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The paper studies the personality of Anna Lauermannova-Mikschova, founder of the first literary salon in the Czech lands, who was also actively involved in creating Czech feminist movement. She published her work under the name Felix Tever. Her Stastny u brehu Tibery (Happy at the Banks of the Tiber River) looks back at the happiest years of her life spent in Italy (Rome) where she found a shelter from her unlucky marriage and illness. The work of Anna Lauermannova-Mikschova (aka Felix Tever) features a wide varie...

Pedagogical Faculty of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (PNU), the Faculty of Humanities of Mukachevo State University (MSU), and the Medical Faculty of Ternopil I. Horbachevskyi State Medical University (TSMU) within a four-year period (2013-2018) became a space for an intense research into intransient educative potential of arts and literature aiming to prove regional fiction power to nurture modern students spiritually and culturally competent despite their obvious alienation from reading. Metho...

The present paper outlines regional and local self-government bodies represent special management system of public administration, which consists of many interconnected elements, among which one of the most important elements is public-political communication. In this management system such subsystems are functional that are responsible for adaptation of elements of the management system at the time of changes of conditions. These subsystems which get information from outside initiate communication management meth...

The accounting profession is facing a critical turning point, on the background of global rapid pace technological changes. At the same time young accountants and employers, as well as accountantsВ’ professional body are aware of witnessing challenging, dynamic times which greatly redesign future career patterns and pathways. AccountantВ’s role moved from a static one into a key advisor of the business, due to the broad range of skills to be continuously acquired, learning and digitization opportunities. The paper...

Background: Abuse experienced in childhood including physical and emotional neglect, has been identified as a major risk factor for a variety of negative outcomes for mental and physical health. Objective: We aimed to find out whether history of family violence experienced in childhood and adolescents predicts affective disorders in Romanian youth assessed by depression, anxiety (GAD) and risk for suicide. Method: Data were drawn from a large-scale, national representative sample of 1497 young adults (Mean Age 21,...

Introduction: The development of professional burnout is influenced by numerous intrapersonal and situational factors, such as length of practice or satisfaction with health and private life. The results of some studies suggest that coping style may be another such factor. The aim of the present study was to assess the scale of professional burnout among midwives and to determine the relationships between coping styles and burnout symptoms. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with the research sample, w...

The term “syncretism” has a complicated history in religious studies, especially it concerns European scientific environment. In Russian science it has appeared with more or less determined meaning. Comparative analysis helped us to reveal the main array of issues that concerns the meaning of the term “syncretism”. In the 70s European academics decided to revive this notion, but since it was ignored it has acquired different synonyms. So academics in the most recent papers debate if the revival of the term...

The problematic of religiosity and its relationship towards media opens several ques-tions that can only be addressed on the border of the media theory and practice. Our paper focuses on the construction of media reality of the chosen aspects of religiosity. It also analyses the importance and the role of media in establishing the public view of religiosity. It identifies key trends impacting media in this context. The paper is atten-tive to both positive and negative influences of media on the public.

Diasporas nowadays consists of economic migrants who are belive to have the potential for chanelling financial and social transfers as well as technology and qualifications. Remittances sent by migrants make the main source of external income, not only often bigger than the foreign help but also direct foreign investment. Money transfers make the stable source of funds reaching directly families and make the poverty smaller. Dominican Republic is constantly percieived as a country of a mass emigration to United St...

The credit expansion in the household sector, which then stimulated the growth of personal consumption in Croatia, preceded the occurrence of the global financial crisis and the six-year recession that lasted from 2009 to 2014 in Croatia. With regard to enhanced household borrowing in the years before the crisis, there was multiplied effect caused by the inability to settle all the due liabilities in the period after the crisis. In parallel with the legal regulation, which prompted from the beginning of 2011 the F...

Axiological worldview reflects the most important part of the linguistic worldview, i.e. values and their antipodes – disvalues. Linguistic axiology sees fictional text as a source of information about the values of the language speakers. Comparative linguistic axiology is a promising trend of research, as it doesn’t only help to understand mentality of a language speaker but also reflects values of different communities. Studying language in an axiological aspect involves dyad method. Axiological dyad means un...

This paper focuses on representation of iconographic elements in literary writings in the context of Italian modernity, by addressing important and innovative theoretical and critical aspects from a multidisciplinary perspective, such as redefinitions of poetic boundaries and principles on which they reside. It examines how pictorial imagery and understandings can permeate oneВ’s own literary expression constituting its integral and substantial part, while the novelty of the paper consists in the fact that it stud...

The study focuses on the use of talent management, depending on the size and form of organizations in the Czech Republic. On a representative sample of 301 organizations, who use talent management, it was determined whether the use of talent management depends on the size of private organizations and whether the form of organization is influencing its application. The study is a part of a very extensive research completed in 2016, dealing with the effectiveness of talent management methods in the Czech Republic. I...

The paper shows research through a case study of interior design of the functionalist, residential complex Avion, built in 1932, which has been paid only marginal attention in previous works. Due to its exceptional architecture, the building was already part of the cultural heritage of the then Czechoslovakia in 1985, and in 2011 it was declared a building of a century in the category of residential buildings in Slovakia. Almost a 90-year-old Avion performs its original function without interruption and is still a...

The historic Brewery in Szczytno is a very interesting architectural object, but does not have accurate documentation. In works on historic buildings, it may be very helpful to make documentation in BIM technology. This technology allows you to create a virtual building that can be filled with all information about it. Thanks to this, it is possible not only to track changes in the documentation, but also to quickly find any collisions. In order to reproduce the documentation that can be used during the renovation...

Homes by avant-garde architects, created in the interwar period, featured empty, uncluttered rooms, strictly functional objects, lightweight machine-made furniture which would not take up too much space, everything not serving a practical purpose was removed. There was no place for purely decorative objects in small interiors. The prospective residents not always liked the idea as demonstrated by the spectacular failure of Le CorbusierВ’s Pessac project reflecting its residentВ’s lack of understanding of modern ar...

The aim is to show the disintegration of a personality by analyzing the fragment of “Confession” by St Augustine. It allows us to come from the phenomenological description of personality transformation process to means of psychological defense. By solving the questions of love St Augustine uses hidden rhetorical constructions, which reflect his emotional processes in the most adequate way. They should be analyzed and clarified. The rhetorical aspect of this transformation can be reconstructed from that part o...

Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (hereinafter: GDPR) ratified “the right to be forgotten.” The EU legislator has given data subjects a tool that allows to control the processing of personal data, while at the same time it protects their right to privacy. This tool is...

The right to mobility is one of the most important rights that form the core of the European union's passenger rights policy. However, the exercise of this right is unfortunately not equally and available to all persons. The right to transportation is not always easy to exercise for people with disabilities and people with reduced mobility. Enabling free movement and accessibility of public transport is necessary for inclusion of persons with disabilities and persons with reduced mobility in everyday life. Availab...

Risk management in museums of the Czech Republic is inadequate and is not implemented in most museums. The presented issue of risk management in museums is only the first step towards introducing this knowledge into museums. The introduction of risk management as part of an integrated museum management system is very important, as emergencies and disasters are very democratic and unexpectedly reach out to all countries of the world and thus to a variety of institutions.

Information theory is based on interdisciplinary defined mathematical, computer sciences and artificial intelligence. The information is based on theory of mathematically defined the basic preconditions for the fulfilment of the conditions of information processing, and perception quantified properties informative value. While the total applicable and informative value is often lost in a mathematical bite - mathematically measurable value information. The most effective instrument to eliminate the risk is to provi...

The great opportunity to classify risks of the introduction of digital solutions to the organizations, which provide educational services, lies behind the opportunity to measure the degree of implementation of digital solutions in the organization and the degree of collaborations about digital solutions, both inside and outside of the organization. The paper classifies the risks of introducing digital solutions, depending on the stage of the life cycle. Authors analyzed risks of introduction, growth and maturity a...

According to the provisions of Romanian Law no. 85/2014 on insolvency proceedings, the purpose of this procedure is the payment of the debts of the insolvent debtor to its creditors [1]. It is therefore a collective procedure involving all the known creditors of the insolvent debtor. Consequently, such a procedure is carried out under the conditions governed by the above-mentioned law, a law which determines both the ways in which insolvency proceedings are initiated and the conditions under which such proceedings...

Under the influence of the Renaissance humanist trend, the Romanian musical space is experiencing a period of transformation and flourishing in a diverse and effervescent musical landscape. Being under the influence of Western music, the Romanian musical life assimilates and accepts the Renaissance elements in particular manifestation forms, specific to the historical-geographical space of the historical regions known as the Roman Countries (Principalities). For more than two centuries, numerous European countries...

The present study focuses on two interrelated issues: specifics of Russian literature in Latvia in the period after the World War II and peculiarity of childrenВ’s literature of this period. The post-war period is dramatic in the history of Latvia; it is a period of lost independence and occupation, which directly affects the literary process (presence of ideological doctrine). Nevertheless, LatviaВ’s cultural space becomes a place of relative artistic freedom and minimization of ideological dictate. In a phenomen...

which provides a link between the sphere of social relations, cultural norms and political processes. It is a set of principles that influence political behavior and help systemically structure common values, attitudes, beliefs, and orientations that form the basis of the relationship between an individual, society, and the state. The stability of a political culture is based on such factors as the legitimacy of the existing system and political regime. This article discusses the features of the political culture ...

Occupational safety is a key condition of any work activity, especially in the sphere of education. The occupational safety aspect is a part of teaching technical subjects, including in a wider context (environmental, medical, aesthetic, economic, energy, and others), and constitutes the basis of the modern vocational training concept. According to J. Pechar and J. Pehe [9], occupational safety is a set of work conditions which limits the influence of hazardous factors in the work process. The goal is to handle th...

Civil engineering is a branch of the economy that generates many problems related to the entire life cycle of the facility. It is connected with the necessity of carrying out a number of various activities and processes already at the stage of preparing and planning investments and their implementation. Another stage, very important, lasting decades, is the stage of using objects. In engineering activities, the last stage of the object's life cycle is often overlooked, namely its demolition. It is a process that t...

The aim of the study is to analyse the most important Czech and Slovak feature television and film productions devoted to the life and work of Saints Cyril and Methodius from 1989 to the present. The study examines a change in perspective on this subject under the influence of changes in the social and political situation in the last three decades. During the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, Saints Cyril and Methodius were on the margin of the interest of audiovisual media and they were perceived only as creato...

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 ...

The effectiveness of school pupils' functioning is conditioned by many factors. One of them is the involvement of students referring to active participation in lessons and knowledge preoccupation. The positive attitude of a student to school, participation in school and class life as well as identification with the class prevents various forms of socially unacceptable behavior. Involvement causes students to have such traits as perseverance, creativity and effectiveness in achieving goals. The condition of commitm...

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-...

Raising the standard of living of the population is one of the most pressing problems in any society. Currently, it is acquiring even greater significance for Russia due to the growing influence of a number of negative factors leading to a reduction in real incomes of the population. First of all, it should be noted that, presumably, the final tax burden on individuals, starting from January 1, 2019, increases substantially. This is due both to the direct growth of the amount of obligatory payments payable by indi...

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...

A new approach, which ensures the obtainment of an objective conclusion about the state of the enterprise at the current time, is proposed. The peculiarity of the approach is the presence of an algorithm, which ensures not only the transformation of numerous performance standards into the specific measures of efficiency, but also the implementation of the transition from a variety of traditional models to a unique method. Thus, the conditions for the adoption of the management system that is capable of organizing ...

Effectiveness in cooperation with a group is a kind of special social competences that should be educated from an early age. The high level of self-efficacy in cooperation with the group not only allows the individual to get involved in the tasks longer and work harder to achieve the set goals [1], but also allows to notice the opportunities that can contribute to success. People with a high sense of self-efficacy in cooperation with a group are more ready to take on new challenges, flexible, engaged, persistent, ...

Relationships between principal and teachers in the school require communication skills through partnership and collaboration. The quality of this cooperation is very important, which consists in the increasing involvement and creativity of teachers. In order for the potential inherent in the teachers to be fully utilized, a person who will manage them properly is necessary - manager, supervisor, less often referred to as a leader. The role of the leader is to motivate attitudes aimed at achieving goals and to hel...

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...

holistic system in psychology, where motivation, metacognition, learning skills and regulation of internal (e.g. concentration) and external resources (e.g. time) are evenly important in the prediction of academic success in university. Objective: To study the predictors of self-regulated learning (learning skills, motivation and resource regulation) in academic performance among STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine), respectively non-STEMM undergraduates (N= 106). Method: The study wa...

Background: The Internet has become an integral part of the young peopleВ’s daily life where the network is used not only as an information resource, but also as a medium of communication, and entertainment. The possibilities of social virtual reality influence the perception of oneself, the attitude towards oneself as a person. The purpose of research is to study the characteristics of studentsВ’ self-relation in relation to the characteristics of network activity and attitudes towards using the Internet. Practic...

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in all the Central European countries. Some patients undergo a cardiac surgery with extracorporeal circulation and their postoperative adaptation is influenced by various psychosocial factors. The aim of the research was to examine the impact of sense of coherence, positive mental health and selected personal characteristics on postoperative adaptation defined as the length of postoperative hospitalization combined with postoperative quality of life. To explor...

This article presents an analysis of literature on shadow banking. The attention of researches on shadow banking topic have increased exponentially after the global financial crisis. Despite of the fact that this concept has been used for over ten years, there is no one common conception and definition of it. The innovations, global challenges like artificial intelligence, big data, etc., makes this topic very important for regulators, economists, researchers in order to make the right decisions and impact in thei...

At the end of the Romanic period, painting was still considered a less important art, used only to decorate certain surfaces for which there were no broader or richer methods of coverage. The ordinary painter's duty was to only color the sculptures created by other hands or to decorate the walls. In this sittuation we can tell that the most appreciated form of painting was the one made by generations of monks in their writing rooms (scritoria). That was the place where they were illustrating their manuscripts with...

Shirley Jackson is an author of many fictional and semi-fictional texts and had a great interest in the supernatural. Her novel “The Haunting of Hill House” (1959) is praised by many horror fiction writers, such as Stephen King, as one of the great novels of supernatural in the last hundred years. The notion of the literary genre of horror is based on the effect it produces on the reader: it provokes the reader’s emotional and/or physical response, such as fear, anxiety, revulsion, etc., by exposing him or he...

Shrinking is a series of causes that have different effects on the rural areas. These effects are often direct and indirect, immediate or may express in a long-term dimension. The causes of shrinking are diverse: e.g. economic recession, increasing urbanization, changes in environmental conditions, etc. The most commonly shrinkage characteristic is a permanent decline in population. Latvia like several other European countries is losing population. As a monocentric country Latvia has some additional challenge - de...

The Sibyls and the art of prophecies have played an essential role in history, proving the inclination of the human spirit towards mysticism and the belief of all societies that at the base of any symbolic story is a real event. In the book of Enoch, which describes the making of the world according to the Jewish tradition, often cited by the authors of the New Testament and even by Jesus Christ, it speaks of angels who loved women and married them, making them known the derisory mysteries they knew, the small mys...

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, th...

Innovation public policy has an important role influencing the competitive capacity of companies and is strongly associated with their ability to innovate and the way they are organized. As important as the technological and the organization of work is the social dimension, namely, involvement, participation and commitment of the workforce, as these are, par excellence, factors that contribute to create added value and differentiation for companies. In this sense, the concept of innovation depends on an integrated...

Background: In this paper we tried to emphasize the importance of the Critical Infrastructures in general, as well as a divided approach of the infrastructures. The main topics discussed in the following lines are debating the importance of critical infrastructures in the field of Transportation, Energy production, Water and sanitation, Nuclear Industry as well as some examples for stating the importance of Critical infrastructures, at a national and European level on the economical and social point of view. The p...

The Adinberri strategy (The New Age in the Basque language) is aligned with the overcoming of the shared ageing challenges within the territory of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country, Spain). This project arises as part of an innovation project in public policies launched by The Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country, Spain) that is named Etorkizuna Eraikiz (Building the Future). This project adopts a government by network approach, where the public institutions produce social value by building and activating the mul...