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Background: Sexual risk behaviour is one of the most significant forms of risk behaviour in adolescence. Therefore, the demand for a systematic sexual education in primary and secondary schools has been rising in the Czech Republic. Recently, a discussion has taken place about the need of sexual education in Czech schools. That is why many authors pay attention to sexual risk behaviour as a part of the general risk behaviour of children and youth. The contribution pays increased attention to the respondents aged l...

In the given article the socio-cultural aspects of learning English as a foreign language are viewed. By taking a socio-cultural approach to vocabulary teaching strategies the authors argue that social mobility, globalization, and the Internet cause changes in pronunciation, orthography, grammar as well as vocabulary. As over 1400 entries from all around the world have been published in the Open Dictionary during 2016, it spawned Brexit-inspired forms (flexit, Nexit, Quitaly, Scexit); social media (virtue signalin...

This paper focuses on the judge-witness interaction in the Romanian courtroom, namely on the questioning and reformulating strategies used by the judge in the Romanian courtroom. In the Romanian courtoom (belonging to the inquisitorial system of justice), the judge is actively involved in determining the facts of the case, while the judge in an adversarial system is an impartial referee of the prosecution and defendant pleading their cases before a jury who determines the facts of the case. If judges have a passiv...

The innovative potential of Russian small business is not completely realized that is indicated by the comparison of its innovative activity with small entrepreneurship in many developed countries. The development of measures to support and stimulate the activity of small enterprises in Russia is attended, and the priority task is the search for mechanism to increase the participation of small enterprises in innovative transformations of economy. The aim of this research is to analyze development factors of small ...

The purpose of this work is to conduct debate on aspects that interconnect energy efficiency of insulation projects and human behavioural aspects. The objective of this paper is to describe the significant difference between energy as a physical phenomenon and the usage of energy for the good and profit of the consumer as the human behaviour and perception of energy inevitably should be taken into consideration while elaborating governmental strategies and performing energy efficient insulation projects. Insight i...

The article examines specific attitudes of contemporary Russian youth toward the family and the need of young people in the family-policy measures. The conclusions drawn in this article are based on the study “The Change of Desired Family Image in the Eyes of Different Generations in the Postsoviet Space (the Case of Russia and Belarus)” conducted with participation of the authors. A desired family model and perceptions of the government role in supporting the institution of the family are being built in the conte...

Increase of dynamism and competitiveness in business environment, stimulates providers of catering services to focus on the measurement of customer loyalty. However, the current methodological potential of this field is not developed enough to use in practice. The methodological insufficiency of customer loyalty measurement determined the topicality of academic research substantiating the model that creates the background for the measurement of customer loyalty towards a provider of catering services. The aim of t...

One of the main aims of economic professional discourse is to achieve the goals set by business circles, financial institutions, banks and other economic organisations. The range of verbal means fulfilling these goals is an object of thorough analysis of sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, pragmatics and discourse studies. In this context the sphere of prosody is of special interest for linguistic research, as, according to researchers, around 30% of information is transmitted with the help of intonation. The pur...

The present paper presents new approaches in orthopaedic and rehabilitation training within the framework of COR-skills project. COR-skills is an ERASMUS+ funded project that started in december 2015 and will finish in december 2017, based on collaboration between hospitals and Higher Education Institutes from different European countries. The project aimes to develop, test and adapt a continous vocational educational medical programme, developed on an exhaustive needs analysis and focusing on a “real-life” transn...

The article considers the peculiarities of Future simple tense functioning in speech acts of order. Speech act of order is considered as a part of speech strategy. The speech act of order may realize a common communication strategy aimed at establishing the status of a speaker. The order may be a part of a private communications strategy related to realize particular communicative tasks in a particular communicative situation – to achieve an action. Independently of expression means speech act of order is characte...

The perceptive image of a concept, according to I. A. Sternin, reflects both the way a concept is perceived by an individual with any of the five senses and the result of such perception. It appears that with regard to the concept “Body” the results of perception are objectified somewhat differently than the results of perception of other concepts. This is due to the fact that the body in this case is perceived (as an object of perception) and perceives (with the organs of perception) at the same time. Thus, we co...

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...

The authors focus on the issue of pupils’ preparation for school at home the first years of compulsory school attendence from the parental optics. During this period a basic sense of obligation to school duties by pupils is created. Parents acquire new social roles - the role of parents of a schoolchild. According to the Slovak School Act No. 245/2008 Coll., one of the parents’ duties is to support schoolchildren to prepare for lessons at home. The aim of the study is to determine and analyze the current views of ...

Student’s research work management is work experience-centred and it is intended to mould certain competencies. One of the main competencies in the current social and economic conditions is preparedness to carry out professional activities. The psychological structure of preparedness includes such a component as the ability to self-manage activities. In the Russian science, activities self-management is associated with the characteristics of the professional’s personal qualities structure and with their values, mo...

The article considers the problems and prospects of foreign policy of Russia in the CIS. This region has traditionally been of high priority for Russia's foreign policy after the collapse of the USSR. At the same time, it is noted that for one and half decade after the collapse of the Soviet system, Russia's cooperation with the CIS countries was weak, and the integration initiatives were not convert into practice. The situation began to change in the mid-2000s. During the years 2009-2013 the integration processes...

The approach is considered, which allows the decision maker to determine not only the need for the announcement of admission to a current master educational program, but also the number of students enrolled in master educational programs. For decision-making on the announcement of foster campaign authors offer to use a majority block on the basis of the recommendations obtained by the classical methods of cluster analysis, Kohonen neural network (which make it possible to divide educational programs into clusters,...

This article is dedicated to the question of finding conceptual basis of prehistoric architecture. The author tried to discern the reasons why it came to existence and the principles of its functioning, as well as developing architectural spaces of permanent structures. The remains of ancient constructions, made from mammoths’ skulls, tusks and larger bones dug into the soil, served as the subject of the research. “Bone” structures like these are the phenomena of the Paleolithic era. These monuments of prehistoric...

Research-based learning becomes increasingly important in the era of knowledge-based society: Labor market requires that graduates could quickly and adequately navigate through diverse information landscape, search and process data, adapting it to the emerging tasks and contexts. To this end university-based educational process is supposed to laid particular emphasis on students’ research activities. Scholars agree that properly delivered training could develop the students' ability to conduct research by collecti...

The competitiveness of the economy is based on an innovative type of reproduction. Thus, the underlying objective of the article is to identify the key trends of innovation development in the Russian Federation. In order to solve this problem, the authors have analyzed the dynamics of the Global Innovation Index (GII) in countries with different levels of economic development and determined the ranking position of the Russian Federation in the context of those countries. Based on the statistics, a comprehensive an...

In search of new sources for updating pedagogical interaction in higher education due to disturbing strain of spiritual and moral values in the youth ambit, it is necessary to develop creative educational tactics that would facilitate the successful socialization of future professionals and also help them obtain pragmatic communication competences in the course of foreign languages acquisition. From the authors’ point of view, the staging method as a universal method meets perfectly the challenges of modern didact...

For several years, the issue of innovation has been a taboo concept for some entrepreneurs. Each separate part of their company must include hallmarks of innovation. Every product or service introduced into the market or manufactured must be innovative. But is it, actually? Innovation is associated with a new, ground-breaking technology. Companies applying for EU subsidies begin to prove in their projects the innovation of their products or services. The most dangerous issue is that they prove it during the stage ...

Modern trends in the development of the economy of the regions are characterized by the increased influence of competitive relations. In the article the author examines the relationship between the level of competitiveness and the level of labor productivity, confirms their high level of interconnection, which can be used to achieve sustainable growth and development of the region.

The actual task of modern economic education is to bring the content of curricula in accordance with the new achievements of economic science. This article discusses the results of a critical review of economic theory and practice, which is based on the experience of research into the latest global economic recession, and their implications for the study and teaching of the economy. A critical analysis of the basic concepts of economic science revealed an insufficient understanding of the process of economic chang...

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 guarantor’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 a...

The article substantiates the preservation for the coming period the value of oil, as one of the world's main sources of energy, and for this reason, its prospects as an export share of the Russian economy. However, the export potential of oil is currently declining objectively due to, on the one hand, the reduction in the volumes of easily recoverable stocks with good transport accessibility, on the other hand, the relative decline in world prices, which reduces the commercial attractiveness of developing new fie...

{{Background }} Dental erosion (DE) is the loss of dental hard tissue due to the action of gastric juice and acidic foods, without the participation of bacterial flora. Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is the involuntary passage of gastric juice to the esophagus. Patients with GERD have changes in salivary parameters. {{Objectives}} The purpose of this study is to analyze the levels of some salivary parameters and oral hygiene in patients with GERD and DE before and after therapy and to assess their correlat...

Binding the outgrowing of educational content, often observed just as a group of rules throughout history, with ethical ideas of good and philanthropy that have the power to change the image of the world, this paper aims to demonstrate the factors and social conditions in which processes that have contributed to the science of nurturing, namely pedagogy, take place, as an independent and autonomous scientific discipline in today's Croatian territory. Over the course of history, the pedagogy systematized from the p...

This study deals with the concept of social tension and it potential in conflict diagnosis. There are two parts in the study. The first one describes the concept of social tension. The second one presents methodology of applied study of this phenomenon and results of representative survey which was conducted in 2015 in Saint-Petersburg. The notion of the social tension is quite often seen in connection with conflicts. Different elements of the concept of social tension are considered in the works of T. Parsons, M....

The financial market is one of the most important segments of the economics because it has been serving as a channel through which funds are transferred between particular economical entities. Financial system is a part of the economic system whereby for the latter it is important the financial sector to be as stable as possible. The article is dedicated to a theoretical base of the financial market regulations and it describes situation on the financial market from short term as well as long term perspectives. Ba...

The paper concentrates on the legal analysis of the independence of the Czech Central Bank. Central bank independence is a key precondition for the successful implementation of monetary policy and hence for sustainable non-inflationary economic growth. Independence protects the central bank primarily against any political pressure to adopt measures to boost short-term economic growth. The term "independence" is not explicitly expressed in Czech legal documents (the Constitution of the Czech Republic and the Czech ...

The article studies the interconnection of life events and such psychological states as hope/hopelessness and its intensity in a non-verbal behavior of the individual. The authors point out that emotional imbalance and likewise states can find its representation in a non-verbal behavior within the people representing the terrorist threat. Hopelessness and negative life events can cause low people`s sensitiveness to the terrorist threat. The results of the research studying the peculiarities of the hope intensity a...

During my numerous research and teaching stays at the universities in Great Britain, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria I was asked to speak about Czech independent literature which existed under the communist regime (1948-1989). As an author of a monograph about Czech literary underground (1999) and many studies on this topic, I expected that it would be easy for me. Nevertheless, I soon came to the conclusion that translation of basic terms connected with independent culture is not only a matter of linguistic ability ...

Based on field research over 2010-2016 with the use of J. Phinney's ethnic identity measurement methods, we have analyzed the modern ethnic identification and self-identification processes among the Evenks, Selkups, Kets, and Chulyms –indigenous peoples living on the territory of the Krasnoyarsk Krai (Eastern Siberia) with a population of less than 50,000 persons. The conducted research allows us to identify the following processes: total loss of the knowledge of the native languages among the Chulyms, Selkups, an...

The present contribution wants to show the main features and the focus points of the recent evolution of the Italian railway, so to introduce the reasons underneath its present “high speed” and its perspectives of development in the European space. On a methodological point of view, this essay is based on normative and quantity data concerning the Italian and European situation. This give us the chance to better comprehend the reasons between the produced connection and the railway system of each member state, ess...

The article analyses attitudes of nursing students towards learning the subject of gerontology. Since an individual is able to self-assess his/her learning best by thinking over his/her performance and actions helping to develop new skills on the basis of existing knowledge and understanding, the attitudes of nurses were researched by presenting a questionnaire to be completed in writing. The questionnaire consisted of three open-ended questions: what were the most useful aspects in gerontology classes? What did n...

The global village, in the hyper-metropolises - that form its sub-centres - in which there now lives almost a third of the world's population, with over half living in cities overall - demands its built environment to be constructed with newer and newer technologies. This also requires innovative thinking about the form of future cities. Increasing the effectiveness of land use, accomplished through constructing even taller building, is associated with the struggle between their structures and the destructive impa...

The article presents forecasting methods of economic dynamics developed by the authors. The first model is based on the mechanism of adaptive filtering of timing series. This article demonstrates prediction filters that can be effectively used in moni-toring of economic systems. Their approbation was carried out on the basis of data pro-vided by the local office of the Federal State Statistics Service of the Nizhny Novgorod region. The quantitative information was insufficient to reveal a significant statistical a...

Nowadays, it has become evident that teaching a foreign language is ineffective if cultural aspects are ignored. A language being the instrument for cross-cultural communication serves as the medium for culture cognition. The English language is accepted as the language for international cooperation in a wide array of activities including political, social, and educational areas. In such circumstances, the simultaneous teaching of a foreign language and culture focused only on the Anglo-Saxon environment would cre...

{{Introduction: }} Reducing lipid levels in blood plasma is one of the ways of preventing cardiovascular disease. The purpose of this work is to present the changes found in the plasma lipid concentrations of Indian students who had engaged in the yoga practice known as Dynamic Suryanamaskar (DSN) for a period of 2 weeks. {{Methods: }} 105 randomly selected Indian male students aged 17.15±1.42 years participated in the study. The subjects were divided into 4 groups, according to the Solomon Four Group Design. Grou...

In 1990, Romania opted for an electoral system of proportional representation (PR) which remained in place until the 2004 elections. During this time, every electoral cycle had been marked by different reforms and/or amendments to the electoral law. The electoral reform from 2008 and the subsequent transition to an alleged single-member majority electoral system (SMP) – which still retained a major component of proportionality – occurred in an environment characterized by a sense of profound disappointment with th...

This study is very important because through this type of green tourism (ecotourism) we would like to minimize the negative effects on the environment and on the human health. In the last years, the studies from the specialized literature showed that the foreign tourists (Germans, English, Americans) want to spend the vacation in places which are “friendly with the environment”, even if they have to pay more for the offered conditions. In our study, we used a questionnaire among the Romanian tourists, which love t...

Cooperation between schools and parents is a broad and extremely important part of school life. It is not only the involvement of parents in school life through the School Board or the participation of parents in regular information meetings with teachers in classrooms. The effort of the school is to impress parents directly in school, to share common joys, to solve common problems in education as well as to educate their children and cooperate within the interests of children. These processes facilitate a persona...

During the reign of Constantin Brâncoveanu, remarkable achievements were recorded in architecture and painting. We shall meet the values of art and architecture in our country, in general, and especially those of the age of Saint Constantin Brâncoveanu, which has left its mark not just on the territory in Muntenia, as it also penetrated in Transylvania, crossed the Romanian western boundaries into Serbia and went up to Bessarabia. Today, the art of Brâncoveanu’s epoch is brought again to light by the monuments tha...

The northeast of Russia by in large and Yakutia in particular, is almost undeveloped tourist region of the world. However the region has the considerable tourist and recreational potential allow considering him as perspective. Tourist and recreational division into zones act as scientific base of territorial planning and management of a tourist complex. Now division into zones of this part practically of Russia isn't developed. The option of tourist and recreational division into districts of the Republic of Sakha...

The goal of the research is to reconstruct the interior and iconostasis of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (1839–1864) in Vyatka (now Kirov, Russia) and the Dormitory church in Kukarka (now Sovetsk, Kirov region). Both are associated with names of exiled capital architect Alexander Vitberg and painter and architect Micha?o Elwiro Andriolli (correspondingly). The passing results of findings and researches made in 2016 are represented in this article. Research methods include archival and bibliographic stages, the ic...

At present the problem of regional innovation development in Russia is rele-vant. The incipient new industrial policy aimed at the priority development of high-tech industries, the growth of output of science-intensive and competitive goods at the for-eign and domestic markets should been separable associated with the growth of innova-tion activity, innovation potential and the effectiveness of innovation in the regions of the Russian Federation. The article describes one of widely accepted methods of inno-vative ...

Business Tourism on the Bata Canal is one of the best developing businesses in the Czech Republic. Business development is mainly supported by municipalities and cities and regions. Despite this support. There is a risk of doing business. The study describes and explains these major risks. The study indicates to specific development of inland waterways in the Zlín region and follows analysis of the Bata canal for tourism, business activity, environment and financing structure. It also focuses on the planned develo...

In this Study we aimed to reveal the frequently underestimated role that bodyweight exercises may play in building Physical Fitness. Our own bodies offer us all the equipment we need to get in shape. Old-school, forgotten and disregarded Calisthenics, or more fashionable Pilates or Stretching exercises may offer us plenty of alternative tools to replace the machine’s assisted “modern” Fitness programs. Method: The study was conducted on 40 female Students of "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucha...

According to our researches, the relationship between illegal migration and the terrorism should be emphasized. The attitude of the European legislators was changed by the terrorist offences were committed in the territory of the European Union in the past few years. Terrorist offences proved the vulnerability of the European States, and the rule of democratic law. In 2014, 276.113 migrants entered the European Union irregularly, which represents an increase of 138% compared to the same period in 2013. It should b...

Creating and maintaining a strong investment climate in the economy is the important initial precondition for solving problems to ensure economic growth and competitiveness of the country in terms of its integration into the world economy. Despite the fact that the Russian market has the potential to become attractive for foreign investors, it is characterized by unpredictability, which prevents the flow of foreign investments into the country. Our retrospective analysis showed that the formation of a positive inv...