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The paper presents an experimental research of two functional subsystems which emerge in the process of bilingual lexicon formation: the mixed (L1+L2) subsystem and the monolingual L2 subsystem. The functions of both subsystems and their structural- dynamic properties are discussed.

The aim of our research was to study the representations of real personalities, who belong to a certain society or social stratum etc. The everyday representations of Enemy and Friend are formed within the everyday communication, and because this type of representations include the following components: Representations about the relation system of Friend and Enemy towards the Other; Representations of Enemy’s and Friend’s appearance; Representations of the gender specific characteristics of Enemy and Friend. H...

This study aimed to investigate whether perception toward coach’s resilience and coaching efficacy of coaches, as well as perceived sport’s masculinity play a role in predicting student athlete’s resilience. This study used a quantitative, predictive correlational design. The participants, as many as 201 student athletes (age of 18-23 years old), were taken using purposive sampling technique. Multiple linear regression analysis of survey questionnaire data showed that the perception toward coach’s resilien...

Background This paper aims to assess the activity of salivary cotinine in a study group before and after the use of an aqueous solution obtained from Prunus spinosa, and also the evaluation of a possible correlation between its action and levels of salivary cotinine. Methods The study group was made of 50 volunteers: 25 volunteers that used for a week aqueous solution made from dried fruit pulp of the species Prunus spinosa and 25 volunteers who used a blank solution at the same time, evaluating the comparative re...

Human society is characterized by upbringing, education, organization? of work and life as a basic human activity from the very beginning and throughout its future development. We must be honest and reasonable that education, training and organization de facto benchmark for the existence of society as a whole, and each individual human individual, and we are free to conclude that their absence means dysfunctional society. They are aware of the actions of every individual - a person, but in the community as a whole...

Present study is aimed to perform a model of symbol creation in self-cognition. Symbol is here specified as a kind of a sign with variable connections between its meaning and the object this meaning is signified with. The author’s self-cognition method regards symbol as a multifunctional instrument for problems’ solution in psychological counselling. The study’s methodological basis is a synthetic qualitative analysis of counselling practices carried out in the author’s self-cognition method, the method’...

This study focuses on the Task-Technology Fit model (TTF) of Goodhue and Thomson that analyzes the match between user task needs and the available functionality of the IT in workplace. Our research wants to study if a good Task-Technology Fit improves the employee’s job satisfaction and IT use. Moreover our model suggests two new different antecedents of TTF: the perceived reliability of the IT and organizational collective efficacy. A sample of 505 Italian workers filled out a questionnaire. Partial least squar...

In the period of globalization, the question of effective communication between people of different nations is essential to ensure that all parties emerge with the same understanding. Without the right approach, cultural differences can greatly affect governments, businesses, organisations and individuals. Intercultural communication is no longer an option, but a necessity; therefore there is a need to integrate intercultural communication in the university programmes and to give students the opportunity to develo...

The research aims at finding certain tendencies to language simplification in modern British society focusing on the changes in the official functional style (register). Lexical and syntactic peculiarities of the official document texts produced by three British social departments (Government Equalities Office, which is part of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport; Department of Health; Department for Education) are analyzed in the work. In order to evaluate the complexity of grammar in the texts addressing...

The mediumistic art is a psychic phenomenon in which the subject appears to be possessed by an entity that guides the creation of an artwork. Until today it is preferred to classify this kind of creative performances as parapsychological or paranormal events calling them Channeling Phenomena. Through the study of some cases, we have analyzed the mediumistic art by a scientific point of view, classifying this psychic phenomenon as abnormal or anomalous manifestation of the human creativity, that in some neurophysio...

This paper describes the use of a factor analysis to verify the factor structure of the semantic differential for measuring university students’ attitudes in various sociocultural environments. Specifically, the study focuses on the attitudes of students from Palacky University, Olomouc and students from the University of Rzeszow towards concepts related to their pre-graduate teacher training. The semantic differential method is a relatively frequent method used to measure attitudes in the Czech Republic and abr...

This study proposes to analyze the socioeconomic background of the senior high school students from the two main educational tracks from Romania (theoretical and technical), their career related expectations as well as the factors with effect on the education and career related plans of these students. The sample analyzed is nationally representative and is composed of 3509 high school students in their final school year (12th grade), who were surveyed in the first wave of the research "Outcomes of Adolescence. A ...

Introduction: Health Education is a subject that became a part of the educational system in elementary schools in the Czech Republic after the introduction of the curricular reform, i.e. the introduction of the Framework educational programme for elementary education (FEP EE), which came into effect at the beginning of the school year of 2007/2008. The objective of the paper is to present the results of a research project called “Teaching Health Education in elementary schools in the Czech Republic”, specifica...

The aim of this paper was to describe the possible relationships between internet addictive behaviour, daily time of using the social networks and some variables about users (age, sense of real time, self-confidence in virtual environment and boredom susceptibility). The sample, comprising 306 slovak university students (102 males, 204 females), was divided into three age-groups (18-20 years, 21-23 years, 24 and more). The respondents were administered the questionnaire, consists of 20-item Internet Addiction Test...

The present paper is radiography of the rights of the students in Romania, like a UE country, concerning the University Chart, the Education National Law nr1/2011, the internal university Regulations and the principle of the autonomy in the University in front with the quality management responsibility. The responsibility of legislation, the analyses of the terms social responsibility and the right definition of the Deming model PDCA for the demands of the social responsibility standard SA800 are good priorities. ...

The paper presents the criteria for assessing primary scientific genres written by master’s students. The criteria and scoring developed in accordance with students’ needs, curricular goals, level of EFL students’ proficiency and genre variety are adapted to the scale of assessment used at Novosibirsk State Technical University, Russia. The notions of primary scientific genre and subgenre are defined. The model of primary scientific genres are proposed.

Lifelong learning has been advocated for the following three reasonreasons: 1. to acquir e new knowledge and technology 2. to mak e life rich 3 . to reconnect with the communitycommunity. Lifelong music learning is useful particularly in making life rich, and reconnecting with the community. I selected Yokohama, as an example of one city that is providing lifelong learning opportunities. I plan to research and report in detail the various aims, rules and activities that pertain to Yokohama. By doing this research,...

This work has revealed dates about cytotoxic potential of benzoic acid (E210), citric acid (E330) and sodium phosphate (E339) currently used as pharmaceutical or food additive. The testing was made in experimental conditions with nauplius larvae of Artemia sp., brine shrimp biotester method. The Artemia salina bioassay was chosen because it is versatile, viable, fast and low cost screening assay. Furthermore, there is a good correlation between the in vivo and the in vitro tests, and this method is a useful tool f...

The purpose of this study is to accentuate the problems of describing pain by neurological bilingual patients according to the McGill Pain Questionnaire, which is used all over the world to measure and evaluate pain in neurology, anesthetics and clinical linguistic studies, to prove the necessity to translate, create and validate other questionnaires which could help to reveal the origin of pain. Our article also contains additional descriptions of pain that are not connected with the MPQ or other questionnaires, ...

Modern society requires specialists ready to develop and implement innovative, unconventional ideas, but the problem is the complexity of e-learning developmental plan. There are several perspective solutions in terms of e learning. The authors self-reflective technology (self-examination development) was substantiated as a set of methods, tools and techniques that intensify the process of self-discovery and self-development in a media environment. Main features and structural composition of modular multimedia com...

The aim of this paper is to present the various aspects of the development of e-accessibility of public administration web portals for people with visual impairments in 2008 - 2013. During the six years we have tested a total of 822 web portals, including more than 150 portals that were evaluated at least 2 times. We found, that despite the overall improvement in the rating of accessibility of public administration, the development is in fact, stagnant. From the repeatedly evaluated portals, 41% had lower level of...

There have been some researches and scientific publications on professional burnout for different professions in Latvia, but for special education teachers are just studies based on another countries experience, who cannot give a precise overview on the Latvian special teacher professional burnout level. The aim of the Research is to identify professional burnout, find out the level of professional burnout, special educators, and to find out whether there are differences in the level of burnout for special teacher...

The research corpus consists of newspapers that were in circulation in the first decade of democratic changes in the republic of Croatia, from 1990 to 2000. In this corpus I have included the newspapers defined as such by the current Media Act of the Republic of Croatia. By this criterion, the following newspapers were published in Zadar at the time: Narodni list (a weekly), Zadarski list (a weekly/daily), Zadarski tjednik (a weekly), Fokus (a monthly) and Zadarski Regional (a weekly). The research covered a total...

The education of the social work and the recent history of the profession are approaching the 25th anniversary in Romania. The aim of the present paper is to offer a comprehensive review of the social worker profession in Romania. Although it describes the major milestones of the profession, it also points out the different problems the profession is confronting. The analysis incorporates three areas: educational, legal and societal. The paper concludes that despite of the experience accumulated, the education of ...

The work we present is part of a project made in collaboration with Institute of Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases „N. Paulescu”.The group also followed throughout the study a diet based on a reduced caloric diet and an independent physical activity program. Hypothesis: the start of a program of aerobic exercise, carefully selected, may improve the clinical status of overweight and obese students who suffer from type 2 diabetes. Results: The statistical processing of the experimental data showed signi...

In the structure of the world's population in 2020 is expected to be significantly increase by the proportion of the elderly it will increase the workload on outpatient institutions. Arterial hypertension and disorders of carbohydrate metabolism have the greatest prevalence among ambulatory patients than 60 years of age. In these conditions there is a need to find more effective ways of rendering medical aid, which is especially important for disabled patients. The use of remote monitoring opens new possibilities ...

During the last decade, it became apparent for Romanian organisations either for profit or nonprofit the potential represented by Internet, but the organisations‘ presence in the virtual world has to be done by following certain rules. The end-result being in attracting an ever increasing number of Internet surfers that are interested in the products and services promoted online. Lately, also representatives of Romanian nongovernmental organizations are becoming aware of the need to ensure their presence on the ...

The article address research focused on differences of the social support extent, which is considered a protective factor dependent on the scope of cyberbullying in adolescent groups. In particular, it concerns the social support provided by parents, friends, schoolmates, and teachers. The research has been realized in year 2014 on the sample consisting of 200 adolescent students of Slovak universities (68 man 132 women) by means of the Questionnaire of social support for children and adolescents (2002). The quest...

The development of modern education is a necessity for the development and modernization of the assessment system, and not just in terms of assessing student achievement, but also in relation to monitoring their development needs and specifying their progress. In this respect, descriptive assessment plays an important role because it allows evaluation of a large scale of student opportunities, abilities and accomplishments and gives recommendations for further progress of students. The question of descriptive asse...

The demographic crisis in Russia actualizes the search of very different ways of escaping it. One of such way could become the growing focus of the education system to the demographic problems of the society. The acquisition of competencies in the demographic sphere is necessary by all different subjects at all levels - from fundamental to additional education. Notably the public servants who are professionally involved in the regulation of demographic processes at the municipal and regional levels should be educa...

It is known that complex polysaccharides (polyuronides) are natural macromolecular compounds located in all the plant organs in special histological formations (cells and canals), as well as in the external seminal tegument. In contact with water, they form colloidal solutions or gels. Under the action of the intestinal flora they are split and form a protective film for mucous membranes as well as create a pH unfavorable for the development of the pathogenic microbial flora involved in the degradation of the inte...

Monitored incomes from the sale of advertising space in print media have continuously declined since 2009, and despite a slight increase in 2013, the volume of sold advertising in newspapers and magazines significantly lags behind the advertising in the electronic media, especially in television. And it is despite the fact that several studies conducted on the effectiveness and efficiency of the so-called print advertising confirm that advertising in newspapers and magazines positively influences buying behavior o...

Since 2010, ethical education has been included in the official Framework Education Programme for Elementary Education in the Czech Republic as a cross-curricular subject. Currently, there are no certified teachers of ethical education, though there is a high demand for them at Czech schools. The number of lecturers who specialize in ethical education should increase soon, as in 2012 the University of Hradec Kralove introduced ethical education as a subject of study within the Specialization in Pedagogy programme....

Conventional energy sources are, at the same time, the source of global warming, heat island, atmospheric distortion, green house effect, carbon emission, growing scarcity of water, the Climate Change and more damages to our mother earth. In this research, we will be discussing the following issues together with possible sample cases such as (1) negative results and reasons of these dangerous developments to our World and our Future; (2)the measures the governments should take, financing bodies should consider, in...

In this paper we discuss the relationship of motivation and faculty members’ willingness to innovate. Our main contention is that willingness to innovate determined by the type of employee motivation. Each type of motivation corresponds to a type of willingness to innovate.

The number of malignant diseases has been increasing worldwide. The situation in the Czech Republic is similar, seen from the epidemiologic perspective, as we rank among those countries with the highest incidence in Europe. Malignant disease is continually perceived as one of the most serious. It is difficult for patients to come to terms with the diagnosis of malignant disease and may trigger strong emotional reactions. If the patient suffers from a life-threatening disease, it poses a source of chronic stress. S...

Background: Knowing the real values of enamel mechanical properties, both at macro and microscopic scale, it is highly significant to select those compatible dental materials, in terms of behavior, as close as possible to the natural structures. The aim of the study was to assess human enamel microhardness both in normal enamel samples (control) and in demineralized enamel samples, using the Vickers microhardness test, and also to analyze the effect of indentation loads (100gf, 200gf, 300gf) applied for 10s on the...

Consumers' decisions to buy the goods depends on the consumer's perception of the individual factors and environmental factors in which one lives. [1] These factors can be classified also as media, which „... have an important role in shaping social consciousness.“ [2] Part of this conviction is also the fact that the media influence the behavior, attitudes and opinions of individuals. On the other hand, it may expand the horizons of knowledge, educate, and assist consumers in decision making or to influence t...

The year 2011 represents a major milestone in the history of the Romanian education mainly due to the appearance of the new law on education no. 1/2011. From the following educational year a new generation of pupils has started their studies in the school: the preparatory class or so called “zero grade” was introduced by the new law. The context represented a challenge for every actor in the field: from the minister’s stuff and local representative personnel to the teachers and parents. The present paper off...

This study aimed to investigate the way Psychology students (N = 161) are constructing and modifying a mental model regarding the Neuropsychology course. Following previous studies (Albrecht and O’Brien, 1993; Radvansky, Spieler & Zacks, 1993; Slama-Cazacu, 2002), we elaborated a questionnaire comprising a set of mental dimensions necessary for information processing (memory, emotion processing, motivation, temperament, character, context processing). For assessing their mental model, subjects were asked to answ...

The paper describes the mission of universities and colleges in general. Furthermore, their roles and relationships to the region and institutions in the region in which they operate, the importance of universities in the development of Europe and its European regions. Universities can have a great impact on regional development in terms of employment, expenditures and other economic factors, education, social and cultural function. The author point to the importance of relations between universities and business....

Region is a territory united by common features that differentiate the concrete area from other neighbouring territories. It is characterized by persistent and stable cultural models, which have formed and continue shaping in the course of history and which determine its pace and direction of development. The cultural space in its essence cannot be viewed only horizontally, it should be viewed also vertically as a depository of intangible values. The mundane or traditional that is concerned with the worldly matter...

The myth of emotional dependence in victims of gender-based violence women is explored in this paper in a sample of Psychology undergraduates. The dependent personality diagnostic criteria of DSM-IV are taken as reference, such as is formulated by the IPDE (International Personality Diagnostic Examination). Identifying these beliefs, patriarchal and socially constructed shared in future professionals of psychology, we will outline the need for specialized gender training for appropriate intervention for this probl...

Cognitive structure and its creation is a very important characteristic that contributes to the overall quality emotional and social life of man. This phenomenon can be divided into two parts - one of which is the need of individual cognitive structure and the second is the ability of this cognitive structure to create. Authors such as Piaget (1970), Bar-Tal (1962), Neuberg, Newson (1993), Ceresnik, Sarmany-Schuller (2004), Baranovska (2013) investigated how the need to develop cognitive structure translates into ...

In the 21st century Romanian school teachers are more and more faced with the fact that pedagogical tools having stood the test of time now seem to fail in the context of continuous change of laws and standards in the educational field. Writing the program for the optional discipline means a challenge for them each year; they need competences in many areas of knowledge to fulfill the regulations of the new Law of Education (nr. 1/2011). The article presents the situation of the optional disciplines in urban area a...

The article presents the manner in which people with disabilities of varying degree perceive the architectural barriers they encounter while using the services of the City Hall of Katowice. 23 variables connected with different types of architectural barriers were taken into account in the analysis; the perceived quality was graded on a 7-point scale. A further analysis was also carried out, exploring the relationship between the degree of a person’s disability and the perceived quality of the facility. Disabili...

Background. Subjective well-being and health measurement instruments have undergone a major evolution in the last 40 years. One of the more used health-related quality of life instruments for children and adolescent in European countries is the KIDSCREEN questionnaire in its three different versions: -52, -27 and -10 items. Despite of his (mainly linguistic) cross-cultural validation, not many research attempt to asses and go into cultural groups differences. The aim of this paper is to describe and analyze physic...

During the years 1921-1925 in Moscow, as a consequence of the deep political and social changes brought by the October revolution, an original experiment took place thanks to Vera Schmidt, a pedagogist trained in psychoanalysis who intended to search for new educational ways for small children, based on recent findings and knowledge of S. Freud’s psychoanalytical theory . The purpose of this contribution is to provide a brief report about the development of psychoanalysis in Russia and about the foundation of th...

Presented data indicate the prevalence of client violence against social workers in Slovakia. The issue of client violence in Slovakia and neighbouring countries is not adequately explored and its prevention is far from being solved. In this paper are presented preliminary results of the first survey of client aggression against social workers in Slovakia (first part of the national research – project VEGA no. 1/0332/12). Verified were the impact of selected factors and the incidence of client violence. Main for...

Dental caries development is considered to involve a triad of indispensable factors: bacteria (dental plaque), carbohydrates (the diet), and susceptible teeth (the host) Since earlier studies the mutants streptococci are considered major etiologic agents in dental caries in humans. Strpetococcus mutants is a Gram- positive oral commensally species that is commonly recognized to be one of the primary organisms associated with the development of dental caries (cavities). In the study are included 240 children of pre...