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Now in the Russian and the world community the increased interest to the lie phenomenon is felt. It is confirmed by the number of scientific publications, popular books, the success of the television series "Lie to Me", and the discussion of this topic on the Internet. The twenty-first century is the information age, and its broadcasting holds the possibility of its distortion. In this regard the development of the protection mechanisms against the information distortion becomes more actual, both at intergroup, an...

Canada is a favorite destination, a target state for immigrants, adding around 200 000 people annually, including Romanian citizens. It was the first country in the world to adopt multiculturalism officially (1971), thus ensuring the preservation of identity, acceptance of diversity and emphasizing racial and ethnic harmony and cross-cultural communication. It has since promoted equality in front of the law and equal opportunities regardless of race, origin, culture, ethnicity, religion. Immigrants enjoy freedom o...

The purpose of this paper is to provide some insights about entrepreneurship education in Russia and to explore Russian student’s entrepreneurial intentions. Understanding Russian youth’s attitude towards entrepreneurship and factors hindering young people from creating their own business are highlighted. The study is based on data collected in Sverdlovsk region (one of the regions of Russia). The research is based on information received during a survey of 347 people from Sverdlovsk region and 1164 students f...

Introduction. Adolescents represent a key target population for primary prevention of tobacco. School-based intervention included into curricula play an important role in prevention. The article evaluates basic indicators of tobacco use in teachers and school-based interventions. Changes between 2003 and 2013 are analyzed. Material and methods. The Global School Personnel Survey (GSPS) is a school-based questionnaire survey producing a national representative sample of teachers teaching students in grades associat...

This article is devoted to the issue of self-safe behavior of Russians. The importance of research of ageing process of the nation and the right of citizens to a long and qualitative life expectancy are explained. The results of study of Russians’ attitudes towards the maintenance of their own health and prolongation of life are discussed. The research brings us to the conclusion that there is a national problem of declarativity of self-safe attitudes which are not proved by real activities. The combination of e...

The main goal of our research was to evaluate the need of elderly computer users for special training on cybersecurity. The article highlights the results of our study which deals with the elderly and their information practices. We used 268 questionnaires from Russia, Belarus, Lithuania, Denmark and Sweden. Only members of social organiza tions were included in the sample. It was important to find out whether pensioners use the Internet and what for. It turned out that the spectrum of used features is quite narro...

The first decade of the 21st century was marked by a rather radical and important transformations in sexual culture at the level of everyday practices, normative base and political discourse about sexuality, both in Europe and in Russia. This is largely due to political changes and peculiarities of in these regions. The sphere of politics always had a significant influence on the formation and reproduction of the sexual culture of society through political and legal institutions and mechanisms which actions are la...

The study deals with the problem of the assessment of the living situation in vulnerable families with children within the system of social-legal protection of children in the current conditions of Slovakia. The basic starting position is to answer the question of how to assess such vulnerable family and at the same time protect minors from the negative impacts of existing threats and their consequences. It is with an emphasis on how to deal with the dilemma of maintaining the autonomy of the family while ensuring...

Slovakia ranks among the European countries with the lowest efficiency of the health system. If Slovakia will use of its potential to increase efficiency in the health care system, it can according to the OECD findings manage to save up to 2.7% of GDP per year, it is a third of public expenditure in health care. Measuring the health systems effectiveness is becoming a fundamental problem because of its methodological complexity and problems associated with variations in health care systems, infrastructure, market ...

Context: There are many scientific articles and studies, both at national and international level, analyzing the adolescents smoking behavior and its influencing factors. One could find much information from these studies about the adolescents smoking habits and about different prevention methods. The present article originality – at least in Romanian context – consists in two new dimensions: one is to analyse not only the smoking behavior of the adolescents, but also their exposure to second hand smoking (SHS...

The research aim is to create an innovative concept which includes different technologies helping students to cope with the difficulties connected with healthy nutrition. Nutrition of a student in such an intense way of life is a problem of many universities including the Tomsk Polytechnic University. The problem is not just in price. Students usually do not have time for lunch because of the small breaks between classes and long lines in canteens. And if the student takes homemade food with him/her, it can quickl...

Considered one of the most actual in modern sociological science problems – social community and its main features, among which the temporal characteristics play an important role. The purpose of the article is to analyze the role of social communities in everyday life and discovering of their temporal structures. For proof of this thesis are used in the unity of three main approaches – communities, activities, and temporal. Basic methods of the research: the study of value orientations, attitudes, forms and t...

The paper focuses on the description and analysis of social competencies and self-efficacy in university students. The research participants were 210 university students (68.6 % were male) with a mean age of 22.7 years. The research was conducted in two countries: Slovakia (N = 102) and Czech Republic (N = 106). The Social Skills Inventory developed by Riggio, & Carney and Sherer’s et al. Self-Efficacy Scale were used as the techniques of data gathering. The research results showed a significant relationship bet...

Students have different levels of motivation, some don not explanation of their goals, some students gain experience of social life during studying, and a small part thinks of self-development. This highlights sociological research of importance of social environment and social conditions and interactions during studying. Theoretical and empirical model sociological research, survey by questionnaire, interviews. Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg city, Russia. December 2013 – March 2014. Basic stimulus of st...

What do we really know about the close ties between identity and social action? This article focuses on this problem, encompassing the case of the community, located on the Solovetsky archipelago in the White Sea. This settlement has a brief history. It begun to take shape after the second World War after the Solovetsky Camp of Special Designation and the prison were disbanded. If we look deeper at the history beyond the border of the twentieth century, we’ll see five centuries of Solovetsky monastery, which exi...

The journey towards sustainability requires sustainable production and consumption and also requires social responsibility of organizations. Improvements of social performance of companies along with sustained economic profitability and environmental responsibility contribute notably to sustainable development. Company stakeholders – mostly consumers, local communities and society, but many others as well, are more and more asking themselves questions about social impacts of products and production processes. Un...

Social marketing is a systematic planning process that imports methods and techniques from commercial marketing as a way to find innovative solutions to social problems and foster voluntary behavior change through active involvement. Still, in Romania, few scientists report its use and it is a pity for both professionals and potential beneficiaries not to engage in, and benefit from, the strategic framework it proposes. In order to bring social marketing closer to our communities, besides local practice examples, ...

With the rapid growth of user generated content on blogs, forums, social networking and microblogging sites, social media analytics has become popular research topic in many different domains in order to shape marketing activities, management strategies, forecast trends, and for better understanding of consumers. Information spreads rapidly through social media sites and has a big impact on shaping public opinion. Negative comments about company, brand or a product/service can have drastic effects on the companys ...

This research deals with the issue of social pollution practices, expressed in reducing the level of welfare and deterioration of physical and psych osoci al wellbeing of workers and other members of social community triggered by enterprises. The purpose of this paper is detection of the most sig nificant components of social pollution, which require control in order to decrease its development and influence on the wellbeing of the workers. On the basis of literature review was elaborated the classification of soc...

Politicians and political parties very often hire advertising specialists that serve like experts – consultants during pre-election campaigns creating the images that correspond to the demands of the electorate [4]. The aim of the research is to investigate the social representations of the politicians of Latvia about the ideal image of a politician. The research methods are method of association analysis and interview (partially structured). The research selection was made up of the Latvian politicians (N=114)....

One of urgent problems on the way to society humanization is the society tolerance to various groups of population. The article deals with the point of the school community tolerance towards the children with disabilities. The authors carried out the sociological research in the school community of Krasnoyarsk. The research purpose was to identify the school community attitude to the joint teaching of the ordinary children and children with disabilities. The research was done by on-line questioning as well as inte...

Activities of each company are provided by its employees. Their work is significantly under the influence of not only their physical abilities but also their psychical stability. It is necessary to pay attention a lot to the social climate in the company for this stability to be secured. Social welfare of a company represents one of the basic conditions of its prosperity. During production strong attention is paid to the processes leading to a final product. However, evaluation of social aspects of these processes...

The paper describes the authors metodics of drama therapy for people with drug addiction.To begin all paper is targeted to the specifics of approach used on detoxifical department. Consequently the article points out the complex therapy, incidentally this expressive therapy and its methods. The author discusses her five-year practical experience of drama therapeutical procces with drug addicted people, in addiction presents her methodology of approach, demonstrations of techniques and examples work of client’s. ...

The author analyzes in her study a process she calls carnivalization of media production in the society of post-millennium era. She shows anti-intellectualism as an indicator of world image in which traditional moral and educational principles are pushed to the edge of society’s interest. She claims that based on the transformation of media production paradigm the hedonistic approach is superior to the creative principle and becomes a base for creating media reality affected by hyper-consumerism, anti-intellectu...

This paper discusses the social representation and the teacher identity in Education and Training Course, one of the most discredit and stigmatized educational provision in Portugal which aims to combat school failure and dropout. For this purpose we interviewed 10 teachers of Education and Training Courses on three public schools in Lisbon. The findings show that teachers shared a positive social representation despite raised major problems on the functioning and on the attributes of student population. This posi...

The paper presents an experimental research of two functional subsystems which emerge in the process of bilingual lexicon formation: the mixed (L1+L2) subsystem and the monolingual L2 subsystem. The functions of both subsystems and their structural- dynamic properties are discussed.

The aim of our research was to study the representations of real personalities, who belong to a certain society or social stratum etc. The everyday representations of Enemy and Friend are formed within the everyday communication, and because this type of representations include the following components: Representations about the relation system of Friend and Enemy towards the Other; Representations of Enemy’s and Friend’s appearance; Representations of the gender specific characteristics of Enemy and Friend. H...

This study aimed to investigate whether perception toward coach’s resilience and coaching efficacy of coaches, as well as perceived sport’s masculinity play a role in predicting student athlete’s resilience. This study used a quantitative, predictive correlational design. The participants, as many as 201 student athletes (age of 18-23 years old), were taken using purposive sampling technique. Multiple linear regression analysis of survey questionnaire data showed that the perception toward coach’s resilien...

Background This paper aims to assess the activity of salivary cotinine in a study group before and after the use of an aqueous solution obtained from Prunus spinosa, and also the evaluation of a possible correlation between its action and levels of salivary cotinine. Methods The study group was made of 50 volunteers: 25 volunteers that used for a week aqueous solution made from dried fruit pulp of the species Prunus spinosa and 25 volunteers who used a blank solution at the same time, evaluating the comparative re...

Human society is characterized by upbringing, education, organization? of work and life as a basic human activity from the very beginning and throughout its future development. We must be honest and reasonable that education, training and organization de facto benchmark for the existence of society as a whole, and each individual human individual, and we are free to conclude that their absence means dysfunctional society. They are aware of the actions of every individual - a person, but in the community as a whole...

Present study is aimed to perform a model of symbol creation in self-cognition. Symbol is here specified as a kind of a sign with variable connections between its meaning and the object this meaning is signified with. The author’s self-cognition method regards symbol as a multifunctional instrument for problems’ solution in psychological counselling. The study’s methodological basis is a synthetic qualitative analysis of counselling practices carried out in the author’s self-cognition method, the method’...

This study focuses on the Task-Technology Fit model (TTF) of Goodhue and Thomson that analyzes the match between user task needs and the available functionality of the IT in workplace. Our research wants to study if a good Task-Technology Fit improves the employee’s job satisfaction and IT use. Moreover our model suggests two new different antecedents of TTF: the perceived reliability of the IT and organizational collective efficacy. A sample of 505 Italian workers filled out a questionnaire. Partial least squar...

In the period of globalization, the question of effective communication between people of different nations is essential to ensure that all parties emerge with the same understanding. Without the right approach, cultural differences can greatly affect governments, businesses, organisations and individuals. Intercultural communication is no longer an option, but a necessity; therefore there is a need to integrate intercultural communication in the university programmes and to give students the opportunity to develo...

The research aims at finding certain tendencies to language simplification in modern British society focusing on the changes in the official functional style (register). Lexical and syntactic peculiarities of the official document texts produced by three British social departments (Government Equalities Office, which is part of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport; Department of Health; Department for Education) are analyzed in the work. In order to evaluate the complexity of grammar in the texts addressing...

The mediumistic art is a psychic phenomenon in which the subject appears to be possessed by an entity that guides the creation of an artwork. Until today it is preferred to classify this kind of creative performances as parapsychological or paranormal events calling them Channeling Phenomena. Through the study of some cases, we have analyzed the mediumistic art by a scientific point of view, classifying this psychic phenomenon as abnormal or anomalous manifestation of the human creativity, that in some neurophysio...

This paper describes the use of a factor analysis to verify the factor structure of the semantic differential for measuring university students’ attitudes in various sociocultural environments. Specifically, the study focuses on the attitudes of students from Palacky University, Olomouc and students from the University of Rzeszow towards concepts related to their pre-graduate teacher training. The semantic differential method is a relatively frequent method used to measure attitudes in the Czech Republic and abr...

This study proposes to analyze the socioeconomic background of the senior high school students from the two main educational tracks from Romania (theoretical and technical), their career related expectations as well as the factors with effect on the education and career related plans of these students. The sample analyzed is nationally representative and is composed of 3509 high school students in their final school year (12th grade), who were surveyed in the first wave of the research "Outcomes of Adolescence. A ...

Introduction: Health Education is a subject that became a part of the educational system in elementary schools in the Czech Republic after the introduction of the curricular reform, i.e. the introduction of the Framework educational programme for elementary education (FEP EE), which came into effect at the beginning of the school year of 2007/2008. The objective of the paper is to present the results of a research project called “Teaching Health Education in elementary schools in the Czech Republic”, specifica...

The aim of this paper was to describe the possible relationships between internet addictive behaviour, daily time of using the social networks and some variables about users (age, sense of real time, self-confidence in virtual environment and boredom susceptibility). The sample, comprising 306 slovak university students (102 males, 204 females), was divided into three age-groups (18-20 years, 21-23 years, 24 and more). The respondents were administered the questionnaire, consists of 20-item Internet Addiction Test...

The present paper is radiography of the rights of the students in Romania, like a UE country, concerning the University Chart, the Education National Law nr1/2011, the internal university Regulations and the principle of the autonomy in the University in front with the quality management responsibility. The responsibility of legislation, the analyses of the terms social responsibility and the right definition of the Deming model PDCA for the demands of the social responsibility standard SA800 are good priorities. ...

The paper presents the criteria for assessing primary scientific genres written by master’s students. The criteria and scoring developed in accordance with students’ needs, curricular goals, level of EFL students’ proficiency and genre variety are adapted to the scale of assessment used at Novosibirsk State Technical University, Russia. The notions of primary scientific genre and subgenre are defined. The model of primary scientific genres are proposed.

Lifelong learning has been advocated for the following three reasonreasons: 1. to acquir e new knowledge and technology 2. to mak e life rich 3 . to reconnect with the communitycommunity. Lifelong music learning is useful particularly in making life rich, and reconnecting with the community. I selected Yokohama, as an example of one city that is providing lifelong learning opportunities. I plan to research and report in detail the various aims, rules and activities that pertain to Yokohama. By doing this research,...

This work has revealed dates about cytotoxic potential of benzoic acid (E210), citric acid (E330) and sodium phosphate (E339) currently used as pharmaceutical or food additive. The testing was made in experimental conditions with nauplius larvae of Artemia sp., brine shrimp biotester method. The Artemia salina bioassay was chosen because it is versatile, viable, fast and low cost screening assay. Furthermore, there is a good correlation between the in vivo and the in vitro tests, and this method is a useful tool f...

The purpose of this study is to accentuate the problems of describing pain by neurological bilingual patients according to the McGill Pain Questionnaire, which is used all over the world to measure and evaluate pain in neurology, anesthetics and clinical linguistic studies, to prove the necessity to translate, create and validate other questionnaires which could help to reveal the origin of pain. Our article also contains additional descriptions of pain that are not connected with the MPQ or other questionnaires, ...

Modern society requires specialists ready to develop and implement innovative, unconventional ideas, but the problem is the complexity of e-learning developmental plan. There are several perspective solutions in terms of e learning. The authors self-reflective technology (self-examination development) was substantiated as a set of methods, tools and techniques that intensify the process of self-discovery and self-development in a media environment. Main features and structural composition of modular multimedia com...

The aim of this paper is to present the various aspects of the development of e-accessibility of public administration web portals for people with visual impairments in 2008 - 2013. During the six years we have tested a total of 822 web portals, including more than 150 portals that were evaluated at least 2 times. We found, that despite the overall improvement in the rating of accessibility of public administration, the development is in fact, stagnant. From the repeatedly evaluated portals, 41% had lower level of...

There have been some researches and scientific publications on professional burnout for different professions in Latvia, but for special education teachers are just studies based on another countries experience, who cannot give a precise overview on the Latvian special teacher professional burnout level. The aim of the Research is to identify professional burnout, find out the level of professional burnout, special educators, and to find out whether there are differences in the level of burnout for special teacher...

The research corpus consists of newspapers that were in circulation in the first decade of democratic changes in the republic of Croatia, from 1990 to 2000. In this corpus I have included the newspapers defined as such by the current Media Act of the Republic of Croatia. By this criterion, the following newspapers were published in Zadar at the time: Narodni list (a weekly), Zadarski list (a weekly/daily), Zadarski tjednik (a weekly), Fokus (a monthly) and Zadarski Regional (a weekly). The research covered a total...

The education of the social work and the recent history of the profession are approaching the 25th anniversary in Romania. The aim of the present paper is to offer a comprehensive review of the social worker profession in Romania. Although it describes the major milestones of the profession, it also points out the different problems the profession is confronting. The analysis incorporates three areas: educational, legal and societal. The paper concludes that despite of the experience accumulated, the education of ...

The work we present is part of a project made in collaboration with Institute of Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases „N. Paulescu”.The group also followed throughout the study a diet based on a reduced caloric diet and an independent physical activity program. Hypothesis: the start of a program of aerobic exercise, carefully selected, may improve the clinical status of overweight and obese students who suffer from type 2 diabetes. Results: The statistical processing of the experimental data showed signi...