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This paper deals with the topics of economic situation of families and the attitudes of respondents to the role of the state in social politics and social justice as the divergence factors influencing the choices of leisure-time activities in the lives of people. Our intention is to present the results of our own research which was carried out in the form of a questionnaire survey in 2016. One of its main objectives was to find out whether the economic situation of respondent's families and their attitudes to soci...

The main attention in the article is paid to a problem of public transport along suburban routes tariff transportations calculation. Research represents system approach, which is describing harmonization interests of the suburban passenger traffic market participants. The existent methods analysis of tariff formation for public transport services is conducted in this paper. Nowadays these methods do not reflect interests of all market participants and also do not take into account all influencing factors. The nece...

The study proposes to promote ecotourism and to highlight its importance for the economic development of the studied area. Caras Severin County attract a lot of tourists due to the high number of touristic objectives, but mainly due to Bigar waterfall which was nominated as the most beautiful waterfall in the world. Due to the high number of tourists, the natural landscapes are damaged, therefore the purpose of this study is to acknowledge the value of nature, so that the tourists and the managers of the touristic...

The aim of this study is to justify a classification of the Italian Renaissance paintings based on aspects of the educating function of linear perspective. The importance of the problem is in unrealized educating potential of linear perspective in the field of publication activity. Researchers mostly examine the mathematical aspect of linear perspective as the artistВ’s tool for modeling the three-dimensional world in two-dimensional pictorial art forms. However, reducing linear perspective to a technical device c...

This article is a reflection of civil defence education as one of basic element of education. The research focuses on the period 1938 – 1951; period between the time before World War II burst out and the time of political changes in the Czechoslovakia. The aim of the research is to explore the basic approaches to the implementation of education in relation to civil defence education in Czechoslovakia. The comparative historical analysis is utilized as the research method on the subject of civil defence education...

At different historical stages education played various roles in society. If initially it was understood as a way of transferring knowledge from one generation to another, then eventually its functions became more complicated. For a few centuries education was closely connected with economic factors, that is it was focused on economic needs of the states of Modern times. The 20th century with all evidence has shown a qualitatively new function of education – political. Certainly, the economic component continues...

The article is dedicated to the role of education and science in the contemporary world. Development and interaction of them are necessary for mankind to survive under conditions of increasing challenges and threats of our civilization, especially ecological. The author accentuates attention in the importance of education in ecological sphere in all Institutes of Higher Education, including non-specialized, and for all specialties. This must be preceded by training ecological consciousness, beginning from the pre-...

Educational aspect of human capital is the main value of the economy of the 21st century. The global competition between economically active people with professional competencies has not ever been as acute as it is now. The competitiveness is growing along with the technological development. The global educational objective is to create the economic growth model based on the cooperation of the state, business and society by developing human capital. A studentВ’s awareness of his role in the national economy via ed...

At the beginning of the third millennium, rural areas are still representing the home for more than 45% of the worldВ’s population. Despite the lacks of a clear definition for rural space, there are sufficient classifications and approaches which can give an almost clear image of the rural areas importance and dynamics. IPCC reports do not approach rural space as a distinct element of human society but many rural space components are approached from specific viewpoints and through specific disciplines. Relevant fi...

The problems associated with the transition of the Kazakh state from Cyrillic to Latin, especially in 2017-2018 are of concern to many people. The discussion was attended not only by specialists, linguists, but also political scientists and, of course, "natural linguists" – citizens of some post-soviet countries. Among the different opinions there are very provocative. Some people, including those who identify themselves with the educated elite, still retain an oriental, arrogantly condescending attitude toward ...

At present, the patients' safety is the key parameter of quality of health care provided. Falls of hospitalized patients constitute the most frequently reported accidents in health care facilities. A fall may occur for different reasons, e.g. due to weakness or balance disorder, sudden change of health condition, sight disorder, effects of medicines, slipping due to unsuitable shoes, disorientation in unknown environment. The prevention of falls constitutes the base of nursing care for a fall-endangered patient. E...

The area of attics and towers in historic churches in Europe are yet quite inaccessible places for visitors, shrouded in the atmosphere of mysticism, hiding many secrets. Introduction of the new public function into the non-used zones of the monumental sacral objects has many aspects including educational and cognitive ones which are discussed in the following article. The article indicates items that can be found in the zone above the vaults of temples - construction: roof truss, vaults, dormers, towers, windows;...

The article raises the problems associated with the abundance of information in the modern prefigurative society, and also formulates the main methodological tasks facing the teacher today, namely: (1) to carefully select educational material, i.e., what must necessarily enter the students’ “knowledge base”; (2) to structure this database in terms of the significance of its contents; and (3) to find cost-effective ways of supplying information. Having substantiated the conclusion that the modern generation is...

Teachers as a massive professional social group providing services in the public interest are the subject of educational policies at both European and national levels. These educational policies show a high level of diversity and identify optimal systemic intervention tools to support the professional development of teachers. Educational policies in Slovakia show specific approaches toward teachers arising from school-historical, political and vocational origins. Analysis of these aspects and their impact on the c...

One of the central directions of educational policy in Germany is its activity in the global market of educational services with the aim of attracting the best representatives of international students and promising young scientists to the country. In the article the authors analyze the strategy and tactics of Germany's educational policy in this direction, its components, tools and efficiency of its use. At the same time, the foreign students body of the German universities is analysed, and state programmes and p...

In everyday life we can often encounter the terms education and upbringing. These terms may seem to be simple as we use them practically in everyday communication. We bring up our own children, we influence the children of our acquaintances or we set an example for wide surroundings. However, can we really say that these terms are understood by everyone? Who performs such activity professionally? Are qualifications needed for the performance of work connected with education and upbringing? If they are what kind of...

The article deals with the problem of the second language acquisition from the point of view of a new and quickly evolving learning technology, named edutainment. This article provides an overview of edutainment technology and how it can be applied to the learner experience. The method applied is constructivism. Several parameters were taken into account: learnersВ’ age, visualization and entertainment. The main objective of the project is to organize learnersВ’ leisure time by providing them with a set of fascina...

Public administration reforms in European countries have led to several policies of decentralization within which competencies of local state governments were transferred to regional and municipal self-governments with the aim to improve efficiency of public services delivery. In this paper we present empirical comparative analysis of efficiency of municipal offices providing services in the field of building order in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The two countries provide the competence under two different pol...

This paper is a contribution to the field of language assessment, namely testing writing. It focuses on the design of test tasks and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of delivering the instructions and prompts in the target (L2) versus native (L1) languages. It analyses the impact of target and native language prompts on the test takerВ’s performance. The authors analyse the writing ability test results of a high-stakes proficiency examination using two sets of prompts, one given in L1, and one in L2. Bot...

Our main research goal was to define the effectiveness of intervention programme focused on second career directional choice of grammar school students. The intervention programme was based on the Theory of Cognitive Information Processing. An assumption of change in experimental group was to increase the self-knowledge and improve the competence that is necessary in process of second career directional choice. The following questionnaires were used: Career Decidedness Scale (Lounsbury, Gibson, 2011), The Career M...

The age-old dispute between supporters of egalitarian and elitist paradigms has lasted for many centuries, both within the framework of political philosophy and in the depths of socio-political doctrines. One of the stumbling blocks to this discourse is the problem of justice. Each side offers its own vision of this key segment of their system and tries to convince everyone of the historical validity of its ideological position. Such a confrontation led to serious socio-political conflicts, with uncountable casual...

Background: The improvement of e-learning is required for independent activity of students. One of the options of e-learning are educational web-quests on the basis of cloud computing. Information resources of the Internet are used in educational web quests. Methods: With e-learning in two groups of problems have to be solved: methodical and technical ones. Web-quest, using information resources of the Internet and integrating them into educational process, helps to effectively solve a number of practical problems...

The aim of the paper is to study the impact of e-commerce on the economic growth measured by GDP growth in Bulgaria. A brief summary of the importance of electronic commerce for the development of the economy is prepared. The research is based on the idea that e-commerce stimulates consumption and therefore economic growth. With the help of the statistical analysis of time-series, the change and the relationship between the indicators: capacity of the telecommunication network on the Internet retail sales, as well...

Education law governing the school system in Slovakia follows the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED). In both theoretical and practical teaching, students acquire the required competencies, knowledge and skills. Teaching is done in compliance with applicable legislation approved in education curricula. Schools should provide pupils with the basic professional knowledge applicable in practice. The tools to reach the educational objective are also the emotions and experiences students can use...

In our paper we will talk about the diversity of religious expressions through the writings of psalms in Franz LisztВ’s creation, that appears to us as a micro-cosmos of the romantic period, with an expressiveness that underlines the finest differences between possible human feelings in relation to Divinity. Glory, gentleness, hope, despair, all of these are typically valid human feelings, which DavidВ’s Psalms synthesize with grace, and Liszt has managed to faithfully voice. Franz Liszt chose to listen to the wor...

In todayВ’s world, where we can witness the ubiquitous implementation of information and communication technologies along with the inevitable digitalization of business processes, the role of intangible assets, of intellectual property and intellectual resources for achieving sustainable competiveness is growing in importance. The aim of the present article is to contribute to the identification of the elements of intellectual capital in trade under the established fields in the economic literature: human, organis...

In the Czech Republic is possible to see a new trend in emergency medicine – building new departments of urgent medicine (DUM). These workplaces we can call Emergency or urgent reception department. Creation of these departments is connected with high development of urgent medicine and new styles and possibilities of care about patients. Emergency departments are officially an education centers for all medical personnel (medics, paramedics and nurses) too. Unfortunately, we don’t have some recommendations and m...

The paper outlines the importance of teachers in relation to students and their emotions in the classroom. The variability of students ' emotions in the pedagogical process of foreign language learning with a focus on the interpenetration of the psychologism - effects of relationships between students and teachers is shown in this study. First, we argue that the special relationship that develops between teachers and students leads to the emotional experiences of students. Second, using interpersonal theory, we as...

Career decisions have always been some of the most important decisions to undertake, and, in chronological order, the first to intervene at the age of 18, when young people have to choose a faculty, a direction, in which their professional life will be in the years to come, or maybe even in all the years of activity. The study was attended by 112 high school students, all of them in the 12th grade, from high schools in the South-West Oltenia Region (Romania), who attended a summer school during their vacation in J...

The article deals with the interpersonal communication abilities and transformational leadership of senior school students. This article analyses only one domain of interpersonal competence – providing of emotional support. The aim of the research is to reveal the emotional support abilities of senior school students and explore how senior school students’ emotional support abilities relate to charismatic dimensions of transformational leadership. The results show that the transformational leadership of new gen...

This article deals with employee holiday. Holiday is a time of relax, by which the right of employees to longer leave of absence within the calendar year is realized. The right to annual holiday with pay is one of the basic social rights of employees; this right is guaranteed by international as well as Czech legal regulation together with the right to just conditions of work. The aim of this article is to define employee holiday and its fundamental principles according to the Czech legal regulation and point out ...

Nowadays organizations have external requirements to change and adapt more than ever before, and the individuals must be able to continuously develop their skills, personal resources and expertise to meet the organizational changes. This requirement raises the pressure and increases the stress level, as well as the difficulties in ensuring the balance between work and private life. To be able to adapt to the requirements of the employer, be competitive, not to let the stress adversely affect the performance and at...

Accompanying people with disabilities (PwD) throughout the end-of-life and dying is an important topic in many scientific and study fields. On the basis of a literary research it can be stated that this topic is being relatively neglected in published studies covering rather recurrent themes. PwD have specific needs, require specific access and means of communication, etc. The found published studies have focused on the end-of-life period predominantly in people with mental retardation and cognitive disabilities f...

Worldwide, one of the most developed industries, it is the hospitality industry that consumes a considerable amount of energy to provide quality and comfort services. The used energy in hotel units has as a major component electricity, while the share of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels is considerably lower. The amount of used electricity depends primarily on the size and nature of the hotel unit, but also on the type of customer and location. In this regard, the article addresses ecological and sustainable altern...

The aim of the article is to identify the potential impact of the latest commercial digital tools for building energy analysis on the everyday architectural practice in Poland in the context of typology and energy optimization of single-family houses. The reason for this survey is that the "architect friendly" interfaces, simulation resultsВ’ visualization and energy analysis tools are not given deserved attention in the architectural education in Poland thus some of the design opportunities for sustainability are...

The article deals with the practice of gift-giving and sharing in modern hunter-gatherer societies, namely among the Evenkis and some other people speaking Tungus languages. This study is based on the field researches conducted in 1988–1991, 1999–2002, 2005–2008 in different regions of Siberia. Being originally taiga hunters and reindeer herders, the Evenkis practiced a custom called nimat. Sharing of a large animals hunter has killed with his neighbours and strangers is at the core of this practice based on...

The article is devoted to the topical problem of energy security in East Asia under the context of the unfolding struggle of the major powers in this region for priority access to energy sources from Russia, the Middle East and fields in the East China and South China seas. The problems of bilateral and multilateral energy cooperation, ways of its institutionalization in the context of the prospects of the formation of a common region-wide energy space are depicted in this article. The authors note that the territ...

The areas which are heavily urbanized, including densely developed districts, limited open spaces and biologically active areas, provide a special environmental context, as well as increased pollution and emission of heat generated by human activity. The climatic factors undergo transformation (e.g. shading, changed directions of wind caused by buildings, the phenomenon of the urban heat island). There are various building needs in the scope of the development of their interior microclimate, for instance, problems...

The relevance of this study is due to the need to develop the scientific base of engineering activities, including the approach to understanding engineering as a tool for creating competitive advantages and increasing the competitiveness of organizations. Engineering covers the whole life cycle of the object: from the idea and its development, the creation of a prototype, the application into production, including the subsequent promotion, implementation, maintenance, up to utilization. At the moment the Russian e...

The article is devoted to language characters relevant to the area of SMS communication done via cell phones, primarily to the influence of English on German language and the use of English contractions and abbreviations. It gives a brief overview of phenomena that affect the current German language. The main focus is on the influence of English and English abbreviations, which are common for SMS and other forms of modern communication via mobile devices, and on the influence on the language of youths, the so call...

The expectations of teachers and their professional activities are currently changing, and new professional standards are being implemented, including EC Supporting Teacher Competence Development, UK TeachersВ’ Standards, Transforming American Education, and Russian Teacher Professional Standard. An analysis of these standards reveals wide variations in their functions and application, but all of them define teachersВ’ competences in terms that are both country-specific and universal. One of these universal metric...

Approaches to teaching English for Academic Purposes in a particular discourse vary from elaborating and creating academic grammar and syntax structures, reading, translating and analyzing academic and scientific papers, listening to conference presentations and university lectures as well as discussing academic and scientific subjects with peers and experts. However, none of the enlisted activities is possible without regular, systematic and laborious vocabulary building, self-discipline and new academic words ac...

This paper examines cognitive structures of the selected proverbs in three languages as well as outlines their semantic and pragmatic aspects. Taking into account their rich cultural context and the ability to reflect the way knowledge and experience are processed and conceptualized, proverbs and their modern modifications are of interest to cognitive linguistics. The comparison of metaphoric models in three languages reveals the coincidence of the cognitive mechanism though cultural scripts tend to vary, but not ...

One of basic banking activities is granting loans to both retail and corporate clients. This is obviously related to the potential risk of customersВ’ failure to settle liabilities by the agreed dates. For these reasons, banks often use very advanced techniques and tools to predict the creditworthiness of borrowers. In banks, there are special teams dedicated to this purpose dealing with broadly understood credit risk management. To assess the creditworthiness of retail clients, a wide range of analytical and stat...

ERP is the acronym of Enterprise Resource Planning, essentially an integrated management of the fundamental processes of a company, and comprises a multitude of factors, such as: hardware, software, personnel, functions, processes, etc. In the last decades, the term ERP has been identified with ERP integrated software systems that enable the integration of all processes and information from a company into a one software platform. The ERP software represents the pillar of any modern company, because its own set of ...

The article has a theoretical character and its aim is to classify and systematize the determinants of enterprise's fundamental strength, understood as enterprise's potential to create and protect its intrinsic value. In accomplishing this goal, a critical analysis of the literature was carried out both in the context of available solutions in the investigated area, as well as the possibility of assessing enterprise's fundamental strength based on generally available information, mainly periodic reports published ...

The author considers the theme of enterprises’ mergers in high-tech industries and studies the trends at the M&A market in Russia and in the world. The strengths and drawbacks of integration strategy compared with organization growth strategy have been analyzed in the article. One of the ways for rapid growth enterprises is mergers and acquisitions. This strategy allows enterprises to collect and development the portfolio of “economic-geographical assets” which is a key origin of competitive strength in a glo...

In an entrepreneurial university, not only the system, structure and strategy are of paramount importance, but also the entrepreneurial culture, which is a serious change in the culture that has existed so far at the university [1], [8]. In the non-economic fields of social activity, the expansion of economics and management takes place - not only in the area of higher education. Universities make use of economic logic, solutions developed in the field of management and translate the concepts of education drawn fr...

This paper focuses its attention on how, in a Southern Italian region like Puglia, the environment has been affected by infrastructural policies about the use of the water resource. The management and administration of the water resource and the rules about the use of public water and the pattern of socio-economic development were linked to the limited availability of this essential natural resource. The paper seeks to suggest that the use of water is dependent on peculiarities of social and cultural developme nt ...

Environmental Citizenship is a key factor in EU's growth strategy (Europe 2020) and its vision for Sustainable Development and Green and Circular economy. It is widely agreed that significant behavior change amongst both individuals and organizations is required in order to meet EuropeВ’s sustainability objectives and climate change targets. While Europe has undoubtedly made progress in preserving and enhancing its rural ecosystems and semi-natural systems in certain rural areas, continued overall loss of natural ...