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Any classification that claims theoretical significance should be based on signs reflecting the essence of the classified objects. Ideal classifications have heuristic potential, reveal new links between the already known objects, suggest the existence of previously unknown objects. The objective of this paper is to analyze the classification methods of superstitions and assess their scientific potential. The classification of superstitions remains the central problem of the minor folklore. Alphabetic classificati...

Commuter rail transport in Russia plays a leading socio-economic role. Passenger traffic by rail in some regions reaches 90%. Practically there is no alternative to this type of transport in many regions. Commuter rail transport is in demand among citizens who have the right for preferential travel, as well as among people with low incomes. Regional authorities determine the cost of travel for such society groups below the actual cost, and the loss of income of the carrier is compensated by providing subsidies fro...

Economic diplomacy attracts an increasing level of interest from various areas of life ranging from academics in the fields of e.g. international relations, international economics and political economy through public servants responsible for foreign affairs, trade policy and promotion as well as their private and entrepreneurial counterparts to its former and active practitioners – all of them trying to identify its role in foreign and/or economic policy from their own particular perspective. However, many of t...

At the present time the need to learn a foreign language is not in doubt as foreign language learning (FLL) can significantly expand cognitive abilities like memory, perception, thinking and personal enrichment, similarly, it contributes to promotion in career, advancement of communication skills and travelling opportunities, just to name a few. The main issue today concerns the organization of teaching and learning that can ensure a higher level of language acquisition. In this respect there comes up a question: ...

Many researchers and scholars nowadays view the online environment as the ideal context for fostering transformative learning. However, although the growth of online education has resulted in a plethora of investigations, for the moment, few empirical studies exist about promoting transformative learning in online environments. This paper focuses on the application of the transformative learning model in two distinct online learning environments in higher education. The first is a traditional blended learning envi...

This paper aimed to understand how fashion design higher education programs are approaching fashion 'eco-design' initiatives and how or if this could influence the diffusion and adoption by the whole sector. Furthermore, this paper argued that online education, sustained by a lifelong learning perspective, would present a valid way to deliver and disseminate the knowledge about sustainable principles in business, technological, social and environmental practices, making them quickly available for professionals and...

Open innovation is a new paradigm for the development of agribusiness in Romania and the Danube macro-region. Studies on agro-food chains and clusters are still scarce. In the Romanian agro-food sector, 7 regional and cross-regional clusters are very active. This study aims to present the state of the art on open innovation in agribusiness in Romania, identifying how it is adopted, the role of clusters and the factors that influence this process, a collaborative platform for agro-food clusters and their members an...

Specific risk of a particular enterprise consists of a risk resulting from the industry, that the enterprise operates in, as well as of a risk resulting from internal specificity of the enterprise. The objective of this paper is to propose authorВ’s method to translate the operational and financial effectiveness assessment into a number, which would reflect a specific risk premium. The paper assumes that specific risk in the enterprise composes of an operational and financial risk, which are a derivative of the ef...

This study aims to clarify the ways in which the authorities involved in place brand management choose to use new technologies to communicate their online identity, within a broader context, defined by circular economy. We focused on a methodology repository, applying an already validated instrument, which could generate standardized and comparable results, from previous research, addressing the online identity of place brands issue. However, exploring contextualization, which is now mandatory for place brands in ...

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are a dynamic and changing system that has to be able to quickly adapt to changes in society and the political or business environment. Nowadays, an important factor of competitiveness for Latvian farmers being in the European Union (EU) and working in the global market is available information and the ability to use it quickly and correctly. Besides, designing a future rural development policy has to take into account the presence of other EU Member States and the need to agr...

In Romania, the physical education lesson goes through a stage of reforming in line with student requirements, adapting exercises to video and computer games. Thus, for six months, 40 students (aged 8-10 years) participated twice a week in work programs that had interactive games in their structure. Subjects were tested before and after the application of work schedules, following their progress in some components of motor capacity. The tests performed referred to the coordination, balance and speed. The statistic...

The urgency of the problem under consideration is that at present in the country there is a constant improvement, both of the education system and its departmental segment. Therefore, the need to appeal to the historical experience of the formation and development of the Soviet education system is not in doubt. The study of the historical experience of the formation and development of departmental professional education should be considered in the context of the entire educational policy pursued by the leadership ...

Orientalism is a doctrine based on the isolation of the East (opposed to the West) as a special cultural, ideological, historical and sociopolitical phenomenon and reference point in the implementation of cultural or political activities, which was started in the colonial era between the 18-th and 19-th centuries. It is divided into three main stages: colonial, post-colonial and the new Orientalism. Orientalism was created by the European world to study the countries of the East in the following directions: direct...

The significance of outreach and its impact in reaching victims is the focus of this article.Within the anti-trafficking field, outreach is an important topic and has been further developed by organizations to better address the difficulties that the crime of human trafficking present. The understanding and general awareness of human trafficking is fairly new. To address the growing problem of human trafficking, anti-trafficking organizations have devised outreach methods aimed at more effectively identifying, app...

The ability to provide a variety of services to trafficked persons is a key component of extracting the individuals from this environment. Organizations provide different services to victims and are able to provide these services based on their area of expertise. For example, some organizations are able to provide legal services, some counseling for trauma, medical and dental services, food and clothing . In addition, the aim of this article is to highlight the Pro Sentret NGO outreach model, Norway, which can be ...

The drinks sector has increasingly diversified lately on the basis of complying with the consumersВ’ demands as well as on the necessity of adopting sustainable practices imposed by the resource depletion and climate change challenges. This research aims to present an overview of the drinks market at Romanian level since 2013 by considering also the sustainability component. Two methods are applied for a better analysis of this subject: the bibliometric analysis and the statistical analysis of the drinks market. I...

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. PaperВ’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 h...

Our research focuses on different ways of understanding parenting styles and the similarities and differences between conceptual understanding as well as statistical issues for 2 measurement instruments. Starting with Baumid vision of consistent and persistent ways of interactions between parents and child, there is evidence that these constant ways of interactions do have certain influences on child development. As it was shown in previous research, addiction to substance abuse, especially alcohol in adolescence ...

This study is focused on families of pre-school children with 1 type diabetes mellitus. The aim of the study was to explore if there is any difference between parents of diabetic children and parents of typical children in their life satisfaction and their satisfaction with the kindergarten. Also the relationship between parent's satisfaction with kindergarten and their satisfaction with life is analyzed here. The research sample of 166 respondents was divided into two groups of parents of children with the diabet...

The research of allusions in economic discourse has assumed importance; a great number of researches is devoted to this subject due to interest in the issue of manipulating publicВ’s opinion and forming peopleВ’s worldview by means of stylistic devices. The purpose of the present research is to identify regularities of usage of allusions in English-language newspapers. Theoretical background of the research includes critical analysis of linguistic works on economic discourse and allusions. The article includes sta...

Obesity in elderly people with type 2 diabetes is a public health problem and preventing it is an important outcome of the rehabilitation process. The objectives of the paper were to determine whether there are differences in the BMI result of elderly persons in the Republic of Croatia who are beneficiaries of institutional care compared to those who live independently in their own living space and examine the degree of quality of life and satisfaction with health of elderly people in the examined groups. The stud...

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 18.35В±0.48). The semantic differential was used in order to measure the perception of motherhood, containing 10 rating scales (7- point Likert scale...

Romania represents a new pole of interest of people engaged in leisure time spending within musical festivals. Thus, lately, the Romanian musical festivals have achieved significant progress, which is easy to visualize due to intense promotion and beneficial marketing, but also through the major national and international interest for the two important events that are the subject of this research. This research focuses on visualizing the main problems raised by the participants of the Untold and Neversea festivals...

The article attempts to consider the ways the persistent perceptions of Russian literature by Latvian inhabitants have been formed and developed. Russian literature has been part of Latvian cultural landscape for a long time. Its perception in Latvian society is heterogeneous and changeable both in the temporal and in the socio-cultural aspect. First, when studying the specifics of the perception of Russian literature in Latvian society, it is necessary to take into account the stages and characteristics of the fo...

Students' school burnout can be referred to structured by Maslach [1] [2], firing planes regarding not only the interpersonal sphere but also the organizational sphere. In the case of pupils, organizational factors may be big classes, lack of individualization of education, lack of ability to organize time devoted to learning at home and other. One of the important factors causing student burnout is their perception of the school environment [3]. Class and school climate perception is important for a sense of secu...

The current study focuses on the intersection of ethnic identity in the political discourse in ethnically binary post-conflictual (post-Soviet) territories, exploring it through the postcolonial approach to performativity, Judith Butler’s theory on performativity and its certain concepts in further performativity research. Jana Egle’s book “Strangers or Milenkij Ti Moj”1 (Svesie jeb milenkij ti moj, 2018) projects a specific interpretation of Russians, i.e. as a complex concept represented through speakers’...

Persecution measures aimed at the Roma population in the Slovak State had different forms. Initially, the regime did not discriminate openly the Roma population. The main goal was to restrict the nomadism. Persecution measures against the Roma began with the adoption of the Constitutional Act on Citizenship. On 18 June 1940, the Ministry of the Interior issued a decree specifying who should have been considered a Gypsy. An important role in the drafting of regulations against the nomadism of the Roma was the Draft...

Measures against the Roma affected also the army. The first persecution measures began after the first conscriptions that took place in August and September 1939. According to Section 38 of the Defense Act, the Roma, together with the Jews, could not be members of the armed forces or military personnel and they had to work in special working groups. The Arians were conscripts of work service, and the Gypsies, along with the Jews, were members of working obligation. A certain change occurred after 29 May 1940, when...

The article is dedicated to the current issues of self-development of teachers and is aimed to identify the main reasons for their poor social and personal self-development. The issues addressed in the article are of particular relevance due to the growing role of teachers of higher education institutions in the modern society. The most important research method used by the authors was the pedagogic experiment, including such particular empirical methods as monitoring, tests, surveys, questionnaires, interviews, s...

The article is devoted to the research of personal traits and motivation of students of a college of art (organizational and performing activities). The method of the empirical study was a psychological test (Aspiration Index questionnaire by T. Kasser, R.Ryan; test of creativity by N.F. Vishnjakova, The Traits Personality Questionnaire 5 (TPQue5)). The study was held in Novosibirsk Region College of Culture and Art. The sample includes 78 students of directing (students-directors) and choreographic (students-danc...

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...

Housing is the basic and social need of every person. Urban development has its own direction and character, planning. It was not different in the case of former Czechoslovakia after 1960 where preference was given to construction of residential buildings using prefabricated units, a choice of direction, which laid a foundation for a mass housing estates development thenceforth. The change in the political system after 1989 led to the creation of a post-socialist society under which the panel housing mass producti...

Elena Katishonok is a contemporary author, who is writing in Russian. Elena was born in Riga, graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the Latvian State University. In 1991, she moved to the USA; now she lives in Boston. In the last few years, Elena Katishonok’ oeuvre has become known to a wide range of readers. The novels “Once upon the Time There Lived an Old Man with His Old Woman” (2006), “Counterclockwise” (2009), “When the Person Leaves” (2011), “Light in the Window” (2014) have not only f...

The article describes functioning of phraseological units of the Russian and English languages in scientific and artistic discourses. Scientific and artistic types of discourse manifest almost diametrically opposed features. The research shows that stylistically neutral phraseological units and praseologisms-euphemisms prevail in scientific discourse. Emotional phraseologisms occur, but seldom. In general, occurrence of phraseological units in scientific discourse is not as frequent as in artistic one. To the cont...

The prevalence of the non-performance of physical activity in the 21st century has reached pandemic proportions in all age groups, including elderly people. This study aimed to determine the level of physical activity of elderly people with type 2 diabetes who are users of institutional care in the Republic of Croatia compared to those who do not have diabetes and live independently in a residential area. The study comprised 200 elderly participants who can participate in physical activity independently or with as...

High level of teacher training, as well as well-designed career development and long-life learning of teachers are considered to be very important standpoints for education from preschool to university settings. It is no doubt, that without professional competences of teachers, quality education of preschool children cannot be secured. European organizations explicitly argue for providing and securing high-quality early childhood education (e.g., European Commission, 2013; European Council, 2011). Several studies ...

The article presents logistical aspects of the economic security system. The determinants of economic security are presented, and the monitoring and hazard indicators of the analysed security are analysed. The role and tasks of logistics in shaping the country's economic security as well as a comprehensive strategy for improving economic security are presented. Analyses and research revealed that it is important both cognitively and for economic practice to learn the mechanisms of efficient logistics. Logistical p...

The aim of the article is to analyse the attitude of the Polish Socialist Party – former Revolutionary Faction (PSPfRevFr) towards the Reform camp in the period 1928-1935. This party appeared on the Polish political scene as a result of a split that took place in the Polish Socialist Party (PSP), against the background of party members' attitude towards J. Pilsudski after the coup d'etat he had carried out in May 1926. For two years in the PSP there was a rivalry between two factions, which finally ended with th...

In her paper, the author analyses legal regulations from 17th, 18th and 19th century whose content might point to the life in joint family households. She compares the Vlach Statute, Military Border Rights and the General Military Border Law taking into consideration the inheritance matter and land ownership. From these categories, she draws political causes of forming, long existence and division of joint family households. Moreover, the author analyses joint households in the context of a military society which ...

In the postmodern society with its rapid changes, actors strive to find the most efficient means of social adaptation that would enable them to achieve their personal goals in the shortest possible time. The complexity of social relationships forces social actors to use provocations as a more advanced means of influence. Oftentimes, provocators resort to provocations in order to have an emotional impact on their opponents and galvanize them into actions that are programmed to damage them for the sake of realizatio...

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 oneВ’s well-being leads to improving oneВ’s learning. The article provides an outline of how to use positive psychology in education. We la...

Neoplastic diseases are among the most frequent chronic non-communicable diseases. In the Czech Republic, every year over 95,000 malignant tumours are diagnosed and over 25,000 patients die as a result oncological diseases despite the fact that their onset is largely affected by lifestyle. After cardiovascular diseases, neoplastic diseases represent the most frequent cause of death. For this reason, it is very important to know the basic information about this issue in order to prevent the disease and reduce the n...

The aim of public authorities in managing public administration is to improve the quality of public administration subjects and public service activities to support socio-economic growth and increase the quality of citizensВ’ life. For this reason, public authorities must make efficient use of available funds. Effective management of public finances will ensure optimal functioning of all socially important public sector functions related to the peoplesВ’ life and whole society, such as education, health care, soci...

The article presents the rationale for using the Data Envelopment Analysis method for assessing innovation sustainability at the regional level. The theoretical basis for the paper is based on results of the study of foreign experience gained and the current Russian practice on evaluation of innovative development at the federal and regional levels. Focusing on the examined approaches, the authors propose an algorithm of regional innovative resistance estimation using the method of comparative analysis of the data...

The theme of lecture is postcolonial novel in Slovak literature which is a new kind of novel in the Slovakia as the self-colony of Ex-Soviet Union. The lecture analyses the term postcolonial novel as it is defined by prof. Tibor Zilka from Faculty of Central European Studies Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra. Postcolonial novel is more precisely defined in the example of the novel Krajina zabudnutia (2000, The Land of Forgetting) written by Anton Balaz, who, on the basis of personal testimonies of su...

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...

The State Standards of Pedagogical Education in the Russian Federation envisage the core component of school-based experience for pedagogical students. The experience falls into obligatory and optional components and is organized throughout the whole course of studies. The paper describes the system of school-based experience in a selected Pedagogical University where all students are enrolled in the programs with double majoring. The methodology applied includes case study, evidence-based education research and m...

The possibility of attending a regular classroom close to home, having sufficient support from the school and creating the conditions for a full-featured development should be a matter of course for equal inclusion in society. In Slovakia, there are no optimal conditions for the education of children with different needs in mainstream education. The authors of the article describe the issue of inclusion of children with special educational needs which has been a topical topic for several years, not only in pedagog...

Analysis of the problems of the federal structure and new trends in its development are particular importance for Russia. Since the collapse of the USSR, the country has passed a difficult and long way of becoming from Soviet federalism to the modern democratic Federation. This transformation took place against the backdrop of complex and controversial political and socio-economic relations, as well as various crises that encompassed all aspects of social life. The basic principles, fundamental ideas characterizin...

Karelian Pomorie is part of the historical and geographical province of Pomorie in the North-West of Russia, stretching along the coast of the White Sea within the modern polar regions of the Russian Federation: Karelia, Murmansk and Arkhangelsk oblast. The object of our research is the part of Pomorie area within the borders of the Republic of Karelia. On the scheme of historical and geographical zoning of Karelia, the territory received the name of the Pomorie province. The isolation of the province is associate...