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In order to optimize the instructive - educational process during Physical Education in the case of 5th grade students, an experiment was conducted based on the organisation and conducting of the lessons (2 hours/week) using movement game as the main means of achieving the objectives of the themes, speed and coordinative capacity. The study and research were conducted at the “Coresi” Middle School, of Targovişte. In order to reach reliable conclusions, we included in the study 52 students, both boys and girls...

In the wake of fast aging of populations the question is asked about the acceptance of robots by elderly individuals and their role in elderly's every-day life. The project ENRICHME - Enabling Robot and assisted living environment for Independent Care and Health Monitoring of the Elderly (which receives funding from the European Union H2020 Programme; Grant Agreement No: 643691C) employs a mobile service robot for long-term human monitoring and interaction, in order to optimise the independence of elderly individu...

With regard to the human trafficking phenomenon, Romania continues to be mainly a country of origin, with the highest number of people trafficked and exploited both internally and abroad in the European Union, next to Bulgaria (Eurostat, 2013). Although cross-border trafficking is predominant, during the last years the internal trafficking phenomenon became more and more visible, both with regard to sexual and labour exploitation (National Agency Against Trafficking of Persons: ANITP reports 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012...

Introduction: Visual impairment constitutes interference in all areas of life. As it has been shown, the quality of life impact of these impaired persons are not unambiguous. The survey answers the question: “What is the quality of life of persons with visual impairment?” Methodology: Using a questionnaire, the quality of life of persons with visual impairment was assessed, and its level was compared to a group of persons without visual impairment. The standardized WHO Quality of life – BREF questionnaire wa...

The Five Star Movement has been the great novelty of the Italian political landscape. The paper seeks to highlight the core content of its doctrine, which calls for a sort of anthropological revolution based on the advent of the “Net” in which the “new political order of the communities” will replace that of individuals, offering fresh forms of direct democracy. The consequence would be the end not just of traditional western political parties, but also of the self-referential man of subjectivity. The pape...

Before 1989 Romania used to be a communist country with a centralized economy, the authorities deeply intervening in absolutely all the aspects of the individual, family and society life. From the demographic (and not only) point of view, the most intimate and brutal interference of the state took place by means of the famous Decree 770/1966 which almost completely prohibited abortions, doubling the birth rate in the attempt of complying with the communists' dream of having a numerous population, able to support a...

Virtual communities of support are becoming a connecting place for people with different health, emotional and social problems. It is where people find information about medication and therapy, a chance to verbalize their problem, find support and comfort by knowing they are not alone. In this paper we analyzed seven discussion forums with topics related to social phobia and noticed that they provided certain uses and gratifications for the participants who suffered from that type of social disorder. Uses and grat...

The article deals with the analysis of the population idea concerning the form and the structure of a contemporary family, the formation of its ideal (desired), realistic and media images perception. According to the interviewed the image of a family advocated by the mass media determines the present models of family and matrimonial behavior in many respects, but the contemporary mass media create the negative image of a family or the image that has nothing in common with the facts of life. Besides it is ascertain...

Judy Weiser, arguably one of the most influential figures of photo art therapy worldwide, characterised this field as using photographic techniques, pictures of people, including snapshots, family albums and photographs made by others (as well as the feelings, thoughts and memories induced by these pictures) as valuable channels of communication with the patient, often in a way which is impossible to reach using words only. The aim of this study was to investigate students' opinions on how photography can be used ...

The research object is the youth's social and political activity, which, according to the data of the field research carried out in 2012-2014, is a significant modelling factor of a successfully developing society in Latvia. As the location for the field research, the places contrasting in their ethnic composition and economic development have been selected – Riga, the capital of Latvia, and Daugavpils, the second largest city of Latvia. In order to obtain wider range of material and the variety of viewpoints th...

The article highlights the topical issue of the unemployment among the young issue. The authors investigate how the youth perceive unemployment in general and in personal dimension, stressing the need for education institutions to bear heavy responsibility for training and further employment of the youth. The article contains the results of the opinion poll held by researchers of Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University since the end of 2005 through March 2014 among students of the city of Nizhny Novgorod and t...

The category of drugs around which this paper is built, the psychoactive drugs, also belongs to the category of synthetic drugs. Etnobotanical substances began to appear only in the years 2000-2005 and in Romania they appeared in 2008. The phenomenon had been preceded by the emergence of the term “etnobotanica” (etnobotanical substance) in the year 2000 in the Romanian Dictionary of Neologisms. Etnobotany is a branch of etnobiology and it refers to the mutual relations of the man with the plant environment, in...

The article is devoted to elaboration of tools for decision support analysis and social risk management. The complexity and inconsistency determines the need for the development of decision support tools for the analysis of social risks. The solution to this problem is connected with the analysis of the subject area, the development of a hierarchy of selection criteria, and then preparation of the software. The system is based on human experience and intuition in assessing the social risks and the development of m...

Human migration is a complex and multidimensional public process, possessing both positive results of territorial movements of people, and negative. Therefore, depending on the angle of consideration, this process encloses either achievements, or problems for the look of researcher. Regardless of attitude towards Russia's official statistics, including claims for its speed, reliability, etc., it is difficult not to agree with the fact that it figures in a concentrated form is most clearly illustrate the real situa...

Little research has been done to explore stranger harassment and women's reactions toward it. By conducting a quantitative survey with questionnaires, this research based in Hong Kong aims at exploring predictors that determine women's reaction toward stranger harassment. Results show that self-objectification is positively related to benign and self-blaming coping strategies while traditional gender-related belief is positively related to passive and self-blaming coping strategies.

The phenomenon of violence in schools is extremely complex and there are a lot of factors that cause it. It is a well-known fact that during the educational process the model plays a decisive role. The first model of every child is the mother, the parents, then the teachers, the persons from their environment - the family, the neighbors, the colleagues and last but not least mass-media persons, especially television. Because of this, the main actors of the instructive-educative process, the parents and the teacher...

The aim of research was to estimate level of Toll-like receptors (TLRs) of innate immunity in patients with different stages of tubal adhesions and possibilities to use their detection for prediction of adhesions 21 women with I stage of tubal adhesions (I group) and 31 - with II-IV stages of adhesions (II group) were examinated. Samples were taken from endocervix by cytobrush and by biopsy of tubes during laparoscopy. Expression of TLRs was determined using qPCR. 5-fold decrease of TLR1, which ligands are bacteri...

The aim of this paper is to introduce and evaluate selected determinants of e-Accessibility from the point of view of university students with visual impairment. In the years 2014 and 2015 we have evaluated the level of satisfaction with e-Accessibility of universities in Czech and Slovak Republic through the questionnaire completed by 54 university students with visual impairment with various degree of severity. Simultaneously we were investigating the preferences and most frequent practices of visually impaired ...

This paper discusses the possibilities and limitations of the use of publication databases such as Web of Science and Scopus to determine the research capabilities and prospective areas of research and development of universities. It also analyses major problems related with the analysis of universities' publication activities in Scopus and Web of Science databases such as author surname variations, identification of author profile among authors with the same surname, author and organization profile merging, ident...

Given that it is the most representative government component of any public administrative system, we have proposed in this paper, to analyze how government is organized and invested in several European countries. Constitutions of various countries governing find distinct features and in terms of organizational structure or incompatibilities regime. Regarding the appointment of the Government, it is determined by the existing constitutional or parliamentary system, constitutional monarchy or semi-presidential regi...

Discourse plays an important role in political systems, especially during the electoral period and electoral campaigns. National politicians often used a wide range of themes that are related to any level of the political system, just to be elected once again. In such a competitive world, discourses and buzzwords play an important role in framing behaviour and relations. The themes of regionalization, good governance, autonomy, decentralization and reforms are very popular words of politicians at national level wh...

Overall geostrategy of the European Union seeks global stability, economic security and environmental sustainability. In contrast with occurring interpretation of „geostrategy” in security/defence terms, we are prone to perception of geostrategy in the context of competitiveness driven by geopolitical and geo-economic developments that are shaped by the political and economic environment. Multidisciplinary relevance of our insight into the issue derived from the primary concept of geo-heterogeneity – and app...

The electoral systems represent a very important element of the entire political process which connects the people`s choices to the types of politics promoted by the governments. They are chosen and sometimes modified by political actors and, once functional, exercise political consequences over these actors. A state`s politics is profoundly influenced by its electoral system. In the last decades, more and more states have opted to modify, either partially or entirely their electoral systems, the main reason being...

In an earlier paper titled “European Union Enlargement to the Western Balkans applied to the Acapulco typology of agenda-setting: Focus on Montenegro, Serbia and FYROM revisited” (Ciderova, Fejesova & Kovacevic, 2015) interactive matrix of the Acapulco typology of agenda-setting was stretched to the context of the European Union external relations (namely, macro-regional strategies of the European Union and regional cooperation initiatives) and enlargement (particularly the Western Balkans). Fulfillment of thi...

Good governance and the quality of public administration is a key aspect in ensuring a country's long-term competi¬tiveness and well-being. In 2001, the European Commission underlined in its “White paper on Governance” that five principles combine to form the basis of good governance: openness, participation, accountability, effectiveness and coherence. Europe 2020 strategy emphasizes that to achieve transformational change towards a smart, sustainable and inclusive growth it is required a strong governance f...

The goal of this paper is to describe and analyze the transatlantic relationship, why it is important to strengthen it not only within the common security and defense policy, but also within the international political and economic system, and to point out the future scenarios of transatlantic relations. Even with the rise of other economic powers, including the emerging growth markets, the United States and the European Union remain the fulcrum of the world economy, each other's most important and profitable mark...

Unrecognized states represent an interesting anomaly in the current international system which is based exclusively on the project of sovereign states. Although not internationally recognized, or only recognized by a few states, they are able to conduct a certain degree of administration over their territories for a relatively long time and according to the Freedom House Index, some of them have become more democratic in last few years. This is an important signal that international recognition is not necessary fo...

Election management is concerned solely with administrative infrastructure required to support the democratic process of elections. Successful elections do not happen without preparation and planning. They are big and costly events, resulting in the completion of a large number of big and small jobs, including a large number of people, where everyone should be aware of their responsibilities in the electoral process and to give account for their actions on the basis of the law. Election management has to do with s...

While some scholars see compatibility between Islam with the concept of democracy, many of them disagree by manifesting great concern for the problem of how to assure that democracy could be developed in a way compatible with liberty. Best illustration is a number of Muslim societies possessing the outward forms of democracy but yet operating as authoritarian regimes. Democracy cannot exist without a functioning civil society that lies outside from the political sphere. Historically religion (Islam) for majority o...

As much as guns and warships, maps have been used as tools of imperialism. Nations and empires are not natural features within the landscape. They are social constructs, created in order to convert the Earth into a huge real-estate market. The Russian-Ukrainian conflict is not fought only in Ukraine, but also on every map, that shows Crimea. Cartography was coined as a science of princes, as it was these elites who used maps to take land and natural resources from those without power – local people. In the last ...

Modern public administration in the implementation of public administration intends to serve citizens' and this is a starting point of any administrative reform, even from the experience of the European countries. Public administration in Republic of Macedonia is mainly understood as centralized administration and disconnected in relation with citizens and the requirements for modern administration and service. The state is the largest employer within the society and in this context the public administration is a ...

Abkhazia and South Ossetia represent specific cases of disintegration of the Soviet empire. Owing to an extensive support of Russia, they managed to effectively separate from Georgia and to get formal recognition of their independence from Russia. However, in fact, Russia conducts full control over both of these republics, which is significantly different from other republics in the post-Soviet space existing de jure. Both of these separatist republics are under direct economic, political and military control of R...

Political aspects in general can be considered as one of the key determinants not only the structure but also the philosophy of public administration of every modern and democratic state. It should be noted, however, that the degree of their influence on the final result (structure and operation) vary from state to state. In the case of modern democratic political systems it is usual that the impact of the political aspects on the system of public administration is displaced by existing civil society. Where civil ...

In October, the Responsibility to Protect will be celebrating 10-year anniversary. This doctrine was developed from a report reflecting the incapability of international community to prevent and effectively react on terrible events of the 90s, such as Rwanda or Srebrenica. However, even after the 10 years of its official existence within the UN institutional system, the operationalisation of the doctrine falls short on several fronts. Why are states reluctant to rely on Responsibility to Protect? What prevents it ...

An underlying thesis of the issue is defined in the causes of the historical failure of direct democracy and on the causes of the factors responsible for the victory of the principle of representative governance in modern political system. Presented paper is based on authorВґs attempt to generalize the views of various authors of modern political science and practical political and historical experience. Organizational difficulty, numerousness of political community, economic or financial questions, the need for p...

Interest of the contribution is nationalist populism in terms of local government of Slovak Republic. The concept is closely related or is identical to the national populism, nationalism, in many cases to extremism. The nationalist populism in the Slovak Republic is studied at two levels. It occurs not only at national level but also at the local level. Profiling actors at the national level establish their ideological orientation also in regional level, and vice versa. Pluralism of interests, which is typical for...

The article reviews the historic experience in forming the regional Executive Authority during the 1990-ies of the XXth century in the Kemerovo, Novosibirsk and Tomsk regions. The 1990пЂ­2000 period, which is marked with establishing and developing the new Russian statehood on the basis of the concept of separation of powers, can be divided into two main periods of establishing the regional Executive Power in Russia, i.e. 1990пЂ­1993 and 1994пЂ­2000. Each period has had a decisive influence on formation of governa...

The conflict resolution and prevention is still developing challenge for the Diplomacy. The Concept of The Multi Track Diplomacy concentrates attention to the role of media. The main role of the media is through the press, television and electronic media to inform and involve the public in discussions on peace and conflict resolution. This Track of the Multi Track Diplomacy Concept is based on the assumption that the engagement in national conflicts, it is necessary to inform the public about the state and develop...

The study provides an outline comparison of the political culture of the countries of Central Europe, on the example of the Visegrad countries - the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia. The regionalization and possibly interregionalization of those countries have for strengthening their international position undoubtedly great importance, both inside and outside the EU. Countries of Central and Eastern Europe we can still rank among countries in political transition. Those countries have much in common an...

The European Union is perceived as a great promoter of human rights not only within its borders, but also in its external action. Have they, however, been integrated into the structures of CDSP yet? The paper will focus on the development of the ECDP which will be demonstrated on the EU missions in crisis situations defined as threats to international peace and security by the UN Security Council. On this terms, the EU is a solid partner to the UN, however, the pattern on the mission choice is rather based on real...

The study deals with the current trends of radicalization and support for extremism among young people in Slovakia. The results from previous research projects indicate that the political behavior of current young generation tends to be more related with new trends especially to promote alternative political agenda and solutions. We aim to discuss the findings from qualitative in-depth interviews from two different field work locations in Slovakia and compare these with the nation-wide statistical data from the pe...

The article bears the name of problems contribution of older people in Slovakia after 1989. It is divided into two parts. The first part is addressing to issue at the theoretical level and in the second part we examine them empirically.

In this paper, the authors present a legal-historical analysis of conflicts and their solutions in Bohemia during the reign of the Přemyslid dynasty. It takes into account the methodological incentives which were introduced to the legal medieval studies by a so-called “performative turn” that helped to direct the interest of social science to the typical forms, symbolic contents and social functions of human behaviour. As opposed to the existing research tradition which aims at the political and power-related...

The article focuses on one of the basic questions when concluding a contract on the discount website – what is the nature of the legal relationship, i.e. which party actually enters into a binding agreement with the consumer and thus accepts the obligations specified therein. The consumer buys vouchers at the discount website run by operators who are in a legal relationship with the merchant. The discount website operator receives the money from the consumer, keeps a certain amount as a provision and the outstan...

This contribution is devoted to the issue of CAPM with a more detailed elaboration of its input parameters. It analysis and elaborates beta coefficient, individual ways of its calculation and summarizes findings obtained. It is dedicated to the development of Country Risk Premium and Equity Risk Premium of the Slovak Republic. The analysed input parameters are applied when calculating the Cost of Equity of selected Slovak industry. The most problematic point of solution was the calculation and acceptable predictio...

The support mechanism for electricity generation from renewable energy sources was set up for the development of its consumption. Producers got an opportunity to get rights to sell the electricity generated from renewable energy sources within the frame of compulsory purchase. Public sellers were obliged to buy the fixed amount of generated electricity and to determine the higher purchase price for cogeneration stations. The support mechanism for electricity generation by using renewable energy sources was created...

Reforming of public relations, occurring in Latvian requires the improvement of all laws, including criminal procedure law. Since the 1st of October 2005 in Latvia is in force the criminal procedure law (hereinafter criminal procedure law – CPL) which reformed the previously existing criminal procedure laws and introduced the new ones. The Article 1 of CPL defines the goal of CPL which consists in the establishment of such an order of the criminal procedure which ensures the effective use of rules of criminal la...

The aim of this article is to assess the impact of economic conditions on the level of bank loans to enterprises in Poland in the years 2000 – 2014. To achieve this objective were used the following research methods: a review of the scientific literature, statistical research methods and methods of graphical presentation of economic phenomena. The results of the analysis show that in the analyzed period, was noticeable a significant dependence between the level of bank loans to enterprises and economic condition...

Financial analysis is one of diagnostic tools which can be used to discover and evaluate different causes of financial situation of companies. Graphical methods represent epilogue of numerical evaluation of financial metrics. The purpose of this paper is a graphic representation of financial indicator ratios as immediate comprehensive presentation of the analysis performed. In the framework of special methods of financial analysis, it is to demonstrate the use of graphical methods. In the framework of graphical me...

Deliberate accounting changes are referred to as creative accounting, where management can be carried out at the same time as initiating changes, as well as a victim of their results. Creative errors and fraud in accounting have serious implications for the management of a company. It is shown that some managers and especially shareholders mistakenly and frequently cause unrealistic expectations of positive economic outcomes. It is necessary to investigate issues in terms of both accounting itself, as well as in t...