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Digital natives shape their world and shake fundamental beliefs in society, making it obligatory to rethink the schooling, employment and communication aimed at triggering a positive reaction from this new category of technologically immersed young people. The study aims to highlight, based on literature review and on field research, the values of Romanian students belonging to this category, in direct link to their expectations regarding future employment. Students were asked to identify experiences that they cho...

This article considers the digital transformation of agriculture, its development and links to the digital information economy of the state. The relevance of the article is due to the growing importance of the digital economy on a global scale and its impact on all spheres of the state economy. The purpose of the article is to analyze the current state of digitization of agriculture as well as to develop questions about the development of the information digital economy and the introduction of information and comm...

Digitalization is rapidly evolving worldwide and today information exchange and electronic products have become an important part of life. Transformations caused by digitalization are seen as an economic, technological and social development phenomenon. Since higher education plays a key role in preparing future generations, it is essential to enhance the opportunities of higher education institutions offered by digitalization both in internal communication and marketing, thus improving their day-to-day work and a...

Social policy of the state is usually identified with the social policy of the government. It focuses on promoting employment, social protection, improving living and working conditions. It creates conditions and participates in balanced development individuals, groups and communities. Social policy is a part of modern society and deals to solve various problems in different areas. The aim of the article is to point out the social policy in election programs of coalition political parties in the Slovak Republic. A...

Dioscuri is the name given to the two twin brothers, Castor and Pollux, sons of Zeus (Dios), born of his union with Leda. They had Helena and Clytaemnestra as sisters. But as Leda was the wife of mortal Tyndareus, the king of Lacedaemon, her children were also called Tindaris. And because Leda had met the same night with Zeus, who had taken the appearance of a swan, and with her husband, the two pairs of twins who came out of her eggs were assigned both to Zeus and to Tyndareus: Helena and Pollux - born with Zeus ...

Objective of the study is to analyse the concept of diplomatic signalling in the context of foreign policy of small states in the literature of foreign policy signalling. In order to achieve his objective author is using the method of literature review, covering literature on diplomatic communication, diplomatic signalling and foreign policy of small and medium states. Research gives insight in several aspects related to concept of diplomatic signalling in foreign policy of small states. The majority of literature...

The paper is aimed at critically approaching key theoretical contributions, research insights, academic commentary and debates in Latvia in relation to cultural literacy, cultural identities and cultural interactions in the context of cultural policies of Latvia. The article analyses the studies on the importance of cultural literacy for the transmission of the traditional cultural heritage and discusses the issue of peopleВ’s national and cultural identity, national self-respect, and sense of belonging to the Lat...

Bedrich Smetana is one of the most important composers of the 19th century national schools, being the one who stylistically outlined the Czech music. Our paper highlights the discursive archetypes of his art, in an attempt to summarize the concise but exhaustive picture of his compositional means of articulating the musical discourse. Although his compositional means are typical for Romanticism, the vastness of the musical genres he chose makes us say that he is one of those who possesses, together with Dvorak, t...

In the Czech Republic, regulation of non-proprietary damage is being dealt with by both labour and civil law. Compensation of non-proprietary damage involving work injury is being dealt with in the Labour Code. It is conditioned by such fact that work damage was caused when fulfilling the working tasks or caused in direct connection with it. In case the non-proprietary damage would occur outside the working tasks fulfilment then compensation would be solved by the Civil Code. However, as for the rules considering ...

The study of subjective well-being of Russian and Chinese students appears relevant, firstly, because of an individualВ’s pursuit of inner harmony, which becomes ever more important in the modern multi-cultured society where the number of contacts between people of different ethnic backgrounds is constantly increasing, and the societal demands for individuals are growing. Secondly, the relevance of the study is accentuated by the growing dynamism of Russian-Chinese relations, showcased by high student mobility tha...

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 role of human behavior in traffic accidents is widely recognized. Previous studies sustain the associations between dysfunctions cognitions and some forms of maladaptive driving behaviors. The present study investigated how three types of dysfunctional driving cognitions (accident, panic, and social cognitions) are related to four classes of aberrant driving behavior (errors, lapses, ordinary, and aggressive violations). We also investigated the differences between drivers who drive daily and those who drive w...

Drought represents a significant threat not only for the Czech Republic but also for the whole world. This threat is mainly influenced by climate change. Climate change increases air temperature. This article focuses on drought in the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic has experienced significant differences in temperatures in recent years. In particular, a change in the temperatures of the seasons can be observed and almost the disappearance of some seasons. Winter has significant fluctuations in shock and temper...

In the light of recent researches and findings the scope of medical practice must be expanded beyond the core competencies to incorporate additional skills and procedures that improve care for patients and their families. The present paper summarise new educational approaches for ortopaedic medical doctors by the use of a Learning Management Systems delivered through the Internet, within the framework of e-TRAUMA project. e-TRAUMA is an on-going EU funded project under ERASMUS+ programme entitled “e- Training of...

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 ...

The issue of migration is a highly topical issue with major human implications, which generates many ethical and ecclesiastical issues related to human dignity, social justice, respect for human rights, solidarity in front of the risks of poverty, fragility, vulnerability, violence, injustice, exploitation and instrumentalization of the person, as well as the need to promote fair and consistent policies. According to the United Nations Reports, there are more than 250 million migrants worldwide, of which 25.4 mill...

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...

The article reviewed and analyzed the interpretation of the term В«environmental safetyВ». It was concluded that, now, there are no uniform criteria for measuring environmental safety in either Russian or international scientific practice. The reason for this is the lack of a clear understanding of the definition of В«environmental safetyВ». The main drawback of the many definitions available for this term is the lack of statistical (quantitative) definitions and the lack of indications of their relationship with ...

The region of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), which unites nineteen Arab countries, is one of the most important areas of foreign economic and foreign policy activities of the Russian leadership. It has an advantageous geographical position and rich natural resources, especially oil and gas reserves. Here are the interests of the leading world powers and the main contradictions of modern international relations of economic, political and military character intersect. The Arab countries have been part of t...

The paper highlights RussiaВ’s economic cooperation with sub-Sahara Africa; it posits that RussiaВ’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...

Developing and building of road infrastructure is one of the state priorities. At present, a need is not build only new roads, but also improve existing road network. Many of roads do not meet the requirements for traffic flow and safety. The roads with these conditions require reconstruction. The one of the roads with bad conditions is road section I/18, which is located between villages Lipniky and Hanusovce nad Toplou. The road section is not meet requires of traffic flow and road safety. The road section is lo...

The relationship between economic growth and unemployment has been a topic of interest in academia for almost 60 years but with a special focus on developed countries and only recent papers present results at the regional level. This paper analyzes the regional OkunВ’s Law in two emerging countries, namely Bulgaria and Romania applying original data. To best achieve the research objective, we consider the widely valued specification of OkunВ’s Law, that investigates the relationship between the cyclical components...

Research over the past 20 years has shown the enormous role of tourism in the economies of most countries. First of all, it allows solving problems of stimulating social development of regions. Tourism has a stimulating effect on such sectors of the economy as transport, communications, trade, construction, agriculture, production of consumer goods and contributes to the development of practically all sectors of the economy [1]. In the late 70s of the twentieth century, ecological tourism becomes one of the most p...

Neo-avant-garde, neo-sonorism or, at least in some cases, simply electronic В‘rumblingВ’ seem to predominate in the music of classical contemporary composers. Listening to this kind of music may result in overstimulation, leaving audiences tired and disheartened. Consequently, the existing disparity between listeners and musicians continues to grow as artists try to outdo each other by coming up with ever smarter and more shocking technological effects and experiments. Ignacy Zalewski is a composer that tries to p...

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...

This paper aimed to determine the efficiency of Body-weight exercises in the physical training of the students who practice volleyball. The experiment was conducted during the academic year 2017-2018, for 28 weeks, one lesson per week. The working sample consisted of 40 students, divided into two groups. Both groups took similarly volleyball lessons, acquiring their specific skills according to the UMF Carol Davila Volleyball Program. The difference consisted in the strength training approach. The Control Group pe...

Background Sprain ankle is a common musculoskeletal injury, characterized by partially or completely tear of its ligaments, due to sudden stretching, which commonly occurs when the ankle is suddenly twisted, during sportive activities (running, jumping), at athletes or by stepping off an uneven surface, at sedentary people. Purpose of this study, was to show the efficiency of physical exercises programme in sprain ankle treatment, by studying the speciality literature. Methods The 22 subjects, represented by seden...

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...

The study deals with the problems of teaching business English for the students who major in world economy and are supposed to work in various spheres using professional discourse in future. As business context has become extremely multicultural and diverse, created sample business situations in the majority of studentВ’s books are considered not sufficient to keep up with real communication at workplaces and supplementary materials are necessary. The author supports the idea that research of definite discourse st...

Christianity reached the territories inhabited by Baltic and Baltic Finnic peoples (the present-day Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia) considerably later than the rest of Europe. The centralization (and thereby also Christianization) process of Lithuania took a different turn, whereas the ethnic groups living in the territory of Latvia and Estonia were baptized in the result of crusades (during the years 1195/1196–1290). Subsequently, a set of feudal lands was established there, known as the medieval Livonia. In the...

This paper aims at illustrating and analyzing the elements of the sacred in the symbolic structure of early twentienth-century Croatian Futurist literary texts and works of art, as well as semantic and stylistic range thereby implied within such corpora. Methodological attention is drawn to their significant reception and socio-cultural resonance, including interconnections with other aspects of artistic expression (in the interdisciplinary fields of visuality), and concomitantly with analogous manifestations in I...

When dealing with multiclass classification problem one has to search for reliable and robust predictors to increase the quality of performance that decreases drastically with growth of classes number. In our research, we propose the sentiment analysis method backed by Lovheim Cube Emotional model including 8 emotional classes unlike traditional two (negative/ positive). To increase the accuracy in case of multi-class classification we need to extract more features from the text than it is usually demanded for bin...

Objectives: In the present study some predicting factors of externalizing and internalizing problems were examined as childrenВ’s emotion regulation strategies. The main aim of the research was to investigate the relationship between emotion regulation strategies -as cognitive reappraisal (CR) and expressive suppression (EP)-, and behavioral problems in the case of youngsters. Methods: A Hungarian minority group of children from Transylvania were selected. The children (N = 227; male = 53.3%) completed the Emotion...

The present study has as aim the identification of the level of emotional intelligence and personality traits at the future teachers as well as establishing the connections and differences between these variables depending on the level of education of the participants. The participants at the study are exclusively female, future teachers, high school and faculty graduatesВ’ practitioners and non-practitioners, having ages between 18 and 35 years old, M = 21.89, AS = 4.89. Group 1 is made of 74 high school graduate...

In contemporary societies employed parents are often faced with difficulties while trying to balance their work and family obligations. Previous research showed that this negatively influences the quality of family life and results in family stress. Additionally, it causes lower level of job satisfaction and work effectiveness. Recognizing these issues, some work organizations implemented family-friendly policies in order to support employees and to help enhance their family-work balance. For the same reason they ...

The rapidly changing economic situation in the European Union (EU), including Latvia, is reflected in the labour market. The acute problem of the Latvian labour market is an imbalance between its supply and demand: on one hand, relatively high unemployment rates, and on the other hand, job vacancies. One of the largest inactive social groups is people with disabilities. This real situation does not correlate with the tactics of promoting employment and social inclusion strategies in the EU and Latvia. The aims of ...

The employment of people with disabilities is a key element of social inclusion and economic independence. Due to the decline in the working-age population in Latvia and taking into account the forecasted labour shortage in the coming years, people with disabilities should be recognized as a valuable resource in the job market. Professional programmes of rehabilitation plays an important role in the inclusion of people with disabilities in the labour market according to their needs and in line with the demands of ...

The purpose of the present paper is to assess the relevance of several notoriously applied financial indicators to construct an appropriate risk evaluation structure for enterprises. The authors aim to include in the empirical study a wide array of variables, grouped into clusters, to match the complexity implied by the data collected from 100 Nasdaq quoted companies, based in 9 countries, from 8 industries. The methodology employed is the Principal Component Analysis, which supports in capturing the most signific...

Strategic business management has become a common management method. Yet views about the impact on business performance are inconsistent and dispersed among different business disciplines. We proceed from the premise that the benefits that enterprises can gain from a high-quality strategic business management depends mainly on institutional conditions in their home environment. Based on the research made as a part of ROSTAPO international project focused on competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises by ...

The article considers the negative factors of the human impact on the environmental situation during the largest world wars. The analysis of various sources made by the authors resulted in the conclusion that this problem remains underestimated in the scientific community up to the present and enjoys little popularity with historians and ecologists, which leads to the gaps in large environmental studies and modern projects. Unfortunately, today the factor of the adverse impact on the environment is neither a suffi...

The article deals with the issues of rational development of nature management and improvement of the environmental situation in agriculture in Russia. Development of rural areas, first of all – is to ensure their ecological safety on the basis of the development of rational nature management and modern implementation of measures to prevent the negative impact of anthropological processes on the environment. The organization and planning of rural development should take into account the need to preserve the exis...

Ephemeral or temporary architecture is neither new nor marginal phenomenon in architectural history. In contrast to permanent structures, this tendency, which was being resented during modernist era, is focusing on structures that are defining time as its essential determining state, fundamental basis and key aspect of architecture – often considering it even more important than spatial and tangible aspect of such designs. In spite the fact that temporary architecture is being built only for a brief time scope i...

This study has assessed studentsВ’ perception in what concern the Erasmus + Placement Program for Recent Graduates, a mobility that allows graduates to do a traineeship placement in an enterprise or organization in the European Community. The participants in this study are graduates of the Politehnica University of Timisoara (N=130) who have benefited from an Erasmus Placement. The research involved a survey based on a questionnaire centered on the sources of information, motivational factors, the relationship bet...

The theme of the contribution is the eroticism in the novel The Camp of Fallen Women (1992, Tabor padlych zien) written by Slovak author Antor Balaz. The novel focuses on the period of the first years of building the socialist regime in Czechoslovakia and depicts the efforts of the incoming regime to re-educate prostitutes from the Vydrica (district of Bratislava) to conscious citizens in the area of forced labour camp Novaky. The labour camp in Novaky is known as the camp of three totalities in which Jews were in...

Numerous factors are involved in assessments made to measure the influence of building investments on the natural environment. Most concern the period after a building development has been completed and produces a prolonged impact on nature during its useful life. As important as its future exploitation, there are factors connected with the production of building materials and structure, their transport and assembly as well as any other events associated with the execution of a building plan on site. Noteworthy is...

The article dealt with aspects of the professional growth basic elements. The issue of the Estonian youth centers youth workers? professionality has been relevant for many years, as employees often changed. Expectations for youth work (YW) as a promotion of non-formal education and supporting the development of young people are high. There is no research explained the issues related to the youth workers professional growth, including work-load and tasks? factors. The theoretical framework of the research created R...

In this article, the authors review the ethical and legal aspects of screening of newborns for hereditary diseases in the context of the implementation of this medical technology as a specific medical service. In Russia, screening of newborns for phenylketonuria started in 1985, and since 1993 for congenital hypothyroidism, since 2006 - screening for cystic fibrosis, adrenogenital syndrome and galactosemia. In Russia this medical service is one of the services “imposed” and obligatory for all children born reg...

Social work in the Slovak Republic is mainly focused on helping people who find themselves in various forms of need and need help. The paper analyzes the basic philosophical ethical bases of social work on the basis of which concrete assistance is realized. It outlines the basic principles of social work as a helping profession. It applies these principles to the attitudes of particular institutions to the arrival of migrants in Slovakia and describes specific cases in which the principles of social work in the ap...

The context of the research issue: Education exists within limits established by applicable laws and regulations; these clearly define rights and duties. Ethics has a large part to play here. Is it necessary to add an educational code of ethics to the existing laws? Objective: The main objective of the study is to answer the question: Do education workers require an educational code of ethics? And if so, to what extent? Methodology: A literature search to analyse and compare ethical codes, as well as foreign and l...

Ethics is an important ability in any profession but, considering the spectrum of responsibilities of the certified accountants, ethics should be even more important. The research concerning ethical issues related to accountantsВ’ profession has increased in the last years. Those studies highlight mostly the nature and extent of ethical problems. This study aims to validate the different importance given to ethical behavior in accountantsВ’ profession in Portugal, for men and women, and to understand how they also...