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The aim of the study was to identify the professional public`s opinion of general public`s health literacy and approach to their own health. A quantitative method using a non-standardized questionnaire was chosen to meet this aim. This questionnaire was based on the standardized questionnaire called The HLS-EU-47 of the HLSEU Consortium for the European Health Literacy Survey (HLS-EU), which is designed for the identification of health literacy. The questionnaire contained 38 questions arranged in individual areas...

Circular megalithic structures can be found all over the world. Despite the great interest they arouse in scientists, the function and reasons for construction of many of them are still unknown. In this article we present general analysis of circular megalithic structures that date back to 4th – 2nd thousand BC as calendars and calculating devices which allowed the ancient to define and fix cyclic time patterns to spatial constructions. It lies at the base of our hypothesis of the principles of how these cultic ...

During the decades following 1989, characterized by multiple economic and social convulsions, Romania faced a profound transformation of its demographic structures, with a natural population deficit and a negative migratory balance rate. Although our health care system has been in a perpetual state of reform since then, few attempts materialized in long-term policies, patient or prevention-oriented. The steady degradation of the physical and mental health of the population has been caused by perpetual social insec...

The article is dedicated to the issues on implementation of cooperation between the governmental bodies of the Russian Federation (RF) regions, self-governing bodies and potential developers (investors) based on the geoinformation technologies in order to support and provide the investment construction projects in the engineer prepared territories with information and in order to improve the investment feasibility features of the RF regions. The authors viewed the results on implementation of the investment projec...

Recruitment is one of the main areas that embraced social environments as a universal employment tool, and 92% of recruiters have confirmed its use as part of their employment process. Typical options, such as search engines, are quite limited in providing a fair deal, and therefore the aim of the paper is to show an innovative solution tailored to the Romanian HR sector advancing several Digital Intelligence Interaction (DII) tools developed using both cloud service frameworks and Natural Language Processing (NLP...

The article is devoted to the topical problem of the Russian Federation foreign policy in the Far East transformation in recent decades. Traditionally, the region is a sphere of Russia's special interests. The collapse of the Soviet Union marked a shift in the balance of power in it towards the US-Japanese alliance and the new powers have emerged claiming a leading place, it is primarily China. In the 21st century, Russia is gradually returning to regional affairs as an active actor, focusing its efforts not on pr...

Sustainable both rural and urban roads need appropriate engineering design. Behavior of pavement unbound layers and subsoil can be predicted within either standardized laboratory tests or tests in situ. The first option brings inexactness caused by sampling and test presumptions. The second one takes lot of time and money and in case of reconstruction blockades traffic which is often unacceptable mainly in urban areas. Full-scale laboratory testing can bring useful combination of both of approaches, i.e. tests are...

In the second half of 1918 the Middle East strategy of Germany was entirely connected to GeorgiaВ’s foreign policy after signing the agreement at Poti on May 28, 1918. It was already clear that unleashed aspirations (plan of Turan and strong desire of taking over the south Caucasus) of Ottoman Empire were to finish. Undoubtedly, Germany was against the invasion of the south Caucasus by Turkey. ThatВ’s why Germany demanded from Turkey to stop the further military expansion in Transcaucasia. They recommended Turkish...

Between 1697 and 1708, Prince Giovanni Gastone deВ’ Medici (or Gian Gastone) and Anna Maria Francesca of Saxe-Lauenburg, his consort, resided in Bohemia in the hopes of conceiving a child and perpetuating the Medici dynasty. Despite the ultimate failure to produce an heir and Gian GastoneВ’s return to Tuscany alone, his Bohemian stay was nevertheless of great cultural, political, and diplomatic importance. The study will analyze the impact of the stereotypes on the theme of Gian Gastone in Bohemia. In both the his...

In the article the specificity of gifit? as a hybrid genre of New Media Art is investigated. The scientific novelty of the work consists in revealing the main genre characteristics of gifit? as the newest hybrid artifact in the contemporary audiovisual culture, as well as outlining the development prospects of this phenomenon within the New Media Art. The methodology of the research is based on using the genre concepts which sharpen the attention to the processes of hybridization in the contemporary genre generati...

The article is devoted to the urgent problem of economic cooperation between China and Japan in the era of the "World Financial Crisis". The global economic crisis of 2008, which became a powerful blow for the capitalist world since the Great Depression and inflicted a heavy blow on the economies of the United States and Western Europe, did not have such a strong impact on East Asia, China and even Japan, despite their greater involvement in the world financial and economic system. It confirmed the fact that the c...

The purpose of this report is to trace the dynamics of room prices in the main hotel types in Bulgaria, which occur as a result of the changing market situation (conjuncture) during the period 2010-2016. The 4 star coastal and mountain recreational hotels are investigated by categories, seasons and weekly periods. The method of average values and price indices is used as well as the method of non-standardized interview with hotel managers. The results of the survey lead to the conclusion that hoteliers in Bulgaria...

The breakdown of world trade flows that occurred in 2008-2009 due to the financial and economic crisis was followed by a swift recovery. However, since 2012 global trade growth has been sluggish and the growth rates lower than average growth of global GDP. Various reasons have been named to explain that phenomenon. One of which is the supposed protectionist policies spreading all over the world. The main goal of the paper is to analyze global trade flows since 2012 and pinpoint the main tendencies and factors affe...

Formation of goods range represents one of the main directions of enterprise commercial work which carries out selection of certain goods and offers this range in the market. Principle of production formation is reflection of demand features in assortment for target audience. In this case specific target audience is consumers who have similar criteria in individual characteristics and preferences. Full assortment analysis includes the use of several known and universal methods. Company can develop recommendations ...

The idea of implementation of Electronic Health Record systems on national scale “e-Health” has started in all three Baltic States at the same time, in 2003. But the progress of the system development is very different – Estonia had started mandatory use of e-Health in 2009, Latvia on 2018, but the Lithuania is still on its way. The research involved analyze of e-Health development and implementation process in Latvia and comparison with Estonia, with the aim to discover the differences and identify hinderin...

The article presents the results of the study, aiming at analyzing experience of state policy implementation in the field of monotowns support in Kazakhstan, identification of specific and common problems and their solutions. The study identified stages of state policy development to support monotowns, there was analyzed monotowns selection criteria evolution, factors responsible for these changes were justified. Considerable attention is paid to characteristics of monotowns system in Kazakhstan from the point of ...

We observe the abandonment of the dynamics in the development of the administrative services, both in the central authorities of the executive power and in the bodies conducting the local self-government. It is noticeable that a small part of the central administration has made it possible for applications for the provided administrative services to be submitted via its territorial units and, moreover, no one administrative services to the central administrations can be declared through the municipal administratio...

In the article the author's model of fixing of young specialists at the regional labor market is presented. The main approach to a research presupposes accounting of different factors influencing the number of graduates, and the demand for them at the regional labor market. The dependence of market development of educational services on economical and demographic conditions of the region is revealed. The role of state regulation of education market and stimulation of need for a young personnel from business is pro...

The article “Great Patriotic War: mortality and morbidity rates among the Yakut population (Siberia, Russia)” is written to study issues of human losses in the home front – Yakut Republic – in 1941-1945 in comparison with other regions of the country. During the development of the issue the author was guided by principles of the complex approach to the issue studied as the most important condition for the search for the historical truth, overview of events and processes closely related to the certain histo...

It is presumed that a judgement that has come to legal force cannot be appealed and that such a judgment should be regarded as a final ruling in the case, however, under certain legal circumstances, called as newly disclosed circumstances, it is possible to restore criminal proceedings. When restoring criminal proceedings due to new circumstances, the right of individuals is guaranteed to the protection of a fair trial and a fair final ruling. The aim of the article is to investigate what circumstances can serve a...

Research and studies of literature focused on prevention of cardiovascular diseases and didactic approach in education have led our project team to develop a program for group preventive activities. The program is aimed at familiarizing the clients with influence able factors causing cardiovascular diseases and at leading the clients towards healthy life style at theoretical and practical level. To meet one of the aim of the research project there was physiotherapist, nutritionist and psycholog also involved in th...

In this paper we present the results of an ongoing educational project which was started in the year 2016 in Samara State University of Economics, Russia. The purpose of this study was to monitor and assess the changes in the studentsВ’ Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) level attained through two different approaches: blended Learning approach and Traditional Classroom method. In Russia English for Specific Purposes (ESP) clearly dominates in tertiary educational institutions. Thus, the research was based on ESP course. ...

This paper is a brief synopsis of a work regarding the security policy in Italy between 2008 and 2013. Trough the analysis of the main national press of different political orientation, the paper aims to investigate the shift in priority of Italian parties in front of new threats and the effects this shift had on Italian policy. With the results of 2008 election, right-wing People of Freedom (PdL) and left-wing Democratic party (PD) centered their agenda on physical security. The zero-tolerance policy of Berluscon...

The aim of this article is to clarify doubts arising on the grounds of the application of the legal provisions normalizing the forms of legal acts where the necessary component is as follows: a handwritten signature on the document constituting a statement of will of the person submitting this document. The problems regarding the signature usually refer to the following issues: what should the signature express, is it sufficient to only indicate the surname, should the signature be legible, what shape of letters i...

The tax harmonization process in the EU is part of global trends, namely tax adaptation, cooperation, coordination and harmonization versus competition. Unlike other areas, for example business, there is no institution representing all countries in the field of tax coordination. So the tax harmonization process is demanding and depends on the decision of the countries. The aim of this paper is to analyse the process of harmonizing value added tax (VAT) in the European Union (EU), one of the prerequisites for the s...

Designing public spaces has become one of the most relevant issues in contemporary cities thanks to their integrating and inclusionary character. Public spaces are playing a far more important role in promoting a healthy lifestyle and encouraging us to do different activities. Therefore, contemporary public spaces should enhance creativity, stimulate physical activity and influence mental health. The methodology used in the research includes literature survey, study visits and comparative analysis of some selected...

The economics has been regarded as an applied field in the economy, essentially an application of the neoclassical economy of well-being and in close connection with medical sciences and medical technology. In the scientific-didactic journal no. 1 (103) / 2018 of the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova, we have argued that the incentives to reduce the cost per case is the motivation of payment per case as a prevailing element. Case-based funding is induced by the conviction that hospitals have many opportunitie...

Background: Health literacy, which is a part of the fundamental equipment for life and the path to the health of the individual and of the society, has been coming to the foreground of many scientific disciplines in recent years. The crucial issue of the presented area consists in the fact that low health literacy is a serious risk factor for health, which deepens undesirable health inequalities and results in high costs for health care. The goal of this article consists in presenting partial results of a study ma...

The aim of the presented text is to analyse the level of health literacy in health promotion, namely in healthy lifestyles, in a selected population of seniors. The text first defines health literacy as a key concept, and explains the importance and models of health literacy, including the possibilities of measuring it. The paper presents the results of an empirical survey of a selected population of seniors, namely students of the University of the Third Age at PalackГЅ University in Olomouc, where a higher degre...

Background: Health and health promotion in the old age are one of the hot topic both in association with the ageing population and in the context of providing complex health care of the elderly, not only in the Czech Republic. Health promotion in the old age, as one of the dimensions of health literacy, relates (1) to getting and understanding the health-related information, (2) to the ability to take care of one`s own health, and (3) to reducing the inequality in the approach to health in the elderly population. ...

The article is devoted to the complex consideration of the problem of health protection as one of the most important directions of the social policy of the modern state. Noting the social orientation of the majority of democratic states, the authors point to the inextricable link between the notions of social assistance and health protection. This conclusion they draw on the basis of analysis of international and domestic legal acts. In the study of the question of the place and role of health in the structure of ...

The article considers the results of the biological age assessment of 354 students of Magnitogorsk State Technical University named after G. I. Nosov. The study reveals that the age increasing shows the deterioration of health, as for 1.66 times decline of the number of people with good health and 1.93 times increase of the number of students with satisfactory health standard. In all age groups the most students have a biological age below the supposed one, but a third of the students have a biological age higher ...

Introduction: Besides the conditions under which an individual is born, grows up and grows old, health literacy is an important factor participating in the quality of health. Health promotion and prevention of diseases include, through all the individual`s life, a wide range of activities contributing to the health improvement of population in individual countries. The traditional areas contributing to the improvement of health quality include the public health protection and promotion and health education. The he...

The purpose of the paper is to analyze the impact of the health systems financing in the EU Member States, identifying the structural and institutional changes necessary to eliminate the negative trends and to increase the efficiency of the healthcare sector. The good health is considered by the European Parliament as the key to economic growth and sustainable development in the EU. The methodology of the study includes a theoretical and methodological analysis, a descriptive approach, a method of analysis and syn...

This paper focuses on the role of interior design on constituting the relation between the housing interiors and healthy urban living/healthy life styles within densely populated metropolises. Today, over 50 percent of humanity are living in big and crowded cities. The relationship between humans, place and time have been redefining with the use of technology in every part of the daily lives. Most of the people live in small and isolated apartments within metropolises and become more distant from their natural qua...

Road safety is still a highly debated issue in all developed countries with automotive traffic. All groups of participants are endangered, while drivers and motorists in motor vehicles are more or less protected by the vehicle itself, cyclists and motorcyclists are partly protected by, for example, a helmet, but pedestrians are not protected at all. The pedestrian is therefore the most vulnerable road user. The article deals with the influence of the longitudinal solution of the communication on the perspective of...

Culture, as it embodies the way humans have adapted themselves to the environment, -in other words, their particular way of adaptation and their main mean of livelihood in environmental, economic and social terms-, has been largely considered as a source of sustainability. In this sense, the concept of heritage stands out as a cultural asset that makes particularly explicit the historic relationship between men and territory, as well as the result of the diverse human and cultural activities within the environment...

The dialogue between Cultural Heritage and design practices is a recent theme in academic studies, the connection with fashion design practices seems to be still in exploration. In this regard, the paper is based on the desire to create wearable objects that are representative of Made in Italy values, which encourage the activation, the interaction and the emergence of new relationships between individuals and cultural heritage, exploiting the potential of digital technologies. The designed wearable products were ...

The authors of the article set themselves a goal to think over the influence of hermeneutic tradition and conceptual idea of discourse in the works of European thinkers of XIX-XX centuries on appearance of communicative issues in philosophy. Philosophical idea till ?? century stated the problem of understanding as a necessary factor of cognitive human activity, as an existence factor. On the base of the theory of communicative activity and communicative rationality the authors make the attempt to ground a wider ap...

The article presents the results of a study of using precedent units as a frequency type of evaluative statements in modern Russian media discourse. An analysis is made of the functional features of precedent units as evaluating tools applied to modern Russian media texts. In this work, the following research methods were used: descriptive analysis, continuous sampling, contextual analysis and structural-component analysis. The descriptive-analytical method, including observation, comparison, generalization and in...

Many cities, towns and villages around the world have adopted new Lighting Emitting Diode (LED) technology in order to save energy, operational and maintenance costs. While energy-efficient, these light sources have a critical effect on the appearance of historic sites at night – and the technology has unique properties and numerous inherent drawbacks that present challenges to decision makers as well as inexperienced lighting professionals. This paper uses practice-based research, critical analysis of literatur...

The paper focuses upon an analysis and review of those phenomena, which were inevitable for democratisation processes of the Slovak part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and which helped to overcome Slovakia’s political, cultural, social and industrial backwardness up to that point when it got a potential to be transformed into an independent state and a sovereign political actor with its own political status, authenticity, cultural uniqueness, and pragmatism of relations with the Central European neighbours and ...

Article is devoted to Byzantine style features identification in Greece in comparison with the similar in temple-building of other orthodox countries. Stages of Greek Byzantine formation @ the Ellyn-Byzantine style@, actually byzantine style of the period of historicism, the archaeological option of style dominating during the interwar period, influence of art-deco, functionalism and modernism and also three directions in architecture of the post war decade Byzantine style – radical, compromise and traditional a...

Historical facts are not objects. В‘Historical-realВ’ is constitutively representational and constitutively temporal because it is a process. The question of what is a given truth in history then becomes the dilemma of creating a representative reconstruction of the process of (past) events that is close to the В‘realВ’ events as they are given in that specific time. Those В‘realВ’ events have been conceived, represented, lived, created, and narrated. The interweaving of the theory of history and the [cognitive] t...

Small industrial towns of the Ural region (about 200 in number) are mainly one-company towns, their history dating back about 300 years. Most of them are now experiencing economic decline because raw materials have already been exhausted, and agglomeration processes intensify the outflow of population. However, they constitute a unique settlement system, well thought-out and adjusted to the climatic conditions, and retain lifestyle, system of values and mentality aimed at the active interaction between man and nat...

This work is devoted to the historical mythology as a new field in social & human sciences. The author examines the causes of appearance and vitality of myths both in traditional, modern and post-modern societies throw the point of situatedness. Medieval pagan studies provide a good example of mythology development. Every period in historiography has its В‘own paganismВ’ due to socio-cultural peculiarities of contemporaries. In practice all of investigators try to create their reconstructions of pre-Christian beli...

Our article analyzes the stylistic characteristics of Stabat Mater in the history of music, for the last four hundred years. The Stabat Mater is a XIII th-century Catholic hymn to Virgin Mary, which portrays her suffering as Jesus Christ's mother during His crucifixion. Stabat Mater Dolorosa is considered one of the seven greatest Latin hymns of all time. The hymn is sung at the liturgy on the memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows. The Stabat Mater has been set to music by many Western composers, most famously by Palest...

The article for the first time analyzes the problems of historiography and iconography of "Russian Seasons" by S.P. Diaghilev (1872-1929) on the examples of both national and foreign art and visual sources available in the art collections throughout the world. Contemporary understanding of the role of material sources, which are important, sometimes the only source for studying DiaghilevВ’s ballets, despite the increased interest in them, is still a phenomenon, whose importance is not always properly evaluated by ...

The article focuses on the compositional activity of Oskar Gottlieb Blarr. This contemporary German artist creates diverse music based on a variety of themes, forms and styles, and carrying a humanistic and religious message. His works arise from the past, document historical memory and pay tribute to traditions. As a musical testimony of the past, they commemorate events, facts and figures, but they also express a reflective longing for lost homeland. History and traditions present in BlarrВ’s music are discussed...

Honor for parents and the institution of the family, which are the basis of rightly functioning world according to holy scriptures of world religions, are in postmodern world going through heavy and long-term crisis. Children and youth are raised in the social environment full of fear, distrust, egocentrism, consumerism and lax values, which are promoted by masmedia and popular personalities. Parents are no more generally considered to be decisive and certain authority for their descendants. Due to the increasing ...