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The article presents the results of the diagnostic research of the expression of emotional perception of cultural phenomena by foreign language students in Lithuania. There is a close relationship between emotions and culture. On the one hand, emotions reflect a person’s inner state and regulate his/her communication with others in different cultural and social environments [8]. On the other hand, a particular culture affects human emotions via different cognitive and behavioural expressions. Living in a particula...

Implementation of a virtual environment for doctoral students afford a more effective communication between the Coordinator and students, offering a great accessibility to information about news in the field of research. Using cloud technology in the research process specific to PhD students can be extended to many fields of scientific research, allowing a thorough understanding and concepts key rates chargeable a documentation concerning advanced statistics trends of the situation existing at a given time, or per...

Globalization, information technologies and presence of media in everyday life have shaped modern society. Not only does media content and information become available to everyone, but also everyone gets the opportunity to create media content. Due to the presence of media and vast amount of information in the 21st century, it is necessary to acquire specific skills considered as media literacy. Media literacy considers ability to access media and media content, to analyse media content and to communicate in a var...

When you develop businesses in the online environment, there are a number of online marketing tools and strategies that generally you have to use: websites, mobile apps, SEO/SEM campaigns, social media and content marketing, etc. If you have a website, in order to improve your business, you should use a Facebook account, a YouTube channel, etc. Also, if you have a YouTube channel, the current online marketing strategies suggest to build a blog for your channel, a mobile app, advertise them on Facebook, and so on. ...

Cervical cancer is a major worldwide health problem that can be prevented by using a simple exam, a cervical-vaginal cytology or Pap smear. Romania has the highest incidence of and mortality from cervical cancer in Europe. Romanian people have a strong fear towards cancers and, paradoxically, toward screening measures for cancer. Objectives: To determine the efficiency of Romanian Health Programmes regarding cervical cancer. Materials and Methods: The last six decennial periods were analysed from the point of view...

The article is devoted to the problem of economic security and stability in the Black Sea region. Using the theoretical concept of economic security authors identify the main risks for both national and cross-border economic systems in the conditions of modern geo-economic and geopolitical turbulence. Cross-border economic clusters and trans-national systems with the long-term partnership strategies are viewed to be the cores of economic stability and the resource to maintain regional development. The study provid...

The work substantiates rationale of the innovative culture research as a basis and driver of the postindustrial society development. It describes its nature, structure and implementation. Formed in the conditions of postindustrial (information) society the innovative culture organically combines knowledge, experience and creative aspirations of previous generations with the latest scientific achievements in various fields of scientific, technical and social and humanitarian knowledge. Culture holds a special place...

Introduction: Motherhood is an important part of life of every woman. The aim of our study was to find out views on motherhood among adolescent girls. Methods: The non-standardized questionnaire of our own design was employed in the study. The study sample consisted of 141 female students of secondary school. The age of the respondents ranged from 17 to 20; the average age was 18 ± 0,79 years. For data processing we used a simple descriptive statistics. Results: In analyzing the results, we found that most respond...

Introduction: The issue of the social integration of young people and the role of physical education in this integration process was debated by the international authorities in Strasbourg in the Council of Europe, UNESCO and the International Committee for Physical Education and Sport.A component of the educational approach, sport contains essential values of life in the community,favoring group integration by assimilating these values by citizens:respect for others, to the law (rules, regulations), discipline (se...

With different disciplines of culture, art and science increasingly merging, transdisciplinary approach to phenomena and works of art seems nowadays to be not only a matter of fashion but a necessity. Overlapping of scientific areas in certain points of interest provides for new research fields and forms. Therefore, an act of creation may be viewed as an idea prompted by an impulse, although defining what a creative impulse actually represents (a physiological phenomenon, a chemical reaction, a philosophical thoug...

The relevance of the topic researched is determined by general theoretical significance of synonymy relations in the language connections system. The object of the study is historical digression into synonymy. The subject of the study is synonymy in general. The origins of the consideration of synonymy are reflected in ancient philosophy. Ancient scientists in their reflections on the language form, on the nature of the name drew attention to the existence of several names for the same thing. This feature of the l...

For Romania, potato is a culture of particular importance. Potato has a fairly important cultivation area, with early crops and autumn-winter crops. Potato is distinguished by its multifaceted importance (food, industrial raw material, agro-technical technology, fodder consumption, source of profit for farmers). The study covers the period 2014-2016. The applied analysis method is the comparison, made in time and space using structural and dynamic indices. Macro Region 1 cultivates the largest national potato area...

As things stand now, the two foreground factors, among others, contributing to sustainability of the integrated structures represented by regional industry clusters are sound use of energy resources and improvement of the economic efficiency of energy conservation measures and technologies being mastered by the manufacturers. The issues related to tailoring of a package of energy conservation measures followed by assessment of the influence produced by energy conservation projects on the efficiency and sustainabil...

Bread and bakery products are mass consumption products whose useful properties are discussed in the media and cause controversy among nutritionists. Formation of an objective opinion about the nutritional value of a common food group among future specialists of the food industry is an important educational task. The improvement of the structure of the assortment of bakery products is associated with research aimed at revealing the taste preferences of the population, and the formation of a culture of consumption ...

The article investigates the influence of the national-cultural specificity of speech behavior on the formation of expressive forms of address in the Russian language as well as in the Colombian and Costa Rican variants of the Spanish language. Groups of expressive addresses are distinguished depending on their semantic load, ways of transferring evaluativity and expressiveness; pragmatic factors affecting their formation and functioning are described, namely: evaluative-characterizing and emotivecharacterizing on...

It is here, in Oriental Hotel Bangkok (now Mandarin Oriental) in Thailand, that one gathers, around the Regio Parco Dusit Park, the stupendous fruit of the meeting between Italy and the Orient. An important story but not very famous story. An eclectic artistic-architectural treasure, in some ways fabulous, which developed in a few decades in the independent Kingdom of Siam. In fact, at the end of XIX century the rivalry between Britain and France in South West Asia ensures the survival of the Kingdom of Siam. The ...

The text deals with the current phenomenon, ie the process of increasing representation of the number of women in the armed forces, both in combat and non-combat units. The process of engaging women in military operations is not a very modern phenomenon; the feminisation of the armed forces has been manifested in modern armies during the WWII. At that time, however, it was primarily conditioned by the need to supplement the insufficient standard male element in the mass army based on the conspiracy model, especial...

The Romanian composer Constantin Rîp? is an outstanding personality of contemporary music who seeks to integrate myths of the universal philosophy and mythology by means of his last opus: the ballet The Young Man and Death. The performance is a synthesis of all its constituent elements: music, literary content, choreography, and scenography. Through a vision evoking total theatre, and a remarkable conceptual unity, the composer confers this ballet a dramatic character, extending its duration from one to three acts...

Philanthropy is one of the fastest growing industries in the global economy. Philanthropic billionaires have unprecedented power in creating education policy, directing the development of global agriculture and dictating trends in global health policy. According to its critics, instead of an altruistic aid, philanthropic capitalism is, in essence, an ultimate way of gaining profit under the guise of humanity. Large charities replace state institutions as social service providers. Due to the size of donations, fina...

Russian cities have been transformed considerably in the post-soviet period, including economic base, forms of ownership, architectural view, land structure, methods of planning and governance. However, the patterns of such transformation are significantly varying for different types of cities. In this paper the major transformation processes and the factors influencing the pace and scale of urban economy transformationsare discussed on the example of the cities, including in Yekaterinburg agglomeration. The autho...

Tunisian Jasmine revolution in January 2011 was closely monitored by media and experts from all over the world. It supposed to be the first and great step towards democracy. It took only 29 days and president Zine El Abdine Ben Ali left the country. A wave of enthusiasm followed, and Tunisians expected huge improvement of their lives. However, democracy does not mean automatically prosperity. Herein are discussed main reason, that helped revolution to run successfully and peacefully, what was the expectations of p...

In my paper I am going to consider the process of composing from the perspective of influences from space surrounding the author. I was inspired by environmental psychology – human factors science - as an interdisciplinary field that focuses on the interplay between individuals and their surroundings encompassing natural environments, social settings, built environments, learning environments, and informational environments. We know today that environmental psychology expands widely in attracting other areas of kn...

Transition to the 21st century brought within the framework of the European a special situation, namely, migration of the population to the other member states in order to find well paid jobs. The research analyses the population migration within the last 3 years compared with the period 1990-2000. It takes into account the level of migration from countries such as Romania, Bulgaria or Hungary immediately after the accession to the European Union. The research is based on data from the European Union reports, the ...

The article discusses the issue of the sustainable development of the EU in relation to the concept of eco-humanistic globalization. The processes of globalization are closely related to the increased flows of people around the world, mainly for economic purposes. The number of migrants for work purposes is increasing. Emigration countries generate losses and immigration countries acquire new social capital (these immigrants work for low wages as compared to domestic employees by performing work in services, const...

Marxist conception of philosophy is traditionally associated with communism and new principles of economical formations. Of course, social-economic basis is the crucial milestone of the Marxist theory. But if we look a bit deeper into the philosophic concept we will probably notice that one of the main global goals of the whole theory was the establishment of global system of peace, granted by non-conflict potential of international relations. Thus, for Marxism (international relations), the attention is not only ...

Tourism is one of human life field where IT technologies are becoming essential occurrence in the contemporary world. The service of tourism becomes smart because of smart phone’s usage during traveling. On the last decade the usage of smart phones was enhanced with advanced features and the usage of smart phones is going to increase more than 2.8 billion until 2020 year. Thus, it is obvious that changes in the tourism industry in the near future will be related to smartphones due to the potential of these devices...

The purpose of this paper is to provide an insight into and give an overview of the concept of ‘freelancer’ and other closely related concepts; they sometimes appear interchangeably with it (e.g. independent professional) but might have a different meaning for an organization or can be different in legal terms. The concept has been studied from both the linguistic and organizational point of view, with the focus placed on its comparable usage in the Croatian and English. By analyzing available scientific literatur...

The content of the paper is aimed at analysing the contribution of the Slovak National Council in the Slovak history, which has often been questionable. In order to evaluate objectively its activities and merits, respective periods of the Slovak history have to be taken into account, as they witnessed significant political processes and events from the beginning of the 90s of the past century to these days. The Slovak National Council has always represented the culmination of political efforts hard to be fulfilled...

The most general expression of child psychological abuse can be any behavior that damages the self-confidence and self-awareness of the child. One of such situation may be a divorce of parents, which means a huge change in the life of a child, regardless of age. The child must adapt to the transition between two different households and to the day-to-day absence of one parent. The paper provides a theoretical overview of the issue of divorce and its negative impact on the child's psyche, pointing to similar aspect...

The degree of satisfying the mobility needs acts as a determinant of the quality of life in the city. Simultaneously, urban transport is a source of numerous nuisances and threats due to excessive growth of motorization. The development of pedestrian traffic, on the other hand, is a solution to many problems faced by large cities. In this context, it is worth asking a following question: How should urban spaces that encourage pedestrian traffic be planned and shaped? The comfort of pedestrian traffic does not depe...

The pharmaceutical sector is one of the most regulated sectors in the world. In spite of various legislative constraints, companies are spending millions for drug promotions in the market in the fight for consumers, their attention and loyalty. Nowadays the competition between companies is very high especially when several analogous pharmaceutical products with the same effect on human health can exist simultaneously in the market. Therefore, it becomes important for companies to understand consumer behavior in th...

The first weeks of motherhood represent a crucial period in life of a woman and a basis for developing mother – child relationship. ‘First time mother experience’ as an interdisciplinary issue is related to how the first time mother sees herself in a new role, how confident and competent she feels, what influences the process of attaining the new role. The aim of the present review is to provide an overview of current research on the first time mother experience in qualitative literature. Main keywords and phrases...

Background: “The first obligation of urbanism is to come into accord with the fundamental needs of men. (…) The sun must penetrate every dwelling several hours a day even during the season when sunlight is most scarce. (…) Builders must be required to submit a diagram showing that the sun will penetrate each dwelling for a minimum of two hours on the day of the winter solstice, failing which, the building permit will be denied. To introduce the sun is the new and most imperative duty of the architect.” In July 201...

Sustainable building structures are one of presumptions of long-lasting and environmental friendly urban areas. Building structures are affected by many contrary impacts within their lifetime, i.e. weather, human, animal, vegetable, fungal and environmental interventions, natural and non-natural disasters. Timely and appropriate maintenance or other remedial measures could be selected using up-to date diagnostics or monitoring methods. One of the big issues of the building sustainability can be found in durability...

The aim of this study is to gain insights into social workers' experience of working and providing support, as employees of Centers for Social Welfare (CSW), to children with developmental difficulties and their families. Methods: Qualitative research has been conducted. The data were collected by means of a focus group, involving seven social workers, and a semi-structured interview involving twelve social workers with experience of working in the field of supporting children with disabilities and their families ...

The study of formal symbolical systems is a part of conceptual theories of architecture and anthropology. This type of research confirms the possibility of using general theories about symbols in architectural research, identifying attributes whose meaning can be traced back to artistic expressions, as well as observing the interaction mechanisms within the cultic and architecture program. Spectacular symbols as part of the imaginary structures are also a part of architecture: the dialectic of ascension imagery is...

One of the central directions of educational policy in Germany is its activity in the global market of educational services with the aim of attracting the best representatives of international students and promising young scientists to the country. In the article the authors analyze the strategy and tactics of Germany's educational policy in this direction, its components, tools and efficiency of its use. At the same time, the foreign students body of the German universities is analysed, and state programmes and p...

The relevance of this study is determined by the exponential increase of the qualitative natural resources value in the current processes of reproduction of socio-economic systems at various levels of the hierarchy. Effective strategic management of natural capital is identified today as a necessary condition for increasing the sustainability of innovative development of the economy and society. The purpose of the study is to substantiate the new directions of the specification of natural capital in the system of ...

This paper analyzes the relationship between knowledge, education focused on competences and education for entrepreneurship as an imperative of an individual, social, and economic progress. By way of analyzing strategic national documents which pertain to the entrepreneurial competence within the educational system of the Republic of Croatia, the theoretical approach opens up possibilities of a more complete overview of the relations in which education and man should take center stage in the postmodern and postind...

The significant growth in tourism from Romania has led to more and more complex scientific approaches on the role of this sector in the structural dynamics of the local economy. The study aims to develop analytical methodologies of the dynamic relationship between tourism and the other components of the territorial system. Quantification of complex relationship in each tourist resort from Romania was carried out through a database at the territorial administrative unit level, at NACE cod level (Classification of A...

In economic relations, the equality of the parties is purely of formal nature at times, especially in the case of entering into the legal relationship with a professional whose capital and information position is implicitly stronger than the position of a non-professional contractual partner. When offering goods and services to the consumers, the entrepreneurs are encumbered with many domestic or supranational duties (for example obligation to provide information). However, the practical examples prove that the co...

Annexation of the Baltic states within the Soviet Union in 1940 affected all spheres of life, including culture. Writers and their texts were intentionally selected for being circulated outside the territory of each subject of the USSR. One of the ideological tasks of the Soviet socialist republic writers’ unions was creating an impression that peoples incorporated in the whole territory of the USSR have willingly joined the Soviet Union and agree to replacing their national languages by a single official – Russia...

The immaterial products of today environment is overpopulated with 'tools' for enter-taining, education, creativity, geographic orientation and so on. Everything is designed to create layer over layer of wich we name 'reality'. From a philosophical point of view, our world is becoming an 'opera aperta' of information for developers, companies, aca-demics and individuals. But is it so? Are transacted data part of an one piece of work? Could such data became artwork? As part of my doctoral approach of education and ...

On the example of the Civil Code Opchinska naredba od zlocsinstvah i njihovih pedepsah printed in Budim in 1788, which is in fact the translation of the Criminal Code by Joseph II originally entitled Allgemeines Gesetz über Verbrechen und derselben Bestrafung, it is possible to outline the ways in which the Age of Enlightenment influenced various aspects of life of all people in the empire, to show how the law and the punishment of felonies was regulated, and especially to track the historical development of the C...

The article highlights the problems of acculturation between the ancient Turks and the Eastern Slavs until the time of adoption of Christianity by the Slavs, that is, until 988 AD. In addition, article considers Pagan ideological paradigms between analyzed ethnos, which were equipolar, but were not identical. This process continued until there was a sharp turn in their destiny and history - orientation to new sacral systems that began in 988 under Vladimir I. Although the ancient Turkic tribes continued to be in t...

The Church received from Christ the mission not only to preach the gospel of salvation, but also to feed the hungry, to give water to the thirsty, to provide a traveler's shelter and hospitality to the stranger, to dress the naked, take care of the sick and care for orphans and widows. The Orthodox Church fulfilled its social mission and sought to ease the lives of the less favored, by setting up hospitals, philanthropic homes, homes for the elderly, orphanages and other charitable institutions. In the Byzantine E...

The present paper analyses archaeological and anthropological materials of the Middle Bronze Catacomb culture found in kurgan cemeteries of the Lower Volga area. The specific features of the burial rite, artifacts and cranial pathologies are related to possible migrations of members of some Catacomb cultures from the territories of the North Caucasus, Caucasus and North Pontic area into the open steppes of the the Lower Volga region. Along with innovations in such areas as bronze metallurgy, ceramic production, tr...

In the study we addressed the problem of personal safety and for this purpose used a social role approach and a psychological analysis of criminal cases as a research method. The method was based on the following social role criteria: a) the level of the criminal’s or victim’s knowledge of the social role; b) the degree to which they have mastered role-play; c) the knowledge of not only one’s own action scenario in the social role dyad but also of that of one’s counter partner; d) an ability to understand the diff...

Employee loyalty is one of the most important factors in the organization. The management of many organizations develops their training programs, benefit packages, performance appraisal and work system based on their company policies. The study included 169 customer service consultants with seniority from 3 months to 10 years and over who are working in one of the bank branch in Latvia. Respondents filled questionnaire: J. Meyer, N. Allen and A. Smith's "Survey of loyalty to the profession". The aim of research is...

The article’s objective is to present the results of empirical research conducted with the aim to study a chosen industry through the lens of its business models. The research approach is based on the theoretical construct of sustainable value creation, business models, and multiple customer value. These theoretical concepts were combined with various approaches to business model research by other authors to answer the stated research questions. In connection to the theoretical construct of sustainable customer va...