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Background The purpose of our study was to evaluate the electromyography activity at different categories of athletes (handball players, volleyball players, fencers), to compare the obtained results and to identify possible characteristic electromyography patterns, correlated to athletes specific physical activity, thus emphasizing the differences between the studied sportive activities. Methods The studied group was formed of 27 male athletes, 9 fencers, 9 handball players and 9 volleyball sportsmen, active for a...

The analysis of informal payments in Russian education and healthcare is presented in the article. Sociological debriefing was in Ekaterinburg (Russia). Its results show that there is a corruption in social sphere. Government proclaims free education and healthcare but, in practice, doctors and educators, patients and parents justify payments and use it in their life.

At the present stage of development of Russian society increasing attention from various social actors is given to diverse theoretical, practical and ethical issues of sexuality and sexual culture. For their successful solution seems necessary, first of all, scientific revision, critical analysis of existing ideas about the sexual culture taking into account qualitative transformations of social and cultural reality of the 21st century. Thus, researchers have traditionally allocated structure of sexual culture, wh...

Higher education is an extremely fast growing service industry and it is exposed to the globalization processes every day more and more. Highly educated population have been thought as a key comparative advantage of the region in receiving long-term economic benefits through the knowledge effect, refferring to the knowledge production and technology transfer function of universities. Main purpose of this paper is to investigate has the perceptions of the main stakeholders of educational process, academic (teaching...

From a marketing perspective, the nowadays society can be characterized by at least three patterns. First, there is an inflation of advertising messages on the market. Second, the consumer has become more sophisticated and increasingly aware of the manipulative and persuasive role of marketing. Finally, the technological evolution directs a large number of individuals to use smart devices in everyday life within an interactive framework. Therefore, this paper aims to empirically investigate the role of intelligent...

The purpose of the paper was to investigate the idea of intergenerational dialogue as a toolkit, beneficial for societies that recognised their need for adapting the “all ages” perspective. Such an outlook is hitherto a case of an ideal social structure type, yet Poland and other European countries already experience the need for flexibility of social roles available throughout entire life cycle, essential in the discussed structure type. By desk research the paper addressed steps to be undertaken in order to ...

Our paper aims at the analysis of the rapport between reading and interpretation for high-school teaching. It also involves the description of the interpreting mechanisms which affect the quality of the reading process and disturb the relationship between reader and text, instead of enabling a thorough understanding of the literary work. The aspects we will take into account are the following: a. the projection of a certain image of the author, b. the reading stereotypes and the standard interpretative frames, c. ...

Russia’s ingress into global teaching environment calls for innovative methods in syllabi design. Many of them tend to fuse the knowledge acquired in the process of specific studies. Thus, one of the new challenges is an interdisciplinary approach to higher school learning in general and to ELT in particular. An innovative method of foreign language competence formation in the field of professional communication, worked out for teaching ESP students is discussed in the article. This method produced by us presupp...

The paper deals with development of the Inventory for teachers’ self-assessment in classroom management styles (ITSCMS). The starting standpoint was model which distinguishes three classroom management styles: interventionist, interactionist and non-interventionist. The initial content of Inventory consisted of 36 items in the form of Likert scales (ranged from 1 to 5), describing each style by 12 items. Inventory was given to the sample of 169 teachers from Serbia. Results showed that the instrument has good re...

Background: The health care sector is a major employer. Great attention will be paid to health care professionals as a result of the increasing demand for health care due to an aging population. The nursing profession forms the majority amongst medical staff. It is a profession involving both physical and mental demands. The research focuses on the rate of burnout syndrome, motivation factors of Herzberg’s two-factor motivation theory and their mutual relationship amongst general nurses working at the General Un...

In current ageing society with low fertility rates the population moves to the cities and large urban areas. According to WHO [1], it is expected that 70% of population in 2050 will be urban. The size of population in small towns and rural areas is shrinking and this trend is supposed to continue. Fall in population size brings along other consequences, such as downsize of business and social, health and other public services. All these processes may be particularly problematic for elderly people inhabiting lowly ...

Kazimierz Twardowski (1866–1938) – a Polish philosopher and psychologist – was a founder of the internationally famous Lviv-Warsaw School. Having studied under the supervision of Franz Brentano, he both improved the level of Lviv University and educated many well known philosophers and psychologists of both sexes at that university. The three main factors of private nature decided on his pro-women attitude; first, his friendships with women in the early age; second, the happy marriage he created with Kazimie...

Digital game culture belongs to the most important phenomena of the last decades. Special attention has been aroused by Role-Playing-Games (RPGs). In the course of time there has been formed a rather extensive subculture under their influence. RPGs offer a unique experience of existence in a different reality – in the made-up virtual world, where a human gains a new identity, new possibilities to „live“. In the paper we deal with mapping and typology of characters in RPGs and their connection to archetype ro...

In our study we are stressing the social function of land-art as a kind of protest going far beyond the professional land-art work and taking the form of bottom-up social movements. We have labelled this process Land, Society and Art – LSA. LSA is often a free, spontaneous movement against the losing of a memory of a place. The aim of LSA is to create common society symbols in the landscape; professional land-art installation is not the main purpose. A common issue with land-art is the element of protest. Protes...

Youth unemployment has been recognised by the EC as one of the most serious issues to be tackled in the upcoming programming period [1] for its extremely high levels across the EU-28 resulting in 5.4 million jobless Europeans aged bellow 25. The number of young people that are not employed, not in education and not in training (NEETs) is even higher, i.e. 7.5 million in age between 15 and 24. Two key risk factors have been identified for becoming a NEET – disadvantage and disengagement [2]. These occur more ofte...

This paper takes up the topic of the literature’s communicative dimension and it aims at describing and analyzing the communication patterns involved by the act of reading. The main target of our enterprise is the analysis of the literature’s basic conventions regarding its social-communicative scales. These conventions are settled on three different interactive levels: the rapport between reader and author (which duplicates, on a different scale, the interactive play specific to interpersonal communication), ...

A swift acceleration of global processes nowadays, intensification of new tendencies in world development call for setting new priorities in dynamically changing world. Providing security is a fundamental priority of international safety. So, all efforts must be concentrated on achieving the following basic aims: - Providing national safety, keeping and strengthening sovereignty and territorial integrity. - Building favorable conditions for steady and dynamic growth, raising the standard of life. - Consolidating w...

The decision establishing a resettlement program in Romania was agreed in 2008 and Romania joined the European resettlement countries. Thus, Romania has agreed to be involved in taking a more focused responsibilities in addressing global issues in the context of refugee protection, resettlement is the only solution that had not been addressed by the Romanian authorities so far. In June 2010 Romania received the first group of resettled refugees, 38 Burmese resettled from Malaysia and, for the first time, Romania f...

The paper describes the main trends in leadership development based on changing world environment. There are summarized trends of world development that will be projected into the new needs of leadership development, so that the future leaders will be able to lead companies sustainable successfully. The main challenges for the future are globalization, development of technologies, especially IT, innovation and flexibility, turbulent environment and demographical changes. Globalization brings new approach to the ma...

The aim of this article is to give a theoretical overview of the problem dealing with manager’s personality, personal characteristics, personal and work burden and, last but not least, coping with difficult situations and burden in management. Among partial aims of this article include the specification of chosen features of manager role and evaluation of alternative solutions to stress situations. The present study introduces our own research, experimental evaluation of working hypothesis, evaluation of researc...

Kosovo, facing sustainability challenges that are challenging the global ecosystem, is moving towards broader inclusion of the education for sustainable development in its curriculum. This approach followed intensive curricular developments in the post-war Kosovo, especially in the new national curriculum adopted in 2011, a competency based curriculum and with many innovation in the educational system. This paper has been prepared by analyzing and comparing the inclusion of education for sustainable development in...

With the paper we reflect the results of regular surveys executed by for instance POPAI, which show that the point of sale has been recently perceived as a fundamental communication channel, which needs to be taken into account sophistically as a full-fledged marketing tool. In the paper we look the answers to the questions like: What do we understand under point of sale and its aspects? What targets do the advertisers wish to achieve in the point of purchase and through which tools? Simultaneously, we interpret t...

Article 33 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities specifically calls upon State Parties to establish a framework to monitor the implementation of the Convention. This paper is drawn out of a larger study that addresses the challenge of monitoring the Portuguese State compliance with the CRPD by conducting a holistic monitoring of the current status of disability law and policy, media representations and daily life experiences of persons with disabilities in Portugal. In this paper, we will...

Higher education of the 21st century is aimed at getting students prepared for living and working in a changing global environment as responsible citizens, creative persons and efficient professionals possessing both general and special competencies. In Russian Federation the structure and content of professional competences is determined by state standards for each industry serving as benchmarks for creating study programmes and specified in descriptors as expected learning outcomes. Communicative competence deve...

This paper presents the results of the TEXLECONS project which studies the biocide effect of gamma radiation for the treatment of leather and textiles heritage objects and for the improvement of occupational environment. Fumigation with different poisoning chemicals is one of the methods that can be applied for both the treatment of individual items and for mass decontamination. However, the use of these methods may just switch the hazard form biological to chemical, since, biocidal chemicals may be dangerous for ...

The present study describes the current state of the development of the Arabic language in the context of the explosion of the new multimedia and Internet technologies. Based on the data collected by the author in 2010-2013 during her field work in the UAE, Egypt and Tunisia, some significant changes in language over the last 15 years have been identified. The study has also analyzed the contents of Arabic electronic media and social networks. After describing the main stages of the historical development of the A...

Topic: A study of current literature focusing on modern ways of remedying visual perception loss from the perspective of a special education teacher. In recent years, the number of new devices that use individual parts implanted in the eyes or brain of a human with a visual impairment and which restore visual perception has been rapidly increasing. These people then need comprehensive rehabilitation to know how to use these devices properly and follow the principles of working with them. With the change of clients...

The article presents the possible impact of populism on the two basic dimensions of education: moral education and religious education. The current society is characterized by a decline in moral and religious values on the personality formation of the trainee and on the metaphysical- religious conception of the world and man. This phenomenon causes a vulnerability of the educational system and the Church to the aggressiveness of the manifestations of the populist phenomenon, a phenomenon on the rise in Eastern Eur...

Prevention and eradication of corruption which becomes increasingly complex requires a multidiscipline approach; one of which is a psychological approach. It is often debated whether salary and family situation, as well as the way individuals place themselves in the relational context between self and others, influence individuals’ moral emotions (corruption tendency). This research aimed to address that question by using a quantitative, predictive correlational design. Participants of this study were 308 civil ...

This article serves as a contribution to better understanding of what is a modern Russian park for various stakeholders, how it is integrated into the urban ecosystem and what are the priorities for development of the parks. The article presents the results of a two-year study of 14 Parks of Culture and Leisure in Moscow, which was held both in summer and winter. In this research parks was considered in terms of their cultural, social and recreational functions from a position of ecosystem services. The study is b...

The question of multiculturalism has been central to the political concerns of European countries during the last half of the 20th century. Such countries as Britain, Germany and France welcomed newcomers. It was a mixture of diverse ethnic groups mostly from their former colonies. These peoples have their own distinct culture and sometimes their own language and religion. At present these countries declared the failure of the multiculturalism policy and the shift to assimilation owing to a steadily rising number ...

In the article authors confirm and prove the suitability of using videoconference system in the education. Based on the obtained results the authors state that teachers have a tendency to use the information and communication systems in teaching and they also show an interest in education focused on multimedia technologies, especially videoconference systems. Based on the research conclusions, an opinion regarding suitability of videoconference systems in education as the alternative for pedagogical practice of st...

Euro implementation in all three Baltic countries provides an opportunity for pan-Baltic organisations to centralise financial market and accounting operations. In order to achieve efficiency and reduced costs, international teams with local expertise will need to work on a best solution for all three Baltic countries. Projects usually involve discussions, arguing and conflicts. In conflict situations stereotypes can negatively affect communication process (people tend to concentrate on people not on a problem). T...

At least in the adult population, it is well known that certain cognitive styles constitute vulnerability factors for specific emotional disorders. A preference asymmetry towards negative stimuli is common to both mood and anxiety disorders. For the purpose of understanding how this pervasive asymmetry towards negative features of stimuli influences emotional development the most promising area to examine is how emotions develop typically or become problematic during adolescence according to cognitive particularit...

The linear assumption among globalization, international competitiveness, human capital and higher education makes many countries to undertake the expansion of higher education. However, this mission is mainly reliant upon the private sector because neo-liberalism, a core philosophy of globalization, has become a predominant ideology viewing a free market as the best model to improve efficiency and ensure service quality. Its advocates argue that public services cannot meet the diversified needs of people and the ...

Media education is in an international scientific community considered to be one of the most effective means to acquire key competencies necessary for an interactive and inclusive use of media and critical perception of constantly growing spectrum of media messages. Successful implementation of media education requires innovative research strategies, techniques and procedures which can integrate suitable and reliable methods of media literacy evaluation and measurement into research and social practice. The study ...

Eligibility to work with the information and using of new media in a meaningful and efficient manner is part of a set of key competencies. These life skills are very important not only for young people, but also for all other groups of actors that are directly or indirectly involved in education and training. The dynamic development of the Internet and new technologies, as well as the time and expert complexity of the teaching profession, mean that teachers are not always able to keep up with their students. This ...

The subject of this research is a comparative analysis of the quality and nutritional effects of bakery products with special functionality, of some representative manufacturers in Romania. Comparing Bongrana Sana Benexia and Savoria Toast Kornfit, both enriched with vegetable sources of ?3 and ?6, we can observe that despite the more balanced intake of ?3 and ?6 polyunsaturated fatty acids of the product Savoria Toast Kornfit due to the lower prices, Bongrana Sana Benexia enjoy greater accessibility to consumers,...

Occupational health and safety (OHSAS) is very important issue in all industrial workplaces. In literature, there are many theoretical frameworks for studies of occupational health and safety management. In all enterprises, from small enterprises to the larger one, there are a number of definitions of management and safety management procedures. The most famous one is OHSAS 18000 which is an international occupational health and safety management system specification. A conceptual approach for OHSAS 18000 is propo...

Today, smart phones represent one of the most modern tools used in business, especially in the relationship with customers. In many situations, the learning environment is included in a business environment. Starting from this idea, we consider that mobile application development has to become a habit in educational activities. In this paper we emphasize the importance of mobile apps in distance learning. If we have a business on learning, besides the use of websites, we can improve our relationship with the learn...

Man is a communicative being that needs to exchange information in order to survive. We have to rely upon mutual communication and we just cannot exist without it. Everything we do, anything we look at, the ways we move – all these things are related to communication. Ludwig Wittgenstein subsequently explains these means of communication through terms. However, he actually speaks about the things that are not expressed by them. Robert Cialdini defines these processes by so called “switches”. Sometimes one wo...

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of oral health issues of children aged 6-12 living in the Danube Delta Romania, on their quality of life, as assessed by the children themselves as well as by their parents/guardians. Methods: This study had a cross-sectional design and was conducted in all 595 school children aged 6-12 years old living in the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve, an isolated area of Romania. The research protocol received all the approvals on behalf of the ethical local a...

The purpose of this research is to deepen previous studies of the psychometric properties of the Organizational Recognition of the Contributive Uniqueness Questionnaire (ORCUQ) [1], through Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) with a larger sample than that previously used. Contributive uniqueness is the unique contribution of each individual to the team’s functioning when working cooperatively. The uniqueness of individuals seems to be, on one hand, an individual need, and on the other hand a characteristic which...

Background: Oral health is an important and integrated part of the general health. On the other hand, oral health related quality of life (OHRQOL) has become a significant research field in the last decade. Different oral – dental diseases affect OHRQOL. The aim of this study is to evaluate the orthodontic treatment need in children aged 9-12 years living in the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve Romania and to identify it’s potential influence on OHRQOL. Methods: This study had a cross-sectional design and was co...

All children have an important right to participate. This right is especially valuable for children in risk. Social workers have a responsibility to facilitate and secure this. However, participation is not an easy process and can be really challenging. Children can participate in many ways - in matters that affect them personally or those that relate to children in need or to all young citizens. This paper refers to research on all these aspects, drawing particularly on the views of the children themselves. While...

A variety of non-fiscal input could be brought into discussion regarding the redesign and/or reform of the social care system for the frail elderly in the Czech Republic. It should be based on a deeper understanding of different stakeholders’ interpretations of “Participation” – one of the core values of the European social model. The study was based on secondary data collected through semi-structured interviews with “informal carers” (family members, non-professionals), secondary data collected throug...

The highest quantity of cyanogen compounds in the environment results mainly from human activities (ore extraction, cleaning and hardening metals, galvanization etc). People with metabolic disorders in cyanide conversion to thiocyanide show a higher risk of intoxication with cyanogen substances. Some deficient diets may increase the risk to cyanide exposure. Thiocyanide, the main metabolite of cyanide, cause endemic goiter in humans and animals. In the studies, orally administrated cyanide and thiocyanide to rats,...

The article reveals the essence of the concept of "pedagogical facilitation", the technologies of facilitating implementation of the method in teaching. Pedagogical facilitation is defined as a form of creative self-reflection to the student's promise informative teacher. The modern world is characterized by a very rapid pace of change of information, so the teacher should focus their attention on creating an instrument of self-education system in the future. The teacher should try to convey their inner interest i...

Several attempts seeking to explore national stereotypes have been made in the field of scientific research. Many of them dedicate themselves to a question of their relevance –whether they are or are not true, or what is their truthfulness rate. National stereotypes are often perceived as simplified expression of existing ethnocentric and xenophobic prejudices; therefore they are being refused. Even though the national character stereotypes are somewhat distorted reality, a part of the true may be found in them....

Introduction: There is a justified reason to be grieving in women diagnosed with perinatal loss. When the fact is not accepted, deep pain occurs and psychopathological symptomatology can be developed instead. The goal of the study was to find out the relationships between perinatal loss and psychopathological symptomatology development, and to identify the differences in maladaptive manifestations in women (experiencing miscarriage, giving birth to a death baby, experiencing death of a baby in early postpartum per...