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The Law is made of concepts. Each legal concept contains a bottom layer and preceding philosophic synonym. Each word has its meaning, as a sign which represents an axiom. For this reason, traditionally, legal sciences are averse to polysemy. Therefore, 'adoption' of embryos and 'donation of embryos' are entirely distinct concepts. Moreover, nowadays medically assisted procreation procedures are an answer to numerous issues that touch the lives of an uncountable number of families. However, at the pace that these p...

Domain specific knowledge such as visual art has been claimed to have an impact on the performance of various visual tasks. The limited amount of research led us to investigate where the reaction times (RT) of art- and non-art school students have been measured and compared. Data were collected from students from 3 Romanian art- and non-art high-schools. The design of the study is quasi- experimental. The purpose of this research was to investigate such difference in RT between students with different backgrounds ...

The work examines the troubled story of the Lanerossi spinning mill plant, a case of a company that experienced firsthand the negative effects of the economic policy of “extraordinary intervention of the State” for Southern Italy. Lanerossi's affair represents an interesting visual angle both for the analysis, at a macroeconomic level, of the policy of public intervention in the 1960s and, more generally, for reading, at the microeconomic level, an important and suffered chapter in the economic history of the prov...

This paper is linked to a research project that takes into account the Southern Italian landowning class from the eighteenth to the twentieth century and the process of development of the Italian Mezzogiorno, with particular reference to the influence of institutional and economic change on liberal Italy. We focus on the analysis of the life and the career of a southern Italian banker, Quinto Quintieri, whose family’s background and fortunes were entirely rooted in the latifundia who, in November 1944, was sent to...

The article under review presents a comparative study of the key features of ecological discourse (ED). The theme of ED is as vital linguistically as it is urgent environmentally. ED presents a complex phenomenon of speech and communication distinguished by a peculiar social and linguistic context. Applying the techniques of discourse analysis the article juxtaposes features of ED as they are manifested in narrative [ND] and media discourse [MD]. The undertaken analysis involves the comparison of participants, pla...

In the current understanding of the world, the issues of organization and management of multidimensional living space are of strategic importance. They are considered both from theoretical positions and from the point of view of sustainable development of the human community on Earth. Geographical science takes an active part in the development of these directions of the Strategy of Mankind, which is formed in the depths of natural Sciences and Humanities, first of all, it is necessary to point out that the persis...

We identified factors that influence the ability and desire of people to engage in physical culture. We studied their impact on the classes of various physical activity forms. We used the data of The Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey-Higher School of Economics (RLMS-HSE), 25th wave (2016). The sample size is 1893. There are several Russian and foreign papers about determinants of physical activity. We used it to highlight the necessary factors. We used the multinomial regression for modeling. It helped us to f...

Viorel Munteanu is a prominent, complex, active, and constant figure in the musical landscape of nowadays Romanian culture. His artistic profile takes many shapes, from a bearer of the spiritual and material traditions of Bukovina (the area where he was born), a composer, a pedagogue, a musicologist, and a music editor, to his vocation as an organizer and supporter of artistic values. In his works, the sacred becomes a guiding and inspiring light, and his folk-based resonances evoke ancestral sounds. Sensitive and...

Despite the fraught relationship between abyssal psychology and cultural anthropology, both are applicable to human behavior. Anthropological analysis is directed from the exterior to the interior (i.e., the historical and cultural framework of the Renaissance), in contrast to the psychoanalytical perspective, which follows from the inside out the internal complexity of the human mind and its contribution to the cultural act. Anthropologically, the structural model of the psyche contains both the Freudian personal...

With the changing socio-economic conditions in the 21st century schools and teachers as the organizers of the educational process should perform new tasks. Teachers' didactic activities alone are not sufficient in current conditions of the educational process. Teachers are faced with a new challenge, i.e. the need to create positive social climate in the classroom. In the contribution we describe optimal interpersonal relationships among teachers and school leaders, among the teaching staff, but also between teach...

The medical support is a really important part of all armies. High quality medical service is a extremely necessary for all military activities. Army of the Czech Republic has a great tradition with medical support. All soldiers in Czech Republic are professionals, and many members of Czech armed forces have experiences with foreign missions. The same situation is in the Military healthcare service. All personnel have to be professional soldiers and we can find these people in all types of military units. We have ...

Introduction: The development of professional burnout is influenced by numerous intrapersonal and situational factors, such as length of practice or satisfaction with health and private life. The results of some studies suggest that coping style may be another such factor. The aim of the present study was to assess the scale of professional burnout among midwives and to determine the relationships between coping styles and burnout symptoms. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with the research sample, w...

When a person meets another one, sometimes has the strange feeling of “deja vu”, thinking “I met this person before”. Psychology explains it as a path which is crossed between people. The same happens when people tries to predict the next friend they will meet. Which facts are most likely to lead to the connection? In the world of social networks, these are called nods. Each link shared among people is a line connecting them. In the computer world these graphs exist in an unlimited dimension, and artificial intell...

In this paper we address issues relating to marketing and the pharmaceutical industry. Specifically, we look into the main marketing concepts, identify the importance of marketing in promoting sales of pharmacy companies and demonstrate the strands used to promote sales and satisfy the needs of consumers in terms of improving their health. In addition, we highlight the development of the pharmaceutical sector in Kosovo, the competition between pharmaceutical producers and distributors, the strategies that firms us...

Human dwelling construction culture has been strongly shaped over time by the characteristics of the territories and of the local people, who gradually established building methods that cumulated perfect adaptations to specific geographies and socio-economic needs. This type of construction – called later on “vernacular architecture” – was built most of the times by the same people that were using it as housing, utilizing materials found in the vicinity. This “Non-pedigreed Architecture” – renamed so by Bernard Ru...

The paper presents possibilities of adaptation and re-use of historical harbour areas with a focus on the area of Winter Harbour in Bratislava. The aim is to help to identify the aspects that are necessary to consider to propose the most sustainable future for this part of port that still contains some interesting structures of industrial heritage, currently inaccessible to the public. The research methods consisted on one hand, of a standard historical research to evaluate the built heritage of the Winter Harbour...

The paper gives the overview on the research of project managers in the spectre of the project management standards in the small, medium and big enterprises in the Slovak Republic. Authors of the paper state the importance of the Corporate Social Responsibility from project manager?s point of view in the researched companies as a part of building environmental and social responsibility. Study included in the paper consists of quantitative and qualitative research of 272 selected small, medium and big enterprises i...

In Croatia there is a wide range of CAM therapies outside of the conventional, allopathic medicine and their usage has been exponentially increasing over the previous decades. However, there are only few, if any, relevant national surveys about the attitudes and beliefs of health care professionals about CAM in Croatia. AIM: The basic objective of the research was to identify the attitudes and beliefs about CAM among nurses, physiotherapists and sanitary engineers that were enrolled at the University of Applied He...

In the 19th century, urbanization and transport in European cities contributed creation of industrial territories, reducing areas of natural greenery, but changes at social life altered the attitude towards nature: the natural environment has been replaced by man-made cultivated roadside and walking allees provided a functional link between green areas of various significance, uniting parks and squares into one system. In the mid- 19th century, functional issues at European largest cities as Berlin, Paris, Vienna,...

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are a dynamic and changing system that has to be able to quickly adapt to changes in society and the political or business environment. Nowadays, an important factor of competitiveness for Latvian farmers being in the European Union (EU) and working in the global market is available information and the ability to use it quickly and correctly. Besides, designing a future rural development policy has to take into account the presence of other EU Member States and the need to agr...

Observing the growing diffusion of personal quantification devices, the research aims to deepen an area within which it is possible to derive real added value through the acquisition of data. Starting from a theoretical approach regarding the analysis of the emotional state of an adult in an automatic way, the paper comes to the definition of a system grounded on a theoretical knowledge using a tangible prototype in order to increase the emotional skills of a child in the age of development (social emotional learn...

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...

The Adinberri strategy (The New Age in the Basque language) is aligned with the overcoming of the shared ageing challenges within the territory of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country, Spain). This project arises as part of an innovation project in public policies launched by The Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country, Spain) that is named Etorkizuna Eraikiz (Building the Future). This project adopts a government by network approach, where the public institutions produce social value by building and activating the mul...

The work includes the results of the research on morphofunctional parameters of the teenagers aged 15–18 of indigenous small peoples of the North. The anthropometric measurements are based on: body weight and length, depot fat composition (indirect calipermetry method). In addition, Quetelet index is calculated, the somatotype structure is determined according to the classification scheme of B. Heath and J. Carter. To assess the respiratory system functional state, the lungs’ vital capacity is assessed, together w...

While the idea of objectivity is key to mass media text, modern research claims increase of subjectivity. Scholars determine two main reasons for that: influence of online mass media as well as a general sociocultural trend toward confession; diffusion of mass media and political discourses. Being a part of mass media discourse and thus experiencing the above mentioned trends, editorials have transformed in functions in such a way that they no longer aim solely at delivering information but progressively at influe...

The problematic of religiosity and its relationship towards media opens several ques-tions that can only be addressed on the border of the media theory and practice. Our paper focuses on the construction of media reality of the chosen aspects of religiosity. It also analyses the importance and the role of media in establishing the public view of religiosity. It identifies key trends impacting media in this context. The paper is atten-tive to both positive and negative influences of media on the public.

Housing is the basic and social need of every person. Urban development has its own direction and character, planning. It was not different in the case of former Czechoslovakia after 1960 where preference was given to construction of residential buildings using prefabricated units, a choice of direction, which laid a foundation for a mass housing estates development thenceforth. The change in the political system after 1989 led to the creation of a post-socialist society under which the panel housing mass producti...

Incorporating silk to clothing creates value. However, with increasing worldwide environmental concern, the environmental implications of silk production practices should not be disregarded. A relevant part of environmental assessment studies focuses on the final product (i.e.: silk clothes), however, upstream and downstream processes also contribute to total impacts. Therefore, the objective of this study is to present an introductory analysis for conducting a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of the silk cocoon produc...

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...

Museums are essential and important elements of saving information, local traditions and ways of lives of our ancestors. It is very important to preserve and protect museums themselves – their buildings and their collections against extraordinary events. Extraordinary events are, for purpose of this article, undesirable, unwanted and objectionable events, which require rescue system arrival. For example, natural disasters such as flood, windstorm, heavy snowfall etc., but also human caused disasters such as fire, ...

Multiple authors identify and discuss the factors of decisional influence for the choice of the teaching career; Anne D. Cockburn and Terry Haydn in 2004 [1] show that these factors are: collegiality, friendship, the sense of being supported by management, the resources of the department, the type of school children, the values and ethical conduct of the institution, induction, positive relationship with the director, positive relationship with other colleagues, laptop, computer, salary during summer holidays, an ...

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...

Biopolitics is an interdisciplinary field combining biology and politics. It is a study of politics whose subject is life administration according to the residence of citizens in order to “secure and sustain the manifold manifestations of human life and order them” and “to study the strategies and mechanisms by which human life processes are managed according to the knowledge of authoritarian regimes, power and process of subjectivizing” [1]. This term was created by Rudolf Kjellen in his work “The Great Powers”. ...

The paper is aimed at studying festivals of urban culture as a form of participation of urban communities in the life of a metropolitan city. It is the residents, their experience, competences, creativity that determine the growth and development of any metropolitan city. This is why the urban environment and its quality are today tools which modern cities use in their struggle for human resources. A modern city should provide the development of a variety of functional content which meets the cultural, educational...

This article aims at looking at two centres of modernity, seen in space, time and metaphorical representation, in the early twentieth century as illustrated by the Irish writer James Joyce in Ulysses (1922) and the Romanian novelist Cezar Petrescu in Calea Victoriei [“Victory Avenue”], published in 1929. The analysis is based on recent research that has entangled the representation of space in cultural and fictional texts with the geographic spaces of the respective historical periods, the reason being that, since...

The role of logistics in today's global business is steadily increasing, which is why the coordination and control of logistics activities has become a necessity. The logistics industry provides a significant contribution to the economy through job creation, the creation of national income and the inflow of foreign investment. However, most of the previous empirical research is based on the assessment of the effects of logistics and 3PL operators on business operations and on the effects on the economy, ignoring t...

Article is written on the basis of reconsideration artily – the esthetic principles and fundamentals of philosophy in works so far, search is national – art thoughts of modern Kazakh literary criticism. Fiction, now based on new views of human nature, puts special attention discussion of a subject on personal human aspirations, in its height spiritually – a psychological phenomenon, the relations of the person with the true phenomena through criterion of philosophy. In 70 – 80 years of the XX century caused a stir...

Competency-based learning is currently the basis of the European qualifications system; however, in Latvian professional medical education its implementation requires changes in the design of education programmes, in the use of innovative learning methods and forms in order to create a set of competencies that meets the requirements of modern healthcare, individuals and society. The importance of the research is determined by several problems in the medical field and in professional medical education: lack of mid-...

The author of this paper made an attempt to determine the optimal shapes and sizes of the functional areas in different types of theatre buildings. There is no ideal shape and size of a theatre. But there are some indicators that can help to define the best possible relation between the facilities in theatres. Buildings for the performing arts are intended for drama, opera, classical or modern music, ballet, dance or other performances where a performing artist communicates with the audience. Each type of a produc...

In the 1970s negative demographic and economic trends became a burden for fiscal systems of the “Golden age” welfare states. The neoliberal theory responded by cutting social rights, diminishing the scope of services provided by the state and strengthening the market. Values of uniformity and solidarity were replaced with efficiency and profit. Consequently, the sustainability of “pay-as-you-go” pension systems came into question. The measures towards capitalization and privatization differed. This arises both fro...

A new awareness around animal welfare has risen in the last decades. While in the past the animal used to be considered as res to exploit, nowadays many people see them as life companions. This new condition of the domestic animal originates, from a legal perspective, significant questions, and it can have non-negligible implications. Some scholars believe that in order to give more effective protection to animals a form of legal subjectivity has to be recognized. Such a relevant change needs anyway a deeper refle...

The article studies linguistic representation of the theme of love in the works of Carol Ann Duffy, whose poems can be considered a bright example of national literary language. About 30 poetic works were analyzed; several subtopics were distinguished in the field. The theme of love is manifested in poems with the help of numerous images and associations such as hope, dream and recovery. On the one hand, love is accompanied with the images of nature and carefree childhood. On the other hand, love is connected with...

The challenges Europe is facing today rely on the entrepreneurship development which stands for economic growth and new job creation. As the Entrepreneurship 2020 action plan promotes, the new businesses are crucial for economic development of Europe, being the powerful drivers for better productivity, new skills acquisition, and opening new market sectors. In this view, the paper attempts to investigate the current issues encountered by Romanian enterprises in their entrepreneurial path and the related effects on...

The aim of the article is to present latest activities in the southern Poland spa resorts. Health resorts located in the piedmont and mountain regions of southern Poland are centers of outstanding natural value, including: landscape, climate and, above all, waters that are used in medicine. Also having confirmed by numerous studies and a long-standing tradition of curing many diseases. [1] Krynica-Zdroj is number one the example of polish spa town, is the most famous spa town in Poland, called the pearl of ‘Polish...

Occupational safety is a key condition of any work activity, especially in the sphere of education. The occupational safety aspect is a part of teaching technical subjects, including in a wider context (environmental, medical, aesthetic, economic, energy, and others), and constitutes the basis of the modern vocational training concept. According to J. Pechar and J. Pehe [9], occupational safety is a set of work conditions which limits the influence of hazardous factors in the work process. The goal is to handle th...

Industrial heritage provides one of the most important records of social progress and urban development and continues to have international potential for education and development as confirmed by the joint ICOMOS – TICCIH Principles for the Conservation of Industrial Heritage Sites in 2011. A global problem is young persons’ decreasing interest in studying natural sciences, architecture and engineering, knowledge of which is a prerequisite for further technological progress and socio-economic development. This pap...

The urgency of the problem under consideration is that at present in the country there is a constant improvement, both of the education system and its departmental segment. Therefore, the need to appeal to the historical experience of the formation and development of the Soviet education system is not in doubt. The study of the historical experience of the formation and development of departmental professional education should be considered in the context of the entire educational policy pursued by the leadership ...

The article analyzes the photographic series "The Doll" (1934-1935) by German photographer Hans Bellmer in the context of representation of an artificial body. Hinged dolls of Bellmer can be easily dismantled or cut into pieces, they are objects that represent new meanings of erotic content. The artist himself called them "articulating objects" and anagrams, the visual translatability of which was marked with tools deconstruction. The doll becomes for the artist an alter ego of a kind, a part of a fetishist's univ...

The aim of the present study is to assess the relations between both subjective (e.g. traumatic fear, perceived threat to one’s life) and objective trauma appraisal (e.g. number of days of hospitalization, number of deaths, physical wounds) and posttraumatic stress (PTSD) symptoms in victims of road traffic accidents (RTA). Furthermore, we wanted to identify the moderating role of traffic locus of control (T-LOC) (internal and external T-LOC) in the relations between objective and subjective trauma appraisal and P...

Confronted with the Western culture and architecture the Iranian society in general and building designs in particular underwent significant transformations in the Qajar period, although the earliest influences can be traced back to the Safavid era. With the advance of industrial developments and the import of technology from the West, concurrent with the reign of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar in Iran, Persian architecture began to enter its own period of Neoclassicism, as a symbol of Modernism and development, which th...