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The aim of our study was to assess the relation between anxiety levels, lifestyle characteristics and irritable bowel disease (IBS) in instrumentists, as well as finding the prevalence of symptoms IBS in this group. Material and method. We performed a cross-sectional survey on instrumentalists studying in "Gheorghe Dima" Music Academy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. We used validated questionnaires for music performance anxiety – Music performance anxiety inventory for adolescents and for the irritable bowel disease - th...

The research results of different types of studentsВ’ social activity in the biggest universities of the Ural Federal District are presented in this report. Higher education system in Russia is reformed strictly in accordance with global trends. The ethos of economic efficiency, accountability, standards, productivity, profitability and ubiquitous managerialism dominates in the educational management. Thus, universities are beginning to transform and gradually turn into trans-object industries, which interact with...

Background: The education to the faculty of dental medicine has a special part, the clinical education that require the transfer of learned information into the practice. How learning and teaching take place in the clinical training for the preparation of dental students to progress and to be able to provide patient clinical care on oneВ’s own is a fundamental attribute of dental clinical supervisors. The aim of this study was to assess the studentsВ’ and clinical teachersВ’ perceptions about effective clinical te...

The article is devoted to the problem of studentВ’s cultural self-determination by means of humanitarianly oriented teaching a foreign language. A personВ’s cultural self-determination is the formation of the student as a subject and an object of the public relations, the establishment of the stable relations with the world around us caused by the valuable and semantic contents. The development of the studentsВ’ cultural self-determination in the course of humanitarianly oriented teaching a foreign language repres...

StudentВ’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 professionalВ’s personal qualities structure and with their values, ...

The present study aims to study the relationship between emotional intelligence and satisfaction of using speech technology in the future specialists and experts in the field, students at master speech therapy. Participants were 60 subjects, 30 with speech expertise and 30 students preparing for work in this specialization. The methods used in this study were two questionnaires, including a questionnaire in order to investigate the level of emotional intelligence and a questionnaire regarding satisfaction of using...

Since the 2016/2017 school year, the Czech system of education has undergone certain changes. One of them is common education of all children within mainstream education at all school levels, including kindergarten, except for children with the severest physical or mental handicaps. Further changes include compulsory kindergarten attendance in the last year before compulsory school attendance commencement, the right of two-year-olds to attend kindergarten, and employment of nannies in kindergartens. These are majo...

Background. Rate of early miscarriages is about 10-15% worldwide, and immune causes can play an important role in their pathogenesis. Normally Th2 lymphocytes is predominant subpopulation during early stages of pregnancy, while Th1 lymphocytes, which provide activation of cell immunity, are decreased. Regulatory T-lymphocytes (Treg, Th3) maintain tolerance to self-antigens and suppress excessive inflammatory response and also may be involved in pathogenesis of miscarriages. Th17 lymphocytes (Th17) play an importan...

The article presents the results of an insufficiently discussed issue in the Bulgarian literature about the professional burnout of social workers in the service "Protected Housing". In the real practice, the social worker is a typical social mediator between the vulnerable groups of people and regulating social institutions, civil communities and generally accepted moral norms. At the same time, he is assigned to perform his tasks in a social environment in which social relations are regulated by different legal ...

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...

Didactic competence, operationalized in the educational process, it means much more than a "technique" of carrying out the training tasks or the indispensable information for their fulfilment; It is the result of the teacherВ’s abilities, skills and attitudes, in direct correspondence with the nature and complexity of the instructive-educational objectives, with the exercise of all the didactic abilities, throughout the teacher's socio-professional behavior. In essence, both at European and national level, it is s...

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 researchВ’s results of three years of experie...

Modern educational system needs a communicative and self-organized teacher capable to think flexibly. In our opinion, teachersВ’ professional development consists not only in subject and professional-pedagogical knowledge improvement, but also in motivation for professional -personal development. Nowadays labour optimization depends on many factors, one of which is organization competence. To learn to manage yourself effectively and by own opportunities is not a simple task, however, by means of specific technolog...

In this article the problem of an efficiency of mathematical education of future teacher by means of manifestation of a synergy is discussed. One of the factors of manifestation of a synergy is possibility of an introduction, adaptation and the research of complex knowledge against the identification of "problem zones" in learning of mathematics. The criteria of a choice of "problem zones", the directions and technologies of emergence of synergetic effects in learning mathematics are developed: the content of math...

The purpose of the study was the evaluation of the patients suffering from obesity and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) starting with anthropometric, biochemical, imaging data and the correlation of the serum level of leptin and adiponectin with the histopathological results. Material and method: we included in this study 20 men and 34 women diagnosed with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease by recent (under 6 months) hepatic biopsy, taking usual blood samples, leptin and adiponectin. Results: According to th...

In the course of education a significant role is played by motivation of students. The study of academic motivation is one of the fundamental problems in pedagogics and psychology, since an efficient interaction between teachers and students is possible within understanding of their motivation. To teach in todayВ’s environment it is necessary to be able to interpret such pshyco-pedagogical characteristics of a person as motivation, independent behavior, active performance and ability to reach oneВ’s goals. To asse...

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...

In Russia, the international migration is growing. In this situation, it is important to identify and assess the main social risks of international migration. The construction of social risks is reflected by public opinion. The analysis, based on public opinion polls data and statistical indicators, allows to find out mail social risks and fears of population. The main methods are telephone survey (N=1017) and survey on the streets of St. Petersburg (N=821), that are conducted in 2016. Additionally, a secondary an...

In this empirical research we have treated the correlation between external and internal motivation of teachers and their competencies for work with students in school. In this empirical research we have treated the correlation between external and internal motivation of teachers and their competencies for work with students in school. In this empirical research we have treated the correlation between external and internal motivation of teachers and their competencies for work with students in school. The above wr...

The article considers the peculiarities of social status of elderly population in Kazakhstan, and their need for special social services. Special social services to elderly people in Kazakhstan is considered as a practical activity, the legal framework has been indicated, the care for elderly people in social homes and centers of provision of special social services, as well as some issues concerning social work aimed at the formation of healthy lifestyle and development of new forms of social services have been s...

Background: In the previous authorsВ’ publications it was shown that modeling of fundamental properties of mathematics within the teaching process is very efficient. A group of fundamental properties consists of several so-called dualistic properties, which are inherent in all the branches of mathematics in all periods of its history. The purpose of this article is to bring to light some up-to-date factors, which generate a new appearance of the dualistic properties as well as their gradual modification. Methods: ...

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 paper presents a brief summary of the research on the educational principles of national public broadcasting systems the new media environment. Background: the purpose of the study is to provide versatile and objective examination, comparison and analysis of foreign experience of public television educational programs and to identify general principles of its functioning. Methods: for the purpose of verifying the theoretical ideas the analysis of foreign web-publications on the establishment and development of...

Oncological disease is a serious illness that affects not only the sick individual but also the family system. Oncological illness has an impact on all dimensions of life, but also on the processes and functions of the family system, on individual members of the family community. The aim of the research was to find out how a family with a cancer patient works. We focused on identifying the impact of oncological illness on the quality of family life, the needs of a family with a cancer patient, and the overall func...

The purpose of this work is to study new and more effective ways of teaching English to EFL students as the timeliness of the issue studied in this article is attributable to the high level of the English language proficiency which potential professionals are required to have due to high competitiveness in the context of the worldwide globalization. The article represents the analysis of advisability and effectiveness of using an authentic feature film in teaching English to EFL students of Kazan Federal Universit...

Nowadays one of the main tasks is the ability of students to self-study due to Federal State Educational Standards 3+ in the system of Russian higher education. The proper organization of studentsВ’ self-education will promote efficient education and monitoring of level of formation of the common cultural competences set by federal standards of higher education: ???-2. One of the modern directions of the organization of self-study having high potential is the use of information and communication technologies. We h...

Various pieces of research have agreed on the fact that Emotional Intelligence (EI) is crucial when it comes to career development and it can also be important in determining personality traits. We assume that the emotional intelligence profile of engineering students is a function of the configuration of a set of complex traits. The objective consists in building an emotional intelligence profile of a group of engineering students by extracting some definition attributes of the latter. To this purpose, we selecte...

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...

The educational system in Romania has known many transformations in the last 25 years of democracy. The orientation towards the European values, to multiculturalism, and also the liberalization of the work market, all in all let to a reevaluation of the domestic values and traditions. Family is one of the most important paradigms of establishment in this period of transition in the Romanian society. Without this important segment of our social existence the institutions implicated in the politics of education coul...

Nowadays youth feel freer and less limited by rules and dogmas. Is family influence on the choice of specialty as strong as before? This paper analyzes the changes in family influence on studentsВ’ career choices last five years in Russia (2010/2014). The factor of interest is the correlation between the studentsВ’ and graduatesВ’ specialties and what some family members previously studied. Based on the RLMS-HSE data collected in series of nationally representative surveys the panel data discrete choice model is c...

The aim is to construct a functional model of a centralized admission campaign in Russian universities. As a research tool used methodology for functional modelling IDEF0. The main result was the functional model, decomposed into blocks "Enter data in the federal information system to ensure the state final examination and receiving", "Carry the exam and the state final exams", "Enter the competition results", "Carry entrance examinations in higher educational institutions", "Conduct national competition". The mod...

Background: Originality is the main specific feature of mathematical Olympiad problems. Formulating these problems requires a special kind of creativity and only a few people have this ability. They are called problem composers, and Rosen Nikolaev is one of them. H? creates mathematical tasks every day. More than 14 of them have been selected for the The National Student Olympiad in Mathematic and more than 40 for the Bulgarian Mathematical Olympiad. Such specialists are unique, not only because of their special a...

The present article is primarily devoted to the issue of the idea of culture as a factor that helps to create a symbolic level of specific form of the identity. In the first level, we are dealing with different definitions of the term culture. In the second level, we are talking about mythology as an aspect, which also forms a kind of cultural and political context. In the second level then we are talking about mythology as the aspects which also shapes the social and political identity. Social identity helps shap...

The research aim of this paper is to reveal the repertoire and the role of personalized images in the overall structure of the image of Europe as perceived by the young generation in todayВ’s Russia. The study is based on the theoretical model of the image of Europe as an integral part of the political picture of the world, this model encompasses the methodological approaches of phenomenology, constructivism and visual sociology. Twelve focus group discussions with representatives of various groups of youth includ...

Social work has a negative image in public opinion. It determines important barriers for quality social work education and social work practice. The main goal of the research has discovered opinions students and social workers toward main ideas about social work importance and professional development. The research is based on sociological questionnaire of 445 students, social workers and other social groups (Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2015-2016). In result we have described students and social workers perceptions of ...

In working life occupational health and safety is an important issue. The factory workers who feel sick may not have high performance at work. The feeling of illness will lead the worker to depression. Some of the problems of workerВ’s health and safety arise from the individual some of them are from the workplace. With this study it has been aimed to build a model revealing the relations among the individual variants such as perceived pain, The Cornell Musculoskeletal Discomfort Questionnaire. The aim of this res...

In this Study we aimed to reveal the frequently underestimated role that bodyweight exercises may play in building Physical Fitness. Our own bodies offer us all the equipment we need to get in shape. Old-school, forgotten and disregarded Calisthenics, or more fashionable Pilates or Stretching exercises may offer us plenty of alternative tools to replace the machine’s assisted “modern” Fitness programs. Method: The study was conducted on 40 female Students of "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy ...

In this paper we examine how cross-cultural aspects influence Kazakh and Russian students when they form the image of the managerВ’s profession. Our research based on the data of comparative sociological survey of Kazakh and Russian university students studying management from the first to the fourth year of study. We have found that the share of Kazakh students, who plan to work as a manager in business, or in public administration sphere, and who has an experience of such work is bigger than that of Russian stud...

The relevance of the research topic is due to the need to study ways for overcoming the contradictions between the biological and social time of preschool children. In the study the time is objectified in terms of the biological and social age of the child. The concept of asynchronicity – the discrepancy between biological and social age is revealed. The interpretation of the concept of a behavioral strategy for overcoming the asynchronicity is presented. The object of the study is children of preschool age and ...

Focusing on the way universities influence the stylistic and architectural direction of young architect students, this article aims to highlight how the curriculum succeeds in educating their preferences towards expressive and chromatic coherence. This study examines three main directions: architectural, chromatic and stylistic language. The target group is composed of three categories of students from the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Polytechnics Timisoara, Specialization of Furniture and Interior ...

The article deals with the National Qualifications Framework tertiary education in the Czech Republic and its implementation. The theoretical part of the article deals with so-called descriptors. These descriptors are outputs from learning and we use them to describe general abilities, knowledge and skills, which students learn in given subject. The aim of the practical part of the article is to present the way of solutions and outcomes of the project В„The innovation of Microeconomics course with a focus on the c...

The article suggests solutions to the problems that may arise in the practical implementation of a new approach to the distribution of state-funded places among the universities, subordinated to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and the competition among the applicants. These problems include the excess of educational organization material resources with a sharp increase in the number of applicants recommended for enrollment; the mechanisms for taking into account additional creative ...

In the passage into the third millennium, mankind has gone through many changes. Among them or together with them was noticed the belying of the “forecasts” about “the end of religion”. One can feel even the need to re-evaluate the role and the functions of religion worldwide, at a beginning of millennium in which the existential void represents a phenomenon in the information chaos, the confusion of values is much greater, and the sense of life and of the family is increasingly threatened. In front of the...

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 Czech Republic, as a signatory of the Convention on the Rights of the Child has vested the capacity to administer the state protection of minor children into the agenda of the general municipal offices of the municipalities of higher order. The protection of the rights and entitlements of minor children s conducted by the authorities of social and legal protection of children (ASLPC hereinafter). These authorities are incorporated in the system of state administration in a way which enables them to provide com...

The aim of the paper is to introduce how to implement gamification elements into an online digital platform to create a digital, user experience based university course. First a brief introduction to gamification, game design elements and advantages are introduced. To understand the advantages of the different game elements (e.g. points, leaderboards, freedom of choice) to use, pilot tests were held for 2 semesters, in which 118 and 156 students participated. In these pilots, some of the course elements were teste...

The global struggle for resources as well as increased life expectancy and birth rates conditions the search for new forms of satisfying the needs of the countryВ’s population by using artificial combinations of the potentials of natural organisms. To prevent RussiaВ’s insurmountable social and economic backwardness in the area of new opportunities and also to facilitate the change in shaping the public opinion and the citizensВ’ outlooks, it is vital to establish the actual coordinates and vectors of development ...

Socialization is the process by which individuals learn, gradually, through interaction with other peers and participation in social life, norms, values, thinking and knowledge of a particular culture of birth, or in other words, socialization is the interactive communication of values, norms and methods of behavior specific to a group or a society, throughout his life. Deviance is a set of behaviors and conditions that group members judge the most inconsistent with their expectations, norms and values, and which,...

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...

Problem statement: In this paper we aimed to demolish the modern „myth” stating that when it comes to optimize the motor potential, „high-tech”, machine-assisted training is compulsory. This myth is wide spread in modern society. Many people believe that, in order to reach his maximum physical potential, one has to train with last-generation fitness machines. We strongly believe that old school, Progressive Calisthenics may be a viable alternative for improving several aspects of the motor potential of the s...