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The theoretical foundations and the basis of the comparative research are based on empirically substantiated theories and research outcomes in the area of manipulative cover-up techniques in the interaction/ communication of individuals. They are a result of research on the position of evaluations in expressive therapies (especially feedback and self-exploration as part of so-called specific effective factors) and the role-system of the Russian structuralist Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp (the author of arguably the m...

When it comes to thinking about fostering creativity in the educational context, one often focuses on the role of the teacher, the support of the principal, parents' willingness to cooperate, material availability, student motivation, and the content that needs to be presented to the students. We rarely think globally, putting the society (and its values) into the focus of the research that directly influences the (non)creation of preconditions for the promotion of creativity. The democracy of society is reflected...

Context. Nowadays an increasing number of students are heading to professional sports; at the same time, many students are not engaged in leisure physical activities, which is a serious alarm signal for the health of young populations and for sports. The aim of this study is to determine the bio-motric potential of secondary school students, rural and urban residents, on the assumption that Body Mass Index (BMI) is an indicator of health and it can also indicate the possibility that subjects with healthy weight ac...

Companies are increasingly implementing new performance measurement systems to track non-financial measures such as customer and employee satisfaction, quality, market share, productivity, and innovation. According to the existing theoretical literature, non-financial performance measures provide managers with incentives to improve long-term financial performance and, on the other hand, financial performance measures provide managers with incentives to improve short-term financial performance. This study examines ...

This research aims to mirror how the Renaissance musical life was manifested in Brasov-B?rsa Land, a specific area of Transylvania that has demonstrated its European vocation, from the old to the present day. Although Brasov and B?rsa Land didn`t play a major role during the Renaissance, the importance and the increasing amplitude gained by music leads to the development of certain music schools, centres, of special significance in the history of Transylvanian artistic culture. In Brasov, during the Principality o...

The article has a theoretical character and its aim is to classify and systematize the determinants of enterprise's fundamental strength, understood as enterprise's potential to create and protect its intrinsic value. In accomplishing this goal, a critical analysis of the literature was carried out both in the context of available solutions in the investigated area, as well as the possibility of assessing enterprise's fundamental strength based on generally available information, mainly periodic reports published ...

In this paper authors present the assessment of ecological well-being in large Russian cities, situated in the Volga Federal District. Comparative analysis is made for five cities of the Volga Federal District of the Russian Federation for the period 2008-2015, based on data published annually by the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation, namely the statistical yearbooks “Regions of Russia. Main socio-economic indicators of cities”. To assess the ecological well-being of inhabitants, stati...

The article deals with a study focused on the production of products with an emphasis on the use of environmentally friendly and recycled materials. Eco-design and the environmentally friendly product lifecycle are being increasingly taken into account and given greater emphasis considering the limited raw material resources of the planet. The properties that must be met by newly selected material were determined by the material analysis of selected products and their components. It was not just for the sake of ex...

The interest of linguistics in studying linguistic personality has significantly grown. This phenomenon is special because, in our opinion, under the conditions of global communication and free access to information, human abilities rapidly expanded and there is an obvious growth of individual evolution. The bearer of linguistic consciousness is a linguistic personality, i.e. human who exists in a language environment – communication, stereotypes of behaviour that are registered in language, meanings of linguistic...

Due to the existing disproportions in the current ecological and economic condition of the territories within the Arctic zone, high supply of natural resources in the continental and off-shore Arctic areas, ecological fragility of Arctic ecosystems, as well as the need to respect the rights of indigenous peoples, it is necessary to implement differentiated approach when selecting scenarios for strategic development and management. This study examines the economic and mathematical models for the development of the ...

When it comes to the political parties in the Republic of Macedonia, there is a general perception that they have a lacking of internal democracy. One might argue that too much authority is provided to the leader of the party as well as to the limited oligarchy of people surrounding him. Although in certain cases this perception is not in accordance with official party documents, the very fact that party leaderships rarely change in the Republic of Macedonia might be used as an additional argument by those who bel...

The article deals with the issues of overcoming ‘dialogue gaps’ risks in non- linear cultural environment. Superfast transformations in different life spheres during transition periods to a new cultural and civilizational development type are caused by scientific and technological innovations, changes in cultural environment and interaction forms complication between individuals, social groups and communities of different cultures generating communicative risks and form expansion of socio-cultural regulators. The ...

The influence of media, in particular computer and Internet, has increased over the last several decades. They play now a significant role in everyone's life, independent of his or her age. The overwhelming influence of computer on the development of next generations is visible while observing behaviors of young people and listening to their talks. Computer and Internet have started to attract attention of the young users and, developing very dynamically, have forced their way into almost all fields of everyday li...

This paper describes some basic characteristics of the social policies for the elderly people in four countries, namely Russia, Italy, Finland and the UK. Maian focus is at the analysis of neo-liberal policies impacts on welfare policies: covering a conceptual analysis of some issues as eligibility and risk, transforming models of the social policy and its institutional setups. Modern research agenda includes theorizing, analysis and evaluation of welfare institutions, organizations and policies along with the way...

The article discusses the development of attention in hearing-impaired adolescents using a special exercise programme. The objective of the research was to influence hearing-impaired adolescents’ attention by means of specific sports or an exercise programme. From the methodological point of view, a basic empirical approach using a simple experiment was applied. The exercise programme consisting of self-defence basics and psychomotor exercise was the main experimental factor. Attention testing [5] was used to dete...

The contribution is connected with the previous research realized between the years 2016 and 2017 with the group of seniors who are in danger of cognitive disorders. In this previous research basic communicative categories were set apart in order to establish and develop an interaction with clients. The aim of a following survey was to furher analyse individual manifestations of verbal and non-verbal communication and on the basis of ascertained findings to create functional models that would be helpful to workers...

The key finding of the previous research is the fact that protests are a result of a multifactorial negative impact of socio-economic factors on an individual and group consciousness of citizens. Thus, effective counteracting protest activity assumes managing and administrating social and economic processes in order to neglect threats and overcome negative consequences of crisis in society and economy. The research reveals methodology of counteracting protest activity on the basis of cognitive maps which is an eff...

The dental impression plays a very important role during the clinical and technical stages of prosthetic restoration. Impressing the prosthetic field can cause errors in producing the prosthetic item. The dental impression represents the negative copy of the prosthetic field that will generate the positive copy, respectively the working model/cast. If the assessor, the dentist and / or the dental technician, cannot notice these errors in a timely manner, the prosthetic piece is intended for failure. The objectives...

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...

The economic pressure on the forestry fund is one of the greatest challenges of contemporary society, generating major imbalances both in the natural components of the territorial systems and in the anthropic ones. In order to quantify the evolution of the complexity of the phenomenon analysed, we have chosen for our research two methods of textural fractal analysis to determine which of the two is more relevant to the study. Textural fractal analysis is an analysis that no longer requires binarization, maintainin...

For over two decades we work under increasingly changing conditions. These changes are mostly the result of globalization, deregulation of labor markets and increasing competition. Among these changes we should name above all the growth of insecure employment. In the context of downsizing and more temporary or short term contract work, many employees may consider their jobs insecure. According to results of many investigations job insecurity influences negatively attitudes towards the job and the organization, as ...

The celebration of the Holy Easter is in the center of the Christian cult, in the middle of the church year (from this holiday many others depends on), it is in the center of Christianity but, sadly, the date of this celebration is still under the sign of uncertainty, of division...We want a united Europe, we often talk about globalization, about a "single state", we are voting for constitutions of the European Union, we want to lead according to the same economic and social principles and desiderata, but the Chri...

At present, in institutions and organizations, we can see increasing demands on the ability to cooperate and link the individual components of these organizations more closely, which requires leaders to use new leadership strategies. Even traditional complex hierarchical organizations such as the army and the police must adopt new leadership and management practices in the times of rapid technology and social change, and introduce procedures that focus on sharing power and promoting co-operation. One such strategy...

The article analyzes one of the genres of professional-network medical discourse – the official medical site. It is shown that this genre is characterized by intensive borrowings, hybridization of colloquial components, functional styles and semiotic systems modeling multifunctionality and multimodality of network medical discourse. The article states that the study of the Internet language, including the linguistic features of corporate sites, provides important information about oral, written and electronic spee...

The article presents the results of the theoretical analysis of development and empirical research. Objective: Identification of patterns of socio-cultural partnership in the prevention of children’s ill-being on the basis of theoretical analysis and empirical research. Methods: theoretical analysis (comparative-correlative); generalization of the experience of socio-pedagogical and socio-cultural practice; diagnostic methods (testing, questionnaire survey); methods of mathematical statistics (Student’s t-test). F...

The goal of the criminal and procedural law of (Latvia) consists in the establishment of such an order of the criminal procedure, which provides the effective use of the norms of the Latvian criminal law and fair settlement of the criminal and procedural relations without undue interference in private life. For the achievement of appointment of the criminal procedure within a reasonable time, it is important for the person, directing the process, the investigator, the procurator, the judge to make legal and ground...

Social work is a particular type of psycho-prophylactic assistance to persons in a crisis situation or experiencing difficulties in adapting to changed social conditions. In the training of students in social activities it is of particular importance to know all three types of empathy (cognitive, emotional and intellectual) as well as their formation in the process of learning. In this sense, it is extremely important to include trainings for the development of these skills, their practical application on terrain....

At first, the article concentrates on the rules defined for fiscal policy and public finance in general and then deals with concrete cases. Fiscal policy is implemented by the government, respectively Ministry of Finance through public budgets, especially the state budget. Fiscal policy, however, is burdened by direct political influence compared to, for example, monetary policy. The article analyzes the situation in the Czech Republic and examines how the rules should be defined and embedded in legal documents in...

The article raises the problems associated with the abundance of information in the modern prefigurative society, and also formulates the main methodological tasks facing the teacher today, namely: (1) to carefully select educational material, i.e., what must necessarily enter the students’ “knowledge base”; (2) to structure this database in terms of the significance of its contents; and (3) to find cost-effective ways of supplying information. Having substantiated the conclusion that the modern generation is radi...

The philosophy of mind concerns much about how novelty occurs in the world. The very recent progress in this field inspired by quantum mechanics indicates that symmetry restoration occurs in the mind at the moment when new creative thought arises. Symmetry restoration denotes the moment when one’s cognition leaves ordinary internalized mental schemes such as conceptual categories, heuristics, subjective theories, conventional thinking, or expectations. At this moment, fundamentally new, original thought may arise....

The world of humans is a profoundly visual one. Since the time the limits of darkness in the night were overcome by artificial lighting, the perception has moved significantly not only in the physiological sense but in terms of seeing and understanding architecture and art objects as well. Lamps and light sources have become one of the crucial factors in the process of generating visual perception, perception of objects, in designing spatial compositions, art sceneries and the overall emotional atmosphere of space...

One of the tools of budgetary financial management is the normative per capita financing of university educational programs. The main financial instrument to support the development of Russian universities is currently earmarked funding of federal education development programs (FEDRO) and the country's leading universities. Analysis of the financial support of the FEDPRO from 2006 to 2015 showed that the insufficient level of financial support significantly reduces the effectiveness of the FEDPRO. Minimizing the ...

In the modern economy competitiveness is set as one of conditions of economic recovery. Facilitation of competitiveness may be advanced by the means of clusters, which are set as one of key priorities in strengthening and developing innovations in the whole Europe. Facilitation of competitiveness of fisheries sector cluster is a topical issue at the level of the EU. Strengthening the competitiveness of the sector cluster may better advance not only achievement of the EU Common Fisheries Policy goals and ensuring p...

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...

Persons with mental disabilities are one of the most vulnerable groups of society. Lives of these persons are often characterized by stigmatization and social exclusion, therefore they are more exposed to risk of violations of fundamental human rights. As parents, these persons are faced with many challenges, and the problem that may arise and which will be analyzed in this paper concerns possible collision on the one hand parent's right to privacy and confidentiality of his/her medical data and information relate...

Being sentenced to imprisonment is one of the most severe penalties since it substantially limits the freedom of functioning. Imprisonment in a penal institution requires modification of the way the person functions and often forces the person to adjust to the internal principles used in the prison. Therefore, the mutual identity of women who are detained in penal institutions was adopted as the basis for the investigations. The analysis of the identity acquired in penal institutions was based on the theory of tot...

Marketing activities and their utilisation are inevitable part of almost all companies operating in current high competitive market. If the company wants to be successful and sell their goods and services, it needs to be visible for its potential customers. To support demand and product offer the implementation of tools of marketing and communication mix is important. Tourism sector is no exception. The main aim of the article was to focus and point out the marketing tools and activities that are used by tourist i...

The cult of the Virgin Mary as the patroness of the Livonian Order played an important role in the history of medieval Livonia. Through the use of different subjects and symbols associated with the Holy Mother, the Order unambiguously declared its claims for the leadership in the region. However, the peculiarities of her worship in the Order’s domain and among its authorities differed greatly. This research is trying to the find those differences. In the work were complexly used general scientific and special hist...

An optimal health, viewed ontogenetically, is a desideratum that combines several essential factors such as: the physical and mental activity determined by the genetic inheritance and own ideals, correct nutrition, in relation to the physical and mental effort, and rest in accordance with the other factors. All the listed factors apply to the human body as a whole. This paper aims to measure and evaluate the body composition of the students from the University Politehnica of Bucharest by means of the bioelectric i...

The article presents examples of workers’ colonies, both realized as well as in the design phase, in what today is the area of Wroc?aw and its surroundings, though at the time of their establishment most were located in the neighbouring communes. These are housing estates constructed near the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, i.e.: next to Schoeller’s spinning mill in Stab?owice, which became a part of the city in 1928, next to the sugar refinery in Klecina, and the railway workers’ estate “Wielka...

Today, we are giving away the emotional education of our children more devastating consequences. One of the solutions is the new insight into how schools can make the students fully educate them by combining their minds and hearts in the classroom, so the goal here should be to provide children with basic knowledge of emotional intelligence. This study aimed to assess the relationship between emotional intelligence, social status and socio-emotional status among high school students. In this study were attended sc...

The document defining the spatial development policy of the city in Poland is study of conditions and directions of spatial management. For proper planning of public spaces, it is crucial that the study fulfills its regulatory functions accurately, protects the common good against the market game and against usurpation of these areas for non-social functions. Therefore, planning records should determine the accurate localization and ensure, within the designated boundaries, two things: firstly, a place for anticip...

The current study carries further the research initiated in another article published in 2010, entitled Mathematical models for analysing diatonic modes. This research naturally completes the other by the supplementary approach of the chromatic musical modes. Only one of the two analysis models presented then will be selected, the latter one. The former model employed in the previous study does not display any applicability when it comes to chromatic modes. The latter model, which was initially applied only to dia...

Mixed use is a term used for implementation of different functions (uses) in the same building. Mixed used buildings are very often related to a high density (compact)urban landscape: city centers, urban centers, particular densities and uses. The term low density refers to housing and describes partially urbanized land with dispersed (non-compact) housing(very often single family houses or semidetached housing). In times of constant urbanization, low density mixed-use houses occur more and more often. It is commo...

The article is focused on the Labeo´s conflicting theory about ownership to newly created island in a river stream and detects its reasoning, aims and philosophical sources of inspiration. A question of insula in flumine nata represents traditional issue of the Roman law things. Such island was considered to belong to private individual(s) who owns the nearest shores of river by most of the sources. However, there is one fragment of Labeo (D 41,1,65,4) which states that such island should belong to public. The res...

Life quality is a category by which characterize the material circumstances of population's life, determining the degree of every human person's dignity and freedom, comfort both within themselves and within the community. Life quality is very broad and ambiguous term to interpret. It is still not developed a unified approach to this concept content. Life quality is considered as a general sociological and socio-economic and as a purely economic concept. In modern scientific literature is widely used the term "Lif...

The culture of modern society as an object of study is a complex interaction of many fields and factors. One of the most important is education as a necessary minimum of knowledge about the world. We investigated the results of the implementation of the programme of education for all in the world practice, taking into account reports of UNESCO and the World Conferences on Education. The documents that guarantee everyone's right to education, starting with the Declaration of Human Rights, were chosen as the basis. ...

Coastal territories are the national growth nodes throughout the world. Concentration of human activity along the coast have long been recognized and conceptualized within the notion of coastalization. Russia is often perceived to be exposed to the opposite effect – continentalization. Article analyzes the antecedents of large business localization in 14 coastal regions of the European part of Russia. Results verify the assumption of companies being attracted to marine coasts of Russia, proving the general coastal...

For a long time, corporate governance has been presented as a universal solution for all problems. Economic and financial disasters have been a cold shower for the global society, showing that the mere statement of leadership based on corporate governance principles does not award objectivity and professionalism to activities by itself. Much has been said and little has been implemented along the times, so that the global society has had to accept that a correlation is needed between what is declared and what is i...

Career decisions have always been some of the most important decisions to undertake, and, in chronological order, the first to intervene at the age of 18, when young people have to choose a faculty, a direction, in which their professional life will be in the years to come, or maybe even in all the years of activity. The study was attended by 112 high school students, all of them in the 12th grade, from high schools in the South-West Oltenia Region (Romania), who attended a summer school during their vacation in J...