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The teaching assistant has been used very often in the Czech education system in recent years, and we find his presence in almost all types of schools. In the future, we can expect an ever-increasing quality and quantity of these workers. The teaching assistant meets in his practice and will very likely continue to meet with social and health tasks. According to current legislation in the Czech Republic, acts of a social nature are part of the profession of teaching assistant. However, we can still (not very rarel...

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is one of the most promising current design methods and plays a vital role in visualising the architectural process from the early de-sign phase up to the use of the buildings. However, there is a large gap in research on the evolutionary steps of architectural visualization from the outstanding discoveries of the Renaissance up to digital building information model we use nowadays. Particularly in response to the question: Which fundamental developments in architectural visual...

Historical, architectural, and environmental values preserving specific atmospheres of the cities enhance the sense of cultural continuity and diversity over time, being resources of identity, inspiration, and hope. As the patrimony becomes active in the public consciousness, it enhances the citizens’ sense of identity and functions as a psychological anchor over time, connecting generations around common values and roots. The current paper describes the results and impact of the activities for children and yout...

Background: Being effective is very important for any organisation. With a given number of inputs, more efficient companies can create more outputs than less efficient ones leading to better use of resources. Improving efficiency increases firm competitiveness. This paper focuses on the link between the firm’s economic efficiency and firm size. Only a few studies are examining this relationship, and the authors of this article revealed no study investigating this link on data of the Czech companies. Methods: Dat...

Nowadays music has become an inseparable element of modern audiomarketing strategies. It is intentionally introduced into commercial spaces to influence consumer behaviour by triggering appropriate physiological, affective and cognitive responses. In order to determine the possible selected dependencies, experimental studies were carried out in natural conditions in one of the chain clothing stores located in a shopping mall in Warsaw, where an audiomarketing strategy is implemented on a daily basis. Three situati...

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...

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...

The article deals with the impact of advertising communication on the consumers' mind. The article presents the results of a study focused on the features of constructing the image of the family in advertising. Advertising has a strong impact on large seg

The objective of the paper was to present the perception of teachers in schools for pupils with disability concerning the pandemic, the requirements of the educational process as well as the impact on pupils’ families. The research is an observational-descriptive cross-sectional study. Given the nature of the study, there was no need to establish and include a control group. The design of the study was selected in order to obtain research data as soon as possible given the topicality of the social and educationa...

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

The subject of the study is the identification of psychosocial factors and the needs of seniors with cognitive impairment in a situation of persistent pandemic Covid 19. The theoretical basis is the clinical aspects of the target group and the conceptual approach to social health. The paper specifically describes the partial results of a part of longitudinal research, continuously implemented since 2013 within specialized research projects for universities at the Institute of Special Education Studies, Faculty of ...

The purpose of this paper is to present the role of education in the professionalization of public administration, based on which the hypothesis was set that ethics education increases the professionalization of public administration. The methodology used in the paper to verify the hypothesis includes scientific methods of deduction and induction, methods of analysis and synthesis, and mathematical-statistical methods in the processing and presentation of the research results. Special emphasis is placed on the cas...

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...

The subject of the research is legal relationships arising due to the testator’s right of establishing heir’s non-property obligations in the inheritance contract. Current issues of interpretation and implementation of legal provisions on the inheritance

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)

A postage stamp is a security that goes down in history. The stamp we are presenting was designed and issued in Croatia, EU, on 24 September 2021, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Otorhinolaryngology Clinic in Croatia. This stamp contains new values through IRD, and that is exactly what we show and offer to philatelists. The stamp "100 years of otorhinolaryngology" has artistic beauty and scientific innovation in the development of twin colorants. In the visual solution of the stamp are embedded hid...

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’ di...

The most prominent period of Hungarian history in arts and science was during the reign of King Matthias (1443-1490). His humanist upbringing, his education and his political successes made him a renowned ruler of his time. In parallel with the emergence of Italian early Renaissance gardens, royal and ecclesiastical gardens were established in the Kingdom of Hungary. The numerous links well characterise and explain the affinity between early Renaissance gardens in Italy and Hungary. Alongside the king's bountiful ...

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...

This paper aims to explore the theme of the design representation of the resilient city through the critical reinterpretation of planning and design experiences of urban space, developed nationally and internationally, which are significant in terms of both mitigation and adaptation. In particular, we focused our attention on the themes of drawing and representation, looking for answers to questions such as: What is the role of drawing in the descriptive narrative of resilience? What are the tools of design for re...

Sometimes readily accepted as a minimalist and associated with other musicians of his generation, Philipp Glass or Steve Reich, and other times considered an oriented composer who adapts his creative vision to the current socio-political or cultural context and melts in his synthetic creations a multitude of styles, genres and musics, John Adams is indeed the image of the successful contemporary American artist. Not only did he feel constantly challenged to compose scores in all genres, but he combined with overfl...

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...

The author's individual style as a multilevel and multidimensional manifestation of personality is an integral part of the study of modern linguistics and cognitive linguistics. Modern linguistics text aims to move from the study of integrated textual structure to the analysis of the text as an anthropocentric communicative system aimed at the personal linguistic qualities of each author in connection with his psychological, mental, socio-cultural, and cognitive features. We define the author's style and reflectio...

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...

The concept of electronic, or ’born-digital‘ literature points to literary works that rely on digital media, which form an indispensable part of the aesthetic experience. The concept is only beginning to gain traction in literary studies, and as such, it still represents a relatively obscure part of it. Given that we are poised to rely more and more on digital media in the future, the concept is likely to remain relevant. Nevertheless, as it stands now, the different forms of interaction between electronic and...

European theatre was born in the 6th century BC in Athens. Since then, the theatre art continually develops new concepts, forms and styles but keeps looking for a kind, understanding, dedicated audience. In the era of modern technologies, it develops fast

At a time when European academic music, as well as long-established jazz on the continent, were in the advanced stages of experimenting with avant-garde languages (integral serialism, Musique concrete, electronic music, mathematical organization, stochastic music, aleatoricism, minimalism etc., respectively free jazz, cool), the Romanian musical culture had come under the influence of a totalitarian ideology, which imposed aesthetic guidelines centered on the principle of accessibility, thus preventing the alignme...

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 C...

The article deals with the issue of multimodality and its impact into innovative perspective of transdisciplinary social semiotic research. We are aimed at the identification of new features of multimodality resulted from creative modification of familiar

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...

Learning and teaching foreign languages at all ages has played a very important role in people's lives. For centuries, different methods have been used to learn and teach languages, always with the tools available at that time, in school settings or even during private lessons. In the twenty-first century, with the spread and popularity of the Internet, digital language learning broke into a virtual learning environment. Learning more foreign languages has become increasingly important. Learning materials can be e...

This study aimed to investigate the flipped and traditional classroom approaches to improve undergraduates' professional presentation skills in English language courses. The presentation skills in English in line with current operating technology, online learning and student-centred tailor-made flipped approach is not just the task of the academic world but a high-demand request of the global labour market. The Covid-19 shift has asked for online, more active student-centred education that can represent flipped cl...

The article deals with revealing particular linguistic and stylistic means used in public relations (PR) campaigns to promote food brands, which make them successful. The methodology chosen for the present research including surveys of the existing studie

The general rationale of this article applies to the interest in the visualisation of the historical heritage during the Empire period in France, the trends of retrospectiveism in contemporary art and design, and the need to explore the phenomenon of 'grand style', the idea of which is emerging today in art salons around the world more often. The year 2021 marks the 200th anniversary of the Emperor's death. In this respect, women's costume of the beginning of the XIX century in France is still a relevant research ...

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

The article deals with the problem of the necessity to support families by the government. The main points of the Concept of Government Family Policy of the Russian Federation up to 2025 are described: the position and importance of the family institution

Although the book: The Renaissance Englishwoman in Print. Counterbalancing the canon. Haselkorn and Travitsky, eds., University of Massachusetts Press, 31 January 1990, appeared/was published in the 90В’s through its seventeen (17) essays on women as writers or/and as objects of representation in the English Renaissance, it presents and analyses the ways women were treated in the traditional canon and in the writings - interpretation(s) of these writings. The book is divided in five (5) parts (the outspoken woman,...

The first linguistic congress to discuss the future of the Turkish language was held in Ankara, in 1932. This congress concluded the emergency and the necessity of starting a comprehensive language reform that is referred as a “language revolution” in Turkish. Among others, one of the aims of this revolution was to purify the language by replacing the Arabic and the Persian words with Turkic words. This institutionalized, top-down revolution resulted in the politization of the Turkish language. Since the very ...

There is a growing body of literature evidencing the link between studentsВ’ fixed intelligence mindset and different mental health indicators (i.e., negative emotions) [1] however, little is known about the nature of this relationship. DweckВ’s theory emphasizes that mindsets exert their greatest effect on behavior and emotions when self-threat is imminent [2], suggesting that self-evaluations might also be implicated in conveying mindsetsВ’ effect. Thus, the present study (N = 276) proposed to investigate two se...

Recent research with regard to the ecological approach has managed to model the concept of affordances in relation with higher cognition in order for it to be accommodated by the embodied/enactive approach as part of the “4E cognition” theory. While trying to understand the cognitive effect literature has, we treat the Slovak novel The Wicker Chairs as a case study. We apply the theory of affordances to literature. We show that engaging selectively with multiple affordances results in mapping relations of inte...

In this paper we aim to analyze the degree of concentration of the Romanian Gas Sector, taking into account the picture at national level, both regulated and competitive markets. Based on the available information, certain data analysis is made taking into account both the market shares of the enterprises in the sector and the number of active competitors, turnover or output, while the economic approach was tailored to availability of the data for each market. The Natural Gas Sector has been analyzed in terms of m...

In this paper, we will investigate the content of WoS within the interdisciplinary field of health information. Purpose of the paper: Analyse Web of Science (WoS) by searching for “Health information”, with the following WoS categories: Information Science, Library Science, Ethics, Education and Biomedical Engineering. We found 1425 results. Data were retrieved and analysed using VOS Viewer. 34 countries collaborate in 9 clusters. We created maps over collaboration, co-authoring, and most used descriptors. Our...

The article is devoted to the application of the auto-hypno-ideomotor system (AHIM) for training shooters-students with hearing impairment. The purpose of the study is to test the proposed method of using the AHIM system in the training and competition process of shooters-students with hearing impairment. The object of research is the training and competition process of shooters-students with hearing impairment. The subject of the research is related to the study and application of the AHIM system for shooting stu...

The paper presents the experimental data obtained on two groups of students, one control, in two normal classrooms and respectively in the gym, outdoors and another in the same type of rooms, but with a halochamber regime, differentiated on the two gender and age, including children born in 2006 and 2007, at the age with the highest growth rate. The primary data obtained were recorded in a tabular system, followed by their processing and graphical representation of the evolution over time of functional characteris...

In the service industry, regardless of the market sector, the quality of service is of paramount importance. Museum staff members interact with visitors and influence their perception of the service. However, communication and customer relationship management are not the only factors; museum visitors are also influenced by a museumВ’s atmosphere. Hence, the reoccurring visits of a museum visitor varies depending on these factors. This research is exploratory in nature and aims to identify the most important parame...

The main aim of the authors of this paper is a synthetic presentation of the assumptions of modern security science called “securitology”, widely promoted by security researchers in Poland. The authors borrow, reproduce and adapt their categories, which at the same time try to make them more specific with regard to the basic problem, which is security related to such care, control and supervision, as well as management, which allow for the persistence, survival, development and improvement of any system. This ...

Omeka is an application that allows publishing digital collections. Dublin Core vocabulary is structured based on an abstract model. Understanding these elements lead to a good description of digital collection and it is possible to organise digital exhibitions. Students from Digital Media specialization at the Transilvania University of Bra?ov, Romania, attended the course Management of Digital Repository. During this course, the students had to make a digital exhibition using OMEKA software. At the end of the co...

The effects of COVID-19 are currently pushing many economies into recession, affecting almost all countries and many billions of people worldwide. In order to recover from the economic downturn caused by COVID-19 and to promote regional development in Latvia, business lending plays an important role in our days. At present, the total amount of loans issued by credit institutions in Latvia has decreased compared to the previous analogue period, and according to statistics from the Finance and Capital Market Commiss...

For almost one hundred years, the treasury of the Cathedral of St. Elizabeth in Kosice (Slovakia) has contained a fragment of a richly embroidered Byzantine epitrachil used as a decoration on a newer chasuble. Although it was presented in 1937 at the Prague exhibition В‘Old Art in SlovakiaВ’, no precise, in-depth research had yet been conducted on this object. The character of the artifact required an interdisciplinary approach, which comprised archival, art-historical and restoration research. The latter included...

Plantar pressure it is frequently used to evaluate the pathologies of the foot with clinical and research application and less used for methodological issues in areas such as sports medicine. The purpose of this study was to assess the plantar pressure in young athletes by using a RSSCAN pressure plate for identification of reference normative data. Foot complaints and history of trauma, surgery, or other pathologies possible were assessed by a questionnaire and a clinical evaluation was performed for identificati...