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The present paper deals with one of the world’s most pressing problems, climate change or, more realistically put “climate crisis”, debated at the conference known as COP26 that took place at Glasgow, at the beginning of November, 2021. This global summit (also referred to as the “planet saving” summit) attended by 200 countries was seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Opening this conference, the British Prime Minister at that time, Boris Johnson, said the world is “at one minute to m...

The main purpose of this correlation study is to examine the relationship of attachmentstyles with life satisfaction and place attachment in university students at University ofCatania, Italy. We used the following measures: the State Adult Attachment Measure,the Life Satisfaction Scale, and two versions of the Place Attachment Inventory for the“living place” and for the “affective place”, respectively. Results indicated that: 1) themore the students showed secure attachment and the less avoidant attachment, the m...

The homeroom teacher (HRT) is one of the main roles in the school. HRTs effective teaching and classroom management are central to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education. The main goal of this study was to examine Israeli upper secondary HRTs perceptions of the new multiple domain performance tool (USHRT-MDPT) to evaluate their work performance. The study applied a qualitative paradigm of data collection and analysis. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and were analyzed thematically. ...

The importance of communication in society is invaluable for modern science. Aggression, expressed in verbal and non-verbal forms, produces a particularly significant effect on the effectiveness of communication. There is no doubt, however, that communicative aggression can in no way serve the success of communication. Modern research is aimed at identifying strategies, tactics and lexical units, the use of which allows communicants to have successful and effective communication. The communicative category of miti...

Like the rest of Central Europe, Slovakia has been a multicultural and multilingual society for centuries. Although Slovak is recognized as the official language, there are many other languages spoken in the country. Due to historical reasons, the largest minority communities are Hungarian, Roma, Czech and Rusyn, but the number of bilingual and multilingual speakers varies according to the region, with the highest concentration in Western and Eastern Slovakia. In contemporary Slovakia, bilingualism and multilingua...

Today, digitalisation is widely discussed in the context of various institutions whoseoperational guidelines have made it a daily routine and a necessity for making informationaccessible to the public. The digitisation of museum collections is of particularimportance, both in terms of making them accessible to the public and for art historyresearch. However, many art objects are not only in museums, but also in churches,where, unlike the above-mentioned institutions, digitisation is not a priority and anecessity f...

Cultural characteristics differ from nation to nation, and often by provinces, cities,villages - each group of people has its own traditions, beliefs and behaviors that are oftensimilar to other groups, but again specific to its members. Customs, rituals andsuperstitions as part of a particular culture define and shape the identity of consumerswho belong to that culture - they influence their attitudes, needs, habits and desires. Theseaspects of culture are embedded in consumer behavior, a complex set of preferenc...

A teacher must overcome many different obstacles during these changes when trying to improve the quality of his teaching. As part of the qualitative research, we focused both on the behavior of the pupils and on the behavior of the teacher, who, in order to improve the quality of his teaching, is trying to change his educational style, from a transmissive style to a constructivist style. In the framework of this article, we focused on the obstacles that a teacher changing his educational style must overcome. The r...

The swift evolution of education, catalyzed by the global pandemic, has driven the infusion of advanced technologies into higher education. As student expectations evolve amid global trends, a paradigm shift in pedagogical strategies is underway. This paper explores the realm of international business education and investigates the influence of generated artificial intelligence (AI) on student engagement in global virtual teams. This study analyzes the motivating factors propelling student participation in virtual...

From the beginning, through to Antiquity and the Middle Ages, mankind has started from a belief in the existence of a substantial soul. Belief in a spirit substance gradually receded, giving way to a spirit wholly dependent on matter and strictly material causes. The human psyche does not easily adapt to the times, and, despite humanity's breakthroughs and changing conceptions regarding life and the world, the nucleus of magical thinking has continued to exist and manifest itself incongruously relative to modern c...

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed just about everything in terms of how we operate personally and professionally. Now involves less physical contact and more digital touchpoints. The study looks at the third period of the pandemic in Latvia, almost two years after the initial outbreak of Covid-19 and at a point when most European countries have achieved majority/ herd immunity thanks to double vaccination. At this time, vaccination certificates have already been introduced in Latvia, which would allow the curb of ...

International relations are in a not very comfortable situation due to the general state ofhonor in today's world arena. The balances between countries and the policies of thesecountries have been disrupted. These relations, as it seems, are taking a wrong direction,because the states are not yielding up on many issues of common interest. Anotherreason is because globalism is leading to the degradation of the situation of internationalrelations, it is degenerating the relations between the states themselves. State...

The conceptual basis of the article includes descriptions, characteristics and relationships between all aspects of reflection. The aim of the work is to present the evolution, structure and learning of language since the evolution of the human species, already of a genetic order, then became cultural, therefore teachable. Culture, through the changes offered by education to intentional learning, is the engine of man's changes and evolution. From language as a biological moment of adaptation we have moved on to an...

In the modern world, sustainable consumption is developing as one of the most influential areas in economic theory and practice. The concept of sustainability is gaining particular importance for economies and their future development. In sustainability research, the focus on food consumption, and specifically fruit consumption, is a relatively new approach. The main objective of the present study is to systematize and interpret the basic determinants of the behavior of consumers of food products, as well as of fr...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine that has occurred between two of the largest exporters of food and energy in the world has had an impact to global energy and food industry in 2022. One of the biggest industries that was affected by this war is the dairy industry. The dairy industry is one of the most important agricultural industries apart from grain production in the Baltic States - Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. And the Russia- Ukraine war has had and is further impacting dairy sector in the Baltic States. Simul...

The overhead bridge crane generates transverse horizontal forces as it travels along the crane runway. Transverse horizontal forces are caused by the braking of the crab and also by the crane's own travel, which is not straight due to the imperfections of the crane and the crane runway. This kind of forces can be called forces caused by skewing of crane. There are several interpretations for the crane skewing, from which various computational models are based. Individual interpretations, however, differ both in te...

In the current security context of the Black Sea region, trade relations are affected by the imperative of international sanctions, which have imposed a series of restrictions that make it difficult for professionals to carry out commercial contracts. Through the 11 packages of restrictions established by the EU, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the supply of raw materials from the East and exports to these destinations are largely blocked. The risk of fraud is evident as long as production facilities are d...

The Treaty of Rome promoted a more cautious approach as concerns the free movement of capital in comparison with other fundamental economic freedoms. The recognized importance of the sovereign prerogatives of the states in the field of monetary policies explains why its original regulatory wording bears the signs of a reserved attitude and of an increased concern for the balance of powers distributed between the Commission, the Council and the Member States. The full liberalization of capital movements is the resu...

The world is faced with a difficult energy crisis due to the lackage of fossil fuels, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the effects of the Russia-Ukraine war. The regions where fossil energy resources are found and produced in the world and the regions with high-energy consumption are separated from each other. For this reason, the transportation of energy from the source regions to the regions where the use consumption is done highly brings along cost and energy security problems. The political stance of Iran and region...

This paper explores the phenomenon of isolation in modern digital society. The topic wasdeveloped with a group of 90 IT design students in two generations. The positive andnegative aspects of isolation are presented through the eyes of the students of the ZagrebUniversity of Applied Sciences. An initiative and incentive is the project entitled Isolatedpeople and communities in Slovenia and Croatia - Isolation (IPS-2022-02-3741). Theproject itself examines the contemporary isolation in both countries, Slovenia andC...

Introduction: The present research takes shape from the increasingly strong need to methodically probe the facts, the creators, the productions, the exhibitions and the editorial and press activities in the period between 1958 and 1968 in the province of Frosinone. Materials and Methods: The analysis is made by comparing the phenomenon under study within the broader national scenario. The importance of the topic lies in the dynamics of development that it assumes in close relation to the changed social values and ...

Urban pollution caused by traffic has become a global issue in recent years. Urban pollution is significantly influenced by weather conditions, and the study examines the impact of meteorological parameters such as temperature, solar radiation, precipitation, atmospheric pressure, and wind speed on the pollution levels of O3, NO, NO2, NOx, and SO2 in summer compared to winter. During summer, the average concentration of O3 is higher than in winter, while the average concentrations of NO2, NO, NOx, which are precur...

The infectious diseases are mainly the consequence of the existence of the microbialworld, essential for life on our planet. Microbes need a superior animal to multiply andspread to survive. The pathogens are therefore the biological agents responsible for theonset of the disease condition in the host organism. The infectious disease appears to bethe consequence of the interaction between pathogens and specific defense systems,immune response, and nonspecific (inflammation) of the host.West Nile virus (WNV) belong...

This paper deals with the use of fuzzy clustering techniques to effectively segment potential customers and existing customers in business opportunity management. Customer segmentation plays a key role in modern businesses, enabling personalized marketing and sales strategies. Traditional clustering methods often wrestle with uncertainty and overlapping customer data characteristics. In this article, we propose the use of fuzzy clustering algorithms to overcome these limitations and provide a more flexible and acc...

This study highlights the importance of criticism in the practice and education of interior design. Unlike other disciplines related to the visual arts, the fact that the discipline of interior architecture has not developed a separate and distinct intellectual whole with its own rules has affected the place of criticism in both the profession and education. Therefore, in order to be a step towards the elimination of these deficiencies, different approaches that could be a source for the development of interior ar...

Statistics on overall satisfaction with work-life balance show an EU average of 79%. This figure is higher than average in more than half of the EU countries, including Estonia and Lithuania. In Latvia, this indicator is only 73%, thus Latvia is in the 6th place from the end among the EU countries, which confirms the need to find solutions to support a worklife balance. Objective of the paper is to characterise a work-life balance from theoretical aspect and to provide an assessment of influencing factors among st...

Tourism is a short-term hobby that is characterized mainly by traveling to nearby, but also more distant locations. It is associated with recreation, rest, but also with active activity. The increased concentration of tourists in these locations brings with it both positive and negative effects. A positive influence is mainly the economic impact that a location sought after by tourists brings stabilization and the possibility of job growth, reduction of unemployment, development of local business and economic grow...

Engineering is a highly cognitive activity and as such has long been treated andeducated in solely cognitive domain. However, the role of emotions in engineering hasrecently been closely examined. Engineering is creating products, services and systemsfor people to use. In their use people engage emotionally as well as cognitively.Therefore in defining project requirements attention must be paid to emotional needs ofusers as well as their functional and cognitive needs. It is known that user’s mentalconcept of a pr...

Disputes between family members are particularly suitable for peaceful resolution,especially disputes concerning children. Croatian family law has a long tradition ofproviding assistance to families facing divorce and consequences of dissolving familyunion. According to Family Act of 2015 there are two institutes aimed at consensualresolution of family law conflicts - institutes of obligatory counselling and familymediation. Since children are especially vulnerable in situations of family conflict it isof the utmo...

The principal purpose of the study is to analyze the role of coping strategies in lifesatisfaction, resilience, and perceived self-efficacy in life skills in 89 Italian adolescentsduring the post pandemic by Covid-19. We used the self-report and anonymousquestionnaire consisting of the following scales: a) Perceived Self-efficacy in Life SkillsScale; b) Satisfaction with Life Scale; c) Resilience Scale for Adolescents; d) CopingInventory for Stressful Situation. Results showed that: task-oriented coping strategypo...

In my paper, the version of Urizen’s creation and existence particularly refers to/concerns the contrast/conflict between energy and reason. In Blake’s mythological system, Urizen is a false God which represents the distortion of truth and concerns the pragmatic, unspiritual apprehension, and appreciation of the mundane world as a creation of falsity which must be accepted by humans in order to survive, to secure life and multiply. Urizen creates and lives in an alienated and enslaving realm, a distorted mental st...

The article deals with the manipulative potential of speech means of English business discourse in the media space. The study is a relevant topic, since the concept of business media discourse as a separate type of discourse has not yet been singled out. The material of the study comprised the public speeches of businessmen, commercial staff and economists for the period of 2021-2023. The authors resort to the method of functional discourse analysis, which substantiates the selection of speech means by a communica...

Starting from the role of the feudal judges in the distribution of justice in Wallachia and Moldova, briefly reviewing the evolution of the legislative codification of their mission in the resolution of disputes brought before the courts, this paper analysis through the method of historical and comparative research, the orientation of the Romanian legislator towards the expansion of the freedom of the judge in finding out the truth and avoiding any judicial error. Without any doubt, it`s main task is to correctly ...

This paper provides an overview of the workshop The Shame of Prometheus, ArtificialIntelligence between limits and opportunities. Conducted on May 30, 2023, focused onthe intersection of artificial intelligence, the myth of Prometheus, and humanistic culture.Guided by the question "how can philotechnology coexist harmoniously withphilanthropy?", our primary objective was to inspire the audience to contemplatemutually beneficial interactions between humans and artificial intelligence (AI). From apractical standpoin...

In the present paper we aim to analyse the ethical implications of digitalisation in the public administration system. The present day society is heavily influenced by the digital techniques and these techniques are now present in many aspects of our lives (social life, banking, shopping, healthcare and so on). The digital technologies are advancing quickly and, together with them, the process of digitalisation in public administration is moving fast forward. Compliance with the ethical norms on the digital public...

The present paper is part of a broader research project, which aims at investigating the interviews given by Ana Blandiana, who is one of the most influential contemporary Romanian poets and a well-known dissident of the dictatorial regime of the 1970s and 1980s. These interviews were collected between 2019 and 2020 and subsequently grouped into three main categories, related to poetry, prose and essays. The resulting material was published in a volume entitled “Cartea cu delfini” (The book with dolphins) in 2021....

The ISCAH conference proceedings is an annual edition, published since 2014. The 9th volume of the ISCAH2022 conference proceedings represents the research works of contributors to the VIIIth SWS International Scientific Conference on Arts and Humanities (ISCAH2022), held in the period of 23-25 May 2022, Congress Center „Paradise Blu“ Albena, Bulgaria. For the 9th edition of the SWS International Scientific Conference on Arts and Humanities - ISCAH2022, for a period of one year, were submitted more than 80 papers....

This paper aims to analyze and discuss a concerning aspect regarding virtual worlds and their dangers, specifically. Many teenagers transcend themselves into artificial, phantasmagorical worlds. Set-ups such as vivid, evergreen maps containing different NPCs (non-player characters) that offer you missions for you to advance your progress and gain experience and gain more powerful items, potions, armor, or weapons to progress into the game are always present. Mobs (living entities within the game) are meant to be p...

Climate change in the era of 5.0 is becoming more significant. Society will need more power than before to keep enormous data information. Also, cooling of the servers and processors will become vital for data manipulation not only for society but also for business. The gathering and measurement of that information could be done by sustainability accounting in era 5.0. In terms of assessment, sustainability accounting can provide data and insights into a company's environmental and social effects, as well as its s...

Effective landscape management could have an impact on the regional economy, but to do this, the framework for analyzing and assessing the impact of landscape on different economic sectors and regions in a country needs to be outlined. Opportunities should be sought to provide new tools through which the government and non-governmental sectors can develop effective strategies. On the other hand, the public sector could be modernized organizationally and at the same time collective actions with the private and NGO ...

The Theatre of the Eighth Day from Poznan has been the phenomenon of the Polish independent theatre. It was founded in 1964 by students of the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznan. As the student’s theatre of poetry, for the first few years it operated under the direction of Tomasz Szymanski. The change of the stage form began two years after the group was founded, when Zbigniew Osinski became involved with him. He brought fascination of the Grotowski's method. The Theatre of the Eighth Day marked their disagre...

The Roman Catholic Church had a special influence. During the economic and cultural upswing, an abbey built in Cluny became a sample in the church building during the 9th–11th century. Various trends in the cathedral building existed in different regions of Western Europe. On the Baltic Sea coast, the Pope of Rome and the Holy Roman Emperor started to spread the Catholic faith by the mid-12th century. In cities, cathedrals took the leading position and replaced monastery churches in the 13th century. The commercia...

The city environment surrounds its inhabitants with various technical means that support them every day. These means include unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), that is drones. The presence of drones in cities, including smart cities, may cause controversy among residents related to the threat to the safety of using drones, interference with privacy, emitted sounds, monitoring, and other discomfort. Therefore, in the stage of increasing drone prevalence of the use in smart cities, the social perception of them by res...

The objective of this study is to examine the interactive effect of risk-taking propensityand previous emigration experience on the emigration attitudes of young Bulgarians.The relationship between risk-taking propensity and emigration attitudes has not beenexplored in the prism of prior emigration behavior in Eastern European countries likeBulgaria - a sending rather than receiving country. Additionally, risk propensity isexamined as both a generic and domain-specific construct. A national survey,representative o...

One of the most compelling of all cultural and economic institutions, advertising is a genuine entertainer whose dramatic performance allows for the intrinsic and interdependent relationship between representational, interactive and compositional meanings. Traditional portrayals of the female body in advertising have been heavily relying on non-verbal modes generating a multiplicity of problematic messages co(n)textualized by extra-linguistic features that interact within the cognitive environment of the target au...

Achieving gender equality is a social issue common not only to developing countries but also to developed countries. How can this gender inequality be overcome, and what role can community education play in it? This is precisely the question addressed in this paper. This paper reviews the situation of women in Japan from the perspective of inequality. Japan reveals that it is a country with large inequalities in labor and political and social participation. The role of education in this transformative practice is ...

Years and writing signatures apart, it would seem that Charles Dickens’s Hard Times has very little to do, if anything, with Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and/ or with Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let me Go for that matter. And yet, all of these three novels operate, in various degrees, with what seems to have always been a common life principle for many, regardless of the temporal or geographic co(n)text at hand. Dicken’s Hard Times portrays characters who prioritize facts, figures, and material gain ove...

Nowadays is the industrial by-products processing is very actual topic in food industry, because of the cost reduction and profit raising of companies. In the slaughterhouses producing a huge amount of by-product during the product manufacturing activities, that it could be processing for valuable main products for example cosmetics or petfood product and biogas or natural fertilizers. The first most important question the determination of the main processing direction, next step is the determination of the direct...

In this article we propose a new perspective of the concept of localisation that may be envisaged as a stage in the process of translating musicology texts. While most scholars have approached the concept and employed the term within the GILT paradigm [2] [3] [10], we believe this new perspective of localisation does not conflict with or diminish its current status. On the contrary, a potential semantic broadening may even help to distinguish it from other terms such as “adaptation” or “translation” [2] [8]. Thus,...

Becoming a psychologist requires more than just acquiring the necessary competences.The emotional labour undergone when preparing for this job may be higher than in anyother specialty as it mainly requires one to solve their own personal issues beforehelping others deal with their own so as to dispute the counter-transfer. Allpsychotherapy schools start with at least one year of personal development. Knowing allthese, there is a large number of students enrolled in Psychology study programmes whostart their univer...