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The world is undergoing rapid urbanization and Malaysia is not an exception with more than 75 percent of its population currently living in urban centres. This brought about numerous urbanization concerns that must be addressed comprehensively and aligned to the United Nation’s target of Sustainable Development Goal 11 of Sustainable Cities and Communities. One approach of tackling urbanization challenges is with institutions producing competent urban planners with the industry contributing significantly in the de...

The urban structure reflects different stages of its life cycle land use efficiency. Extensive development of Slovak cities in the second half of the 20th century in combination with the construction method, demands on infrastructure and transformation of the industry, caused that there is an enormous number of dysfunctional, unused, empty areas and degraded sites in our cities. Such areas can be regarded as a problem, but above all as a potential and driving force for re-development, the city's urban vitality gen...

This article discusses the methodological issues of determining value added in the framework of intercompany networks - industrial clusters, which is an effective tool for analyzing and decision making. A sequence of stages of the formation of value chains (VCC) is proposed, their features and mechanisms for optimizing the interaction and coordination of actions of participants according to the criterion of gross value added (GVA) are highlighted. An approach to the definition of value added in the framework of gl...

Relationships between principal and teachers in the school require communication skills through partnership and collaboration. The quality of this cooperation is very important, which consists in the increasing involvement and creativity of teachers. In order for the potential inherent in the teachers to be fully utilized, a person who will manage them properly is necessary - manager, supervisor, less often referred to as a leader. The role of the leader is to motivate attitudes aimed at achieving goals and to hel...

Branding is an easier and spreading method in a short time in the purpose to create and consolidate an image based on the information launched to the individuals. This article describes how to create a perfect branding using segmentation and creating profiles. Also, in the same important category, the self-branding is considered to be more efficient to a business than the brand of the business itself. Nowadays, the new technologies and online tools have been accompanied by the mobile apps which are becoming more a...

The contributions have taken into consideration positive and negative effects of globalization and have drawn on current knowledge in the academic field of intercultural awareness and intercultural communication. They have been theoretically rooted in the definition of culture which has been compared to an iceberg: (1) one part of culture (values and assumption) is beneath the surface; (2) another part of culture (observable behaviours) of the culture is visible. The first part of the contribution has highlighted ...

Modern theories of elites not always adequate and timely cover the diversity of elite groups practices with their scientific analysis, especially those who belong to the number of non-political elites – the elites of science, culture and religious societies. Each elite professional community needs its own separate set of criteria of elitism, reflecting the specificity of their occupation. The political elites cease to be the fashion to the elite breeders. Increasingly they are beginning to adopt the criteria of ot...

The present study captures the outstanding personality of Carlo Broschi, called Farinelli, whom I consider to be the etalon singer of the eighteenth century. His vocal-solo career spanned between 1720 and 1737, quite short, but very intense, with about 70 opera roles of extraordinary success, being invited to all the great lyrical stages of the time. Besides being a perfect artist, he also held important political and administrative functions. Between 1747 and 1759 he chose the "second plan", being named the Direc...

This paper aimed to understand how fashion design higher education programs are approaching fashion 'eco-design' initiatives and how or if this could influence the diffusion and adoption by the whole sector. Furthermore, this paper argued that online education, sustained by a lifelong learning perspective, would present a valid way to deliver and disseminate the knowledge about sustainable principles in business, technological, social and environmental practices, making them quickly available for professionals and...

Practice of cluster development, being guided by basic provisions of theories, has certain national peculiarities and differs over the certain countries with the width of territorial coverage, extent of regulation, and forms of state participation as well. In Russia’s economy problems both of origin, and effective functioning of clusters remain actual. We assume that a binding condition of effective cluster development in the Russian Federation is the system monitoring of clusters activity that allows participants...

By creating the right conditions for developing creative potential and creative activity of children we should eliminate various blockades that inhibit this development, share knowledge about the work and practice cognitive skills, necessary for creative thinking. To make this possible, it is important that teachers were able to accurately identify and then develop and stimulate the creative potential of each student. It is important, whether they have professional knowledge or base on current knowledge and their ...

Landmark preservation is an endeavour to conserve cultural heritage objects for future generations. Necessarily, to protect cultural objects from peril the states impose restrictions on individual owners, namely regarding the way these are to be maintained and repaired. Such constraints are in public interest. However, public interest might be contradicting the individual interests of the owners, or at least it might bring extra costs to them. The contribution seeks to explain what legal provisions restrict owners...

Burnout syndrome is a state of emotional, mental and physical exhaustion caused by situations affecting an individual in the long-term, which are extremely difficult and demanding. This study focuses on the social structure of the key causes of burnout syndrome in the context of social work. The aim is to establish the burnout syndrome measure from the aspect of the physical, emotional and mental exhaustion of social workers at facilities providing social services. It focuses on social workers working for public a...

The tapping is one of the information-technical means, which are regulated by the Slovak criminal procedure law, especially for investigation of most serious crimes like terrorism, organized crime or economic crime. Its meaning is that the getting of evidences is provided from persons, who have relevant information for the criminal procedure in the real time. Their conversation is spontaneous and information, which they are sharing, are not distorted. However, considering the fact that this mean is necessary conne...

Background: One of the most important predispositions of successful treatment is the patient?s collaboration. The article is focused on problematical patient?s collaboration with healthcare professionals; the most frequent reasons of the patient?s lack of collaboration during the disorder period are described, and the possibility of the improvement of patient collaboration based on high quality and well planned education implementation is mentioned. The goal was to identify to what degree chronically ill patients ...

The present paper focuses on the importance of developing health literacy among future teachers, i.e. students of teacher training courses, who can in the framework of ISCED 0 to ISCED 3 induce a positive approach to their health and lifestyle and at the same time increase the level of health literacy among the upcoming generation in the Czech Republic. The requirement to develop health literacy among the young generation is based on the fact that 60% of the current adult population in the Czech Republic shows low...

The icon is defined in the orthodox tradition as the Bible of the low literate, reason for which, in just a few colors it is synthesized important attitudes and events. The look of the believer is inevitably attracted by the face of Jesus and/or of the saints, for finding out and memorize easier the message of the Evangel. The icon "The Judgement of the Pontius Pilate 1829", kept in the Alexander Nevsky Crypt Museum, is an atypical one: Jesus is hard to find between the negative characters, dressed atypical and ke...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the cultural heritage in order to promote and develop cultural tourism in Transylvania. An important region of Romania with a population of different ethnic groups (Romanians, Hungarians, Germans, Slovaks, Armenians, Roma) had a continuous multicultural background and history. Known as Transilvania (in Romanian language), Transylvania (English), Erdely (Hungarian), Siebenburgen (German), this region holds a cultural heritage of inestimable value. Starting with fortified chur...

Humankind was born in optimal conditions for itself, in the sun, however, as the civilization developed and the population of people on Earth increased, man was forced to leave them in pursuit of new places to live and, as a result reached even the least friendly areas of our globe. The expansion embraced all continents with very diverse geo-climatic conditions and now we are trying to colonize an even newer environment, i.e. seas and oceans. Living on the high seas or oceans is actually an attempt to master one o...

The internationality of family relationships can be determined by one or both of the following factors: the presence of members of different nationalities in the couple or the location of assets and real estate belonging to the couple in States other than the one in which the couple resides. Couples are international if the two parties have different nationalities, live apart in different countries and/or live together in a country other than their home country. After the UK’s decision to leave the European Union,...

The legislation of European Union member states is not harmonized in terms of defining, evaluating and addressing fraud, lacking a unique, generally accepted definition. The paper has several aims. First, it has been provided a comprehensive definition of fraud as an unlawful act, by gathering the views of several audit, accountant and fraud examiners professional bodies. Then it has been presented the fraud triangle, the recurrent patterns of fraud committing and the profile of the fraudster by investigating past...

The aim of the present article is to assess the management efficiency of five Estonian ministries before and after moving to a common building using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The DEA method compares the output-to-input ratios of several decision-making units and determines whether one unit is more efficient or less efficient than other units. Additionally, Parsons’s AGIL paradigm about the continuity of social systems was used in our study. The AGIL paradigm states that for continuity or sustainability, the...

The Global Real Estate Transparency Index covers one hundred markets and is based on 186 variables. These indicators are divided into six parts – performance measurement, regulatory and legal frameworks, and governance of listed vehicles, market fundamentals, environmental sustainability and transaction process. The Index is one of the tools that helps to assess and compare markets across the Globe and give an idea of how investable the market is based on its transparency. Because transparency is critical to the o...

Over the last few decades an increasing number of surveys have been published on the effectiveness of CAM therapies. But papers are rarely focused on the attitudes and beliefs about CAM efficacy or identifying reasons why certain techniques have been used. In Croatian scientific literature there are just few published papers about attitudes/beliefs about CAM among Croatian healthcare professionals. Without any attempt to advocate for one or the other side, this survey wants to open a dialog between both sides thro...

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, it’s included among 250 European ports and navigable inland waterway that measure 40.000 km. The e...

This article presents an analysis of literature on shadow banking. The attention of researches on shadow banking topic have increased exponentially after the global financial crisis. Despite of the fact that this concept has been used for over ten years, there is no one common conception and definition of it. The innovations, global challenges like artificial intelligence, big data, etc., makes this topic very important for regulators, economists, researchers in order to make the right decisions and impact in thei...

Growing interest of subjects to be involved in electronic information network raises the necessity for a series of procedural measures. The main role in this issue is dedicated to the growth of information types existing in electronic format and its legal aspects which need to establish a stable normative regulation. These problems in their turn create a question on the evidence value of information existing in electronic form. The question is particularly important in the cases when communication between the part...

Travel agencies and their activities have great potential for developing tourism in Slovakia. Their role is to offer, sell and organize individual tourism services. Travel agencies offer services that meet the needs of customers of all generations. Generation Y gradually gaining in importance in terms of the number of visitors who use the services in tourism. Instead of saving money or establishing family life, the generation Y prefers to travel to different destinations and explore the world. The aim of this pape...

The theory of intercultural citizenship in language education developed by M. Byram plays a very important role as a basis for developing competences for democratic culture. The first goal of this intercultural investigation was to compare Russian university students' self-assessment and peer assessment of the competences of intercultural citizenship. The second goal was to find out whether the results of self-assessment and peer assessment were different among male and female students. The theoretical and empiric...

The paper highlights Russia’s economic cooperation with sub-Sahara Africa; it posits that Russia’s present relationship with sub-Sahara African countries is focused on economy rather than ideology as witnessed during the Soviet era. Analyzing secondary data collection, this paper examines the expanding economic ties between Russia and sub-Sahara Africa. The study reveals that there has been a significant increase in trade, foreign direct investment and economic cooperation from emerging economies with sub-Sahara A...

Nowadays, education is needed, more than ever, and this education cannot be done anyway. A nation is healthy, if the individuals, who compose it, are healthy. Starting from this undisputed reality, this work aims to address one of the most important issues, that of establishing and fulfilling managerial objectives in terms of public health and the Romanian health system. The transition and changes process in the Romanian society also its dynamics included the health system, in its attempt to adapt to the current r...

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 reason...

When we talk about bread and its symbols, thought leads us to the three basic elements of man's existence on earth - earth, water, fire. Without earth and water we do not have the raw material - flour, which is the harvest of the field through wheat, without fire we cannot get the bread. Fire is the one that helps us convert the dough into bread and bread in food and spiritual food. The Fagara? Country, the historical land located along the middle course of the Olt River, in the heart of Transylvania, is a rich hi...

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 user’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 and...

Responding to the call of the times, women around the world are becoming more and more self-sufficient when it comes to matters of financial security and making key life-changing decisions. Therefore, it becomes important to study the influence this trend has on the population’s well-being, and also to study what factors of this matter are pertinent to the well-being of women. Studies from across the world give reason to believe that, despite the fact that a number of studies confirm a positive correlation between...

Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (hereinafter: GDPR) ratified “the right to be forgotten.” The EU legislator has given data subjects a tool that allows to control the processing of personal data, while at the same time it protects their right to privacy. This tool is the...

Digital advances in the financial sector have led to the emergence of electronic finance, which is a new business model and publicly accessible information, financial, technological, economic and cultural platform for financial services and products. The transition of the financial industry to the “digit” and the emergence of the e-finance are associated with the FinTech revolution. E-finance is a deeply global phenomenon, representing the digital correction of spacetime processes and/or quasi resolution of a numb...

The concept of enantiosemy as a semantic category of language is investigated in this article. It has long been noted by scientists that the opposite knowledge can be expressed at the level of a sentence. The article discusses some interrogative sentences with enantiosemy meaning in the German language, which have a certain inconsistency in form and content. An additional circumstance potentially predisposing the syntactic constructions to rethinking the original meaning to the opposite is the asymmetry feature of...

The paper deals with important shifts in the postnonclassical paradigm of the education. The author underlines the necessity of the compliance of the modern system of education to the requirements of the society (consider, generation Z and Alpha). New technologies of ICT, multidisciplinary researches and magic methods of teaching should be effectively applied in classroom and extracurricular work of students. The author analyses the main reasons of the popularity of the sequel of Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling from ...

The article shows the origins of coaching (one of the most effective ways of leadership development) in the Socratic dialogue as it appears in Plato's works. This origin appears in the most advanced way in cognitive coaching based on cognitive therapy. However, it is not only the roots of a young practical science that goes so far into antique philosophy. If we look at the elements of the Socratic method, it turns out that coaching belongs to it not only in the form but - or perhaps more - in its purpose. Formally...

The era of digitization and, in particular, Industry 4.0 is forcing companies effectively manage the entire value stream and at the same time to increase production flexibility as a result of customer requirements. This requires eliminating all waste not only in manufacturing, but also in administrative processes leading to lean processes. A number of methods have been developed in the historical development. They systematically eliminate the various categories of waste in the production process. Their unique comb...

The article presents the rationale for using the Data Envelopment Analysis method for assessing innovation sustainability at the regional level. The theoretical basis for the paper is based on results of the study of foreign experience gained and the current Russian practice on evaluation of innovative development at the federal and regional levels. Focusing on the examined approaches, the authors propose an algorithm of regional innovative resistance estimation using the method of comparative analysis of the data...

The paper presents the most important aspects of the defensive positioning of football players according to the possible ways of approaching offensively the opponent. The study focuses on general principles, which are valid in all ways of positioning, as well as on some specific principles that are required to be used according to the characteristics of the own players in the direct relationship with their opponents. There are described ways of behavior of the players who are positioned in different defense system...

Building innovation is a controversial subject, because this industry has unique features and peculiarities that cannot always be framed by the classical innovation management theory. To improve competitiveness and meet the needs of society and customers, the construction industry needs to innovate successfully by improving strategies to increase the performance of the construction organization and respond to the needs of stakeholders. Successful innovation requires effective cooperation among different stakeholde...

The target of this research is to demonstrate that during the 10th -11th centuries the Hungarian settlement system in Northern Bihor (Bihor County, in Romania) was based on the habitation scheme organized by Avar Empire, in the 8th-9th century. The methodology is based on the new archeological discoveries and contemporaneous etymological results of the naming mode of settlements in the area, compared to the chartered information about the mentioned period. The target of this research is to refute the theory set up...

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...

This paper aims to briefly present the ways of communication and promotion of Romanian banks through the online environment. The underlying motivation of this work is the particular importance of virtual communication. This is a defining feature of contemporary societies, being preferred by organizations, especially thanks to the technological means of communication. They use all existing media, from traditional to unconventional events. Today, organizations increasingly rely on online communication (social networ...

The Western Piedmont area, where are located the lower Po and Infernotto valleys, is important for intangible heritage, because was the theatre of the main events that took place during the Resistance (September 1943 – April 1945). Consequently, cultural heritage of the community is very conspicuous now. Precisely war diaries, correspondences, video interviews and pictures represent the core of the sources available: part of them is already been published and it is been related to the geography of the territory. H...

The paper tries to analyze the issue of human capital development on the performance of the organization at national and regional level, to identify and analyze, through the proposed conceptual model, the factors of the human resource development that lead to increasing the organization competitiveness by ensuring the connection between the specialized human capital and the organization performance, which will generate a competitive advantage over the selected organizations. The overall objective of the research f...

It is assumed that the content of the broad concept of educational interaction consists of many related components and competences that determine the quality of vocational education and training. In order to understand the educational interaction, the vocational teachers' experience in communicating with modern students, their behaviors and insights better, the qualitative research was conducted. The research design was based on five group interviews with 48 vocational teachers from vocational education and traini...