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This article is part of a broader study on the new visual methods to organize data and information, with the aim to recognize the designing of archives as an active process in information storage and retrieval. The building of an Archive, a structured and declared element of information, implies the awareness of existing data organization processes. The management of this information will connect with the capability to interpret and read information that is otherwise impervious. Design, archiving and image are fer...

One of the important goals set up by school is the formation of communicative-aesthetic, cognitive and creative abilities of students. Moreover, Russian schools have practically no specialization subjects (apart from the lessons of drawing and singing) aimed at the solution of this problem, hence, the skills and forms of aesthetic understanding the world and aesthetic communication are actively developing in the process of the Russian language studying. In this situation visual texts, namely the reproduction of fi...

The aim of the article is to analyze the current state of the register of municipalities in the Czech Republic with a focus on their influence on the development and operation of the technical infrastructure. Voluntary associations of municipalities represent one of the ways of interregional cooperation; the purpose of all associations of municipalities is to provide public services to their members. The first voluntary associations in the Czech Republic were founded in the early 1990s. Roughly half of the associa...

The publication presents the results of empirical research on technologies used in the home pages of the Irish credit institutions authorized under Irish Legislation to carry on banking business in the state according to the Irish Credit Institutions Register, Section 1 (a) in 2017. The home web pages of 10 banks were studied. Our survey reveals some interesting details about the proportion of the used web technologies. The average home page size is around 1.4 MB and the share of the images is around 50%. The shar...

The acquisition and administration of “big data” has become a highly-debated issue not only within the information technology field, but more broadly in the political sociology and social arena ethics as well. While big data may just be another technology used to better find customers (from a business point of view) or help people (from a governmental point of view), its use and misuse has made it a topic of much discussion. Users continue to see lots of data being gathered, stored and analyzed about them as c...

Although remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPASs) offer great advantages and creative possibilities, they are primarily designed for outdoor use by different end-users for activities such as inspections, agriculture, real estate, security and so on. The creative industries are starting to use RPASs for outdoor filming and photography. However, since the existing RPASs lack a precise, robust and affordable indoor positioning system as well as advanced safety features, the control of any RPAS in an indoor environme...

The article is devoted to the speech behavior of Fedor N. Plevako who appeared in a court not only as a barrister, a representative of a civil action, but also as a private prosecutor. The main focus of this article will be on three points. First, we will find out what kind of speech behavior Plevako used in his speeches as a barrister and a prosecutor. Second, whether PlevakoВ’s speech behavior differs from the average speech-genre index of speech behavior of the respective professional groups consisting of barri...

The issue of the organizational culture of geographic education nowadays is becoming more and more relevant as it relates to a number of problems in the geographical community. Such are, for example, the lack of organization of geography teachers, the poor activity of methodological unions in secondary schools, the limited opportunities for creative geography teachers, the discontinued printing of emblematic magazines, etc. Despite the fact that the activities of the Bulgarian Geographical Society were resumed, an...

A motive for adapting the desecrated churches to new purposes is a broadly discussed matter, progressively better investigated and defined. Is it advisable to introduce a new, permanent function, complementary to the sacred one in the historical ecclesial buildings? This paper presents the results of the research on benefits of adapting the non-utilized attics of monumental churches still performing their sacred function, located in historic centers of the cities. The results were identified in three approaches: c...

The article performed from the position of psycholinguistic school gives the full and detailed analysis of similarities and differences of the dynamics of modern family images exciting in the language consciousness of Russian students. Persistent interest to this problem is caused by anthropocentric focus of modern science and understanding that a person lives in the changing social and economic conditions that steadily find reflection in all spheres of life. A person perceives and fixes the world in his conscious...

Scholars have lately displaying constantly growing interest in the role of the woman in music and in the specificity of women music making. These subjects are considered both in broad terms and as concrete phenomena. It seems to be expedient to try to combine the above subjects and by the example of a particular phenomenon – the Vietnamese female ca tru singing to trace some typological community with other traditions of female music making in countries of the Far East and partly South East Asia. Generally, thre...

Like in many other countries, the status of women in Croatian politics is neither satisfactory nor have their political rights been developed to an adequate degree. Croatian women face numerous prejudices and stereotypes and are almost invisible at a high political level. Consequently, the number of Croatian female MPs is small despite the fact that the rules on electoral gender quotas were introduced in 2008. As stipulated by those rules, there shall be at least 40% of women on parliamentary candidate lists. Inst...

The aim of the present research was to explore some intergenerational patterns of bounday flexibility in the context of family – work interface. First of all, we explored how young women expectations regarding the flexibility of their future family and work boundaries were related to their parents’ willingness and ability to flex these boundaries. Furthermore, we investigated the differences between spouses in the ability and willingness to flex family and work boundaries. In order to test our hypotheses, we co...

A successful balance between work and private life provides benefits to employees and companies. Employees are an essential resource in the companies operating in the business sector, and, according to the long-term estimates in the labour market, the services sector will continue to develop in Latvia in the future as well, and, consequently, there will also be a demand for human resources. The aim of the research study: To study work and private life balance differences between various generations of the personne...

Background: Working capital is an element that has a significant impact on the financial security of an entity, its profitability and the efficiency of its asset management and its selected liabilities. Working capital management is designed to keep an enterprise engaged in its day-to-day “financial health”. This is a complicated and time-consuming process because it involves the management of current assets and current liabilities. Therefore, it is important to choose appropriate management strategies for ind...

The Czech Republic has not yet ratified or acceded to the Convention of the International Labor Organization (hereinafter referred to as "ILO") No. 189 on Foreign Workers. In the vote on the adoption of the Convention in 2011, the vote was abstained and, on the basis of the Czech Government's failure to ratify, the Senate Senate on Health and Social Policy of the Senate of the Czech Parliament on 8 August 2012 decided that the Czech Republic would not join the ratification of the Workers' In a foreign household. T...

The main objective of this study is to identify the impact of labor force immigration on the labor market of Slovak Republic. The solution of this issue required an analysis and examination of specific relations within the labor market trends development in Slovak Republic (employment, unemployment, wage level, number of free jobs) and labor immigration. Several economic criteria are developed in this study and the effects of labor emigration on labor market are recalculated by means of mathematical calculations. ...

Strategic objective of state policy is reliable providing the country with fuel and energy resources, increase in efficiency of their use and decrease in anthropogenous impact of fuel and energy complex on the environment. The appropriate measures aimed at providing energy saving and increase in energy efficiency are necessary for achievement of this purpose; ensuring need of domestic market for reliable, high-quality and economically reasonable supply with the electric power and heat; development of oil and gas a...

The relevance of this study in the context of the intensification of integration processes occurring in the world community in all spheres of human activity, including the system of higher education, is determined by the need to manage the processes of enhancing international academic mobility of students. The process of developing the migration of academically oriented young people, whose pace is very significant, provides access to recognized centers of knowledge - the place for the formation of leading scientif...

The paper is devoted to the problem of youth workers’ professional growth. The European Commission notes of the European Union (EU) youth work directions currently in growing professionalisation and the rise of the proportion professional education youth workers and expected the increasing demand for youth work by society. However, it was noted that state support can be decreased with the pressure of the sector and can discourage youth work, thus contributing to staff turnover (2014). During the period 2005-2015...

In the labyrinth of the Nietzschean interpretations, what is missing is a chapter which investigates Nietzsche's critique of the city of men. This is what the following research sets out to do: to reconstruct – through first-hand reading of the Nietzschean texts and the little bibliography on the topic – Nietzsche's reflections on the everyday rationale of city life. A posthumous note dating back to his early years suggests that Nietzsche had planned a work dedicated to the metropolis as part of the incomplete...

The article deals with one of the incidents in the history of the territorial delineation of Arctic lands, which occurred in the 1920-ies and was associated with the island of Wrangel. We present the analysis of the events, which happened before the incident, including the details of the island discovery and the following various states’ representatives’ landing on it. It is noted that Russia's declaration of its ownership of Wrangel Island in 1916 did not cause protests of other countries. However, Russia bei...

The issue of intercultural communication is highly topical in connection with globalization. The intercultural communication affects much more than just the sphere of personal development, it also involves other spheres dealing with the specific connection between communication and culture. The intercultural communication comes to being based on the close relation between communication and culture where its sphere spreads by means of critical research. The scientific works aimed at intercultural communication resu...

More than six decades ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Junior published in The Maroon Tiger, an article called The Purpose of Education in which he emphasized the need to “train one for quick, resolute and effective thinking[1]”, since “to think for one’s self is very difficult”. Could we say wholeheartedly that modern education fulfills nowadays the indispensable needs Dr. King was talking about in the nineteen-fifties? Are we able to say that the chief aims of education are being achieved, and long term vis...

Nowadays Russian economy needs competent workers who are able to be effective in international environment. It means there is an urgent need for training equal participants of cross cultural communication in professional context. One of the major instruments in educational process is a textbook that is sure to be helpful for attaining the said goal. In this research I have used a modeling method. Cross cultural component of a textbook is considered here as being coordinated with an open element of the developed mo...

Numerous researches have demonstrated the enormous role of teachers in achievements of students. Educated and motivated teacher that cares about the success of students devotes more effort to preparing the lesson and thus provides the students better conditions for achieving results. The problem occurs when teachers are not equally qualified, motivated and prepared so it is justified to ask why some people even opt for the teaching profession if they have no motivation for this noble profession. The purpose of thi...

We aim to present some of our research findings interpreting the education of Roma children from socially disadvantaged backgrounds in the Czech Republic. Namely, we employed Foucault’s (critical) discursive analysis, discursive psychology and conversational analysis. We focused primarily on authors of articles (on education of Roma) in journals for teachers. We aim to explain our research findings within the context of power discourse and blended institutional structures.

This paper provides a synopsis of the chapter “Leading and Managing Action Research for School Improvement: The Case of Bahraini Schools”, published recently by Nova Publishers in Gina Abbott’s (2015) edited work “Private and Public Schools: International Perspectives, Management and Educational Efficiency”. This chapter provides a contextualization of action research in the Kingdom of Bahrain, by providing a historical account and background information of it. It also presents a theoretical discussion o...

The article presents the results of research from 2015 to identify teaching style of teachers? of Accounting at vocational secondary schools in the Czech Republic in terms of the proper usage of methods to enhance thinking, the application of interdisciplinary relationships and the impact of teacher’s motivation. The comparison of the attitudes of students and teachers on the subject of Accounting is presented. The article is based on the empirical research conducted in 2014 on the basis of a survey method, the ...

solution of deficiencies in anti-bias education and education towards respect for human rights in secondary education of students in the Slovak Republic. The project responds to the fact that in recent times, not only in Slovakia but also in Europe, we increasingly encounter, also among children and young people, intolerant behaviour towards others - with signs of hostility, fear of otherness stemming from the prejudices about people of another race, national origin, ancestry, of another religion, but also the dis...

The turbulent global environment intensively is changing the paradigm of managing organizations. Changes initiated visionary and proactive corporate coding based on permanent organizational learning based on quality management talents, knowledge and change. The experience of developed economies in the world shows that the functioning of modern organizations is not effective without implementing the system of management of intellectual capital. If the organization prefers to become a learning organization, then it ...

This article tackles assessment in the Business Communication class, looking at current practices in the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, in BA and MA programmes in International Business and Business Administration, and suggesting new ways of evaluating students’ so-called “soft” skills. The author argues for assessment as a learning tool, which engages students as individuals and as members of teams, and proposes that collaborative assessment can better prepare future graduates for the job mar...

Providing the psychological assistance is a complex process that depends largely on the inner well-being of psychologists themselves and their assessment of the social situation in which the assistance is provided. In this regard, the purpose of our study was to assess the aggression and violence in different spheres of life of modern Russian man. As the main method we used the survey. The study involved 118 future psychologists. The interviewed respondents believe that they live in an aggressive world full of vio...

The issue of effective and efficient foreign language teaching is relevant in today’s global world. More and more frequently specialized computer programs for foreign vocabulary training are used. They are not expensive and simple to create and use in comparison with published analogues and not less efficient. The paper considers systemic aspects of information base development for multilingual adaptive training technology, specifically the process of information collection of latent lexical relations and its em...

Benchmarking is one of the managerial methods used in many industries, but it could be applied with success in the educational system as well. In the introductory part of the paper, we present some features of modern benchmarking. Unfortunately, Romanian managers have strong reservations toward applying benchmarking in their organizations. In order to show their poor knowledge about benchmarking, we developed a research based on a questionnaire. The respondents were managers in small, medium or big organizations, ...

Social media have created zones for information sharing, collaboration, community formation and development, but despite their widespread use, little is known about the benefits or challenges of social media technology (SMT) use for academic purposes. Some publications declare that social media can make a good tool to blend pedagogy and technology in education, thus enhancing involvement of students who regard social networks as an inseparable part of their life. Furthermore, SMT is regarded useful to add to the r...

Modality in scientific texts has been investigated from various angles and has been found to be indicative of stance and dependent on various factors, such as discipline, culture and context. Cross disciplinary studies point out that, in English, the epistemic use of modals in scientific texts exceeds the deontic use, given the communicative purposes of such texts, i.e. the production and transfer of knowledge. The present paper explores the use of modal verbs in a corpus of scientific texts on Economics written i...

The article aims to evaluate the benefits of the trainings offered in the market after identifying the circumstances of increasing the competence in small and medium enterprises. The findings on how those who organise trainings can achieve a higher return on investments allocated to human resource development are presented in the article. Organizations must create a fair environment of sharing of the newly acquired knowledge between the employees and organize feedback after training, which would allow evaluating t...

This paper presents a case study realized at the “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, with the purpose of improving the educational process. The purpose of this case study is to present a project based on solving the existing problem using the six sigma methodology. The most obvious problem facing the organization is related to the absenteeism of the students. Using 6 Sigma methodologies, an analysis of the educational process and a problem-solving project was realized. In order to identify the causes, a brains...

The purpose of the research is to identify the parts of speech categories common for the blocks of the texts under investigation, to characterize their functioning and semantic meaning. The methodology of the paper: English magazine advertisements of decorative cosmetics and skincare products for women have been picked out with the help of continuous sampling method from the magazines Cosmopolitan, In Style, and Glamour. The method of structural-semantic analysis was used to reveal the structural-semantic blocks o...

The famous contemporary girl-oriented fiction, manga and anime production, the so-called culture of mini-komi (small informal communication networks) has their own origin - in mass media and Japanese literary works of the first part of the twentieth century. The tanka poet, writer and feminist leader Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) wrote some children stories whose heroines, little girls, differed from the mainstream of the young adult fiction. There are such stories like "One year from the life of Tamaki" ("Tamaki no ic...

capacity of technological communication, we witness the show of a social life jammed with contradictions, in which community civilisation are unable to find communication bridges. Knowledge and respect of heritage values of a community, lead to a deeper understanding of the complexity of the world we live in, of the mutual influences and conditioning in the social, economic, political and cultural life. Choir singing is one of the most straightforward and accessible methods of human and social communication, due t...

Puberty is a phase in which complete reproduction ability is attained. This phase can be described as a substantial hormonal process of physical changes related to changes of psyche in full realization of one’s own personality [6],[14]. Puberty is an important element of sex education [8][9] as well as a significant part of complex education of children in 21st century [8][9][10][15]. Puberty is a normal display of human development. The many changes in this phase of life influence not only the individual, but h...

The paper aims to reveal the pedagogical potential of cognitive-oriented teaching of the mother tongue. We started out from the theoretical premises provided by cognitive linguistics, both its American branch, emphasizing the body anchoring of meaning, and from the Polish orientation, concentrated on the theory of linguistic picture of the world and semantic profiling. The theories mentioned were modified in accord with the educational goals of mother tongue teaching and applied namely to the sphere of lexicology....

The research is related to the search for new forms, methods and tools for effective planning of scientific activities, primarily those that would be based on the state of the information space, formed in a separate subject area at different levels of its representation: the level of scientific team publications, the level of projects supported by Science Foundations and others. The purpose of the study is to develop cognitive-information models of scientific subject areas, developed by research teams, which refle...

The paper argues that communicative competence and reflective skills are necessary attributes of future managers and expected learning outcomes of university graduates with Master degrees. Though believed seemingly opposite, these core competences can complement each other being developed concurrently and ultimately benefit students’ professional competence. The methodology used as the base for elective course design is the theory of step-by-step development of mental actions, the Multiple Intеlligеnсе Thеo...

Pragmatic orientation of the article was influenced by the fact that communication and rhetoric (as a skill) is not part of education programs at the Technical University. If it is present, then only as partial subpart of some subjects (more or less social sciences subjects). In terms of current theory and practice the communication skills are considered as a key factor of success in entering individual to the labor market. Article follows the issue of communication skills, partial results of self-assessment of co...

Education is considered to be a life-long process. Successful managers in the hotel industry cannot do without involving in an effective company training, constant gaining new information and, above all, without its correct use in practice. Global market environment in which they work has been becoming more variable, demanding and critical to possible mistakes. Thus, managers are constantly forced to broaden their knowledge and improve their professional skills. In order to secure further development, hotels and h...

The study is based on a methodology proposed by European Association for Education Law and Policy for their research conducted in 2009 and devoted to commercialization, competition and corruption in European education. In the article, the attempt is made to apply their methods to analyze the competition in Russian educational market which existed before the adoption of new educational legislation which came into force in 2013. The subjects of examination in this article are: competition law in education, free and ...

The aim of the study is to identify the factors that act as facilitators and inhibitors in the inclusion of students with disabilities in secondary schools. Mainstreaming of disability can be defined as the systematic integration of the priorities and needs of persons with disabilities in all areas of life with a view to promoting equal opportunities. The current trend in Czech Republic proceeds further from integration towards inclusion. The idea of inclusive education is also a part of the declarations and laws ...