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Social workers play various roles in their practice. Generally, the role is defined as a way expected behavior linked to a certain social status. Foreign authors often emphasize the importance of the role of advocate, which is related to the advocacy and protection of clients' rights and therefore this role is inherently related to the mission of social work. However, Slovak authors discuss this role only little. Therefore the aim of our research was to find out how is this role reflected by social workers in prac...

Reflective practice has become a very important concept in teacher education. The current article focuses on the reflective approach to cultural experiences of pre-service teachers of foreign languages. It is maintained that reflexivity of cultural experience is considered as an assessment criterion for the cultural competence of foreign language learners. Hence, the aim of the research is to investigate the reflective skills of pre-service teachers of foreign languages concerning their cultural experience gained ...

Division of power as a base principle of construction of state power is a major precondition for establishment and construction of democratic and functional states in accordance with international acquitted standards and practices. The last political and institutional crisis in RM reveals serious flaws in functioning of justice system, as corruption, politization, scope of judicial institutions from politics, etc., but above all the loss of citizensВ’ faith. The rule of law, democracy and respect for human rights ...

Government regulation of migration has proved to be very important in periods of wars, military conflicts, natural disasters and technological catastrophes. In this connection, the article is not only of scientific but practical interest. It is dedicated to the historical experience of solving refugeesВ’ problems. The evacuation occurred in the USSR in 1941-1945 was unprecedented in scale and it has remained unique in the world history. The aim of the article is to determine the quantitative and qualitative struct...

Society interest to the issue of personal fulfillment and self-actualization where professional activity plays a special part has increased due to social and economic changes in the Russian Federation, democratization and humanization in particular. The success of professional identity of the graduates of educational institutions has become the foundation upon which the requirements to the quality of experts training have been built. Nowadays about one third of young people in Russia isn't able to adapt to present...

The study shows how to distribute tomato products at national level. For this purpose, the weights held by the macro regions and the regions of economic development at national level. The drawing of the paper used the method of comparison in time and space. The analyzed period was 2012-2014. The approach presents the national, macroregional and regional situation of the indicators, establishing the structure indices (cultivated area and total production) according to the formula: Is = (Si, Qi / St, Qt) x 100 (%). ...

The paper deals about the differences in the methodology for sustainable development in historical cultural landscape. In two specific case studies it is comparing different methods of access to two important Slovak wine-growing regions. It compares the options and approaches in the design of sustainable construction in Svaty Jur and Rybnik. The paper is also dedicated to the impact of the genius loci, regional identity and alternative development scenarios for the actual design. The implementation of the possibil...

This article presents the thesis about consolidation of regional identity of the republic. Development of regional identity raises region competitiveness. Materials and methods: the theoretically methodological basis of a research is compiled by works of national philosophers, culturologists and historians. Empirical material for article compiled in the Russian researches. The purpose and contents of article determined the choice of methodological acceptances: principle of historicism, logical methods. Results: th...

Modern experienced society calls for new ideas and projects that are implemented to ordinary life and its activities. There is no difference in tourism. Through developing new products, regional visits can be supported and bring new tourists to it. Paper brings theoretical overview of regional development based on innovation implementation. The main purpose of the paper is to point to the necessity of innovation implication while developing the region. It points out the theory of regional development with combinat...

The economic literature published the last five years includes many different versions explaining the occurrence, development and possible way out of the socio-economic crisis. We are in a situation where the old economic structure lags behind in its technological development and the existing inertia delays restructuring. In addition, there are new complex threats (for example, the sanctions). The behavior of socio-economic regional systems, that have their own methodological characteristics and, to some extent, a...

The article reflects the results of investigation the phenomenon “childfree”, the movement joining the people who voluntary refused from childbearing. During the analysis of motivational orientations, worldview positions and axiological guides of the ideology followers it was revealed a special kind of childfree. These are so-called “regretting mothers” – women having children but regretting of their birth. A wide discussion of this problem began after the publication of the study results of the Israeli ...

The fodder base is the basis for the development of reindeer husbandry and, consequently, the existence of indigenous peoples of the North. Currently lichen pasture areas continue to decline. Reduction of pasture areas can lead to a decline in production in the traditional sector due to the narrowing of its activities. The development of reindeer husbandry is primarily determined by the state of pastures and their deer carrying capacity. For 01.01.2001 out of the total territory of reindeer breeding districts of t...

The modern economy is at a critical stage in its development. The deep causes of the 2008 economic crisis have not been fully overcome. Disproportions are observed in the economic system of the world and in individual countries. Their elimination encounters institutional constraints. One of the disproportions is caused by the de-industrialization of the economies of the developed countries of the world. The same phenomenon is observed in Russia. Consequently, it is necessary to carry out a "new industrialization" ...

The article analyses the key areas of cooperation between Belarus and the states of the African continent, which include a wide range of projects - from joint military-technical enterprises to cooperation in the fields of agriculture and education. The relevance of the research topic due to the fact that the African continent is a prospective region to deepen cooperation in many areas. The efforts of Belarus in this area suggests that there is the interest of the countries in interregional cooperation. Among the m...

The research topic is formulated with the anticipation that the managers and chief executives will recognize that the salary is not the only one motivating factor at the workplace to ensure the employeeВ’s well-being. There are so many examples when the employees leave well paid jobs and good positions. One of the research tasks is to find out how a person feels at his/her workplace. If the level of well-being at the workplace is high, a higher degree of motivation is achieved. There is a range of factors influenc...

The quality of live is an interesting and important social topic but to measure the life quality is currently a complicated issue. Gross domestic product (GDP) per capita is a measure of a countryВ’s economic output that accounts for population. It tells you how prosperous a country feels to each of its citizens. However, it is not a complete measure of economic welfare. The Human development index (HDI) was created with a goal to emphasize that not only economic growth but also people and their abilities could be...

Rapidly changing environment and intercommunication is becoming an increasingly important topic of large organizations business strategy choice. Calahane et al. [1] on organization climate research has stated that the organizational climate is the individual's collective perception in the common system of the work environment and the framework. Today's business leaders require high flexibility, agility and responsiveness what builds organization`s psychological climate. Kurt T. Dirk and Donald L. Ferrin [2] meta-a...

Background: The main aim of the research study is to present partial results from comprehensive research focused on: a) finding out teachers' attitudes towards the thematic units and contents of technical education, b) finding out views about the importance of thematic units, c) finding out views about the level of training and competencies achieved in the technical area, d) finding out views about changes in the standard content of technical education, e) finding data about using the technical classrooms, f) find...

Philosophy is one of the standard disciplines of knowledge. Therefore, it is necessary to map out the intermediate relationships among subjects that arise in schools where philosophy is taught. It also includes secondary grammar schools. This paper is an attempt to map the basic areas of the penetration of the curricular relations between philosophy and the subject of Slovak language and literature. It is a subject that is composed of several parts. In the area of the Slovak language and literature two basic units...

The Republic of Macedonia, as one of the youngest countries in the world has been faced with many challenges and obstacles in its strives towards democracy, building of democratic institutions and above all establishing a functioning and generally acceptable democratic culture of mutual cooperation, trust, understanding and tolerance. Besides, being a country of many ethnicities, the Republic of Macedonia has a very characteristic religious landscape. Representatives of the three largest monotheistic religions, in...

Being multiethnic and multi-religious society should be considered a strong point for any society on earth. The Republic of Macedonia has had the “honor and challenge” of having a very heterogeneous population in terms of its ethic and religious composition. The demographic structure of the population in the country is very specific, since all religions can be found among all ethnic groups with the country. Although the country is divided alongside ethnic lines, such lines become very blur when it comes to rel...

The major research objective was to study the influence of the studentsВ’ religiosity on their moral consciousness. Religion has always been the most effective and widespread means of maintaining social order. It has played a variety of roles in different social contexts and, as a subsystem of society, changed along with it depending on the specific historical circumstances. In the socialist countries, positioning itself as atheistic, the level of religiosity of the population was extremely low. Currently, there i...

The most important goal of this article is to define the notion of a religious conflict, to introduce a typology of religious conflicts, to analyze the factors of their genesis as well as the possible ways of their mitigation and overcoming. Using the methodology of comparative and content analysis, the authors came to the conclusion that religious motivation among the warring parties, and/or religious legitimation of violence could not be considered as the obligatory conditions for the assignment of conflict as r...

The article is focused on the analysis of views of Russian youth on religion, religious values, and The Russian Orthodox Church. The survey of value orientations of the youth in one of the largest regions of Russia (Nizhny Novgorod Region) became the source of the empirical material of the research. This region is considered to be a federal indicator of many socio-economic indexes including religious and confessional ones. The data and information about religious views of the younger generation were collected with...

When talking about Rem Koolhaas, the mirror reflects multiple images. We can find Rem the media celebrity, the intellectual, the conceptualizer, the builder, the analyst, the journalist, the actor... This research sets the spotlight on Rem, the communicator. "Rem at both sides of the mirror” belongs to a research on architectural media, its influence on the architectural production and vice versa. The aim is to discern whether communication and architectural production collide and converge in the case of great c...

In banking market the guarantees by individuals for non-business purposes need an enforcement of consumer protection. Indeed, it could be really difficult to improve guarantorВ’s protection because European case-law admit a consumer protection only if the debtor under the principal contract does not qualify for consumer protection. The main aim of the paper is to demonstrate that the guarantor could benefit from consumer protection even if the guarantee related to a contract for the supply of goods or services to ...

Aspazija (Elza Rozenberga, 1965–1943) is a founder of Latvian women’s writing. She had an essential role in the formation of Latvian contemporary literature in the late 19th – early 20th centuries. At that time, it was modernity that determined social and economic processes in the world. That time was characterized by the deconstruction of the patriarchal model of life and the stratification of the society. Industrialization and urbanization determined the overlap, transformation and hybridization of ethnic a...

The issue of relations among national and regional literatures is closely bound with the concept of national literary canon. National literary canon is a system for studying and segmenting authors who belong to a national literature. National literary canon is formed by writers and their literary works. A canon has a marked nucleus. In Latvia “Latvian Cultural Canon” was compiled in 2007 as a treasure trove that contains the most important cultural achievements of all times including also the branch of literat...

The results of the study of the content of representations about professional success and attitude towards it in connection with the professional motivation, purpose-in-life and value orientations of 90 students of the South-Russian universities are presented. The complex internal relations between the representations about professional success, values and professional motivation of the person are discussed. The orienting, motivating and evaluative functions of the representations about professional success are an...

The purpose of the study was to identify the specifics of the representations of psychology students on how the viewing of cartoons of foreign and national production affects the development of junior schoolchildren. The study involved psychology students in the number of 70 people, aged 19 to 46. Among them there are 19 psychology students (age 19-27) and 51 people who are psychology students of different age that undergo professional retraining (age 22 to 46). 85% of the respondents were women. At the first stag...

Aim: The purpose of the present study was to compare the levels of Interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) and Human beta 3 Defensin (hBD-3) in peri-implant crevicular fluid (PICF) and to assess if there is a correlation between this two parameters and the orodental clinical status in peri-implantitis. Microbial colonization of dental implants and infection of the peri-implant tissues can cause peri-implant bone destruction and may lead to implant failure. Inflammatory mediators of the host, such as IL-1beta, and antimicrobi...

Concept of connectivism and possibilities of its usage in education is very actual topic but up until now it did not get enough attention. Connectivism as a theory of education for a digital age is connected with usage of social networks. This paper is focused on the connection between social networks, homework and learning. Paper presents some of the partial results of use of social networks in education from the point of relation of the extent of intentionality to the learning skills of various age groups. Main ...

This paper focuses on the spatial distribution of social and business activities using geoinformation technologies. Previously, only a spatial population density was studied in this way. It was shown that the spatial density of the population exponentially falls from the city center to its outskirts. This law was called Clarke's law. To study spatial magnitudes we used a freely distributed GIS – QGIS project. The data from the open geoinformation project OpenStreetMaps was used as a source of data on the locatio...

This paper identified three academic perspectives for organizational learning studies, which are cognitive perspective, process perspective and capacity perspective. The basic hypotheses, the achievements and problems, as well as the latest trends of organizational learning study under different perspectives were discussed respectively. Based on the analysis of Chinese and English literatures on organizational learning from 2006 to 2015, this paper found that there is not such a general theory of organizational le...

The present article looks into the issues of information economy development and methodology of enterprise management based on the functioning of new economy. The article is essentially topical as the new field of knowledge and new environment for enterprise management are being formed. The purpose of this article is drafting provisions on the subject of information economy and its impact on the whole range of enterprisesВ’ production and economic activities management. The authors have by way of research develope...

The article overviews cases of modern history of budget sector reforming, stages of restructuring and privatization in social sphere are considered, particularities of each stage are emphasized, prospects and mechanisms of social sphere development in Russia in up-to-date social and economic conditions from the point of strategy of sustainable development of urban environment are considered. Activities of public administration bodies on reforming of social sphere as Russian economics sector has been carried out du...

The author discovered an area of unravaged burial complexes on the territory of the Lower Katun mountainous valley regarded a part of the trans-cultural region where large multicultural necropoles were formed. The burial mound group of Chulkov Log-1 is one of them. The monument is located along the Chuya Highway, 1.5 km away to the north-west from the town of Manzherok, Mayminsky District, near the mountainous slope of the Iolgo ridge branches. The burial mound group includes 123 burial mounds with stone structure...

The paper deals with the first translation of the IAS-R psychological test (Revised Interpersonal Adjective Scale by J. S. Wiggins) and its application during the pilot study at the Faculty of Education at the University of South Bohemia. The Interpersonal Adjective Scales provides an efficient and structurally precise measure of major dimensions that underlie interpersonal transactions: Dominance (DOM) and Nurturance (LOV). Furthermore, eight octants are defined within the 64 scaled items that describe specific p...

The object of the study is specific language means used in internet communication of foster parents. The main aim of the investigation is to reveal peculiarities of language representation of the topic “bringing up an adopted child” in internet discourse messages dedicated to the problems of foster family and adoption. Russia pursues the politics of rising of popularity of adoption, i.e. an idea to bring up children deprived of parents care in families and not in specialized institutions. That is the reason in...

The activities of any commercial enterprise are subject to the influence of risk factors, which causes the necessity to identify, analyze and assess the risks. The results of such an analysis are of considerable interest to the companyВ’s managers, shareholders and contractors. The Civil Law of the Russian Federation provides for the right to economic risk, but also requires that the risks affecting the companyВ’s activities must be included in the issuerВ’s public reporting. However, as seen from the content anal...

The article deals with the issues of revitalization of Olonkho in the dawn of the 21st century. The authors emphasize that the recognition of UNESCO's Olonkho as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Mankind was part of the process in the revival and popularization of Olonkho in contemporary cultural space. The authors believe that organizing folklore festivals dedicated to the Yakut epic of Olonkho, as well as the Yhyakh New Year holidays in the uluses, contributes to the revitalization of the epic...

The years of negligent attitude and scarcity of financial resources at the disposal of local self-governments have intensified the processes leading to the degradation of urban areas. As a result, many cities and towns are not only adversely affected by the deterioration of technical infrastructure but also suffer from the lowering of the standard of living. Therefore, it should be considered necessary to reinvigorate degraded urban areas with the intention to improve the quality of life of the inhabitants of revi...

After the political transformation in 1989, polish cities experienced many negative phenomena that affect their spatial development. Among them, may be mentioned the problem of excessive growth of cities, extensive development, lack of ring roads and transit traffic crossing the historical urban structures, technical and functional degradation of central areas and also transfer of central functions at the periphery. These problems are especially severe in historic cities, with preserved precious urban layout and h...

The Revolution of 1905 and its successive events had an essential impact on the development of literature – both themes and form. In Latvia, the Revolution started with demonstration on 13 January 1905 protesting against „Bloody Sunday” in Saint Petersburg (January 9, 1905). In both events a significant role was played by intellectuals. In Russia, the attitude of intellectuals towards the events of 1905 mostly caused the dissidence that would lead to the tragic events of the October 1917 and the Civil War. Th...

Backgrounds: A long-term, as well as acute, exposure to stress and the specific demands of working as a helping professional increase the amount of subjective distress and may trigger the symptoms of psychological and physical disorders. The screening survey analyses psychological outcomes of working as a social worker and verifies the role of salutoprotective lifestyle factors during oneВ’s exposure to distress. Methods: The following standardised questionnaires were used: the Symptom checklist-90 (SCL 90; Deroga...

Business and its performance are influenced by many factors. In this paper we focused on the analysis of risks that are important determinants of business performance. The aim of the paper was to assess the impact of risks on performance as well as competitiveness of Slovak businesses. To fulfil the aim, the data of businesses operating in Slovak heat industry were used. The input analysis of selected risks was realised with the aim of generalizing and processing conclusions focused on the impact of risks on busin...

Cultural differences have always been observed in the way that drivers act suggesting that in part, the cultural aspects could bring an insight into risky driving behaviors. Two hundred and five drivers from 3 countries (Morocco, N=30; France, N=87; Romania, N-=88) have taken part into an exploratory study aiming to analyze how various cultural values might have an impact on risky driving behavior and driving anger. Participants had in average 22 years (SD=2.12, min=18, max=25), had had their driving license for 3...

In the current global recession, the world’s leading central banks face strong and sustained deflationary pressures. As a response to the global financial crisis the leading central banks undertake a wide range of unconventional monetary policy measures. Central banks introduce unconventional measures unprecedented in their scope and magnitude. The subject of the current research is the unconventional monetary policy of the leading central banks in the world – the European Central Bank (ECB), the US Federal Res...

Ceremonies and algys devoted to the goddess Aiyysyt are considered in the article. The Yakut goddess-mother Aiyysyt in the functions and appointments corresponds to goddesses: Turkic Umay - Umay-ene (kumadin.), Ymay-ene (kachinsk.), Mau-ene (teleut.) and Old Indian Wuma, and also Old Iranian Arta (avestiysky - Asha). In Yakut mythology Akhtar Aiyysyt, either Nalygyr Aiyysyt, or Nelbey Aiyysyt is the goddess caring for reproduction of people. She together with Ieyekhsit asks Yuryung Aar Toyon to a soul (iye-kut) of...

This article presents the problem of postmodernism in the Contemporary Society and what is the impact for the human life and for the Orthodox Church. Through a sort of affordability backed by the thirst for crazy survival and consumption, the postmodern society promotes a number of taboos that depersonalizes the human nature in its existential meaning. Drugs, exacerbated eroticism, pathological personality disorders, are the result of the lack of an alternative. Therefore, the principal role of the Christianity is...