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The modern world is changing rapidly due to significant and fast development of technology. Telecommunications have penetrated all spheres of life, and linguistics is not an exclusion. People have to adapt to the changing world therefore the language is constantly varying by adding new words and borrowings from languages of other countries. The article is focused on studying the dynamics of changes which is the key to success in all aspects especially in the professional sphere. Considering the problem the authors...

This article is about the problems of the development of the indebtedness of the firms in different branches in the USA and in the Europe. The analysis of this development is important besides other things for the purpose of the identification of the average indebtedness and so-called branch standards that can be used for the process of optimizing of the capital structure. That is the topic inviting for the large discussion and very large researches which plays an important role in the sphere of the financial mana...

The target of this research is to demonstrate that during the 10th -11th centuries the Hungarian settlement system in Northern Bihor (Bihor County, in Romania) was based on the habitation scheme organized by Avar Empire, in the 8th-9th century. The methodology is based on the new archeological discoveries and contemporaneous etymological results of the naming mode of settlements in the area, compared to the chartered information about the mentioned period. The target of this research is to refute the theory set up...

In the current research, we analyse the displacement of the church from the village Timiseni to the “Dimitrie Gusti” National Village Museum (Bucharest) as being part of the environmental conflicts which resulted after the exploitation of coal in the Carboniferous Basin Rovinari. The old community of free village people, called in the Romanian language “Mosneni”, from the village Timi?eni had been surviving over the centuries because they were placing all they had more precious, treasures and hopes for a b...

Christ’s Resurrection, despite its historical evidences available in the New Testament writings, is indeed a rock (gr. ?????, „solid stone”, 1 Cor. 10: 4) for the ones who believe in order to stronger believe, but for the skeptical ones it is a stumblingstone (gr. ?????????, „occasion of apostasy”, Rom. 9: 32), so, in this view, it is of less help in present times in order to prove that Christ’s message is still topical. There is, still, another historical fact that can become an unshakable proof, despite ...

For centuries, the Greek goddess Themis has been a symbol of Western jurisprudence and adjudication. Themis symbolizes not only the Divine law, but also impartiality of judges, weighing of evidence, sword of justice for guilty and most importantly – risk of unfairness. Criminal procedure, like symbol of Themis, above all other branches of law must be shining example of the values of Western jurisprudence. However, in reality criminal procedure in theory and practice has always been the most vulnerable to unfairn...

Economic relations between Russia, Mongolia and China were mainly constructed to connect the Chinese Silk Road Economic Belt, the Russian Eurasian Economic Union, and Mongolia's proposed В«Prairie RoadВ», aiming to encourage the three parties to reach their tourism resource potentials, take international cooperative advantages, expand economic development space, and raise the joint competitiveness of the nations involved in the international tourism market. The authors justify why Mongolia plays and could play, an...

The Faculty of Military Health Science is one of the three faculties of the University of Defense in the Czech Republic. This Faculty is responsible for education of medics, pharmacists, dentists and paramedics in the Army of the Czech Republic. During their educational program we have to connect two basic aspects of duty in armed forces – work as a member of healthcare service, professional healthcare worker contra work as a soldier, member of military professional armed units. These two disciplines are differe...

The relevance of the article is due to the important cultural-forming importance of ethnic festivals and their influence on the continuity of spiritual values in the modern cultural environment. The author's understanding of new directions in the subject of creative works arising under the influence of forms and technologies of the ethnic festival is given. The research of domestic and foreign authors is presented. The aim of the work is to analyze the influence of the ethnic festival on the development of Amateur...

The current study aims to trace the influence of the addition of dietary fibers from cranberries over nutritional and sensory properties of white bread. Cranberries, in the form of fresh and frozen fruits had been added due to high fiber content, thus aiming to achieve a functional product with superior properties for people with digestive problems, those who are prone to diabetes, healing colon and prevent constipation operation, reduces the risk of colon cancer, reduce the risk of breast cancer, reduce the risk ...

Background Lumbosacralgia manifested by lower lumbar pain is a degenerative disorder, generated by the damage of an vertebral structures as well as by the suffering of the lumbar soft tissues. Clinically, we include: isolated lumbosacral pain, lumbosacral pain referenced on the inferior limb, and lumbosacral pain with a nerve route irradiation. The aim of this paper was to find the most effective rehabilitation kinetic program for these patients to reduce pain, increase mobility and improve the suppleness, tonicit...

The Spanish language is currently among the most sought-after foreign languages in the Russian system of higher education, and a large number of educational materials are available to ensure the teaching of it. That said, the recent decades have brought about considerable changes in the approaches to defining the Spanish language norm. With the publishing of fundamental works by the Royal Spanish Academy as well as the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, the aforementioned have to be taken into accou...

The entrepreneurship is regarded as one of the most important sources of competitive advantage for all countries. The development of entrepreneurship has important benefits, both economically and socially. The relevance of entrepreneurship for national economy is expressed by Michael Porter “invention and entrepreneurship are at the heart of national advantage” [1]. This research paper aims to present the challenges of entrepreneurship in Romania in the context of smart specialization process as basis for the ...

This paper explores the role of the EU Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) in assessing the evolution of agricultural holdings and their contribution to the national economy in Latvia. Although a significant number of previous studies performed a statistical, econometric and comparative analysis of figures extracted from the FADN database, there is still a dearth of research on the importance of the FADN and its integral elements for the provision of detailed and reliable information required for sustainable deve...

In September 2017, the European Parliament and the Council adopted the Regulation 2017/1601 establishing the European Fund for Sustainable Development (EFSD), the EFSD Guarantee and the EFSD Guarantee Fund.Because the Regulation EU 2017/1601 is a pretty recent legislative act, to accomplish this juridical task, the bibliography will be represented by European Union legislative acts concerning the domain. The Regulation 2017/1601 is the result of European Union leaders efforts to create a european fund for sustaina...

Italy has more World Heritage Sites than any other country in the World. This extraordinary legacy needs to be maintained and preserved. The awareness of the importance of this legacy in Italy dates back to the Renaissance, or even earlier. A brief overview of the development of the legal acts aimed at preserving the cultural heritage in Italy in the last centuries shows an advanced approach to the issue. While the pre-unitarian legislation attests a careful awareness and adopts better legal tools in specific area...

In the vast majority of the situations, the scientific papers related to the Romanian folklore have had as main topics types of traditional customs which are interpreted by ensembles and have a somewhat spectacular character in relation to other folkloric categories; which accounts for the fact that they are the ones which are best known both internally and abroad. Songs and “doinas” sung in concerts with audiences, presented with orchestral accompaniment and with literary lyrics (thus, easy to understand by t...

The Romanian musical folklore represented and is an inexhaustible source of suggestions for Romanian cult music. The characteristic is monodical singing, but simultaneous singing of several voices is indicated from ancient times. They are either specific to traditional instruments, or they are practices of singing, accompanying, or heterophonic music. Concerning harmony, it has some peculiarities, specific to this geographical area. In this study we will try to identify these practices of polyphonic or harmonic so...

Authors of the paper are focusing on American artist James Turrell's investigation of the nature of light in his conceptual projects. By the means of creating a specific immersive environment where a spectator is plunging into a unique optical space set up by light installations, the artist reconstructs a sensory synesthesia experience: a synthesis of light, colour, music and meditation. This being the case light becomes the main character of a story told by him. The artist analyses a phenomenon of perception and ...

The universe of HejdukВ’s, is a unitary and undivided В‘realityВ’ of a trinitarian form, where poetry, painting, and project are interconnected and undistinguishable worlds. His is a deeply dramatic architectural universe; a sort of reliquary inhabited by angels and demons and adorned with fantasy characters, animals, machines and anthropomorphic figures. A world completely infused with a poetic soaked of a profound sense of the sacred. This tight connection between architecture and literature, in addition to mark...

With a dizzying array of options, personalities and events in the modern world journalists seek new ways of catching the attention of potential readers and forming their opinion. Along with other stylistic devices, simile is frequently used for multiple purposes in journalism. The main aim of the research is to determine the objectives authors pursue when employing simile in political newspaper articles. The paper draws the line between the notions of logical comparison, simile and metaphor. The research is conduc...

Political stability appears to have returned to the Gambia since the constitutional crisis that confronted the Country following the controversial presidential elections of December 2016. ECOWAS through the indefatigable efforts of the ECOMIG and the resolve of most West African Countries helped to resolve the disputed polls and return normalcy to the small West African nation. The action of ECOWAS in the Gambia has been likened to in scientific literature, political discourse and the media to a military invasion,...

The term globalization has defined the reflection on the contemporaneity of the last thirty years, according with two directives: in an interdisciplinary sense, starting from the economic sciences up to the social and political sciences; in a broader sense, in the public opinion, for the affinity between the meaning of expression and the concrete experience of individuals. The globalization represented one of those rare cases of correspondence between science and doxa, so much to seems extremely effective in defin...

The work examines the troubled story of the Lanerossi spinning mill plant, a case of a company that experienced firsthand the negative effects of the economic policy of “extraordinary intervention of the State” for Southern Italy. Lanerossi's affair represents an interesting visual angle both for the analysis, at a macroeconomic level, of the policy of public intervention in the 1960s and, more generally, for reading, at the microeconomic level, an important and suffered chapter in the economic history of the ...

Objective: The aim of this study was to find out there is a link between ZG and hypertension. Methods: In the electronic databases Ebsco Academic Search Complete were searched for primary studies that used validated measures to assess health literacy in patients with hypertension. The search for the research studies was based on a combination of the following keywords: health literacy, hypertension, measurement, information, and knowledge. Exclusion criteria: not a primary study, does not concern research on hyper...

The authors of this work generated and examined the principles of integrating architecture into nature in urban planning. The aim of the paper is to study how the abovementioned principles have been formed in the theory of architecture and urban planning. Since ancient times humans have been looking for ways of consolidation with nature, because rational usage of landscape, water resources and environment was one of the most important conditions of comfortable life and sometimes even survival. However, as civiliza...

In the past decade, a keen interest in the legalization of euthanasia became rather topical. The article deals with the modern problems and with one of the most debated topics – euthanasia’s legalizing in the institution of the European Union. The debate on euthanasia in modern society stays unresolved. Legal issues relating to euthanasia should be considered in close connection with the right to life, which is one of the basic and inalienable human rights. The right to life is a liberty right and also a positi...

The purpose of this study is to thoroughly analyze a general phenomenon, such as gender, within video games to develop a better understanding of its particularities in this form of media and to expand the general body of knowledge on video games as a research topic. As prior literature shows, gender within video games can be either defined by its biased and sexualized character or by a tendency towards equality and strength for women. To explain those varied results the author proceeds with a qualitative discourse...

The contribution focuses on literary phenomenon of bad mother in 21st century novels written by authors born in former GDR. Both selected novels deal with some kind of raven mother’s behaviour witnessed by the writer in person or conveyed by close relative of the writer showing how historical events might lead to refusal of the principal woman’s role – being mother. The long-term family as well as society disguised taboo is in the first novel “Back to Back” by Julia Franck’s composed only after grandmothe...

Once Romania became a European Union member state, the dream for going abroad in order to get a better life, without a constant worrying about tomorrow got into reaching distance for people willing to leave the country. As a result, a part of the country`s population decided to take the necessary steps in order to seize the opportunities available to those interested in starting a new career, a new life outside the country or to leave just temporarily in order to save enough money to improve family life in home co...

Background: Child abuse and lack of emotional support experienced in childhood or even adolescents has long term costs affecting the capacity to fulfill life. Objective: The principal goal of this article was to study the extent to which the consequences of different forms of abuse are reflected in youth subjectively evaluated happiness and satisfaction with life. Method: Data were drawn from a large-scale, national representative longitudinal sample of 3524 senior high school students, who reported on their child...

Travel agencies and their activities have great potential for developing tourism in Slovakia. Their role is to offer, sell and organize individual tourism services. Travel agencies offer services that meet the needs of customers of all generations. Generation Y gradually gaining in importance in terms of the number of visitors who use the services in tourism. Instead of saving money or establishing family life, the generation Y prefers to travel to different destinations and explore the world. The aim of this pape...

Project management represents a modern analytical approach for managing the phases of project cycles that support strategic goals and programs. The aim of this research is to create a unique rounded theoretical and applicative basis for understanding and using the concept of strategic management within the higher education projects in North Macedonia. After the completed studies of the theoretical aspects of strategic project management, a comprehensive analysis was conducted on the projects supporting the strateg...

In this article we propose to analyze the pre-school level of the education in the last 3 years (2015-2018), referring to the degree of influence of the implementation of the personal development and leadership practices by the teachers in the context of diverses groups of children. The investigation methodology of the study was based on a through analysis of the scientific documents, to which quantitative methods were added (the interpretation of statistical data), but also qualitative methods such as the intervi...

Wine is one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world, promoting a more relaxed lifestyle in current society. However, wine has been used from the ancient times for medical purposes such as antiseptic and analgesic, dermatological diseases and digestive disorders treatments. In the last decades, the studies shown that a moderate wine consumption might have a positive impact on human health due to high content of antioxidant compounds released from skin and seed grapes during winemaking process. The antiox...

I have conducted a study which is an analysis of the most important laws created during the different ages of the Ancient Roman era, from 212 BC until 391 AD, relating to luxury, fashion and lifestyle matters. My work is, therefore, a survey through which I explored the Ancient Roman world of luxury by underlining the different laws created by emperors to limit luxury and opulence in Roman society which was a serious issue at the time. The methodology used for this paper is based on the reading and the investigati...

We intend, during this study, to identify the level of satisfaction of some participant’s students at a summer school, held two years ago, within The Faculty of Physical Education and Sport at the University of Craiova. The summer school was held over two weeks, being our first experience of this kind. The project, Be active in summer through sport (AG_21) was financed within the scheme of competitive grants for universities- summer programs bridge type (SGCU-PV) – ROSE. The project’s beneficiaries were 52 pup...

The present paper focuses on the importance of developing health literacy among future teachers, i.e. students of teacher training courses, who can in the framework of ISCED 0 to ISCED 3 induce a positive approach to their health and lifestyle and at the same time increase the level of health literacy among the upcoming generation in the Czech Republic. The requirement to develop health literacy among the young generation is based on the fact that 60% of the current adult population in the Czech Republic shows low...

Accurate data and information about competition, about market trends and about consumersВ’ needs and habits are essentials for any business company based on profit and efficiency objectives. Forecasting is a decision-making tool used to assess the economic trends and to allow business owners to benefit or to counteract them, in essence, to prepare business owners and management to act instead of react to conditions. This paper aim to reveal the importance of forecasting in decision-making process - with emphasis o...

The subject of my study is to map the literature written by Roma people in Slovakia. Slovakia is one of the European countries where Roma people represent the second largest minority. My research therefore focused on drawing attention to the literary works of authors of Roma origin and on taking stock of the literature written by Roma people in Slovakia. Textual analysis and content analysis were the chosen methods for the research. First, the study clarifies whether there exists Roma literature, or there simply a...

This paper aims to evaluate the effects that Stretching exercise may have upon Adult`s Physical Fitness and overall Well-Being. The research was oriented in two directions. The first step was an inquiry aiming to reveal the effects that participants perceive in both Physical and Psychological areas after practicing Stretching exercises. Revealed benefits were: Well-being, prevention and control of Joint and Lumbar Pains, somatic and psychic Relaxation, Body Pattern, Introspection, Presence, Sense of ease, Control ...

Despite the fraught relationship between abyssal psychology and cultural anthropology, both are applicable to human behavior. Anthropological analysis is directed from the exterior to the interior (i.e., the historical and cultural framework of the Renaissance), in contrast to the psychoanalytical perspective, which follows from the inside out the internal complexity of the human mind and its contribution to the cultural act. Anthropologically, the structural model of the psyche contains both the Freudian personal...

In thiВѕ paper are emphaВѕized the achievementВѕ and academic deciВѕion of a Вѕtudent who haВѕ a belief in hiВѕ / her ability that may be over or undereВѕtimated. The behavior and attitude of moВѕt ВѕtudentВѕ iВѕ more or leВѕВѕ contrary to academic integrity ВѕtandardВѕ. ThiВѕ iВѕ alВѕo the caВѕe in large univerВѕitieВѕ, where elite ВѕtudentВѕ are no exception. In thiВѕ context, it iВѕ analized the effect of optimal deciВѕionВѕ regarding a Вѕtudent and itВѕ dynamic evolution, the poВѕitive influence of committed c...

This paper substantiates the relevance of the influence of ergonomic culture on the labor functions of future teachers of modern school and the author's developments in the implementation of the labor functions of future teachers in modern school. The problem of teacher participation in creating a safe and comfortable educational environment of a modern school is considered. The mechanism of the influence of the ergonomic culture of students of the psychological and pedagogical university on the labor functions of...

The goal of this study is the consolidation and generalization of the body of theoretical analysis of empirical research studying the correlation between subjective well-being and mindfulness, demonstrating the effectiveness of mindfulness-boosting methods in raising the level of life satisfaction. The factual basis of the present study is physiological in nature and showcases the great variety of forms, types, determinants and factors of the subject matter. Methodology: analysis, comparison and verification of a ...

The personal need for structure (PNS) began to appear in the literature in the 1990s. In its essence, PNS means the need to sort information that an individual receives from the surroundings. PNS is; therefore, closely related to categorization. The ability to structure and categorize helps individuals in their orientation and understanding of things, using categories; it also enables them to understand the contexts and patterns in processes. This is related to the tolerance of ambiguity, which can be understood a...

In this study we have approached football issues during Physical Education high-school classes by using means of technical training specific to football game. The research has been made during one school year, at “Technologic Auto” High School Craiova, on 26 subjects. The subjects were school-boys in the 10th grade, divided into two numerically equal groups (control and experiment) who were applied several technical routes. In order to emphasize the efficiency of the means used and results obtained we applied ...

Confronted with the Western culture and architecture the Iranian society in general and building designs in particular underwent significant transformations in the Qajar period, although the earliest influences can be traced back to the Safavid era. With the advance of industrial developments and the import of technology from the West, concurrent with the reign of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar in Iran, Persian architecture began to enter its own period of Neoclassicism, as a symbol of Modernism and development, which th...

Using FreudВ’s psychoanalysis as a starting point for our study, we want to investigate whether the built environment one grew up in has an influence on our brains and on our future architectural preferences. The Viennese psychologist aims to make the unconscious mind, conscious, and his findings teach us that the repressed emotions and experiences have an impact on our brains, and therefore on the quality of our lives. How does the brain influence our perception of the space? Everything is a matter of perception,...

The anthropology of exile is the new field of research of the present with Europe becoming a fortress with high walls and gloomy gates through their very opening. The accommodation of the exiled is just an appearance, is a terrible joke, dimensioned by the camps' fences in which they are "housed". It is true, they can see the sea through these fences, but it has become a border rather than freedom. Caught in a purgatory space, migrants have no place to take refuge but into themselves, in that self-culturally and i...