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Genetic algorithms are one of the most efficient meta-heuristics. The base of genetic algorithms is a set of candidate optimal solutions called population. The initial population usually is randomly generated. Optimization goes in epochs of new generations. New generations are produced after crossover and mutation. Mating between individuals is done after the selection of the better-fitted individuals. The fitness value of each individual is calculated by supplying the candidate solution to the optimized target fu...

Using dialectical and systemic methods, the author conducted a thorough analysis of the thematic and organizational aspects of the cadets' assistance to the population in the fields of law, intellectual volunteerism, and public activity, including with the participation of international donor organizations, in cooperation with Ukrainian public organizations, using a virtual environment. Through the prism of the experience of the functioning of the School of Scientific Leadership of the Kharkiv National University ...

The article is devoted to the problems of the social role of the musical ensemble. The purpose of the article is to identify the ethical and social specifics of the ensemble as a phenomenon and the consolidating nature of the very nature of ensemble music-making as a form of communication. The main methods are socio-anthropological, culturalhistorical, phenomenological and systemic. The proposed study is based on the concept of the theory and history of the musical ensemble, created by the author of the article an...

In the contemporary society there are many discussions about bullying and public shaming, especially about the need to eliminate this harmful phenomenon, but it can be seen that there is bullying and public shaming that affect countries and populations, without synchronizing the approach for the elimination of these phenomena. Romania and Bulgaria are the most exposed countries to what could be defined as bullying and public shaming at the country and population level, especially by presenting them as negative exa...

The Covid-19 crisis has contributed to the growing structural imbalances in the labour market. Both unemployment in general and youth unemployment makes serious consequences in the economy and development for the people, undermining the pillars of human well-being and better living conditions. Young people have disadvantage in finding a job, especially those with low skills, without education and job experience. Those young people are often discriminated when they want to enter the labour market. Youth employment ...

The territory of modern Turkey is abundant in ancient monuments of a various kind and historical periods. Among most notable ones are the ruins of the ancient Hittites capital near modern settlement of Bogazkoy / Hattusas. The remains of the stone structures located in that area have been studied for more than a century and there are many documented discoveries. However, some of these discoveries are still lacking a reliable scientific research data. For that reason, such objects often become popular subjects for ...

Andrzej Karalow (b. 1991) is a pianist, composer and improviser. In his approach to music, an avid interest of the young generation, he breaks free from the traditional form and instrumentation, striving for creative freedom and artistic exploration. The composer combines a variety of trends that are fundamental for several genres of music and determine a contemporary world of sounds. Performing as a pianist and guitar player, Karalow creates artistic projects with Jerzy Przezdziecki, a recognised Polish experimen...

The history of mankind demonstrates that the most difficult task has always been and remains the maintenance of society and social life in an orderly, balanced and dynamic state of optimal viability. The depressing regularity of social cataclysms, wars, crises and local conflicts convincingly testifies to the extreme complexity of this task. This complexity, however, does not negate the need and importance of scientific support for specific modern forms of violence and the development of new theoretical and empiri...

This paper analyses Brentano’s aesthetical classification of arts from a psychological standpoint. Two questions are raised. First, if the established number of arts, which is five, is transparent and if one type of art does not only deflect the attention of others. That means if we have five completely different arts or maybe some of them fall in the same class altogether. The used method is an inquiry into how the arts that we percept through sight and hearing influence our psychological processes such as imagin...

Today's competitive environment requires managers who are able to identify and distinguish false information and critically analyze information. Today's businesses are driven by a knowledge-based society, and the more critical the thinking, the better the knowledge. Information literacy helps young people to become more critical of the information they receive, while business information literacy can significantly improve decision-making processes. Information literacy is considered to be the ability to critically...

This paper contrasts Monarchia by Dante Alighieri with Il Principe by Niccolo Machiavelli. It is argued that the Principe not only incorporates the realities of politics but is also superior to the Monarchia as a scientific work because it avoids the latter’s commitment to scholastic philosophy and has greater empirical relevance and logical consistency. Moreover, it can serve to some extent as a role model for an approach to a positive analysis of politics even today.

Well-functioning financial markets are crucial in creating strong economic environment, determined by stock market size, capitalization, and also banking development, which can forecast the improvements in growth and productivity. Access to sustainable financing could benefit equally to companies and also environment. Stock market is an alternative source of funding to banks, when they are cautious in lending to businesses, especially during various crises. The research aim is to analyze stock market capitalizatio...

Human dignity is inviolable. It must be respected and protected. Everyone has the right to respect for his or her physical and mental integrity. [1] Hate crimes are crimes motivated by racial, ethnic, or religious hatred or hostility. Media regularly reports violence against certain ethnic groups. Lithuania, like other EU countries, applies EU law directly or transposes it into national law. These changes have also had an impact on the fight against hate crime, as this type of crime has received increasing attenti...

Pavel Srut (1940-2018) was a representative of a young generation of poets in the golden 1960s. After the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops (1968), he stayed in Czechoslovakia but could only publish in samizdat and exile. During the period of strict neo-Stalinist censorship (1969-1989), Srut continued to write, more for himself and for a vaguely anticipated future readership. He followed the tradition of the Central European absurdity, which we know from the work of Franz Kafka. One of the highlights of Srut’s po...

The Covid-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected persons with disabilities in the world; the number of deaths caused by the pandemic has largely affected persons with disabilities as reported by United Nations. However, people with disabilities not only faced greater health impacts, but were also affected by worsening economic situation. Many persons with disabilities were dismissed from work, but many unemployed persons with disabilities stopped looking for work. The pandemic has halted the progress that had...

Sustainable development goals in education foresee availability of education among others. Availability of educational services exactly near to living place is significant for reaching sustainable development goals. Although, availability of educational services near to living place requires investments and clear understanding of possible demand for the services in the future. Depopulation at regional level is the issue, which complicates availability of education near to living place. As a result, regions need to...

The article highlights the chrono-spatial distribution of the evolution of some demographic peculiarities at the level of the districts of Fagara? for almost a millennium, starting from the XIth century, until today. Thus, first of all, the evolution of the population is highlighted, as a whole and on the component districts. Closely related to this is the evolution of density, both for the settlement's total and at the district level. Also, based on documentary sources – statistical-fiscal (urbaria, conscriptions...

The result of a decision in situations of internal conflict is influenced not only by emotions and experience, but also by age. The main life decision-making process for young people is more limited. Today, information overload and time constraints have a strong impact on the decision-making process, including risks and trends such as delays, transfers and redeployment. Factors such as emotional state, skills to manage emotions and experience are becoming important factors in decision making. Self-regulation plays...

In the light of Objective 3 of the 2030 Agenda, this paper will analyse, the state of the art of sustainable innovation in healthcare and the improvement that it has brought both in the context of healthcare companies and socio-economic factors using the statistical data. The author will consider the repercussions that the emergency linked to Covid-19 had on this progress, highlighting the criticalities of the health system. The author will also look into how these can be remedied through the investments provided ...

This paper innovatively analyzes cultural intersections between the literary oeuvres of modern Italian writer Cristina Campo and the topics pertaining to ecocriticism, together with concomitant digital aspects thereof. The paper explores transversally across her work the elements of eco-literature, as well as interdisciplinary convergences in the light of environmental science with a particular focus on the envisionment of diachronic examples and other external intertextual elements in the contemporary era. The in...

This article reveals the links between second language learning and the development of global citizenship in pre-school education. A review of educational policy documents shows that global citizenship education is defined as a democratic and sustainable education focused on the development of competences of a global citizen. It emphasises the importance of global citizenship in the education of the pre-school child, since from this point onwards, the child becomes familiar with his/her surroundings, not only loca...

In the digital society variety of technological tools became available that bring the new tutoring student-centred ecosystem enhancing professional English L2 teaching/learning skills and abilities. The work aims at adopting technology in education (EdTech) by comparing the advantages and limitations and addressing experimental evidence on the effectiveness of technology-based approaches by developing English communication skills for graduates. The pre-experimental phase recognised and mapped the most effective an...

“The Trust” Stalin’s own secret service organizations were appropriately named in 1930, for the exclusive purpose of using the emigration upon which he considered the OGPU has not concentrated sufficiently or used to the fullest extent, and this he believed to be because the OGPU, was already overloaded with work in other directions. The work of “The Trust” was the subject of the direct personal control of Stalin who had expressed the opinion that with the advance of Hitler to power in Germany, the political impor...

It is important to identify the intentions of young people to start a business and the factors that influence them, as well as to find an explanation that leads to entrepreneurial activities and the emergence of new businesses. Entrepreneurial intentions are important in the context of individual career development. Identifying an individual's entrepreneurial intentions is important because it focuses on activities that could add value to both the individual and society in the future, as well as create new jobs. E...

Transgenders are those whose sex assigned to them at birth i.e., male or female, does not conform with their current perceived gender. Since transgenders are considered by the traditional binary male or female society as deviating from the established gender norms, they often face humiliation, discrimination or social exclusion. This paper examined the approaches made by the authorities of Malaysia and England when dealing with transgender issues. The authors employed a doctrinal research method for this paper. Th...

Bulgaria is extremely rich in prehistoric and historic monuments. Among Bulgaria’s outstanding monuments there are not only the well-known Varna Necropolis and Provadia-Solnitsata ancient salt mining and urban center, but also numerous other megalithic prehistoric monuments. Until now, they have been identified and recognized mainly as alone - standing objects. Current paper focuses on the study carried out in the vicinity of Zlatosel village on the prehistoric site of the Plochata Dolmen. The study indicates that...

The new rural zones need a new quality. A green grid means intersections of lines and nodes into the rural landscape through alleys, green playgrounds, community gardens, and contact with orchards, meadows, and streams create ecological and human conditions for quality new residential rural suburbs. Our research focuses on these current issues in the form of case studies of rural areas and an evaluation of their quality. In four case studies in Zahorska Bystrica near Bratislava, a comparative method of comparing a...

Taking a risk and making a decision are two important factors in starting a business. Studies show that young people are at high risk. There are a number of factors that can contribute to this phenomenon, including both biological and environmental effects, but decisions may be influenced by prejudices about the immediate benefits over the longterm benefits. Achieving long-term goals is always associated with uncertainty, as it cannot be assumed that all the circumstances that may arise in the future will be known...

As a manifestation of the ne bis in idem principle at the interstate level, the transfer of criminal proceedings is one of the forms of international judicial cooperation in criminal matters that avoids the conduct of parallel proceedings that could lead to prosecution, trial and even conviction a person in different states for committing the same act. Starting from a non-unitary practice aspect regarding the qualification of requests to take proceedings (in the sense of requests to take criminal proceedings or re...

Quality of life characteristics and priorities can change abruptly in response to any military aggression. Russia-Ukraine large-scale war is the most drastic shock not only for Ukrainian people. A qualitative literature review, comparative analysis and synthesis of studies were used to explore the questions about the role of the geographic perspective in measuring social and environmental effects of running war on different spatial levels. A number of conclusions emerged from our study: (1) As a consequence of the...

The goal of present study is to propose reliable composite index for quantitative assessment of competitiveness of forestry companies on the basis of data from Training and Experimental Forest Range ‘G. Avramov’, Yundola. Concerning this some multidimensional statistical methods that permit quantification of complex indicator as competitiveness are studied. On this grounds for obtaining composite index (quantitative assessment) of the level of competitiveness of forestry companies the implementation of factor anal...

Despite the recent investments in the national integrated waste management infrastructure, Romania is still a landfill based country. The clean-up activities around the country, the uncollected plastic waste flow analysis performed in this paper based on waste related indicators coupled with field observations suggest that capture of plastic waste by formal systems is still inefficient, further leading unsound waste disposal practices. The population without access to waste collection systems generated 488322.25 t...

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed CEOs two-speed model of decision-making and structural change about the operating implications supporting principal strategic factors, thus the importance of innovative strategies has central positions and are responsible for the corporations’ successful advances. The top pioneering companies emphasise years of organizational performance and are uniquely qualified to inspire and enhance innovation, as they are central to core values and creative leadership. The objective of th...

Nowadays artificial intelligence (AI) enters almost all aspects of human life. AI, undergoing dynamic development thanks to a rapid progress in computer and information technology, delivers powerful algorithms that more and more replace humans and their natural intelligence in a great many tasks, like natural language processing and understanding (NLP), forecasting, speech recognition, pattern identification and classification, image understanding, work automation, and many more. But what about art? Can AI replace...

In the present article we aim to analyze the fact that the quality of public administration and governance of a country is essential for its economic performance, and also for the well-being of the citizens of that country. Effective public administrations are at the service of citizens and businesses. It is essential that public authorities can adapt to changing circumstances. The European Commission helps EU Member States undertake reforms in public administration and governance by providing technical support. A...

Smart development is a problem examined by many research studies, and the scientists note that the concept of smart economy becomes increasingly popular in scientific and practical strategy documents. The documents refer to small and medium enterprises implementing the Industrial Revolution 4.0 as smart companies, which are the basis of economic growth. The smart specialization strategy of Latvia states that more innovations are needed for a more productive economy and the development of more valuable products, an...

The purpose of the article is to analyze the features of the visual language of documentary photography and the actual ways of its presentation in the media space on the example of Ukrainian photo books dedicated to revolutionary events in Ukraine. The main problems of modern photojournalism connected with the development of digital technologies are presented, the value of a photo book as an independent project of a photographer is argued, since commercial photojournalism is largely determined by the narratives of...

Background. Assessing ecosystems in terms of their contribution to the human welfare is one of the ways to achieve goals of sustainable development, comprising an important task for the community planning and development. Therefore, the goals of sustainable development at the local level are achieved via employing all types of local resources in particular, in the nature protected areas taking into account the value of ecosystem assets and ecosystem services produced by them for the benefit of the local communitie...

This paper aims to analyze well-known contemporary aspects that gained the interest of masses, especially in the online universe. Destructiveness develops either from abuse, in case of mukbang, or giving up and ultimately negligence, in case of the so-called hikikomori. While mukbang has its origins in South Korea and it literally took the whole world almost instantly, hikikomori is a more isolated subject that resides and originates from Japan. Mukbang, originally consisting of passionated people (mostly YouTuber...

This paper aims to present and promote the eSports and its situation in Romania. Esports, also known as electronic sports, professional video game competitions, can be defined as a form of sports where the main aspects are facilitated by electronic systems. Most often eSports takes the form of multiplayer video game contests usually organized between professional players. Several games are popular in the competitive scene. The championships that appeared in the 1990s were those that contained fighting video games ...

This paper explores the concept of employer branding in the light of external marketing that establishes the company's image as an employer of choice. The motivation is represented by the raising importance of human resource management. The employer brand is an important element from a marketing point of view; it is practically the defining image of a company. The values and symbols it embodies need to be transparent to maintain the connection with the audience, whether we are talking about customers or simply int...

Cities, cultures, tourism and music have always been connected through the close relations between urban places as music venues, tourists and legendary musicians which perform to largest audiences. This paper aims to briefly examine the most important relations between music, tourism, cities and iconic musicians considering as a case in point, one of the most emblematic artists in the contemporary global popular culture - the iconic songstress Celine Dion. The article unveils the most important features which conn...

In 2020, the Czech Republic commemorated an anniversary of a significant humanistic thinker, writer, and theologist, whose importance has exceeded the borders of the Czech lands. Jan Amos Comenius (28 March 1592 – 15 November 1670) is a leading representative of the Czech culture of the 17th century, and he became famous, especially as an author of didactic works, which represented a breakthrough in the field of education and inspired the way to modern educational methods. These works were based on Comenius’ tirel...

Modern global challenges caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, which have been exacerbated by the martial law imposed in Ukraine for almost six months, have determined distance learning technologies with the help of information and communication technologies to be the only alternative to traditional education. The article is devoted to the analysis of synchronous and asynchronous learning technologies in the practice of distance teaching of geographical disciplines in higher education institutions. The article substant...

The economic development of the regions in Bulgaria is characterized by growing regional business differences. The transition in a substantive and retrospective plan from an exogenous approach to the development of regions to an endogenous one puts the questions of entrepreneurial activity and its regional determinism in the center of research. In economic and management literature, concepts such as "regional entrepreneurship", "rural entrepreneurship", "entrepreneurial activity" and others have gained wide popula...

Introduction This paper intends to propose a thinking about art and science as different manifestations of human culture. Objective and Method Goal of this paper, through analysis and observation, is to underline how art and science are interpenetrated so as to interface, inspire and influence each other. [1] (Arieti S., Creativita. La Sintesi Magica. Il Pensiero Scientifico, Italy, 1979) Intuition is what promotes and moves art and science. this is the basis of creativity and man, through him, supposes and glimps...

The article presents a pragmatical and practical solution in probably one of the most divergent interdisciplinary science fields, called social economy. As the size of it is impressive in Europe, operationalized by the number of organizations and the employees involved, there is a need from the professionals to build a common understanding and knowledge. The cultural, historical and economic background of the countries (mainly from EU, but not exclusively) led to various understanding of social economy. The soluti...

Erasmus+ mobility programmes are an integral part of the Brno University Technology internationalisation strategy. The university needs to create appropriate conditions and offers for students in its action plans. These action plans. Within the framework of these action plans, the university cooperates with international mobility ambassadors. These are students who have taken the opportunity to study or do a practical internship abroad. Each ambassador represents a country, university or other institution from whi...

Digital technologies became one of the most important means of communication during the Covid-19 pandemic. Due to online learning and working from home, the pressure to increase ICT competencies has increased. This paper aims to analyse the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the skills for the digital age. The research data consists of two samples. The first was collected from October 2018 to June 2019 and the second from September 2020 to January 2022, i. e. during the period of anti-pandemic restrictions. The...

The article analyzes the possible individual aspects of the use of regression analysis in demographic research. The possibilities of analyzing the relationship between the parameters of the formation of the population and its constituent elements are shown. So, the highest correlation coefficient is demonstrated by the pair of signs «population formation (changes) - total migration balance» The regression method is widely used in natural and social sciences, including geography. The purpose of the presented work i...