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The unprecedented scale of the migrant crisis is appalling. It upsets us and urges us to act. Every day, desperate people tent to cross the boundaries of indifference. For specific situations, they are called refugees. Treated often as a simple problem, it is our brothers and sisters, fragile human beings who need help, and this is urgently. On a global scale, there is impressive solidarity and a genuine desire to help. At the same time, signs of impotence and overload are well known in many places. Public debate ...

Museums can be regarded as a tool that, beyond presenting sections of art and culture, have an important role to inform and connect with elements that generate tendencies at a local or general level; mentally and emotionally. They promote new ideas, new information, they promote local aspects. Museums are institutions with their own identity, leading to the creation of new phenomena in the social framework (through exhibitions and a varied type of organized events). The study is centered around those specific muse...

The higher education providers play a main role in facilitating the acquisition of valuable skills and international experiences for their students, fostering the attractiveness and international dimension of education, and bridging Europe's knowledge, skills and competences gap. Within this sphere, the Erasmus+ programme represents one of the most powerful investment tools of the EU in the field of education and training. It aims to strengthen the European identity based on meaningful contributions which target a...

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) refers to a group of therapeutic and diagnostic disciplines that largely exist outside the institutions where conventional health care is taught and provided. In most parts of the world CAM content is included into health care professionals training programs. In Croatia there are still ideological and professional disputes between the majority of allopathic establishment and CAM practitioners. AIM: Aim of the study was to identify the openness and willingness of healthc...

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

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 two ...

Pesticides are intended for the control of pests, weeds, pathogens and other factors that cause damage to plants. Pesticides include substances to combat these harmful organisms, but also substances such as growth regulators, desiccants, vegetable and fruit cleaning substances, and substances applied during storage and transportation of production. The use of these pesticides for developed countries is a current concern. The purpose of this study was to conduct an analysis of pesticides used in Romania during the ...

The reception of temporary architecture objects, which until now were treated only as substitutes for an existing buildings, has changed during recent years. Many realizations are characterized by high aesthetic values, as well by the fact that they positively affect the space in which they operate. Furthermore they can be considered the first step to the revitalization of degraded areas. Usually, the realization of a temporary pavilion is associated with cultural events, accompanying festivals or functioning duri...

The article presents a theoretical analysis of existing approaches to assessing threats to the state economic security. The analysis revealed three main methods for assessing economic security: a simple rationing method based on a threshold value, a complex rationing method based on a threshold value, a rationing method for amount of discrepancy. These methods, despite the presence of specific features, are implemented in a certain sequence. As a result of the synthesis of methodological approaches, the authors ha...

Commuter rail transport in Russia has been assigned the lead socio-economic role in meeting the mobility needs of local population. The social significance of rail transport lies in its demand among those citizens who have the right for preferential travel, as well as among people with low incomes. Regional authorities set up the cost of travel for such society groups below actual cost. Losses in the income of the carrier are compensated by providing subsidies from the budgets. The mechanism for delivering budget-...

The paper actualizes the theme of social reality construction amidst the development of innovative technologies forming the techno-social space, in which technological and social aspects are closely intertwined in the context of mutually conditioned changes. Based on conceptual ideas of phenomenology, the mental bases of the social world exploration are accentuated and the inclusion of modern technologies in the processes of the social distribution of knowledge, transfer, and assimilation of information, in everyd...

The new air HUB and railway junction will be built in the Baranow commune, about 40 km west of Warsaw. The Central Communication Port, called the Solidarity Port, is planned as the best communicated place in Poland. Over the course of the decade, a new airport, a railway station as well as a railway and expressway are to be built. The airport will be scheduled to start operating with two runways, but four are planned. The planned area of the airport area is about 3,000 hectares. Initial airport capacity in the lau...

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...

Festivities are one of the most stable forms of spiritual culture, which nowadays undergo significant transformations: the spectrum of festivities, their functions, traditions, the attitudes of people and their knowledge about the festive culture are changing. The influence of western European festivities is another significant trend that has become evident in contemporary Latvia. The research analyses the specificity of the perception of Halloween in the south-eastern region of Latvia – Latgale (the major object ...

This article presents the results of a study of silver coins with the name of Khan Shadibek from Izmeri treasure from the collection of the Tatarstan National Museum (Russia). This treasure is interesting in that it contains golden Horde coins minted in 1402-1419. With the advent of Khan Shadibek, the monetary reform of the Golden Horde was carried out, which resulted in relative order of money circulation in the state. In the same period, the work of the mint in the Bulgarian settlement was restored. Mint "Bolgar...

This year we celebrate centenary of Bauhaus’ school established by Walter Gropius and his team in Weimar in 1919. In my paper I consider the possible influence between Bauhaus ideas in visual arts and music of that time. The main streams in Bauhaus philosophy developed the new concept of art and based on the rules as follows: reduction of decoration, innovation, geometry in construction, form devoted from function, social impact of art. I was inspired by Bauhaus as an interdisciplinary field that concentrates on t...

Environmental pollution, adverse spawning conditions, as well as intensive fishing and other factors have negative influence on fish stock condition, thereby causing fishery enterprises problems to plan their activities in long term. This causes significant consequences not only for the Latvian fishery sector in general, but also for the development of coastal areas and national socio-economic growth. In the modern global economy, competitiveness is put forward as one of the conditions for economic recovery. The c...

The aim of the article is to analyse the attitude of the Polish Socialist Party – former Revolutionary Faction (PSPfRevFr) towards the Reform camp in the period 1928-1935. This party appeared on the Polish political scene as a result of a split that took place in the Polish Socialist Party (PSP), against the background of party members' attitude towards J. Pilsudski after the coup d'etat he had carried out in May 1926. For two years in the PSP there was a rivalry between two factions, which finally ended with the ...

The article reviews the results of empirical research, which is focused on the position of youth in the Russian education system. The research was conducted among Russian young people in 2017-2018; the statistical population of Russia is represented by total sample of 1600 responders. Problems of involvement of young people in the educational system and satisfaction with the educational system are considered through the prism of the social context. The following issues were identified within the framework of the s...

A new approach to measuring multi-user loyalty is proposed. This approach allows ensuring the development of the company in the long term. An effective development scenario is implemented on the basis of the consistent identification of the causes of mistrust on the part of potential participants in the company. Many typical offers by loyalty program developers contradict with the negative feedback from their users regarding the low effectiveness of their implemented tools. That is why a company shall have at its ...

Research over the past 20 years has shown the enormous role of tourism in the economies of most countries. First of all, it allows solving problems of stimulating social development of regions. Tourism has a stimulating effect on such sectors of the economy as transport, communications, trade, construction, agriculture, production of consumer goods and contributes to the development of practically all sectors of the economy [1]. In the late 70s of the twentieth century, ecological tourism becomes one of the most p...

The article is devoted to the history of the mineralogical collection which played a special role in the history of museums of Russian universities. Assembled in Saxony by a chemist and mineralogist Johann Friedrich Henckel and then bought by the owner of several steel factories Akinfy Nikitich Demidov, it was later presented to the Moscow university and then served as the basis of the first Russian university museum. This article reviews the history of the mineral collection before it was sold and explores newly ...

The article considers the negative factors of the human impact on the environmental situation during the largest world wars. The analysis of various sources made by the authors resulted in the conclusion that this problem remains underestimated in the scientific community up to the present and enjoys little popularity with historians and ecologists, which leads to the gaps in large environmental studies and modern projects. Unfortunately, today the factor of the adverse impact on the environment is neither a suffi...

The Roman Ancient culture makes no exception from the long line of humanity's empires, which have not paid attention to femininity in its beauty and goodness, instruction and education. The Roman woman represented, both during the Empire and in the Republic, a controversial subject and treated most often differently. While common women only received elementary skills (writing and reading), upper and middle-class women had the right to a selected education, granted by the family's position. Ever since birth, the st...

The problem of adaptation of migrants in receiving countries determines the urgent need to find ways to solve it. The article notes that a special role in the process of rooting foreign citizens in a new community plays the study and perception of its history, traditions, language, spiritual values. Particular attention is paid to the development of tests as one of the means of testing the acquired knowledge, and the socio-cultural adaptation. The authors analyze the materials of the manuals and the content of the...

Numerous studies reveal the apparent benefits of cultural diversity in the classroom within all the education cycles. A variety of linguistic and cultural scenarios for the internationalisation of higher education across Europe and beyond make the basis for the exploration and statement of the place of Latvian higher education sector within these scenarios with the aim to develop a comprehensive integration framework for international students of diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds in Latvian HEIs. Therefo...

The purpose of the present paper is to assess the relevance of several notoriously applied financial indicators to construct an appropriate risk evaluation structure for enterprises. The authors aim to include in the empirical study a wide array of variables, grouped into clusters, to match the complexity implied by the data collected from 100 Nasdaq quoted companies, based in 9 countries, from 8 industries. The methodology employed is the Principal Component Analysis, which supports in capturing the most signific...

Social enterprises are a relatively new and expanding field of study. They could be private for-profit, non-profit and hybrid organizations with a social mission that use business approaches to achieve their objectives. They typically function upon a range of laws to govern their creation, day-to-day management, tax arrangements and dissolution. Since social enterprises are in the inter-section of the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, policy makers have, in certain countries, sought to encourage it by creating a c...

Today in Ukraine, the issue of organization of recreation becomes a priority issue not only in the physiological-psychological aspect, but also as a socially-organized function of people's lives. It provides an opportunity for an integrated combination of recreation, tourism and excursions, in order to promote the development of tourist excursions. Natural, cultural-historical and socio-economic resources of the region, as well as the presence of territories and objects of the nature reserve fund are important fac...

The problem of ageing population is increasing. So, the governments in different countries are trying to find some solution of the deficit of the pension systems and so different types of reforms suggest itself. These reforms can be only parametric or can be also systematic. The parametric reform is represented mainly by the increase of the pension age and by the increase of the minimum insurance period. But it needn?t be satisfactory and for that reason a lot of governments in the middle and east Europa were tryi...

The global collapse of the environment is inevitable. Developed states should work alongside developing countries to make sure that their economies do not contribute to increasing pollution problems. Today's politicians should think about supporting pollution reduction programs rather than expanding industrialization as much as possible. Environmental conservation strategies should be accepted on a global scale, and people should start thinking about a significant reduction in energy consumption without sacrificin...

All projects in different sectors are unique, but the information technology industry is a prosperous and growing sector of all developing countries, which is mainly based on projects [1]. The purpose of the work is to investigate the quality of working life of IT project managers in Riga, causes of job related stress and influencing factor and to find out what strategies for stress management are used and also, develop proposals for major IT companies to improve the quality of life of IT project managers and over...

The State Standards of Pedagogical Education in the Russian Federation envisage the core component of school-based experience for pedagogical students. The experience falls into obligatory and optional components and is organized throughout the whole course of studies. The paper describes the system of school-based experience in a selected Pedagogical University where all students are enrolled in the programs with double majoring. The methodology applied includes case study, evidence-based education research and m...

Our research focuses on different ways of understanding parenting styles and the similarities and differences between conceptual understanding as well as statistical issues for 2 measurement instruments. Starting with Baumid vision of consistent and persistent ways of interactions between parents and child, there is evidence that these constant ways of interactions do have certain influences on child development. As it was shown in previous research, addiction to substance abuse, especially alcohol in adolescence ...

The construction of those commemorative monuments dedicated to the Fallen of the First World War began during the war itself, and was a way of coming to terms with the loss of loved ones, both as family members and comrades. However, with the advent of Fascism after the Great War, the idea which had formerly lain at the basis of memorial erection underwent a change. Prior to the rise of Fascism, commemorative monuments had focused on the concept of patriotism and commemorated either one specific individual or grou...

Marketing of organic food products is a topic of interest taking into account the upward trend of these products globally. Promoting eco-products is an approach to the increasing demand for high quality consumer products. Organic marketing is important because it can help protect the environment and preserve biodiversity, increase food security and can contribute to sustainable development of agriculture. The paper aim was to analyze consumer preferences in southern Romania concerning organic agri-food products. I...

At the present time the need to learn a foreign language is not in doubt as foreign language learning (FLL) can significantly expand cognitive abilities like memory, perception, thinking and personal enrichment, similarly, it contributes to promotion in career, advancement of communication skills and travelling opportunities, just to name a few. The main issue today concerns the organization of teaching and learning that can ensure a higher level of language acquisition. In this respect there comes up a question: ...

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...

Every architectural interference involves an unavoidable change in space the object is created in. That changed site would never be the same as it was before, neither in the material nor symbolic dimension. To build is to discover the location. This discovery of the 'new' site is tantamount to learning about the 'found' place, called context - its cognitive, aesthetic, cultural values as well as spatial, typological and morphological properties. Therefore it is always a kind of continuation. Creators recognize the...

BACKGROUND: In pregnancy, proteinuria can be commonly increased and varies from non-nephrotic range proteinuria to nephrotic syndrome. Diagnosis and proper management are very important for both maternal and fetal health. Little is known about pregnancy in women with Alport Syndrome (AS). AS, a hereditary disorder X-linked (85%) or autosomal recessive (15%), associated with mutations in type IV collagen, is characterized by hearing impairment, ocular changes and progressive glomerulonephritis leading to chronic re...

The formative-educational process contributes to moulding and defining the individual through the accumulation of theoretical and practical information and the inter-human communication as a result of the relationship with the peers. Due to the evolution of society, interpersonal relationships are generated by several forms of communication that are continuously realized both in the national language space and beyond the boundaries of the mother tongue. The contribution of technology to interpersonal communication...

Child aggression is a form of social security. It occurs at the age of one to three years. In most cases it does not take the symptoms of the disorder, usually a transient, developmentally natural psychological phenomenon. Children very often react aggressively in a period of resistance. They reject the demands of parents and teachers or their boundaries and rules. They don't like the restrictions, so they can hit their parents, throw objects, etc. The aggression of children and their abuse by parents is no except...

The article discusses the issue of developing intercultural competence in the process of teaching a foreign language to engineering students. The intercultural competence is a complex of knowledge, skills and personal characteristics that contribute to the choice of adequate solutions of communicative tasks and effective intercultural interaction. In the course of studying a foreign language, it is necessary for students to learn to perceive certain phenomena inherent for a different culture in comparison with com...

Elena Katishonok is a contemporary author, who is writing in Russian. Elena was born in Riga, graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the Latvian State University. In 1991, she moved to the USA; now she lives in Boston. In the last few years, Elena Katishonok’ oeuvre has become known to a wide range of readers. The novels “Once upon the Time There Lived an Old Man with His Old Woman” (2006), “Counterclockwise” (2009), “When the Person Leaves” (2011), “Light in the Window” (2014) have not only found their reader...

The main claim of the Cognitive Metaphor Theory (CMT), proposed by Lakoff and Johnson (1980), is that we not only speak and write, but also think in terms of metaphors. In his turn, the Dutch scholar Charles Forceville argues, if this is correct, alongside the verbal manifestations of the conceptual metaphors, other modes must exist to communicate these metaphors. In addition, Forceville has derived the importance of context when analysing metaphors; this has led to a considerable research into pictorial or visual...

The drinks sector has increasingly diversified lately on the basis of complying with the consumers’ demands as well as on the necessity of adopting sustainable practices imposed by the resource depletion and climate change challenges. This research aims to present an overview of the drinks market at Romanian level since 2013 by considering also the sustainability component. Two methods are applied for a better analysis of this subject: the bibliometric analysis and the statistical analysis of the drinks market. In...

Developing and building of road infrastructure is one of the state priorities. At present, a need is not build only new roads, but also improve existing road network. Many of roads do not meet the requirements for traffic flow and safety. The roads with these conditions require reconstruction. The one of the roads with bad conditions is road section I/18, which is located between villages Lipniky and Hanusovce nad Toplou. The road section is not meet requires of traffic flow and road safety. The road section is lo...

Romania represents a new pole of interest of people engaged in leisure time spending within musical festivals. Thus, lately, the Romanian musical festivals have achieved significant progress, which is easy to visualize due to intense promotion and beneficial marketing, but also through the major national and international interest for the two important events that are the subject of this research. This research focuses on visualizing the main problems raised by the participants of the Untold and Neversea festivals...

Coping with demanding situations is a regular part of managerial work. In this context, demanding situations are perceived by managers as either unpleasant or as a starting ramp for their career growth. The paper presents the results of an experimental research project on human capital development on the basis of increasing the efficiency of resolving difficult situations. The experimental group underwent a specific preparation, whereas the control group did not. The experiment was conducted on a research sample o...

In my paper I present the aims, the methods and a part of the results of my survey evaluating the reading comprehension competencies of Hungarian secondary school students in Slovakia. The main purpose of the survey was to map the level of secondary school students' reading comprehension skills to be familiar with the domains which need further improvement in our school education. Participants of the survey were first-year students and final-year students studying in three different school types (secondary grammar...