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The subject of this research is a comparative analysis of the quality and nutritional effects of bakery products with special functionality, of some representative manufacturers in Romania. Comparing Bongrana Sana Benexia and Savoria Toast Kornfit, both enriched with vegetable sources of ?3 and ?6, we can observe that despite the more balanced intake of ?3 and ?6 polyunsaturated fatty acids of the product Savoria Toast Kornfit due to the lower prices, Bongrana Sana Benexia enjoy greater accessibility to consumers,...

In this study, we tried to determine the value of the ethno-cultural norms in socio-cultural and psychological adaptation of forced migrants. Hypothesis of the study is that the preservation of ethno-cultural norms in situations of forced migration contributes to the ethno-psychological well-being of migrants.

The article attempts to present students? progress achieved during the development of a European project Erasmus Intensive Programme Effective Communication in Multicultural Teams approved in 2011 and finalized in March 2013. For the students participating in the IP, especially for Czech students , the course was the first opportunity to communicate with students coming from different culture background, where the teaching methods, approach to students, the extent of students? autonomy, different teaching methods,...

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

The objective of this work is to contribute to validation studies of the Team Trust Questionnaire in a call centre environment. According to Costa and Anderson [1] trust can be understood as a collective phenomenon, and at a team level can be conceptualized as “a latent construct based on the individual’s own propensity to trust others on the perceived trustworthiness of the other team members” (p. 5). Eighteen hundred employees in a call centre service provider in Portugal answered the Questionnaire (32.1% male; ...

This paper presents the findings of an experiment conducted in an innovative way through the use of the most popular social network: Facebook. Exploiting the system of “like” and “share”, on which this online platform is based, thousands of artwork images were submitted to a sample of over 10,000 users worldwide. Through the metrics analysis related to the aesthetic choices expressed by the users, it was observed that viewers are inclined to react in the same way towards certain visual stimuli coming from the artw...

As a fundamental part of personality, behavior represents the modality of acting and reacting in certain circumstances or situations. Specialty literature describes three types of behavior: aggressive, assertive and nonassertive ones. The purpose of this paper is to construct the assertive behavior profile in performance sports, but also to highlight the behavioral differences, depending on the type of sport practiced by the subjects of our study (individual sports, team sports and combat sports). In order to achi...

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

Becoming-a-person processes have been the issue of a heated discussion in modern Russian psychology for recent years. Two major theories existing on the issue are the concept of personalization (V.A. Petrowsky, 1981) and the concept of personification (A.B. Orlov, 1995). Both theories regard personalization process as the realization of an individual’s need to be a person (to become a personality); but the personification concept considers an alternative personification process, regarded to realize the need of an ...

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

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 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...

Despite substantial improvements in oral health in some eastern European countries, several epidemiological studies indicated that the prevalence and severity of dental caries in Romania is still high in all age groups. Aim: the aim of the study was to evaluate the caries experience in permanent teeth of 6-11 year-old schoolchildren from Constanta District, and its relationship with socio-economic status (SES) of the family. Methods: an epidemiological cross-sectional clinical study was carried out in 2013 (april-...

The purpose of this research is to deepen previous studies of the psychometric properties of the Organizational Recognition of the Contributive Uniqueness Questionnaire (ORCUQ) [1], through Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) with a larger sample than that previously used. Contributive uniqueness is the unique contribution of each individual to the team’s functioning when working cooperatively. The uniqueness of individuals seems to be, on one hand, an individual need, and on the other hand a characteristic which c...

In this paper, we focus on online learning. Our goal is to point out the modern tools used currently in an online business, where the products or services are the online courses. The evolution of IT over the past years allows us to develop online learning, independent of the location and the number of people involved in the different activities (learning, teaching, management, etc.). We point out the necessary tools used for building such an online activity (web hosting, e-learning platforms, website-building soft...

This paper deals with the legal and social aspects of a child's life with regard to the legal regulation of the given issue in the Czech Republic. Social and legal protection of children means ensuring a child's right to life, its positive development, parental care and family life, the identity of the child, freedom of thought, conscience and religion, education and employment and also includes protecting the child from any physical or mental violence, neglect, abuse or exploitation. Child protection, which is a ...

The decision establishing a resettlement program in Romania was agreed in 2008 and Romania joined the European resettlement countries. Thus, Romania has agreed to be involved in taking a more focused responsibilities in addressing global issues in the context of refugee protection, resettlement is the only solution that had not been addressed by the Romanian authorities so far. In June 2010 Romania received the first group of resettled refugees, 38 Burmese resettled from Malaysia and, for the first time, Romania f...

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

The 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-intellectual...

The problem of developing a professional culture model is acute in the university language course which trains future professionals as prospective participants of cross cultural communication in a professional context. Such a model will help the educator to present a microcosm of the target culture which possesses systematic character of its organization and contents. Systematic approach and information-semiotic approach have been applied in the research to develop a methodological model of a professional culture....

The present study describes the current state of the development of the Arabic language in the context of the explosion of the new multimedia and Internet technologies. Based on the data collected by the author in 2010-2013 during her field work in the UAE, Egypt and Tunisia, some significant changes in language over the last 15 years have been identified. The study has also analyzed the contents of Arabic electronic media and social networks. After describing the main stages of the historical development of the A...

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 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. ...

In recent decades, like the rest of EU countries, Romania faced the same problem of aging population. Differences in vision and approach between health systems in the EU states are found in the health indicators, the management of health system having a major impact on health status. Despite of a slight improvement, the average life expectancy in Romania continues to one of the lowest values among EU countries. In Romania, patterns of morbidity and mortality have undergone important changes, increasing the prevale...

The category of time is interesting for representatives of various research fields. Time is referred to space, world of objects, and motion. Human, by referring to time, makes it anthropologic and brings in an axiological aspect. Time from the position of personality is a subjective category. The present paper is a study of subjective notions of time held by Old Believers, a sub-ethnos or ethno-confessional group of Old Believers living on the territory of Latvia since the 17th century, after the church schism in ...

The paper issue is theoretical and methodological basis of studies in suicide terrorism motivation and rationality, legitimized by radical Islam. Two methodological ideas are identified as dominant and defining paradigmal features of Western researches of suicide terrorism - the concept of rational actor and multi-causal approach. Concept of rational actor in most cases is interpreted through the sociological point of view: it takes into account a social group, not an individual. When individual motivation is view...

Style is a fundamental category of aesthetics and the study of art: it is easily defined but hardly lends itself to theoretical research. Alexey Losev (1893–1988), a Russian philologist, philosopher and musicologist, presented some examples of the most comprehensive consideration of style as an aesthetic category within the broadest notional context in his main work on this topic “The Theory of Art Style.” However, Losev's idea about an aspect of style that is not divided by any components requires some spec...

The paper deals with the epistemological topic of rationality. Are there any general principles of rationality? How is the concept of common sense connected to rationality and scientific cognition? The aim of this article is to answer these questions. Firstly, the author defines the main principles of rationality. We distinguish two main groups of such principles: the principles concerning the system of beliefs and the principles concerning inferential mechanisms. The members of the first group are for instance on...

Paper is based on the understanding of globalization as a complex phenomenon and focuses on detecting of cultural contours of globalization process. Globalization is studied today in many contexts: global civilization and its risks in current stage of historical development, pitfalls of multiculturalism, cultural plurality and cultural difference both as set of values, nature of the differences among cultures, their influence on international relations and on addressing of global problems, global cultural gap, cul...

The existence of a philosophy in Christianity was regarded as unfounded even by some of the writers of the first Christian centuries. More precisely, the idea presented in some patristic texts was that the Logos the Greeks had been looking for became incarnate and proved His truthfulness to the people. Even though the Greek philosophy may be regarded as a gift from God, namely as a manifestation of the eternal Logos - which manifestation gained a philosophic expression through Heraclitus and Plato - Christianity h...

In the center of our attention is the Slovak cultural tradition in the period of post-modernism, focused on some selected issues associated with the imaging of the human body in the visual arts. The Slovak culture in the postmodern context takes the elements characteristic for the whole postmodernism : unifying world views fall apart and individual, group or regional perspectives are preferred; universalism (the ideas on universal human values and theories) is being desintegrated; logocentrism as well as the belie...

John Dewey (1859-1952) was an American pragmatist under the influence of Charles Darwin's evolutionism. In 1934 he published his aesthetic summa Art as Experience. In the book he promoted a new approach to art and introduced understanding of it as an indispensable part of human life in the contrast to regarding art as an exclusive activity reserved for the chosen. Art for Art's Sake slogan was something he found harmful and openly criticized. For Dewey art is born out of daily experiences of a human being interact...

This article examines theoretical background of interreligious dialogue from the perspective of “the kingdom message” that is to be understood, either explicitly or implicitly, the core reference point of all Christian philosophy and theology. The main objective of the article is to point out the significance of hermeneutics of “the kingdom message” for interreligious dialogue. The question “What is the relevance of the kingdom message to the interreligious dialogue today?” may be, therefore, considere...

Even at the dawn of human civilization, there was a cult of death, which depending on the worldview of a people, called and represented death differently. With the appearance of religion this phenomenon was interpreted with theological positions. Dispute about the nature of death and its meaning as philosophers and thinkers. The phenomenon of "death" was depicted in the literature, arts, theater, cinema. The death is depicted in recently appeared japan cultural phenomenon of anime. In this paper we consider the ph...

Due to the end of a stage of formation and a bioethics institutionalization in Russia and need of a philosophical and methodological reflection of this phenomenon for the general course of world researches of a bioethical perspective and practice of permission of the difficult equations "eras of biotechnologies", the explication of interrelation of "eternal" problems of freedom and responsibility, sense of life and the immortality, comprehended by the Russian "ethics of life", and "biotechnological decisions", fun...

The intention of this paper is to bring the possibility of escaping from the time according to Mircea Eliade. It aims to bring options how the archaic man trying to escape from the profane time to sacred time. At the same time we try to apply knowledge about the escaping from the time and for today's man and reflect them in the light of postmodernism. Through selected examples from the arts and the media we would point out escape time in postmodernism and its relevance for humans. Possibility of escaping from time...

The paper deals with the problem of the “scientific” view of morality, especially its results for philosophy, ethics, and a sense of education. The author considers implications of the thesis about the selfish and determined character of human behaviour and tries to show that these implications follow from a particular kind of interpretation, not from evolutionary and scientific views generally.

The article is devoted the first scientific research institute in the field of exact and engineering science in the east of Russia. The author reveals the principal causes of institute appearance, the purpose and the objectives of its work, the personnel structure. The author defines the contribution of the institute scientific achievements to the scientific potential of Siberia. V.D.Kuznetsov's personal acquaintance with the leading scientists-physicists of the country became an important factor which accelerated...

Today's historical studies have continued concentrating on the subject of restrictions imposed on rights of certain ethnic minorities. The scientific interest arose already in the early 20th century. The turn of the 19th and 20th centuries witnessed a myth of “German threat” to the Russian statehood emerging during an economic boom in specific regions. The myth gave birth to a number of industrial and agricultural restrictions. Russia's entering the World War I demanded that the government formulated its posit...

For the first half of the century there are not any attesting documents to provide a real and detailed image of the city,but only fragments,duplicates of some plans located in Moscow or Vienna;only after forming Borroczyn Plan (1846-1852), that we can elaborate a real analysis of what has changed in Bucharest, during the past six decades since the accomplishment of the XVIIIth century final plan. In the middle of the XIXth century (1856),the Austrian marshal De Fligely compiles, due to the Walach lord Barbu Ећtirb...

Historical memory has a lot of influence on the relationship between states and people of North East Asia (NEA). North East Asia is a complicated region where interests of leading world countries are concentrated. Economic and cultural rise of NEA is accompanied by the rise of national identity and nationalism in region's states. Those also based on the historical memory. Peoples in the region experience different historical memory. Collective memory is understood as a representation of the past shared by a group ...

City monuments appeared in provincial Russia only in the first part of the nineteenth century. Their construction was both initiated and financed by the nobility. As a result each statue reflected the ideas, ideals and values of this social group. The city-dwellers were mostly proud of the monuments devoted to famous artists and scientists originating from the city, and described the memorials pathetically. Half of the century passed and the situation changed dramatically. The attitude to the monuments changed rad...

There are various stages in the annals of every nation. For the Slovaks, one of these is the period of mass emigration. It is an important chapter of Slovak economic, social and political history. It is a history of courage and creativity, a history of national, social and cultural efforts by the members of Slovak nation. According to an official report of the Pittsburgh Consul, 170,000 Slovak people immigrated to the United States before 1900. The number of emigrants from Slovakia rose constantly, and prior to Wo...

In this paper, the author is analysing economic, particularly agricultural development of the eastern Croatia, Slavonia, during 18th century. The changes in production werecaused by changes in reign, i.e. Turks are leaving this area and Austrian rule takes over. Since this is the time of Enlightenment reforms, enforced especially under Maria Theresa, radical changes happen in Slavonia, particularly in economic area. These changes were noticeable in both parts of Slavonia, military as well as civilian. One proof of...

The author analyzes the process of formation and development of research in the field of cybernetics. The 1950-1960s became a flourishing era for computer technology and the highest achievements in the scientific field of cybernetics in the USSR. Siberian Physical-Technical Institute (SPhTI) at Tomsk State University (TSU) became the Center of the formation and development of research in the field of cybernetics in the 1950s. in the east of the USSR . In the early 1950s at the department of radiophysics of TSU the...

If during King Carol I`s reign the foreign policy was, by tradition, a domain managed exclusively bythe King, after Carol I`s death, this part of politics was transferred to the political parties. In this sense, the implication of the Royal House tends to be secondary. In spite of all this, the changes which were made, between the germanophile vision and the ententophilevision, put Romania in a better position at the Peace Conference. The English origins of Queen Mary proved to be salutary for the Great Romania. N...

The concept of legitimacy belongs to our common set of notions which are frequently encountered in numerous studies of political ideology and power. Still, we believe that it needs to be better circumscribed and defined. Legitimacy seems to refer to the legal, official and recognized rules to which circumscribes each attribute of the political power. The hierarchical, arbitrary character of the power relations may be hidden and even denied by their presentation as being legitimate. Our hypothesis is that far from ...

Background: The article is based on the archival materials of Tomsk and Novosibirsk region, Russia. The goal of the paper is to estimate the development of publishing in Novosibirsk and Tomsk regions during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). The novelty of the paper is in the estimation of the opportunities of periodicals to provide consolidating social mobilization under critical historical conditions. Methods: While writing this paper the following methods were used: A method of historical periodization, syste...

In USSR mass collectivization was a unique form of annihilation of individual peasantry as a class. During the initial period of the mass collectivization there had been a significant decrease in output of agricultural goods. Recovery of the country's agriculture was observed only from the middle of the 1930th years. The specified tendencies were characteristic and for the Vyatka region which territory, according to new administrative-territorial division, was a part of the Nizhny Novgorod (Gorky) region till Dece...

The 19-20th century period witnessed active migrations between populations in many countries. Internal migrations were determined by specific political, economic, social and cultural development of the states. Those were particularly active in multinational empires. Migration specificity in the Russian Empire was that they had both compulsory and voluntary nature. They directly affected the ethnic composition of regions. This article will focus on the correlation between voluntary and compulsory migrations in the ...