influence hearing-impaired adolescentsВ’ attention by means of specific sports or an exercise programme. From the methodological point of view, a basic empirical approach using a simple experiment was applied. The exercise programme consisting of self-defence basics and psychomotor exercise was the main experimental factor. Attention testing [5] was used to det...

The aim of the contribution is to acquaint readers with the development of new training methods for fire brigade members and their application within the “Training Simulator for Type Activities” project. This applied research has helped to create a special software tool for the training of fire brigades. Thematically, this project focused on the area of regular special preparation of fire brigades in response to selected emergencies when the joint action of Integrated Rescue System services is necessary – so...

The present article is devoted to an important problem of teaching foreign students an independent reading on basis of development of contextual guess. The relevance of the article is explained by the fact that foreign students who come to Russia, should speak Russian at a high level, involving not only the understanding of lectures and study material, but also an independent study of scientific literature for writing term papers and dissertations. This article is concerned with basic methods of developing languag...

The role of the family is to create a stable and secure environment in which the needs of all its members are met. Only a well-functioning family is able to fulfill this task to the optimum extent. There are many things influencing family functioning. One of them is also the birth and upbringing of a disabled child. The aim of our study was to find out which factors influence the functioning of the family with a disabled child. A quantitative research strategy was used. To measure the functioning of the family, a ...

In 2003 Bulgaria enacted new legislation that introduced various reforms in the social sphere. These changes define a new philosophy of state policy in the area of social services and societyВ’s vulnerable groups. Protected Housing is a social service that enables the transition from the traditional in Bulgaria institutional care to the services offered in the community and the family environment. The practical social work and the social worker in the service Protected Housing are the main subjects of analysis in ...

Dynamically changing contemporary world, full of new technological developments, turned out to be also a world of numerous threats for the basic means of communication that the humankind was familiar with “for millennia’’, i.e. for speech. The issues of the importance of language communication in a social worker’s profession are discusses in the article. Communication is are of the most important categories of human life being both the expression and condition of social life. With the increasing participation...

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...

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. ...

In the modern system of vocational education, the research activities of students play an important role in ensuring the quality of their professional training. At the same time, at the present, the prestige of scientific activity and the activity of students in this field have significantly decreased, which actualizes the need to develop new forms and tools for involving students in research activities. Despite a rather large number of studies in this area, the issues of new forms and effective tools for involvin...

Developed communicative competence today is an urgent need of an individual, one of the ways for his intellectual, spiritual and professional self-affirmation and self-improvement. Its quality, according to the authors, is significantly determined by the nature and format of the teacher-student interaction in the classroom. In order to track the relationship between the influence of the educational interaction format on the development of general cultural and professionally oriented competences of trainees, we con...

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 article presents the conceptualization of the process of pedagogical influence on the student’s self-development, the existential approach as the basis of this influence, the essence of self-development, the criteria of readiness for self-development and classification of needs in self-development. The essential spheres of the human being – intellectual, emotional, motivational, spheres of self-correction, volition, self-realization, existential - are discussed. The content of socio-pedagogical support of s...

There is currently an upward trend in the use of natural plants. Experts recommend the use of natural remedies as an adjunctive to classical therapy, all the more so as the antibacterial action of plant extracts comes up against antibiotic resistance, a problem that dominated the second millennium and seems to persist in an upward trend in the third millennium. The aim of this study was to select the Epilobium parviflorum Schreb species from the many medicinal plants due to its contents in high quantity of biologi...

Background: On the basis of the theoretical and empirical analyses published in the scientific literature, it can be stated that the concept of successful ageing presented in educational discourses is understood differently by authors and it is focused primarily on three issues related to 1/ spirituality, 2/ fulfillment of oneВ’s own well-being, 3/ a sense of community. The article discusses research results aimed at comparing ways of understanding successful ageing in the scientific literature with ways of defini...

New approach to conceptualize social development and to measure its level is proposed for societies facing the paradoxical consequences of globalization. The economic and social divide between the group of the largest cities and the rest of the world supports the idea that globalization has resulted not in the В‘world societyВ’ or В‘worldwide socialityВ’ but rather in networked enclaves of globality. In the post-globalization age, the В‘coreВ’ of socioeconomic order is dispersed into networks of enclaves of global...

Increased mobility and international cooperation are crucial objectives for Latvia to foster integration to the European Higher Education Area and European Research Area, which builds the basis for Latvia to utilise its potential for education and research as well as serves as a means to build research capacity, strengthen the image of Latvian Higher Education Institutions (HEI) and promote the positive image of the country globally. The paper introduces the selected results of the study conducted in the framework...

The immaterial products of today environment is overpopulated with 'tools' for enter-taining, education, creativity, geographic orientation and so on. Everything is designed to create layer over layer of wich we name 'reality'. From a philosophical point of view, our world is becoming an 'opera aperta' of information for developers, companies, aca-demics and individuals. But is it so? Are transacted data part of an one piece of work? Could such data became artwork? As part of my doctoral approach of education and ...

Introduction: Tobacco smoke and second-hand smoking exposure, at home or in school during childhood and adolescence, increases the risk of respiratory illness. Youth smoking is mostly associated with parents, and their smoking behavior. Also, there are other influences: social environment, targeted advertising, easy access to cigarette products, no control over age limit in purchasing cigarettes, lack of knowledge about the effects of smoking. Material and method: To evaluate the influence of the environment, soci...

The article presents the mutual relations between art and technology from the Renaissance to the interactive art of today. It indicates important factors influencing the possibilities of imaging and interpreting reality by artists, ranging from the development of oil painting techniques, linear perspective, the invention of printing and photography, to achievements related to the development of information technologies (computers, interfaces), offering a range of tools to create and co-create a work of art by the ...

Technological needs of the modern economy significantly change the nature of engineering education. Today's engineers must be willing to work in the conditions of increasing technological processes and equipment complexity. The article discusses the main challenges and trends in Russian engineering educational development on example of Tobolsk Industrial Institute (branch) of "Tyumen Industrial University." The authors reveal the reasons for graduates' preparation quality declining in technical university training...

The aim of the present study is to bring problems of treatment and rehabilitation of addicted people in Poland closer to the reader. The paper was aimed to indicate changes that have occurred in the last year and those which are possible to be implemented. Due to the increasing tendency for people becoming involved in drug abuse, the study was focused mainly on this social problem. It should be emphasized that the problem of addiction affects both women and men, whereas 'market' saturation in cities has led to a d...

Tactical periodization is a training concept applied in the training of junior team A from “Gic? Popescu” Football Academy. As the main purpose of tactical periodization is to learn how to play, we have tried to build a complex model of training methods and means to increase team progress in terms of players’ individual quality and the quality of the team game as well. In all training sessions we have comprehensively prepared all the moments of the game, defending attack, offensive and defensive transitions, ...

In the last decades, there has been a discussion about teachersВ’ professional development in Slovakia but also in the European context. Researches show that Slovak teachers have lost their professional status in Slovakia. Their initial and continuing education is strongly theoretical and formal, the development of their practical skills and team working is not supported. As a research team, we have created a Model of professional development of teachers in schools which reflects actual problems of teachersВ’ prof...

The information age shifts focus in professional education from teaching to studying. Consequently University students are to organize their independent learning. One of the most productive ways of self-learning is making ample use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT)-aided education. In the Russian Federation the Federal Law “On Education in the Russian Federation” no 273-FZ introduced in December 2012 imposes an obligation of using various technologies including ICT. Vast application of Inter...

The theoretical study presents partial results of the project "Management of the discipline in the classroom at the primary school". The main objective of the project is to create, apply and evaluate an optimal model of discipline management in the classroom, which influences the effectiveness of teaching and leadership in the field of self-control and self-regulation. The positive learning climate in a classroom requires the teacher to focus on modifying but especially on preventing unwanted pupils' behaviour. Th...

The paper deals with and analyzes the efficiency of certain body strength development procedures using weight training exercises on mesomorph subjects aged 19-21 from the University Politehnica of Bucharest. The purpose of the research is to determine which of the mesomorph subjects being situated in the three groups obtained superior results at the barbell squat exercise by using different body strength development procedures. The procedures used in the research are the following: the procedure of weight training...

The article examines the characteristics of behavior in a conflict of students of various nationality backgrounds. The research goal is to reveal potential possibility of studentsВ’ conflict prevention in a multinational institution. The research objective is to elicit specific conflict behavior types adhered to the students of different nationalities. The article represents the results of an empirical study of the characteristics of behavior in the conflict of the students. The two nationalities that were viewed ...