Browse

Marketing is not just about selling and advertising; marketing is the sum of activities involved in directing the flow of goods and services from producers to consumers. Even when we speak of the theatre, we must consider such aspects as market research, better show design, effective distribution, and sustained communication with consumers. Theatres market not only productions or events (event marketing) as such but meanings and along with them actors, directors, artists as personalities (celebrity marketing), ide...

Known for his tragedies, the 18th century Italian writer, Count Vittorio Alfieri, was influenced and partly conditioned by Aristotle’s Poetics and by the literary opinions of his age. However, his fidelity to the ancient form of the tragedy did not hinder the introduction of a new type of conflict that would appeal to his contemporaries and to the future generations, namely that between a tyrant and what he called “a hero of freedom”. Despite belonging to high nobility, Alfieri was fiercely attracted by the E...

The paper focuses on sexuality in a male with Down syndrome from the perspective of his mother. The main objective of the survey was to reveal specific experiences with maturing, and the development and manifestations of sexuality in an individual with intellectual disability as perceived by his parent. Part of the survey was to identify whether and how the mother communicated with her son with intellectual disability about the issue of sexuality and his needs, how she perceived her sonВ’s sexuality manifestations...

The popularity of travel literature should not be underestimated. Travelogue is one of the most readable literary genres in the world literature, including the major literatures of the USA and Canada with their rich literary heritage, as well as such less popular or minor literatures, as the Latvian. The popularity of travel writing does not stop growing despite any world cataclysms; travelogue gains particular expansion in the 21st century due to the processes of globalization and rapid technological progress. Th...

Accession of Bulgaria to the EU in 2007 was followed by a radical transformation in government and social policies towards people with disabilities. The dominant medical model, in which the disabled are perceived as passive users of financial resources, has been displaced by activating the processes of social inclusion of people with deficits, including by creating conditions for their professional realization. The legal status of the disabled is regulated by changes in legislation aimed at overcoming social isola...

In Latvia, as in the other Baltic States, the rate of compulsory state social insurance contributions (SSIAI) for employee insurance is divided between the employer and the employee, with merely the proportion of the distribution differing. Self-employed persons, on the other hand, pay contributions for themselves in full amount, but the types of insurance and the procedure for calculating contributions differ in all three countries. Consequently, the level of social security of the self-employed also differs. The...

Military force and diplomacy have been conventional tools of advocating oneВ’s national influence on the international arena for a long time. As a result of economic cooperation broadening and information technologies development economic and cultural interaction is coming to the fore. This gives us an opportunity to speak about the special role that strategic communication plays in the contemporary international relations and global politics. The pivotal role in the structure of the understanding of strategic com...

There are many remnants of ancient stone buildings remaining in Estonia, however most well-known monuments are related to the Bronze Age or later periods. Similarly, the sites identified so far as ancient places of worship are the places and areas mentioned in different beliefs and associated with different cults forgotten in the recent past. At the same time, there are a number of unusual rock piles in the landscape of Northern Estonia that have been excluded from agricultural land development already in ancient ...

The paper presents the experimental data obtained on two groups of students, one for the experiment and the other as a witness. For this purpose, two classrooms and a school gym were used, organized in halochamber regime, respectively in normal microclimate conditions. The groups were differentiated by sex and age, comprising children born in 2006 and 2007, at the age with the highest growth rate. Harmonious physical development was pursued by correlating two biometric characteristics (weight and thoracic perimete...

Thanks to the development, wide distribution and cheapness of the Internet, people began to resort more and more often to new forms of project development, its production, as well as financing. The Internet environment, due to its free conditions, significantly influenced the attitude of start-up companies and entrepreneurs to attracting capital. Basically, crowdfunding is used in North America and Europe. The popularity of using such funding raises topical research questions: is crowd-funding able to replace exis...

The system of dialects of the Latvian language has developed under the influence of various extra-linguistic factors: in the parishes subordinated to the manors, the territorial restriction and the lack of mutual contacts led also to linguistic isolation and consequently to the development of different sub-dialects. It has been largely conditioned by economic and political circumstances. The sociolinguisti ay be I will be given the link just tomorrow in the morningc situation of LatviaВ’s south-eastern sub-dialect...

Poverty is a phenomenon that, even though we live in the 21st century, at a time when there is a sufficiency, there are people who are poor. Poverty affects people who are ill for a long time [1], migrants [2], those who are low-skilled, but even some university graduates, e.g. social workers working in certain types of facilities [3]. Poverty is not always the result of unemployment, but people who work are also poor. The aim of the article is to find out how working poverty in Slovakia perceives his life and how...

The purpose of the research is analyzing models of epistolary narrative used in contemporary women's life writing on the example of texts by Latvian writer Margita Gutmane, Romanian author Irina Grigorescu Pana, and Canadian prose fiction writer Alice Munro. Methodology of the research is comparative analysis of narrative elements used in auto/biographical texts. The elements of the epistolary genre – letter, diary, personal notes, etc. – are used with the aim of creating the effect of authenticity and enhanci...

The paper discusses the use of idioms in British newspapers focusing particularly on the substitution of components aimed at producing context-specific idiomatic meaning. An idiom is a relatively stable (both grammatically and semantically), cohesive, conventionally fixed string of words with completely or partially figurative meaning, which is not a combination of a verb and an adverbial or prepositional particle and which is not longer than a sentence [1]. An idiom is a relatively stable unit of language because...

Josef Skvorecky is one of the most significant representatives of the Czech writers who published their works in the exile. Josef SkvoreckyВ’s constant interest in the development of Czech society in recent decades is, among other things, the source of his work The Life of Czech Society, which is the subject of interest in this article. The book is a living testimony to a relatively recent period that was very difficult for the Czech nation. The analysis of the work makes it possible to follow SkvoreckyВ’s mastery...

Italy has been particularly affected by the Covid-19 epidemic. There have been, and continue to be, many deaths, raising the problem of contagion management within the workplace and new corporate organisational practices to be adopted to minimise the risk of contagion. From the criminal point of view, for some years now, legal entities - including, of course, companies, have also been liable for the death or serious or very serious injuries of its workers, in violation of the regulations on their health and safety...

The aim of this study is to assess the determinants of the Romanian services import and export flows between 2005 and 2017. An augmented gravity model and a panel approach were used. The data were collected from World Bank and International Trade Center databases and the EViews 10 was used for regression. The main findings are: the GDP of the partner country, sharing a common language and EU membership positively influence the services import flows, while the geographical distance between countries proved to have ...

This article discusses the results of an eight-month long ethnographic study conducted among young Old Believers in the city of Daugavpils, Latvia. The aim of the study was to gain a broader understanding of how young people understand culture and their participation in cultural activities. This group is an ethnic and religious minority in Latvia, which is of particular interest because it allows a deeper understanding of the differences in the cultural identity and cultural traditions of young people, in the idea...

Nowadays when the European Union faces some daunting challenges, with Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic merely being some of them, the research of the means and ways of its image structuring in British media is of a particular interest taking into consideration some historical reasons as well. The online versions of the published materials of the British periodicals (2017-2020) as well as some news sites, dedicated to the assessment of modern state of the EU, its future and its relationship with the United Kingdom ...

In connection with the spread of COVID-19 and the consequences it caused, the Slovak Republic has adopted several laws in various legal areas. One of them is the law, which has significantly affected the basic institutes of civil law. As the most important consequence can be considered the interference with the running of time limits, both substantive and procedural ones. In the case of substantive time limits (both standard limitation periods and extinctive limitation periods), a temporary suspension of these tim...

The present study considers the interrelations between the personality of a socially and politically active writer and literary and cultural processes in the country. To analyse literary processes in a wider historical and cultural context the cultural-historical view on literature was applied; in its turn, to examine the writerВ’s place within the overall cultural milieu and to determine the interaction of the authorВ’s writings and his era the elements of the biographical method were used. In Latvia, the Russian...

Both the literature and all the historical vestiges that we find today in the world, highlight the fact that over the centuries there has been a continuous transfer of knowledge from the Romans to the other peoples occupied by them. Roman culture was advanced at that time; we can remember that they loved music, theatre, architecture, construction, politics, astronomy, etc. This process also occurred in Dacia (part of today's Romania) marked by military conquest campaigns. The Danube River was and still is a natura...

The paper focuses on humour, the phenomenon that has many forms of manifestation and whose level of comicality depends on a particular culture. Czech culture is quite well-known for its sound representation in this area, and this will form a certain background allowing a better understanding of the target text. The main objective of the paper dwells in the application of actual theories of humour, especially S. Attardo's and V. Raskin's, into its identification and explanation in the contemporary Czech novel serie...

The Little Prince, a symbolic fairy tale by A. de Saint Exupery, is one of the pillars of modern European literature; since the first edition (1943) this literary work has been translated into over 200 languages, it has been processed in adaptations for film musicals, operas, animated series, and it still inspires dancers, musicians and writers. At the beginning of the study we briefly outline the reception of the Little Prince and selected creative updates of this story in Slovakia. The core of the study consists...

Our study forms part of a wider project seeking to cover a void within interdisciplinary research in drama studies: its focus is specifically the study of the history of visual arts and the Italian theatre of the Renaissance in juxtaposition with the ancient Greek theatre. Our study proceeds on the basis of an attentive engagement with comparative evidence as regards the methodology of acting and the use of theatrical masks up to the beginnings of the 18th century. It intends to cover a certain gap within the scie...

For centuries, the monuments of megalithic prehistoric cultures have been rediscovered and identified in many parts of the Mediterranean basin. These monuments point to the spread and development of early agriculture and denote the diversification of the monuments created by these ancient cultures, their adaptation to availability of the local building materials, and the diversity of traditions. In this context, such megalithic monuments have not been studied mainly because they have been identified only in certai...

In contemporary creation for children and young people there is an increasing production of works with intermedia characteristics. Interdisciplinary cooperation of experts in the field of individual types of art is required in order to analyze, interpret and evaluate it. Monika Kompanikova, an experienced and awarded author for children and adults, created a multimedia project for children called Toddler Punk: TulinoВ’s Musical Stories (Monokel Publishing House) in 2019. The project includes a collection of fairy ...

This article proposes to create a connection between two seemingly contradictory universes: the art of sculpture and the art of music. The creation of one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century, Constantin Bra?ncu?i, became an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists from different domains, especially for musicians, Romanian composers creating diverse symphonic works inspired by the artistВ’s sculptures. Background: In the history of art, Bra?ncu?i makes a striking turn. He adopts a unique atti...

The Pandemic Covid 19 profoundly changed the mentality, religious Traditions, inter-human and inter-institutional relationship. The Orthodox Church Romanian, from 26 February 2020, had to respond to the challenges arising from the expansion of the covid pandemic 19, according to its own theology and sacred Traditions, but according to the anti-covid 19 national legislation and sanitary measures. The method used official data published by the state institutions, military orders, presidential decrees, journalistic a...

In this era of globalization, the world has gradually reduced inequalities in life expectancy. Alongside this development, a key aspect of a sustainable society is the level of human health throughout life. In this study, we aim to look at the relationship between healthy life years, Eurostat's European structural indicator for expressing healthy life years or life expectancy without disabilities (these focus on the quality of life spent in a healthy state, rather than the quantity of life, as measured by life exp...

Introduction: Postpartum period is a period of risk for the development of mood disorders, including postpartum depression. The onset and persistence of postpartum distress and depressive symptoms may be influenced by several obstetric and psychosocial factors. A body of research studies has shown an association between quality and satisfaction with the partner support and postpartum depression. Aim of this study was to examine relationship between selected obstetric (e.g. type of labour, complications during labo...

The article deals with the study of ethnography in the scope of the linguistic landscape analysis. In the modern world of superdiversity and globalization people are surrounded by multiple linguistic tokens which are usually encoded. Any single sign in the public area becomes substantial research material that we can analyse in order to observe the interaction between linguistic and societal processes. According to Landry and Bourhis (1997), language use in the public sphere can show how various factors of ethnic,...

The article discusses intonation tools that perform the function of influencing the public speech of a political leader on the audience. In the given article author examines functions of intonation, and considers different approaches to the problem of intonation in Russian, Kazakh, British and American linguistic schools. Different positions are noted in resolving the issue of the language status of certain functions. Sociolinguistic and intonation aspects of analysis used to have very significant differences in t...

In this paper, we present the results from research focused on the usage of visual programming languages for teaching programming and algorithmization, which was a part of research named „The usage of educational materials in informatics“. The purpose of this research was to collect data about which didactics aids and educational materials do teachers use and get the foundation for upcoming research that would go deeper into specific topics. The data were collected by a questionnaire among Czech teachers of a s...

Our endeavour is based on the search for revealing the realities that happened during the Renaissance period in the Italian city-states, starting from their formation and ending up with the fall of these regimes. The Italian Renaissance is a surprisingly well-defined phenomenon in time and space, impacting not only Italian and European culture and civilization, leaving its strong imprint on an entire world. The Italian Renaissance civilization witnessed socio-economic, administrative-political changes of a complet...

The paper focuses on the issue of training and education of children in the field of traffic safety. The topic of education in traffic safety for children is important from the point of view of protecting the life and health of both children and other road users. The main goal of the thesis is to find out under which system children are educated in primary schools in the Czech Republic in the field of traffic safety. The secondary goal of this work is to characterize documents and basic approaches in the field of ...

The article deals with the history of travelling exhibitions of Spanish art from Spain, primarily from the Prado Museum, to other countries during Franco’s time (1939-1975). For comparative study, the article gives a review of the pre-Franco period (late 19th – early 20th century) as well as the post-Franco period (the last quarter of the 20th century). The turning points in the exhibition policy were closely related with the social, cultural and politic situation in the country, with proves the idea of the rel...

Public space is a general term that can be expressed in various ways. However, any definition is based on the assumption that these are spaces accessible to everyone without restrictions. Public space therefore serves a general purpose, regardless of ownership of that space. One of the types of public spaces is also an extra-level connection - an underpass. The underpasses provide an alternative way to safely overcome potentially dangerous locations due to a certain barrier - especially busy traffic. For the comfo...

Objective: Assessment of iodine and thyroid status in a group of pregnant women in the perimarine area of Romania, the geographical area without iodine deficiency. Undetected or untreated thyroid dysfunction can be associated with a number of materno-fetal complications. The administration of iodinated compounds in pregnancy requires individualization. The ratio of urinary iodine concentration (UIC)/urinary creatinine (UCr) may be an objective criterion for evaluating iodine nutrition in the perimarine area. Mater...

The paper presents main aspects related to the evaluation of management efficiency, implemented within protected areas, especially those belonging to the ecological network Natura 2000. It aims to monitor progress in the management of protected areas, as they have experienced exponential growth in the last decade due to the rate of extinction of species and the destruction of ecosystems. In order to maximize the potential of protected areas, biodiversity conservation is considered to improve the management plan by...

When Steve de Shazer and his team applied the Wittgensteinian philosophy in therapy, they revolutionized the field while they discovered brief therapy. Was it an accidental coincidence? What was the role of Wittgensteinian philosophy in creating the theoretical and practical space of brief therapy? What are the exact consequences of treating a one on one meeting as a language game - let it be a therapy session, a coaching, or a personal meeting between the leader and a team member? Can we revolutionize one on ones...