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Currently relevant are the issues of improving the intellectual management of the educational process in the structure of subject mathematics teaching. The solution of this problem is aimed at ensuring the individual needs of each student in self-education and self-actualization, at the activation of cognitive, intellectual, motivational processes in the context of the new digital educational paradigm. The leading idea of the study is the development of an automated intelligent learning system in mathematics (ILS)...

In the context of stimulating personal development, an individual approach to each individual is very important. Considering this approach with respect to modern academic education, it is worth implementing a master-student tradition, lost today with the massification of education. Based on the literature analysis, the following two approaches can be indicated to build personal knowledge. The western strategy focuses on the development and transfer of explicit knowledge, built in a created system of knowledge mana...

Background: Infertility is consistently associated with reduced quality of life. This brings about a negative impact on emotional, social, and physical functioning. Moreover, the infertile individual is often faced with feelings of resentment, anxiety, uncertainty, or grief. So far, various psychological interventions have validated their effects on the psychological functioning of infertile participants, yet very few creative-expressive techniques have been documented. Accordingly, art therapeutic interventions t...

The education and science system is among the priority areas for modernization and development of digital economy for the close future. It requires detailed consideration of the features of training specialists most demanding in the digital economy. Currently, of particular interest is the definition of directions, profiles and specializations of students education, which will require special approaches and methods not only in terms of the organization of the educational process of bachelors, but also in terms of ...

The development of modern society at the level of post-industrial relations requires not only the creation of the foundations of the digital economy and the introduction of advanced scientific achievements (hi-tech), but also a qualitative change in the system of training professional personnel. In this regard, the role of universities and, in particular, of faculty members, which are facing new challenges, is growing. It is not so much about changing educational programs, but about changing the very principles of...

Thematic outline is one of the basic concepts of structural evolution of classical music. This is obvious more or less in almost any type of transformation and is very clear when the melody of the theme can be expressed in a different profile without repeated melodic speech directly, but indirectly through links of specific notes or common intervals. From this point of view, in this paper we approach the piano sonata K. 545 by W. A. Mozart starting from Reti’s concept, the thematic process. The main idea of this s...

The article reflects not just a personal concern of the author of the fate of social and philosophical thought in the era of the tectonic social shifts. This article discusses the problems of modern social and philosophical knowledge, as an appeal to the ontological foundations of sociology and the need for a new perspective on the social phenomena underlying the sociological theories (personality, society, social structure, etc.) taking in account intense social changes in the society of the XXI century. Sociolog...

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...

Shirley Jackson is an author of many fictional and semi-fictional texts and had a great interest in the supernatural. Her novel “The Haunting of Hill House” (1959) is praised by many horror fiction writers, such as Stephen King, as one of the great novels of supernatural in the last hundred years. The notion of the literary genre of horror is based on the effect it produces on the reader: it provokes the reader’s emotional and/or physical response, such as fear, anxiety, revulsion, etc., by exposing him or her to ...

Image is a key factor in attracting first-time visitors, and the environment of a destination plays an essential role in their decision to re-visit it. The aim of the study is to ascertain the moderating effect that cognitive and affective components have on the overall image and relationship with destination loyalty. Twenty-four distinct constructs are identified, five of which are about the cognitive aspect, eleven are about the affective aspect, five are about the overall image of Bulgaria as a spa and wellness...

In the paper we focus on three literary works for children and youth in Slovak translations. Cecil Bodker (Silas and the Black Mare, 1977; Slovak translation in 1979 [1]) represents Danish literature in this particular selection, Ivona Brezinova (Boy and the Dog, 2011; Slovak translation in 2011 [2]) represents Czech literature and Alan Marshall (I Can Jump Puddles, 1956; Slovak translation in 1978 [4]) is the sample of Australian literature. In addition to their artistic persuasion and belonging to the literature...

Modern studies show that today’s education is focused on the development of the personality of a student. This is due to the fact that at the moment the most important aspect in the process of receiving knowledge is learning the methods of it, which are based on analysis and forecasting. This is guided by the educational process for the development of probabilistic style of thinking that all adequate solutions in the conditions of limited information, and when the decision-making process itself is based on the pro...

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 theme of the research is topical in today’s challenges in the fight against terrorism, international crime and in maintaining the sovereignty and territorial integrity of states in the context of hybrid war as well as other aggressive activities. The legal framework for emergency regimes has been researched in the aspects of national border security and internal security. The legal analysis method to investigate legal regulation in the field of emergency regimes in Latvia and the EU, the historical method of r...

The problem addressed in the article is ambiguity and its subtypes. Depending on the intention of employing ambiguity in different types of discourse, one can identify several subtypes of ambiguity – strategic, constructive, destructive and manipulative. Broadly speaking, any kind of intended ambiguity can be considered manipulative since the speaker when generating an utterance aims at achieving a particular goal or effect. Strategic ambiguity can be defined as a deliberate choice of words or language structures ...

A contemporary multicultural society needs multiculturally educated teachers who are able to pass on their knowledge to the pupils. Teaching foreign languages should educate individuals not only from the linguistic point of view but also in cultural terms. Culture is a specific feature of every country. It includes music, paintings, sculptures, films, architecture, etc. The presence of the Culture Studies in teaching foreign languages develops three basic levels: pupils' empathy and understanding, factual knowledg...

holistic system in psychology, where motivation, metacognition, learning skills and regulation of internal (e.g. concentration) and external resources (e.g. time) are evenly important in the prediction of academic success in university. Objective: To study the predictors of self-regulated learning (learning skills, motivation and resource regulation) in academic performance among STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine), respectively non-STEMM undergraduates (N= 106). Method: The study wa...

In the paper, we propose an original approach to financial statements fraud risk assessment based on the augmentation of existing risk-oriented audit concept towards taking into account the behavioral aspects. We propose to divide the fraud factors into two groups. The first includes environmental factors. The second involves the individual characteristics of the people who are responsible for financial statements reliability. In the second group, we are identifying the basic individual features that associated wi...

Immediately after the collapse of socialism, post-socialist education remained relatively good. With the end of negative ideological pressure, however, adverse changes began that, unfortunately, have survived. We can identify five negative changes. First came the melding of what was previously the separate training of teachers in primary and secondary schools. Then came the rejection of a predetermined number of graduates within certain disciplines. Third, schools became financed according to their student enrollm...

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 graduates’ 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 graduates...

When we think about why the use of positive psychology should lead to increasing resilience in pupils and students, the possible answer is that positive psychology also focuses on methods for increasing personal well-being, which is an important factor in personal resilience. The key issue in positive education is the fact that resilience can be taught and practised. Improving one’s well-being leads to improving one’s learning. The article provides an outline of how to use positive psychology in education. We lay ...

Current discussions about future vocational teachers’ perspectives usually imply the notion of a strong personality and a competent professional. The idea of professionalism is inseparable from the idea of self-authorship the central issue of which is the formation and development of personal interior voice not only of students, but of young teachers as well. Self-authorship is regarded to be more than a skill that can be taught; it requires a transformation in young teachers’ attitude towards nature of knowledge,...

This paper explores the particularities of accounting system that serves as the main source of data for analyzing and managing small farm performance in Latvia. Although the topic of accounting in small companies has already been discussed in the literature, there is still a dearth of research on challenges faced by small agricultural holdings. The paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature by providing an insight into highly unsophisticated systems for aggregating and processing data used by some small far...

East Asia draws the attention of experts in recent years due to the unprecedented economic and political growth of the countries of the region. However, despite the significant role that the region plays in world politics and economics, the absence of security mechanisms and the presence of several potential spots of conflicts, such as the contradiction between China and Japan, make the region volatile. The article makes an attempt to understand the root of the Sino-Japanese relations and their conflicting potenti...

Introduction. Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disease with progressive erosive joint damage. The sometimes reduced effectiveness of conventional immunosuppressive treatments, their multiple adverse effects, and the overall difficulty in managing sinusoidal clinical panel (with critical periods or “peaks” and intercritical periods with varying degrees of activity) motivated the search for therapeutic alternatives for controlling the underlying disease. Material and methods. This is a prospective obse...

Romania of the year 2019 crosses the largest exodus in its history and we are not talking about the village-city mobility but directly about international migration. At the same time, in the popular culture, Romanians are not known to be big entrepreneurs. They innovate, are spontaneous, have many ideas, but entrepreneurship is not a trait that characterizes us as people. Also, the working population migrates massively, which does not encourage the development of rural areas. This paper aims to analyze and radiogr...

The paper aim is an attempt to analyses the status quo of the stated-owned company Serbian railways infrastructure in terms of strategic development and particularly goal-setting advancement. Paper’s method is based on contemporary streams in management of stated-own enterprises and specifically alternative models of organizing relatively rigid organizations. The study examines and it shows that there is much work to be done to bring the system of objectives into a position that enable and ensure a sufficiently hi...

Aim: Purpose of this study was to explore the perception of motherhood among adolescent girls in Slovakia. Differences in perception of motherhood according to demographic factors and reproductive plans were examined as well. Method: Data collection was carried out at four high schools in central Slovakia; 200 female students were included in the research sample (age 18.35±0.48). The semantic differential was used in order to measure the perception of motherhood, containing 10 rating scales (7- point Likert scales...

The real situation of linguistic variation is extremely complicated, as far as not only dialects and literary language, but also all other forms of language existence are included into the processes of territorial variation. Thus, language variation is the result of the simultaneous influence of both territorial and social factors. The subject of the research is variation of the frequency of phonetic and lexical regional-specific speech features under the influence of such social factors as gender, age, place of b...

Under the influence of the Renaissance humanist trend, the Romanian musical space is experiencing a period of transformation and flourishing in a diverse and effervescent musical landscape. Being under the influence of Western music, the Romanian musical life assimilates and accepts the Renaissance elements in particular manifestation forms, specific to the historical-geographical space of the historical regions known as the Roman Countries (Principalities). For more than two centuries, numerous European countries...

Cuba is one of the fastest developing tourist regions in the Caribbean, this dynamic growth in tourist traffic is caused by the increased investment in the tourism infrastructure. Since the '90s a trend in the tourist infrastructure can be observed, where building all-inclusive hotels in the coastal region has become increasingly popular. In Cuba's case those were usually closed areas – tourist enclaves, where only foreign tourists and cuban staff could reside. Thus the tourist regions were located in isolated pla...

Starting from the words of Ludovico Quaroni (as architect and educator), the paper aims to highlight the importance of social content for the purpose of good planning and architecture. With reference to the Vitruvian triad - utilitas, firmitas, venustas – Quaroni insists on the necessary integration of the three components, clearly stressing how, in the education process, it is fundamental to start from the social question - what he defines as "content" or "structure of the contents" of the design – and not from a...

The present study focuses on two interrelated issues: specifics of Russian literature in Latvia in the period after the World War II and peculiarity of children’s literature of this period. The post-war period is dramatic in the history of Latvia; it is a period of lost independence and occupation, which directly affects the literary process (presence of ideological doctrine). Nevertheless, Latvia’s cultural space becomes a place of relative artistic freedom and minimization of ideological dictate. In a phenomenal...

The purpose of the paper is to show the changes taking place in the burial culture in Poland and to explain their conditions. Although the burial culture can still be considered in the light of tradition, it is currently undergoing significant and visible changes. These are due to a number of reasons, including the professionalization and commercialization of funeral services, as well as the marketisation of the funeral industry and the adoption of Western cultural models. The change in traditional funeral pattern...

Analysis of the present condition and prospects of development of financial markets in Russia and abroad allowed the author to identify risks and provide specific recommendations to improve Russia's economic policy in the new geopolitical reality. The paper aims to examine topical issues on the current status and development prospects of the Russian monetary economy. Developing economy of Russia plays a special role in contemporary world. Financial market is of particular importance for the development of the Russ...

Italy has more World Heritage Sites than any other country in the World. This extraordinary legacy needs to be maintained and preserved. The awareness of the importance of this legacy in Italy dates back to the Renaissance, or even earlier. A brief overview of the development of the legal acts aimed at preserving the cultural heritage in Italy in the last centuries shows an advanced approach to the issue. While the pre-unitarian legislation attests a careful awareness and adopts better legal tools in specific area...

The purpose of this paper was to determine the extent of occurrence and frequency of partner violence in students' romantic relationships, including the issue of whether there are differences in the forms of violence (psychological, physical, sexual), as well as willingness to seek and to provide help in case of violence. Methods: The study involved 104 female and male students (average age was 22.6) enrolled at the University of Mostar. The following measurement instruments were used in the research: Dating Viole...

The present case study deals with the trilateral relationship of the student, the university, and the employer. The article describes the current state of the cooperation of organizations with other partners in their contact sphere. The article also includes a basic classification of organizations, their goals, and their ideas concerning the cooperation of organizations in this trilateral relationship. Organizations can be broken down by jurisdiction into the public and the private sector, but also by industry, by...

During the “Wilhelmine” era in the German Empire (1871-1918) several large-scale prisons were planned. The evolution of those structures started in the first part of the 19th century with “castellated style”, neo-Gothic architecture of prisons (Breslau, Ratibor, Beuthen). Large prison structures (Wohlau, Gross-Strehlitz, Siegburg, Herford, Kassel, Wittlich, Neumuenster, Berlin-Tegel, Breslau - Kletschkau Strasse, Wronke, Freiendiez, Stuhm,) were also adorned with architectural neo-style costumes, related to the of...

This publication deals with forthcoming amendments expected to be made in the civil law pursuant to proposed draft laws which provide for legitimization of distinctive features or attributes of property rights. In particular, it deals with accrual and termination of property rights for the reasons provided by the Civil Code and respective subordinate laws and regulations; statutory preservation of a list of property rights; disclosure of content and the way property rights are to be exercised in the civil law; enc...

Training device prototype is primarily intended conditions research and the specifics of each part of the car and practical training cutting operations using a hydraulic recovery device. In practice, in delivering persons in traffic accidents, most often occurs to cut A, B, and C posts what they prove past experience and statistics. Since 2010 occurred several changes in the automotive industry from the point of view safety standards. Accelerate to incorporate high strength steel to vehicles is resulted in strengt...

Purpose - The aim of this paper is to investigate the match between the students’ skills in high school, the skills to be acquired in tertiary education and the relevance of these skills on the labor market. Design/Methodology/Approach – Quantitative methods: questionnaires. The questionnaires were applied in two different regions from Romania: the most developed and one of the most deprived. A 5 Likert scale was used for investigating their perceived skills (5 means the best). For the actual skills, the responden...

Management is the oldest area of human activity, which exists as long as people live and as long as they work in communities. In modern society, a new type of management has emerged - remote or distance management of employees. There can be several reasons for spread of remote management: the highest possible costs for an employee permanently present in an office, such as renting an office space and the associated costs of maintaining working places, or the type of activity of the organization that implies the mai...

The article is an analysis of the contemporary shape of special economic zones in Poland. The attempt presents the complexity of spatial and landscape interactions observed at the interface between privileged areas and urban and suburban spaces. Special economic zones had a strong influence on changes taking place in the Polish economy, labor market, social processes and spatial transformation of the city and regions. Currently, SEZ have become one of the symbols of the Polish political transformation. They are no...

The relevance of the research topic is due to the need to analyze the role of education in the system of values of modern youth in the context of the main directions of development of innovative society, the key of which is the formation of innovative personality as a specific social type. The background of the study was the author's previous research on the analysis of innovative development of the Russian Federation, the implementation of the main strategic documents related to the innovative development of the ...

Hotel service in its essence is a dynamic process, stimulating appliance of various technological innovations, which in turn create convenience and real experience to hotel guests during their stay. Artificial intelligence and virtual reality, mobile applications, digital key and kiosks, voice assistants, chatbots, robots and many more modern technologies play essential role in achieving competitive advantages in the hotel industry. Their effectiveness and appropriate implementation rely entirely on end users’ per...

Walking is the most primary form of transporting. It is the socially equitable mode most accessible to the masses. However, transportation technology primarily the car has caused the desertion of the pedestrian space. Consequently, the phenomenon created a degradation of the pedestrian environment. In many cities the abandonment of the pedestrian space has created a socially unfriendly environment. Some studies have shown that more crimes are committed in areas where only few pedestrians are present on the street....

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...

The article describes a study of intercultural communication in Latvia. The objective of the research was to study the most problematic issues of intercultural communication in Latvia. The three stages of research (with an interval after every four years) used the critical incident method or critical incident technique from 2004 to 2018. The critical incident technique was used as a qualitative method for the situation analysis. The dominant incidents were those where language choice was central. The results were ...

Family relationships are related to their coherence, ability to solve everyday problems and challenging situations. However, the family has internal and external circumstances that affect the relationships between its members. Gender stereotypes and a number of other circumstances can also weaken the coherence of these relationships in the daily confrontation with a child's handicap. The paper provides an overview of these circumstances that may affect the quality of family relationships. Data collection and evalu...