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Marketing of organic food products is a topic of interest taking into account the upward trend of these products globally. Promoting eco-products is an approach to the increasing demand for high quality consumer products. Organic marketing is important because it can help protect the environment and preserve biodiversity, increase food security and can contribute to sustainable development of agriculture. The paper aim was to analyze consumer preferences in southern Romania concerning organic agri-food products. I...

Today there is an increasing interest in reviving folk festivities and outdoor celebrations. At the same time, the attempts of modern society to properly identify and understand the roots of these festivities and celebrations oftentimes resemble a costume show, or a theatrical performance with a new twist, in which once deep and meaningful traditions and rituals, with original historical and cultural significance, are lost, devoid of any meaning to a modern observer or participant. Realia more familiar to modern c...

Mastering toponyms of a foreign language is a difficult and ambiguous process due to the fact that toponyms have a national cultural component. A toponym is seen as a complex notion indicating both ways of language development and language acquisition. A toponym performs several functions in the language. It names the exact location, represents peopleВ’s attitude towards it and manifests the mentality of the nation. Acquiring such knowledge draws an individual closer to the understanding of the inner mechanisms of...

The Western Piedmont area, where are located the lower Po and Infernotto valleys, is important for intangible heritage, because was the theatre of the main events that took place during the Resistance (September 1943 – April 1945). Consequently, cultural heritage of the community is very conspicuous now. Precisely war diaries, correspondences, video interviews and pictures represent the core of the sources available: part of them is already been published and it is been related to the geography of the territory....

Objective of the study Identification of maternal-fetal outcome in women with chronic autoimmune thyroiditis associated with vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy and postpartum. Material and methods: The study included a group of 36 pregnant women diagnosed with chronic autoimmune thyroiditis and normal thyroid function. Patients were monitorized starting with the first trimester of pregnancy and postpartum. In the first trimester, the serum levels of TSH, FT4, antithyroperoxidase antibodies (TPOAb) and antithyro...

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-...

Applied ethical frameworks in the field of social theory and practice face the limits of moral philosophy, which are given by the absence of a fundamental philosophical reflec-tion of new emerging phenomena in changing current society. It is evident, that the highly organized society suffers from fragmentation and loss of coherence of various ethical theories lacking their deeper metaethic justification. The authors of the article point to a Judeo-Christian narration in which they see important metaethic bases for...

The literary portrayal of physical disability and death in the book by Czech author Daniel Rusar Spring of Cripples (Paskuda books, Bratislava, 2011) combines the means of narrative and non-narrative textual strategies and at the story level uses the contrast between emotional and deemotionalised attitudes of the protagonists to difficult life situations. The resulting textual incoherence creates a receptional situation that makes the readerВ’s cooperation in relation to the plot (his temporal and emotional immers...

Philosophy examines thinking by means of theory of cognition, formal logic, studying forms and laws of the correct thinking, and by means of dialectics giving the general method of research of the logical thinking as a developing process. Psychology studies the logical thinking as active activity of subject; exposes incentive reasons, aims, having the personal meaningfulness, individual features of the logical thinking; investigates cogitative operations from the point of view of realization by the subject of lyin...

People with Down syndrome are slowly and not at all familiar with the notion of leisure time. From our previous research we found out that most of the adults with Down syndrome are at home, with no rehabilitation, or educational or therapeutically services. There are some occupational / vocational centers in some cities across the country. In the urban area, the adults with DS that belong to a NGO are doing sport, dance, leisure and occupational activities from time to time. All the others and especially those liv...

Migration is a process in which individuals and groups of people leave their homes for various reasons, which generally puts them to some disadvantages. The introduction of the study outlines the types of processing of the topic of external and internal migration in the original Slovak literature for children and youth from the end of the 19th century to the end of the 20th century. Migration as a disadvantageous social problem has gained new literary modifications especially after 2010. In three parts of the stud...

The method of dialogue analysis to be used in relation to a literary text as proposed by the Russian linguist, Mikhail Bakhtin, can be used in media communications research. His dialogism comes in handy in the analysis of mass communications processes, especially for the purpose of establishing why the same fact or event is interpreted differently in reports by various media sources. The advantage of heteroglossia as defined by Bakhtin is that it allows us to look at changes that are made to the same report after ...

The popularity of smart mobile devices is growing fast. These digital devices represent a new generation of technological tools that offer remarkable access to content as well as opportunities for creative use even by young children. Most of the best-selling apps in the education category are targeted towards younger children. At the same time, the educational value of those applications is difficult to determine. Parents and educators in Poland, who are turning to those devices for the potential educational benef...

Kaplan and Norton developed the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) model to complement and develop traditional financial performance indicators for the organization. According to a Fortune survey, about 60% of the 1,000 selected US companies have BSC experience, including international corporations (KPMG, Peat Marwick, Allstate Insurance, and AT&T). The scorecard contains a diverse set of performance measures, including financial performance, customer relations, internal business processes, and learning and growth. Advocate...

The current theory of multilingual mental lexicon interprets it as a multidimensional network that exists in human brain and integrates units of different languages into a complex holistic structure. The network is put into operation by the spreading activation mechanism that determines retrieval of the necessary information during speech activity. It is assumed that activation in multilingual mental lexicon is non-selective: nodes of all the languages known to an individual can receive the activation impulse simu...

The topicality of the paper is predetermined by the importance of competitiveness assessment and development for most modern companies, operating on the global arena in the era of globalization, business internalization and the growing opportunities of global sourcing. The term “competitiveness” can appear ambiguous, as competitive abilities of a product on one market can be outperformed on other markets. This trend pushes the companies to the development of more multifactorial strategic approaches in order to...

The aim of the present article is to assess the sustainability of five Estonian Ministries before and after moving the ministries to a joint building to find out if the moving was a reasonable decision. The objects of the study are the cost accounts of the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Social Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Education and Research, and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications of the Republic of Estonia in the timeframe between October 2016 and March 2018. Both qu...

The aim of my essay is to introduce a key feature of Miklos ErdelyВ’s oeuvre originating in conceptual art: the modelling of repetition, remembering, and time-travel. While the most salient oeuvre of Hungarian neo-avantgarde is categorized by art historians according to the media technologies applied in the artworks, ErdelyВ’s allround life-work can be best understood through this continuously modified intellectual horizon. Following these range of ideas will lead us to the recognition of the extraordinary charact...

A comparative analysis of the European language policy of multilingualism and its analogue in the Russian Federation is carried out using a systematic approach to the study of the regulatory framework and practical implementation. As a result, common features and obvious differences inherent in these political entities were identified. In the modern world, in the context of globalization in all spheres of human activity, language policy in the state or supranational education is closely related to political and ec...

Pawel Lukaszewski is the famous contemporary Polish composer, born in 1968 in Czestochowa, educated in Warsaw, the full professor of composition at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. His sacral and religious music gained the renown around the world. He was awarded with the В‘Orphee dВ’Or de lВ’Academie du Disque lyriqueВ’ and nine В‘FryderykВ’ Awards in Poland. The prestigious vocal ensembles form Europe, Asia and America perform this music [1]. Lukaszewski's music of religious and sacred character operates ...

The research question of the article is to find out the aspects of Russian smart city developers’ vision of expected inhabitants, as practitioners elaborating “smart city” concepts pay less attention to humanistic aspect of the problem than to technologies. To achieve that, an analysis of Russian articles on smart city mentioning the roles and functions of “smart people” was held. The results of the review are the following: first, the idea of “smart people” is controversial and impossible to achieve,...

Practice of cluster development, being guided by basic provisions of theories, has certain national peculiarities and differs over the certain countries with the width of territorial coverage, extent of regulation, and forms of state participation as well. In RussiaВ’s economy problems both of origin, and effective functioning of clusters remain actual. We assume that a binding condition of effective cluster development in the Russian Federation is the system monitoring of clusters activity that allows participant...

The article presents a theoretical analysis of existing approaches to assessing threats to the state economic security. The analysis revealed three main methods for assessing economic security: a simple rationing method based on a threshold value, a complex rationing method based on a threshold value, a rationing method for amount of discrepancy. These methods, despite the presence of specific features, are implemented in a certain sequence. As a result of the synthesis of methodological approaches, the authors ha...

This year we celebrate centenary of BauhausВ’ school established by Walter Gropius and his team in Weimar in 1919. In my paper I consider the possible influence between Bauhaus ideas in visual arts and music of that time. The main streams in Bauhaus philosophy developed the new concept of art and based on the rules as follows: reduction of decoration, innovation, geometry in construction, form devoted from function, social impact of art. I was inspired by Bauhaus as an interdisciplinary field that concentrates on ...

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, togethe...

The goal of this paper is to point out some of the mosaic monuments in the Czech Republic as a casuistry of rescue actions and restoration treatments as a response to frequent ignorance or in utmost cases the demolition of mosaic art. Despite a slowly increasing interest in mosaic heritage in recent years the full recognition of mosaics, including the ones from the communist era, as a valuable legacy of the past, still has not taken place. For this purpose the association Art a Craft Mozaika was founded in 2012. W...

Hospice care is a specialized, integrated form of health, social and psychological care provided to patients of all indication, diagnostic and age groups for which a reasonable life expectancy is judged to be less than six months based on reasonable medical judgment and for which active treatment has been discontinued. It is essential to treat pain and care for other symptoms of the terminal stage of the disease, as well as to address the psychological, social and spiritual needs and problems of the sick and conse...

Feliks Nowowiejski (1877-1946) was an eminent Polish composer, organist-virtuoso, conductor and pedagogue whose years of activity coincided with significant historical and socio-cultural changes in Europe. They had a tremendous impact on the artist and his creative path. Originating from the aesthetics and style of Romantic and particularly German – music, Nowowiejski came to international fame at the beginning of the 20th century as the author of the oratorio Quo Vadis ? Op. 30, a piece that became well-known n...

This paper presents a study looking at the music education at general secondary schools in Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland. The principal research problem the study aims to focus on, or draw attention to, is the necessity and benefits of the music education as a part of general education at upper secondary level. It presents a content analysis of selected curricular documents: the Framework Education Programme for General High Schools (Ramcovy vzdelavaci program pro gymnazia), the State Education Programme for...

We are confident that the science and art of highlighting and processing native talents develop as knowledge accumulates. In this study, we aim to analyze the relationship between the volume of musical knowledge and the professional experience of the participants in the research. The sample consists of students from the School of Music, Theatre and Visual Arts. Music has the role of influencing and stimulating self-knowledge, authentic values, the transformation of consciousness. These are instruments with which p...

Pawel Lukaszewski (Polish composer born in 1968) [1] belongs to the leaders of contemporary choir and religious music. His music is widely known not only in Poland but also abroad. It gained special recognition in Britain, where prestigious vocal ensembles perform it regularly. This music can be treated as the area of a special sounds space evoking the mystical space. Mystical space is built here upon the modern musical language using the elements of musical drama. This music also refers to the forms known form th...

The current study is focused on the influence of Nikolai Yakovlevich Grot (1852-1899) on the formation and institutionalization processes in Russian philosophy in the late 1880s. As the editor of the journal “Questions of Philosophy and Psychology” (Voprosi filosofii I psikhologii), Grot transforms this edition into the first press organ which accepts all the philosophical trends. This article aimed at examinating how Grot perceives positivistic, materialistic, scientific and metaphysical concepts, including t...

The article is devoted to the study of the social and natural aspects of the city environment. The city environment is recognized as the most important factor of creating and maintaining comfort in the city. The city environment forms the quality of life. Therefore, the city receives advantages in competition for residents, tourism and investment. The study examined the views of the local expert community on the most important factors that form a comfortable city environment. Research was conducted on the example ...

TodayВ’s research upon efficiency of user interaction with large web portals has established links between webpage popularity and crucial elements of webpage design, such as page layout and navigation on the portal, or, more narrowly, menu design. But despite their established importance, the two aforementioned elements of web design are next to never studied together, and their relative roles in rising webpage ranks are virtually unknown. In this paper, we assess pages with high betweenness centrality within the ...

Currently, you can find many social processes that are not well explained from the position of sociological theory. These include the growth of practices of symbolic consumption, an increase in the level of deviation and crime, the spread of social and mental stress in society. Sociologists offer many explanations for these phenomena, but they are explanations of symptoms and effects, not causes. The most striking confirmation of the inability of the theory to exhaustively explain the processes taking place is the...

Neurosciences, and in other words that series of disciplines which looks into the neuronal connections of human conduct, over the last few years have increasingly been influencing law, in particular Italian criminal law. This article intends to query the connections between neurosciences and criminal law, also observing a number of applications which have existed in recent years in Italy. On a more general note, neurosciences can be of assistance for ascertaining the impunity or reduced responsibility due to insan...

The paper actualizes the theme of social reality construction amidst the development of innovative technologies forming the techno-social space, in which technological and social aspects are closely intertwined in the context of mutually conditioned changes. Based on conceptual ideas of phenomenology, the mental bases of the social world exploration are accentuated and the inclusion of modern technologies in the processes of the social distribution of knowledge, transfer, and assimilation of information, in everyd...

There has been a very dynamic development of project management in recent years. One reason is continued globalization and market interconnection, another reason is the technological development and the development of new technologies. There are many challenges that project managers must encounter. Managing and leading the projects is a challenge for the project managers and it becomes difficult to meet the goals of the project, once the project changes from local to global. As companies worldwide are moving more ...

This paper aims to briefly present the ways of communication and promotion of Romanian banks through the online environment. The underlying motivation of this work is the particular importance of virtual communication. This is a defining feature of contemporary societies, being preferred by organizations, especially thanks to the technological means of communication. They use all existing media, from traditional to unconventional events. Today, organizations increasingly rely on online communication (social networ...

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 ...

We have considered regarding this paper the identification and evaluation of the financial and accounting risks within the public emergency hospital located in Bucharest, the capital of Romania, which has a great impact on its objectives. The main objectives of the public emergency hospital in Romania are: - guaranteeing the quality and safety of the medical act; - diversifying and increasing the quality of medical services offered to patients; - tracking population accessibility and patient satisfaction; - respec...

Pre-Romanticism literature is characterized by several features reflecting its approaching towards Romanticism. Karamzin’s ?Russian Traveller’s Letters? (Ienuia ?onneiai iooaoanoaaiieea / Pis?ma Russkogo Puteshestvennika,1791-92) is not a chaotic sequence of unselected impressions, it is not a descriptive enumeration of unsorted facts. In contrast, it is a collection of thoughts and ideas deliberately chosen for the book and mirroring different events of less than two years, 1789-1790, witnessed by N.M.Karamzi...

Noise from road transport is understand like a negative phenomenon which affects human health and causes them physical and mental harm. A part of road projects efficiency evaluation should be quantification and monetization of negative impacts from the road transport. At present, the handbook of Cost benefit analysis (CBA) is used for quantification and monetization negative impacts of noise in Slovakia. The handbook has some deficiencies and do not take account character of noise, like a type of road surface, bar...

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...

For modern scientific knowledge it is typical to have a deep concern in issues of verbal communication. One of linguistic fields dealing with these problems is functional linguosynergetics. Functional linguosynergetics aims to determine the relationship between linguistic units and the conditions of their use in a certain communicative and pragmatic space which is characterized by the author and the addresseeВ’s interaction and by precise peculiarities of this interaction. It helps to see the process of full funct...

The present scientific paper deals with the German social psychologist and philosopher Erich Seligmann Fromm’s social pedagogy, ethical and worldview attitude about human nature and tries to transfer it in the sphere of business and technology education and management organization for enterprise development. As it is seen from the paper, according to Erich Fromm’s main scientific work “Man for Himself”, each social organization and structure, existing in the business sphere, has its own values, which create ...

Economic security is largely determined by the quality of the integrated reporting's assessment. The article is devoted to the research of the adaptation of authorial analyzing methods the impact of capitals state changes and stakeholders' economic behavior on the change in the companyВ’s created value to ensure the economic security. The study is based on the value maximization concept of the firm, which is created when interacting with stakeholders by accumulating and transforming their resources. The paper prop...

Italy is a country with the centuries-old history, the country which has given the world a lot of great rulers and strategists, politicians and scientists, philosophers and artists. The research is aimed at examining the main directions and priorities of the foreign policy of Italy with Russia. Italy is one of the countries which has special relations with Russia. The fact that Italy prefers involving Russia in the European affairs to containing it doesnВ’t imply its automatic agreement with Moscow on all issues. ...

The article examines modern interpretations of the term “behavioral wars” as a variety of information and psychological wars. As a methodical basis the authors applied analysis of modern publications on this theme by both Russian and foreign authors. In modern politics, information wars or information operations are the drivers of interstate relations. Behavioral wars are aimed at changing the behavior of population in the direction favorable for the enemy. Behavioral weapon is a tool of behavioral war. One of...

According to legal provisions laid down in article 1.350 of the Romanian Civil Code, any person bound by a contract must fulfill his obligations under that contract. The creditor is entitled to the full, exact and timely fulfilment of the obligations by the debtor based on the provisions of article 1.516 of the Romanian Civil Code. Also, according to the same legal provisions, unless performance is impossible, the creditor may still request that the debtor be compelled to perform the obligation in kind. As far as ...