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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 ...

Under the conditions of global business and permanently growing Information technology (IT) sector, Information Systems (IS) have gained a very important role for companies in order to support their operations, data organization and communications, coordinate decision-making processes and business management as a general rule. There may be differences among IS education programs due to the fact that both technical and business colleges offer Information Systems courses and degrees. IS education goes beyond softwar...

The aim of the study was to establish correlations between participation of children with cerebral palsy (CP) in hippotherapy classes and their social functioning. A qualitative strategy was adopted in the study, with the focus on case study methodology. The analysis concerned changes in social functioning of twelve children with CP. It was adopted for the purposes of this study that potential changes will be analysed in terms of the development of social competencies and functioning within basic social roles (a c...

Biocompatibility of denture base materials is a key problem in modern dentistry. Different dental alloys induce different biological and structural modifications over the gingival mucosa. The aim of our study was to determine the structural modifications over the gingival mucosa induced by dental materials using the morphometrical analysis. Our study was based on 24 gingival mucosa biopsies analyzed using the classical histological method followed by morphometrical analysis using Lucia G 4.7 software. The software...

The authors focus on the issue of pupilsВ’ 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 parentsВ’ duties is to support schoolchildren to prepare for lessons at home. The aim of the study is to determine and analyze the current views o...

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 ...

Nowadays launched worldwide programs for the gifted comprise 2-10% of population that is significantly less than the existing necessity. The most number of the potentially gifted children remains unrevealed because either the necessary diagnostic research is not conducted or the used methods are not capable of revealing the potential (hidden) giftedness. This is especially typical of rural schools of the Russian hinterland. In this paper we present methodological basis for creation a system for identifying and dev...

Medical tools are often treated as a supporting on the background of the treatment and care of the patient. Their importance is overlooked because the knowledge and skills of the doctor to the forefront. But medical tools has an important means for the recovery of a patient's health from a specialist point of view. Work tools may have a significant impact on the way the operating techniques or other treatments affect the human body. In addition, the limited work space and tools in themselves affect the physician's...

Education represents one of the most powerful tools that a society can use for sustainable development. Nowadays, the role and the importance of education for individuals and society at large is continually growing. Some of the advantages that can be obtained through sound education processes can be as follows: we will be able reduce poverty, increase income, enhance economic growth, promote healthier lives, diminish fertility rates, reduce the prevalence of malnutrition, reduce maternal deaths, prevent HIV transm...

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...

Attraction of foreign resources has become more topical for international companies in order to be able to assure good results of their business operations, as there are often situations that the resources and expertise available on the domestic market may appear to be insufficient for the development of the business, and this is a key reason why the studied international information technology company involves foreign personnel. The aim of the study is to investigate the most significant deficiencies in the proce...

Currently, in Russia, introduced a system of inclusive education aimed at reducing social discrimination against children with disabilities. Nevertheless, many children who study on an equal basis with healthy children face with the problem of motor adaptation, which subsequently becomes the reason for the reduction of psychological and social adaptation in general. For improving the motor adaptation, it is necessary to study the physiological and biomechanical foundations of the movement, based on which it will b...

The article is devoted to the problem of developing an inclusive approach in the framework of modern education. The authors seek to show that the inclusive approach plays a decisive role in providing high-quality education for all students without exception. The article describes the legal foundations of inclusive education, substantiates its relevance to the present day and examines its main functions. The authors describe the barriers that can arise on the way of introducing inclusion in the educational process ...

One of the factors of specialist competitiveness increasing in any field is foreign languages skills. Requirements to foreign language skills assume professional communication forming of future specialists of the technical direction and for this purpose it is necessary to create a situation close to real communication. The article is devoted to foreign languages training of future civil engineers by individual approach on the example of the national and regional unit "Construction of Yakut traditional dwelling Bal...

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...

Introduction: Anaerobic power is an important factor determining physical performance in competitive sports. The aim of this paper is to analyze the anaerobic power of athletes involved in various competitive sports which require different forms of training, and to describe the effect of each groupВ’s specialized training over a period of one year on the anaerobic indicators defined by the 30 second Wingate test. Method: The study involved 15 soccer players (SP), 12 practitioners of martial arts (MA), 15 weightlif...

The research shows that cancerous disease is formed under the combined action of various endogenous factors (age, sex, gentle factors, pre-existing diseases), exogenous factors - environmental factors (air, soil and water pollution with noxes and chemicals), stress factors. Among the exogenous factors, it has been scientifically proven that the nutrition has a decisive role in the emergence and evolution of malignant tumors. It is estimated that 50% of cases of cancer in women and 45% in males are due to nutrition...

The article analyses information management and communication abilities of the students of Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS) degree programme. The research objective is to empirically justify the content of studentsВ’ information management and interpersonal communication skills within natural science programmes. The concept of information management abilities is operationalized taking into consideration the theoretical information management skills model SCONUL (Society of College, National and University Li...

A number of serious consequences for the person, his organism and its safety has resulted from transition from post-industrial to information society. One of such consequences are information overloads. Information overload is only a factor that is somehow connected in the future with negative consequences for a person. The problem of information stress as a form of psychological stress was revealed today. Information overload, first of all, affect the emotional component of stress that acts as a kind of trigger f...

Our study focuses on learning characteristics of students attending initial teacher education (ITE) program for bachelor degree in preschool and primary school teaching. Previous research conducted [1], [2], [3], [8] showed that there are significant particularities in ITE that are related to professional maturity levels, multi-leveled usage of learning styles and an internal locus of control. Our approach aims to look for a well determined pattern in succeeding during the first year of ITE, so we can generate a p...

The article deals with the topical problem - the innovative activity of a modern teacher, a teacher of a foreign language. The introduction of pedagogical innovations means the use and application in practice of new methods and technologies, tools, changing and adapting the known methodology in the new conditions of integrity, openness and pragmatism of education. The Concept for the Development of Russian Education from 2016 to 2020 states a competence approach as the bestto comply with the requirements of the Fe...

The aim of media education is to increase individual and social awareness of media, show how media work, how they influence the audience and also how to use them. Such education can take place at informal and formal (school) levels. In both cases, there is an intentional educational effect on individuals with the objective to give them the tools to receive media content and decode, analyse and evaluate it. Through media education, individuals come to recognise the forms of media communication and they should learn...

The article emphasizes the problem of integrating basic and additional education, which is an important condition for the transition to a new standard of education. This means that for the first time the basic and additional education in Russian school could become equal, mutually complementary components and thereby they can create a national educational standard. At the present time, a number of contradictions concerning the integration of basic and additional education have intensified in the context of the imp...

Background: The priority direction of modern Russian education is orientation to the humanistic nature of training. In the center of educational system there is a spirituality. Spirituality of the personality - the highest step of intellectual and moral development of the person. A key element of the humanistic direction in pedagogics and psychology is the theory of self-actualization. Self-actualization assumes education of such qualities of the personality as ability to take the responsibility, creativity, refle...

The actual task of modern economic education is to bring the content of curricula in accordance with the new achievements of economic science. This article discusses the results of a critical review of economic theory and practice, which is based on the experience of research into the latest global economic recession, and their implications for the study and teaching of the economy. A critical analysis of the basic concepts of economic science revealed an insufficient understanding of the process of economic chang...

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 ...

The aim of the article is to describe the direction of change in the internationalization of higher education institutions. It seems that although medieval universities remained organizations with a high level of internationalization, the transformation to the Humboldt Model has shifted the main burden of activity to the level of nation states. It was not until the second half of the twentieth century that the trend towards internationalization of higher education and higher education was developed on a global sca...

Within the context of educators human resource development in the Russian Federation the new phase of development of employer and employee relations in the educational institution comes followed by the introduction of teacherВ’s professional standard and the productive contract with employees of educational institutions. The productive contract is a new type of labor relationships which should be based on the assessment of effectiveness of each workerВ’s activity. This type of labor agreement promotes the increase...

Decision-making about new products is crucial for the growth and prosperity of any company, especially in the rapidly changing medical device market. In recent years the issue of evaluation of investment effectiveness into medical devices has been intensively solved both at private and national level. The most common methods can be divided into three groups: 1. strategic and financial valuation of projects (e.g., NPV, IRR, DCF), 2. weighting and scoring of products and product criteria (e.g., analytic hierarchy pr...

Over the past ten years, immigrants represented 70% of the increase in the workforce in Europe. Highly skilled labor migration is an important part of all migration flows. Skills are a pathway to employability and prosperity. Skills gaps and mismatches are striking. Many people work in jobs that do not match their talents. At the same time, 40% of European employers have difficulty finding people with the skills they need to grow and innovate. Fourth Industrial Revolution is characterized by a fusion of technologi...

Our paper tackles the long-discussed processes of internationalization and globalization that is taking place in the sphere of higher education. The purpose of the research is to determine the underlying factors in studentsВ’ choice of a university and a country of study. We carry out comprehensive evaluation of attractiveness of high education in the world according to the student mobility criteria. A research of English-language programs offering by the Russian top universities included in the QS World Universit...

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

Life satisfaction and related work-life balance is often discussed in connection with working professionals, but it concerns everybody, including students. We attempted to identify what the key factors that influence life satisfaction in university students are and how these may influence their work-life balance. The case study included four selected sets of respondents from among university students of all ages, both in full and part-time study programmes of School of Business Administration in Karvina, Silesian ...

Providing opportunities of lifelong learning is the actual problem of modern system of training in the field of education. The last research to achieve the lifelong learning allowed to set that it is not only the articulation between all the existing institutions with administrative measures which could include high school and training system. The matter of this appearance is providing for individ the problem area for a continuous process of self-realization and creative self-development. In our research work the ...

Proverbs and sayings, traditions and customs of the country serve as a bright reflection of national identity. They are collected and transmitted from generation to generation in written texts, primarily in works of fiction. In the process of reading and translating texts containing a large amount of linguistic and cultural information, foreign students are faced with the problem of understanding these words. This is due to the fact that they belong to the layer of nonequivalent lexis, which is present in every la...

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 risk of having a musculoskeletal injury or work-related disorder may be high in dental practice. Sit-down dentistry is not without potential harm to the dentist or if equipment or other constraints create postural problems. Surveys of musculoskeletal disorders of dentists are few, and lower limbs pathology is sometimes neglected. {{The aim}} of this paper is to investigate occupational health problems involving lower limbs in Romanian dentists who work in Constanta city. {{Method}}. A pre-tested, self-administ...

This work is dedicated to the formation of the management strategy of human resources of Government autonomic health institution "Children's Republican Clinical Hospital of Ministry of Health of the Republic of Tatarstan" on the basis of the implementation of the principles of process management using strategic management tools. The relevance of the study is the transition to a new stage of development of the institution in connection with the completion of the implementation of the regional program of modernizati...

The current educational system and market economy orientation, in the context of the European UnionВ’s educational policy, create an interconnected and complex relation. Therefore, the integral topic of the European educational system is to flexibly react to socio-political changes and increase a nationВ’s productivity. Thus, pressures from the economy significantly influence not only educational policy, but also pedagogical theory and practice. Schools and universities increasingly adopt the new public management...

The paper focuses on some medical and sociological problems of Inborn Gender Identity Disorder Syndrome (IGIDS), the so-called transsexualism. It reflects on an in-depth reading of publications exploring the question of transsexualism, as well as the experiences resulting from medical care of such individuals. In short, the analysis bases on both medical experience in diagnostics and treatment of people with this syndrome, as well as several publications in the field of social sciences. The aim of the paper is an ...

The paper deals with metacognition and metacognitive skills in university teacher students. The main goal is to identify the key didactic competences of students which lead to the development of their critical thinking. The level of pre-graduate students’ critical thinking is a determining factor for developing of this thinking in pupils at elementary and secondary schools (ISCED 2 and 3), for which teacher students are prepared. Metacognition can be defined in various ways. Almost all definitions take in consid...

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...

Many women who give birth vaginally experience some degree of perineal trauma either because of spontaneous tearing or episiotomy. The routine midwivesВ’ care for women with perineal trauma after childbirth is very important. Interventions of midwifery are oriented to promote healing and restore tissue. The aim of this paper was to identify, analyse and evaluate the midwivesВ’ care for women with perineal trauma after childbirth at postpartum ward in the first days of puerperium. Research sample was consisted of 5...

The purpose of the article is to identify the features and trends of the migratory intentions of modern Russian students, caused by revolutionary changes in the education system. The authors rely on the theory of academic revolution, globalization and transparency of education, global circulation of talents, etc. Methods of research were the analysis of data from sociological research, social and statistical data, and a mass survey of students of several universities in the Urals. As a result of the analysis it wa...

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...

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...

One of the main vectors of the educational development in the digital age is to improve the quality of education and to increase the effectiveness of educational process by using new educational technologies and advanced teaching methods. A key role in this process remains for the teacher, who must master both in innovative pedagogical technologies (blended learning, collaborations, personalized training, etc.) and information technologies (MOOC platforms, learning management systems (LMS), systems for web confere...

Background: Some recent studies showed a growing interest regarding the motivation influencing the career choice in medical field, because right choice can directly influence the academic performance and the career evolution. These studies suggest that the career choice of dental and medical students may be very different. The aim of this study was to provide a comparison of motivation regarding career choice of dental and medical students studying in the same university. Methods The questionnaire for this study w...

The increasingly noticeable Polish population ageing is attracting more and more interest in the problems of ageing. Successful ageing means reaching an old age with insignificant risk of disabilities and illnesses, with high intellectual and physical fitness and maintaining high level of activity. Meeting the needs is the most basic human act that is regarded as extending the humanity. On the one hand, it is expressed by solidarity and commitment to support other members of society and overcoming difficult situat...

Background: For the modern Russian society is characterized as a violation of institutional links between higher education, business, and academic science. This is due to a number of reasons. First of all, the tradition of managing these areas under a centralized state regulation and radical reform of higher education, which is associated with deep restructuring of the entire it system. The One of the priority ways of development of higher education is the expansion of its network of relationships with stakeholder...