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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...

Background: Infertility is consistently associated with reduced quality of life. This brings about a negative impact on emotional, social, and physical functioning. Moreover, the infertile individual is often faced with feelings of resentment, anxiety, uncertainty, or grief. So far, various psychological interventions have validated their effects on the psychological functioning of infertile participants, yet very few creative-expressive techniques have been documented. Accordingly, art therapeutic interventions t...

The concept of value co-creation (VCC), which has been widely discussed in recent years in economic literature, is used in the paper to consider the co-creation of the value of works of art. Three entities involved in co-creating the value of a piece of art are indicated: 1. the artist – the creator of a piece of art; 2. the recipient/intermediary in the conclusion of a transaction; and 3. the customer/buyer. Special attention is paid to the interactive nature of creating the market value of a piece of art. In t...

The paper documents the research program entitled "SY4.0, Smart Yard: Industry 4.0 Production Process" financed with European funds under the ERDF Regional Operational Program 2014-2020. The research, through the use of automatic field data processing systems and their integration in the design, through the realization of technological demonstrators and through the improvement of operating activities and disseminating and sharing information, aims to come up with a new modalities for yard management based on digit...

The future in jurisprudence, including crime prevention and control, is increasingly marked by the development and use of new technologies. Among the before-mentioned developments, quite essential perspectives are attributed to large data systems and artificial intelligence (AI). The use of artificial intelligence in crime control comprises organizational, technological and legal aspects.Artificial intelligence possesses selfdevelopment capacities whose evolutionary trend might be difficult to prognose and, probab...

This paper points out at the ability of music to capture and make sense of the existence of human, since music is, in its essence, the element of it. The artistic work of Roman Berger is an urgent message, the defence of values, and, the anxiety and concern for both the Truth and the state of the contemporary world. Personal experience, encounter with suffering and pain, and, attitude to eternity have all become a ubiquitous source for the feeling of life and the artistic inspiration for Roman Berger, an exception...

Due to the growth in qualitative research methods, there has also been an increase in artbased research that looks at concepts or phenomena. This paper reflects on arts-based research methods and how they contribute to give (vulnerable) groups recognition by focusing on shared storytelling. Arts-based methods often serve two main purposes: knowledge production and knowledge translation. We look at three different case studies of arts-based research methods to strive for social change. First case is a photovoice pr...

The paper presents a comparative analysis of arts therapies in the Czech Republic with a focus on dramatherapy. The aim of the introduction is to offer an overview of arts therapies in the Czech Republic and their historical development. This is followed by two literature reviews with the aim to compare published results about arts therapies and to analyse more thoroughly the scientific results about types of published research in dramatherapy. The first review was carried out in the National library of the Czech ...

Teaching the correct writing and usage of Romanian prepositions to foreign students may be a real challenge taking into account that the preposition is one of the most important inflexible parts of speech of the Romanian language, without which one cannot correctly express and last but not least considering the prepositionВ’s high degree of usage in the everyday language. Most of the prepositions express varied reports, bearing multiple functions, their role is often understated, which leads to an increasing numbe...

The subjects of public international law are the states, as primordial subjects of international law and international intergovernmental organizations. The legal status of the individual - the natural person - within the international public law represents an important topic of discussion, both in the specialized doctrine and within the specific institutions that apply the international law. Two points of view have emerged in time: in the first opinion, legal entities are real subjects of public international law,...

The State is the main subject of public international law and the main actor on the international scene. The role of states in the development of international relations has evolved over time, starting with the classical manifestation of state sovereignty and reaching to this day when the role of individually viewed states has gradually yielded ground to international organizations such as the European Union or the United Nations. This is due to the fact that, in line with the new global challenges, states singula...

The paper examines the role of public policy for human development between 2002-2017 periods by covering the 28 European Union Member States. In order to determine if public policies are playing a leading role for the Human Development process, we defined current public policy implying the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGIs), namely: Government Effectiveness (GE), Regulatory Quality (RQ) and Control of Corruption (CC) collected from the World Bank. The components of development were defined through some dimensi...

The paper focuses on the construction industry and its analysis from the economic-statistical perspective. Construction is a specialized economic sector that provides construction, maintenance, modernization, reconstruction and demolition of building structures. The aim of the paper is to evaluate the development of construction companies in 2010 and 2014, which are years after the crisis. The statistical data of all construction enterprises were processed for the above years using the Albertina database. In 2010,...

Varna may have great potential but the city could not still attract enough conference tourists. The aim of the study is to estimate the factors influencing the attractiveness of Varna as a destination for conference tourism. The sampling group of the study comprises a total of 53 experts and specialists in the field of tourism. For the purpose of the study, a questionnaire has been designed to gather primary information about expertsВ’ perceptions of Varna as a conference tourist destination. To assess the potenti...

Objective: The objective of the study is to assess the provision of social infrastructure in the context of municipalities with the construction of a rating based on the developed methodology. Methods: A method is proposed for calculating the integral index of the social infrastructure of municipalities according to the level of indicators and taking into account the dynamics of its change. Findings: The presented methodology for assessing the provision of social infrastructure was tested on the example of municip...

The unprecedented scale of the migrant crisis is appalling. It upsets us and urges us to act. Every day, desperate people tent to cross the boundaries of indifference. For specific situations, they are called refugees. Treated often as a simple problem, it is our brothers and sisters, fragile human beings who need help, and this is urgently. On a global scale, there is impressive solidarity and a genuine desire to help. At the same time, signs of impotence and overload are well known in many places. Public debate ...

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) refers to a group of therapeutic and diagnostic disciplines that largely exist outside the institutions where conventional health care is taught and provided. In most parts of the world CAM content is included into health care professionals training programs. In Croatia there are still ideological and professional disputes between the majority of allopathic establishment and CAM practitioners. AIM: Aim of the study was to identify the openness and willingness of healthc...

Currently relevant are the issues of improving the intellectual management of the educational process in the structure of subject mathematics teaching. The solution of this problem is aimed at ensuring the individual needs of each student in self-education and self-actualization, at the activation of cognitive, intellectual, motivational processes in the context of the new digital educational paradigm. The leading idea of the study is the development of an automated intelligent learning system in mathematics (ILS)...

The design process is a complex, multi-aspectual set of actions and decisions that go toward achieving a concrete aim. In the history of the development of design as a professional field, an essential role has been played by an expanding number of methodological tools, created to support the effective execution of the design process. The diversity of the tools and methods to support design is often overwhelming. Instead of offering more tools, the KMP WFP team has attempted to develop a device whose main goal is t...

The Aztecs are among the most prominent, most developed and even the most explored pre-Hispanic (prior to the Spanish 16th century colonization of the Americas existing) cultures of Mesoamerica, a culture-historical area comprising Central and Southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and certain parts of other Central American states except for Panama. In a broader sense, Aztecs can be identified with Nahuas, who dominated the relatively independent region of Mesoamerica called Central Mexico (the Mexican Valley and its...

Background. Due to globalization and rapid economic changes the job insecurity is becoming more and more common for the contemporary labor market in most countries. There are many investigations devoted to the consequences of an job insecurity for individual and organization in the international scientific literature. But there is still little research on this theme in the Russian context. So, the aim of our study is to fill this gap. In our previous studies (Chuykova, Sotnikova, 2016); (Chuykova, 2018) we found t...

Immediately after the collapse of socialism, post-socialist education remained relatively good. With the end of negative ideological pressure, however, adverse changes began that, unfortunately, have survived. We can identify five negative changes. First came the melding of what was previously the separate training of teachers in primary and secondary schools. Then came the rejection of a predetermined number of graduates within certain disciplines. Third, schools became financed according to their student enrollm...

Serving English language learners (ELLs) has been a major focus of the Reading Recovery (RR) early literacy intervention since its inception in New Zealand and continues to be a focus in the United States. In 2017-18, in the United States, RR served more than 6,000 ELL students in 1st grade. A recent randomized control trial conducted over 4 years, with 6,888 students, of which 19% were ELL, concluded, The growth rate we observed in students who participated in Reading Recovery over approximately a five-month peri...

Mies van der Rohe’s approach to architecture through a poetic structural skeleton, abstractly refined to become a universal prototype of the essence of form and spiritualization of space, can be best seen at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. This unique modern temple recently under restoration work by the subtle pencil of David Chipperfield [1] will soon have to be prepared to receive the extra additional space designed by the winner competition office leaded by Herzog & De Meuron [2]. Despite the rebirth of t...

The paper aimed to illustrate some of the best practices in civic initiatives pursued by a team comprising professors from universities and trainers from a training and consulting firm, united within a Romanian non-profit organization, in order to develop leadership and entrepreneurial skills in the case of students. The research methodology was based on both quantitative and qualitative methods. The paper demonstrated the importance of joint civic initiatives designed and implemented by people from both the acade...

Review of the projects experience and best practices in the development of participatory design and budgeting in St. Petersburg from 2016 up to 2019, which makes it possible to directly participate in the allocation of the city budget and improve the quality of life in the city. It analyzes various practices to involve citizens in budgeting through their participation in proposing and selecting the initiatives to be financed from the budgetary funds, and the subsequent monitoring of the project implementation. Thi...

The paper deals with the issue of the design of a hospital chapel from early 20th century built as one of the buildings comprising the Institution for Nervously and Mentally Ill in Krakow-Kobierzyn. The whole complex was built as a pavilion style mental hospital starting from 1908 on the outskirts of Krakow. It was opened in 1917 and still operates. The hospital grounds cover ca.50 hectares and house a dozen of pavilions for patients and many background facilities such as administration buildings, pharmacy, kitche...

Without being exhaustive, the present paper aims to analyse the complex developments that involved international conflicts between the Fifties and the early Seventies. At that time, the international relations were strongly marked by the bipolarism and by the opposition between both the Superpowers, United States and Soviet Union, and their respective fields of influence. In the time frame considered, the dynamics included not only the European equilibrium – the most visible theatre of dispute between US and USS...

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...

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 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 UKВ’s decision to leave the European Union...

Nowadays solo traveling is an emerging market in tourism industry. It is relatively new type of tourism which forms express the communitiesВ’ will to have entire disposal of their choice and freedom. The purpose of the current study is to assess the available resources for developing solo tourism in Bulgaria. The used methodology consists in application of Hartmut BosselВ’s system-based approach where the destination is divided into three large subsystems - human, support and natural. Based on the results from a c...

Hotel service in its essence is a dynamic process, stimulating appliance of various technological innovations, which in turn create convenience and real experience to hotel guests during their stay. Artificial intelligence and virtual reality, mobile applications, digital key and kiosks, voice assistants, chatbots, robots and many more modern technologies play essential role in achieving competitive advantages in the hotel industry. Their effectiveness and appropriate implementation rely entirely on end usersВ’ pe...

The main aim of the research is to raise awareness of some of the most intractable eating disorders of the last two centuries – anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. In accordance with this aim in mind, the following sub-aims were also pursued by the authors: 1) to highlight the most typical feature of both diseases, 2) to compare them with a view to establishing convergent and subevent features, 3) to track some of the possible causes and consequences of these disorders, 4) to suggest possible treatment, 5) to ...

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...

Starting from 2018, the tax benefits for donating legal entitiesand private persons have been reduced considerably in Latvia, and the previous research suggests that the income of the non-governmental organizations mainly consists of donations made by legal entities. This study investigates the donating legal entities of the largest charity organization in Latvia for the purpose of finding out the donorsВ’ understanding of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and their motivation for engagement in charity, in ord...

The purpose of this study is to present business models as the success factors of social enterprise and their applicability in the outlook of new economic trends which include the perspective of transition from a linear to a circular economy. The issue of the study provided the opportunity to establish success factors of social enterprise as well business models that are used in practice. The paper uses a fragment of a wider survey conducted by the author in the period 2015- 2016 concerning the Polish model of soc...

In Poland, the transformation period, initiated in 1989, brought a huge development of academic education. The number of studying youth has increased many times. This process forced building investments in higher education in Poland at an unprecedented scale. Still lively "old" traditional university centers have been developing dynamically, yet at the same time many new ones have been created. Wroclaw University of Science and Technology is the largest university in Lower Silesia and one of the best technical uni...

With the case study technique being generally quite profoundly worked out, some peculiar aspects still need further development, in particular, those connected with communicative effectiveness of business rhetoric. This research is aimed at studying the ways to enhance pragmatic impacts of studentsВ’ communicative activities in case study. The analytical methods used in the present paper include elements of the descriptive, comparative and functional analyses. The author shows that case study increases teachersВ’ ...

The new air HUB and railway junction will be built in the Baranow commune, about 40 km west of Warsaw. The Central Communication Port, called the Solidarity Port, is planned as the best communicated place in Poland. Over the course of the decade, a new airport, a railway station as well as a railway and expressway are to be built. The airport will be scheduled to start operating with two runways, but four are planned. The planned area of the airport area is about 3,000 hectares. Initial airport capacity in the lau...

Changes in organization are considered very important for its survival, development and well-being in todayВ’s competitive environment. Advantage of organizationВ’s success and achievement mostly depends on ability to harmonize its inner regulations and order with demands of the outside environment. Resistance to change is mainly considered as problematic behavior that needs to be overcome in order to guarantee successful introduction of changes. Aim of this study: to research causes and manners of resistance to c...

Coping with demanding situations is a regular part of managerial work. In this context, demanding situations are perceived by managers as either unpleasant or as a starting ramp for their career growth. The paper presents the results of an experimental research project on human capital development on the basis of increasing the efficiency of resolving difficult situations. The experimental group underwent a specific preparation, whereas the control group did not. The experiment was conducted on a research sample o...

Introduction. The objective of this investigation is to pinpoint the influence of the salivary pH on the hardness of the dental enamel. Method. The study was realized using recently extracted 6 non-carious wisdom teeth, that were immersed in solutions of different pH (between 2.5 and 6.5) for 3 minutes, solutions that would simulate the pH of the oral cavity in patients with a potential condition of gastroesophageal reflux disease. The hardness of the enamel was tested using the Vickers method. Results show that t...

This paper investigates the impact of the quality of governance on the quality of life in Northern European countries. As public sector governance is related to the interaction between governments and citizens and organisations, being a key aspect in economic and political development, the research focuses on determining which variables employed to determine the quality of governance are most influential on the quality of life at the national level. The regression analysis is realised on a set of Northern European...

Child aggression is a form of social security. It occurs at the age of one to three years. In most cases it does not take the symptoms of the disorder, usually a transient, developmentally natural psychological phenomenon. Children very often react aggressively in a period of resistance. They reject the demands of parents and teachers or their boundaries and rules. They don't like the restrictions, so they can hit their parents, throw objects, etc. The aggression of children and their abuse by parents is no except...

Chrzanow is one of the many Polish cities and towns that found themselves on nineteenth-century maps of the Austrian and Austro-Hungarian empire. It is located in southern Poland, near Krakow, and its history dates back to the Middle Ages. The most important Austrian maps to be made in the nineteenth century include: The Map of Western Galicia (the so-called Heldensfeld's map, the First Military Survey), the Map of Galicia and Bukovina from the years 1861–1864 (the Second Military Survey), and the Map of the Aus...

In a circular economy we have to rethink, redesign, reduce, reuse, recycle, and recover the waste through a circular economy which is generating a valuable chain between raw material producer and consumer. Economic circular models could be shaped into short cycles, long cycles, cascades, pure cycles, dematerialized cycles and production on demands. Using these models and adapt them for agriculture we save a lot of resources, being able to decouple substantially production by resource extraction. An agri-food syste...

Family relationships are related to their coherence, ability to solve everyday problems and challenging situations. However, the family has internal and external circumstances that affect the relationships between its members. Gender stereotypes and a number of other circumstances can also weaken the coherence of these relationships in the daily confrontation with a child's handicap. The paper provides an overview of these circumstances that may affect the quality of family relationships. Data collection and evalu...

The EU Regulation 2016/1004, entered into force on 29th January 2019, regulates the property consequences of cross-border couples in registered partnerships and recognizes to the partners the same rights of married couples. Registered partnerships initially originated often for the legal recognition of same-sex couples, as the European Court of Human Rights required countries to ensure them specific rights, but not necessarily to recognize same-sex marriage. As a result, nowadays we have a complex taxonomy of lega...

The article represents a concept of the new civilizational and cultural paradigm in the process of formation. Determined by the coexistence of two strong types of cultures with the opposite focuses, this new paradigm designates the two cultural types by the indicators "Retro" and "Future" accordingly. Here we describe the specifics of each civilizational and cultural type. In particular, this work proves the necessity of preserving the fundamental "status quo" of these civilizational and cultural types. This neces...