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Medieval fortified castles occupy a place of their own in the collective conscious of society, being constantly present in the world of our imagination due to their expressive place in the landscape. After a period of greatness in the Middle Ages, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries there occurred a decrease in the military significance of castles. The contemporary role of medieval castles appears to be that of a status of tourist attractions and this necessitates their adaptation to this function. The forms ...

The paper deals with one of the most frequently tested relationship within industrial economics literature, namely structure – performance relationship. It is based on the theoretical background of structure – conduct - performance paradigm and review of results of related empirical findings in conditions of selected industries. The analytical part of the paper in applied on the conditions of steel industry primarily focusing on Slovakia. Besides evaluation of trends in steel industry development, the paper provid...

Competent management of innovation processes in European regions is considered as the key to the development of knowledge economy. The effective use of achievements of research and development sector with regard to socio-economic development is actually a central aspect of this process. Both the efficient process of technology transfer and knowledge commercialization constitute an important attribute of the ability to create economic development based on new technologies. Hitherto gained Polish experiences point t...

Background The article presents a study of the problem of the comprehensiveness of information and aid in terms of shaping sustainable residential development projects. The study employed the point of view of the users of sustainable developments in Poland and in the Netherlands on this matter. When beginning the process of shaping one's own residential development project, users who show a willingness and need to adopt the rules of sustainable architecture expect reliable information and aid in terms of planning ...

The purpose of this study is to analyze such a phenomenon as plagiarism and possible measures, which are taken to combat it. Considering the definition «scientific fraud» we assume that the main components of this phenomenon are plagiarism and falsification of research data. Today plagiarism and appropriation authorship had become quite common phenomena. Plagiarism as a phenomenon has a fairly long history but not at all times and not in all states the practice of such act was denounced. Today in many countries of...

Corn is the main crop plant in Romania, at least in terms of cultivated areas (2,554,304.25 ha as an average for the period 2013-2016, over 25% of the arable land cultivated) and total production (10,765,359.5 t, average for the period 2013-2016 around 50% of cereal production). Maize is highlighted by its multiple importance (fodder, industrial, agro-technical, fodder, export, source of profit). The study presents the evolution of corn prices in Romania during the period 2013-2017, both at national level and at t...

The following article is a structural analysis of Telemann’s Advent and Christmas Cantatas from the Harmonischer Gottes-Dienst, 1725-6 and 1731-2 liturgical years. The solo sacred cantatas are investigated in their context of Lutheran Liturgy, evaluating Telemann’s cantata form, the vocal Fach, the instrumentation and the text, thus offering a guide to singer’s performance. The outcome is a better understanding of Telemann’s choice for vocal expression. These collections stand as great recipes for acquiring mental...

Topicality. The emancipated modern communication presumes the new language of everyday life that supports the tolerance and the open mind and pluralisms of all groups of society. The understanding of this new language, its philosophical basics and its actual application remains insufficiently studied. This report attempts to apply postmodern philosophy of language to the analysis of contemporary feminisms and gender studies of communication. Aim: to reconstruct the logic and basic philosophical concepts of contemp...

This article views the problems connected with the influence of globalization processes and new information and communication technologies on the transformation of cultural codes systems, the increase of intensity of adverse impacts of social anomie, the marginalization of culture, the destruction of the foundations of collective identity. In the present context the authors analyze new trends of civilizational development of society, having a direct impact on the transformation of value orientations of mass, youth...

The Russian-language weekly "British Ally", circulating in the USSR since 1942, informed Soviet readers about British military operations, British culture and science, and the joint struggle of the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition against Nazi Germany and its allies. In February and March 1945, it covered in detail the course and results of the three-party meetings in Crimea between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. The editorial articles stressed that the conference began with mili...

Topicality. There are many philosophical theories from Descartes to Lacan that constitutes the basis of the contemporary understanding the subjective identity. Aim: to reconstruct the link between well-known Deleuzian concept of human being and transindividual philosophy presented by Simondon and its philosophical context. Discussion: The historical and philosophical destiny of the ideas of Gilbert Simondon is perhaps one of the most visible examples of post-mortem growth of the influence of the philosophy of some...

At present, the family institution is undergoing changes: new forms of marriage are being formed; the number of divorces is increasing. Matrimonial relations are dynamic, but the success of family life and the satisfaction of spouses with marriage are directly related to peculiarities of their interaction. The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship of marriage satisfaction with the character of interpersonal relations of spouses in their youth, and to create a model of relations to predict satisfac...

Background: As a result of the demand for information regarding mutual relations between the business entity and the environment, socially responsible accounting has been established and the concept of corporate social responsibility appeared. Among the many issues of interest to socially responsible accounting, there are the following ones can be mentioned: social and employee-related, environmental, respect for human rights, counteracting bribery and corruption. In Poland, there has long been a statutory obligat...

The aim of the paper is to identify and explain regional differences in digital socialization indicators in modern Russia. Our study is based on Manuel Castell’s concept of digital society, T. Druckrey’s theory of electronic (digital) culture, on the model of digital socialization proposed by O. Soldatova and A. Sharikov’s model of digital literacy. The empirical basis of the research comprises the analysis of data from nationwide surveys, as well as the database of the research “Ecosystem of Network Public Admini...

The main character of Jaroslav Hasek’s The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes during the World War has become one of the Czech legendary heroes. The article deals with the reception of the book abroad in connection to the English translation of the novel. At the beginning, it presents various opinions in the literary critics’ dispute whether Svejk is a suitable representative of the Czech nation abroad. This section culminates by looking for answers to the question who Josef Svejk really is and how to characteriz...

Active learning, as an inevitable construct of contemporary teaching, is the basis of every student’s integral growth and development. It is based on the constructivism and socio-constructivism where the emphasis is on students as constructors and co-constructors of their own knowledge. Here, the process of learning includes the students’ experiences and interests, pre-knowledge, and the creation of their own interpretations. The constructivist active learning environment is directed to students ? they take the ac...

Informatization changes the world of the contemporary organizations. They seem more and more dependent on its information system infrastructure. On the one hand IT can increase the efficiency of the organization’s management and improve general organizational efficiency, on the other hand it can cause the problems with the security of the information flow or generate risk of key data leak. In that context, IT reliability is considered as one of the critical factor required for modern organization’s efficient and s...

Created in the image of God, the man is destined for a perfect life, for the similarity with Him, which must be materialized through the presence of grace in his life. The first man, who wavered in the Garden of Eden between „eating” and „not eating” from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, chose to live no longer close to God and to „win” the distance, the independence, and the existence „outside”. Destined to be person, capable and open to the communion of persons, following the model of the Trinity, the...

The aim of this paper is to present a realistic solution for the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) despite the financial crisis via innovative management. It is believed that the first “victims” of the debt and financial crisis are the SMEs and for this reason we present the creation of a dynamic “shield” via spin off and university research. A literature review took place to investigate the issue and to prove that the change of the “usual” into innovative management in Small and Medium Enterprises gives direct ...

The article presents the mutual relations between art and technology from the Renaissance to the interactive art of today. It indicates important factors influencing the possibilities of imaging and interpreting reality by artists, ranging from the development of oil painting techniques, linear perspective, the invention of printing and photography, to achievements related to the development of information technologies (computers, interfaces), offering a range of tools to create and co-create a work of art by the ...

The paper aims to explore the potential role of contemporary art as a catalyst for social transformation and civic engagement. The research focuses on the visual arts and their power to change social attitudes in contemporary society. On the basis of theoretical, transdisciplinary approaches and analysis of artwork the paper investigates emerging forms of art and how they address pressing social issues and concerns that would otherwise remain unfamiliar. Artwork that reveals social phenomena and trends lying hidde...

The training of junior football players involves a specific methodology that will include in its planning the mental - psychological factor. It has been found very often that what makes the difference in winning a match is the character, the motivation to participate and the intelligence as the basic components of the athlete's personality. That is why we wanted to highlight a practical way of doing psychological training, integrated into the usual training, which is a model for all coaches working with older juni...

Information and Communication Technologies are one of the basic educations of areas in the Framework Educational Programme for Basic Education to enable students to acquire a basic level of information literacy. The aim is to equip students with elementary skills in operating of computer equipment and modern information and communication technologies, but also to navigate in the world of information, creatively work with information and use them in further education and in practical life [1]. In the framework curr...

The article deals with social and legal problems faced by persons with Inborn Gender Identity Disorder Syndrome (IGIDS) in fulfilling social roles consistent with the perceived gender. It seems that the social functioning of these persons is extremely difficult, because disapproval of the somatic/phenotype sex hinders their self-fulfilment. Legal (formal) conditions of their social existence depend on medical procedures, which in turn are related with many diagnostic problems. In Poland, there is no specific diagn...

This article deals with the issue of the state of media literacy and the level of interpersonal and communication skills of social pedagogy university students. The theoretical basis of the thesis is based on the definition of basic concepts such as literacy and competence, especially with regard to information literacy and the definition of media socialization, critical media literacy. Reflected is education leading to the acquisition of media linguistics. The paper presents the results of a research study aimed ...

The works of European painting and their illustrative motifs in a symbolic, sensational or realistic way show the image of many cities. Their authors wanted to immortalize not only their topography, but he also made a perfect cross-section through the social layers inhabiting a selected city over the centuries. Almost every big city is divided into a well-kept center with parks, pavements, meeting places of the intellectual elite and the outskirts inhabited by poor people, sick people and homeless people. The city...

Professional communication of the professionals in social work and healthcare can be seen as a system based on internal language resources needed for an effective interpersonal interaction in the professional-professional and professional-client (patient) interpersonal systems and focused on exchange of professional information and providing of social or healthcare assistance to the persons who need this. A precondition for the success of the professional communication is the formation of a positive communication ...

The purpose of this article is to present the results of the revealed interrelationships between personality factors and motivation for achievement in persons with neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders. The revealed regularities were examined for each group: Neurasthenia (F-48); Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (F-42); Undifferentiated somatoform disorder (F-45.1); Hypochondriacal Disorder (F-45.20; Dissociative Conversion Disorder (F-44) and Mixed Anxiety and Depression Disorder (F-41.2). The research sa...

Despite Poland’s ratification of all major international space law treaties, except the 1979 moon treaty, it has not implemented these norms in internal legal order. It is therefore quite difficult to discuss unlegislated national space law. The only domestic reference to space law is the Act establishing the Polish Space Agency and Polish Space Strategy, but this Act is not legislative. Although Poland has many obligations resulting from membership in the European Union (since 2004) and the European Space Agency ...

Monument has accompanied architecture for ages. From the first civilizations to the twentieth century people erected buildings related to memory, religion or politics, giving them an appropriately serious/solemn style. They expressed social and cultural aspirations. Today, there are no styles and rules in architecture. Yet, we still need to express the greatness, dignity and uniqueness, arousing awe and admiration for buildings. Hence the monumental architecture probably still exists. The subject of research conce...

The parking problem, as well as congestion of cities and environmental pollution is the result of urbanization and motorization process. A car is the basic means of transport for many residents. Unfortunately, it takes up space: in the workplace, at the place of residence, at a shop and at school. There is a big divergence between the needs of motorized residents and the city's grounds potential. Meeting the residents' parking needs, in line with their expectations seems impossible. The aim of the article is to an...

The aim of this article is an analysis of relations within urban and architectural composition and the meanings that are conveyed by selected elements of these spatial layouts on the example of completed university libraries in Charlottesville and Vienna, as well as the municipal library in Stockholm. Using the three previously mentioned buildings as a reference, the author performed an analysis of two and three-dimensional urban composition, an analysis of the architectural form of each building, as well as of th...

In politics if we consider complex social systems and processes manifests itself the dichotomy between “stability and manageability” of a political system and “socio-political diversity” which brings modernization impulses that are making political systems more diverse. This is especially noticeable for the states in transition with anocratic political regimes and supranational entities. This kind of social dichotomy, however, should not be confused with the pure dichotomy between democratic and authoritarian tend...

At the beginning of the XVth Century Europe was stepping away of the sacred, humanism was sweeping through the continent, starting with the Florentines and Venetians. Thus far, art had been acceptable as made for the glory of God. It is said that, at that time, the most noble art was architecture and the most noble building was the church. By the coming of Rinascimento, sacral themes were slowly being preempted by the scientific approach with the human, God and nature existing in harmony and cohesion. Italian arti...

The direction I chose for my research applicable to 5th International Multidisciplinary Conference on Science and Arts considers the future of the freedom of religion especially in the modern world with the influence of scientific innovation. I am studying the relationship of religious law and public law. The international human rights regimes such as the UN Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the EU Charter on Fundamental Rights all call for equal human rights without discrimination based on race, ...

The aim of this work is to analyze the self-portraits of De Chirico with a methodology of psychological investigation. The figurative elements are individually examined in order to understand the psychological determinants of the painter. In order to paint their own portrait, the artists have to deal with the mirror, with their own double, but above all, referring to Winnicott (1990) with the mirroring of themselves in the face of the other. According to Ferrari (2002), in the relationship with the portrait and th...

Investment decision - making has acquired the importance in the economy of the Slovak Republic especially in connection with its transition to a market one. It is connected with a long-term time horizon, and a badly focused and inefficient investment can lead the company not only to financial problems, but even to bankruptcy. In SMEs, the success of the investment, sometimes involving all of its own capital, can decide on their further existence. In addition to investment decisions that solve the question of which...

The paper deals with prepositional constructions with numerical actants and circumstants in the Russian language. Statistical corpus-based characteristics of prepositional constructions are provided, the regular types of categories of dependent numerical groups are described. Prepositions are one of the key subsystems in the language system, and without its formalization, it is impossible to implement meaningful technologies for automatic text analysis. Prepositions in Russian have not been getting much attention ...

Construction of various types of buildings and engineering structures invariably interferes, although to different degrees, with the surrounding environment. Every development project is executed in a strictly delineated area and under specific conditions. While planning a construction project, the investor is obligated to analyze several variants of its execution, including an assessment of different effects it may have on the environment. The investor can evaluate the impact on the surrounding ecosystems, in its...

Higher education plays an important role in the formation of an environmentally literate society. Currently, federal state educational standards in the Russian system of higher education presuppose the development of general, professional and special competencies among university students. The new paradigm of higher education makes it necessary to look for new teaching practices, in particular, to use active and interactive technologies in the educational process. Fallowing these ideas, the carrying out of educati...

The article is devoted to the problem of seeking the criterion which can verify individual`s spiritual transformation by means of philosophical conversion on the way of gaining one`s nature. Experience of the unlimited cosmic whole which usually happens with an individual in one`s childhood as a feeling of the cosmic immensity of one`s small motherlandis takenas a criterion. The basis of such experience is declared to be imagination freed from limitation of the discursive totality. As soon as childhood experience ...

The aim of the paper is to evaluate the role of the exchange rate in shaping the export of Poland and selected European Union countries: Sweden, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Denmark and the Czech Republic in the years 2008-2016. The author presented exchange rate regimes in the analyzed countries and assessed if the choice of applied exchange rate system had a significant impact on the variability of nominal exchange rates. Subsequently, changes in real effective exchange rates (REER) and their impact on export co...

The paper is devoted to the analysis of parents’ beliefs about children’s video games in the contemporary Russia. The strategies of prohibition or permission of computer games used by parents rely on different background beliefs. Research of such beliefs as well as values they are based on is the purpose of our work. To do this, we analyzed the discourse of Russian parents of preschool and primary school children in a series of semi-structured interviews on children's video games. Interviews were conducted in 2016...

Aim: Research aim is to explore the differences in the childbirth- related fear with regard to age, parity, previous birth experience and socio-economic factors. Another objective of the research was assessing the link between childbirth- related fear and symptoms of depression among pregnant women. Method: The research sample includes 136 women (age 29.82±5.68). Wijma Delivery Expectancy Questionnaire (W-DEQ-A) was used for assessing the childbirth- related fear; and Edinburg Postnatal Depression Scale was used f...

Objectives: Measuring children’s social and emotional competences is very important in order to develop adequate preventions and interventions. In this study the translation and adaptation of the Social-Emotional Competence Questionnaire (SECQ) at a Hungarian population was examined. The main aim of the study was to analyze the factor structure and psychometric properties of the SECQ in a Hungarian sample from Transylvania, Romania. Methods: The questionnaire was filled out by secondary school students (N=560). Pa...

A speculative study concerning the role of imagination in representing and constructing the subjective of self meaningfully involves the intertwining between the theme of the image with that of the imagination as a common speculative practice. In this paper, the author will proceed from a philosophical overview around the question of personal identity to an exploration onto certain current uses of imagination in the most recent research on human sciences and neurosciences. The aim is to summarise the consequences ...

The purpose of this paper is to systematise the factors of functional efficiency of business discourse and to analyse the specificity of a complex interaction of language elements within a text, due to which discourse acquires semantic accretions. The article makes the case that nowadays the function of rhetoric impact is regarded as the leading one for business discourse, alongside other language functions. Therefore, speech functional efficiency implies enhancing the desired rhetoric effect in reflecting extrali...

The paper focuses on the oldest known collection of recipes written in Romanian, namely an undated manuscript of an unknown author, elaborated in Wallachia. The authors of the text edition published in 1997 presumed that it was written at the court of the prince Brîncoveanu. It is a singular work in its age as the next cookery book in Romanian is from 1842 and has a French model. The manuscript includes 293 recipes and it ends with advice on ink preparation, silvery cleaning, gun cleaning and gunpowder preparation...

The paper provides empirical analysis of the relationship between country level innovation performance and foreign direct investment (FDI) flows, namely inward and outward FDI. The increase in the volume of foreign direct investment flows is according to the most influential theories of FDI the important accelerator of the countries´ economic growth and innovation capabilities resulting to increase in international competitiveness. In this light, the object of our interest is to verify the existence and the streng...

Visual space and music seem to be the components of the real space, which are separated, and don’t come together but interaction of the rules of vision and sound can bring interesting research effects. I am convinced that the basis of visual arts can be adopted on the ground of music and deepen our knowledge about music of that time. In fact, visual and architectural space is around the composer and the listener. Moreover, it is experienced during musical performance and has a great impact on it. Areas of vision a...