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Medical services represent one of the essential preconditions of successful military operations. Work of military healthcare personnel, mainly nurses and paramedics, is very important in prehospital care and has a substantial impact on the overall level of survival and mortality of wounded soldiers. It is very important to separate the work of military healthcare personnel employed in the system of military medical support from the work of those who are deployed on the frontline and provide nursing care to fightin...

Background: The style of our life, our decisions and behavior are immediately connected with the state of our health, increase the risk of illness. Lifestyle, including the participation in different forms of activities, is characterized by the dynamics of changes and increased abilities of adaptation to changing life. Taekwon-offers a variety of physical and mental benefits. The purpose of this study was to assess selected aspects of the impact of practicing taekwondo on health-related behaviors. Method: The stud...

Czech society has gradually formulated a number of requirements in its educational policy area especially in the last two years. Pre-primary school is associated with these 3 items: Pre-primary school 1) attendance became mandatory for children in their last year before entering primary school, 2) two-year old children get enrolled. 3) Pre-primary school was tasked with jointly educating all children within mainstream schooling. The research objective was to determine whether the requirements concerning the pre-pr...

The authors analyse the current situation related to methodological and practical aspects of preparation of pedagogical profile bachelors specialising in education for children with disabilities. Integration of inclusive education at schools and universities of the country. Based on the experience of various universities, systemised and created special educational programs of additional education. An important condition of training is the professional self-determination. Methods: the authors of this article to exp...

The purpose of the article is the investigation of the different types of the professional stratification of public servants. The main methodological approaches were system, activity and institutional ones. The base methods which authors have used are the analysis of the documents, including laws and other normative papers, massive questionnaire survey of different groups of servants and an expert survey of their managers. Indicators for the analysis of the characteristics of professional stratification of servant...

In recent times volunteering became more diverse. Its various types and manifestations can increasingly be reflected in different spheres of modern societyВ’s life. The importance of the study of child volunteering is determined by the social meaning of this activity and its educational potential. The study of children and adolescent volunteering is also useful in the context of understanding volunteerism as a broad social phenomenon. The purpose of the article is to examine the child-teen volunteering as local pr...

Adult education requires a special approach to learning material delivery as it targets practical life skills andknowledge. Currently teachers have started widely using various project based case studies. That is why the question "What should an andragogy instructor pay attention to when teaching project -based technology?" is very critical today. The purpose of this study was to define specific characteristics of a project based technology in teacher training. We believe that within the framework of the acmeologi...

Foreign language learners must develop proficiency in the target language. They must find ways to deal with the challenge of learning foreign languages. Learners who are able to regulate their own learning through a variety of metacognitive and cognitive perspectives and procedures are more likely to meet this challenge successfully. This problem has already been studied by different authors. But self-regulation as applied to EMI has not been much developed yet. To bridge this gap this paper examines the self-regu...

The aim of our paper is to carry out a two case comparative study comparing two social A two case comparative study applies the following methods: comparison, questionnaire method. The result at which we arrived rests in finding out with which facility of social services the clients are more satisfied. Our premise is that the respondents in the questionnaire express that they are more satisfied with the private facility of social services. The future research in the given area should make research into costs of pr...

Among the people threatened with marginalization are people with various disabilities, who, for the subjective reasons, have limited opportunities to satisfy their own needs and experience difficulties with social integration. With the democratic standards, these people should be provided support in various areas of life while providing equal opportunities for education and vocational and social life. The social aspect of disabilities is being more and more often emphasized, which means that the problem results no...

The author of the article studies the option of boosting students' motivation and improvement of their communicative competences in a group work, carried out in the form of a psycholinguistic training in the language of speciality, namely English. The phenomenon of a psycholinguistic training is viewed by the author as an acute modern pedagogical and psychological method of influence which helps perfect professional interaction, self-development, growth of leadership qualities and skills of cooperation. The traini...

The urgent medicine is very young and dynamic discipline of health sciences. Work at department, called Emergency or Departments of urgent medicine has to be very quick and arduous. The main aim of management of this department is continuous increase of quality of health care. Very important parts of medicsВ’ teams there are nurses. The nursesВ’ work is essential component of full system of care. We would like to know; what is the impact of this work on the nurses employed at department. The identification of prob...

Visual impairment has a very important psychosocial dimension - it determines the development of an individual's personality, his socialization process, social integration and inclusion into society, his psychological and social well-being too. In the following, we will attempt to outline the basic character of the psychosocial dimension of visual impairment, with an emphasis on the social specifics of a visually impaired individual in the situation of inclusion in educational process in elementary school. As Bakk...

Background: The main aim of the research study presented in paper was finding out the level, relationships and differences in acquiring of technical competences by pupils in 4th grade at primary schools in Slovakia. Research sample consisted of 82 pupils from four 4th grade classes at elementary schools in Central Slovakia. Investigation was carried out during pedagogical practice at lessons of technical education (working lessons) in October – December in 2014 - 2016. Methods: A set of research methods was used...

The aim of the paper is to explain the specific structure of training (not only in the Czech Republic), its characteristics and its principles. It will also be useful to include some new, hitherto carefully hidden – also to point out and highlight some as-yet unpublished inside information about some specific training concepts of this martial art. An integral part of this training is to develop the internal energy called Qigong and some specific techniques within the different levels of performance in Kung Fu. Q...

The present paper proposes to identify the perception of the students of University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, the largest technical university in Romania, regarding the quality of the university educational services through a quantitative, descriptive research. This study is a conclusive research, the collected data being the subject of a quantitative analysis. Their purpose is to test hypotheses and to analyze the relationships between variables. The sample consists of students from the master and doctoral course...

Tough competition caused by a market economy makes thousands of enterprises and organisations in any region of the world and under any economic conditions focus on quality management and quality assurance, which makes it necessary to persistently develop and introduce new quality systems, programmes and standards. Quality assurance is necessary for an enterprise to stay in business and increase the number of customers and, therefore, raise sales, as well as to ensure a stable, steady and fully controlled process o...

This article focuses on researching the basis of the quality of life category as an indicator that reflects governance effectiveness. Were modernized methods of estimating the quality of life in the region and conducted their integration with the method of analysis of hierarchies to determine the coefficients of the parameters influence. The article gives a comprehensive analysis of the category quality of life in the context of the population in the Volga Federal District regions. On the basis of this comparative...

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...

The article presents the authorВ’s methodology of reconstruction of Max WeberВ’s conception of political power. Its universal character allows to apply this methodology to reconstruction of theories of any other classics of social science. Scattered thesis of Weber about power and domination are systematized in the logical verified conception, using of which allows either to conduct a comparative analysis with other theories of power and to analyze practices of state governance and work out directions of state pol...

Social workers play various roles in their practice. Generally, the role is defined as a way expected behavior linked to a certain social status. Foreign authors often emphasize the importance of the role of advocate, which is related to the advocacy and protection of clients' rights and therefore this role is inherently related to the mission of social work. However, Slovak authors discuss this role only little. Therefore the aim of our research was to find out how is this role reflected by social workers in prac...

Reflective practice has become a very important concept in teacher education. The current article focuses on the reflective approach to cultural experiences of pre-service teachers of foreign languages. It is maintained that reflexivity of cultural experience is considered as an assessment criterion for the cultural competence of foreign language learners. Hence, the aim of the research is to investigate the reflective skills of pre-service teachers of foreign languages concerning their cultural experience gained ...

Society interest to the issue of personal fulfillment and self-actualization where professional activity plays a special part has increased due to social and economic changes in the Russian Federation, democratization and humanization in particular. The success of professional identity of the graduates of educational institutions has become the foundation upon which the requirements to the quality of experts training have been built. Nowadays about one third of young people in Russia isn't able to adapt to present...

Rapidly changing environment and intercommunication is becoming an increasingly important topic of large organizations business strategy choice. Calahane et al. [1] on organization climate research has stated that the organizational climate is the individual's collective perception in the common system of the work environment and the framework. Today's business leaders require high flexibility, agility and responsiveness what builds organization`s psychological climate. Kurt T. Dirk and Donald L. Ferrin [2] meta-a...

The Republic of Macedonia, as one of the youngest countries in the world has been faced with many challenges and obstacles in its strives towards democracy, building of democratic institutions and above all establishing a functioning and generally acceptable democratic culture of mutual cooperation, trust, understanding and tolerance. Besides, being a country of many ethnicities, the Republic of Macedonia has a very characteristic religious landscape. Representatives of the three largest monotheistic religions, in...

The major research objective was to study the influence of the studentsВ’ religiosity on their moral consciousness. Religion has always been the most effective and widespread means of maintaining social order. It has played a variety of roles in different social contexts and, as a subsystem of society, changed along with it depending on the specific historical circumstances. In the socialist countries, positioning itself as atheistic, the level of religiosity of the population was extremely low. Currently, there 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...

Concept of connectivism and possibilities of its usage in education is very actual topic but up until now it did not get enough attention. Connectivism as a theory of education for a digital age is connected with usage of social networks. This paper is focused on the connection between social networks, homework and learning. Paper presents some of the partial results of use of social networks in education from the point of relation of the extent of intentionality to the learning skills of various age groups. Main ...

Backgrounds: A long-term, as well as acute, exposure to stress and the specific demands of working as a helping professional increase the amount of subjective distress and may trigger the symptoms of psychological and physical disorders. The screening survey analyses psychological outcomes of working as a social worker and verifies the role of salutoprotective lifestyle factors during oneВ’s exposure to distress. Methods: The following standardised questionnaires were used: the Symptom checklist-90 (SCL 90; Deroga...

The practice of inclusive education gets increasingly obvious in gains more support and interest in education system in Russia as well as all the world over. There is a distinctly declared agreement in the world that all children have the right to education regardless of their race, gender, nationality, disability, etc. In this regard, the emergence of a system of inclusive education is, on the one hand, an important step towards the elimination of discrimination against healthy children and children with disabili...

Cooperation between schools and parents is a broad and extremely important part of school life. It is not only the involvement of parents in school life through the School Board or the participation of parents in regular information meetings with teachers in classrooms. The effort of the school is to impress parents directly in school, to share common joys, to solve common problems in education as well as to educate their children and cooperate within the interests of children. These processes facilitate a persona...

Second Language Learning is thought to be a fast developing sphere of applied linguistics. The increase in international contacts in all spheres of communication has provided an abundant practical material to analyze verbal communication and new approaches to teaching English as a foreign language. Contemporary studies in linguistics and psychology have proved that verbal communication should be considered an interaction of people with the intention to produce a motivated persuasive affect on the communication par...

The objective of the paper is to present an overview of the findings about the attitudes to (and perceptions of) sexuality in adults with intellectual disability (ID). The overview was produced by means of an analysis, comparison, discussion and synthesis of relevant scientific findings in accordance with the defined criteria. The search procedure was performed in line with the specifics of the research strategy using keywords; the search focused fulltexts of scientific papers published between 2000 and 2017 (prim...

The quality of life of a person with severe visual impairment can be and is influenced by a large number of variable factors. One of these factors is the personality of a person with severe visual impairment, which is then further influenced by the environment in which he grows up and then moves. In this paper we will focus on two / respectively three basic variables - the personality of an individual with severe visual impairment, his / her family and then his / her employment. The family of the people with visua...

Background: Chronic pain complaints are modulated by many psychological and psychosocial factors. Low back pain is a complex multidimensional phenomenon. The aim of the investigation was to determine if the personality features and the subjective feeling of pain management participate in the variance of depressive symptoms and automatic negative thoughts at chronic musculoskeletal pain patients. Method: 84 musculoskeletal pain patients of Pain Treatment Outpatient Clinic (duration since initial onset of pain>3 mon...

Cancer is a dreaded disease due to its magnitude, prevalence and incidence. In connection with this, a number of theories have emerged that explain the possible causes of the origin and development of this disease. Enormous burden enters to life of cancer patients with the onset of disease. Disease has not only a biological, but also a psychic, social and spiritual component, and disease affects all these components of life at the same time. It is not just the diagnosis itself and its impact on the health of the i...

This contribution is connected with the deviant behaviour of children from socially excluded areas in the Czech Republic between 14 -15 years of age and their self-evaluation of such inappropriate behaviour. The theoretical introductory part of the work characterises the most common social pathologic phenomena which are more frequent during puberty. Also the issues of socially excluded areas will be discussed including the social handicaps, which are overt among children from these areas. A certain amount of atten...

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...

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 t...

The proof of differentiation of estimates of quality and availability of services of institutions of infrastructure and satisfaction with the living environment with families of the different types living in city and rural areas of Russia acts as the purpose of work. Conclusions of a research are constructed on the analysis of data of the official statistical account during 2005-2014 and results of the representative selective research "Complex Observation of Living Conditions of the Population" conducted in the m...

The quality of life is at present estimated both on the grounds of material values determining the societyВ’s standard of life and through non-material values, which affect the level of human satisfaction with life, such as good health, leisure time, a level of independence or social relations. Measuring the quality of life is a complex task, because it regards subjective aspects, which are difficult to express on a numerical scale. This article presents problems of constructing a universal meter describing the le...

Occupational therapists are specialists who facilitate independence and support participation of their clients in occupations that are personally meaningful to them, in order to enhance their well-being and quality of life. One of the core values which support occupational therapy (OT) practice is viewing the client as someone who acts on the environment. The history of OT at university level in Poland is very short – the teaching of future occupational therapists started only 5 years ago. Persons active in the ...

This contribution is connected with the social skill development of children between the ages 14 -15 who come from socially excluded areas and are educated in non-mainstream informal education realised in low-threshold social clubs for children and youth in the Czech Republic. The theoretical introduction of the thesis characterizes the approaches towards informal education in the Czech Republic, the methods applied and possible realisation of intervention and education itself. Furthermore, another discussed issue...

In order to develop the model of analysis there is a need for definitions of a variety of approaches and policies with regard to conflict sensitivity and social inclusion. One of the precondition of building multiethnic society is to design public policies that are conflict sensitive and socially inclusive for all the segments of the society. This analysis will focus on policy making process in terms of ethnic inclusiveness and sensitiveness. For the purpose of this report at this stage, we will present the follow...

This report describes a document management system in the university related to the learning process. As an example of the application and shows a faculty. The design of the system has developed using three-tier architecture, which allows the separation of key components for efficient reuse of code and allow options for parallel development. The development of system allowing professors and students involved in the development increase their knowledge and acquire practical skills in the design, development and imp...

As more and more companies invest a lot of money and effort into building their own corporate universities, the economic effectiveness of corporate universities is under increased scrutiny. However, not many researchers have addressed the issue of the evaluation of learning effectiveness in corporate universities. In our article, the main methods, applied by famous corporate universities to measure the results that corporate education delivers, are analysed. The importance of the evaluation of learning effectivene...

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...

The article analyzes translational reading in terms of translation studies, didactics of translation, personality- and activity-oriented, sociocultural and discursive approaches, which made it possible to identify specific features of this type of reading. For translators of scientific and technical texts, reading is an important work stage, constituting a more complex type of speech activity and having its own specific features that distinguish it from unprofessional reading. In terms of the competence approach, ...

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 re...

Background: Stress has turn out to be an important topic in academic environment as well as in our society. Many studies, in the field of behavioral science have carried out extensive research on stress and its outcomes and concluded that the topic needed more attention. The profession of medicine and dental medicine are considered extremely stressful for all stages of the medical career. The aim of this study was to identify different factors of stress among dental and medical students at Faculty of Medicine and ...