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This communication presents an evaluation of the design-phase of a pedagogical improvement project for the development of competent skills related with the concrete material in Chilean students of Civil Engineering, Building Engineering and Construction Technician. This is done through the transformation from the modalities teaching in the "chair" and "observation of experiences" to teaching based on the use of active-participatory laboratories. More specifically, a project based on a collaborative and interdiscip...

Our endeavour is based on the search for revealing the realities that happened during the Renaissance period in the Italian city-states, starting from their formation and ending up with the fall of these regimes. The Italian Renaissance is a surprisingly well-defined phenomenon in time and space, impacting not only Italian and European culture and civilization, leaving its strong imprint on an entire world. The Italian Renaissance civilization witnessed socio-economic, administrative-political changes of a complet...

Cultural competence of interpreters (understanding and explaining different cultural settings during interpreting) can be improved by the study of cultural similarities and cultural differences. Nowadays, English is one of the most frequent foreign languages to interpret from/into in Slovakia. That is why we decided to describe manners of communication and summarize significant non-verbal (and marginally verbal) characteristics of the selected English-speaking countries – the United Kingdom, the United States and ...

In recent philosophical research in Ethics and Moral Philosophy, scholars pay a significant amount of attention to the concept of ethical labeling products, especially to the problem of what kind of goods should be mandatory labeled. In their search for a possible criterion for mandatory ethically labeling goods, they mainly have focused on the moral issue of the consumption of products, ethical status of whose is not established in society. In this connection researches neglect the perspective where there is such...

The historical practice of modern colonialism is strongly connected to the entrepreneurial culture of the 19th century. The colonial ideal of the civilizing mission was to be achieved with the help of colonial agents with entrepreneurial spirit whose capitalist enterprises would bring progress and prosperity to the exotic pre-modern cultural spaces of Africa. In this context of optimism with respect to entrepreneurship, capitalism, and colonization, Joseph Conrad’s late Victorian novel, Heart of Darkness, conveys ...

This article addresses the causes of weakness and insufficient knowledge in relation to historiography of some types of the decorative and applied arts what can be shown from the example of ceiling lightning appliances. Bibliography on the lightning appliances as a work of art before the Electrification Epoch is truly scant. There are separate books in world literature devoted to the ceiling lamps, however, they are rather descriptive, and do not have patterns of historical development in them. The author introduc...

The paper discusses the use of idioms in British newspapers focusing particularly on the substitution of components aimed at producing context-specific idiomatic meaning. An idiom is a relatively stable (both grammatically and semantically), cohesive, conventionally fixed string of words with completely or partially figurative meaning, which is not a combination of a verb and an adverbial or prepositional particle and which is not longer than a sentence [1]. An idiom is a relatively stable unit of language because...

Non-verbal elements of communication are part of every interpersonal communication. This also applies to the interpreting process. We can see non-verbal elements mainly in consecutive interpreting, in which the speaker, interpreter and listener form the so-called trichotomy (they are in the same place at the same time. The situation in simultaneous interpreting is different because the interpreter is usually ‘invisible’ in the booth). The subject of this article is the influence of paraverbal system on the quality...

The concept of entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) has emerged in recent years as a framework to understand the nature of places in which entrepreneurial activity flourishes. Spigel (2017) defines entrepreneurial ecosystems as follows: ‘combinations of social, political, economic, and cultural elements within a region that support the development and growth of innovative start-ups and encourage nascent entrepreneurs and other actors to take the risks of starting, funding, and otherwise assisting high-risk ventures. I...

The article substantiates the necessity and possibility of implementing the principle of personalization in education, in particular, in higher education. The approaches to the definition of this phenomenon are analyzed from the standpoint of philosophy, sociology, marketing, and pedagogy. One of the current challenges is the gap between educational outcomes and employers' demands. Therefore, it becomes important to build individual educational paths that will maximally prepare graduates for a specific job. It is ...

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 res...

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...

Introduction: Postpartum period is a period of risk for the development of mood disorders, including postpartum depression. The onset and persistence of postpartum distress and depressive symptoms may be influenced by several obstetric and psychosocial factors. A body of research studies has shown an association between quality and satisfaction with the partner support and postpartum depression. Aim of this study was to examine relationship between selected obstetric (e.g. type of labour, complications during labo...

There are many remnants of ancient stone buildings remaining in Estonia, however most well-known monuments are related to the Bronze Age or later periods. Similarly, the sites identified so far as ancient places of worship are the places and areas mentioned in different beliefs and associated with different cults forgotten in the recent past. At the same time, there are a number of unusual rock piles in the landscape of Northern Estonia that have been excluded from agricultural land development already in ancient ...

This work was supported by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science under the National Research Programme "Healthy Foods for a Strong Bio-Economy and Quality of Life" approved by DCM # 577 / 17.08.2018". Wine has been produced in Bulgaria for about 5000 years. The first wines were transported to our region from the Middle East. During the Thracian times wine was a part of daily life and pagan rituals in our territory. Organic production has existed since the 1980s. It develops in almost all countries in Wes...

Thanks to the development, wide distribution and cheapness of the Internet, people began to resort more and more often to new forms of project development, its production, as well as financing. The Internet environment, due to its free conditions, significantly influenced the attitude of start-up companies and entrepreneurs to attracting capital. Basically, crowdfunding is used in North America and Europe. The popularity of using such funding raises topical research questions: is crowd-funding able to replace exis...

It is estimated that around 15% of children aged 3 to 17 have some sort of developmental disabilities, while less than 50% of children with disabilities are recognized by paediatricians before entering the primary school. Screening plays a significant role in the recognition of those children, providing the ground for early intervention and support for families. Ages and stages-3 Questionnaire (ASQ-3), as the most used screening tool for children aged 2 months to 66 months, was recently translated in the Croatian ...

In connection with the spread of COVID-19 and the consequences it caused, the Slovak Republic has adopted several laws in various legal areas. One of them is the law, which has significantly affected the basic institutes of civil law. As the most important consequence can be considered the interference with the running of time limits, both substantive and procedural ones. In the case of substantive time limits (both standard limitation periods and extinctive limitation periods), a temporary suspension of these tim...

Joint education of pupils with special educational needs in mainstream education by means of support measures has been in place for some time in the Czech Republic. For quite a long time, these pupils have been educated in mainstream schools in the catchment area. However, Act No. 82/2015 Coll., which amends the Act on pre-school, elementary, secondary, higher vocational and other education (Education Act) and Decree No. 27/2016 Coll., on education of pupils with special educational needs and talented pupils (Amen...

The paper focuses on the issue of training and education of children in the field of traffic safety. The topic of education in traffic safety for children is important from the point of view of protecting the life and health of both children and other road users. The main goal of the thesis is to find out under which system children are educated in primary schools in the Czech Republic in the field of traffic safety. The secondary goal of this work is to characterize documents and basic approaches in the field of ...

The paper focuses on humour, the phenomenon that has many forms of manifestation and whose level of comicality depends on a particular culture. Czech culture is quite well-known for its sound representation in this area, and this will form a certain background allowing a better understanding of the target text. The main objective of the paper dwells in the application of actual theories of humour, especially S. Attardo's and V. Raskin's, into its identification and explanation in the contemporary Czech novel serie...

Background: The study of vitamin D and the interest in its actions are growing exponentially given its broad implications in pathology. Vitamin D assessment and treatment are controversial topics that result in heterogeneous, partially contradictory opinions and recommendations. The aim of the study was to quantify the level of vitamin D among patients with autoimmune thyroid diseases through a questionnaire applied to residents of Dobrogea, perimarine area of Romania. Methods: The questionnaire included variables...

From ancient times, the poly-vocal singing, as one of the manifestations of music production in various forms, has been accompanying the life of the Slovak people. It has become a part of the Slovak musical culture and of the national cultural heritage as well. Despite its long tradition, it is currently slowly disappearing from daily life in our families. Therefore, it is important that we ensure the conditions for its preservation and development, by supporting a singing culture in Slovak schools. Our long-term ...

Aim: Aim of this study was to examine the association between the occurrence of postpartum depressive symptoms and the characteristics associated with the infant sleep. Method: Participants for a web-based study were recruited from two hospital birth centers in Slovakia, the convenient sampling method was used. Together 204 women 6-8 weeks postpartum filled out an online questionnaire (mean age 30.9±4.8, age range: 20-44; 78.9% vaginal births; 56.9% primiparas). Slovak version of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression...

The aim of this study is to assess the determinants of the Romanian services import and export flows between 2005 and 2017. An augmented gravity model and a panel approach were used. The data were collected from World Bank and International Trade Center databases and the EViews 10 was used for regression. The main findings are: the GDP of the partner country, sharing a common language and EU membership positively influence the services import flows, while the geographical distance between countries proved to have ...

The article deals with the study of ethnography in the scope of the linguistic landscape analysis. In the modern world of superdiversity and globalization people are surrounded by multiple linguistic tokens which are usually encoded. Any single sign in the public area becomes substantial research material that we can analyse in order to observe the interaction between linguistic and societal processes. According to Landry and Bourhis (1997), language use in the public sphere can show how various factors of ethnic,...

In the last decades linguocultural sciences, cognitive linguistics (concept), anthropocentric paradigm, such young branches of linguistics has led to the identification of ethnos and national culture by language. The role and place of the "woman-mother" in the fate of modern Kazakh language, as well as in the past, is very important. However, in the national outlook of the Kazakh people, the image of a woman in the Kazakh culture was not fully resolved. In this connection, it is important to prove that the concept...

Any period of a developed society, of comfort, multiplication and lack of worries prefaces a moral decay and the extinction of the species. This is one of the conclusions of the Calhoun experiment or Universe 25. The experiment carried out between 1950 and 1970 is an extraordinary discovery on which, many scenarios having as subject the emergence and disappearance of civilizations over the years can be built, but before it is a scientific discovery, it remains, above all, a gloomy prediction about to become realit...

In Latvia, as in the other Baltic States, the rate of compulsory state social insurance contributions (SSIAI) for employee insurance is divided between the employer and the employee, with merely the proportion of the distribution differing. Self-employed persons, on the other hand, pay contributions for themselves in full amount, but the types of insurance and the procedure for calculating contributions differ in all three countries. Consequently, the level of social security of the self-employed also differs. The...

The paper focuses on sexuality in a male with Down syndrome from the perspective of his mother. The main objective of the survey was to reveal specific experiences with maturing, and the development and manifestations of sexuality in an individual with intellectual disability as perceived by his parent. Part of the survey was to identify whether and how the mother communicated with her son with intellectual disability about the issue of sexuality and his needs, how she perceived her son’s sexuality manifestations,...

Green public procurement has become, in recent years, a more often central topic to the attention of authorities, public and private sector. Green public procurement is a way to achieve the global goals of sustainable development - protecting the environment, encouraging innovation and clean technologies, inducing responsible production and consumption. Although in Romania the development of the Green public procurement is still in early stage (20% of the country's GDP), the law on green public procurement is an i...

Foreign direct investments (FDIs) are a very important part of our society. They create links and facilitate the transfer of technology and know-how between economies. However, the influences and effects of foreign direct investments on the recipient country are difficult to predict, depending on the characteristics of FDI flows and the concrete economic, social and political conditions in the host country. FDIs in the border area, in this case western border of Romania, have some particular features because of th...

Solution focused approach to problem-solving means creating a solution instead of solving the problem. What is the difference? It logically separates the solution from the problem. It is deeply counterintuitive because in our culture problem seems to be closely related to the solution. This is why we analyze the problem thoroughly in order to find an optimal solution: we scrutinize the situation, create a plan, look for resources, carry out the plan (create the solution), and then monitor the result. It is a very ...

The need to improve educational organizations has exceeded the limit of experimental knowledge and perceptible reality, the knowledge transcends, through a conceptual shift, the reordering of other areas of impact, with major importance in society. Ensuring a clear vision of educational organizations has become a chronic disease that affects the effectiveness of education in the 21st century and safety and stability are now acute diseases that inhibit creativity and new thinking. In order to achieve its objectives...

The purpose of the presented research was to analyse conversational exchanges between the speakers (protagonists) in a novel. The main objective was to revisit the conception of interpersonal rhetoric [9], illustrate its explanatory value and reveal particular practices of speakers that point to their specific communicative intentions and ambitions. The method used can be best described as pragmatic analysis designed within the analytical toolkit of interpersonal rhetoric. This method enabled the exploration of sp...

Our study forms part of a wider project seeking to cover a void within interdisciplinary research in drama studies: its focus is specifically the study of the history of visual arts and the Italian theatre of the Renaissance in juxtaposition with the ancient Greek theatre. Our study proceeds on the basis of an attentive engagement with comparative evidence as regards the methodology of acting and the use of theatrical masks up to the beginnings of the 18th century. It intends to cover a certain gap within the scie...

In the modern literary science, the issues connected with Soviet regime (censorship, interaction between ideology and literature, translation policy etc.) and its impact on public awareness and national culture are of great scientific importance. The present study examines and in the comparative perspective evaluates peculiarities of literary translation in oppressive socio-political circumstances experienced by Latvia during the Soviet occupation (1940-1941; 1944/45-1990/91). The focus is on John Steinbeck’s nove...

The popularity of travel literature should not be underestimated. Travelogue is one of the most readable literary genres in the world literature, including the major literatures of the USA and Canada with their rich literary heritage, as well as such less popular or minor literatures, as the Latvian. The popularity of travel writing does not stop growing despite any world cataclysms; travelogue gains particular expansion in the 21st century due to the processes of globalization and rapid technological progress. Th...

Both the literature and all the historical vestiges that we find today in the world, highlight the fact that over the centuries there has been a continuous transfer of knowledge from the Romans to the other peoples occupied by them. Roman culture was advanced at that time; we can remember that they loved music, theatre, architecture, construction, politics, astronomy, etc. This process also occurred in Dacia (part of today's Romania) marked by military conquest campaigns. The Danube River was and still is a natura...

Many centuries of social experience lead to the conclusion that conflicts and crisises are an inherent feature of all social activities, regardless of their nature, extent, social and cultural environment. The different assumption, namely that there are activities without internal or external contradictions, which appear in relationships between the participants of activities and their closer or further environment, should be treated as an assumption idealizing social reality. Social conflicts and crisises result ...

Currently, the meat market is developing very dynamically. This is a consequence of the high import substitution throughout the country, due in particular to the State support for agricultural entrepreneurs. For 2021, it is forecast not only a threefold reduction in import compared to previous years, but also a boost to development of meat products. Thus, we can state that the livestock and poultry processing industry is on the rise and is a promising area for investment. Speaking about the Tambov region, we are a...

Over the past two decades, research on the impact of global environmental change has underscored the increasing effects of climate change and the associated natural disasters on mental health. The present article aims to highlight the correlation between the mental health of the studied population and the way in which the subjects relate to climate change. The objective of the research was to investigate whether people with high scores on the Romanian version of the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS-21R)...

Since 2016, the Czech education system has been providing education for children, pupils and students through the institute of the so-called support measures. It is a set of organizational, pedagogical, methodological measures including methods of work, material and compensatory support of the respective disadvantage. There are five levels of support measures provided by law. Granting of level II. to V. is under the responsibility of professional school counseling facilities and is the result of professional speci...

Known for his tragedies, the 18th century Italian writer, Count Vittorio Alfieri, was influenced and partly conditioned by Aristotle’s Poetics and by the literary opinions of his age. However, his fidelity to the ancient form of the tragedy did not hinder the introduction of a new type of conflict that would appeal to his contemporaries and to the future generations, namely that between a tyrant and what he called “a hero of freedom”. Despite belonging to high nobility, Alfieri was fiercely attracted by the Enligh...

In response to the current situation, when the school has a well-known home mutation, information technologies represent a foundation for development and a reference point for working bodies. Enough in the best area to manage a communication problem generates imposed distances as well as a potential conflict of visibility involved in each category of human resources. Emphasizing the ambiguity of the individual role, a lack of cohesion involves changes and inconveniences on the authorial authorities or paid attenti...

The aim of the research is to describe child’s image as one of the most important components in the structure of childhood narrative. Great significance is attributed in its depiction to characters’ portrait, action and its psychological motivation, age, degree of socialization, and name. Methods of the paper: theoretical and historical analysis of prose texts by bringing together semiotic, comparative, biographical, literary historical methods of literary research. Results of the paper: depiction of the artistic ...

This paper compares three similar yet distinct philosophical interpretations of the mythological motif of Narcissus admiring his reflection in water. Since these interpretations span a period of fifteen centuries, they are bound to appear in different types of philosophical discourse: In Plotinus’ Enneads, where the motif of a beautiful image in the water appears without Narcissus’ being actually named, the myth is used as metaphor of the soul seduced by sensible beauty; in Ficino’s commentary to Plato’s Symposium...

Land degradation by soil erosion, has been recognized as a major environmental threat in the southern part of the Moldavian Plateau of Republic of Moldova. Implementation of soil and water conservation practices is a very important link to sustainable land use pattern. During the communist period, being a representative catchment from the south of Republic of Moldova, the Sarata catchment was the subject of widespread land improvement projects. After 1991, a varied complex of non-conservative land use actions beca...

The system of dialects of the Latvian language has developed under the influence of various extra-linguistic factors: in the parishes subordinated to the manors, the territorial restriction and the lack of mutual contacts led also to linguistic isolation and consequently to the development of different sub-dialects. It has been largely conditioned by economic and political circumstances. The sociolinguisti ay be I will be given the link just tomorrow in the morningc situation of Latvia’s south-eastern sub-dialects...

This paper aims to examine the reading comprehension skills of Hungarian bilingual primary school pupils in Slovakia. Hungarian is the largest ethnic minority in Slovakia therefore it possesses extensive native language school networks. The purpose of this research is to determine the pupils reading habits, and to discover the differences between the respondents’ self-assessment and their actual performance in reading comprehension. The survey consisted of two parts. As a method of sociological data collection, we...