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The second year in a row Latvia takes the leading position among the European Union countries in a rate of newly diagnosed HIV cases per 100 000 inhabitants. Especially, last years the number of newly diagnosed cases through heterosexual transmission is growing while the number of infection cases through homosexual and intravenous drug usage transmission is decreasing. Previous study shows that there is a possibility that heterosexual people formed a false understanding about HIV if they are faced with a communica...

The contributions have taken into account positive and negative effects of globalization and have drawn on current knowledge in the academic field of intercultural awareness and intercultural communication. They have been theoretically rooted in the specific definition of culture which has been compared to an iceberg: (1) one part of culture (values and assumption) is beneath the surface; (2) another part of culture (observable behaviors) of the culture is visible. The first part of the paper has highlighted Germa...

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 grandmother’s death...

The authors of the text depict basic parameters of research activities which are currently realized in order to support the communication of persons with neurocognitive disorder. These persons represent a specific diagnostic group that occurs especially in the elderly population. At the same time this group is a typical representative of problems connected with aging of population. Research activities are realized in terms of specialized research projects designated for universities, specifically in terms of a pro...

The research question of the article is to find out the aspects of Russian smart city developers’ vision of expected inhabitants, as practitioners elaborating “smart city” concepts pay less attention to humanistic aspect of the problem than to technologies. To achieve that, an analysis of Russian articles on smart city mentioning the roles and functions of “smart people” was held. The results of the review are the following: first, the idea of “smart people” is controversial and impossible to achieve, while the te...

Changes in the society cause changes in the demands on the process and the result of training an engineer. In the beginning of the 20th century a design engineer was needed; the second half of the 20th century called for engineers capable of carrying out a scientific research and applying its results; labor market in the beginning of the 21st century makes a demand on engineers who are both competent in dealing with theoretical and practical tasks that arise from their professional activities and able to work as m...

The article examines the current status and prospects of development of the Russian tax system, analyzes it, considers problems and ways of its improvement. The article includes the following sections: introduction, general characteristic of tax system of Russia; elements of the tax system of Russia; prospects of development of Russian tax system. In each paragraph the essential elements of the current tax system of the state are revealed. The trends developing in the modern tax system of the Russian Federation ar...

The article considers the interrelation between technoscience and humanity in the contemporary university environment. Postmodern is seen as a communicative context and fundamental property of technology development. This problem is urgent because we always need some existential form of thinking, to understand what we are performing. In other words, technological and science exaltation should always “kept cold”, by examining, observing, thinking, and acting in consideration of this analysis. The authors point out ...

The paper provides an extended report on a study of the evolution of management accounting in Russia, with a main phase of investigation during the period 2014-2019. It traces the development of management accounting in the country’s emerging economy during the three post-Soviet decades and investigates the specifics of management accounting in the domain of mid-sized companies – the most typical representatives of the market economy. The research is focused on the “soft” side of management accounting, stressing t...

American social enterprise. In the background of this basic comparison, the analysis attempts to locate the Polish model of social enterprise This study is going concern difference in definitions of social enterprise and conception of national models these entities including polish model of social enterprise The aims is of this study is to show that economic and social results of the participants in the Anglo - Saxon models (Amer-ican and English) are the most effective however comparative studies of models show t...

There has been a very dynamic development of project management in recent years. One reason is continued globalization and market interconnection, another reason is the technological development and the development of new technologies. There are many challenges that project managers must encounter. Managing and leading the projects is a challenge for the project managers and it becomes difficult to meet the goals of the project, once the project changes from local to global. As companies worldwide are moving more ...

Promoting and developing the energy sector is an essential component of the process of Romania's sustainability. Sustainability in the promotion of the energy sector can be achieved by: building new capacities, upgrading and modernizing the energetic sector, stimulating the increase of internal consumption in the context of energy efficiency, promoting and capitalizing on renewable energy sources, especially geothermal energy. In this context, Romania participates in European projects aimed at promoting and capita...

Let the linear demand function be ??0(??)=??0???0??,0??????0??0, where ??0,??0>0 and ??0(??) is the unit price with respect to the demand quantity ??.Then the revenue function is ??0(??)=??0?????0??2 where 0??????0??0 . Consider the cost function ??0(??)=??0+??0?? where 0???, ??0>0 and 0<??0<??0. Then we obtain profit function as ??0(??)=??0(??)???0(??)=??0?????0??2???0???0?? where 0??????0??0 . Yao and Lin [Yao J.-S., Lin D.-C., Optimal fuzzy profit for price in fuzzy sense, Fuzzy Sets and Systems 111, 455-464 20...

Introduction. The objective of this investigation is to pinpoint the influence of the salivary pH on the hardness of the dental enamel. Method. The study was realized using recently extracted 6 non-carious wisdom teeth, that were immersed in solutions of different pH (between 2.5 and 6.5) for 3 minutes, solutions that would simulate the pH of the oral cavity in patients with a potential condition of gastroesophageal reflux disease. The hardness of the enamel was tested using the Vickers method. Results show that t...

Creativity constitutes an important feature in teachers' development, enables for application of the original methods in work and for creating the climate of openness and independence. However, researchers quite frequently notice that creative functioning, correlated also with non-conformism, is often coupled with low social competences, which results in incomprehension, rejection and criticism from co-workers. On the other hand, some investigators point out that creative teachers are expressive, have a lot of co-...

Our study presents a model of factors influencing the financial viability of Hungarian social enterprises, and tests the model on a sample of 220 Hungarian firms involved in social entrepreneurship. In the model we suggest that the most important factors for financial viability are the Regulatory environment (the transparency of regulations); the Entrepreneurial attributes of the entrepreneur (business orientation, business skills and experience, business planning tendencies); the Financial support provided by the...

The research aim is to define and substantiate the methodological guidelines for the historical reconstruction of Ukrainian philosophical tradition of axiology of the nature. First of all, the research methodology as a synthesized self-reflection of historical humanities, in the search for new knowledge, should be based on human-centered approaches, principles and methods and it has to take into account evolutionary changes in the world society, the conceptual and historical-contextual influence on human conscious...

This article explores the contributions of one of the greatest Russian writers in the contemporary literature Andrei Bitov, who has written several novels and short stories that reflect the postmodernism literary works in Russia. The first post-modernist work in Russian was A. Bitov’s novel “Pushkin house” from A.S. Pushkin, the creator of the Russian literary language; the largest and most prominent figure in Russian literary life. A.G. Bitov was one of the first Russian writers in the Soviet Union who devoted to...

This study is focused on families of pre-school children with 1 type diabetes mellitus. The aim of the study was to explore if there is any difference between parents of diabetic children and parents of typical children in their life satisfaction and their satisfaction with the kindergarten. Also the relationship between parent's satisfaction with kindergarten and their satisfaction with life is analyzed here. The research sample of 166 respondents was divided into two groups of parents of children with the diabet...

Jachym Topol (born 1962) is a Czech poet, novelist and rock musician whose literary works have been translated to more than ten languages up to now. He comes from a well-known Czech literary family (e. g. Karel Schulz, Josef Topol), started his career as a Czech “angry young man” and a representative of Czech underground culture in the 1980s. After 1989 he began to write novels which are rooted in the underground way of expression but at the same time are discussed as samples of typically postmodern prose. Especia...

In the postmodern society with its rapid changes, actors strive to find the most efficient means of social adaptation that would enable them to achieve their personal goals in the shortest possible time. The complexity of social relationships forces social actors to use provocations as a more advanced means of influence. Oftentimes, provocators resort to provocations in order to have an emotional impact on their opponents and galvanize them into actions that are programmed to damage them for the sake of realizatio...

Nowadays the business microblog register is an object of linguistic research because its structural and semantic properties require further investigation in terms of linguostylistics, discourse analysis and business rhetoric studies. The relevance of the work is due to the fact that today the register of microblogging and its semantic structure have not been studied in the context of business communication. The authors aim to find out what functions are performed in business messages of the social network Twitter....

The paper deals with the issue of the design of a hospital chapel from early 20th century built as one of the buildings comprising the Institution for Nervously and Mentally Ill in Krakow-Kobierzyn. The whole complex was built as a pavilion style mental hospital starting from 1908 on the outskirts of Krakow. It was opened in 1917 and still operates. The hospital grounds cover ca.50 hectares and house a dozen of pavilions for patients and many background facilities such as administration buildings, pharmacy, kitche...

The architectural solution of hospital facilities in Slovakia in recent decades is insufficiently saturation of patient and staff expectations. In the field of neonatal health care, the key response to the growing number of pre-term newborns is the key. In the last decade the number of pre-term newborns in Slovakia has increased by up to 30%. In many cases, stressful stimuli from the intensive care unit (noise, light, pain, insensitive manipulation and separation from the mother) cause the damage to many important...

In contemporary societies employed parents are often faced with difficulties while trying to balance their work and family obligations. Previous research showed that this negatively influences the quality of family life and results in family stress. Additionally, it causes lower level of job satisfaction and work effectiveness. Recognizing these issues, some work organizations implemented family-friendly policies in order to support employees and to help enhance their family-work balance. For the same reason they ...

Background: In this paper we tried to emphasize the importance of the Critical Infrastructures in general, as well as a divided approach of the infrastructures. The main topics discussed in the following lines are debating the importance of critical infrastructures in the field of Transportation, Energy production, Water and sanitation, Nuclear Industry as well as some examples for stating the importance of Critical infrastructures, at a national and European level on the economical and social point of view. The p...

Christianity reached the territories inhabited by Baltic and Baltic Finnic peoples (the present-day Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia) considerably later than the rest of Europe. The centralization (and thereby also Christianization) process of Lithuania took a different turn, whereas the ethnic groups living in the territory of Latvia and Estonia were baptized in the result of crusades (during the years 1195/1196–1290). Subsequently, a set of feudal lands was established there, known as the medieval Livonia. In the 1...

Backgroud: The autoimmune process presents lesional similarities between chronic autoimmune thyroiditis and chronic periodontitis. The development of non-specific autoimmunity in periodontal disease is correlated with microbial aggression in the periodontal plaque. The increased incidence of periodontal lesions found in patients with chronic autoimmune thyroiditis suspects pathogenic intercorelation. Methods: The study included patients of both sexes with periodontal disease: group 1 - associating chronic autoimmu...

The current study focuses on the intersection of ethnic identity in the political discourse in ethnically binary post-conflictual (post-Soviet) territories, exploring it through the postcolonial approach to performativity, Judith Butler’s theory on performativity and its certain concepts in further performativity research. Jana Egle’s book “Strangers or Milenkij Ti Moj”1 (Svesie jeb milenkij ti moj, 2018) projects a specific interpretation of Russians, i.e. as a complex concept represented through speakers’ ethnic...

Marketing communications mix consists of eight major modes of communication – advertising, direct marketing, events and experiences, interactive marketing, personal selling, public relations and publicity, sales promotion, and word-of-mouth marketing – but a fully integrated communications mix also includes email marketing, partnerships / promotions, and social media. The most powerful touch-points are Internet, mobile phones, social media, and TV. Innovative media such as interactive video, mobile developments, s...

This paper presents a study looking at the music education at general secondary schools in Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland. The principal research problem the study aims to focus on, or draw attention to, is the necessity and benefits of the music education as a part of general education at upper secondary level. It presents a content analysis of selected curricular documents: the Framework Education Programme for General High Schools (Ramcovy vzdelavaci program pro gymnazia), the State Education Programme for...

The present paper is concerned with reviewing different types of tools and methodologies that are already implemented for statistical analysis of performance and efficiency within the economic field. For this purpose, our attention considers both parametric and non-parametric methods and tries to identify the most appropriate ones. This research is oriented on different levels, namely on identifying the difference between parametric and non-parametric methods, their purpose and applications. Regarding the test per...

The study has an analytical-interpretative character and brings a partial research probe of the artistic depiction of the Holocaust theme. It deals with the ways of dramatizing the most authentic and most often translated book on the topic of the Holocaust The Diary of Anne Frank. In the study we describe on the basis of theatrological and literary-scientific research actual forms of artistic interpretation of Anne Frank’s Diary in a contemporary Slovak theatre. We focus on interpretation of a classical drama thea...

Traditional wooden joints, which have developed for centuries, featured their own function and their own aesthetics. However, from today's point of view, they are too complicated to produce – not only in the terms of time but also the skill required to manufacture them, which is one of the main reasons for their disappearance. In order to clarify whether it makes sense to bring them to life and to define their desired form, questionnaire research has been carried out. It explored consumer preferences and the poten...

Many researchers and scholars nowadays view the online environment as the ideal context for fostering transformative learning. However, although the growth of online education has resulted in a plethora of investigations, for the moment, few empirical studies exist about promoting transformative learning in online environments. This paper focuses on the application of the transformative learning model in two distinct online learning environments in higher education. The first is a traditional blended learning envi...

High level of teacher training, as well as well-designed career development and long-life learning of teachers are considered to be very important standpoints for education from preschool to university settings. It is no doubt, that without professional competences of teachers, quality education of preschool children cannot be secured. European organizations explicitly argue for providing and securing high-quality early childhood education (e.g., European Commission, 2013; European Council, 2011). Several studies ...

The article analyzes the monthly growth of the MOEX Russia Index from 2005 to 2018. The average values of the index growth for each month over 13 years were found. The decline dynamics of the MOEX Russia Index on average during the study period in the spring months were revealed, in contrast to growth in other months of the year. Two identical investment portfolios were compared from 2005 to 2018, the first of which remained open during the entire period, the second was closed in the spring months of the year, i.e...

The information society has enormously evolved in recent years and the changes due to progress are in a continuous dynamic. Thus, the marketing communication process has also experimented considerable changes in terms of the development of IT & C technologies, artificial intelligence, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), neuro-tools and methods but also using promotion tools that have been adapted to digital, by bringing significant changes over the buyer brain and the process marketing communication. ...

As the shows belong to two different musical cultures (Italian and Romanian), it is difficult to draw a comparison. „Mariana Pineda“ by Doru Popovici was created in the second half of the 20th century, 1965-1966 and „Il prigioniero“ by Luigi Dallapiccola in the first half of the last century, 1947. After analyzing the scores and the specialty bibliography, some common traits are noticed, revealing a closeness of the two operas in terms of genre (both operas are in one act), thematic (theme of individual’s freedom ...

The woman in ancient Rome did not have a direct political role, but often from behind the curtain, her influence was overwhelming, whether it was family or public life. The significant involvement of Roman women in politics was eased by the crisis following the civil wars that led to a disintegration of the family and the moral principles hard-pressed by the new rules, exiles, and property confiscations as follow-ups of the triumvirate. All of these gathered, lead to an uncertainty of life, extremely favourable to...

Background: The Internet has become an integral part of the young people’s daily life where the network is used not only as an information resource, but also as a medium of communication, and entertainment. The possibilities of social virtual reality influence the perception of oneself, the attitude towards oneself as a person. The purpose of research is to study the characteristics of students’ self-relation in relation to the characteristics of network activity and attitudes towards using the Internet. Practical...

The history of the last four centuries convincingly testifies to the increased role of the scientific elite in solving fundamental problems and in determining the development strategy of all mankind. It is already impossible for us to imagine the modern world without the achievements of science, with which all spheres of our public and private being are saturated. As a result, the role of the scientific elite, which is an advanced class of the elite professional community, increases, and the fate of the developmen...

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...

The complexity of modern economic conditions in which service companies operate is determined by increasing uncertainty, rapidly changing market conditions and the external environment. In this connection, the need to ensure and develop the adaptive abilities of the company for a long period is more acutely recognized, which, in turn, determines the importance of implementing strategic changes. Service companies can implement a variety of strategic changes, develop them, and implement several strategic changes at ...

The aim of public authorities in managing public administration is to improve the quality of public administration subjects and public service activities to support socio-economic growth and increase the quality of citizens’ life. For this reason, public authorities must make efficient use of available funds. Effective management of public finances will ensure optimal functioning of all socially important public sector functions related to the peoples’ life and whole society, such as education, health care, social...

The rapidly changing economic situation in the European Union (EU), including Latvia, is reflected in the labour market. The acute problem of the Latvian labour market is an imbalance between its supply and demand: on one hand, relatively high unemployment rates, and on the other hand, job vacancies. One of the largest inactive social groups is people with disabilities. This real situation does not correlate with the tactics of promoting employment and social inclusion strategies in the EU and Latvia. The aims of ...

In Latvia, many of recent cultural activities have been established and developed as a response to decreasing of economic activities as well as shrinking processes of population and institutions in rural territories. The aim of the paper is to analyse the development strategies of five planning regions of Latvia in order to examine the role of cultural resources and activities in terms of regional development. The paper consists of the theoretical review of culture-led strategies as well as the content analysis of...

We live in a new era -the Anthropocene-. And in a new society with its corresponding mentality and consciousness. But, we keep representing and interpreting the landscape, mainly, through the codes inherited from the Romanticism. This research will address artistic proposals that unite videoart and landscape. After reviewing the wide actual art panorama, we have identified a new type of landscape in the Contemporary Art. A landscape that does represent our society through its typical formal and conceptual codes, a...

Since the birth of CIS countries in the early 1990s, Turkey has prioritizes a cordial relationship with these states to date. Questions on this type of foreign policy however are on the factors that influence these decisions. Apart from the fact that, Turkey shares some common values with these countries, the region is a home to colossal amount of energy concessions. This paper seeks to analyze Turkey`s foreign policy objectives on energy within the Eurasian region, using Turkmenistan as point of reference. Author...

The global need for specific actions intended at reducing the climatic changes, the regional disparities and increasing the quality of life have led to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, a set of 17 main focal points acknowledged by all the United Nations Organization (UN) members as totally necessary for contributing to ensuring a global sustainable development. Even so, not all the countries have developed their own National Sustainable Development Strategy, due to different factors such as a very...