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Anchoring effect, systematically influence by random and uninformative starting points, is robust. In a between - subject experiment (N = 199; groups: control, anchoring, with forewarning alone, in conjunction with overconfidence note) we placed the participants in a certain numerical information and then we attempt to diminish the impact of this number of judgments about various issues they did not suffer a knowledge about. The experimental questions were sorted according to the extraction of particular anchor (s...

The purpose of our research was to investigate male caregiving via a status of being hidden and forgotten in East-Central Europe, where caregiving itself had only lately been emancipated, and only as provided by women. In Poland and in other European countries the gender bias is clear: men provide less care than women, the care is less intensive and of a different character. By desk research, own research interpretation and literature review, the paper addressed informal, family caregiving towards frail older adul...

Ethical and legal aspects of the enforcement of the basic principle of bioethics which is the principle of respect for individual autonomy in the Russian legislation and clinical practice are considered. The authors reveal the essence of the concept of ‘personal autonomy’, analyze Russian laws from the standpoint of congruence with bioethical and world legal standards, and present the results of their research.

Globalization as an inevitable and ever expanding phenomenon in society affects all its spheres. It is related to the struggle of strong economic entities in the world economy for dominance, to the conflict of cultures about the future nature of human society, finding the universal effectiveness and universal values and to the collapse of the bipolar world. In the context of the ongoing global changes, the issue of raised demands emerges in the context of an aging population. This text mentions generational clashe...

Lie detection through nonverbal behavior is not a standard m ethod, but it is intuitive process, applied by lay persons and professionals. In our research we are interested in the ability of different professional groups to detect lie this way. As a part of this research we also follow certain characteristics that m ight differentiate between more and less successful persons. We focus on different cues they follow in their decision making process and certain stereotypes they might use during their decision. In ano...

The human trafficking phenomenon affects a great number of children by turning them into merchandise. In their searc h for a better future, children can be tempted by traffickers, who make them false promises. The goal of the study is, aside from highlighting the socio socio-demographic characteristics of the minors’ victims of trafficking, to identify the factors that generat e certain forms of vulnerability for trafficked minors and the most efficient assistance and reinsertion methods as well as the most effe...

The study focuses on the primary associations that are evoked by the city of Prague, as well as on the differences that can be seen between the professionals and the general public in this regard. One of the main objectives is to highlight the growing importance of the city branding in today's hyper-competitive environment, which creates a demand for empirical studies of a similar nature. Therefore, in this paper, we pay attention to the analysis of selected attributes of the brand of Prague. Special attention is ...

The aim of study was to find predictors of psychological critical thinking in university students. We have hypothesed that the main factors which could predict the level of critical psychological thinking will be cognitive competence, scientific thinking, learning approach, and academic achievement. As methods of data gathering were used the self-referencing techniques (Lawson’s test of psychological critical thinking, Magno’s scientific thinking inventory, Approaches to Studying Inventory developed by Tait, E...

People develop and form their ways of thinking throughout all their lives. These processes are inevitably associated with certain pressures from society and our surroundings and we may either resist or give in to them. Thanks to the people around us and environment we live in, we are able to form particular views of the world; we can reappraise our sets of values and act in accordance with our conscience. Since men are social beings, one of our basic needs is to maintain relationships with other people. The proble...

Space exploration and mapping and communication are crucial abilities of mobile robots for the intelligent autonomous systems. Space monitoring and correct results representing requires understanding communication method. The best form to represent the results form research simulations is the 3D visualization. The paper describes the communication form between pupil - robots and virtual pupil and developed tool for generation and communication art of warning messages by using the virtual speaking head.

In this study, we attempted to identify the polyphenolic compounds of two species of the genus Parietaria (fam. Urticaceae), namely Parietaria lusitanica L., harvested from Toulouse (France) and an indigenous species, Parietaria officinalis L., harvested from the forest Fantanita-Murfatlar (Constanta county, Romania). The work method used for the qualitative and quantitative differentiation of the polyphenolic compounds in the vegetal products of these species was high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The...

The nature of each person as wise and free being is endowed with potential based on mind, free will and moral consciousness to evolve through the process of knowledge creation and innovation and introduction of innovative forms of learning. Man in it self absorbed nature of his existence that life in reality and only then design fully conscious and individual, which is in a position to create his own mind through the process of knowledge. Only man in that situation would be able to have their own elevated sense of...

The paper is devoted to the problem of studying the personal representations about safety as a component of worldview and a person’s activity regulator. The research purpose is to develop and verify a questionnaire that would be able to detect a person’s representations about safety. The study includes different methods of analyzing data: theoretical analysis, content-analysis, interview, testing, correlation analysis and factor analysis. Two hundred and four subjects, aged from 18 to 25, participated in the s...

This article is theoretically-professional studies dealing with the issue of school experimental work and its prospects in the context of the modern methods of teaching. The article discusses creating a complex educational environment in the constructivist concepts, such as the environment, which affects the fundamental level of competence of educator and makes his professional prowess.

It is generally believed that the more the growing global competition makes it strategically important to continuous improvement for all types of organizations, therefore different methods are geared to develop continuous improvement in production processes (such as Total Quality Management or more recently, Six Sigma ): although all that there are few scientific studies on this topic. We consider continuous improvement performance of a worker as the behaviors of perfecting and enhancing in the job tasks. The pres...

Cooperation within organizations has been considered a key asset for organizational performance, effectiveness and overall success. The aim of the present research is to study the psychometric properties of the Organizational Cooperation Questionnaire in a sample of research team members. The innovation of this study is in assessing organizational cooperation in a sample which has not been widely researched. Given its distinctive characteristics of teamwork, goals interdependence and effort coordination, research ...

The article describes the results of studies of coping behavior of orphans in difficult (crisis) situations. The testees are 100 adolescents without parental care, 13-15 years old (N = 100). Markers of mental trouble of orphan children are analysed, the analysis of protective models of behavior of the teenagers who have endured ill treatment in a family is carried out. Typical destructive models of behavior of orphan children in crisis situations are revealed, their comparative characteristic is submitted. The wor...

This paper draws on our work as an ESP teacher with the 2nd year students from The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania and its branch in Bal?i, The Republic of Moldova. Since one of the topics discussed during the English seminars is corporate social responsibility, we will present our students’ perception of the matter based on the activities and exercises that were chosen to develop their active/ productive (speaking and writing) and passive/ rece...

The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been the subject of debate and research with non-profit organizations in the CR since the early 1990’s. CSR has been embedded in Czech society by the Czech based subsidiaries of multinational corporations (MNC’s). It is a strategy whereby the corporations take responsibility for the economic, social and environmental consequences of their business activities. In so doing, they undertake to limit/eliminate the negative impact which they have on their ‘s...

Background: The family is the primary scene of socialization therefore it determines the child’s development substantially. The style of the parents’ child rearing is one factor in the development process. This study examines three types of parenting styles: the dimension of support and affection, the dimension of restrictive control, and the dimension of overprotection. The child’s emotional and behavioral features relate strongly to the use of these strategies. The presence of rituals in the life of the fa...

This paper exposes the current statistics on indicators of demographic analysis on the subject, both worldwide and in Romania until 2013 and conducted research in Arad, on the prevention of abortion, unwanted pregnancy in crisis. Due to demographic trends of Arad County in recent years, in terms of birth rates and abortion, and the reasons for termination of pregnancy, was meant to provide this research with the aim of improving the demographic indicators in Arad. This research was conducted in the city of Arad, w...

Creative economy encompasses various forms of creativity: beginning with the creations of highly-specialized professionals, though commercial activities leveraging selected features of art, to hobbies, interests and voluntary activities, The current recommendations of the European Commission emphasize that is necessary to methodically and specially utilize all the functions of culture in manner that is profitable foremost for the local community, and consequently for the whole society. An important catalyst in sma...

This paper examines challenges to media and scientific literacy which were brought to scholarly awareness by growing popularity of conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and alternative medicine. Easy availability of all kinds of information through the means of digital media makes informed opinions and decisions more difficult. Member of the audience needs to distinguish between various information sources. Ability to measure their credibility is vital component of critical thinking skills and it is closely related ...

The study deals with the issue of creative economy and cultural industries in the context of media production and creation in conditions of contemporary society. In the paper the author critically evaluates new paradigm of creative economy and cultural industries, which according to her have become a part of concept of official cultural policy both of the European Union and its individual member states. She points out the paradoxicality of implementing this political concept into a specific field, which is media i...

The text deals with mutual relationship of the language and culture; with the influence of culture on the language and structure of its discourse in cases when Arabic is the target language and English is the language of teaching and communication in the class. It starts with a brief explanation of the main notions (language, culture); points at the differences between individualistic and collectivist cultures and their impact on the language. These differences can be observed in discrepancies that appear when we ...

The current research highlights the influence of specific means in dance sport, on developing psychomotor abilities in beginner dancers, starting from the idea that childhood age is the most opportune period for acting on this subject. The subjects for this research (n=24), age group 6-9 years old, were divided into two groups (experiment=12 and control=12). The experiment group is formed by beginner dancers from the Katamis Dance Sport Club, Craiova, Romania and the control group is formed by pupils that have nev...

Decision making competencies belong to a broad group of general competencies. Relationships between decision making competencies and maximization tendency were investigated in a sample of 118 high school students. The Adult Decision-Making Competence was used to assess six decision making competencies and Maximization Scale to inspect maximization tendency and its three components. Multiple linear regression was used to predict maximization tendency. The entire model was found to be significant and almost all corr...

The market segmentation tool is an additional methodology during the in-store field studies with psycho-physiological parameters. During the in-store measurements, it is frequently necessary to segment and profile participants. This methodology is based on the Limbic Type® system that performs segmentation according to the motivations of purchase decisions. Paper based questionnaire and the participants’ verbal feedback were used for the scales pilot testing (n=80). The final scales constructions were tested wi...

The article looks at the problem of overcoming the real condition of marginalized high-status posts of Russia within the context of global geopolitical system in respect of the aspect of its intelligent innovative content. This article supports the conceptualization necessity of intelligent and workforce capacity implementation of Russian society as a key factor of negative trend overcoming in Russian civilizational development, framework of new society type, based on technological and social cultural groundwork o...

The article is devoted to theoretical and empirical studying of a problem of a normative (humanistic) orientation of the identity of students and experts of helping professions. It contains data on degree of expressiveness of an altruistic orientation at teachers and students of a pedagogical profile also. It is revealed that high expressiveness of altruistic motives is characteristic for smaller number of future teachers (students) in comparison with acting teachers. It, in turn, confirms importance of creation o...

Cognitive impairment and dementia are the problems of great importance in neurology, psychology, neuropsychology, psychiatry and clinical linguistics. Causes for cognitive impairment and dementia are various: Alzheimer’s disease, vascular diseases (Binswanger’s disease, CADASIL – Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy, etc.), dementia with Lewy bodies, frontotemporal degeneration, Huntingtons disease, Creutzfeldt’s – Jakob’s disease, multiple sclerosi...

The issue about the development of civil society in Russia is open to discussion among Western and Russian scientists. The inconsistency of the Russian practice of civil society formation does not often fit itself within the framework of foreign socio- and political theories and is subjected to criticism. Meanwhile, this social institution is immanently appropriate to any society. In this regard it is more reasonable to speak about the features of social practices and conditions of the formation of civil society r...

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a predictor for overt diabetes later in life. Thus, during pregnancy GDM patients are instructed to change lifestyle after pregnancy. Ai m of the study was to identify and analyze dietary habits as one of the key aspects of prevention of type 2 diabetes among respondents after gestational diabetes compared with the control group. Method: For the collection of empirical data we used structured questionnaire prepared by the Institute of Preventive Medicine of Masaryk University...

Background Our study aimed the neurophysiologic testing, by measuring the nervous motor conduction velocity, an objective index of peripheral motor nerve function, beside the motor response, in order to emphasize its significant differences at girls and boys professional athletes. Methods At study had participated a group formed of 30 boys and girls, with an average age of 19 years, which practice one of the following professional sports: fence, volleyball or handball, for maximum 12 years, sports where the use of...

Searching for connection between media education and digital games might seem perplexing at first sight. Majority of parents, teachers and politicians, who belong to the group of digital immigrants, perceive digital games stereotypically as manifestation of low culture or waste of time. Number of professional and non-professional debates decline words such as "negative effects of computer games" or censorship. The aim of the paper is to point out that generation of digital natives has already grown up and presents...

The submitted survey was focused on the analysis of opinions and attitudes expressed by the teachers participating in the national project called ?Education Process Modernization at Elementary and Secondary Schools? performed in selected training centres on the territory of Slovakia in years 2008 – 2013. The main objective of the project was innovation and modernization of teaching procedures, methods, and education forms, supported by a suitable and didactically well-prepared application of available digital te...

Communication on the Internet has brought a great number of changes in perception, imagination, thinking and learning in man. These changes are still spreading in the culture and society. One of the most important ones is surely disintegration of the so-called “linear code”. By the term “linear code” we mean structure of thinking and learning that is driven by succession of signs in thinking, in both learning and understanding of time and space. This sort of thinking and learning was shaped in the epoch of...

People strongly prefer options with exact probabilities of outcomes to those with uncertain probabilities, expressing ambiguity aversion. Its manifestations are reflected in various domains of real-life decisions, particularly among monetary choices. Recent research suggests amplification of ambiguity avoidance under social influence, however with several methodological limitations. Therefore, we tested the effects of accountability and responsibility on aversion towards ambiguity in two between-subject experiment...

The education modernization is impossible without the information and communication technologies usage. They are one of the most important tools of the improvement and development of the existing higher education methods. In particular, training in geometry of the future teachers of mathematics is impossible without the computer technologies advantages usage, the ready teaching programs usage. In the period from 2008 to 2013, authors carried out monitoring of level of knowledge of geometry of the first-year studen...

Positive educational discrimination measures arose as a way to overcome the effects produced by the meritocratic principle of equal access opportunities, but not of equal success opportunities. Education and Training Courses launched in 2002 school year in Portugal are an example of this kind of educational policy measures. They aim at fighting school failure and dropout, allowing insertion into active life. Based on an online survey answered by 356 youngsters attending these courses an analysis of their social an...

The perspective of the young person on the horizontal and vertical of his existence is given by the education taking into account the perennial values of Europe, based, most of them, on the Christian past and tradition of the European peoples. The denial of this spiritual and cultural heritage leads to the relativization of the perennial values and to confusion, because of the attempt to disconnect a whole sphere of the moral problems from the meanings related to guilt, shame and transcendence. The supporters of t...

The focus of this research is to develop techniques for optimizing the learning environment, identifying factors that facilitate and impede the formation of an educational space model which produces a coherent and socially desirable system of socio-moral and socio-cultural attitudes of the current generation of engineers.1 This makes it possible to build specific models of abilitation of would-be engineers, providing comprehensive education and training and ensuring ones professional fulfillment. It could be argue...

Submitted scientific paper deals with the influence of selected factors on the systolic and diastolic blood pressure and also with impact of anthropometric parameters on blood pressure. The aim of this work was to define the significant differences between boys and girls in health status parameters, to evaluate the impact of socio-economic, environmental and medical history factors on blood pressure. In the practical part is analyzed the sample group of school children from eastern Slovakia (770 children, 385 boys...

After the series of ECJ judgments which were dealing with healthcare services, it is the Elchinov judgment which gave the summary of all relevant ECJ healthcare case-law and introduced the provisions of the Patients? Rights Directive. The first generation of judgments where ECJ ruled within the question of the definition of healthcare services (Luisi and Carbone case, Grogan case) was followed by the ECJ judgments in cases dealing with the patients asking for the reimbursement of costs from the Member State of aff...

The paper describes the lexicographic system developed under cooperative project of the Mathematical Linguistics Department of Saint Saint-Petersburg State University, Institute for Linguistic Studies of the R ussian Academy of Sciences, and Saint Saint-Petersburg Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO UniversityUniversity). The various possibilities of developed software are described, such as text storage, the parameterized search systemsystem, integration with external elect...

Children and adolescents with HIV are prone to neurological and psychological problems, not only due to the drugs they take, but also because of stigma, prejudice and discrimination that this disease frequently involves (New, Lee, & Elliot, 2007). Studies show that they present more behavioural and learning problems and reveal attention deficit (Armstrong et al., 1993; Brouwers et al., 1998). The main goal of this study was to assess emotional and behavioural problems of children and adolescents infected with HIV,...

This research aims at clarifying the relation between students’ personality types and their environmental awareness. Study was conducted on the departments of engineering students (N=137) at Istanbul Arel University. According to the research findings, there are strong relationships between students’ personality types and their choices. In this study, the questionnaire for the academic students have been provided, applied and consequently, the conscience level of awareness of the subject has been researched an...

The effort to know and minutely analyze the neuropsychological developmentin children must accompany any educational intervention, because child’s stimulation towards the specific evolving trends will lead to the early emergence of its positive effects, while an intervention that doesn’t comply with the developmental laws and trends may be considered by the psychic system as a perturbing factor. Due to its extension to other scientific fields, too, sports psychology has constantly passed through major developm...

This article presents the results of the study of the ethnic identity as a component of the social identity of the Russian and Armenian school students. The study found that the majority of the teenagers of both nationalities have their ethnic identity formed, while in both samples the positive identity dominates, there is an ethnic indifference also. In comparison with the Armenian teenagers the Russian teenagers are characteristical to have a more positive attitude towards their own ethnic identity and readiness...

The aim of our research. The article deals with the phenomenon of evaluation of ethno-cultural types of facial appearance from a position of the psychology of social knowledge, categorization of which is carried to a greater extent, on the basis of ordinary designations ("Caucasian facial appearance", "Slavic facial appearance", "Asian facial appearance"). These designations types of facial appearance penetrate into various spheres of life and are one of reasons of discrimination against members of ethno-cultural ...