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Road users and transportation agencies are the largest groups of clients for pavements. Both assign priority to the functional pavement condition and the Joint Faulting (JF) is directly related with this condition. An alternative to the traditional design of Jointed Plain Concrete Pavements (JPCPs) is the short slabs. The objective of the present paper is to compare the JF between traditional JPCPs and short concrete slabs. This comparison is made using an available deterioration model and JF trends observed at sh...

Creative thinking is an essential component of any artist's activity including the professional work of a stylist. Sharing the view that creativity is mostly determined by genes we are inclined to think that it, nevertheless, could and should be developed. The current work aims to analyze the role making associations plays in the professional activity of a stylist and to confirm the importance of developing associations in mastering creative thinking skills. Conducting personal interviews with practicing stylists,...

The influence of television on literature can be identified in novels of several contemporary writers where it can have two forms. In its explicit form it is usually represented by themes directly dealing with TV, TV broadcasting and programs, but its implicit form seems even more interesting. It manifests itself by the use of brand names instead of descriptions as well as by structural changes present on some level of the text. In the following text, the explicit impact is briefly exemplified by examples from B. ...

The lied, this small-scale musical genre, is a highly concentrated musical expression of the poetic text. The music of a lied is closely related to poetry, the musical genre being a whole in which each of the two coordinates has the same importance. Music - poetry relationships are intertwined, influencing each other. In the Evening of Brass lied by Daniela Cojocaru the close relationship between text and music is obvious, and this relationship has influenced a number of new ways of artistic expression.

Among the composers' searches to find new ways to translate original ideas and feelings in musical language, intonation systems inferable from mathematical proportions concerned twentieth century musicians. Thus, in order to make operations through set theory, musical scales represent modes and modal structures are materialized through melodic and harmonic discourse itself.

The currents before, as well as those after the Impressionism are attempting an intellectualization of painting. Impressionism comes as a pause in theory, a sort of “resetting” of the history of painting and esthetics, which capsizes the concepts that preceded it. “This liberation started with the Impressionists. \ldots They were the ones who realized that there is art for art, that the true beauty can be found in the simplest things. Above all, they realized that the colour of an object is more important th...

The review of the painting The Flight into Egypt by the Brazilian artist Almeida Jr, takes into account its relationship with works of religious themes, most of them of idealistic and neoclassical inspiration that typically existed in the Brazilian Fine Arts Imperial Academy, and were performed by the artist between 1869 and 1874; it also considers the influence of European artworks of non-religious themes, from Renaissance to Baroque and from Realism to Impressionism. These works of art were accessible to the art...

Wojciech Has (1925-2000) – polish film director – was one of creators venturing not to transcend reality and matter, rather to unveil their other invisible dimension by way of artistic shaping of an image. His film art seems to be the best evidence for overcoming the limitations of substance, i.e. for „image spiritualization” and “naming what escapes comprehension”. I label the fourteen feature films by Has from the years 1957-1988 as a piece of art. The following are meant here: The Noose (Petla) (195...

In the article analyzes the classical basics of architecture order. Set out wider in comparison with the traditional academic approach to understanding the principle of an ordination. On this basis eliminates the question about the division of architecture to "an order" and " without order." The examples of architectural monuments of St. Petersburg shows the use of order elements in the Russian architecture of the middle and second half of the XIX century, known as "Neorenaissance style." Marked variety of neorena...

The goal of the research is to present specific themes and subjects of church painting in Orthodox Vyatka (now Kirov region) in Russia. The specificities of Vyatka church paintings are connected with depiction of local saints such as St. Tryphon (1546–1612) and blissful St. Procopius of Vyatka (1578–1627). Their early images preserved on icons of the 17th –18thcenturies. The diverse iconography has more than 20 subjects. It includes personal dedications and hagiographic cycles of saints. This is an important...

As biblical arguments for the idea of the unity of revelation and of the intrinsic relation of the two Testaments, Fra Angelico reproduces under each image from the complex Armadio degli argenti two scriptural texts: the first one is an Old Testament prophecy and the second one is a New Testament text that shows the fulfilment of the first. Each pair of texts exemplifies the idea of “wheel in the middle of the wheel” and demonstrates the authenticity of the holy text, and the reality and unity of revelation. G...

Carpet - is the most ancient and hugely common type of decorative and applied art in culture of North Caucasus's nations. Our guess will not look like abstractedly, if take into account these facts: firstly, it is widely established and developed sheep breeding, it means the continued availability of row materials, secondly, it's quite difficult climatic conditions which determined the need for home insulation, thirdly, unemployment female population several months of the year and agricultural works closely with t...

Background Holland is a pioneer state, world-famous for its reformative and experimental architecture. Students and architects from all over the world come here very often for research and study-related purposes. During the last decade Holland has exported a lot of architecture abroad. This tradition comprises also sustainable construction, including sustainable housing construction, which became the subject of Dutch architects' experiments as early as in the 1970s. Investors and designers were and still are ready...

Foucault's category of heterotopia, defining the broadly understood non-normative spaces and places, constitutes one of the fundamental manifestations of the so-called spatial turn, initiated in the second half of the last century and characteristic for the great spectrum of specific research areas. Heterotopias were, in the Foucauldian world, exceptions within the structure of socially and culturally determined places and spaces conceptualized as normative ones. Today, almost half a century later, we should consi...

Hamburg has been recognized as a world-class innovation centre, indicating the direction of urban ecological solutions in the 21st century. It is the only city in Germany where water is so much a part of local identity. The recent achievements of water technology and designs of water spaces represent a change in spatial thinking and action which can be seen at Internationale Bauausstellung (International Building Exhibition) IBA Hamburg 2006-2013 and Internationale Gartenschau (International Garden Show) IGS Hambu...

Article is a part of a broader research on compounds of formal languages of architecture and design tools used for its creation and a paradigm of architecture valid at the time of its formation. The article focuses on exposure of sources of inspiration in contemporary avant-garde architecture with particular emphasis on the impact of information civilization on the way and on the results of designing. Architecture is created with the use of tools. However, their role in the creative process and influence on the vi...

One of the original manifestations of house-building creativity of North Caucasus mountaineers– an original form of stage-pyramidal terminations of tower constructions: patrimonial crypts and Vainakh patrimonial towers. Process of symbolization and shaping of stage-pyramidal terminations of the North Caucasus tower constructions can be figuratively presented as a process of the imaging in an external form of an interior of the most ancient centric-staged design of overlapping. The centric-staged design of overla...

Cracow is a city with the ambition of being the cultural capital of Poland. If we consider that museums are the architectural barometer of our time - the period before the political changes of 1989 can be considered lost for Cracow. In the years between 1937 and 1994 not a single museum had been built, as they were set up within existing historical buildings that were nationalised by the state. Meanwhile, the end of the twentieth century in Europe and around the world was the golden age of museums. Thousands of th...

The aim of our research was to examine how the knowledge of customer opinion of the tourism establishments can influence their organizational communication. As main objective, we followed, on the one hand the responsiveness' assessment of tourism units' management towards customer opinion and, on the other hand, revealing how crowdsourcing can help to streamline organizational communication of tourism units. We started from the premise that streamlining the activities depends on the extent to which tourism units p...

Companies, while building their value effectively, understand that the condition of success is connected with the broadly understood social responsibility, which refers to the business strategy and its key element defined as a personnel strategy. What is important here it is the problem of responsibility of top managers, who personally represent business to employees, customers, boards of directors and shareholders and at the same time they are responsible for the quality of management culture in their companies. ...

Currently, a major trend is development of cooperation among business partners in value chains aiming to provide maximum value to the final consumer, creating thus conditions for long-term prosperity of all partner links. Essential for effective functioning of grocery value chains is the final link in the chain, i.e. retail stores, which, because of their direct relation to the final consumers, significantly increase the value of the efforts of previous links in the chain. Collaboration among partners is increasin...

At present, the situation on the Czech retail market for the provision of mobile telecommunication services is quite complex. There are three key businesses on the market operating mobile networks and providing mobile telecommunication services. They are similarly successful businesses achieving high yields, which are, however, gradually losing their privileged positions and profits due to greater deregulation of the telecommunications market as well as stronger competition. Today it is already obvious that only s...

Development of socio-economic systems is uneven. Various subsystems change at different speeds and in different directions. The result of this is the emergence of structural imbalances. These imbalances can be both static and dynamic. Their presence has a negative impact on economic growth, living standards, technological level of the economy and other important factors. Studying disparities of socio-economic systems studied by different specialists, methods of their analysis are enshrined in international documen...

This scientific article is devoted to the study of peculiarities of clusters investment that currently exist and are forming at the moment. The purpose of this work is studying of the mechanism of directions and redistribution of investment in clusters to encourage innovations in regional economic system. Theoretical and empirical research methods are used in this research, as well as a literature review and economic effectiveness indicators of innovative clusters. Article contains a study of the approaches to ass...

Integration is always effect positive on the economy of the country: due to increase of competition between firms, growth of production's volume, more effective territorial distribution of economic activity, reducing the cost of resources and the cost of goods to the value of the border's costs. Domestically, the more successful regions receive more benefits from the integration that enhances the existing socio-economic inequality among the regions. The aim of the study is to identify and evaluate the effect of in...

The Baltic States face serious socio-economic problems – high unemployment rates, the risk of poverty and the threat of depopulation. One of the solutions to these problems is the development of social entrepreneurship. The Baltic States have different experience in social entrepreneurship, which is affected by the public policy and activities of public organisations. The aim of the research paper is to examine the experience and trends in social entrepreneurship in the Baltic States. Quantitative and qualitativ...

Romania and Hungary, two countries of the former Soviet Bloc, have started on their post-communist project having pretty many similarities. In the beginning they adopted the same soviet model of social organization and similar institutional framework, but, until the end of the regime they matured following divergent paths. One of the most obvious differences between the two was their different attitude towards nationalism. While the western neighbour was constantly trying to avoid it, at least at the official leve...

It is well known that the gravest dangers to international security are no longer military threats from rival great powers, but trans-border threats emerging from the world's most vulnerable countries. The key connection between weak and failing states, on the one hand, and transnational threats, on the other, is undeniable. Political thinkers such as Francis Fukuyama hold that “since the end of the Cold War, weak and failing states have arguably become the single-most important problem for international orderвЂ...

In the broadest sense, the concept of sustainable development is a set of activities pursuing the long-term trends in the social, economic, and environmental development. Its implementation is subject to voluntariness in approach, the selection of objectives itself, the way of their implementation, and the necessary partnership of all involved. Sustainable development at the regional level in the Czech Republic applies to the regions which have a legal obligation to take care of the versatile development of their ...

The concept of social conflict is within the field of social knowledge, explaining the principles of the society as a system of the integration of elements that are constantly disintegrated by their conflict interests. The article deals with the theory of socio-political order conflict nature, genesis and ideological basis of socio-political order, and the interrelation of conflict as a means of needs satisfaction and socio-political order. Authors conclude that a modern society represents, as a matter of fact, th...

Arab spring almost unaffected Morocco and as result are changes in its constitution, such as Berbers language recognition as an official, and official gender equality. Herein, some possible explanation of this result is presented. Significant factors are location on the margin of islamic world, relations with Europe, belief to join EU, and Berbers support of ruling King as well. Unique aspect of Moroccan King Mohammed VI as not only political leader, but also spiritual one. Finally, King Mohammed VI did not undere...

The submitted paper is a case study dealing with the criteria of statehood stated in the Montevideo Convention of 1933. The Convention sets four criteria of statehood: permanent population, defined territory, government and the capacity to enter into relations with other states. On the basis of these criteria, the submitted paper is divided to four chapters, where each chapter deals with one of the criteria of statehood applied to the case of Abkhazia. The resulting text primarily draws on resources from field res...

Although local public administration authorities have a territorial jurisdiction which is limited to the territorial administrative units in which they were elected and where they function, the difficult period transited by the state on the background of the existing international economic crisis, puts in real difficulty the smooth running of the local government. The created dysfunctions are more obvious because, although in the decentralization process, local public administration authorities are obliged to exer...

The aim of the research is to solve the problem that experienced the inconsistency of Russian post-reform law, science and legal practice – the evidential powers of defense counsel in criminal proceedings which are defined by one rules of the law and denied by the other at the same time. Its methodology included both the general scientific methods and the specific juridical methods of cognition. The main results of the research include the original understanding of the evidential powers of defense counsel in cri...

Background: The scientific problem is insufficient knowledge of practicing lawyers and scientists on the composition and frequency of use trading practices used by entrepreneurs, as well as on the criteria for the application of trade usages in public circulation. The purpose of the article is to reveal the legal nature, the essence, the characteristics of trade practices as sources of law, to determine the mechanism of their application by judicial practice and business (civil) turnover of Russia. Methods: The ar...

The inheritance institution even if dominated by tradition and conservatism was transformed during time in terms of concepts and procedural. These changes of the law texts which regulate the issue of inheritance were determined by culture, religion and political philosophy of the times. Since the primitive period, during which we can find instinctive and customary rules related to the transfer of property of assets held and used by the deceased during his/her lifetime, continuing with the Roman law in which the in...

Among the many changes made following the entry into force of the new Civil Code in family law field, the civil engagement institution is governed by Articles 266-270. Even though there is so far a genuine judicial practice (although some unsuccessful actions began to be resolved), an analysis of this institution we find particularly timely, especially given the fact that the doctrine has not reviewed until now this institution. This paper proposes a critical analysis of legislation and formulates proposals for le...

An article describes briefly new Act implemented in the Czech Republic at the end of year 2014 reflecting statement of Civil Service. Regulation of public administration officers according to Civil Service will have economic and administrative impacts for its initial functions and then for further training of the officers which are subject to the Civil Service relation because of new position of these officers. Such relation will mean the relation, when the work for public sector is replaced by the service for sta...

Legal protection of intellectual property is an integral part of research and development (R&D) industry. Well-done management in the field of intellectual property can bring additional funds to R&D institutions. Biotechnological R&D, what relates with biological, chemical, and biochemical methods applied on organic or even biological material, is one of the fastest booming area of R&D at all. The paper presents juridical research in the area of biotechnological invention patentability, incl. relationship between ...

The aim of our research was to study the socio-psychological characteristics of personality with a strong need to control oneself and others. The subject of the study was the intensity of the need to control oneself and others, and its connection to the other social needs, self-attitude parameters of the person, focus and level of the subjective control of the person. Hypotheses of the research: We suggested that intensity of the need to control oneself and others can be interconnected with a number of socio-psych...

Ethnic affiliation, people respectively nation is a factor that affects the formation of attitudes and consequently the formation of ethnic bias. Besides many human needs, some authors point out that there is a connection with the group identify with the group. The need to meet the group, social psychologists say, is imperative; it deeply affects human social activity. Belonging to ethnic groups play a significant role in shaping the attitudes of the individuals. The person will choose those attitudes that serve t...

Background: Working environment is one of the most important sources of occupational stress that may cause a whole range of emotional, cognitive, behavioural and physiological reactions of the worker. Coping is a process of moderating the negative effects of occupational stress on mental health and also serves to prevent distress, burnout and psychological maladjustment. Its effectiveness depends on the mechanisms that are used and these coping strategies could be adaptive or maladaptive. Methods: The aim of our r...

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between teachers' basic needs satisfaction, self-efficacy and burnout. Questionnaires measuring satisfaction of the need for autonomy, competence and relatedness, teacher self-efficacy, emotional exhaustion, personal accomplishment and depersonalization were completed by 220 Transylvanian Hungarian and Hungarian (Hungary) high school teachers. Results show significant correlations between perceived need satisfaction and all three aspects of teacher burnout....

Language is a central area of neuropsychological assessment. The child's capacity to phonologicallyanalyze the words represents one of its important components. The purpose of this study is to emphasize the influences of Taekwondo practice on the phonological processing capacity of children in the middle childhood period. The research wasconducted on a total of 15 children aged between 6 and 11 years. To assess their language development level, it was used the NEPSY battery: A Developmental Neuropsychological Asse...

Children exhibiting ADHD symptoms have been shown to be at high risk of academic failure, grade repetition and poor academic achievement. Few research studies have addressed the problem of assessing the incidence of ADHD symptoms in Transylvanian children. In this study, besides the prevalence of ADHD symptoms: inattention and hyperactivity, emotional and behavioral problems were assessed among elementary school students without formal diagnosis of ADHD. Teachers completed the Teacher Report Form (TRF) for 68 chil...

This article investigates relations between person's propensity to experience different affective states and dimensions of temperament in terms of Reinforcement sensitivity theory (RST). RST proposes several functional brain systems that organize reactions to different classes of reinforcing stimuli, facilitating approach and avoidance behaviors, and generating affective states involved in these facilitation processes. Thus, individual differences in sensitivity of behavioral approach and inhibition systems are pr...

Included as a vital component of an in depth research project, concerning homelessness and life trajectories of homeless people, this study is devoted to the identification of communalities and singularities between daily life and survival strategies of homeless men and women. To accomplish this major goal, the researcher participated in outreach interventions (6 teams, nextgreater400) and performed 96 in depth interviews with (formerly) homeless people and professionals [38 homeless, 11 formerly homeless, and 47 ...

Fishing is one of the oldest occupations and together with hunting it has had a significant economic and social importance during history. Nowadays fishing can be associated with biodiversity conservation, recreation and also with environmental and cultural psychology of the local population. Chondrostoma nasus (nase), a widespread reophilic fish species from the family Cyprinidae is considered at the criteria Least Concerned (LC) by the IUCN Red List being locally threatened in many areas of Europe by loss of sui...

A quantitative meta-analysis was conducted to estimate the empirical support for the effect of well controlled experimental studies which addressed the improvement of objectively measured performance in academic and organizational- training setting in adult population- trough goal-setting intervention. In our digital age these relatively low-budget interventions may help individuals in achieving better performance in formal and informal learning and performance outcome and this qualitative analysis might help in t...

Introduction: The survey was focused on the influence of canis therapy against anxiety and depression in older adults in two retirement homes in the Czech Republic. Methodology: Mixed design approach was chosen for the research. Two questionnaires were used for data collection: BDI-II and Beck anxiety inventory. Interviews investigate the opinion with subjective benefit of canis therapy. The survey was conducted in 2014. Survey group consisted of 80 elderly. This group underwent canis therapy. The control group co...