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The aim of the survey was to map out selected general practitioners’ view on primary prevention. To achieve this objective, qualitative research through semi-structured interview was chosen. This interview was based on the standardized HLS-EU-Q47 questionnaire of the EU HLS Consortium for the European Health Literacy Survey (HLS-EU), which is designed for mapping health literacy. The interview included 26 questions arranged into five categories and has been designed to find out the opinion of general practitioners...

Background: Although the health is considered to be the highest value in our individual lives, the health care is often neglected. Health care is closely connected with health literacy which has been, especially recently, growing more as an integral part of evaluation of quality of life as well as our societal state. The Roma people who are the largest ethnic minority in the Czech Republic, population of which has never been a homogenous group comprised of only one ethnicity, are often mentioned in association wit...

It has always been a common place that learning phrasal verbs is the hardest English vocabulary for students. To learn phrasal effectively either on their own or in class, students must be made to elaborate an appropriate approach to deal with the new notion and use it naturally and properly referring to the executive functioning skill of organizing thoughts. As many teachers may know, it takes a lot of experience to present phrasals to students to be accepted in the right and long-term way. To develop own methods...

The article is devoted to intonational patterns of the speech of modern Australian business environment (businessmen, economists) representatives and the dependence of intonation on social characteristics of communicants. In our opinion, this issue is one of important directions of modern linguistics. The target audience of economic discourse has a particular impact on the tonal composition of language. The material of the study included several sources, containing samples of natural speech representing interview ...

Nowadays, access to medicine is a crucial precondition for many disease prevention programmes and the treatment component of virtually all diseases. The availability of qualitative pharmaceutical care services is an integral part of the national welfare system, thus their quality maintenance and improvement under conditions of budget austerity is one of the main challenges for policy makers and pharmaceutical companies. The current research is a continuation of several related research projects implemented in scop...

This paper presents a description of the main characteristics of the German banking language, especially from the perspective of lexicology. The paper classifies the banking and finance language, which is characterized by the specific lexical features and terms, as a language for special purposes. The banking terminology and other words relating to banking are used in various forms of the internal and external banking communication, such as documents for bank clients, contracts, printed forms or announcements but ...

Many factors distort teachers’ assessment and evaluation of students in the process of education. These distorting factors include the phenomenon where teachers stigmatize the varieties students bring from home, and according to my hypothesis during educational assessment students’ performance is judged against this variety even in cases where factual knowledge is to be measured. Therefore, in my research I examine the extent to which students’ vernaculars influence the validity of the evaluation and teachers’ att...

The purpose of this study is to provide a description of the nature of palatalized and nonpalatalized consonants in the Russian and Japanese languages on the basis of comparative-typological studies as well as to characterize the manifestations of Russian-Japanese interference at the speech perception level. The basic research methods are the comparative-typological method, empirical method, generalization of analysis results to identify the phonetic interference, method of phonological oppositions, and rules for ...

INTRODUCTION: The support of cardiovascular health constitutes an important part of the strategy of national and multinational health projects. Nurses-educators can play an important role in primary prevention of cardiovascular health. GOAL: The extensive research project is focused on the educational activities of the nurse in cardiology, on preventive interventions, on the modification of influenceable risk factors in persons with high risk of origination of cardiovascular diseases and in cardiovascular patients...

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the preferable qualifications according to the needs of entrepreneur in various careers and Thai Qualifications Framework of Higher Education (TQF). This framework focuses on 5 aspects of learning which are ethical and moral development, acquisition of knowledge, development of cognitive skills, development of interpersonal skills and personal responsibility and development of analytical and communication skills. This exploratory research investigates 55 workplace...

In the near-native proficiency stage[26], the oral production of L2 and subsequent speakers is slightly different from the native speaker production, phonetically (foreign “accent”[13], [24]), pragmalinguistically and sociopragmatically[16]. The standard Italian language in the Croatian Istra is a minority language of lesser sociolinguistic prestige and reduced domains of usage[7], [14], [21], [23]. Language contact occurs between Italian, the Istrovenetian dialect, the Croatian standard language and the Chakavian...

This article analyzes taxonomic strategies that are most frequently used in academic medical discourse: classification of objects, identification of their types, groups, species and varieties as well as assignment of objects, processes, states, signs, etc. to a particular classification unit. There are three main types of structural-substantive discourse taxonomic strategies which are observed in academic medical discourse: classification strategies, systematization strategies and typologization strategies. A deta...

The issues of English intonation patterns are a significant part of phoneticians’ research. However, much in this field remains a matter of considerable debate. This can be largely attributed to the multifunctional nature of intonation, as well as the complex emotional and volitional aspects involved. Prosodic arrangement of business speech is a separate topical research issue. The speech of business people is typically characterised by some specific features, including intonation peculiarities, and reflects the s...

The article considers the peculiarities of Russian and Turkish etiquette, since it is very often that Turkish students perfectly knowing the Russian grammar and having a good vocabulary find it difficult to communicate with both Russian students and teachers. One may assume that the cause of these difficulties lies in the peculiarities of the national etiquette; in order to reveal these peculiarities, we have performed a comparative analysis of the Russian and Turkish etiquettes. Various examples were taken from d...

Background: Nursing homes with special regime provide long-stay services to persons with reduced sufficiency due to chronic mental disease or addiction to habit-forming substances, as well as to persons with senile, Alzheimer's dementia and other types of dementia who have reduced self-sufficiency due to the above stated diseases and whose situation requires regular help of another natural person. The regime in those facilities providing social services is adapted to specific needs of such persons. When caring for...

GIS provide enormous opportunities in the field of analysis of territories on the basis of thematic maps and satellite images when planning medical services in remote areas. The article considers the problems of providing a planned, emergency medical care outside of the city, as well as ways to optimize traffic routes, taking into account remoteness, natural and climatic factors, vegetation terrain, soil and soil, terrain, bodies of water permeability, the technical characteristics of vehicles on the bridge obstac...

The goal of the paper is to present the research project ZGO2016_001 called “Health Literacy in Selected Groups of the South Bohemian Population”. The study deals with health literacy relating to social, cultural and gender differences in the population of the South Bohemian Region, the Czech Republic. Our target group includes school children and teenagers. The improvement of health literacy is one of the goals of Health 2020. Most of the tools for the assessment of health literacy were only tested with adult pop...

This article is based on the theoretic ideas of Kazan linguistic school about syntagmatic relations and describes the syntagmatic relationships of the lexemes meaning “morality” contained in the novels of one of the most shocking and replicable modern writers Sergei Minaev. Realizing the author's intent, Minaev's novels are always a kind of challenge to the conventional wisdom; they seek to provoke the reader's reflection about ongoing social changes, in particular, in terms of moral principles and criteria. The m...

Nursing is a culture and, since time immemorial, it has been connected to a number of cognitive and skill-based preconditions that should be an integral part of the personality equipment of each nurse as representative of the nursing profession. The preconditions include primarily the theoretical-philosophical frameworks of nursing or conceptual models whose importance consists primarily in the effort to offer a comprehensive, high-quality, individualized and documentation-based nursing care, considering the indiv...

The French Healthcare System copes with important challenges especially of costs, often linked with “walls” between compartmentalized fields, particularly between Primary Care and Hospital sector. These challenges largely correspond to information and communication issues. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) may constitute an important lever to overpass them and to improve the efficiency of the whole system. New Healthcare Interfaces Organizations (HIO) developed for thirty years constitute an interes...

Background: With regard to the demographic ageing of the population, healthy ageing and health literacy of the elderly population, including both healthcare and prevention of diseases and health promotion, represent a hot topic. The health promotion in the elderly is focused on getting information and particularly on the practical application of the information to actual situations. The healthy lifestyle in the old age supports the physical and psychological condition of the elderly population. The elderly need to...

The communicative approach in teaching languages presuppose studying the forms of speech etiquette, rules of behavior in everyday life and rules of communication with people of different social groups. Knowledge of the ways to express different illocutionary acts and the ability to use these means is a key to successful communication. The "compliment" is one of the most important categories in the theory of speech acts. The purpose of this study was to describe an illocutionary act "compliment" on Russian language...

One of the urgent problems of modern linguistics is the question of how language picture of the world is reflected in the grammatical level. Traditionally, it is mainly discussed the issues related to lexical semantics. This content vocabulary plan serves as the material for the finding and further study the specific features of the national perception of the world, national thinking. The article throws light upon the omens with the structure of syncretic sentences (transition between simple and complex) in which ...

The theme chosen by us (in this case, learning French language by Russian students of Agro-Technological Institute and Environmental faculty of RUDN University, Moscow) should make an accent on cultural aspects of gardening helping students to solve their life and professional situation, to be integrated into the professional world community. The main theoretical position is the idea that the incorporation of historical and cultural aspects helps to form flexibility and tolerance, and at the same time, self-belief...

The evolution of political metaphorical systems is one of the growing areas of political discourse studies, metaphor being the main mechanism of discourse formation. The authors stress the importance of the diachronic approach for the theory of political metaphor as national systems of political metaphors are constantly developing: each period brings new metaphors and changes national metaphorical systems. The aim of the diachronic analysis is the reconstruction of the historical course whose national systems of p...

In recent years, there has been a trend of increasing cases of HIV infection in Russia. According to the latest published epidemiological data (31.12.2014), the cumulative number of reported HIV cases among Russian citizens constituted 907607 and the number of new HIV cases was 85252 (Federal AIDS Center). In opinion of experts, a new growth of the HIV epidemic is associated with the migration process. The largest metropolises (Moscow and St. Petersburg) are facing new migration challenges. Migrants, as well as dr...

The present research is an attempt to analyze a fragment of the language consciousness of the modern youth of Latvia through the prism of the concept “law” in a contrastive aspect. The basic method of the research is a free associative experiment, which involved students whose native language was either Russian or Latvian. Language is one of the ways of forming concepts in the human consciousness. The language situation in Latvia is interesting in socio-political and linguocultural respects. The theory of E. T. Ha...

The article highlights some of the issues of teaching Russian and Tatar languages in the Republic of Tatarstan in the late twentieth and the beginning of XXI century. It is emphasized that the education system in Tatarstan requires special attention to the improvement of bilateral Turkish – Russian and Russian-Tatar bilingualism. The urgency of the problem lies in the fact that in modern conditions of development of bilingualism it is necessary to strengthen attention to language preparation of students, improving...

The article deals with the analysis of modern film review as a genre with particular focus on its structural and linguistic features in the light of the author’s category. Film review being the sub-genre of reviews (theatrical, literary, musical, technical, and many others) is a type of text that combines pure functionality (its primary task is to evaluate and guide) with elements of belle-lettre style, particularly when review focuses on a work of art. Today various types of film reviews are one of the most popul...

The aim of our study was to reveal the relationship between visual perception of the painting during free viewing and the following verbalization of the perceived information. Eye movements were recorded while 30 subjects were looking at the classic painting of a genre scene, and then they were asked to compose coherent verbal description of this painting. Comparative analysis revealed strong correlation between distribution and duration of the gaze fixations during free viewing and the following narration. The mo...

The goal of the study consisted in describing the working conditions of the target group of Ukrainians living in the Czech Republic and in finding connections to their health condition. The questionnaire investigation was carried out with 237 Ukrainians in 2013–2014. The results show that the target group of migrants is exposed to adverse working conditions. Methods: The study implemented a questionnaire investigation (201 questions) in form of controlled selection. The collected data were statistically processed ...

Investigation of dynamics of language in use, representing an important tendency that contributes to forming of modern predominant approach in linguistic science, meets the cherished objective of solving a wide range of issues arising from the functioning of language, which can be efficiently viewed in the context of cognitive approach. In the theoretical framework of the cognitive paradigm of linguistic researches the cognitive approach in translation, as we opine, is to be profiled through the prism of intertext...

Paper will shortly define the notion of minority, identify the basic issues of a sense of identity, and clarify the role of language in the maintenance of minorities and their identities. We will ask what the role of language in different state formations is and whether identity maintenance plays a role in the maintenance of minority languages and linguistic diversity. The data are provided as results of a questionnaire survey. The target groups of the research were university students as future intellectuals cons...

The submitted paper deals with a specific target group of citizens living below poverty line in South Bohemian Region and it is a part of Project RVO: ZGO2016_001 „Health literacy of selected groups of population of South Bohemian Region“. The project is further focused on several target groups, including children and adolescents, adults, seniors and the Roma. The poverty line for households in the Czech Republic is calculated as the proportion of total net monthly income of the household and the sum of consumptio...

This article deals with the specific features of medical net discourse. To identify these features, a comparative analysis of literature was made and texts posted on the Internet were also studied. These studies made it possible to identify the following specific features of medical net discourse: its linguo-therapeutic focus (i.e. focus on assistance to patients, prevention or correction of pathological conditions); subjective sphere heterogeneity and targeted openness (different educational background of patient...

The article discusses the history of the emergence of axiology as a science, the interrelation of axiology and culturology, describes the basic terms and concepts of linguistic and cultural axiology; in particular the problem of values is discussed from the perspective of the approaches existing in cultural studies and linguistics. The author analyses the linguistic status of the value and evaluation categories and examines the expression of axiological meanings in language. The aim of the study is to examine the ...

The purpose of this research is to study English language learning autonomy of the tertiary students with English major, faculty of humanities and social sciences, Suan Sunanda Rajabhat University. The sample of the study consists of 261 English major students (freshmen n = 74, 28%, sophomore n = 71, 27%, junior n = 67, 26%, senior n = 49, 19%) The data collection includes distributing the questionnaire the students. Mean and standard deviation are applied to analyze the data. These statistics work on the assumpti...

In the paper two different models describing distribution and change of the linguistic information in some Indo-European communities are considered: nonlinear dynamic system model and the wave model described by system of the integral-differential equations. Within the frames of these models numerical research of distribution of the linguistic information has been carried in some Indo-European language community, including the initial stage of its formation. We take into consideration two main hypotheses: Anatolia...

The research objective is in revealing thematic affiliation of standards of stable comparisons, motivation of comparison, the importance of these units in the Russian language consciousness according to questioning of native speakers, as well as to investigate features of their functioning in the modern Russian speech. The analysis of Russian language units was carried out against the background of kindred and not kindred languages. To achieve the goal, the authors have identified the structure of standards of the...

Background. Every fifth citizen of Lithuanian are at the age of 60 years and older. Old age is related to the frailty and disability. Depression is related to disability, suicide risk and higher mortality rates. Older people's poor sleep is associated with a reduce physical activity. Besides, adequate sleep duration reduced mortality in older adults. The main goal of this paper is to assess physical status, depression and sleep quality of older patients in nursing departments. Methods. The study has been taken fro...

The aim of our study is to define and interpret macro-structural changes in a contemporary society that have determined a transformation of the way of life of selected social strata, and pushed their social status down. The author’s intention is to highlight an individual impact of social changes, with a focus on the phenomenon of social exclusion of selected strata that consists of ever increasing number of individuals; that means their reduced chances to participate in economic, social and cultural life of the c...

At the Kazan Federal University annually study the Russian language a few hundred Chinese students. In the article the authors consider the project as one of the most effective forms of training, the Chinese trainees Russian as a foreign language at an advanced stage of training (B2). The urgency of the problem is that students come with a weak level of Russian language proficiency, lack of skills of free communication in Russian, and teachers will have very short time to improve their level of proficiency. The ai...

The research purpose is to propose a model for developing the sociocultural competence of profession-oriented text translators as part of translator professional competence. For this purpose, an analysis was made of the specifics of sociocultural competence of profession-oriented text translators in order to redefine the concept of “sociocultural competence of profession-oriented text translators” and consider the content of the proposed model for forming this competence. Based on the cognitive approach, the autho...

The article describes the positive experience in preserving and developing the Tatar language in computer technologies. Two main directions for fundamental and applied research are represented: localization of computer technologies for the Tatar language, and developing linguistic resources and NLP for the Tatar language. The first direction implies creating technical and terminological standards for language representation in computer technologies. The second direction involves the development of new electronic l...

OBJECTIVE: Medical statistics show that cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) constitute the most frequent cause of mortality both in our country and in the world. We classify those diseases as lifestyle diseases. The therapy of cardiovascular diseases requires active cooperation of the patient. The level of the patient's cooperation with the healthcare staff is called compliance. The concept of compliance is being replaced by the term adherence. Adherence is defined as a behaviour in which the patients implement suggest...

The article’s focus is to evaluate language education in terms of formation of multilingualism as one of the factors of successful internationalization. The questions of language education are discussed in the article as well as the modern language policy of the Republic Sakha (Russia) has been considered and the activities implemented at the University level are evaluated. The research was conducted on the base of state policy documents analysis, reports on modern position of Russia in the international market of...

The article performed from the position of psycholinguistic school gives the full and detailed analysis of similarities and differences of the dynamics of modern family images exciting in the language consciousness of Russian students. Persistent interest to this problem is caused by anthropocentric focus of modern science and understanding that a person lives in the changing social and economic conditions that steadily find reflection in all spheres of life. A person perceives and fixes the world in his conscious...

The lexical-semantic group of nouns with the metaphorical meaning of quantity in English and Russian is characterized in the article from the viewpoint of connotational markedness. The study uses the method of dictionary definitions, the method of continuous sampling, the method of componential analysis, the method of contrastive analysis, the descriptive method. Relying on the analysis the author identifies that the studied group is heterogeneous: some lexemes are neutral, and others are connotationally marked. T...

The modern society is characterized by multilingualism. The English language as a language of international communication cannot be considered as the only linguistic tool of interpersonal and professional relations. More and more people realize the importance of the knowledge of two or more foreign languages. That explains the students’ interest to learning a second foreign language. The paper presents the experience of the Department of Foreign Languages, Institute of Law, RUDN University in teaching German as a ...

In terms of linguistic exploration, the language of advertising has been thoroughly studied. Advertising as a form of communication in contemporary societies is discussed in its social and cultural context which is inseparable from the language itself. Although the visual in advertising has gained the supremacy nowadays, the language still has the important part as far as the impact of the advertisement’s message on the consumers is concerned. Regarding that, the research objective in this textual analysis is to o...