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The objective of the work is the application of contrastive approach in teaching English pronunciation for Slovak learners. As the global character of English language is strengthened every day, the only knowledge of English grammar and vocabulary is not sufficient as the importance of being able to lead an intelligible and practical communication plays a vital role as well. Therefore, at finding out some of the useful ways we can make an improvement in terms of teaching and learning pronunciation in English lesso...

Introduction: Physical activity, by the exercises it puts in hand, is coming to offer a way trough which someone can achieve a perfect body structure, removing the adipose tissue and shaping the musculature. One of my purposes in the undertake didactic experiment, was to draw up a methodological system to action and making it part of pshysical education didactic activities with University of Bucharest's students and making the systematic practice of physical exercise, a habit. I've also followed the awareness of s...

The present paper focuses on intervention methods aimed at children with behavioural disorders in the first stage of elementary school in the Czech Republic (EU). This was achieved by a qualitative approach, which uses the methods of observation and interview to analyse whether cooperation between the school, educational and psychological counselling centre and parents supports the inclusion of children in the first stage of elementary school with behavioural disorders. The objective of the paper was to identify a...

Financial literacy is one of the basic skills and competences allowing individuals to fully integrate into the financial system and feel comfortable in the modern society. The financial literacy of the population is important not only for financial specialists but also for the government, financial institutions, universities and nongovernmental organisations. According to an OECD report, Latvia was ranked above the average level with regard to financial literacy. How has this been achieved? The government focused ...

Under the conditions of Austro-Hungarian legal regulation, cooperatives had been based on associations which had developed from societies and therefore underwent specific legal regulation that differed from that regarding trading companies. In countries following the continental law based on the Roman law, cooperatives as legal entities have been regulated separately from trading companies. This division has been taken over by the Slovak commercial law as well. However, the Commercial Code as lex generalis of comm...

Brain damages and injuries with their frequency and high mortality constitute one of the most serious diseases both in the world and in the Czech Republic. The individual who has suffered a brain damage faces a number of socio-economic changes. The precondition for full social integration of such individual is timely care and cooperation of individual professionals on the given case. But such cooperation and interconnection among professionals is often missing in subsequent organizations, which may slow down the i...

Brain diseases or injuries are often accompanied by a serious neurological deficit and by a considerable socio-cultural problem. Coordinated approach under use of all rehabilitation elements is needed from the beginning of the disease. Coordinated rehabilitation includes a multidisciplinary team based on mutual cooperation of several experts from different branches. But the cooperation of such experts is often missed by patients after returning to their natural home environment. So the burden of the situation is o...

Stressful situations are inevitably connected with teachers profession. They may be caused by dissatisfaction from work results, problems with pupils, inter-personal contacts and professional burnout. Important reason for stress may also be critics – from pupils, pedagogical supervision, parents and other teachers. Such critics constitutes the factor significantly demolishing authority and being in the teachers role. Teachers cope with the stress in a different manner, taking an attitude of openness, aggression ...

In today's world the conservation, restoration and study of works of art, of course, is recognised as one of the priority tasks facing the world community. For Russia this problem is particularly acute as dozens of architectural ensembles, monuments, and churches were destroyed during the Second World War. Despite the tremendous work on reconstruction of different artefacts, many masterpieces of ancient Russian art have not yet been restored to an acceptable display condition. In recent decades, work on the recons...

For some kinds of users, the map is not only the possibility but also the necessity; among these belong people with visual impairments, for which, however, the conventional map is insufficient. The tactile cartography is a part of cartographic science that deals with the creation of maps, plans, globes and other geovisualization products specially made for the perception by touch. Tactile cartography has to significantly simplify the presented reality with regard to the possibility of recognizing symbols on the ma...

In the recent decade a noticeable increase of hotel industry interest in corporate social responsibility issues has been observed. As a result the growing number of hotel enterprises have been developing programmes and defining social and environmental goals, as well as preparing appropriate reports on their implementation, referred to as social responsibility reports (SRRs). The purpose of the article is to determine the degree of hotel industry interest in preparing SRRs and to analyse the content of nonfinancia...

1520 is the turning point year for Corpus Dionysiacum in its positive reception, especially in the West, Martin Luther expressing, as an echo of the reforming philologists, the total repulsion towards it, naming the text “pernitiosissimus” (extremely dangerous) and its controversial author “plus platonizans quam Christianizans” (“more a Platonist than a Christian”), because of promoting “unbiblical” ideas such as: “hierarchy” (Apostolic succession), “Theurgy” (Priesthood), and “sacred mys...

The innovation becomes vital for increasing the competitiveness of national economies. Innovation means investment in R & D by the private sector, large research institutions and extensive collaborations between universities and industry. The aim of this paper is to study the relationship between innovation and competitiveness in European Union countries. Ensuring future economic growth will require solutions that are more creative than any we have seen so far. The European economies faced a long period of low gro...

Corruption is a phenomenon with many facets, which is usually interpreted from the viewpoints of a number of alternative approaches. This paper analyzes the problem of corruption from the perspective of economic theory as a science of general principles concerning the operation of societyВ’s economic life. Does economics have something to say about the problem of corruption? It its methodological approach relevant for analyzing corruption? We think that it is. Even though theoretical economics has not made the pro...

In today's information environment, information usable for decision-making or economic development is the cornerstone of successful business. Companies build and develop managerial accounting systems as a source of information for efficient management of the company's processes. Enterprises operating in the processing industry are under strong pressure from price competition having significant impact on small companies. Moreover, the companies must continually adapt to a changing environment and come up with innov...

This paper recognizes four distinct approaches underlying the theoretical works during the late 19th and 20th century. In the first two, authors were searching for a model morphological solution – prototype - in response to new arising requirements of society and technology. The morphological solutions were either consistent or inconsistent with traditional morphology When real life applications of some of these models, especially the morphological experiments, proved to be, mildly put, a disappointment, the thi...

Since the introduction of the negative nominal policy interest rates by the European Central Bank (ECB) in June 2014, there have been concerns about their impact on bank sector and hence on the financial stability. The prolonged global economic recovery, political uncertainty, low interest rates, and the changing regulatory landscape shape the environment for banks globally and influence their creditworthiness in recent years, with implications for banksВ’ earnings, profitability, and asset quality. The key object...

Counseling is a separate scientific discipline that focuses on solving clientВ’s problems and at the same time, attempts to increase client's competencies to solve these problems. The main part of implementation is to provide the client with sufficient information about the situation and to conclude their own decision. This paper will bring a closer look of the system of advisory bodies in the Czech Republic, especially in school practice. Firstly there is the theoretical anchor and the legislative framework which...

The main aim of the paper is through an analysis of selected documents to desribe and compare the possibilities of counselling in relation to support specifically focused on the area of completion of compulsory education for pupils with special education needs (SEN) and transition to the next stage of their lives. The first part of paper introduces the current system of counselling services in the Czech Republic (CZ) and the United Kingdom (UK). The author – based on a methodological approach consisting in a sea...

The legal framework for courses, social integration programmes for foreign citizens consists of a series of normative acts representing primary legislation and respectively, secondary legislation. Romania has been having a legislation in the field of integration since 2004. Certain ministries and the local authorities are the main attributions in this area. The legislation is in the process of changing. We try to adapt to the existing situation, to the new needs, to the new requirements at European level. In this ...

In the context of growing competition in the world market and the corresponding search for new development tools, the creation of special economic zones of various kinds contributes to the formation of poles of economic growth not only in the export and import of products, but also in the creation of industrial complexes and innovative sectors of development. Currently, the creation and functioning of special economic zones is a tool to stimulate the competitive advantages of territories, international economic co...

The main aim of the paper is to examine the role of creative placemaking in shaping the urban environment in Polish cities. It also focuses on challenges and obstacles that creative placemaking projects encounter in Polish realities. Creative placemaking is a “micro-development” strategy (Johnson 2009) that focuses on cultural participation, community engagement and highlights the social role of arts and culture. Artistic interventions provide new perspectives that are not only aesthetic, but also connected wi...

The article is devoted to the study of the creative potential of the Russian word-formation system. The aim of the research is to determine the functional and pragmatic significance of the word-forming resources of the Russian language by studying word-building neonominations as expressive signs, which are vivid expressive means in advertising texts. The object of this study is word-building occasionalisms as a reflection of creative word-making activity in the communicative space of advertising. The material of t...

This research gives the insight of creative technologies, a promising trend in science and pedagogy. Summarizing the findings of the latest research, the authors suggest that higher education be regarded from the point of view of creative discourse, by combining well known pedagogical techniques with the cutting-edge developments conventionally named as Creative Solution Technologies. The article is intended for practical application and helping the reader learn the practical skills with spoken and written, "inter...

This paper aims to highlight the main approaches to creativity that directly influence the creative processes that occur both in plasticeducation events into creative processes itself; to expose some techniques to stimulate creativity encountered in plasticapproachof great artists, with observation of generaltechniques to develop creativity in which their attempts individual falls, andin the end -some conclusions about the quality of the environment that supports creativity and cognitive processes favoring both th...

Purpose: Creativity constitutes a source of formation of internal innovation in companies executing scientific and research projects. Creativity and innovation constitute an integration of various fields and perspectives of perceiving change. The effect of synergy of team work can bring more benefits than searching for innovation outwards. The key questions made in the paper are as follows: is there a dependency between creativity and the source of formation of innovation in enterprises? What are the sources of cr...

Creative competencies of teacher constitute the area explored by educators for many years. Conception of teacher as reflective practitioner is also the important direction for training and supporting the teachers in their profession. The essential role plays here the feature of reflectiveness understood as self-knowledge, meta-cognition and thinking over different contexts of reality for which the genesis is uncertainty, feeling of ambiguity and doubts. As for creative development the significant features seem to ...

The article is devoted to the analysis of the creativity of the modern Mongolian artist Zorigt Uyanga. The author pays special attention to the means of artistic expressiveness used by the artist in the series “Women of Mongolia”. The paper provides art-critical research of cultural and historical background which forms the basis of the series. It reveals a special interest of the artist to the role and semantic of costume (or its absence) and traditional female hairdo. Mentioned points and their modification ...

The philosophy of mind concerns much about how novelty occurs in the world. The very recent progress in this field inspired by quantum mechanics indicates that symmetry restoration occurs in the mind at the moment when new creative thought arises. Symmetry restoration denotes the moment when oneВ’s cognition leaves ordinary internalized mental schemes such as conceptual categories, heuristics, subjective theories, conventional thinking, or expectations. At this moment, fundamentally new, original thought may arise...

Environmental crime, in a large number of cases, is an expression of corporate crime: from this it is evident that action must be taken, not only against the individual responsible for the crime, but also the legal entity, increasingly playing a leading role, since an environmental crime is the result of a corporate policy that fails to safeguard the surrounding environment. In Italy, administrative liability (which actually amounts to criminal liability) of legal entities, companies and associations, including th...

The main objective of habitat is the rationale for and feasibility of differentiating the criminal process from the viewpoint of science and from the standpoint of an applied nature and studies its impact on the efficiency of the process. The article analyzes the theoretical principles of differentiation and investigates features of both complicated and simplified criminal procedure forms. At present the structure of the criminal procedure is complicated, which is determined by the diversityof forms of criminal pr...

The purpose of this work is to study the economic phenomenon "city - entrepreneur" and to justify the parameters of its identification in relation to the realities of the modern Russian economy. The main method of research is the analysis of statistical indicators. The authors propose quantitative parameters that allow identifying the city-entrepreneurs in the Russian economic space: the level of economic diversity and services; the availability of human capital: the level of urban environment and living condition...

In terms of natural resources and existing potential, balneo-tourism represents one of the main forms of tourism in Romania, that can be even further developed with proper regulations, investments and promotion. Therefore, it is important to raise awareness upon relevant aspects that can help to promote more efficiently this form of tourism. Along with the concepts related to the addressed topic, this paper presents the results of a qualitative research that aimed at identifying the appropriate action directions i...

The paper dwells upon the problems of formation and modeling of the bitcoin crypto-currency market. The huge interest of both the scientific community and the citizens of the world dictates the need to analyze the prospects for the development of the bitcoin and other crypto-currencies market. The article outlines the construction of a model covering the bitcoin market and the factors affecting it. As an endogenous variable "Bitcoin market capitalization" is introduced that estimates the aggregate demand for bitco...

Speech culture is as a complex unity of communicative qualities, normative, ethical and aesthetic tendencies existing in a particular culture. Phonetic culture is a complex unity of knowledge of communication tactics, rules of functioning sounding speech units in different communicative situations, as well as the ability to use acoustic, articulatory, rhythmic, melodic, accentuating, temporal means, modal and emotional specifics etc. to create the necessary communicative effect in the communicative process. Curren...

Empirical evidence of financial literacy in the adult population during almost 10 years shows stable financial illiteracy of Russian population. By financial literacy Russia consistently occupies one of the last places in the surveys made by different researches, and does not improve its score with time. Financial illiteracy negatively effects Russian financial marketВ’s stability and economic growth of the country. Numeracy and capacity to do calculations related to interest rates lies in the root financial capab...

Cultural consumption as sociological phenomena is point of the scientific interest from latest 40ies of last century. Today, there are many authors who are studying questions of cultural consumption understanding that the social and economic impact on it is very important for different aspect – from city life to building of the national identity. The article gives a short summary about current studies in the field of cultural consumption in Latvia after 1991 as well as introduces to the survey made at the Univer...

Globalization is a reality of the modern world. Having shown itself initially in the economic sphere, it then spilt over to policy and after that to culture. Today we can more and more often hear that we are witnessing the process of formation of a new global culture. At the same time different authors see this process and its consequences differently. Some believe that globalization of culture is a positive phenomenon and is connected, first of all, with cultural exchange, with synthesis leading to mutual enrichm...

Background: The objective of the submitted study was to find out and assess the specifics of transcultural features, rules and cultural patterns at dying and death in selected minorities in the Czech Republic in relation to nursing care, and to describe the experience of nurses with transcultural nursing and to evaluate the possibilities of using the Transcultural Assessment Model J. N. Giger and R. E. Davidhizar and the Conceptual Model of Cultural Competencies L. D. Purnell in transcultural aspects, rules and cu...

Today, mobile websites and mobile applications are top elements in the online marketing component list. If we build a website, it must be responsive, which means that it must be viewed on any device, including smartphone and tablets. Concerning small devices, a modern strategy is to build a mobile application that contains the website information. In most situations, using a mobile app offers a better experience than the mobile website browsing. Inside the mobile app, the user can access the content more easily. A...

In article is presented an analysis of the peculiarities of the consciousness and behavior of the student youth in the consumer sphere is presented. Based on a sociological investigation, the models of typical consumer practices of Sverdlovsk region students are outlined. Russia experienced a change of type of culture, value orientations in the XXI century. Formation of market relations contributes to formation of a market-oriented personality type. The concept is based on a relation to consumption as to a termina...

The material of expedition ethnographic field studies highlights the history and culture of one of the interesting and distinct ethnolocal groups of Evens living in the Kamchatka Territory. This group of Evens, which had come off the main massif of the Evens of Yakutia and resettled in the middle of the nineteenth century on the territory of modern Kamchatka, was influenced by a number of contact ethnoses, which left a mark on its cultural appearance and ethnographic features. Based on the population census of 192...

The management of human resources is one of the core activities of managers who are responsible for successful corporate governance. Managing employees is one of the basic tasks of managers. This managerial task is an integral part of the managerial activity. The main objective is to convince their employees to meet the objectives of the company. The Human Resources Department in bigger companies is headed by the HR manager. The HR managers of companies operating in domestic environment have to work mainly with do...

Problems of studying dependence of cognitive processes on language, the concept of language as a key to understanding thinking and knowledge, to solving problems of modern life are presented in the article. The explication of main approaches to the study language philosophy of the twentieth century, analysis of language problems, which received an insignificant degree of researchersВ’ reflexion, is discussed. The authors considered attempts to explain the complexity of modern life through the study of language, in...

The article describes general trends in East Asian migration and analyzes the special characteristics and main directions of migration in the region. As the economies of the East Asian countries grow, alongside the growth of political influence and active engagement in international processes, the issues of migration in the region gain certain relevance and attention. The research is heavily based on the analysis of official migration statistics and includes description of migration stock growth in East Asia, the ...

The article brings findings on using psychoactive substances by Slovakian children and youth. The aim of this research was to analyze the trends of abuse of psychoactive substances. Research sample consisted of 2 407 pupils aged 12 to 16 years from two big cities in Slovakia. Data were collected by questionnaire ISRD 3 which was developed within the project International Self-Reported Delinquency. Research findings show the preference for the quantity and blending of alcoholic beverages in one go. This is a way to...

Information and Communication Technologies are one of the basic educations of areas in the Framework Educational Programme for Basic Education to enable students to acquire a basic level of information literacy. The aim is to equip students with elementary skills in operating of computer equipment and modern information and communication technologies, but also to navigate in the world of information, creatively work with information and use them in further education and in practical life [1]. In the framework curr...

This paper explores the role and the place of the customary norms in the international space law – the branch of international public law. The main aim is to analyze current international customary norms from the historical and contemporary point of view and to define perspectives for appearance of new customary norms in international space law. The paper strives to identify whether the current customary norms exist and internationally recognized or not and whether international community is ready for new custom...

This paper deals with the use of data-driven marketing as the important part of digital marketing. Data are valuable and necessary input for sellers as they are able to make decisions in many fields of digital marketing. This study is focused on the customer satisfaction modelling whereas the main aim is to find out models that optimally describe total customer satisfaction and to determine the importance of individual factors and discover their impact on the total satisfaction. The process of modelling is demonst...

Family firms are said to be better positioned when it comes to developing and mantaining long-term mutually-beneficial relationships due to their unique identity which generates, internally, a commitment to quality, while externally triggers positive perceptions in the minds of their stakeholders. The literature suggests that the “family business” tag is associated with characteristics of trustworthiness, authenticity and credibility by consumers, helping these businesses being able to obtain a competitive adv...