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According to World Health Organization (WHO) data since the start of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) pandemic approximately 75 million have become infected with HIV and around 32 million people have died of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)-related illnesses. Thus, HIV problem became as one the most important issue worldwide. Countries and organizations are uniting in their fight against the virus. Therefore, the strong partnership between non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and government, as we...

Recent research with regard to the ecological approach has managed to model the concept of affordances in relation with higher cognition in order for it to be accommodated by the embodied/enactive approach as part of the “4E cognition” theory. While trying to understand the cognitive effect literature has, we treat the Slovak novel The Wicker Chairs as a case study. We apply the theory of affordances to literature. We show that engaging selectively with multiple affordances results in mapping relations of intertex...

For almost one hundred years, the treasury of the Cathedral of St. Elizabeth in Kosice (Slovakia) has contained a fragment of a richly embroidered Byzantine epitrachil used as a decoration on a newer chasuble. Although it was presented in 1937 at the Prague exhibition ‘Old Art in Slovakia’, no precise, in-depth research had yet been conducted on this object. The character of the artifact required an interdisciplinary approach, which comprised archival, art-historical and restoration research. The latter included m...

The main feature of the new Millennium is the rapid development of innovative economy. This has affected engineering education, as the state and employers have formed new requirements for the quality of professional training of future specialists in the current socio-economic conditions. The article examines the requirements for employment and qualifications in the labor market of future specialists, analyzes the results of employers surveys. To determine new requirements for the quality of professional training o...

The study deals with the topic of otherness in literary work for children and youth in Slovakia. The gradual incorporation of otherness into the literature for children and youth is one of the possible ways to strengthen the inclusion of people with disabilities in society. The literature for children and youth on the topic of human otherness shows the way, in which it is possible to acquaint children with this important issue, and accordingly prevent the social exclusion of handicapped individuals. By offering a ...

Italy is one of the most representative tourist destinations worldwide. Its wide range of attractions makes both urban and rural spots to be visited annually by millions of tourists. Tourism also supports the local economy and helps local communities from less developed regions to diversify their sources of income. Puglia is one of the Italian regions where local authorities encourage the development of tourist activities, especially those specific to the ecotourism niche, as a real alternative to agriculture. In ...

In this paper, we present the results from research focused on the usage of visual programming languages for teaching programming and algorithmization, which was a part of research named „The usage of educational materials in informatics“. The purpose of this research was to collect data about which didactics aids and educational materials do teachers use and get the foundation for upcoming research that would go deeper into specific topics. The data were collected by a questionnaire among Czech teachers of a seco...

The first linguistic congress to discuss the future of the Turkish language was held in Ankara, in 1932. This congress concluded the emergency and the necessity of starting a comprehensive language reform that is referred as a “language revolution” in Turkish. Among others, one of the aims of this revolution was to purify the language by replacing the Arabic and the Persian words with Turkic words. This institutionalized, top-down revolution resulted in the politization of the Turkish language. Since the very begi...

Accession of Bulgaria to the EU in 2007 was followed by a radical transformation in government and social policies towards people with disabilities. The dominant medical model, in which the disabled are perceived as passive users of financial resources, has been displaced by activating the processes of social inclusion of people with deficits, including by creating conditions for their professional realization. The legal status of the disabled is regulated by changes in legislation aimed at overcoming social isola...

In recent years, the examination of the management models of companies has seen the emergence of more and more, but still not enough, choices of governance oriented, and then conditioned by, to corporate social responsibility which is that strategic vision of the company that includes in its economic objectives, not only the relationships with all its stakeholders, but supports them with social objectives, which then turn into values - measurable - for the same company. This choice is influenced by the national an...

In an actual pandemic situation as part of COVID-19 crisis European Union face the challenge of data masking in the processing of sensitive data. European officials race to get a handle on COVID-19, the importance of collecting and sharing health data has never been poses many challenges for officials and national systems. The virus’ unpredictable and widespread nature makes tracing and testing critical to understanding transmission and treatment. Yet, this also poses a threat to personal health data: with data be...

Poverty is a phenomenon that, even though we live in the 21st century, at a time when there is a sufficiency, there are people who are poor. Poverty affects people who are ill for a long time [1], migrants [2], those who are low-skilled, but even some university graduates, e.g. social workers working in certain types of facilities [3]. Poverty is not always the result of unemployment, but people who work are also poor. The aim of the article is to find out how working poverty in Slovakia perceives his life and how...

Under the conditions imposed by the knowledge society, in order to start a strategy with real chances of success in product and service innovation, it has become increasingly clear the need for companies to participate in networks, alliances and collaborations to reduce the rising costs of technology transfer. There are different types of RDI agreements that companies can make directly with R&D institutes, universities, other organizations, public-private partnerships, which may be different depending on the finan...

Italy has been particularly affected by the Covid-19 epidemic. There have been, and continue to be, many deaths, raising the problem of contagion management within the workplace and new corporate organisational practices to be adopted to minimise the risk of contagion. From the criminal point of view, for some years now, legal entities - including, of course, companies, have also been liable for the death or serious or very serious injuries of its workers, in violation of the regulations on their health and safety...

The most recent global health crisis caused by Coronavirus spread reshaped our daily lives very quickly. Our languages were no exception in terms of change. New words and expressions started to appear in many languages along with the increased use of less usual words and expressions. This phenomenon provides an opportunity to research the limitations and the possibilities of our languages, in the line of previous studies. The objective of this study is to measure the impact of COVID-19 situation on both the Hungar...

At the beginning of the study the concept of homelessness, which has officially appeared in post-socialist countries only in the last thirty years, is briefly characterized. The authors state that this pathological social phenomenon is only slowly entering Slovak children’s literature. The core of the study is an analysis of fictional and factual modifications of this topic. The combination of fiction and factuality is present in two books by Slovak writers Zuzana Csontosova and Nina Benova (A Stray Button, 2014; ...

Josef Skvorecky is one of the most significant representatives of the Czech writers who published their works in the exile. Josef Skvorecky’s constant interest in the development of Czech society in recent decades is, among other things, the source of his work The Life of Czech Society, which is the subject of interest in this article. The book is a living testimony to a relatively recent period that was very difficult for the Czech nation. The analysis of the work makes it possible to follow Skvorecky’s mastery o...

Under the influence of the law of the European Union, in the Slovak Republic, special attention has been drawn to consumer protection for some time already. Consumer protection is provided for in several laws. Particularly resonant is the protection of consumers from unfair contractual terms, as laid down in the Civil Code (Act No. 40/1964 Coll.) and the Civil Litigation Procedure (Act No. 160/2015 Coll.). In the Civil Code, unfair terms are defined by the general clause. Also included is demonstrative enumeration...

The main aim of the authors of this paper is a synthetic presentation of the assumptions of modern security science called “securitology”, widely promoted by security researchers in Poland. The authors borrow, reproduce and adapt their categories, which at the same time try to make them more specific with regard to the basic problem, which is security related to such care, control and supervision, as well as management, which allow for the persistence, survival, development and improvement of any system. This rese...

The effects of COVID-19 are currently pushing many economies into recession, affecting almost all countries and many billions of people worldwide. In order to recover from the economic downturn caused by COVID-19 and to promote regional development in Latvia, business lending plays an important role in our days. At present, the total amount of loans issued by credit institutions in Latvia has decreased compared to the previous analogue period, and according to statistics from the Finance and Capital Market Commiss...

Comprehension of the Czechoslovak nomenklatura elite 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 fo...

There is a growing body of literature evidencing the link between students’ fixed intelligence mindset and different mental health indicators (i.e., negative emotions) [1] however, little is known about the nature of this relationship. Dweck’s theory emphasizes that mindsets exert their greatest effect on behavior and emotions when self-threat is imminent [2], suggesting that self-evaluations might also be implicated in conveying mindsets’ effect. Thus, the present study (N = 276) proposed to investigate two self-...

Chandeliers as objects of decorative and applied art were developed in the process of historical evolution to express with much clearance the artistic and stylistic ideas of the time in which they were forged. In all interiors the chandelier was the dominant part, which attracted attention through its shape, size and design decisions. Among the many types of lamps, the chandelier plays the most significant role in the compositional organization and decoration of the palace interior. The thing is, that the evolutio...

The paper presents the experimental data obtained on two groups of students, one for the experiment and the other as a witness. For this purpose, two classrooms and a school gym were used, organized in halochamber regime, respectively in normal microclimate conditions. The groups were differentiated by sex and age, comprising children born in 2006 and 2007, at the age with the highest growth rate. Harmonious physical development was pursued by correlating two biometric characteristics (weight and thoracic perimete...

The purpose of the article „Presentation of the Coronavirus pandemic in financial statements of entities for the year 2019 and prevention of fraud“ is to substantiate the possible options for reflecting the effects of COVID-19 in the financial statements for 2019 and to suggest preventive measures against fraud. In this connection, the Coronavirus pandemic is defined as a material, non-adjusting event for the financial statements as at 31.12.2019. This is to be disclosed in the notes, if management has approved th...

Although the book: The Renaissance Englishwoman in Print. Counterbalancing the canon. Haselkorn and Travitsky, eds., University of Massachusetts Press, 31 January 1990, appeared/was published in the 90’s through its seventeen (17) essays on women as writers or/and as objects of representation in the English Renaissance, it presents and analyses the ways women were treated in the traditional canon and in the writings - interpretation(s) of these writings. The book is divided in five (5) parts (the outspoken woman, ...

This study investigates the state of management accounting practices in Russian mid-sized companies. The paper builds on previous reports [1], [2] and describes the contribution of management accounting to corporate success by looking at the relationship between the state and intensity of management accounting practices and financial performance of a company as measured by its return on equity. Data was collected by survey. Although the answers were quantified, the study is interpretive and exploratory, with an ai...

The main scientific research in the article is to investigate which are the main factors that influence customer satisfaction in the automotive area. The methodology was based on the data collected through customer satisfaction questionnaire. The manufacturer developed the questionnaire and send it to the customers. Step 1: establishing the group that will fill in the questionnaires. Automobile customers from two different countries filled in the two questionnaires sales and service. Step 2: establishing more deta...

The purpose of the research is analyzing models of epistolary narrative used in contemporary women's life writing on the example of texts by Latvian writer Margita Gutmane, Romanian author Irina Grigorescu Pana, and Canadian prose fiction writer Alice Munro. Methodology of the research is comparative analysis of narrative elements used in auto/biographical texts. The elements of the epistolary genre – letter, diary, personal notes, etc. – are used with the aim of creating the effect of authenticity and enhancing v...

Floods are the most common disaster in the Slovak Republic and cause great material damages. For this reason, it is important to give specific attention to them. In case of their occurrence, it is necessary for municipalities to be capable to respond to these situations. In this context, the Ministry of the Interior has developed and implemented a system of nationwide deployment of forces and resources of fire brigades in the Slovak Republic. In essence, it is a system of organization and deployment of fire brigad...

An objective of clinical legal education (CLE) is to stimulate students to take the active part in the learning process to develop legal skills that will be of great aim once they complete the law school and start to work in the practice. The CLE offer students the unique way of learning about the law by analysing the law in a real-life context. With the help of the CLE the students learn that some members of the society do not have equal opportunity to access the justice to protect their subjective right which gi...

In contemporary creation for children and young people there is an increasing production of works with intermedia characteristics. Interdisciplinary cooperation of experts in the field of individual types of art is required in order to analyze, interpret and evaluate it. Monika Kompanikova, an experienced and awarded author for children and adults, created a multimedia project for children called Toddler Punk: Tulino’s Musical Stories (Monokel Publishing House) in 2019. The project includes a collection of fairy t...

The progress of society today depends on people who are able to solve business problems creatively, be creative in science and art. The acuteness of the problem of creativity raises it to the rank of "the problem of the century". The authors turn to the analysis of fundamental works on the study of the child's creativity, which is manifested in various types of activities, including visual art. According to the ideas of V.P. Glaveanu and D. B. Bogoyavlenskaya, creativity and giftedness are closely related, so the ...

The popularity of augmented reality (AR) in schools worldwide has been growing constantly in the recent years. Many experiments have shown that through AR teachers are able to improve learning outcomes for the students through increased engagement and interactivity. AR tools have been successfully applied in many subjects like Science, Math, History and Geography. However, there is one very special place where AR can encourage curiosity, inspire critical thinking and intense creativity of the students. This place ...

The paper analyzes the challenges of the external environment for economic actors, which are transformed into special requirements of employers for employees. The main purpose of this stage of the study is to identify the components of a comprehensive behavioral model that determines the competitiveness of an economic actor in the new conditions of the modern VUCA-world and are characterized by their proactive position with respect to uncertainty. Moreover, the pool of tools and behavioral patterns are classified ...

Nowadays when the European Union faces some daunting challenges, with Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic merely being some of them, the research of the means and ways of its image structuring in British media is of a particular interest taking into consideration some historical reasons as well. The online versions of the published materials of the British periodicals (2017-2020) as well as some news sites, dedicated to the assessment of modern state of the EU, its future and its relationship with the United Kingdom ...

The article is devoted to the analysis of the names for headwear as a part of the national costume of the Mordvins. The name of one headdress can be surely reconstructed to Proto-Mordvin. There is a large number of Turkic and Russian borrowings as well as its own derivatives in the Mordvin (Erz’a and Moksha languages). Thus, at the Proto-Mordvin level we can securely reconstruct two types of headdresses: pa?go ’women’s headdress’ and the early Turkic borrowing pat’s’a ‘headscarf’. There are several separate Turkic...

Our study forms part of a wider project seeking to cover a void within interdisciplinary research in drama studies: its focus is specifically the study of the history of visual arts and the Italian theatre of the Renaissance in juxtaposition with the ancient Greek theatre. Our study proceeds on the basis of an attentive engagement with comparative evidence as regards the methodology of acting and the use of theatrical masks up to the beginnings of the 18th century. It intends to cover a certain gap within the scie...

In the modern literary science, the issues connected with Soviet regime (censorship, interaction between ideology and literature, translation policy etc.) and its impact on public awareness and national culture are of great scientific importance. The present study examines and in the comparative perspective evaluates peculiarities of literary translation in oppressive socio-political circumstances experienced by Latvia during the Soviet occupation (1940-1941; 1944/45-1990/91). The focus is on John Steinbeck’s nove...

The popularity of travel literature should not be underestimated. Travelogue is one of the most readable literary genres in the world literature, including the major literatures of the USA and Canada with their rich literary heritage, as well as such less popular or minor literatures, as the Latvian. The popularity of travel writing does not stop growing despite any world cataclysms; travelogue gains particular expansion in the 21st century due to the processes of globalization and rapid technological progress. Th...

Both the literature and all the historical vestiges that we find today in the world, highlight the fact that over the centuries there has been a continuous transfer of knowledge from the Romans to the other peoples occupied by them. Roman culture was advanced at that time; we can remember that they loved music, theatre, architecture, construction, politics, astronomy, etc. This process also occurred in Dacia (part of today's Romania) marked by military conquest campaigns. The Danube River was and still is a natura...

Many centuries of social experience lead to the conclusion that conflicts and crisises are an inherent feature of all social activities, regardless of their nature, extent, social and cultural environment. The different assumption, namely that there are activities without internal or external contradictions, which appear in relationships between the participants of activities and their closer or further environment, should be treated as an assumption idealizing social reality. Social conflicts and crisises result ...

Currently, the meat market is developing very dynamically. This is a consequence of the high import substitution throughout the country, due in particular to the State support for agricultural entrepreneurs. For 2021, it is forecast not only a threefold reduction in import compared to previous years, but also a boost to development of meat products. Thus, we can state that the livestock and poultry processing industry is on the rise and is a promising area for investment. Speaking about the Tambov region, we are a...

Over the past two decades, research on the impact of global environmental change has underscored the increasing effects of climate change and the associated natural disasters on mental health. The present article aims to highlight the correlation between the mental health of the studied population and the way in which the subjects relate to climate change. The objective of the research was to investigate whether people with high scores on the Romanian version of the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS-21R)...

Since 2016, the Czech education system has been providing education for children, pupils and students through the institute of the so-called support measures. It is a set of organizational, pedagogical, methodological measures including methods of work, material and compensatory support of the respective disadvantage. There are five levels of support measures provided by law. Granting of level II. to V. is under the responsibility of professional school counseling facilities and is the result of professional speci...

Known for his tragedies, the 18th century Italian writer, Count Vittorio Alfieri, was influenced and partly conditioned by Aristotle’s Poetics and by the literary opinions of his age. However, his fidelity to the ancient form of the tragedy did not hinder the introduction of a new type of conflict that would appeal to his contemporaries and to the future generations, namely that between a tyrant and what he called “a hero of freedom”. Despite belonging to high nobility, Alfieri was fiercely attracted by the Enligh...

In response to the current situation, when the school has a well-known home mutation, information technologies represent a foundation for development and a reference point for working bodies. Enough in the best area to manage a communication problem generates imposed distances as well as a potential conflict of visibility involved in each category of human resources. Emphasizing the ambiguity of the individual role, a lack of cohesion involves changes and inconveniences on the authorial authorities or paid attenti...

The aim of the research is to describe child’s image as one of the most important components in the structure of childhood narrative. Great significance is attributed in its depiction to characters’ portrait, action and its psychological motivation, age, degree of socialization, and name. Methods of the paper: theoretical and historical analysis of prose texts by bringing together semiotic, comparative, biographical, literary historical methods of literary research. Results of the paper: depiction of the artistic ...

This paper compares three similar yet distinct philosophical interpretations of the mythological motif of Narcissus admiring his reflection in water. Since these interpretations span a period of fifteen centuries, they are bound to appear in different types of philosophical discourse: In Plotinus’ Enneads, where the motif of a beautiful image in the water appears without Narcissus’ being actually named, the myth is used as metaphor of the soul seduced by sensible beauty; in Ficino’s commentary to Plato’s Symposium...

Land degradation by soil erosion, has been recognized as a major environmental threat in the southern part of the Moldavian Plateau of Republic of Moldova. Implementation of soil and water conservation practices is a very important link to sustainable land use pattern. During the communist period, being a representative catchment from the south of Republic of Moldova, the Sarata catchment was the subject of widespread land improvement projects. After 1991, a varied complex of non-conservative land use actions beca...