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Senior citizens and active ageing are one of the most important issue in a modern contemporary society. Slovak republic takes a stand through documents and strategies adopted by means of its executive power in cooperation with experts in this area. The main aim of this paper is to call attention to the active ageing of senior citizens in Slovakia and to its enshrinement in the applicable strategic documents. The methodological framework will include theoretical determination of the issue by using analysis and synt...

The purpose of the article is to consider the directions of notion transformation of safety in conditions of the modern world. The concept of turbulent society is offered, where, by means of the term turbulence, two most characteristic features of this society – unpredictability and fluidity are emphasized. The conceptualization of turbulent society is based on theoretical resources of non-classical ontology. The reality of turbulent society is postulated through the concepts of a network and an assemblage. The ...

The paper deals with the effect of mentality on literary creation. Dialectic of interrelation between human, national and personal was treated using conventional and modern theories of philosophy (on aesthetics, epistemology, axiology), psychology of creativity, cognitive poetics and cognitive linguistics. The objective of the paper is to determine when and how mentality influences writers' artistic understanding of the reality. Research methods were based on a comparative and historical approach with elements of ...

Modern virtual space reaches the stage of saturation of perceived information. Various types of information coexist and are waiting for their intended recipient. A special place within the virtual space occupied by the various phenomena of multimedia features which are examined by experts from various fields of knowledge. Philosophical analysis media phenomena within the virtual space allows you to diagnose and analyze important trends of modern, post informational society. Modern media phenomena (computer games, ...

A significant increase in interest to the cultural heritage of the province and its regional features can be noted in today's socio-cultural space. It†s worth to notice that socio-cultural development of some regions of our country also has a considerable influence on the issue. At the moment, different ethnic groups, social groups and individuals are showing increased interest in self-identification, which is only possible when referring to their cultural heritage. The scientific novelty of this study includes ...

Apophatic theology appears in every religion. The reasons for this approach to theology, however, are different. The present text focuses on the three monotheistic religions: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. The first part is devoted to analysis of selected religions and how they develop negative theology. In Christianity we deal with Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Master Eckhart. In Islam, we focus on the arguments submitted by Al Ghazali and Ibn Rushd. In Judaism, we focus on the idea of Maimonides and its...

The current state of society sets new trends into the development of all its spheres. This is reflected in its economic, social, political and cultural sides of the society. New trends in the development of culture emerged in the 20th century. Nowadays the visual information is getting more and more popular, and the new information and computer technologies are helping to spread it. Computer games as a part of virtual world are required a high level of visualization, which affects on human being. In our paper we i...

Among the phenomenons of postmodernism is the highlighting of experience, even exciting approach to all areas of human life. Today's people are flooded by constant repetition of the words "experience", "enjoyment", "to enjoy something" and stressing their necessity for a happy and fulfilling life. Emotionally powerful experience has begun to be considered the key criterion of live faith among many Christian communities and their members, squeezing by a new interpretation of "empirical verifiability" the truths of ...

The aim of this article is to show and critically analyse the explanation - different from traditional approaches - of the nature of mathematics with reference to the social-cultural factors. Speaking of traditional approaches, the author means the traditional approaches of philosophy of mathematics that came into being at the beginning of the 20th century, namely: logicism, intuitionism and formalism. The common feature of traditional approaches is to consider mathematics as a domain of objective knowledge, indep...

Looking beyond the concept of national canons and their selective forgetting of mixed and hybrid pasts, the aim of the paper is to look at the Eastern Adriatic in an anthropological perspective as a historical space which has been shaped by the complexity of migratory processes and interactions between the components of the “eternal triangle” (heredity, environment and culture). We will present the comprehensive results of the holistic anthropological research conducted for several decades in the area, based o...

The efforts to improve the people's living conditions are effective only if they have, as a solid foundation, the citizen's right to private property. This property, even if it can be obtained through inheritance or donation, however, usually is obtained through his work by each person within family, professional associations or labour groups. The purpose whereon the man proposes, as a result of its activities, is the private property, the fruit of his labour. The worker, investing its forces and capabilities in t...

Discourse analysis as a theoretical and methodological perspective can be very useful for the study of stereotypes which can be defined as cognitive representation of social groups. Individuals define and redefine stereotypes using speech forms in is the process of categorizing and self-categorisation. The article focused on examining representations of Polish migrants in the media discourse in four the most opinion-forming dailies. The collected analytical data consisted of 391 articles. It was noted that (1) dis...

The paper presents the theoretical and applied research carried out in the Department of Architecture, Roma Tre University, for the upgrading of a historical working class neighborhood in Rome: Testaccio. The main objective is to face the discomfort, consequent to the heat island effect and heavy traffic, acting both on private and public spaces with environmentally sustainable strategies. The two main topics are: At urban level, the use of an Italian prescriptive tool: the "Environmental Island" for improving sus...

The topic of healthy cities is strategic, as outlined in the Zagreb Declaration for Healthy Cities (2009) that expresses “the clear and strong commitment of political leaders of cities in Europe to strengthen and champion action on health, health equity, sustainable development and social justice”. “A healthy city is one that is continually creating and improving those physical and social environments and expanding those community resources which enable people to mutually support each other in performing all...

This paper is focused on innovative and effective method of reducing carbon footprint in the building sector. It concerns the possibility to introduce the novel iron-based carbon negative binding material into the contemporary architectural realisations as an environmentally safe substitute for Portland cement. The paper describes the characteristics and practical application of innovative product obtained from carbonation of waste steel powder and other concrete ingredients such as fly ash, limestone powder and m...

City, to where the citizen belongs to as being the citizen, thus having an identity with the city, to live in the city, with or without the rights of the citizenship.. Well, on which point will the citizen be right- while living inside the city/ while trying to live on the city-? If being happy/ living happy is the will of each and every of us, who is going to create this happiness to us? we? or the others? who else? the country? the government? or the authorities? or the capitalism that we live for? or the it's n...

This article continues the series of publications focused on the application of mental models of built environment in Urban Design and Spatial Planning. The issue of scale, both as a scale of event and as a scale of physical dimensions of space - gives us a ground to propose three rows of spatial models of public space: micro-, mezzo-, and macro-spaces. The concept of spatial models or patterns was tested in a series of field studies. Micro-space is seen as an object of urban design and landscape architecture. Mic...

The article deals with the coexistence of the material environment and its expression in the process of forming urban environment as well as in various philosophical, theoretical and practical interactions related to creativity. In a constantly changing environment factors, which influence creativity and approaches used to identify it, are considered controversial in both the scientific literature and practice and are also undergoing changes. Different authors interpret factors which influence creativity in a diff...

The objective of this research is a development of new technology of creation of a glass mosaic, which will allow us to produce products of arts and crafts without application of a cement assembly due to its replacement with heat treatment (tack fusing). This paper presents the technology of tack fusing, which imitates the technology of creation of the Byzantine mosaic. Main results of the experiments revealing nature of glass behavior during heat treatment are presented. On their basis the author submits some app...

This study focuses on objects as companions on the experiences of everyday life, connecting the emotional worlds to the mental space of individuals, through their functions and symbolisms, characterizing them as true predicates of culture. Examining their biographies means highlighting them before ignored cultural facets. Artifacts are not inert or passive objects, but interactive agents in sociocultural life and cognition. The signification of the artifact resides in both the object as a self-enclosed material fa...

As design action constitutes specific meanings for each discipline, it can be accepted as a very complicated process, requiring particular emphasises for various fields. Although this process may involve diversified steps for special areas, some factors such as providing a solution for a functional need and/or forming a satisfactory interaction with the user, generally remain the same. However, a design is not made up of solely form and function. It is possible to state that a design would probably have a richer c...

Housing has become to be discussed in finance, economy and banking sector rather than architecture and construction industry in today's professional world. The reason of the displacement of house being one of the major research areas in the field of architecture is the transformation of the meaning of notion in time. House, a sheltering, cultural belonging and architectural design object as its basic definition, has gained value in time as a prestige, consumption and investment object commodified with its land in ...

This research is based on the basic concept of "Five Elements" and the theory of mutual promotion and restraint between “five elements”. The major well-known enterprises have shift much more attention to the huge potential Chinese market. The "five elements" as the Chinese People's traditional material concept has a huge impact on people's aesthetic inclination and life style. Especially for high-income people, mutual promotion and restraint of "Five Elements" concept should influence their choice of daily nec...

A major goal in contemporary urban planning and design is to provide a built environment that is conducive to walk. A city where people choose to walk as a means of transport and enjoy such activity, is closely related to physical and psychological health, social contact and urban sustainability. Nevertheless the above mentioned conduciveness is often focused on the most functional requirements of the urban layout at the sacrifice of other more subtle requirements such as the quality of the walking experience and ...

The article presents a discussion of the crossroad between art and architecture. It sketches out the theoretical and practical aspects of space revitalisation and improving its quality in the context of multisensory dimension of public spaces. The unique manifestation of art and creativity in public space could be detected and stimulated using participatory architecture, for instance interactive installations, projects related to the convergence of arts, projects and sound installations, as well as spatial sound. ...

Social media became part of the fabric of everyday life around the world. People have embraced social media in both simple ways-connecting with networks and sharing images or exploring cities. Services such as Foursquare provide us rich databases that hold digital geo-marks of our communications. This paper discusses on geo-social networking, the meanings of the Foursquare check-ins by tracing the spatial behavior of users. Spatial search engine as Foursquare can give past check-in history and past mobility. Mappi...

The character of space development and traditional nature management was one of the components of the traditional culture generality of all nations of the North Caucasus, therefore regional architectural features of the Christian churches of the North Caucasus as a whole were manifested most clearly in the location of the temple in the structure of the settlement and in its relationship with the landscape and a natural environment. During all studied period (from VI to XIV centuries) mutual influence of basic foun...

This article describes the possible causes of low strength magnesia binder, mixing an aqueous solution of magnesium sulfate. The results of X-ray diffraction are shown.

The purpose of this article is to present spatial and functional transformations undergoing in the structure of Wieliczka town and its surroundings. Wieliczka is an important medieval town with rich historical heritage. The Salt Mine, which is on the list of the World Unesco Heritage, is its main tourist attraction. Wieliczka is situated in Krakow metropolitan area and despite having its own administration is heavily under Krakow's influence. Transformations of its functional and spatial structure concern two sphe...

Informed user can briefly be defined as the fictive person who is to assess an industrial design's distinctive/individual character when it is a subject matter in law cases, where the protection conditions of a registered industrial design are to bear novelty and to have distinctive/individual character. Further, it is a point of view which is supposed to be adopted while assessing the designs in such cases. It is possible to state that “informed user”, either as a notion or as a means of assessment, can be ac...

The sense, role and some types of crises in social and economic systems is shown in this paper. The comparative analysis of concept and a role of crisis in economic systems from the point of view of the standard economic theory (classical and Keynesian approaches, dynamic models, etc.) and concept of crises in social and economic systems from the point of view of the theory of self-organization are carried out. The difference of concepts of sustainability of system in the specified theories is also shown. Showing ...

Even though the term 'Parametric' originates from mathematics and refers to the use of certain parameters or variables that can be edited to manipulate or alter the end result of an equation or system, by a quick search through internet it is known that the parametric architectural design is a process based on algorithmic thinking that enables the expression of parameters and rules together to define and to encode and finally to clarify the relationship between architectural design intent and architectural design ...

The present paperwork presents the development and the results of a micro-level scientific research regarding the interdependencies of strategic management and knowledge management. Throughout the paper content we briefly introduce the conceptual framework which is represented by the connections between knowledge management and strategic management both in theory and practice. The research focuses to discover the managers' perspective and practices with respect to the strategic management and application of knowle...

The present paper describes the concept of cross-functional managers compared with the one of traditional, classical managers. Using the reference literature on cross-functionality and our findings from the managerial practice, this paper investigates the status of cross-functional managers within both traditional and modern enterprises. We explore the position and capability of cross-functional managers to fulfil their objectives and to favorably solve the identity matters they are confronting with.

The article deals with the possibility of energy-saving manufacturing of the construction magnesium oxychloride cements increase by addition of intensifier additives in furnace charge. The mechanism of additives effect, and also dependence of their action efficiency according to the chemical nature of substances are considered.

In the contemporary era, the right to health is a human right and is based on the natural rights of humans. Hence the obligation of the states to develop appropriate legislation and to implement this obligation. In other words, the social responsibility in health. Currently, in Europe there is a close collaboration between the World Health Organization, the European Union and the Council of Europe with the declared aim to support the implementation of coordinated strategies for the implementation of patient rights...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse specific rules concerning free movement of goods, especially measures that may hinder market access. Articles 34 and 35 of the Treaty of the Functioning the European Union (hereinafter: TFEU) prohibit quantitative restrictions on imports and exports and all measures having equivalent effect as quantitative restrictions between all Member States. The European Court of Justice (hereinafter: ECJ) dealt with a number of cases concerning Articles 34 and 35 TFEU. Even after numero...

Technical-technological environment became very strong environment in recent years. It significantly affects and influences life in a globalized world as well as in tourism sphere. There can be found many factors within this environment. They bring new technologies, therefore new products and new market opportunities when considering tourism as important economic facilitator in the global economy. Due to a modern technologies disposition and rapid exchange of information and deciding of customers, strengthens the ...

The article defines the essence and content of the program budgeting. The role of state programs is identified as the main instrument of the program budgeting in the budgetary strategy development in the region. The state programs should occupy a central place in the budget process at the sub-national level including budget-planning, implementation of the budget expenditures and monitoring their effectiveness. An important way to im-prove the budget process based on the program budgeting is structuring of financia...

Communication in tourism sphere is very important. We can say that communication affects tourism as it is. Informational technology in recent years hit every area of business and influenced the use of marketing tools in the field of tourism as well. In the era of information society the information have character of power supply. Internet communication is essential to the success of any company, organization, destinations, but also of each individual. Timely and relevant information help to obtain a significant co...

France is well-known for its solid and fierce social system, particularly in terms of employment. However, despite the French legislator's efforts to create a legislative protection shield for the French employees, moral harassment at work developed itself as a silent, ever-growing and - at a certain extent - tolerated phenomenon which led to a significant number of suicides. This paper aims to present the proper, complex and thorough legislative protection granted under the French legislation against various type...

The relevance of the study is confirmed by the fact that the processes of restructuring of the telecommunications sector and increasing competition put forward new requirements for the forms and methods of strategic management by business operators. The aim of this study is to optimize the business operators through improved strategic management. Methodological basis of the study is methods of system analysis, comparisons and analogies, logical-semantic modeling. As the theoretical basis the works of domestic and ...

The main purpose of this paper is to analyse the electoral reforms that have been performed in Romania in the last 25 years, in order to identify their effects, which have been, in some cases, harmful to the already difficult process of transition to democracy. We base our working hypothesis on the assumption that the large number of these reforms, as well as, in some cases, their ambiguity and/or complexity, represented important criteria which led to a constant decrease in the population's voting participation a...

In an earlier paper titled “European Union Enlargement to the Western Balkans applied to the Acapulco typology of agenda-setting: Focus on Montenegro, Serbia and FYROM revisited” (čiderova, Fejesova & Kovačevic, 2015) interactive matrix of the Acapulco typology of agenda-setting was stretched to the context of the European Union external relations (namely, macro-regional strategies of the European Union and regional cooperation initiatives) and enlargement (particularly the Western Balkans). Fulfillment of t...

The prevention of a terrorism in the frame of civil and environmental protection getting to be more important within the last decade. Ongoing intensive industrial development and production of chemical substances provides new opportunities and tools to modern terrorist groups, which may represent the major threats to the citizens and the environment. Common - industrially produced - chemicals, which are classified as toxic or highly toxic, can be quite easily abused (in the forms of improvised chemical weapons) fo...

The main research question in this paper refers to top-down Europeanization of subnational government levels, in the context of implementing the open government policies. In the last few decades, democratic deficit and growing passivization of citizens in political life keep denoting the European countries. Therefore, it seemed important to explore all options for increasing democratic legitimacy of the public authorities' actions and decisions. This paper is focused on citizens' participation in public life on su...

The aim of the paper is to motivate the Government and local authorities to manage and plan the development of urban communities in the next 5 – 10 years through public policies. Globalization, as an external factor accelerated the movement of population towards great cities and developed countries several times. Nowadays, ¾ of European population live in cities. This tells us that these kinds of movements are a result of human instinct in search for a better life. The city offers better living and working cond...

Transparency is considered as one of the key features of good governance and an essential prerequisite for accountability. In simplified terms, transparency means openness of the system, clear processes and procedures and easy access to public information. By doing so, it is contributing to ethical awareness in public service by information sharing, which ultimately ensures accountability for the performance of the individuals and organizations handling resources or holding public office' (Suk Kim et al 2005: 649)...

Creation of Common foreign security policy is determined by many factors. The aim of this paper is to analyze and recognize the populist tendencies in foreign policy making. Foreign policy is one of the most important policies of countries. After the Lisbon Treaty there were the biggest changes in the competences of foreign policy. The main objective of the policy is to keep peace around the world. The process of creation in the policy is difficult because of the member states status. Populism is notable in this c...

Vatican diplomacy will play important role in international relations, where is a significant source as a soft power. As follows from casustics herein, the Pope might be a great mediator in some stages of conflicts. However, we have to take into consideration some limitations. The Pope's power is not equally all over the world due to particular religion strength. If we are talking about Vatican diplomacy, it is necessary to define, what it is. Unfortunately, differences between Vatican City State and the Holy See ...