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education systems in a very short time by organising remote learning for students in general education schools. This change affected the working conditions of all participants in the learning process and presumably the learning outcomes of students. This paper examines the learning outcomes of students of Grades 5-12 during the COVID-19 lockdown. The research was carried out using the data from the electronic school diary “Mano Dienynas” of 22 schools: 11 schools from the favourable (high) SES municipal context an...

The work aims to identify how to enhance the communicative competence of undergraduates by introducing a teacher-supported online "Job Lab" English language course on oral speaking skills training. The course goal was to meet the needs of non-native students of Economics (50 participants) who formed two groups with a different approach (videotaping and without). The main task was creating, delivering, and evaluating oral speaking using an assessment rubric and learn how to give/get constructive feedback. Before th...

The article deals with the problem of the necessity to support families by the government. The main points of the Concept of Government Family Policy of the Russian Federation up to 2025 are described: the position and importance of the family institution

This paper aims to explore the theme of the design representation of the resilient city through the critical reinterpretation of planning and design experiences of urban space, developed nationally and internationally, which are significant in terms of both mitigation and adaptation. In particular, we focused our attention on the themes of drawing and representation, looking for answers to questions such as: What is the role of drawing in the descriptive narrative of resilience? What are the tools of design for re...

This study aimed to investigate the flipped and traditional classroom approaches to improve undergraduates' professional presentation skills in English language courses. The presentation skills in English in line with current operating technology, online learning and student-centred tailor-made flipped approach is not just the task of the academic world but a high-demand request of the global labour market. The Covid-19 shift has asked for online, more active student-centred education that can represent flipped cl...

The spread of the Covid-19 pandemic introduced restrictions that challenged companies to restr cture to stay in business. The company managers’ ability to initiate changes in work organization is crucial to ensure the companies’ existence and successful business continuity. The research aims to study the development trends and problems of work organization in Covid-19 conditions. To achieve the aim the legal framework for work organization was studied, changes in work organization in the Baltic States and the EU w...

In Portugal, tourism revenues in 2019 accounted for around 8.5% of Gross Domestic Product, before the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the sectors that directly influence this weight of tourism revenues is accommodation. Tourism business units have suffered a severe setback since the beginning of the global pandemic. However, it is generally believed that the sector will return to the 2019 level around 2 23. Although for investors in general the profitability of their investments is their main objective, in most sectors ...

The experience of developed countries demonstrated that without a strong agriculture insurance market you cannot have a modern and strong agriculture industry in your country. For a farmer, in order to work the land intensive with high quality technology they need big investments. Taking into account these big investments it is very important that the farmer should take into account the associated climate risk which if it is not insured can be very devastating for the farmer. In the last decade the climate change ...

Last decades have witnessed the growing interest towards multiple problems of language education. In the lime light there is the issue of language anxiety as a form of the psychological barrier in the foreign language learning. The tasks of the research w

Students’ critical thinking ability includes deductive and inductive thinking, the ability to pla experiments, precise assumption identification, all of which are essential cognitive abilities for prosperity in everyday life and for further career success. Previous studies concluded that students, who participated in extracurricular activities, such as competitions, have higher levels of critical thinking abilities than their non-attending peers. The im of this study is the investigation of the predictive power of...

Pregnancy associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD) have a significant fetal and maternal risk, including developing preeclampsia, prematurity and progress of renal function. Is CKD a barrier in conception? The aim of the study was to monitor the maternal and fetal evolution and complications occurring during pregnant patients with different degrees of CKD. Our study used a descriptive and prospective plan for analyzing pregnancies of women with CKD and the fetal and maternal impact of it. A total of 23 patient...

Prague focuses on the training of professional counsellors, while also focusing on identifying, analysing and characterizing the educational needs of employers and employees. It also finds suitable ways to obtain a new qualification, to extend, change or innovate an existing qualification, etc. In this context, the authors focus on the profession of a police soldier, being traditionally understood as purely male work. The Military Police of the Czech Republic was established in 1991 and its tasks include, for exam...

While CSR reporting in Romania is quite recent and came as an obligation recommended by the European regulators, the focus on defining a set of standards in the field of financial investments, shaped by strong social and corporate responsibility, is an organic development within the companies listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange. In order to assess the financial impact of CSR programs implemented by listed companies in Romania during the 2018-2020 time frame, we shall analyze data for 25 listed companies on the ...

Recent research on the use and health benefits of urban green spaces and their role in people’s coping strategies during Covid-19 has been reviewed, in order to be contrasted with the frame story of The Decameron. The landscapes and gardens of escape from the physical and moral impacts of the plague in Boccaccio’s frame story correspond to the role of urban and periurban green spaces in the uncertainty and threats of the current pandemic. The coping strategies in both of the examined cases are similar in that gree...

The subject of the research is legal relationships arising due to the testator’s right of establishing heir’s non-property obligations in the inheritance contract. Current issues of interpretation and implementation of legal provisions on the inheritance

Background: The postpartum period is a challenging life experience for a woman, durin which the mother has to cope with a new role and the changes that motherhood brings. One of the important factors that can influence the process of adaptation is al o sufficient and adequate support from loved ones. One of the main sources of such upport is the spouse/partner of the new mother. The main goal of our research was to identify the social support of mothers provided by the partner in the postpartum period and to verif...

Quality assurance of teaching and learning is among the strategic goals of tertiary education. The key trend is towards comparable educational systems (achieved mainly by defining the teaching results) with improved permeability allowing for higher student mobility and better preparedness for jobs in a globalised economy. A great challenge of tertiary education is linking the research outcomes with degree programmes, which results in the graduates coping better with the real practical problems. The protracted accr...

The teaching assistant has been used very often in the Czech education system in recent years, and we find his presence in almost all types of schools. In the future, we can expect an ever-increasing quality and quantity of these workers. The teaching assistant meets in his practice and will very likely continue to meet with social and health tasks. According to current legislation in the Czech Republic, acts of a social nature are part of the profession of teaching assistant. However, we can still (not very rarel...

this article shows how in the last two decades UNESCO had started to recognize the nonprofit international association the Fédération Internationale des éhicules Anciens (FIVA) historical cars as part of its world heritage initiative. FIVA was founded in 1966 and its aim is the preservation, restoration, use and culture of mechanically propelled road vehicles. In 2017, FIVA was recognised by UNESCO as the body for Historical Vehicles and related Culture. The 1895 Carl Benz patent "car with internal combustion engi...

The overpainted layers reveal the artist’s working process, the way he created his work in different phases until the final painting. Photographing paintings in near-infrared spectrum (NIR/IR reflectography) also provides protection against counterfeit art paintings. This paper investigates the intrinsic properties of colorant twins based on the InfraredArt theory, which expands the knowledge about the light absorption response in the visual (V) and near-infrared spectrum (NIR). The key support for the establishme...

The article deals with the impact of advertising communication on the consumers' mind. The article presents the results of a study focused on the features of constructing the image of the family in advertising. Advertising has a strong impact on large seg

Children are growing up in a digital environment and, from early on, they get used to watching films and images first and foremost, well before they learn to read. The screen keeps entertaining even very young “illiterate”. Slowly but steadily the screen becomes the child’s best friend and their main window onto the outside world, as determined by digital addiction. It contains moving pictures and is predominated by fascinating narratives. Therefore, within the framework of this study, it seemed important to find ...

The objective of the paper was to present the perception of teachers in schools for pupils with disability concerning the pandemic, the requirements of the educational process as well as the impact on pupils’ families. The research is an observational-descriptive cross-sectional study. Given the nature of the study, there was no need to establish and include a control group. The design of the study was selected in order to obtain research data as soon as possible given the topicality of the social and educational ...

The main benefits of Industry 4.0 for more efficient use of resources are the reduction of energy and raw material consumption of production, increased productivity in production, optimization of logistics routes and technological solutions for decentralized production systems. The basic and necessary condition for the implementation of intelligent production systems and services is digitalization. If we focus on sustainable development, then we are talking about sustainable production. Sustainable production desc...

European theatre was born in the 6th century BC in Athens. Since then, the theatre art continually develops new concepts, forms and styles but keeps looking for a kind, understanding, dedicated audience. In the era of modern technologies, it develops fast

The purpose of this paper is to present the role of education in the professionalization of public administration, based on which the hypothesis was set that ethics education increases the professionalization of public administration. The methodology used in the paper to verify the hypothesis includes scientific methods of deduction and induction, methods of analysis and synthesis, and mathematical-statistical methods in the processing and presentation of the research results. Special emphasis is placed on the cas...

The article presents the results of the study of visual communication formats of fashion brands in social networks. The main effects of communication are considered; the results of the analysis of cases containing the techniques and means of visual commun

The successive enlargements from 2004 and 2007 of the EU had extended its borders, leading not simply to the creation of a new and longer Eastern border, but also to a new border regime in the form of the European Neighbourhood Policy. With the enlargements the EU became a close neighbour of criminal groups originating from the Eastern neighbourhood, which by undertaking criminal activities have became a serious threat to the European welfare state system, leading to the implementation of consolidated security mea...

The article deals with the issue of multimodality and its impact into innovative perspective of transdisciplinary social semiotic research. We are aimed at the identification of new features of multimodality resulted from creative modification of familiar

CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) provides many benefits to companies, perhaps most importantly that as a result of its influence, civil organizations, the media and other stakeholders will be less likely to attack the company; it can therefore be understood as a form of risk management. CSR in fact reduces the risk of tightening regularly the rules; working with government can bring benefits to the company itself or to business life in general. In addition, trusting relationships reduce transaction costs, whe...

Since the breakout of COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, post-secondary education in Croatia has been held almost exclusively online. Therefore, teachers and students had to adapt to the entirely way of education. Online classes were held by using web-conference tools (MS Teams, Zoom, Moodle webinar), while class materials and online exams were available through learning management systems (Merlin, 2co2, Moodle). In this paper we present the results of surveying students of electrica University of Rijeka, and studen...

The effects of ionizing radiation on the basis of cellular losses of radiation to the body can cause disease changes of various kinds, which can manifest themselves over several days, weeks, and others over the years to decades. From the point of view of an integrated organism, the effects of ionizing radiation extinguish deterministic effects, where the effect occurs naturally after reaching a certain radiation dose and stochastic effects, where the probability of damage increases as the radiation dose increases....

As a teacher I have directly conducted research to experiment with new methodologies in teaching to demonstrate that even children or kids can be able to create a drawing and therefore an object in 3D and improve their skills in addition to creativity by developing real problem solving skills. A new teaching methodology therefore requires helpingstudents not to be afraid of making mistakes by encouraging them to move forward on their learning path. Going from the ideal to the real and even better from the virtual ...

Nowadays music has become an inseparable element of modern audiomarketing strategies. It is intentionally introduced into commercial spaces to influence consumer behaviour by triggering appropriate physiological, affective and cognitive responses. In order to determine the possible selected dependencies, experimental studies were carried out in natural conditions in one of the chain clothing stores located in a shopping mall in Warsaw, where an audiomarketing strategy is implemented on a daily basis. Three situati...

The subject of the study is the identification of psychosocial factors and the needs of seniors with cognitive impairment in a situation of persistent pandemic Covid 19. The theoretical basis is the clinical aspects of the target group and the conceptual approach to social health. The paper specifically describes the partial results of a part of longitudinal research, continuously implemented since 2013 within specialized research projects for universities at the Institute of Special Education Studies, Faculty of ...

The basis of the country's educational policy today is the competence approach. It is enshrined in the state‘s educational standard and respectively in the new curricula in all subjects: through the indicated expected learning outcomes in the form of competencies; through the proposed recommended percentage distribution for the different lessons; through guidelines for specific assessment methods and forms; through the sample activities that support the acquisition of key competencies and the implementation of int...

In-store music is regarded as an effective tool of marketing communication and social control. According to the marketing theory appropriately designed music(scape) can mediate two contrary effects: namely approach and avoidance behavior. The first one includes all positive behaviours that might be directed at a particular place, such as a desire to stay, explore and affiliate, joy of shopping, returning, spending money, time spent browsing, loyalty etc. Avoidance behaviour reflects the opposite. What role in thes...

Learning is a result of brain activity, a neuro-phenomenon that can be analysed in response to a variety of research questions. This article aims at focusing on the teacher’s working scope, explaining what neurodidactic actions of the teacher contribute to learning. The obtained results demonstrate that the learning process, which we intend to construct in accordance with neurodidactic principles, can be analysed according to four main factors: students’ neurostimulation, perception and consolidation of teaching m...

Digital technology development has been emerging in the last couple of years. Moreover, the pandemic period has accelerated the implementation of various video conferencing systems. Nowadays, virtual collaboration became imperial not only in the secondary, but in the higher education as well. Wide variety of digital platforms have become common practice in adult education regardless the age category of learners and educators. Furthermore, the digital disruption radically has changed how the educators and learners ...

Educational environment is the most important factor that affects student’s motivation, ambitions, and their emotional state. It can also be a detrimental factor to student’s persuasion of higher education and can demotivate students from staying in health care. [1]. This research paper used literature review to find studies that used Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) questionnaire, which was developed by Sue Roff, to evaluate learning environment. [2] The questionnaire was translated into Czech, ...

After decades of well-developed public housing programs in the Yugoslav socialist state, the socio-political shift of the 1990s introduced new challenges into the housing domain: privatization, ownership redistribution, and market liberalization. These processes were accompanied by deindustrialization as well as economic and refugee migrations, which caused a new housing crisis. The withdrawal of the state from housing investment on the one hand, and the instrument of the ‘detailed urban plan’ on the other, led to...

A postage stamp is a security that goes down in history. The stamp we are presenting was designed and issued in Croatia, EU, on 24 September 2021, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Otorhinolaryngology Clinic in Croatia. This stamp contains new values through IRD, and that is exactly what we show and offer to philatelists. The stamp "100 years of otorhinolaryngology" has artistic beauty and scientific innovation in the development of twin colorants. In the visual solution of the stamp are embedded hid...

Background: Being effective is very important for any organisation. With a given number of inputs, more efficient companies can create more outputs than less efficient ones leading to better use of resources. Improving efficiency increases firm competitiveness. This paper focuses on the link between the firm’s economic efficiency and firm size. Only a few studies are examining this relationship, and the authors of this article revealed no study investigating this link on data of the Czech companies. Methods: Data ...

The concept of patient’s rights itself was fairly known before the last four or five decades, and medical malpractice of all kinds made the aggrieved party to seek redress at a court; but no special legislation, apart from rare exceptions, has ever existed to anchor the patient’s rights before the late 20th century. In the civil law tradition of the 20th century, especially its earlier decades, doctors could be held criminally or civilly liable for a wide variety of malpractice, including unauthorized medical inte...

The main field of study for the article topic is the innovation clusters concept, a brief history about clusters and how are becoming more and more essential for innovation development. The functioning of innovation is based on cooperation and collaboration between entities, allowing orchestration of activities, new technologies and adopting solutions based on the market needs. Proximity is often correlated with cooperation, better use of nfrastructure and built of science and tech parks as a way of increasing eco...

The process of organization and functionality of one of the most important attributes of any modern democratic legal state, i.e. the state power, is based on certain principles. The principle of separation of powers is universally acknowledged as such a fundamental principle, thus it is generally established in the constitutions of democratic states. Upon restoration of Independence1 the state power in the Republic of Lithuania is also implemented based on the doctrine of separation of powers. Particularly increas...

The article focuses on the evaluation of therapeutic and therapeutic-educational approaches from the perspective of patients of psychiatric units (Military Hospital Olomouc, Psychiatric Hospital Kroměříž) in the process of addiction treatment (drugs and drug-alcohol combinations). The subject of the research is the factor of evaluation of semantic differential of the following interventions: dramatherapy, progressive stages of treatment (0-3), medication, psychotherapeutic group, self-management - therapeutic comm...