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This article aims to demonstrate how career counsellors perceive discrepancies between requirements of the labour market and education of job seekers. We delivera closer perspective of view of a young and employed people on the labour market as well as the requirement that employers have on job seekers. Young graduates are disadvantages by the lack of work experience. Employees often prefer people with larger work experience although they may have lower qualifications as well as job seekers who speak some foreign ...

The carsharing of a current generation is a short-term car renting service with a capability to find in the nearest surrounding a fleet car parked anywhere in the public space where the previous user left it, as well as to book, open, rent and pay of, with the use of a dedicated mobile application. Nowadays, only a minority of municipalities is considering implementing the carsharing in their policies. The lack of awareness of decision-makers about carsharing results from the lack of a research regarding complex p...

Name days (also known as feast days) are celebrated in several European countries, but nowhere else has it acquired such a wide recognition as in Latvia. The origin of the feast goes back to the eighteenth century after the first Catholic Calendars were published in Latvia, nevertheless, nowadays there is no longer explicit connection to Christianity. Although in the Church (Catholic, Lutheran, Orthodox) calendars, the name days are arranged on the basis of the saintsВ’ heavenly birthday or the date of death, it i...

As its content itself stipulates, as a rule, the provisions of the Romanian Statute of Civil Servants approved by Law no. 188/1999, republished, do not apply to contractual staff employed in public authorities and institutionsВ’ own bodies and who carry out secretarial, administrative, protocol, management, maintenance-repair, supply and security activities and to other staff categories who do not have public authority prerogatives. Therefore, with regard to contractual staff, the legal relationship developed betw...

Cervical cancer is a major worldwide health problem that can be prevented by using a simple exam, a cervical-vaginal cytology or Pap smear. Romania has the highest incidence of and mortality from cervical cancer in Europe. Romanian people have a strong fear towards cancers and, paradoxically, toward screening measures for cancer. Objectives: To determine the efficiency of Romanian Health Programmes regarding cervical cancer. Materials and Methods: The last six decennial periods were analysed from the point of view...

Nowadays we face with the challenge of managerialism that constructs what is called common sense in social management, i.e. which could be interpreted as "obvious" criteria of evaluation concerning purposes and methods of management actions’ implementation. The ideological essence of managerialism demonstrates itself through the activity of groups of interests that is presented as interest of all “progressive” members of society. These groups of interests include state officials, “academic bureaucracy”, m...

There are many of challenges for good governance and democracy in 21st century - fake news, post-truth argumentation style, rise of populism through social media, rise of populism in reality, etc. The backbone of problem is not fragmentation of views and opposition to government in power - on contrary - this always will be the source of fruitful decision making in democracies; the problem is ability to deliver information from government to people and vice versa to ensure objective discussion. So called Digital Ag...

This article presents current issues in the development of international relations on the basis of the Eurasian Economic Union countries expand the use of national currencies and the coordinated support of economic actors State institutions of the countries partners. The joint work of international teams contributes to the implementation of economic programs of mutual interest, and strengthens the trend towards the formation of a multipolar world. To expand the use of national currencies in international relations...

The research aims to explain the relationship between governance and welfare, analysing 20 countries, some of the richest and most developed countries in Europe, and some developing countries. The period analysed is 2002–2016. While the World Database of Happiness is the source for welfare data, for governance we used the Worldwide Governance Indicators from the World Bank. The latter ones are widely used as some of the best comparable international governance indicators, having perception-based measures from th...

Games on chance make important part of the free movement of services within the European Union (hereinafter: EU) internal Market. Due to the development of technology, the online gambling is a fast developing activity in Europe. Since this activity can be provided by the Internet the market of the gambling industry practically doesn’t have physical limits. Different kinds of gambling services often operate across borders and can also operate outside the control of individual EU countries’ national authorities. ...

By the beginning of the XX century in the Russian Empire home beer production was not subject to any taxes and was widely developed among peasants. To large holidays, especially local, village, to weddings peasants always boiled beer in large quantities, but again same only for themselves, not on sale. In the late nineteenth century significantly increased the role of indirect taxes, and above all drink taxes. By the beginning of XX century. Russia had the following indirect taxes: taxes on sugar, matches, oil, to...

The current knowledge of the management of the capital structures of companies does not enable clear determination of optimum ratios of debt to equity. The factors considered by managers in their decisions concerning ways to finance their companies only partly match the theoretical findings on those matters. Empirical studies mention the following factors affecting the financial leverage: legal and institutional constraints, size of the company, profitability of the company, and growth prospects of the company. Th...

The paper is devoted to the study of the French punctuation system development and processes taking place in it currently. The views of researchers, regarding the criteria for punctuation marks and their classification, have been considered. Punctuation (broadly understood) is integrated into a system that includes not only traditional text punctuation marks, but also typographic graphic signs. There is a possibility for expanding the punctuation system of modern French. Contemporary French-speaking authors widely...

Information and communication technologies (ICT) play an important role in the development of modern Russian society. Their fast development together with the convergence of computer systems with different types of communications resulted in the need to reevaluate the perception of these technologies in the spiritual sphere of a human being. This paper analyses the implementation of information and communication technologies into the spiritual sphere of the Russian society. Based on the analysis of statistical and...

Charles I was the king of England, Scotland and Ireland, whose conflicts with the parliament provoked a civil war (1642–1651) and led to the execution of the king in 1649. Following his father, James I, who was fond of the architecture, theatre and music, Charles became the patron of the arts. James commissioned Inigo Jones, the first English classical architect, to construct the Banqueting House at Whitehall Palace. The House caused a sensation becoming the first truly classical building in London. It became th...

The article presented here has its origins in the framework of R+D project Multiculturalism and Social Exclusion in Images for Children: Illustration and Pedagogy (HAR2014-53168-P. Spanish Ministry of the Economy and Competitiveness). The fundamental aim of this project is to analyze the potential of children’s picture books as a complementary tool for teaching infant and primary level schoolchildren about values with regard to gender equality, multiculturalism, disability and, in general, “difference”. Set o...

In European countries, including Poland, parents and psychologists are starting to pay more and more attention to overload of children with school duties and additional classes and tutoring before starting attractive studies or even working to earn extra money. According to UNICEF, around 150 million children all over the world aged 5 to 14 years are forced to work, with the highest number in African and Asian countries and in Central and Eastern Europe, which represents ca. 5% of global population. This has a neg...

The article deals with the actual problem of the evolution of Chinese foreign policy in East Asia in recent decades. Historically, the region is a sphere of special interests of China. After the end of the Cold War era, the balance of power in the Asia-Pacific region shifted in favor of the US-Japan bloc, but in modern conditions of economic weakening of Japan and losing of the military and political superiority on a global scale of the United States, and in the situation of strengthening Russia as an important pl...

The article summarizes of materials sociological monitoring of student of Sverdlovsk region (1995-2016) – in terms of the motivation of choice University. Monitoring materials published [1], disclosed in the publication methodology and research technique, unsubstantiated picks and sample size. The sample included monitoring student survey III course on four main areas of learning (socio-economic, humanitarian, scientific and technical). A number of issues (in particular, of the reasons for the choice of the Univ...

From the earliest times, the man tried to find ways to reduce the stress level and to find ways to relax physical, mental and spiritual. The sauna is one of most renowned method for its healing properties. There are many types of saunas, the most known are the finnish traditional sauna and the infrared sauna; the last one, because of the technology used, is the most up to date. A new concept appeared few years ago in the infrared saunas domain, and that is the usage of a chromotherapy during the sesion. The infrar...

Fairy tales have their roots in archaic society and archaic thought, thus immediately succeeding myths. Myths have close connection to their bearers and folktales are В‘displacedВ’ in time and space. The timelessness of the tale and lack of geographic specificity endow it with utopian connotations. The spatiotemporal indefiniteness, or such a definiteness, which is not characteristic to reality is the most essential feature of the tale genre. The particular construction of fictional space and time, the chronotope,...

Transylvania became an important and well-liked destination for English travelers in the nineteenth century. Their travel accounts provide intriguing insights into the cultural, social, as well as political climate of the period. John PagetВ’s journey was meticulously recorded in his extensive book entitled Hungary and Transylvania (1839) that served as a travel guide for other British visitors after him. Archibald Andrew Paton, writer and diplomat, synthesized his travel memoirs in the volume entitled: The Goth a...

Is it possible to learn more from the fact that cities are subject to scaling laws, than just about their complexity? It is often pointed out that along with the increase in size, some important characteristics of cities do not grow linearly but exponentially - in some cases - as in the case of infrastructure development - with an exponent smaller than one; and in some, as in the case of residents' income - with an exponent greater than one. This means that larger cities use the acquired resources more effectively...

Under condition of dominance of the Russian etatist political model, crisis of democratic institutions, problems of civil and political rightsВ’ exercise by certain social groups, and with a relatively low level of political and civic engagement, the wide dissemination of civic and social initiatives could engage citizens in the tackling problems at the local, regional and federal levels. By the means of activity approach, case study and taking into account citizens' motivation the author defined civic and social ...

This article focuses on development and design of class of the counterparty reliability recognition system which constitutes verification process of potential or currently existing counterparty of any scale and form of ownership. The Relevance of the development depends on organizationsВ’ necessity for understanding of due diligence indicators in contract award. The target audience of the program is small and medium enterprises of Russian Federation and individual entrepreneurs who can gain additional competitive ...

The purpose of the publication is to classify the European Union countries with an application of the modified HDI indicator for year 2005 and 2015 The index, which will be created, is treated as a modified Human Development Index due to the fact that it will be completed with the added information. The modified synthetic index will be calculated for the following determinants: economics, science and technology, health, education and living conditions. The source data will be obtained from Eurostat databases. The ...

Clip thinking caused by todayВ’s overflow of information is characterized, on the one hand, by fragmentary perception of reality; inability to establish a connection between presented parts of the same phenomenon; poor analytic competency; attention deficiency; and, on the other hand, by high ability to switch over while performing multiple tasks and speedy intuitive thinking. Such mentality makes most students unable to respond to traditional teaching in general and traditional grammar teaching in particular. How...

Global trends indicate the approach of the sixth technological structure, which will significantly affect socio-economic situation in a whole world, what may remake global economy structure. The article is dedicated to research the kind of structure changes, which will take place in new technological structure and the methods of reflections on it. The article is dedicated to research interregional interaction as a one of the basic factors of economic efficiency in the sixth technological structure. There is the ov...

Clustering techniques are frequently applied in business and economy, for example in customer classification, enterprise grouping and in other economic data analysis. This paper presents a new clustering method, based on Delaunay triangulation and iterative aggregation of points distributed in the feature space. In the first part of the article we propose a clustering algorithm that utilises this concept. The algorithm iteratively connects specially selected pairs of nodes in the triangulation mesh and leads to sy...

The article is devoted to the problem of economic security and stability in the Black Sea region. Using the theoretical concept of economic security authors identify the main risks for both national and cross-border economic systems in the conditions of modern geo-economic and geopolitical turbulence. Cross-border economic clusters and trans-national systems with the long-term partnership strategies are viewed to be the cores of economic stability and the resource to maintain regional development. The study provid...

Clusters through their structure (the "four-leaf clover" model: members of the Business and Research-Development-Innovation areas, Authorities and Catalysts) play an important role in the innovation eco-system as accelerators for innovation and competitive value chains development of value in the smart specialization priorities. The services provided to the cluster members, especially aimed at creating synergies between science and research through the collaboration between the business environment and the RDI bas...

Transhumanism is the movement for a radical change in human nature: physiology, emotions and feelings, intellect, etc.; it exists for several decades. Transhumanism as a project of human transformation is impossible without the use of high technologies. These include cloning, genetic engineering, cognitive technology, nanotechnology, information technology. It is important that Transhumanism uses scientific developments, but is not limited to them. The ideologists of Transhumanism try, firstly, to explain the reas...

In our paper we have examined in what way Czech elementary schools implement dialogic communication in teaching. The basis for our research was the finding that teaching is no longer dominated by frontal methods, but that dialogic form of teaching is increasingly growing in significance. Therefore, we have not observed the teaching dialogue from a quantitative viewpoint but we have focused on its quality. In particular we have been trying to discover whether the cognitive potential of dialogue is utilized, which e...

A new insight into comprehensive research of rules and cognitive mechanisms of sense interaction within the edges of ongoing cross-cultural mediated communication has been provided by cognitive approach in modern linguistics and translation theory. Specific features and peculiarities within conceptual structuring of lexical units meaning in mediated discourse are of particular interest for investigation in the light of translation norm of adequacy and equivalence, along with speech act efficiency criteria. Our aim...

Cognitive linguistics dealing with cognitive reflection on language considers the categorization and conceptualization as crucial for understanding the words and phrases in the figurative sense. People often use words not at the level of their meanings, but at the level of concepts and conceptual symptoms. The anthropocentric nature of expressing the time or other physical variables is obvious from the expression of the smallest unit of time: “okamih” – word which originated from two words: “mihnutie okomв...

The nature of shopping centers, their impact on the city, space and residents is the target of critics of sociologists, ethnographers (anthropologists), as well as urban planners and architects, in which they were classified as non-places – deprived of history, spaces of alienation, loneliness, lack of social relations. Wroc?aw is a city where the ratio of space in shopping centers per capita is one of the highest (if not the highest) in Europe. Constructed in various periods – the last one last year (2017), t...

The article actualizes the information societyВ’s formation as a new postindustrial form of society's socio-economic organization based on the mass use of information and telecommunication technologies (ICT). ICT development index (IDI) provided by the International Telecommunications Union annually shows the progress of ICT being accessible to more and more people around the globe. IDI average value for all countries gained 0.18 points in 2016-2017. The growing pace of social development is accompanied by a chang...

Colorimetry and exposure measurement rank among the key technological attributes for the qualitative acceptance of a media work in the context of using modern technologies. Abrupt changes and a rapid development in audiovisual recording represent a qualitative shift in the formal understanding of a media work. Our research focuses on the practical determination of exposure and of the colorimetric setting of modern digital cameras for low-budget films, exploiting the maximum digital recording potential of various r...

The relevance of the study is determined by several reasons. Firstly, the languages of the indigenous peoples of Siberia belong to the category of languages that do not have an ancient written tradition, and the texts of these peoples present a valuable linguistic material that allows to obtain important data, as well as to draw significant conclusions about the specifics of the genesis of linguistic and cultural processes of the relevant ethnic groups. Secondly, in recent years there has been a certain increase i...

It would be appropriate to use various forms of activity for students in order to effectively educate at the lessons of foreign languages at higher education institutions. They include the combination of collective, group, frontal and individual forms of work. Collective or team work stimulates studentsВ’ cognitive activity, promotes development of their creative abilities, makes discipline, forms application to work, partnership and other moral qualities. It is better to couple the collective form of work with th...

The article offers the brief review of the long term English-Russian relations identifying the first target audience of the Russian language learning, the purpose of it, the methods of learning being used and the tools of the Russian language promotion. The attention is focused on the role of commercial and economic relations of Russia and England / Great Britain in promotion of the Russian language on the territory of Great Britain which are regarded as one of leading motivational drivers for the Russian language...

A common legal framework for immigration and asylum policies in the EU has been formulated as well as common procedure for implementing them by Member States. However, Member States do not always adhere to the EU approach adopting and disposing of common procedure for implementing immigration and asylum policies. Member States seek their national interest first leading to possible incompatibilities of national legislations and administrative practices with EU immigration and asylum regulations even though they are...

Small towns have a crucial role in the formation of the communal political process in the Czech Republic. Small towns are a place where the sphere of independent politics, associations of independent political associations and mixed with high politics and parties represented at the national level. The aim of the article is to answer the question of the role of the inhabitants of small towns in relation to the political representation of the municipality. The authors aim to point out the specifics of the municipal ...

In the Czech Republic, the report / diagnostic conclusion of doctors on a severe illness or disability of their child is reported annually to several thousands of parents of minors. This issue, i.e. communicating the so-called Bad Breaking News, has been given more attention in recent years. The paper brings partial results from an extensive research to evaluate the process of communicating unfavourable health reports from the point of view of respondents – parents of a child's patient. The survey was conducted ...

The paper presents the results of research focused on music education at elementary schools that specialize in regional culturally oriented education and folk culture in Slovakia after 2008. The Elementary Art School of Folk Dance and Music in RuВћomberok is introduced here in greater detail.

The article deals with one of the most important factors of pedagogueВ’s professional motivation, communication and collaboration, in the context of the education process. The major idea of the introduced empirical research is to generalise characteristics of communication and collaboration in music schools of Lithuania, while analysing the aspects of relationships between teacher and pupil, educator and school manager in detail. The conducted empirical research results reveal that the relation between teacher and...

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

Until September 2017, only children who had a diagnosis were entitled to help and support in education in the Czech Republic. Whether the amendment to the Education Act is criticized by experts, it has mainly brought comprehension to Czech education. Not only in its theoretical level, it should offer and, of course, provide support and training aid to all who need it. One of the groups that did not apply to the original section 16 on special educational care was also a group of children living in substitute family...

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

Modern international economic relations are characterized by instability and conflict character. Current events in British political, business and economic life make the nation identify itself in new global environment. The image of the country as a strong player on the international arena is powerful tool which aims to unite its citizens and form the consciousness of prosperity and economic development. This fact makes the verbal characteristics of identity formation in discourse a topical issue to study. The aim...