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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...

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 childrenВ’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, LatviaВ’s cultural space becomes a place of relative artistic freedom and minimization of ideological dictate. In a phenomen...

which provides a link between the sphere of social relations, cultural norms and political processes. It is a set of principles that influence political behavior and help systemically structure common values, attitudes, beliefs, and orientations that form the basis of the relationship between an individual, society, and the state. The stability of a political culture is based on such factors as the legitimacy of the existing system and political regime. This article discusses the features of the political culture ...

Occupational safety is a key condition of any work activity, especially in the sphere of education. The occupational safety aspect is a part of teaching technical subjects, including in a wider context (environmental, medical, aesthetic, economic, energy, and others), and constitutes the basis of the modern vocational training concept. According to J. Pechar and J. Pehe [9], occupational safety is a set of work conditions which limits the influence of hazardous factors in the work process. The goal is to handle th...

Civil engineering is a branch of the economy that generates many problems related to the entire life cycle of the facility. It is connected with the necessity of carrying out a number of various activities and processes already at the stage of preparing and planning investments and their implementation. Another stage, very important, lasting decades, is the stage of using objects. In engineering activities, the last stage of the object's life cycle is often overlooked, namely its demolition. It is a process that t...

The aim of the study is to analyse the most important Czech and Slovak feature television and film productions devoted to the life and work of Saints Cyril and Methodius from 1989 to the present. The study examines a change in perspective on this subject under the influence of changes in the social and political situation in the last three decades. During the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, Saints Cyril and Methodius were on the margin of the interest of audiovisual media and they were perceived only as creato...

The caves of the Slovak and Aggtelek Karst have been included in the World List since 1995 heritage of UNESCO. These caves are based on bilateral nomination Slovak-Hungarian the project has become a value not only for Slovakia and Hungary, but for all mankind. On karst below them, more than 1000 caves and abysses with different forms have been discovered sinter and ice fillings. Such cave density does not occur in the mild climate zone probably nowhere in the world. Speleological tourism is a form of tourism that ...

The effectiveness of school pupils' functioning is conditioned by many factors. One of them is the involvement of students referring to active participation in lessons and knowledge preoccupation. The positive attitude of a student to school, participation in school and class life as well as identification with the class prevents various forms of socially unacceptable behavior. Involvement causes students to have such traits as perseverance, creativity and effectiveness in achieving goals. The condition of commitm...

The writers of the article try to prove the necessity to teach Science and Technics History Course for a modern innovation engineer formation. They use general scientific research methods such as analyses and synthesis, comparative and also historical methods, such as narrative, historic-genetic, typological, structural and systematic approach. The authors claim that the given course is necessary for modern specialists as in technical as well as in humanitarian sphere to form their wide scientific knowledge, high-...

Raising the standard of living of the population is one of the most pressing problems in any society. Currently, it is acquiring even greater significance for Russia due to the growing influence of a number of negative factors leading to a reduction in real incomes of the population. First of all, it should be noted that, presumably, the final tax burden on individuals, starting from January 1, 2019, increases substantially. This is due both to the direct growth of the amount of obligatory payments payable by indi...

Cardiovascular patients comprise more than a half of Czech in-patients. Some patients need a surgical intervention and their recovery is affected by various psychosocial factors. The aim of this research was to examine the influence of Big Five personality traits and health-related behaviour on postoperative adaptation, which was defined as the length of postoperative hospitalization and postoperative quality of life. To explore the above relationships, the BFI-10 personality inventory, the Health-Related Behaviou...

A new approach, which ensures the obtainment of an objective conclusion about the state of the enterprise at the current time, is proposed. The peculiarity of the approach is the presence of an algorithm, which ensures not only the transformation of numerous performance standards into the specific measures of efficiency, but also the implementation of the transition from a variety of traditional models to a unique method. Thus, the conditions for the adoption of the management system that is capable of organizing ...

Effectiveness in cooperation with a group is a kind of special social competences that should be educated from an early age. The high level of self-efficacy in cooperation with the group not only allows the individual to get involved in the tasks longer and work harder to achieve the set goals [1], but also allows to notice the opportunities that can contribute to success. People with a high sense of self-efficacy in cooperation with a group are more ready to take on new challenges, flexible, engaged, persistent, ...

Relationships between principal and teachers in the school require communication skills through partnership and collaboration. The quality of this cooperation is very important, which consists in the increasing involvement and creativity of teachers. In order for the potential inherent in the teachers to be fully utilized, a person who will manage them properly is necessary - manager, supervisor, less often referred to as a leader. The role of the leader is to motivate attitudes aimed at achieving goals and to hel...

This article summarizes our current understanding of the construct of individual QOL as it pertains to persons with hearing (HI), visual (VI) or physical impairment (PhI) based on systematic review of expert articles discussing Quality of Life research. The article discusses what we have learnt about the QOL construct from the specific subjective point of view from persons with hearing, visual and physical impairment. The recent analysis is also directed on comparing generalized theoretical constructs with individ...

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...

Background: The Internet has become an integral part of the young peopleВ’s daily life where the network is used not only as an information resource, but also as a medium of communication, and entertainment. The possibilities of social virtual reality influence the perception of oneself, the attitude towards oneself as a person. The purpose of research is to study the characteristics of studentsВ’ self-relation in relation to the characteristics of network activity and attitudes towards using the Internet. Practic...

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in all the Central European countries. Some patients undergo a cardiac surgery with extracorporeal circulation and their postoperative adaptation is influenced by various psychosocial factors. The aim of the research was to examine the impact of sense of coherence, positive mental health and selected personal characteristics on postoperative adaptation defined as the length of postoperative hospitalization combined with postoperative quality of life. To explor...

This article presents an analysis of literature on shadow banking. The attention of researches on shadow banking topic have increased exponentially after the global financial crisis. Despite of the fact that this concept has been used for over ten years, there is no one common conception and definition of it. The innovations, global challenges like artificial intelligence, big data, etc., makes this topic very important for regulators, economists, researchers in order to make the right decisions and impact in thei...

At the end of the Romanic period, painting was still considered a less important art, used only to decorate certain surfaces for which there were no broader or richer methods of coverage. The ordinary painter's duty was to only color the sculptures created by other hands or to decorate the walls. In this sittuation we can tell that the most appreciated form of painting was the one made by generations of monks in their writing rooms (scritoria). That was the place where they were illustrating their manuscripts with...

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 he...

Shrinking is a series of causes that have different effects on the rural areas. These effects are often direct and indirect, immediate or may express in a long-term dimension. The causes of shrinking are diverse: e.g. economic recession, increasing urbanization, changes in environmental conditions, etc. The most commonly shrinkage characteristic is a permanent decline in population. Latvia like several other European countries is losing population. As a monocentric country Latvia has some additional challenge - de...

The Sibyls and the art of prophecies have played an essential role in history, proving the inclination of the human spirit towards mysticism and the belief of all societies that at the base of any symbolic story is a real event. In the book of Enoch, which describes the making of the world according to the Jewish tradition, often cited by the authors of the New Testament and even by Jesus Christ, it speaks of angels who loved women and married them, making them known the derisory mysteries they knew, the small mys...

This study aims to explore the main economic trends in the performance of the agricultural sector of ten new Member States in Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC) after joining the EU in 2004 – 2007. The study is carried out applying the methods of economic analysis including trend test methods and a comparative analysis. The authors have used data that are comparable across the EU countries and have been processed according to the unified methodology of the Economic Accounts for Agriculture (EAA). Specifically, th...

Innovation public policy has an important role influencing the competitive capacity of companies and is strongly associated with their ability to innovate and the way they are organized. As important as the technological and the organization of work is the social dimension, namely, involvement, participation and commitment of the workforce, as these are, par excellence, factors that contribute to create added value and differentiation for companies. In this sense, the concept of innovation depends on an integrated...

Background: In this paper we tried to emphasize the importance of the Critical Infrastructures in general, as well as a divided approach of the infrastructures. The main topics discussed in the following lines are debating the importance of critical infrastructures in the field of Transportation, Energy production, Water and sanitation, Nuclear Industry as well as some examples for stating the importance of Critical infrastructures, at a national and European level on the economical and social point of view. The p...

The Adinberri strategy (The New Age in the Basque language) is aligned with the overcoming of the shared ageing challenges within the territory of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country, Spain). This project arises as part of an innovation project in public policies launched by The Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country, Spain) that is named Etorkizuna Eraikiz (Building the Future). This project adopts a government by network approach, where the public institutions produce social value by building and activating the mul...

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 fr...

enterprises have recently been attracting attention and participation of various stakeholders in the country. The combined efforts and engagement create an emerging multi-stakeholder ecosystem that constitutes a supportive environment for the development of social enterprise in Vietnam. Investigating the models of Vietnamese social enterprises is important to understand their nature development and shape supporting policies for further development. In this paper, four broad models of social enterprise that can be ...

The research is devoted to the analysis of social entrepreneurship in the sphere of social service and problems of its development in Russia. Social entrepreneurship is one of the tools of modernization of the Russian social sphere and a source of additional resources, as well as innovative technologies. At the same time, its formation as a social institution in Russia is hampered by a number of barriers and difficulties. On the basis of empirical research the features of social entrepreneurship development in Rus...

Social marketing becomes the philosophy of modern management and business practices. Higher education institutions also seek to implement the concept of social and ethical marketing that characterizes the philosophical foundations of marketing to the fullest extent possible and orients towards satisfying consumersВ’ needs taking into account the development of the society. The main problem considered in this paper is the building of a system of thought aimed at satisfying the needs of educational services. The obj...

In the context of the processes of professionalization and modernization of political communication and mediatization of politics, the aim of the article is to show how to use social media in strategies for communicating of party leaders on the Polish political scene. The research questions concerned attempts of the politicians to use social media to implement communication marketing strategies, in particular in the aspect of engaging and mobilizing Internet users not only in the periods of electoral campaigns, bu...

In the most general understanding it is possible to say that service is a tool, manner, method of policy and practical application of the interests of the society towards the people that are dependent on certain type of care or assistance. The dignity of personal identity means that every person with reduced self-sufficiency has the right to choose your own way of life. Social services play an important role in human life. Social services are one of the following options for helping people in adverse social situat...

Around 60% of the urban population in Romania lives in blocks of flats made of prefabricated panels, built mostly between 1960 and 1990. Interventions on these buildings are a highly debated topic in order to achieve the 20-20-20 EU targets, but less discussed is the part that makes these interventions truly sustainable on long run. The study presented in this paper constitutes the part related to social sustainability conducted for a project that defines some alternative solutions for Timisoara. These proposals a...

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...

Social responsibility can be defined as a personal investment in the well-being of others. In my opinion the social responsibility is linked with the social inclusion issue. So the social responsibility culture means the society of tolerant citizens. The paper is analyze of poems by Kholoud Charaf, who is a poet, art critic and social activist from Al-Mjemr in the south of Syria. Charaf becomes a quest writer in Krakow City of Refuge in March 2018 as part of the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN). Her ...

Social integration of youth from placement centers is a problem still faced by th e soc social assistance system in Romania, and the strategies adopted so far failed to fully resolve this issue. A lot of young people after the age of 18 years leaving placement centers receive no support from family and their integration capability is reduce reduced. Th is study aimed to explore the possibilities of social integration of young people who leave placement centers in Romania and especially their perceptions of their c...

The purpose of this work is to show the influence of socio-psychological factors on the irrational behavior of labor agents. A systematic view of labor relations and of the role of socio-psychological factors can only be given by Philosophy, which allows to consider labor relations in an interdisciplinary context. When developing measures to improve socio-economic policy in the field of labor, it is necessary to take into account the incentives that affect the ratio of rational and irrational in the behavior of in...

Results of a linguistic associative experiment with 144 Russian informants with given social characteristics on the naming of the words characterizing men and women for a research of a problem of studying of formation of gender stereotypes in language consciousness of native speakers of Russian are presented in the article. The research showed that the gender stereotypes of masculinity and feminity created in language consciousness of Russians depend on a sex, age, education level and specialty of native speakers....

The article shows the origins of coaching (one of the most effective ways of leadership development) in the Socratic dialogue as it appears in Plato's works. This origin appears in the most advanced way in cognitive coaching based on cognitive therapy. However, it is not only the roots of a young practical science that goes so far into antique philosophy. If we look at the elements of the Socratic method, it turns out that coaching belongs to it not only in the form but - or perhaps more - in its purpose. Formally...

The impact of the food sector on achieving the sustainable development goals is increasingly debated worldwide amid growing climate change effects and on the background of a lack of quickly responses on mitigating them. Initially, the state of the art is quantitatively analyzed for emphasizing the scientific evolution on food consumption in the context of sustainability and the main themes discussed by researchers. Further, several indicators on food consumption expenditures, daily calorie supply, emissions, waste...

The paper presents the most important aspects of the defensive positioning of football players according to the possible ways of approaching offensively the opponent. The study focuses on general principles, which are valid in all ways of positioning, as well as on some specific principles that are required to be used according to the characteristics of the own players in the direct relationship with their opponents. There are described ways of behavior of the players who are positioned in different defense system...

The study of metaphor dates back to the times of Aristotle when metaphor has mainly been the focal study point of literary scholars. The publication of Lakoff and Johnson’s book Metaphors We Live By (1980) challenged the traditional view on metaphor and completely changed its status. The scholars developed the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) within which they argue, “metaphor is not just a matter of language, but of thought and reason” (Lakoff, 1993: 208). Moreover, in 1996 the study of metaphor within cogni...

The paper illustrates the history of the merchant, banker and entrepreneur, Vito Di Cagno, born from an outstanding family of rich shipowners and merchants of the city of Bari, in the region of Puglia, in the Italian South, and of his extraordinary capacity for socio-economic affirmation in a promising and expansive historical phase of the economy of the southern regions that preceded the First World War, during the Giolittian era. He managed to undertake successful strategies to achieve the control of important s...

The story of Tommaso Astarita is an expression of the passage, made by the few dynamic financial operators of the South, from the ancient regime society to the modern society, implementing in their work the separation between the functions of merchant-entrepreneur-banker, first indistinct. With the General Bank of the Sorrento Peninsula, in fact, one of the first private banking institution was born in the South of Italy, under the legal form of a joint-stock company, able to resist the competition of the big nati...

The aim of the article is to present the development of spa architecture in Poland on the example of one of the most famous spa town in Poland, Krynica-Zdroj. The town is known not only because of its picturesque location, the richness of the natural environment in natural mineral resources manifesting in numerous healing mineral waters, exploited in this spa, but due to the richness of the forms of resort architecture, accumulated during almost 200 years of Krynica-ZdrojВ’s activity as a health resort, is a very ...

The present paper is dedicated to investigation of a specific pattern of memory narrative – recollecting the past by the protagonist when visiting sites of personal memories – as a framework of reconstructing personal and collective identity in Canadian writer Margaret Atwood’s novel “Cat’s Eye” (1988) and Latvian writer Anita Liepa’s memory narrative “Davana jeb Flensburgas noskanas” (A Present or Reflections of Flensburg, 2013). The methodology of the research draws on contemporary developments in...

The article deals with the history of Spanish art exhibitions in Russia from the 19th century up to nowadays. The turning points of this history are closely related to the social, cultural and political situation both in Russia and in the world. It proves the relevance of one of the basic principles of art studies about the certain dependence of art research on the general cultural and ideological policy of the state. The article describes the first Spanish art exhibitions in Russia in the 19th – the early 20th ...

The aim of the article is to present latest activities in the southern Poland spa resorts. Health resorts located in the piedmont and mountain regions of southern Poland are centers of outstanding natural value, including: landscape, climate and, above all, waters that are used in medicine. Also having confirmed by numerous studies and a long-standing tradition of curing many diseases. [1] Krynica-Zdroj is number one the example of polish spa town, is the most famous spa town in Poland, called the pearl of В‘Polis...

The paper deals with composition and register of medical documents and their peculiarities for translation teaching. Medical documents are built up by specific standards, including cliche and professional terminology. Medical documents are regarded as the manifestation of scientific and technical styles, and the crucial feature of such texts is standardization. The in-patient records are to be used to communicate a framework of patients and doctors, hospitals and healthcare. The present paper is aimed to analyze s...