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At present an economic management of any administrative region (territory with fixed legal boundaries) is impossible without modern technologies of spatial analysis. Administrators of power structures use every opportunity to ensure that the management of the region is based on the automated processing of spatial data and particularly on remote sensing data. First of all, the possibilities of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are used such as data collection and systematization, automated analysis, compilatio...

In her paper, the author analyses legal regulations from 17th, 18th and 19th century whose content might point to the life in joint family households. She compares the Vlach Statute, Military Border Rights and the General Military Border Law taking into consideration the inheritance matter and land ownership. From these categories, she draws political causes of forming, long existence and division of joint family households. Moreover, the author analyses joint households in the context of a military society which ...

This study aims to explore the main economic trends in the performance of the agricultural sector of ten new Member States in Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC) after joining the EU in 2004 – 2007. The study is carried out applying the methods of economic analysis including trend test methods and a comparative analysis. The authors have used data that are comparable across the EU countries and have been processed according to the unified methodology of the Economic Accounts for Agriculture (EAA). Specifically, the ...

Throughout Europe almost half a million people choose to acquire food products from a network of community supported farms, thus changing the ways in which food products are produced, processed, distributed and valued in everyday life. The community supported agriculture (CSA) has a ten-year history in Romania (starting with 2008) as a concept linked to ethical consumption, solidarity and revival of traditional values. The study is based on case studies of how the concept was implemented in Romania, challenges for...

There is an ongoing debate in the contemporary studies on religion and society on whether religion is an evolutionary adaptation or a by-product of our human evolution. Taking the most convincing pros and cons into consideration I come to the conclusion that religion is both: as a set of universal norms and ethical regulations it is an adaptation functioning as a cybernetic homeostat; as a set of beliefs and imagined spiritual beings it is a culturally dependent by-product that enables the implementation of behavi...

The purpose of the article is a sociological analysis of female issues in modern Korean art-house cinema. The ultimate goal is to study films of Lee Chang-dong, a South Korean film director, on the basis of the theoretical and methodological opportunities provided by sociology of culture. The attention is focused on “Poetry”, which won the prize for the best script at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010. The theoretical sources for interpretations include the ideas of the Birmingham School for Cultural Studies and th...

The telecommunications industry is a sector that is developing at a fast pace, in a particularly strong competitive environment. Innovation is a key process in this sector being one of the most important factors ensuring the competitiveness of companies. The analysis of the components that are evaluating the performances of the telecommunication companies as a result of the adoption of the innovations enables the creation of strategic models that can lead to important competitive advantages with the effect of incr...

Drought represents a significant threat not only for the Czech Republic but also for the whole world. This threat is mainly influenced by climate change. Climate change increases air temperature. This article focuses on drought in the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic has experienced significant differences in temperatures in recent years. In particular, a change in the temperatures of the seasons can be observed and almost the disappearance of some seasons. Winter has significant fluctuations in shock and temper...

In this article we use modern approaches from machine learning, data analysis and natural language processing, text mining algorithms and methods to analyze the text of the novel “The Master and Margarita” by M. A. Bulgakov. The paper has the network of the main characters of the novel, based on their interactions with each other and distribution in the text. The links in the network selects the groups of characters with their connectedness in a plot. We also analyzed the changes in the sentiment dynamic of the pl...

This article summarizes our current understanding of the construct of individual QOL as it pertains to persons with hearing (HI), visual (VI) or physical impairment (PhI) based on systematic review of expert articles discussing Quality of Life research. The article discusses what we have learnt about the QOL construct from the specific subjective point of view from persons with hearing, visual and physical impairment. The recent analysis is also directed on comparing generalized theoretical constructs with individ...

Objective of the study Identification of maternal-fetal outcome in women with chronic autoimmune thyroiditis associated with vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy and postpartum. Material and methods: The study included a group of 36 pregnant women diagnosed with chronic autoimmune thyroiditis and normal thyroid function. Patients were monitorized starting with the first trimester of pregnancy and postpartum. In the first trimester, the serum levels of TSH, FT4, antithyroperoxidase antibodies (TPOAb) and antithyro...

The paper is devoted to the study of the semantic structure of oral spontaneous text. A new understanding of the text’s semantic structure as a collection of text themes and subtopics, semantic units that implement these subthemes, and various links (semantic and grammatical) between units and themes/subtopics, is proposed by the authors. The study was carried out by the method of graphosemantic modeling using the author’s method of classifying components for semantic analysis. The processing of the entire researc...

This research paper proposes a non-invasive hybrid brain-computer interface (hBCI) applicable in rehabilitation. In the first section of this research paper, the theoretical information about BCI and hybrid BCI are explained. A non-invasive hybrid BCI is a combination and parallel usage of electroencephalography (EEG - electrical activity of the brain) and additional technology. In this research paper, the additional technology is surface electromyography (sEMG - electrical activity of muscles). In this proposal, ...

Urban sustainability has been a topic of keen interest to both the scientific community, as well as practitioners around the world. However, despite increased efforts in recent years, the debate continues over its clear definition and especially its measurement and monitoring. As the concept of urban sustainability is deeply rooted in its physical context and the territory scale taken into consideration, a wide variety of studies, diagrams, graphic models or value maps have been proposed, as each researcher and na...

Objectives: In the present study some predicting factors of externalizing and internalizing problems were examined as children’s emotion regulation strategies. The main aim of the research was to investigate the relationship between emotion regulation strategies -as cognitive reappraisal (CR) and expressive suppression (EP)-, and behavioral problems in the case of youngsters. Methods: A Hungarian minority group of children from Transylvania were selected. The children (N = 227; male = 53.3%) completed the Emotion ...

The concern for the environment has become increasingly relevant since the second half of the last century. The principle of sustainable development started to be considered sig-nificant in the environmental legislation around the same time. The evolution of the prin-ciple of sustainable development can be followed through the pronouncements of the in-ternational organizations, first and foremost the United Nations. From the Brundtland Report and the Rio Declaration, to the Paris Agreement and the UN Agenda 2030, ...

Modern education of students in the domain of the Earth Sciences has changed for recent years. Working with coordinate space is the basis for teaching students in the cartography domain. But modern work with space is the technology of working with remote sensing data, and the natural sciences, and the methods of classical cartography, and the modern design techniques. Compilation the maps of nature - this is a complex process that covers different areas of knowledge and skills. Compilation of nature maps, in parti...

The current study aims to trace the influence of the addition of dietary fibers from cranberries over nutritional and sensory properties of white bread. Cranberries, in the form of fresh and frozen fruits had been added due to high fiber content, thus aiming to achieve a functional product with superior properties for people with digestive problems, those who are prone to diabetes, healing colon and prevent constipation operation, reduces the risk of colon cancer, reduce the risk of breast cancer, reduce the risk ...

Introduction: Management of the health of oral tissues is a main prerequisite in dentistry. Nanotechnology, an emerging interdisciplinary field with rapid development, has become one of the most favoured technologies in dental applications. This review aims at defining the role and potential of bio-nanomaterials in dental medicine. It describes the basic concept of nanomaterials, latest innovations in nanomaterials and their applications in dentistry. Materials & methods: To validate these issues, current literatu...

Cardiovascular patients comprise more than a half of Czech in-patients. Some patients need a surgical intervention and their recovery is affected by various psychosocial factors. The aim of this research was to examine the influence of Big Five personality traits and health-related behaviour on postoperative adaptation, which was defined as the length of postoperative hospitalization and postoperative quality of life. To explore the above relationships, the BFI-10 personality inventory, the Health-Related Behaviou...

(CRM, Customer Relationship Management) and solutions for data storage that are usually set and implemented by their headquarters. Need to maintain large stores of data and personal data not excluded are managed by IT, multiple-used in terms of time and aim by analytics (DA, Data Analytics) - e.g. for profiling, data mining, segmentation and other specialists (PDPs, Personal Data Protection Specialists / DPO, Data Protection Officer etc.), performed and controlled by internal controlling department (BI, Business I...

This paper examines such modern philosophical movements as transhumanism and posthumanism. The central issue of these concepts is “What is Posthuman?”. The twentieth century is marked by a contradictory understanding of the role and status of human. On the one hand, following the understanding of the onset of the new geological epoch of the Anthropocene, some rejection of the Anthropos figure comes. Such categories of agency as historicity, sociality, subjectivity are no longer so anthropocentric On the other hand...

Health tourism as a niche has emerged and has rapidly grown to become a very significant and promising industry. In the European Union, health tourism market is definitely a new and strong trend, with total revenues of 46.9 billion EUR, which is equal to 4.6% of all tourism revenues and 0.33% of the EU-28 GDP in 2014. The purpose of this paper is to describe main attributes and to analyze some of the health tourism challenges in Italy and Croatia. In addition, the financial effects of these health tourism markets ...

Any classification that claims theoretical significance should be based on signs reflecting the essence of the classified objects. Ideal classifications have heuristic potential, reveal new links between the already known objects, suggest the existence of previously unknown objects. The objective of this paper is to analyze the classification methods of superstitions and assess their scientific potential. The classification of superstitions remains the central problem of the minor folklore. Alphabetic classificati...

The writers of the article try to prove the necessity to teach Science and Technics History Course for a modern innovation engineer formation. They use general scientific research methods such as analyses and synthesis, comparative and also historical methods, such as narrative, historic-genetic, typological, structural and systematic approach. The authors claim that the given course is necessary for modern specialists as in technical as well as in humanitarian sphere to form their wide scientific knowledge, high-...

The aim of this article is to describe health care in areas of armed conflict related to medical planning and preventive medicine and, above all, to consider the serious ethical problem in the area of medical support, when, to whom and how to provide health care during armed conflict. In the context of the place and type of armed conflict (we distinguish a symmetric armed conflict - two opposing armies and an asymmetric armed conflict that can be conceived as an encounter in which one side has a surplus of militar...

Specific risk of a particular enterprise consists of a risk resulting from the industry, that the enterprise operates in, as well as of a risk resulting from internal specificity of the enterprise. The objective of this paper is to propose author’s method to translate the operational and financial effectiveness assessment into a number, which would reflect a specific risk premium. The paper assumes that specific risk in the enterprise composes of an operational and financial risk, which are a derivative of the eff...

The article discusses the importance of attachment (emotional bond) for the healthy development of personality. It expresses a permanent emotional bond, characterised by the need to seek and maintain proximity with a particular person, especially under stressful conditions. This person is usually perceived as wiser and stronger and cannot be easily replaced with another person. Protection is considered to be one of the basic biological functions, one of the conditions of survival and healthy development of an indi...

In recent years, trafficking in human beings has been steadily increasing in Romania, and our country has become a origin country, but also home and destination for large traffic networks. Changes in political, social and cultural fields have led to an increase in poverty and unemployment, as well as an unequal distribution of the male and female in the labour market. According to the studies published by the National Agency Against Trafficking in Persons (ANITP), in 2016 the number of victims was 756, 14% lower t...

Commuter rail transport in Russia plays a leading socio-economic role. Passenger traffic by rail in some regions reaches 90%. Practically there is no alternative to this type of transport in many regions. Commuter rail transport is in demand among citizens who have the right for preferential travel, as well as among people with low incomes. Regional authorities determine the cost of travel for such society groups below the actual cost, and the loss of income of the carrier is compensated by providing subsidies fro...

The article explores the specifics of the work of the Siberian monumentalist V.A. Grigoriev, formed based on a complex interaction of various stylistic approaches. The main methods used are comparative-historical, structural-semantic, iconological and formal analysis. A special role was assigned to the practical definition of the inner design concealed by the artist in various symbolic images. The artist’s creative biography is closely connected with the city, distant from the general artistic environment that fol...

When dealing with multiclass classification problem one has to search for reliable and robust predictors to increase the quality of performance that decreases drastically with growth of classes number. In our research, we propose the sentiment analysis method backed by Lovheim Cube Emotional model including 8 emotional classes unlike traditional two (negative/ positive). To increase the accuracy in case of multi-class classification we need to extract more features from the text than it is usually demanded for bin...

This paper explores the role of the EU Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) in assessing the evolution of agricultural holdings and their contribution to the national economy in Latvia. Although a significant number of previous studies performed a statistical, econometric and comparative analysis of figures extracted from the FADN database, there is still a dearth of research on the importance of the FADN and its integral elements for the provision of detailed and reliable information required for sustainable deve...

The impact of the food sector on achieving the sustainable development goals is increasingly debated worldwide amid growing climate change effects and on the background of a lack of quickly responses on mitigating them. Initially, the state of the art is quantitatively analyzed for emphasizing the scientific evolution on food consumption in the context of sustainability and the main themes discussed by researchers. Further, several indicators on food consumption expenditures, daily calorie supply, emissions, waste...

The ability to provide a variety of services to trafficked persons is a key component of extracting the individuals from this environment. Organizations provide different services to victims and are able to provide these services based on their area of expertise. For example, some organizations are able to provide legal services, some counseling for trauma, medical and dental services, food and clothing . In addition, the aim of this article is to highlight the Pro Sentret NGO outreach model, Norway, which can be ...

Participation in competitions is strongly connected to students’ academic achievement, the highly performing students usually participate in competitions. Social environmental factors, such as the extent of social support, which can derive from the family members, parents, friends, or the family’s social economic status, can also influence students’ participation in competitions. The aim of our study was to find out which are those key components, that particularly determine students to attend competitions, social...

Christ’s Resurrection, despite its historical evidences available in the New Testament writings, is indeed a rock (gr. ?????, „solid stone”, 1 Cor. 10: 4) for the ones who believe in order to stronger believe, but for the skeptical ones it is a stumblingstone (gr. ?????????, „occasion of apostasy”, Rom. 9: 32), so, in this view, it is of less help in present times in order to prove that Christ’s message is still topical. There is, still, another historical fact that can become an unshakable proof, despite its frag...

Digital natives shape their world and shake fundamental beliefs in society, making it obligatory to rethink the schooling, employment and communication aimed at triggering a positive reaction from this new category of technologically immersed young people. The study aims to highlight, based on literature review and on field research, the values of Romanian students belonging to this category, in direct link to their expectations regarding future employment. Students were asked to identify experiences that they cho...

Syntactic phraseology as a subsystem of phraseology is a new direction in the syntax and phraseology of the language. The article provides an overview of the latest studies of syntactic phraseology. The subject and object of this article are determined by the private scientific methodological principles of this study, which are based on the concept of describing the phraseological composition of different languages in the works of the various researchers. The traditional methods of description and observation, the...

Pawel Lukaszewski (Polish composer born in 1968) [1] belongs to the leaders of contemporary choir and religious music. His music is widely known not only in Poland but also abroad. It gained special recognition in Britain, where prestigious vocal ensembles perform it regularly. This music can be treated as the area of a special sounds space evoking the mystical space. Mystical space is built here upon the modern musical language using the elements of musical drama. This music also refers to the forms known form th...

Feliks Nowowiejski (1877-1946) was an eminent Polish composer, organist-virtuoso, conductor and pedagogue whose years of activity coincided with significant historical and socio-cultural changes in Europe. They had a tremendous impact on the artist and his creative path. Originating from the aesthetics and style of Romantic and particularly German – music, Nowowiejski came to international fame at the beginning of the 20th century as the author of the oratorio Quo Vadis ? Op. 30, a piece that became well-known not...

Inclusiveness is a critical economic and social paradigm of the XXI century. Since the early years of the first decade of this century, the design assumes an essential role to society as all: if economic development and social well-being are rooted in innovation, the design is responsible for "translating" innovation into new products consumers can value. The last twenty years brought a sustained search for design graduation and post-graduation courses all over the world. From more traditional programs to new high...

Today's, Europe is facing considerable challenges induced by technological and digital advancements which require a highly-qualified and flexible workforce able to support upward economic and social convergence between and within Member States. These challenges point out the necessity of investigating and structuring significant initiatives at European Union (EU) level with particular regard to overcoming Romania Higher Education (HE) bottlenecks and drawing up desirable improvements solutions. The paper is based ...

The paper aims to map the roots of the Unity of the Brethren, a religious movement whose origins date back to reform religious thinking represented, e.g. by John Wycliffe in England. The text mentions the key moments in the history of the Unity of the Brethren, notices the influences and contacts with Martin Luther in Germany and later Jean Calvin in Geneva and focuses on the development trends within the church itself. It especially points out the trend towards humanistic traditions of education, scholarship, lit...

Mortar beds of three late 19th century sepulchral mosaics from two cemeteries in Prague, Czech Republic were investigated by SEM-EDS, DTG, XRD and FTIR. The materials had a very similar chemical and mineralogical composition – calcite, dolomite, portlandite and quartz were identified in all of them. Calcite was present both as the main constituent of the binder and in the form of angular grains. Moreover, the mortars contained 16 – 18 wt% oil, most probably linseed oil. Due to the rate of degradation and FTIR limi...

Defining language tools for manipulating recipients’ consciousness in public service advertising is quite a topical issue in modern linguistics due to the increasing demand in examining the ways to make a proper impact on the target audience. The main purpose of the article is to explore the ways to create perlocutionary effect in public service advertising by virtue of such stylistic device as pun. The significance of public service advertising in the life of society is determined by the growing necessity to chan...

The purpose of the present study is to use analytical activities while reading a literary text to influence the personality of a foreign language learner. The teacher's tasks are not only to facilitate perceiving, comprehending, memorizing or reproducing processes, but to foreground personal capacities of deep understanding, rethinking and reconsidering as well as to empower reflecting and self-reflecting. The research uses multi-paradigmatic and interdisciplinary approaches; general scientific methods (analysis a...

The caves of the Slovak and Aggtelek Karst have been included in the World List since 1995 heritage of UNESCO. These caves are based on bilateral nomination Slovak-Hungarian the project has become a value not only for Slovakia and Hungary, but for all mankind. On karst below them, more than 1000 caves and abysses with different forms have been discovered sinter and ice fillings. Such cave density does not occur in the mild climate zone probably nowhere in the world. Speleological tourism is a form of tourism that ...

Objective: The objective of the study is to assess the provision of social infrastructure in the context of municipalities with the construction of a rating based on the developed methodology. Methods: A method is proposed for calculating the integral index of the social infrastructure of municipalities according to the level of indicators and taking into account the dynamics of its change. Findings: The presented methodology for assessing the provision of social infrastructure was tested on the example of municip...

Energy is a key factor that affects all sectors of the economy and is one of the cornerstones of the economy. Energy security is part of national security and is one of the tools to ensure the country's sovereignty, political independence and economic security. The current EU security environment is influenced from a global perspective by globalization and the uneven development of states and regions in the world. There is also a noticeable trend that non-military threats come to the fore and become more burning t...