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Background. Assessing ecosystems in terms of their contribution to the human welfare is one of the ways to achieve goals of sustainable development, comprising an important task for the community planning and development. Therefore, the goals of sustainable development at the local level are achieved via employing all types of local resources in particular, in the nature protected areas taking into account the value of ecosystem assets and ecosystem services produced by them for the benefit of the local communitie...

This paper aims to analyze well-known contemporary aspects that gained the interest of masses, especially in the online universe. Destructiveness develops either from abuse, in case of mukbang, or giving up and ultimately negligence, in case of the so-called hikikomori. While mukbang has its origins in South Korea and it literally took the whole world almost instantly, hikikomori is a more isolated subject that resides and originates from Japan. Mukbang, originally consisting of passionated people (mostly YouTuber...

This paper aims to present and promote the eSports and its situation in Romania. Esports, also known as electronic sports, professional video game competitions, can be defined as a form of sports where the main aspects are facilitated by electronic systems. Most often eSports takes the form of multiplayer video game contests usually organized between professional players. Several games are popular in the competitive scene. The championships that appeared in the 1990s were those that contained fighting video games ...

This paper explores the concept of employer branding in the light of external marketing that establishes the company's image as an employer of choice. The motivation is represented by the raising importance of human resource management. The employer brand is an important element from a marketing point of view; it is practically the defining image of a company. The values and symbols it embodies need to be transparent to maintain the connection with the audience, whether we are talking about customers or simply int...

In 2020, the world was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Countries faced an unprecedented challenge and had to implement many strict measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, but this led to a significant increase in unemployment, thus harming economic growth. This study analyzes the data obtained in two surveys, the first survey was conducted in the months of October, November 2020 (during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic), while the second survey was conducted in October 2022. Slightly more than 200 unemplo...

To ensure economic growth, more and more attention is being paid to promoting entrepreneurship in Latvia's cities, which addresses not only unemployment problems but also the sustainable use of resources, including land. Land is a non-renewable resource whose availability is limited, and it is therefore the task of the municipality to promote the management of unused land in its territory. The legislation of the Republic of Latvia provides that the functions of municipalities include not only the improvement of th...

This paper presents the results of the study of the influence of city-builder video games, considered as interactive creative environments, on the socialization process of the concept of city creation. The article includes the general characteristics of city-builder games with reference to the reality of city creation and management in general, as well as the specific production that forms the basis of the study. Through a correlative research method, an attempt was made to answer the question of whether video gam...

The article presents the characteristics of the social and charitable activities of religious organizations in Eastern Europe (Western Ukraine and Poland) during the first half of the 20th century. Based on the archival and scientific sources as well as a set of methods (general scientific methods (synthesis and analysis of historical, educational and cultural sources), historical and structural method, comparative method, retro-praxisymmetric method, problem-targeted method), the directions of the social and char...

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed CEOs two-speed model of decision-making and structural change about the operating implications supporting principal strategic factors, thus the importance of innovative strategies has central positions and are responsible for the corporations’ successful advances. The top pioneering companies emphasise years of organizational performance and are uniquely qualified to inspire and enhance innovation, as they are central to core values and creative leadership. The objective of th...

Cities, cultures, tourism and music have always been connected through the close relations between urban places as music venues, tourists and legendary musicians which perform to largest audiences. This paper aims to briefly examine the most important relations between music, tourism, cities and iconic musicians considering as a case in point, one of the most emblematic artists in the contemporary global popular culture - the iconic songstress Celine Dion. The article unveils the most important features which conn...

This work aims to propose a reading and analysis of the behaviors of migrant women's networks (Granovetter 1973)[7] and imaginal and cultural dynamics that are triggered when they come into contact with the health and care sector. The relevance of the migration network before and during the migratory experience has already been dealt with in sociology but the possible influence of this, both positive and negative, in the integration process and during transition phases in which we deal with the theme of health or ...

Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is an important complication of liver cirrhosis, that increases the mortality in the cirrhotic patients, usually diagnosed as hepatorenal syndrome (HRS). However, there is no proven link between the etiology of liver cirrhosis and the risk of kidney injury. Methods: We conducted a retrospective study on 171 patients with liver cirrhosis admitted to our clinic during a year. We compared data on Child-Pugh and Meld-Na scores, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), serum creatinin...

This paper deals with the conception of the Czech literary canon in English-speaking countries, which then functions as a profile of Czech literature intended for foreign specialists in Czech Studies and the general public. The article gives a brief overview of three stages of making the most important values of Czech literature accessible for English-speaking readers as they were presented by Martin Pilar, a Czech literary historian and theorist. The first stage beginning in the 1940s, transferred abroad the petr...

Assessing students’ learning is one of the most important responsibilities a teacher can have, as well as being one of the tasks teachers spend more time doing. Thus, assessment skills are a primary tool that every teacher should master. The set of assessment skills is known as assessment literacy. Several studies point to the fact that initial teacher education has serious shortcomings in preparing future teachers for the assessment-related tasks. It seems clear that, for the development of skills in assessment, ...

The article analyzes the folklore formulas of the Turkic peoples of Siberia, describing characters with images of the Sun and the Moon on their bodies. In addition to the portraits, there are similar formulas that also mention the images of the celestial bodies when describing a character in motion; thus, the author distinguishes two types of portraits, static and dynamic. At first glance, static portraits are semantically related to the well-known motif of a wonderful appearance; however, as evidenced by the mate...

Cloud technology is the backbone of the delivery pipeline of just about every digital service today, from social media and streaming entertainment to connected cars and autonomous internet of things (IoT) infrastructure. Studies show the expectations are more than 15 billion IoT devices to be connected to Cloud services by 2029. Upcoming or new ultra-fast networks such as 5G and Wi-Fi 6E mean that more IoT data will be streamed to and from applications hosted in the cloud. Cloud services and infrastructure essenti...

The range of objects and phenomena of Ukrainian tourism in the context of international tourism has been highlighted, which is one of the important business components in informing society and opens opportunities to solve management problems – to implement its functions: social (health, humanitarian, spiritual), and business-professional (concluding agreements, solving strategic partnership tasks, etc.). For this purpose, international tourism legislation is developed and implemented, the exchange of information i...

Aim: Aim of this study was to explore the self-perceived quality of sleep and sleep- related problems among women during the postpartum period. Method: Together 131 postpartum women participated in the research (mean age 29.31, SD=5.99), 52.7% primiparas, 66.4% after physiological birth. The data collection was conducted using a self-constructed questionnaire focused on quality of sleep and sleep- related factors in the ostpartum period. The questionnaires were distributed in pediatric ambulances in northern Slova...

Aims: to determine correlations of the serum level of B lymphocyte activation factor in patients with thyroid autoimmune disease and vitamin D deficiency. Material and method: The study included a number of 52 patients, distributed in 2 groups - Group 1-

FOREWORD SWS INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL SCIENCES -ISCSS 2021 is focused on the SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF THE 2030 AGENDA,MULTICULTURALISM, and the CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL ISSUES in frontof one UNCOMPROMISED, ECOLOGICAL and SUSTAINABLE FUTURE. The effective use of research in the wide range of modern social sciences and the enhanced link between research in various fields, the so-called “interdisciplinarity” can significantly improve the public policy, guided by universal values and principles, such as hu...

n Italy we are witnessing a positive development in the protection of animals that involves more than just criminal law. It has just been announced (at the end of June) that the Senate of the Republic has expressed itself in favour of amending and supplementing the text of an article in the Constitution - a fundamental rule of Italian law - which would recognise the protection of animals Furthermore, the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union protects animals as «sentient beings» and this is a fundamental...

Radon exposure at schools may have a considerable public health impact. The exposure and respectively the health risk is related with CRn and time. The schools are buildings with public access, where the children spent long period of life. The main objective of the study is to evaluate the indoor radon concentrations as an important air pollutant in school buildings of Kardzhali districts, Bulgaria, as a first step in controlling and reducing the children exposure. The measurement of radon concentration was made i...

From medieval anatomic illustrations to today’s physical models, scientific and educational learning objects are facing a long history of getting copied. For example, the commonly used “cell concept”, described as “fried-egg model” [1], is referring to an artificial idea of a composite cell developed in the late 19th century. This article illustrates contemporary cell models’ history of science and design, focusing on the practice of copying. Copying processes may cause issues within an artefacts’ didactic and sci...

The article presents the results of an empirical study of the visual content of the accounts of fashion brands in the social network Instagram. The author's development of analysis categories and fixable indicators of the analysis of the visual content of

Regulation (EU) No. 2016/679 (hereinafter the GDPR) has profoundly innovated the subject of personal data protection. Recital 149 of the Regulation states that «Member States should be able to lay down the rules on criminal penalties» for infringements of this Regulation, including for infringements of «national rules adopted pursuant to and within the limits» of this Regulation. This provision must be read in conjunction with Article 84.1, which declares that Member States shall lay down the «rules on other penal...

in 2015, the irregular migratory flow marked a beginning of a new era in the history of the European migration. In many European countries, including in Hungary, the public opinion related to this phenomenon has forced the legislators to take the necessary measures against it. In Hungary, among others, the criminal law was also in focus. The first step was the construction of the physical border fence, and as a second stage, the Hungarian Parliament adopted a legal framework on its protection. In accordance with t...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the liberalization process of the Romanian Gas Market, both on retail and wholesale. Based on the available information, we are studying both production and supply markets of natural gas. The Natural Gas Sector has been analysed in terms of market liberalization and the data was collected from the annual reports of the Romanian Energy Regulatory Agency (ANRE) and National Institute of Statistics (INS)

Metacognitive processes influence not only success in learning, but also contribute to career success. One of the main aims of education is the improvement of higher-order cognitive abilities like metacognition. Earlier studies demonstrated that extracurricular activities, such as experiences acquired during competitions, improve metacognitive skills. The aim of our correlational, cross-sectional study is the establis ment of the explanatory power of different types and levels of competitions for the variability o...

Introduction: Today, for the construction of a dental bridge, modern technologies and materials allow both the aggregation elements and the bridge body to be made in a single stage in the prosthesis of small or medium edentations. In the practice of makin

The article is motivated by the rapidly growing interest in e-education in general and mobile learning. The main purpose of the article was to develop an educational product, namely WebQuest, for language teaching using mobile applications. Our methodolog

The theoretical problem of a study is scientific description and typology of historical strategies in search of harmony between human and the world, reflected in European socio-cultural projects and ecological practices of XVIII to XXI centuries. The obje

the present article is a research that draws attention to a widespread social phenomenon among young people in Romania, preadolescents and adolescents who developed anxiety-depressive symptoms during pandemic isolation, as a result of restrictions that changed the relationship dynamics of all, especially those mentioned above, in a transformative stage of life, with personalities being structured, without sufficient resources to regain a psycho-emotional balance necessary to adapt to significant global situations,...

The mission of civil protection is, to the extent stipulated by the Act of the National Council of the Slovak Republic no. 42/1994 Coll. on civil protection to protect life, health and property and to create the conditions for survival in the event of an emergency and during a declared emergency. EU Member States have committed themselves to exchanging information on various infectious diseases. The programs of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control in this regard support the development of specifi...

Dante Alighieri’s Inferno 28 is the place of the sowers of discord and scandal who are responsible for causing a split within their own communities; among them in the ninth bolge of the eighth circle is Muhammad whose mutilated body represents the division he brought to Christianity. A historical contextualization of the Inferno, however, confirms that the hostility between Christianity and Islam had emerged earlier with the rise of Islam as a political power in the seventh century. This paper examines Medieval an...

The secondary interstitial lung diseases have been an intensely debated topic lately. Recent research describes increasingly more associations between various occupational hazards and the incidence of pulmonary fibrosis. Even the well-known category of pneumoconioses, in which silicosis has a long-established inclusion, continues to raise challenges and create delays in diagnosis while affecting the patient's psychological and social wellbeing. The diagnosis delay also avoids the decision to end the exposure that ...

Teachers should be proud of their students for their resilience, patience, and successes during this unique challenging learning environment. Teaching quality varied substantially and adaptations for remote learning were inconsistent. There were different forms of inequality in access and opportunity for students of disadvantaged and/or marginalized groups (e.g. internet connectivity, parent support, different time zones). How could this context influence the proportion of students who could be classified as under...

According to available information, it is still true that the most translated Czech novel is The Good Soldier Schweik (1921-23) by Jaroslav Hasek. By 2013, it had been translated into 58 languages. Schweik’s journey to the world began with translations into German, initially continuing mainly in the countries of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire and further in Russia and Ukraine. This artistic vision of war absurdities became widely known, especially after WWII and inspired such famous antimilitary works like Cat...

This paper aims to highlight the impact that The Beatles have had over the generations on the lifestyle and self-image of individuals who listen to this music. This aspect leads to the creation of musical identities, which can reduce social-cultural barriers as well as language barriers between fans from different socio-cultural contexts. We want to highlight the fact that regardless of the cultural context in which people live, the quality of being a fan of a pop-rock band, can be a means by which people can redu...

Digitalisation was introduced very rapidly into the daily lives of Northern Europeans and, therefore, this process brought with it significant change to many daily spheres and routines for the country’s population. Nordic countries (including Baltic countries) often top the rankings in terms of innovation and digitalisation, positioning themselves as the digital leaders of Europe. The Baltic region is emerging as Europe’s innovation hub. It is not always easy for senior citizens to adapt to these changes. Modern e...

City branding is a topic discussed very much in tourism and also in marketing, its impact being visible in both fields. While tourism is concerned with city branding because it can help destinations attract more tourists and make more profit, the marketing field is trying to find new ways to promote, position and differentiate city brands in order to gain a competitive advantage in this overcrowded market. On the other hand, city brands can also provide benefits regarding consumption behavior of customers, who are...

The emergence of a new phenomenon in the mid-twentieth century known as transhumanism has been generating a series of interesting and controversial debates, all over the world. Genetic manipulation, the efforts and the risks to conquer the human have challenged Christianity and contemporary philosophy. This article aims to highlight the points of view of Christian theology in general, as well as Orthodox in particular on the phenomenon. Beyond the polemical rhetoric involved in the necessary debate, it is importan...

Artificial intelligence and its use is an integral part of modern business development, that makes it possible for companies to operate successfully in a competitive environment. This study identifies factors that influence consumer satisfaction with the u become more competitive. The study uses both secondary data analysis and expert interviews, chat bot user mapping and a survey. Within the framework of the research, the situation in the field of using chatbots in Latvia and in the world is described. The study ...

As part of longitudinal research project that is concerned with the new implementation of computational thinking (CT) into the primary school curriculum in the Czech Republic, several surveys have been conducted on the concept of CT itself, both among students and teachers. this paper summarises the outcomes of a project focused on the possibilities of measuring the development of computational thinking in students and seeks to determine the key competencies that teacher purposefully develop in their students or a...

Objectives: To identify quantitative variations of serum and saliva IL-1b related to the intensity of periodontal damage in patients associating thyroid autoantibodies. Material and method: The study group included a number of 70 patients with chronic autoimmune thyroiditis (CAT), that had oral examination and are classified by the presence and severity of chronic periodontitis (CP) lesions - mild (n = 20; 20.5%),medium (n = 14; 20%), severe (n = 12; 17%) and the absence of periodontal lesions (n =24; 34.5%). Seru...

In this paper the attention is focalized on the iconology created by Giorgio Manganelli in his essayistic writings, when they are structured as a combination of a tale and its correspective visual material, in his interest for pictorial imagery since the prehistoricity to contemporaneity, approached not only as a complement, but as a nucleus from which sprang his literary discourse. It is emphasized how visual images convey social aspects of author's thought as a prolific writer in Italian culture and in a global ...

This paper analyses Brentano’s aesthetical approach to two questions concerning value. The first, whether all presentations essentially have a positive intrinsic value. Thesecond, if there is a kind of relation between two presentations that assigns higher value to one of them. The results Brentano came to are that, first, there are certain conditions inquality judgement of presentations for them to have intrinsic value. Second, Brentano introduces six main types of relations, explaining why he attributes higher p...

The present paper discusses Environmental Performance Enhancement Programmes (EPEPs). EPEPs are mandatory for installations with negative environmental impact, which are enlisted as sites for the implementation of Best Available Techniques (BATs) but do n

In the frame of the realized research based on the constructivist approach to teaching mathematics at primary and secondary schools, among other aspects, the idea was to focus on one of the key and important activities of the teacher, such as the analysis of pupils' problem solving. In this contribution, the written form of the pupils’ solutions has been focused and shown. According to the missing practical experiences in the mathematical areas, pupils investigated some properties (principles) in a series of mathe...

Antibiotics represent one of the most used classes of medications since the discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming in 1928. A significant percentage of antibiotics and their metabolites are excreted in the urine, leading to a high concentration in the kidney that may often cause renal impairment. Medication-induced nephrotoxicity represents one of the most common causes of acute kidney injury (AKI) in hospitalized patients. Clinical manifestations are variable, ranging from mild to severe forms, requiring re...

Self-harm is a frequent and very problematic behavior that expresses the adolescent's specific relationship to himself and especially to his/her body. The present study focuses on the ambivalent relationship between art and self-harm. The subject of the research is the analysis of selected factors of illustration and artistic expression of self-harm in society (especially in art or on social networks) and their influence on the growth of self- harm, especially in the young generation. We present psychological conc...