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Josef Skvorecky is one of the most significant representatives of the Czech writers who published their works in the exile. Josef SkvoreckyВ’s constant interest in the development of Czech society in recent decades is, among other things, the source of his work The Life of Czech Society, which is the subject of interest in this article. The book is a living testimony to a relatively recent period that was very difficult for the Czech nation. The analysis of the work makes it possible to follow SkvoreckyВ’s mastery...

Italy has been particularly affected by the Covid-19 epidemic. There have been, and continue to be, many deaths, raising the problem of contagion management within the workplace and new corporate organisational practices to be adopted to minimise the risk of contagion. From the criminal point of view, for some years now, legal entities - including, of course, companies, have also been liable for the death or serious or very serious injuries of its workers, in violation of the regulations on their health and safety...

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 ...

This article discusses the results of an eight-month long ethnographic study conducted among young Old Believers in the city of Daugavpils, Latvia. The aim of the study was to gain a broader understanding of how young people understand culture and their participation in cultural activities. This group is an ethnic and religious minority in Latvia, which is of particular interest because it allows a deeper understanding of the differences in the cultural identity and cultural traditions of young people, in the idea...

Nowadays when the European Union faces some daunting challenges, with Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic merely being some of them, the research of the means and ways of its image structuring in British media is of a particular interest taking into consideration some historical reasons as well. The online versions of the published materials of the British periodicals (2017-2020) as well as some news sites, dedicated to the assessment of modern state of the EU, its future and its relationship with the United Kingdom ...

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...

The present study considers the interrelations between the personality of a socially and politically active writer and literary and cultural processes in the country. To analyse literary processes in a wider historical and cultural context the cultural-historical view on literature was applied; in its turn, to examine the writerВ’s place within the overall cultural milieu and to determine the interaction of the authorВ’s writings and his era the elements of the biographical method were used. In Latvia, the Russian...

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...

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...

The Little Prince, a symbolic fairy tale by A. de Saint Exupery, is one of the pillars of modern European literature; since the first edition (1943) this literary work has been translated into over 200 languages, it has been processed in adaptations for film musicals, operas, animated series, and it still inspires dancers, musicians and writers. At the beginning of the study we briefly outline the reception of the Little Prince and selected creative updates of this story in Slovakia. The core of the study consists...

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...

For centuries, the monuments of megalithic prehistoric cultures have been rediscovered and identified in many parts of the Mediterranean basin. These monuments point to the spread and development of early agriculture and denote the diversification of the monuments created by these ancient cultures, their adaptation to availability of the local building materials, and the diversity of traditions. In this context, such megalithic monuments have not been studied mainly because they have been identified only in certai...

In contemporary creation for children and young people there is an increasing production of works with intermedia characteristics. Interdisciplinary cooperation of experts in the field of individual types of art is required in order to analyze, interpret and evaluate it. Monika Kompanikova, an experienced and awarded author for children and adults, created a multimedia project for children called Toddler Punk: TulinoВ’s Musical Stories (Monokel Publishing House) in 2019. The project includes a collection of fairy ...

This article proposes to create a connection between two seemingly contradictory universes: the art of sculpture and the art of music. The creation of one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century, Constantin Bra?ncu?i, became an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists from different domains, especially for musicians, Romanian composers creating diverse symphonic works inspired by the artistВ’s sculptures. Background: In the history of art, Bra?ncu?i makes a striking turn. He adopts a unique atti...

The Pandemic Covid 19 profoundly changed the mentality, religious Traditions, inter-human and inter-institutional relationship. The Orthodox Church Romanian, from 26 February 2020, had to respond to the challenges arising from the expansion of the covid pandemic 19, according to its own theology and sacred Traditions, but according to the anti-covid 19 national legislation and sanitary measures. The method used official data published by the state institutions, military orders, presidential decrees, journalistic a...

In this era of globalization, the world has gradually reduced inequalities in life expectancy. Alongside this development, a key aspect of a sustainable society is the level of human health throughout life. In this study, we aim to look at the relationship between healthy life years, Eurostat's European structural indicator for expressing healthy life years or life expectancy without disabilities (these focus on the quality of life spent in a healthy state, rather than the quantity of life, as measured by life exp...

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...

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,...

The article discusses intonation tools that perform the function of influencing the public speech of a political leader on the audience. In the given article author examines functions of intonation, and considers different approaches to the problem of intonation in Russian, Kazakh, British and American linguistic schools. Different positions are noted in resolving the issue of the language status of certain functions. Sociolinguistic and intonation aspects of analysis used to have very significant differences in t...

In this paper, we present the results from research focused on the usage of visual programming languages for teaching programming and algorithmization, which was a part of research named „The usage of educational materials in informatics“. The purpose of this research was to collect data about which didactics aids and educational materials do teachers use and get the foundation for upcoming research that would go deeper into specific topics. The data were collected by a questionnaire among Czech teachers of a s...

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...

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 article deals with the history of travelling exhibitions of Spanish art from Spain, primarily from the Prado Museum, to other countries during Franco’s time (1939-1975). For comparative study, the article gives a review of the pre-Franco period (late 19th – early 20th century) as well as the post-Franco period (the last quarter of the 20th century). The turning points in the exhibition policy were closely related with the social, cultural and politic situation in the country, with proves the idea of the rel...

Public space is a general term that can be expressed in various ways. However, any definition is based on the assumption that these are spaces accessible to everyone without restrictions. Public space therefore serves a general purpose, regardless of ownership of that space. One of the types of public spaces is also an extra-level connection - an underpass. The underpasses provide an alternative way to safely overcome potentially dangerous locations due to a certain barrier - especially busy traffic. For the comfo...

Objective: Assessment of iodine and thyroid status in a group of pregnant women in the perimarine area of Romania, the geographical area without iodine deficiency. Undetected or untreated thyroid dysfunction can be associated with a number of materno-fetal complications. The administration of iodinated compounds in pregnancy requires individualization. The ratio of urinary iodine concentration (UIC)/urinary creatinine (UCr) may be an objective criterion for evaluating iodine nutrition in the perimarine area. Mater...

The paper presents main aspects related to the evaluation of management efficiency, implemented within protected areas, especially those belonging to the ecological network Natura 2000. It aims to monitor progress in the management of protected areas, as they have experienced exponential growth in the last decade due to the rate of extinction of species and the destruction of ecosystems. In order to maximize the potential of protected areas, biodiversity conservation is considered to improve the management plan by...

When Steve de Shazer and his team applied the Wittgensteinian philosophy in therapy, they revolutionized the field while they discovered brief therapy. Was it an accidental coincidence? What was the role of Wittgensteinian philosophy in creating the theoretical and practical space of brief therapy? What are the exact consequences of treating a one on one meeting as a language game - let it be a therapy session, a coaching, or a personal meeting between the leader and a team member? Can we revolutionize one on ones...

The work is devoted to understanding the intrinsic characters of the "analogue" and "digital" generation of mass media, summarizing their generational media practice in the digital age. As a result, generations with stable characteristics of "analogue" and "digital" have been revealed. Also, we found out two transitional generations, the affiliation to which is established based on the level of "information competency". Besides, echo-generation was discovered – a transition between "digital" and "analogue" gener...

The idea of creating a story or a short novel, in which the hero-artist would have appeared as the modern Faust, occupied the mind of T. Mann at the beginning of his literary career. The realization of this bold plan was postponed for almost half a century, but the novel “Doctor Faustus” (1947) with all its genre ambiguity is primarily Kunstlerroman, revealing three main typological signs of the works of this kind: its plot-composition center is the life story of the hero-artist, the novel contains a lot of re...

The aim of our study is to investigate the way teachers see the physical environment of their school, and what they would need for better teaching abilities and skills for 21 century students. Physical learning environment can have a holistic impact on userВ’s performances, teachers and students alike. In Romania, 60% of primary and secondary schools in rural areas and 20% in urban areas are not equipped with libraries, 72% of rural areas and 30% of urban areas lack laboratories and only 32% of rural gymnasiums an...

The introduction of 5G technologies is urgent for any EU Member State, including Latvia that has begun making preparations for introducing such technologies. In Latvia, mobile communication operators have begun installing 5G base stations, and several hundreds of them have been put into service. The clients of LMT and Tele2 could start using the fifth generation network or 5 G as early as next year. A survey of mobile communication users revealed that 99% of the respondents believed that transition from 4 G to 5 G...

Reconstructions are popular nowadays both with liberal arts and sciences when conducting modern complex studies. Historical reconstructions are used widely as a research method, particularly paleopathological analysis that provides additional historical information about ancient peoples who inhabited different territories of Russia. In fact, the pit culture was identified at the beginning of the 20th century by V.A. Gorodtsov who dated it to 3000 BC. Scientists and archaeologists attached great importance to the q...

The interest in ancient religions and their sources, essence and artefacts in society is increasing, which is a new feature of our age and requires many values to be reassessed. Among them, there are many low-quality sources and unreliable indications, as well as fakes and simple replicas of artefacts. There is always a lot of contradictive information in the media and it takes several years for researchers to refute it. However, such situation has certain positive elements as well, since such refusals require the...

This paper intends to critically reflect on the work of Austrian film director Willi Forst. Forst has been widely regarded as one of the great names in the history of German-speaking cinema, and in discussing ForstВ’s work, scholars have repeatedly pointed to the close connection between ForstВ’s films and AustriaВ’s history and cultural tradition. In fact, Forst has been often labeled as the most Austrian film director, typically associating ForstВ’s work with the musical genre and the so-called Viennese Film, of...

The song cycle “Intoarceri la Blaga” ("Revisiting Blaga") for soprano and piano, part of composer Viorel Munteanu's oeuvre, is both a moment of synthesis and the crowning of a creative effort spanning several decades. Starting from a melogram created using the name of the poet Lucian Blaga, the composer constructs a mode that will become the foundation for the motifs that will generate the entire cycle of seven miniatures. The specialists will appreciate the composer's craft, which has transformed just a few s...

The pharmaceutical field in Romania, although, at first glance, seems to be well-organized, in practice faces a number of problems, many of them being the consequence of a failure to apply a good management, but also of a sometimes confusing or contradictory legislation. The pharmacist, is responsible of a pharmacy, as manager, faced with a multitude of issues requiring immediate solution, which makes the spectrum of managerial activities more extensive and complex. There are often situations in which such a manag...

People, who are not achieving common standards in their physical appearance or in their mentality, do not lead simple lives despite the declarations about their integration and inclusion in the current society systems. It is important to talk about their specific life situation, life feelings, self-reflection and the way of experiencing their world, especially with the children and youth by the means of literary art. This issue is elaborated into literary works with an intention to mediate life situation of people...

The study aims to highlight the leadersВ’ auto-perception on their leadership style, through a semi-structured interview. We analyze data collected during a series of eleven face-to-face and telephonic interviews, conducted in Dambovita County, Romania, with educational leaders from pre-university institutions. The interview guide was designed to include five variables (motivation, leadership, team relations, success and challenges) and twenty questions. The research objective was to emphasize the transformational...

Museums can be regarded as a tool that, beyond presenting sections of art and culture, have an important role to inform and connect with elements that generate tendencies at a local or general level; mentally and emotionally. They promote new ideas, new information, they promote local aspects. Museums are institutions with their own identity, leading to the creation of new phenomena in the social framework (through exhibitions and a varied type of organized events). The study is centered around those specific muse...

The aim of this paper is to present a design of a metallic structure. The structure was obtained by reusing of an old barge, which belongs to the Romanian navigation company. In order to respect the UN Sustainable Development goal and the COP21 objectives, the Waterborne sector in Europe is increasing and fits for next generations. Galati, a Romanian port on Danube river, with its cliff that have a length of 2.48 km, itВ’s included among 250 European ports and navigable inland waterway that measure 40.000 km. The ...

The given article is devoted to describing main lines and particular features of epigrammatic art development in European literature, beginning from Ancient Greek-Roman period (VII-VI cc.) up to XX century. In this connection the authors try to give a general review of epigrams specific features and diverse manifestations in the works of world known writers and poets, such as: Martial, N. Boileau, C. Marot, F. Villon, J.G. Byron, I.W. Goethe, A.S. Pushkin and others. They come to a conclusion that modern epigramma...

This article presents the results of a study of silver coins with the name of Khan Shadibek from Izmeri treasure from the collection of the Tatarstan National Museum (Russia). This treasure is interesting in that it contains golden Horde coins minted in 1402-1419. With the advent of Khan Shadibek, the monetary reform of the Golden Horde was carried out, which resulted in relative order of money circulation in the state. In the same period, the work of the mint in the Bulgarian settlement was restored. Mint "Bolgar...

According to the requirements to in-service teachers in the Russian Federation pedagogical forecasting is considered one of the educator's professional functions. Pedagogical students are to be taught acquisition of forecasting skills in undergraduate and postgraduate teacher training programs. The difficulties of forecasting lie in the accuracy of predictions. One of the means to teach forecasting accuracy to pedagogical students is to train them to predict their academic success early and late in the academic ye...

The modern organizations are competing on globalized markets characterized by high speed, fast changes induced by digitalization and digital technologies, which create significant pressures on increasing organizations? productivity through innovation, performance improvements and better competitiveness. The paper tackled the challenges of improvements with particular regard to overall organizational efficiency that require a unified approach to coherently respond to changing customer requirements as well as custom...

The study has an analytical-interpretative character and brings a partial research probe of the artistic depiction of the Holocaust theme. It deals with the ways of dramatizing the most authentic and most often translated book on the topic of the Holocaust The Diary of Anne Frank. In the study we describe on the basis of theatrological and literary-scientific research actual forms of artistic interpretation of Anne FrankВ’s Diary in a contemporary Slovak theatre. We focus on interpretation of a classical drama the...

Acute limb ischemia associated with scheletal injury represent a challenging aspect of modern traumatology with high individual and social impact especially due to complications which require prolonged hospitalization, repeated surgery and considerable costs. That is why medical research is directed to establishing the most efficient diagnostic and therapeutic algorithms able to decrease the incidence of complications and promote optimal fracture healing. The purpose of this paper is to underline the importance of...

Introduction: Management of the health of oral tissues is a main prerequisite in dentistry. Nanotechnology, an emerging interdisciplinary field with rapid development, has become one of the most favoured technologies in dental applications. This review aims at defining the role and potential of bio-nanomaterials in dental medicine. It describes the basic concept of nanomaterials, latest innovations in nanomaterials and their applications in dentistry. Materials & methods: To validate these issues, current literatu...

Mister Sherlock Holmes has appeared in the cultural space of Latvia at the very end of the 19th century. Arthur Conan DoyleВ’s detective stories were published both in the Latvian periodicals and in the books by different publishers. Unfortunately, the attitude towards the fictional character Sherlock Holmes was not serious; during the first half of the 20th century DoyleВ’s detective stories were regarded only as the phenomenon of the pulp fiction. It can be observed by the analysis of the translations carried ou...

The second decade of the 21st century is characterized by a boom in digitization and digital transformations. Social networks are a digital phenomenon of the last decade. Social networks are becoming an important medium for business marketing, especially for their promotion and advertising. At the same time, it should be emphasized that this channel is important in many ways, not only as a source of information, but as a means and interpersonal communication. The article presents research we conducted through an e...

The present study deals with the concept of multimedia, discussed in the context of convergence, which appears to be a mass communications trend. The purpose of the article is to consider the specifics of convergence in terms of merging information channels and platforms for placing a multimedia product, as well as to review the issues of the interrelation between the verbal and non-verbal aspects of communication. The author convincingly indicates that multimedia is a key characteristic of the media convergence, ...