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The paper proves the necessity for continuing education course “Scientific Speech” for PhD students, postdoctoral scholars and faculty members. The objectives and principles of the course are presented in the paper. Much emphasis is given to the course modules and their content. The methodological substantiation of the course with thorough description of the aims of each module is given: The proposed course is based on the author’s teaching aids and long-term experience of teaching the course “Scientific S...

The research is devoted to the analysis of mental representations of regional identity fulfilled on the material of naive geographic maps ("sketch maps"). The experiment allowed to consider regional identity in the context of national identity, including in aspect of the explicit and implicit conflict of values. Polymodality of sketch maps allowed respondents to broadcast subjective meanings using at once verbal and graphic sign systems. Analysis and interpretation of more than 400 naive maps from different Russia...

This article describes the features of the "social and professional security" young professionals in enterprises and institutions in the course of their professional adaptation. For a more comprehensive discussion of this topic is given by the definition of "young professional". "Social -professional "security in relation to the young specialist is a series of measures aimed at the protection and realization of their professional activities, guarantees and rights. Adaptation problem of young people who begin their...

Introduction of an information technology in educational process takes the increasing place in teaching not only natural-mathematical, but also humanitarian disciplines. Work on introduction of information and communication technologies (ICT) as means of an intensification of process of training in the HIGHER SCHOOL has been spent in Tomsk State University (TPU) since 2007. One of effective tools of students’ self-study in foreign language in higher technical school is an application of technologies Moodle. Avai...

During the 5th century C.E., two important changes occurred in the Church of the Eastern Roman province of Scythia Minor (today’s Dobruja, in Romania and Bulgaria): on the one hand, the original soteriological thought of the local Church was replaced by Augustine of Hippo’s (d.430), on the other hand, Latin replaced Greek in theological education. The present investigation focuses on the context that allowed these important changes. For this task, there has especially been examined the historical information r...

A family is one of the most important institutes of socialization. The sociological research aimed at studying social problems of a modern family was taken in the Chelyabinsk region, it involved 1800 respondents in different cities and rural areas. During the research the attention was focused on the influence of family problems on the socialization of children. There appears in modern sociological science the category of self-determination of a family, including the realization of its educational function. The me...

The problem of developing a professional culture model is acute in the university language course which trains future professionals as prospective participants of cross cultural communication in a professional context. Such a model will help the educator to present a microcosm of the target culture which possesses systematic character of its organization and contents. Systematic approach and information-semiotic approach have been applied in the research to develop a methodological model of a professional culture....

Adolescence is a period of vulnerability for risk behaviours such as substance use or unprotected sexual activities that pose significant threats to the health and wellbeing. A nationally representative sample of 3,524 high school seniors was included in our study. A self-administered online questionnaire assessed the health-related risk behaviours such as substance use, sexual behaviours and suicidal history. Overall results indicated that risk behaviours prevalence was higher among Romanian adolescents compared ...

Engagement of students in the learning process seems to be a crucial element of a successful teaching/learning process. Practising and reinforcing language skills belong to the most essential and important parts in foreign language education. Carefully prepared study materials play a very important role in the teaching/learning process. Special attention must be paid when teachers consider and choose study materials for adult learners, whose memory mechanisms are not so reliable and fail more often than at early a...

Confirming the importance of marketing communication while building a brand value in the case of KRAFT in the 90s caused a strong increase in its use. While in 1996 the money inserted into the communication was counted as an expense after this year many companies started to consider them as an „investment“. On the other hand the interest of companies to communicate with their customers caused information blindness by flooding the media with commercial messages. Last 10-15 years produced a large number of innov...

The objective of this work is to contribute to validation of the Meyer and Allen Commitment Questionnaire for the call centre population in Portugal. According to the authors, organizational commitment is a psychological state, a mindset, a dependent variable that explains the link between individual and organization. Eighteen hundred employees (32.1% male; 56.9% female; M = 31.12 years, DP = 8.91) answered the Affective and Continuance scales of the tool. We carried out exploratory factor analysis with 30% of tea...

Objective: To contribute to widen the knowledge of the influence of determinants (age, education) on the women’s approach and attitude towards breast cancer prevention and simultaneously to map the knowledge and awareness of women about breast cancer prevention. Method: The research was conducted during the period of September 2012 - February 2013 in the Usti nad Labem region. The random selection of 282 respondents was stratified by gender (female) and age (20-65 years). Respondents were divided into the number...

According to a number of scholars, the rise of Twitter publishing had to lead a new level of informational openness in social networks and to increase of press freedom. At the same time, some recent studies have shown significant criticism towards political efficacy of Twitter [7]. We analyze Twitter as a part of the hybridized media system [6] suggesting after Adam and Pfetsch [1] that political dimension of hybridization and spill-over effects between different media will be specific to the socio-political conte...

Nowadays there is a growing trend of aging population in the whole world, which occurs due to the reduction of fertility in developed countries and to increase life expectancy. By 2050 more than a quarter of the world population will be aging people. Therefore becomes relevant to examine the factors that provide life satisfaction and well-being of older people. These reasons have caused the proposal of the research – to identify the key factors that determine the emotional well-being of aging people. The methodo...

In this paper, we focus on online learning. Our goal is to point out the modern tools used currently in an online business, where the products or services are the online courses. The evolution of IT over the past years allows us to develop online learning, independent of the location and the number of people involved in the different activities (learning, teaching, management, etc.). We point out the necessary tools used for building such an online activity (web hosting, e-learning platforms, website-building soft...

The article presents the functioning of an e-office in Katowice as evaluated by the disabled. Investigations were carried out on a sample of 60 disabled people who were clients of the analysed e-office. The aim of the study was to determine what kinds of communication were most frequently used by the disabled. The analysis took into consideration personal visits in the office, the use of e-mails, internet communicator, telephone, letters and the e-administration system. The conducted research revealed that the dis...

Background Satureja caerulea is an endemic aromatic plant of the Satureja genus, Lamiaceae family, related with species of Thymus and Rosemary, used in ethnopharmacological practice for its curative effects. This study aims to assess the antioxidant properties of hydroalcoholic total plant extract (40%) of Satureja caerulea herba by assessing the tisular level of malonildialdehyde measured in the skin graft of Wistar rats. Material and methods The plant material was harvested from Dobrogea area in August 2013. Eig...

The article discusses the phenomenon of discrimination based on appearance. Theoretical and experimental work of Russian and foreign researchers devoted to such varieties of discrimination as: lookism, ageism, discrimination based on weight (fat / slim) (weightism), discrimination on the rise (highism) and others, most of them comes from mass media. Provides empirical evidence for studying various aspects of discrimination in appearance. Analyzed interview of 170 women in two age groups: conventionally called "you...

The present paper offers the results of the linguistic research dealing with the theory and practice of lexico-semantic fields interconnected with mathematical (matrix, set and weight) theories. Matrix of the observed lexico-semantic field represents semantics of the synonymic row of the noun happiness in a formalized way and with its help all the semantic interconnections between all the members of the lexical stock under study can be studied and noted down in a transparent way. Matrix analysis has its irreplacea...

The exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation cause oxidative stress translated by the appearance of ROS (Reactive Oxygen Species), which contributes to disease occurrence. The chemical natural compounds, such as polyphenols, present an antioxidant activity and may be used in the inhibition of the oxidative stress generated by ROS. Also, they may be used as UV shield. The flowers soft extract of Elaeagnus angustifolia L. contents polyphenol compounds such as flavonoids and phenolcarboxylic acids and it has an antioxi...

As a fundamental part of personality, behavior represents the modality of acting and reacting in certain circumstances or situations. Specialty literature describes three types of behavior: aggressive, assertive and nonassertive ones. The purpose of this paper is to construct the assertive behavior profile in performance sports, but also to highlight the behavioral differences, depending on the type of sport practiced by the subjects of our study (individual sports, team sports and combat sports). In order to achi...

The article attempts to present students? progress achieved during the development of a European project Erasmus Intensive Programme Effective Communication in Multicultural Teams approved in 2011 and finalized in March 2013. For the students participating in the IP, especially for Czech students , the course was the first opportunity to communicate with students coming from different culture background, where the teaching methods, approach to students, the extent of students? autonomy, different teaching methods,...

In children, adolescents and young adults can be observed vicious body attitudes characterized by increased the physiological curvature of the spine (kyphosis, lordosis) or by the appearance of abnormal curvatures (scoliosis). These asymmetries are accompanied by abnormal curvature of the girdles (shoulder, hip), neck, chest or abdomen. PURPOSE: To establish the frequency of global attitudes deficiencies in elementary school children to provide information to parents and teachers about the postural abnormalities a...

Occupational health and job safety is a crucial issue in modern global industrial life. This study aimed at investigating risk evaluation methods using in the sense of occupational health and job safety at industrial sectors by content analysis. The sector companies are examined according to hazard classes properties, the results are presented by frequency distributions. Additionally, assessment of risk analysis methods is reevaluated by occupational health and safety specialists who are certified by Work and Soci...

The nature is a space, which we, people, did not create. This is the reason why it will never be a really cognizible and absolutely understandable or examined place. In spite of the fact that we prefer living in an artificial, to humankind adapted environment, we went on to make up an environment even more artificial – the virtual cyberspace. Overusing of technologies of today clearly defines our affection towards machines and tools as extension of our own existence. Mankind is no longer absolutely dependant on ...

Anchoring effect, systematically influence by random and uninformative starting points, is robust. In a between - subject experiment (N = 199; groups: control, anchoring, with forewarning alone, in conjunction with overconfidence note) we placed the participants in a certain numerical information and then we attempt to diminish the impact of this number of judgments about various issues they did not suffer a knowledge about. The experimental questions were sorted according to the extraction of particular anchor (s...

The purpose of our research was to investigate male caregiving via a status of being hidden and forgotten in East-Central Europe, where caregiving itself had only lately been emancipated, and only as provided by women. In Poland and in other European countries the gender bias is clear: men provide less care than women, the care is less intensive and of a different character. By desk research, own research interpretation and literature review, the paper addressed informal, family caregiving towards frail older adul...

Ethical and legal aspects of the enforcement of the basic principle of bioethics which is the principle of respect for individual autonomy in the Russian legislation and clinical practice are considered. The authors reveal the essence of the concept of ‘personal autonomy’, analyze Russian laws from the standpoint of congruence with bioethical and world legal standards, and present the results of their research.

Globalization as an inevitable and ever expanding phenomenon in society affects all its spheres. It is related to the struggle of strong economic entities in the world economy for dominance, to the conflict of cultures about the future nature of human society, finding the universal effectiveness and universal values and to the collapse of the bipolar world. In the context of the ongoing global changes, the issue of raised demands emerges in the context of an aging population. This text mentions generational clashe...

Lie detection through nonverbal behavior is not a standard m ethod, but it is intuitive process, applied by lay persons and professionals. In our research we are interested in the ability of different professional groups to detect lie this way. As a part of this research we also follow certain characteristics that m ight differentiate between more and less successful persons. We focus on different cues they follow in their decision making process and certain stereotypes they might use during their decision. In ano...

The human trafficking phenomenon affects a great number of children by turning them into merchandise. In their searc h for a better future, children can be tempted by traffickers, who make them false promises. The goal of the study is, aside from highlighting the socio socio-demographic characteristics of the minors’ victims of trafficking, to identify the factors that generat e certain forms of vulnerability for trafficked minors and the most efficient assistance and reinsertion methods as well as the most effe...

The study focuses on the primary associations that are evoked by the city of Prague, as well as on the differences that can be seen between the professionals and the general public in this regard. One of the main objectives is to highlight the growing importance of the city branding in today's hyper-competitive environment, which creates a demand for empirical studies of a similar nature. Therefore, in this paper, we pay attention to the analysis of selected attributes of the brand of Prague. Special attention is ...

The aim of study was to find predictors of psychological critical thinking in university students. We have hypothesed that the main factors which could predict the level of critical psychological thinking will be cognitive competence, scientific thinking, learning approach, and academic achievement. As methods of data gathering were used the self-referencing techniques (Lawson’s test of psychological critical thinking, Magno’s scientific thinking inventory, Approaches to Studying Inventory developed by Tait, E...

People develop and form their ways of thinking throughout all their lives. These processes are inevitably associated with certain pressures from society and our surroundings and we may either resist or give in to them. Thanks to the people around us and environment we live in, we are able to form particular views of the world; we can reappraise our sets of values and act in accordance with our conscience. Since men are social beings, one of our basic needs is to maintain relationships with other people. The proble...

Space exploration and mapping and communication are crucial abilities of mobile robots for the intelligent autonomous systems. Space monitoring and correct results representing requires understanding communication method. The best form to represent the results form research simulations is the 3D visualization. The paper describes the communication form between pupil - robots and virtual pupil and developed tool for generation and communication art of warning messages by using the virtual speaking head.

In this study, we attempted to identify the polyphenolic compounds of two species of the genus Parietaria (fam. Urticaceae), namely Parietaria lusitanica L., harvested from Toulouse (France) and an indigenous species, Parietaria officinalis L., harvested from the forest Fantanita-Murfatlar (Constanta county, Romania). The work method used for the qualitative and quantitative differentiation of the polyphenolic compounds in the vegetal products of these species was high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The...

The nature of each person as wise and free being is endowed with potential based on mind, free will and moral consciousness to evolve through the process of knowledge creation and innovation and introduction of innovative forms of learning. Man in it self absorbed nature of his existence that life in reality and only then design fully conscious and individual, which is in a position to create his own mind through the process of knowledge. Only man in that situation would be able to have their own elevated sense of...

The paper is devoted to the problem of studying the personal representations about safety as a component of worldview and a person’s activity regulator. The research purpose is to develop and verify a questionnaire that would be able to detect a person’s representations about safety. The study includes different methods of analyzing data: theoretical analysis, content-analysis, interview, testing, correlation analysis and factor analysis. Two hundred and four subjects, aged from 18 to 25, participated in the s...

This article is theoretically-professional studies dealing with the issue of school experimental work and its prospects in the context of the modern methods of teaching. The article discusses creating a complex educational environment in the constructivist concepts, such as the environment, which affects the fundamental level of competence of educator and makes his professional prowess.

It is generally believed that the more the growing global competition makes it strategically important to continuous improvement for all types of organizations, therefore different methods are geared to develop continuous improvement in production processes (such as Total Quality Management or more recently, Six Sigma ): although all that there are few scientific studies on this topic. We consider continuous improvement performance of a worker as the behaviors of perfecting and enhancing in the job tasks. The pres...

Cooperation within organizations has been considered a key asset for organizational performance, effectiveness and overall success. The aim of the present research is to study the psychometric properties of the Organizational Cooperation Questionnaire in a sample of research team members. The innovation of this study is in assessing organizational cooperation in a sample which has not been widely researched. Given its distinctive characteristics of teamwork, goals interdependence and effort coordination, research ...

The article describes the results of studies of coping behavior of orphans in difficult (crisis) situations. The testees are 100 adolescents without parental care, 13-15 years old (N = 100). Markers of mental trouble of orphan children are analysed, the analysis of protective models of behavior of the teenagers who have endured ill treatment in a family is carried out. Typical destructive models of behavior of orphan children in crisis situations are revealed, their comparative characteristic is submitted. The wor...

This paper draws on our work as an ESP teacher with the 2nd year students from The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania and its branch in Bal?i, The Republic of Moldova. Since one of the topics discussed during the English seminars is corporate social responsibility, we will present our students’ perception of the matter based on the activities and exercises that were chosen to develop their active/ productive (speaking and writing) and passive/ rece...

The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been the subject of debate and research with non-profit organizations in the CR since the early 1990’s. CSR has been embedded in Czech society by the Czech based subsidiaries of multinational corporations (MNC’s). It is a strategy whereby the corporations take responsibility for the economic, social and environmental consequences of their business activities. In so doing, they undertake to limit/eliminate the negative impact which they have on their ‘s...

Background: The family is the primary scene of socialization therefore it determines the child’s development substantially. The style of the parents’ child rearing is one factor in the development process. This study examines three types of parenting styles: the dimension of support and affection, the dimension of restrictive control, and the dimension of overprotection. The child’s emotional and behavioral features relate strongly to the use of these strategies. The presence of rituals in the life of the fa...

This paper exposes the current statistics on indicators of demographic analysis on the subject, both worldwide and in Romania until 2013 and conducted research in Arad, on the prevention of abortion, unwanted pregnancy in crisis. Due to demographic trends of Arad County in recent years, in terms of birth rates and abortion, and the reasons for termination of pregnancy, was meant to provide this research with the aim of improving the demographic indicators in Arad. This research was conducted in the city of Arad, w...

Creative economy encompasses various forms of creativity: beginning with the creations of highly-specialized professionals, though commercial activities leveraging selected features of art, to hobbies, interests and voluntary activities, The current recommendations of the European Commission emphasize that is necessary to methodically and specially utilize all the functions of culture in manner that is profitable foremost for the local community, and consequently for the whole society. An important catalyst in sma...

This paper examines challenges to media and scientific literacy which were brought to scholarly awareness by growing popularity of conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and alternative medicine. Easy availability of all kinds of information through the means of digital media makes informed opinions and decisions more difficult. Member of the audience needs to distinguish between various information sources. Ability to measure their credibility is vital component of critical thinking skills and it is closely related ...

The study deals with the issue of creative economy and cultural industries in the context of media production and creation in conditions of contemporary society. In the paper the author critically evaluates new paradigm of creative economy and cultural industries, which according to her have become a part of concept of official cultural policy both of the European Union and its individual member states. She points out the paradoxicality of implementing this political concept into a specific field, which is media i...

The text deals with mutual relationship of the language and culture; with the influence of culture on the language and structure of its discourse in cases when Arabic is the target language and English is the language of teaching and communication in the class. It starts with a brief explanation of the main notions (language, culture); points at the differences between individualistic and collectivist cultures and their impact on the language. These differences can be observed in discrepancies that appear when we ...