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There are many remnants of ancient stone buildings remaining in Estonia, however most well-known monuments are related to the Bronze Age or later periods. Similarly, the sites identified so far as ancient places of worship are the places and areas mentioned in different beliefs and associated with different cults forgotten in the recent past. At the same time, there are a number of unusual rock piles in the landscape of Northern Estonia that have been excluded from agricultural land development already in ancient ...

This work was supported by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science under the National Research Programme "Healthy Foods for a Strong Bio-Economy and Quality of Life" approved by DCM # 577 / 17.08.2018". Wine has been produced in Bulgaria for about 5000 years. The first wines were transported to our region from the Middle East. During the Thracian times wine was a part of daily life and pagan rituals in our territory. Organic production has existed since the 1980s. It develops in almost all countries in Wes...

Thanks to the development, wide distribution and cheapness of the Internet, people began to resort more and more often to new forms of project development, its production, as well as financing. The Internet environment, due to its free conditions, significantly influenced the attitude of start-up companies and entrepreneurs to attracting capital. Basically, crowdfunding is used in North America and Europe. The popularity of using such funding raises topical research questions: is crowd-funding able to replace exis...

It is estimated that around 15% of children aged 3 to 17 have some sort of developmental disabilities, while less than 50% of children with disabilities are recognized by paediatricians before entering the primary school. Screening plays a significant role in the recognition of those children, providing the ground for early intervention and support for families. Ages and stages-3 Questionnaire (ASQ-3), as the most used screening tool for children aged 2 months to 66 months, was recently translated in the Croatian ...

In connection with the spread of COVID-19 and the consequences it caused, the Slovak Republic has adopted several laws in various legal areas. One of them is the law, which has significantly affected the basic institutes of civil law. As the most important consequence can be considered the interference with the running of time limits, both substantive and procedural ones. In the case of substantive time limits (both standard limitation periods and extinctive limitation periods), a temporary suspension of these tim...

Joint education of pupils with special educational needs in mainstream education by means of support measures has been in place for some time in the Czech Republic. For quite a long time, these pupils have been educated in mainstream schools in the catchment area. However, Act No. 82/2015 Coll., which amends the Act on pre-school, elementary, secondary, higher vocational and other education (Education Act) and Decree No. 27/2016 Coll., on education of pupils with special educational needs and talented pupils (Amen...

The paper focuses on the issue of training and education of children in the field of traffic safety. The topic of education in traffic safety for children is important from the point of view of protecting the life and health of both children and other road users. The main goal of the thesis is to find out under which system children are educated in primary schools in the Czech Republic in the field of traffic safety. The secondary goal of this work is to characterize documents and basic approaches in the field of ...

The paper focuses on humour, the phenomenon that has many forms of manifestation and whose level of comicality depends on a particular culture. Czech culture is quite well-known for its sound representation in this area, and this will form a certain background allowing a better understanding of the target text. The main objective of the paper dwells in the application of actual theories of humour, especially S. Attardo's and V. Raskin's, into its identification and explanation in the contemporary Czech novel serie...

Background: The study of vitamin D and the interest in its actions are growing exponentially given its broad implications in pathology. Vitamin D assessment and treatment are controversial topics that result in heterogeneous, partially contradictory opinions and recommendations. The aim of the study was to quantify the level of vitamin D among patients with autoimmune thyroid diseases through a questionnaire applied to residents of Dobrogea, perimarine area of Romania. Methods: The questionnaire included variables...

From ancient times, the poly-vocal singing, as one of the manifestations of music production in various forms, has been accompanying the life of the Slovak people. It has become a part of the Slovak musical culture and of the national cultural heritage as well. Despite its long tradition, it is currently slowly disappearing from daily life in our families. Therefore, it is important that we ensure the conditions for its preservation and development, by supporting a singing culture in Slovak schools. Our long-term ...

Aim: Aim of this study was to examine the association between the occurrence of postpartum depressive symptoms and the characteristics associated with the infant sleep. Method: Participants for a web-based study were recruited from two hospital birth centers in Slovakia, the convenient sampling method was used. Together 204 women 6-8 weeks postpartum filled out an online questionnaire (mean age 30.9±4.8, age range: 20-44; 78.9% vaginal births; 56.9% primiparas). Slovak version of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression...

The aim of this study is to assess the determinants of the Romanian services import and export flows between 2005 and 2017. An augmented gravity model and a panel approach were used. The data were collected from World Bank and International Trade Center databases and the EViews 10 was used for regression. The main findings are: the GDP of the partner country, sharing a common language and EU membership positively influence the services import flows, while the geographical distance between countries proved to have ...

The article deals with the study of ethnography in the scope of the linguistic landscape analysis. In the modern world of superdiversity and globalization people are surrounded by multiple linguistic tokens which are usually encoded. Any single sign in the public area becomes substantial research material that we can analyse in order to observe the interaction between linguistic and societal processes. According to Landry and Bourhis (1997), language use in the public sphere can show how various factors of ethnic,...

In the last decades linguocultural sciences, cognitive linguistics (concept), anthropocentric paradigm, such young branches of linguistics has led to the identification of ethnos and national culture by language. The role and place of the "woman-mother" in the fate of modern Kazakh language, as well as in the past, is very important. However, in the national outlook of the Kazakh people, the image of a woman in the Kazakh culture was not fully resolved. In this connection, it is important to prove that the concept...

Any period of a developed society, of comfort, multiplication and lack of worries prefaces a moral decay and the extinction of the species. This is one of the conclusions of the Calhoun experiment or Universe 25. The experiment carried out between 1950 and 1970 is an extraordinary discovery on which, many scenarios having as subject the emergence and disappearance of civilizations over the years can be built, but before it is a scientific discovery, it remains, above all, a gloomy prediction about to become realit...

In Latvia, as in the other Baltic States, the rate of compulsory state social insurance contributions (SSIAI) for employee insurance is divided between the employer and the employee, with merely the proportion of the distribution differing. Self-employed persons, on the other hand, pay contributions for themselves in full amount, but the types of insurance and the procedure for calculating contributions differ in all three countries. Consequently, the level of social security of the self-employed also differs. The...

The paper focuses on sexuality in a male with Down syndrome from the perspective of his mother. The main objective of the survey was to reveal specific experiences with maturing, and the development and manifestations of sexuality in an individual with intellectual disability as perceived by his parent. Part of the survey was to identify whether and how the mother communicated with her son with intellectual disability about the issue of sexuality and his needs, how she perceived her son’s sexuality manifestations,...

Green public procurement has become, in recent years, a more often central topic to the attention of authorities, public and private sector. Green public procurement is a way to achieve the global goals of sustainable development - protecting the environment, encouraging innovation and clean technologies, inducing responsible production and consumption. Although in Romania the development of the Green public procurement is still in early stage (20% of the country's GDP), the law on green public procurement is an i...

Foreign direct investments (FDIs) are a very important part of our society. They create links and facilitate the transfer of technology and know-how between economies. However, the influences and effects of foreign direct investments on the recipient country are difficult to predict, depending on the characteristics of FDI flows and the concrete economic, social and political conditions in the host country. FDIs in the border area, in this case western border of Romania, have some particular features because of th...

Solution focused approach to problem-solving means creating a solution instead of solving the problem. What is the difference? It logically separates the solution from the problem. It is deeply counterintuitive because in our culture problem seems to be closely related to the solution. This is why we analyze the problem thoroughly in order to find an optimal solution: we scrutinize the situation, create a plan, look for resources, carry out the plan (create the solution), and then monitor the result. It is a very ...

The need to improve educational organizations has exceeded the limit of experimental knowledge and perceptible reality, the knowledge transcends, through a conceptual shift, the reordering of other areas of impact, with major importance in society. Ensuring a clear vision of educational organizations has become a chronic disease that affects the effectiveness of education in the 21st century and safety and stability are now acute diseases that inhibit creativity and new thinking. In order to achieve its objectives...

The purpose of the presented research was to analyse conversational exchanges between the speakers (protagonists) in a novel. The main objective was to revisit the conception of interpersonal rhetoric [9], illustrate its explanatory value and reveal particular practices of speakers that point to their specific communicative intentions and ambitions. The method used can be best described as pragmatic analysis designed within the analytical toolkit of interpersonal rhetoric. This method enabled the exploration of sp...

Starting from intrinsically related realities such as secularization, globalization specific to modernity, postmodernism announces a reinterpretation of historical reality and religious. In response to the tendency to relativize truth and authority, as well as to question the acceptable limits of reason, postmodernism inevitably entails fundamentalist movements of a religious nature in response to crises of social and individual identity, which continue at a different level. specific opposition to the values of mo...

The key characteristic of the modern economy is the rapid development of all its branches. Automobile transport plays a special role in the development of the economy and is widely used in all sectors of the national economy. Recently the dynamic socio-economic development of the country has led to a significant increase in transport activity. Currently, transport is entering the stage of renovation and development. The system-creating role of transport has been significantly increased, the interrelationship betwe...

The aim of this research is to identify the effect of the COVID 19 pandemic on the relations of church state and international law. I am researching the state of religious freedom in the 21st Century in my overall research by studying international human rights law, state laws and religious laws. Through my general research I set up 5 state models to identify church and state relations, namely: pure, cold, coordinated, enemy, and unity depending on each state’s attitude towards religious observance and practice. I...

Military force and diplomacy have been conventional tools of advocating one’s national influence on the international arena for a long time. As a result of economic cooperation broadening and information technologies development economic and cultural interaction is coming to the fore. This gives us an opportunity to speak about the special role that strategic communication plays in the contemporary international relations and global politics. The pivotal role in the structure of the understanding of strategic comm...

In this era of globalization, the world has gradually reduced inequalities in life expectancy. Alongside this development, a key aspect of a sustainable society is the level of human health throughout life. In this study, we aim to look at the relationship between healthy life years, Eurostat's European structural indicator for expressing healthy life years or life expectancy without disabilities (these focus on the quality of life spent in a healthy state, rather than the quantity of life, as measured by life exp...

Omeka is an application that allows publishing digital collections. Dublin Core vocabulary is structured based on an abstract model. Understanding these elements lead to a good description of digital collection and it is possible to organise digital exhibitions. Students from Digital Media specialization at the Transilvania University of Bra?ov, Romania, attended the course Management of Digital Repository. During this course, the students had to make a digital exhibition using OMEKA software. At the end of the co...

This abstract focuses upon the main iconographic Street Art works created in Rome to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the death of Pier Paolo Pasolini. A further point of analysis will be the Street Art works in relation to their level complexity and how well-acquainted the street artists who created them were with the works of Pasolini. This study concerns Street Art works in Rome due to the fact that Pasolini spent the majority of his life there. In his novel The Ragazzi and his films Accattone and Mamma Roma...

In order to preserve and improve the value of protected areas it's needed the management for which they have been designated. Management actions have shown that they cannot always be effective. The changes are generated by random causes: environmental transformation, new threats or other factors. Activities planned or carried out in the protected area are considered threats only if they affect or degrade the values for which the protected area was established. In the initial phase, understanding the evaluation of ...

This paper aims at focusing on cognitive meaning of Carlo Levi’s work, based on his evidentiated historiographical, socio-cultural, ethnographic and anthropological interest, with the objective of exploring how the traces of memory, suggesting nostalgic attitude, but also dualistically drawn toward the future, are aspects which substantiate his pictorial search and reflection on art matters. Concomitantly, the purpose is to elucidate compositional elements of literary derivation or those that reflect themselves on...

For centuries, the monuments of megalithic prehistoric cultures have been rediscovered and identified in many parts of the Mediterranean basin. These monuments point to the spread and development of early agriculture and denote the diversification of the monuments created by these ancient cultures, their adaptation to availability of the local building materials, and the diversity of traditions. In this context, such megalithic monuments have not been studied mainly because they have been identified only in certai...

The role of the interwar Czechoslovak elites in the historical consciousness or in the national memory can be advanced by showing the examples of the impact of the political regimes on the interpretation of the symbolic role of the individual elite members. The contribution draws on those concepts and methodological approaches that have been employed by the number of historians and historical sociologists such as historical consciousness, collective (social) memory and national memory; a major incentive for choice...

The current trend in medicine is focused on the enhancement of basic skills and development of new skills as requested by the labor market. This aspect is crucial for growth and competitiveness of the medical field and in this context vocational education must be able to react to the demand for advanced vocational skills. A growing number of reports draw attention to the need of adjustment of the offer in medical education to labor market needs and the knowledge-based society. In the light of these previous resear...

Apart from intelligence, motivational and emotional factors, what else can promote the achievement of higher academic performance – that is an intriguing question. It is possible that a highly motivated student with advanced cognitive skills cannot meet the requirements of certain school subjects and performs lower than their own expectations. Metacognitive awareness, metacognitive knowledge, which is the knowledge of cognitive processes and the ability of applying them properly, i.e. metacognitive regulation, the...

Today, motorcycle response units are operating in 20 European countries. Based on sta- tistically relevant data, it is proven that the ambulance of the motorcycle response units in the same traffic conditions is half the departure time faster at the address compared to the classic ambulance. Other benefits of motorcycle response units is also promptness in lifelife-saving operations, independence of work at the place of intervention and significantly lower operating costs. Motorcycle response unit is intended for ...

The paper represents comparative study on digital skills and social inclusion among educators and learners in adult education sector in selected EU and non-EU countries. Adult education in the 21st century faces many new challenges that result from the growing possibilities of using and integrating ICT in every aspect of both professional and personal life. The great potential lies in the development of ICT integration in the professional environment and the activation of professional life and adult education. An ...

Stratified economic complex Euclidean space on a set of economic functioning states, reflected in the phenomenological complex Euclidean space as a complex phenomena of economy, is «bubbly» saturated with a complex quality phenomena through dialectical vector information flow of TQM (Total Quality Management). The convergence of complex quality phenomena in the temporal dynamics of the functioning state of economic phenomena is observed and managed by the economics quality paradigms. The economics quality paradigm...

This research aims to sediment the personal knowledge acquired in the field of aesthetics and philosophy, increasing their significance in the context of joining another field worthy of analysis, namely music. In order to reduce the generalization tendency that affects the previously mentioned fields, in this research we will try an analysis of the most important wagnerian work, Tannhauser, through the prism of an aesthetic perspective. The main theme of the research will be the aesthetics of the tragic, which we ...

This paper is focused on literary research of philological nature, scientifically grounded, that is at the same time multidisciplinarily validated from a theoretical standpoint and hence directly applicable to analogous artistic realms, such as visual arts, music, architecture, theater, spectacle, multimediality. Through close interpretative methodological approach, the present paper furnishes a variety of examples among the corpus of literary texts written by artists of diversified profiles in modern Italian cult...

Public space is a general term that can be expressed in various ways. However, any definition is based on the assumption that these are spaces accessible to everyone without restrictions. Public space therefore serves a general purpose, regardless of ownership of that space. One of the types of public spaces is also an extra-level connection - an underpass. The underpasses provide an alternative way to safely overcome potentially dangerous locations due to a certain barrier - especially busy traffic. For the comfo...