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Financial models for assessing the economic stability of an enterprise are typical by being created on empirical economic data. The test and verification samples on which they were designed contain the accounting information of selected businesses. This accounting information has been recorded, aggregated and consolidated in accordance with the accounting standards that an entity uses as a result of local legislation requirements or voluntarily. The purpose of bankruptcy models is, on the basis of accounting infor...

Traffic accidents and their elimination are a very current topic in today's century. Besides the human factor, design elements in the area of the roads are also affected by this problem. The article deals with the analysis of design elements in the vicinity of the roads and their impact on the occurrence of traffic accidents. Design elements, especially elements of the transport infrastructure - materials and surface, trees and vegetation, outdoor lighting, street furniture, objects and facilities for services, ob...

Education of young people through a quality education system and in line with the requirements of the time is the main goal for each country, especially for developing countries. In the case of Kosovo characterized by the young population and at the same time with a low degree of development economy, the creation of a quality education system should be a top priority. The theoretical part of the paper deals with the advantages and weaknesses of the public and private system in secondary schools as well as the opin...

Objectives: In modern conditions, almost all countries of the world and Russia are characterized by ecological problems related to environmental pollution by the industrial sector. Industry is the main pollutant of atmospheric air. People living in large industrial cities have to breathe the air oversaturated with harmful and toxic substances which are released into the atmosphere by industrial enterprises. At that, the scale of pollution depends on the size of the enterprise and the consumed raw materials. Thus, ...

The article focuses on the impact of underground brown coal and lignite mining and landslides on land use. The study area is represented by the HandlovГЎ town and municipality of Cige? (Western Slovakia) which are well-known in Slovakia for subsurface mining of brown coal and lignite. Furthermore, the study area is susceptible to landslides. The first mention about brown coal surface mining is from the year 1772 (HandlovГЎ) and the year 1784 (Cige?) although industrial coal mining began in 1909. At present, active...

Speech, language and music have much in common. Training in listening affects the perception and recognition of speech and language prosodic properties. Prosodic features of the second language learnt can be very well implemented through music. There are numerous ways in which music can be integrated in the process of the second language teaching. The presented study investigated the issue of the impact of music in the process of teaching the second language to learners of different age levels in the Czech Republi...

Performance assessments and performance management in public institutions is an issue that raises the needs for the serious approach toward increase of quality in the service access from citizens and costumers in those institutions. Manny researches and studies have been done, most of them focusing on management evaluations but also on the causes that have sparked the need for change, but little attention is paid to the performance assessment as well to resources that affect the changes. Therefore this research ai...

Introduction: The SES status belongs to the most important health determinants in developed countries. Individual susceptibility for acute respiratory diseases is influenced by many factors: age, nutrition, presence of disease, genetic determination, global health status. Children are a focus points in the health protection considering possibilities of early organs and functions impairment. Material and methods. Cross-sectional study of respiratory health included parents questionnaires collected data about socio-...

Background. This study is aimed to scrutinize the interrelation between satisfaction and concern with own appearance and subjective estimation of economic status that is considered as one of main predictors of life satisfaction. Resent research analyzes predominantly the role of real economic status on different aspects of human life including satisfaction and concern with own appearance [1], [3], [4], [6]. In contrast to mentioned studies our investigation is focused on subjective-comparative approach to economic...

The process of digitization is increasing its pace, which seems to outmatch the human capabilities of evolutionary adaptation to ongoing changes [1]. The 21st century makes it necessary to use new technologies during management- and production-related processes, as well as in ones involving finance and accountancy. The development of digital economy, automation of processes, digital financial services and a widespread access and transfer of financial and non-financial data enforces development of digital competenc...

The main purpose of this study is to describe and analyze the overall level of motivation of workers of hotel enterprises in the Ferizaj Region in the Republic of Kosovo and to measure the relationship that exists between motivation and quality of service. Part of the study was 467 employees of hotel enterprises, of which 36.6% (n = 171) were women and 63.4% (n = 296) were males. The analytical data analysis was done through the SPSS program. From the findings of this study it has been found that the employees of ...

The paper discusses the adverse acoustic phenomena occurring in the semi-open interi-ors (courtyards, yards) covered with a glass roof. Particularly negative is the reverbera-tion noise, which leads to the degradation of the utility functions of the resulting spaces. It involves the drastically reducing the intelligibility of speech, loss of natural sounding of music, problems with the sound system, as well as disturbances in the voice alarm system operation. The work refers to historic interiors, where preservati...

The aim of this contribution is to analyze the state of implementation of EU structural funds, the amount of funds allocated and the number of successful projects for individual operational programs in the programming period 2007 - 2013 in the Slovak Republic. Structural policy and structural funds as a tool are by their very nature directly aimed at reducing disparities between regions and reducing the disadvantaged regions or regions of the Member States. Basics and fundamentals of regional policy and structural...

The article deals with the process of applying heuristic methods of training in vocational education. For this purpose, the main features of heuristic technology were identified. It is noted that the student's work acquires efficiency in his ability to evaluate his actions, bring the solution to the end, while noting the importance of flexibility in thinking, the ability to update and organize information in the task at hand. The definitions of the concepts "heuristic rules", "heuristic task" are distinguished. Th...

The present paper deals with marketing of educational services, while the focus is on the factors of designing and providing these services. The authorsВ’ intention is to present partial outcomes from the research project KEGA ?. 014EU-4/2016. One of the issues explored in this project is also the analysing educational services and identifying efficient multi-professional and interdisciplinary approach to the provision of these services. The issue is discussed in three chapters, while the first two parts introduce...

The features of state utopia implementation are analyzed on the basis of Soviet socialism conceptions. The transformation of social-economic and philosophical-political foundations of state is disclosed through the phenomena of property and freedom. The research is based on systemic, comparative-historical and statistical approaches. The research objective is to study the interrelation between the socioeconomic and the political-visionary spheres of functioning of the first socialist state, and to reveal the cause...

The paper presents the results of a comparative study on a frequency of the representation and implementation of teaching a cultural heritage content outside classroom on an elementary level in Slovene and Croatian primary schools. Learning cultural heritage content should derive from the studentsВ’ personal proximity which enables them to learn and experience cultural heritage more easily. Didactic recommendations for teaching cultural heritage content in school subjects Environmental studies and Social studies i...

Immersion in a language environment is a method developed to teach people in a second language that assumes that the language being studied is used just for educational purposes. Immersion education is not only suitable for most students but may also be the only opportunity for some students to learn a foreign language. In some cases, when a student lags behind in development and cognitively, termination of an immersion program is beneficial to the student. Deciding which way one or another student should go is up...

This article aims to identify and evaluate Polish achievements in implementing sustainable development in the context of Goal 12 of the 2030 Agenda, that is, creating patterns of sustainable consumption and production. The current set of synthetic substantive and complementary indicators, established by the UNO, were used to measure the progress of this implementation. The research period covers the period 2010–2016. The authors analyzed legal acts, institutional reports, statistical data, dynamics and ratio ana...

The article considers the issues of import substitution in the agricultural sector of the Russian economy. The import substitution has a positive effect on the economy of the state, promotes the economic independence from other countries in the world arena and is profitable for the state. To prevent a shortage of certain products on Russian market it is necessary to develop and implement a proper import substitution policy. The import substitution in agricultural sector of Russia will also contribute to the constr...

Down syndrome (DS) and intellectual disabilities (ID) persons from Romania need to have leisure activities (LT) that can be a good modality to integrate them into the society. Also it can be a physical activity form that can take many enjoying form. Objectives. The purpose was to characterise the LT activities of persons with SD from Romania. Methods of research. The article brings into the attention the leisure time activities that can be the expression of being physically active of SD and ID, what kind of activi...

The aim of the study was to identify, which psychological constructs predict career decidedness of students. Survey sample consisted of 74 Slovak grammar school students (Mage = 16,51; SDage = 0,61, 63,5 % women and 36,5 % men). The analysis derives from previous research, which identified the most important predictors of career decidedness. These constructs are defined by Theory of Cognitive Information Processing. The following questionnaires were used: The Career Decidedness Scale (Lounsbury, 2011), The Career ...

The training of junior football players involves a specific methodology that will include in its planning the mental - psychological factor. It has been found very often that what makes the difference in winning a match is the character, the motivation to participate and the intelligence as the basic components of the athlete's personality. That is why we wanted to highlight a practical way of doing psychological training, integrated into the usual training, which is a model for all coaches working with older juni...

The management of commercial companies pays attention to the financial side of the company, but an increase can be observed in the number of organisations which highlight the key values of the organisation, employee satisfaction, values, as there is a link between the organisational culture and the competitiveness of the company. One of the phenomena of the culture of an organisation is that such culture cannot be directly borrowed from other organisations or replicated because it is built up by certain groups of ...

The implementation of the Russian professional standard for teachers has determined the topicality of the study. The main aim of this research is the improvement of English language teachersВ’ professional competence within the system of training courses on EL methodology. During the research the theoretical, empirical, diagnostic methods were used. Theoretical methods included the analysis of the problem and the subject of research, systematic and logical analysis, a holistic approach to the study of pedagogical ...

This article is devoted to the actual problem of forming a system of independent evaluation and self-assessment of basic and professional competences in mathematics (with the mastery of programs of secondary general education and vocational education) on the basis of fuzzy modeling in the digital economy. The methodological basis for solving this problem was a synergetic approach. In the context of improving the methods of pedagogical diagnostics, this approach determines the interrelation between the diagnostic a...

The personnel recruitment system is one of the key mechanisms in the work of the personnel management department. The personnel department is responsible for the attraction and selection of individuals with the required working skills. Problems in the researched organisation are inadequacy of employees in a stressful environment and oftentimes unsuccessful personnel recruitment processes. Str?ss is among the key factors which influence the job efficiency of the personnel in the researched organisation. Some employ...

An inalienable content of a state of law, which is Latvia, is the protection and enforcement of rights and legitimate interests of the individual, especially in relation to enforcement of rights of persons, involved in criminal procedure. Freedom of the individual, his/her rights and guarantees are increasing and it is also a characteristic of the criminal procedure. Latvia is a full member of the European Union. To issues of enforcement of human rights are paid special attention and attempts are made to change ra...

Since the political changes supported in December 1989, the Romanian social protection system had underwent through various stages of evolution, development and restructuring. During the same time, sets of laws, that supported the reform of the system, and minimum quality standards were set up to ensure that services were provided, indifferent of the nature of the supplier - public or private - with the same quality. However, aside from the prerequisites that need to be fulfilled by the contractor in order to be a...

Introduction: The issue of the social integration of young people and the role of physical education in this integration process was debated by the international authorities in Strasbourg in the Council of Europe, UNESCO and the International Committee for Physical Education and Sport.A component of the educational approach, sport contains essential values of life in the community,favoring group integration by assimilating these values by citizens:respect for others, to the law (rules, regulations), discipline (se...

In modern times, the choice or creation of a well-developed labor management system creates an efficient process of enterprise activity in all areas of this field of study. In the design of the labor process and the practical implementation of measures for the organization of labor in modern conditions, the methodical basis is the following series of the most important principles: - a systematic approach to solving problems of labor organization; - planning, providing for the planning of the quantitative and quali...

The article discusses the issue of improving the quality of life of the population in the Russian regions. It presents an approach to the management of the region in the form of optimization problems aimed at improving the quality of life of the population in the region by increasing the probability of referring it to the class of regions with a higher quality of life. The optimization problem is solved based on identified relationship between the quality of life of the population and socio-economic indicators of ...

With different disciplines of culture, art and science increasingly merging, transdisciplinary approach to phenomena and works of art seems nowadays to be not only a matter of fashion but a necessity. Overlapping of scientific areas in certain points of interest provides for new research fields and forms. Therefore, an act of creation may be viewed as an idea prompted by an impulse, although defining what a creative impulse actually represents (a physiological phenomenon, a chemical reaction, a philosophical thoug...

Designing ships is no mean achievement. In the old days, constructors focused on making their ships visually appealing, while paying scant regard to the living conditions of the crew. Such an approach reflected the state of the art in ship building at the time as well as the social order prevalent in those days. A breakthrough came no earlier than at the turn of the 19th / 20th centuries. The industrial revolution brought along advances in technology and contributed to greater social awareness. The living conditio...

In modern times, paying taxes is deemed an indisputable fact. However, the development of the fiscal state has not abolished disputes over taxation nature and its fairness. While it is generally agreed that taxes should be paid, there is still an issue regarding how high tax rates should be. The key issue is to determine the critical shifting point for taxation targets: from settling public expenditures to confiscation of an individualВ’s property and, potentially, the punitive role of tax. The problem should be a...

The Joint Rescue System (JRS) in the Czech Republic consists of primary and other components. Primary components include the Fire Rescue System, the Police, and the Medical Emergency Service. It is essential for both the core and the other components to co-operate together. For these purposes, the tactical exercises of the JRS components serve. Crisis managers, in their joint work, require effective interactive communication to address the crisis. It is therefore essential that they have managerial and communicati...

Today, environmental education is a priority issue in predicting the ethical attitude to the environment to prevent its further degradation. The Southern Urals is a unique region of the Russian Federation; there are more than 15 thousand industrial facilities polluting the environment of the region. Negative trends in the region contribute to a deterioration of quality of life. The aim of this article is the development of a regional environmental aspect in education focused on the formation of an environmental cu...

New knowledge and innovations have been developing as a resource of economic stability and growth in recent years. That is why territories become more dependent on the level of new knowledge and innovations. In view of the specified current trends of world economy development, which initiate generation functioning of a new type on the basis of the network concept, it is necessary to consider features of interaction of regional economy subjects in the context of cluster and network collaboration, as well as the con...

New knowledge and innovations have been developing as a resource of economic stability and growth in recent years. That is why territories become more dependent on the level of new knowledge and innovations. In view of the specified current trends of world economy development, which initiate generation functioning of a new type on the basis of the network concept, it is necessary to consider features of interaction of regional economy subjects in the context of cluster and network collaboration, as well as the con...

The author studies in this article influence of digital media on changes in present-day culture. He bases his view on the concept of technological determinism (H. Innis, M. McLuhan, J. Lohisse, L. A. White and others), which says that technology, largely represented by media, changes and determines the main path of evolution in culture. J. Lohisse believes that forms of media (such as spoken word, printed word or the Internet) have a great impact on shaping collective mentality (culture) and organisation of societ...

Pension insurance belongs among the most important areas of social security. In 2004, a new pension system has been introduced in Slovakia. The system before the pension reform was characterized by a great deal of solidarity. Since 2004, the government has tried to place the responsibility of the future income of old-age pensions on workers/inhabitants themselves. Even the last modification of the pension system attests the unpopular and superficial solution of this important topic. There are several options to se...

The paper offers an analysis of the influence of the population ageing on the social insurance company expenditures in the Slovak Republic Regions. The explored dimensions comprise old age economic dependency index and ageing index. The population ageing represents a major issue for the social insurance system in the future. The methodology employed for the carried out analysis is the analysis of sensitivity in a form of the regression analysis for the panel data. The territorial aspect of the regression model is ...

This paper presents an analysis of the influence of the implementation of programs under the European Social Fund on the continuous vocational training market in Romania in the post-accession period, 2007-2018. They mainly focused on continuing vocational training projects to increase human resources adaptation to the changing needs of the labor market and increase employment. After 15 years of formation of an educational market in this area, made up of thousands of private trainers, profound mutants have grown th...

The aim of this paper is to assess the scope of application of the relevant articles of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in relation to individual types of administrative offences provided for in Czech legal regulations, or proceedings in relation to such offences, based on an analysis and comparison of the practice of the European Court of Human Rights and the decision-making and practice of Czech courts. The paper introduction focuses on the legislative developm...

The relevance of the study isconfirmed by the fact thatcurrently, attraction of developed countries concentrated on conformation “knowledge economy”, where degree of economic advance and dynamic depends up efficiency arrangement of production and using knowledge. The aim of this study isdefinition development level ofthe knowledge economy of the country. To achieve this goal the following problems were solved: examine international and native methods definition development level of the knowledge economy of the...

Contrary to the southern Europe the first signs of Renaissance in northern parts of the Holy Roman Empire as well as in Poland and Lithuania might be observed only at the beginning of the 16th century. Initially, they were created by Italian teams which came from Florence, Rome and the region of Como. One of the most recognizable marks of that process was the transfer of the Italian craftsmen and architectural solutions, e.g. the team of Bartolomeo Berreci from Florence who built the SigmundВ’s Chapel in the capit...

Modern information technologies keep changing our world and bringing a new quality to it. A new type of culture has emerged – information culture, which reflects the specifics of social relations in a modern society. The paper raises the issue of information culture formation and its impact on the development of personality in the course of information socialization. The paper analyses possible perspectives and consequences of social interaction of people within information culture at the main stages of formatio...

The new information technologies used in the contemporary conflicts and the overall availability of social nets generates number of usable information for their actors. This new information environment breeds the chance of conducting the sophisticated and targeted operation of disinformation and effective impact on the actors involved as well as regional or global ones. While the information and propaganda dimension is not a completely new phenomenon, technological development has greatly strengthened its importan...

Information processes in the public consciousness attract attention of many philosophers from different philosophical directions. It is generally accepted that a common methodological basis for analysing the substantive content of these information processes has not yet been found. In this article, the author proposes a debatable version of such a methodology, within which it may be possible (maybe quite possible) consistent (without conflict) understanding of the basic content of information processes in the publ...

The relevance of the presented research is determined by the value of written coherent speech for the decision of communicative tasks in society, the place that this speech occupies in school education, the influence of the study of speech capabilities of stu-dents to make managerial educational decisions. The purpose of this study is to charac-terize the subject content of written statements connected pupils eleven to fifteen years. The main approach to achieving this goal is a comparative analysis of one-dimensi...