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The paper presents main aspects related to the evaluation of management efficiency, implemented within protected areas, especially those belonging to the ecological network Natura 2000. It aims to monitor progress in the management of protected areas, as they have experienced exponential growth in the last decade due to the rate of extinction of species and the destruction of ecosystems. In order to maximize the potential of protected areas, biodiversity conservation is considered to improve the management plan by...

It seems that over the years in the Italian legal system, the legislator has never provided a clear legal concept of the environment that can be taken as a safe point of reference. Indeed, the environment is defined differently in different laws - sometimes indirectly or per relationem - and this creates considerable difficulty of interpretation. Particularly since the mid-seventies in Italy there has been a significant increase in legislation protecting the essential elements of the biosphere (water, air and soil...

Academic and labour market success are determined not only by higher academic performance but also by participation in extra-curricular activities and the results achieved there. The involvement in different competitions related to specific school subjects or fields of study does not only contribute to deepening one’s knowledge in that particular field. Competing with the top representatives of a certain field also promotes the improvement of higher level cognitive processes. Participation in competitions has a de...

The topicality of the current study lies in the fact that international standards and documents that have been accepted by the European Union education sector emphasize the need to ensure equal pay for equal work and the importance of non-discriminatory treatment, while Latvian planning documents identify tasks to eliminate inequalities, with an emphasis on education system reform - introduction of teacher motivation system, teacher salary system improvement or development of a new salary system. The current teach...

When Steve de Shazer and his team applied the Wittgensteinian philosophy in therapy, they revolutionized the field while they discovered brief therapy. Was it an accidental coincidence? What was the role of Wittgensteinian philosophy in creating the theoretical and practical space of brief therapy? What are the exact consequences of treating a one on one meeting as a language game - let it be a therapy session, a coaching, or a personal meeting between the leader and a team member? Can we revolutionize one on ones...

Objective: Assessment of iodine and thyroid status in a group of pregnant women in the perimarine area of Romania, the geographical area without iodine deficiency. Undetected or untreated thyroid dysfunction can be associated with a number of materno-fetal complications. The administration of iodinated compounds in pregnancy requires individualization. The ratio of urinary iodine concentration (UIC)/urinary creatinine (UCr) may be an objective criterion for evaluating iodine nutrition in the perimarine area. Mater...

In the service industry, regardless of the market sector, the quality of service is of paramount importance. Museum staff members interact with visitors and influence their perception of the service. However, communication and customer relationship management are not the only factors; museum visitors are also influenced by a museum’s atmosphere. Hence, the reoccurring visits of a museum visitor varies depending on these factors. This research is exploratory in nature and aims to identify the most important paramet...

The article highlights the fact that for responsible tourism as the first and foremost benchmark for the tourism industry the obstacle is the challenges caused by the excessive growth of global tourism, also called "overtourism". It is emphasized that in order to mitigate the adverse consequences of this phenomenon, the authorities and the business community of the tourist destinations shall make active focused efforts to assess this phenomenon, the state of the tourism industry and its development prospects. The ...

This communication presents an evaluation of the design-phase of a pedagogical improvement project for the development of competent skills related with the concrete material in Chilean students of Civil Engineering, Building Engineering and Construction Technician. This is done through the transformation from the modalities teaching in the "chair" and "observation of experiences" to teaching based on the use of active-participatory laboratories. More specifically, a project based on a collaborative and interdiscip...

The historical practice of modern colonialism is strongly connected to the entrepreneurial culture of the 19th century. The colonial ideal of the civilizing mission was to be achieved with the help of colonial agents with entrepreneurial spirit whose capitalist enterprises would bring progress and prosperity to the exotic pre-modern cultural spaces of Africa. In this context of optimism with respect to entrepreneurship, capitalism, and colonization, Joseph Conrad’s late Victorian novel, Heart of Darkness, conveys ...

The concept of entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) has emerged in recent years as a framework to understand the nature of places in which entrepreneurial activity flourishes. Spigel (2017) defines entrepreneurial ecosystems as follows: ‘combinations of social, political, economic, and cultural elements within a region that support the development and growth of innovative start-ups and encourage nascent entrepreneurs and other actors to take the risks of starting, funding, and otherwise assisting high-risk ventures. I...

The article substantiates the necessity and possibility of implementing the principle of personalization in education, in particular, in higher education. The approaches to the definition of this phenomenon are analyzed from the standpoint of philosophy, sociology, marketing, and pedagogy. One of the current challenges is the gap between educational outcomes and employers' demands. Therefore, it becomes important to build individual educational paths that will maximally prepare graduates for a specific job. It is ...

In this paper, we will investigate the content of WoS within the interdisciplinary field of health information. Purpose of the paper: Analyse Web of Science (WoS) by searching for “Health information”, with the following WoS categories: Information Science, Library Science, Ethics, Education and Biomedical Engineering. We found 1425 results. Data were retrieved and analysed using VOS Viewer. 34 countries collaborate in 9 clusters. We created maps over collaboration, co-authoring, and most used descriptors. Our res...

Plantar pressure it is frequently used to evaluate the pathologies of the foot with clinical and research application and less used for methodological issues in areas such as sports medicine. The purpose of this study was to assess the plantar pressure in young athletes by using a RSSCAN pressure plate for identification of reference normative data. Foot complaints and history of trauma, surgery, or other pathologies possible were assessed by a questionnaire and a clinical evaluation was performed for identificati...

Introduction: Postpartum period is a period of risk for the development of mood disorders, including postpartum depression. The onset and persistence of postpartum distress and depressive symptoms may be influenced by several obstetric and psychosocial factors. A body of research studies has shown an association between quality and satisfaction with the partner support and postpartum depression. Aim of this study was to examine relationship between selected obstetric (e.g. type of labour, complications during labo...

This work was supported by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science under the National Research Programme "Healthy Foods for a Strong Bio-Economy and Quality of Life" approved by DCM # 577 / 17.08.2018". Wine has been produced in Bulgaria for about 5000 years. The first wines were transported to our region from the Middle East. During the Thracian times wine was a part of daily life and pagan rituals in our territory. Organic production has existed since the 1980s. It develops in almost all countries in Wes...

Thanks to the development, wide distribution and cheapness of the Internet, people began to resort more and more often to new forms of project development, its production, as well as financing. The Internet environment, due to its free conditions, significantly influenced the attitude of start-up companies and entrepreneurs to attracting capital. Basically, crowdfunding is used in North America and Europe. The popularity of using such funding raises topical research questions: is crowd-funding able to replace exis...

In connection with the spread of COVID-19 and the consequences it caused, the Slovak Republic has adopted several laws in various legal areas. One of them is the law, which has significantly affected the basic institutes of civil law. As the most important consequence can be considered the interference with the running of time limits, both substantive and procedural ones. In the case of substantive time limits (both standard limitation periods and extinctive limitation periods), a temporary suspension of these tim...

Joint education of pupils with special educational needs in mainstream education by means of support measures has been in place for some time in the Czech Republic. For quite a long time, these pupils have been educated in mainstream schools in the catchment area. However, Act No. 82/2015 Coll., which amends the Act on pre-school, elementary, secondary, higher vocational and other education (Education Act) and Decree No. 27/2016 Coll., on education of pupils with special educational needs and talented pupils (Amen...

Background: The study of vitamin D and the interest in its actions are growing exponentially given its broad implications in pathology. Vitamin D assessment and treatment are controversial topics that result in heterogeneous, partially contradictory opinions and recommendations. The aim of the study was to quantify the level of vitamin D among patients with autoimmune thyroid diseases through a questionnaire applied to residents of Dobrogea, perimarine area of Romania. Methods: The questionnaire included variables...

Aim: Aim of this study was to examine the association between the occurrence of postpartum depressive symptoms and the characteristics associated with the infant sleep. Method: Participants for a web-based study were recruited from two hospital birth centers in Slovakia, the convenient sampling method was used. Together 204 women 6-8 weeks postpartum filled out an online questionnaire (mean age 30.9±4.8, age range: 20-44; 78.9% vaginal births; 56.9% primiparas). Slovak version of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression...

The aim of this study is to assess the determinants of the Romanian services import and export flows between 2005 and 2017. An augmented gravity model and a panel approach were used. The data were collected from World Bank and International Trade Center databases and the EViews 10 was used for regression. The main findings are: the GDP of the partner country, sharing a common language and EU membership positively influence the services import flows, while the geographical distance between countries proved to have ...

In Latvia, as in the other Baltic States, the rate of compulsory state social insurance contributions (SSIAI) for employee insurance is divided between the employer and the employee, with merely the proportion of the distribution differing. Self-employed persons, on the other hand, pay contributions for themselves in full amount, but the types of insurance and the procedure for calculating contributions differ in all three countries. Consequently, the level of social security of the self-employed also differs. The...

The paper focuses on sexuality in a male with Down syndrome from the perspective of his mother. The main objective of the survey was to reveal specific experiences with maturing, and the development and manifestations of sexuality in an individual with intellectual disability as perceived by his parent. Part of the survey was to identify whether and how the mother communicated with her son with intellectual disability about the issue of sexuality and his needs, how she perceived her son’s sexuality manifestations,...

Green public procurement has become, in recent years, a more often central topic to the attention of authorities, public and private sector. Green public procurement is a way to achieve the global goals of sustainable development - protecting the environment, encouraging innovation and clean technologies, inducing responsible production and consumption. Although in Romania the development of the Green public procurement is still in early stage (20% of the country's GDP), the law on green public procurement is an i...

Foreign direct investments (FDIs) are a very important part of our society. They create links and facilitate the transfer of technology and know-how between economies. However, the influences and effects of foreign direct investments on the recipient country are difficult to predict, depending on the characteristics of FDI flows and the concrete economic, social and political conditions in the host country. FDIs in the border area, in this case western border of Romania, have some particular features because of th...

The need to improve educational organizations has exceeded the limit of experimental knowledge and perceptible reality, the knowledge transcends, through a conceptual shift, the reordering of other areas of impact, with major importance in society. Ensuring a clear vision of educational organizations has become a chronic disease that affects the effectiveness of education in the 21st century and safety and stability are now acute diseases that inhibit creativity and new thinking. In order to achieve its objectives...

Both the literature and all the historical vestiges that we find today in the world, highlight the fact that over the centuries there has been a continuous transfer of knowledge from the Romans to the other peoples occupied by them. Roman culture was advanced at that time; we can remember that they loved music, theatre, architecture, construction, politics, astronomy, etc. This process also occurred in Dacia (part of today's Romania) marked by military conquest campaigns. The Danube River was and still is a natura...

Many centuries of social experience lead to the conclusion that conflicts and crisises are an inherent feature of all social activities, regardless of their nature, extent, social and cultural environment. The different assumption, namely that there are activities without internal or external contradictions, which appear in relationships between the participants of activities and their closer or further environment, should be treated as an assumption idealizing social reality. Social conflicts and crisises result ...

Currently, the meat market is developing very dynamically. This is a consequence of the high import substitution throughout the country, due in particular to the State support for agricultural entrepreneurs. For 2021, it is forecast not only a threefold reduction in import compared to previous years, but also a boost to development of meat products. Thus, we can state that the livestock and poultry processing industry is on the rise and is a promising area for investment. Speaking about the Tambov region, we are a...

Over the past two decades, research on the impact of global environmental change has underscored the increasing effects of climate change and the associated natural disasters on mental health. The present article aims to highlight the correlation between the mental health of the studied population and the way in which the subjects relate to climate change. The objective of the research was to investigate whether people with high scores on the Romanian version of the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS-21R)...

Since 2016, the Czech education system has been providing education for children, pupils and students through the institute of the so-called support measures. It is a set of organizational, pedagogical, methodological measures including methods of work, material and compensatory support of the respective disadvantage. There are five levels of support measures provided by law. Granting of level II. to V. is under the responsibility of professional school counseling facilities and is the result of professional speci...

In response to the current situation, when the school has a well-known home mutation, information technologies represent a foundation for development and a reference point for working bodies. Enough in the best area to manage a communication problem generates imposed distances as well as a potential conflict of visibility involved in each category of human resources. Emphasizing the ambiguity of the individual role, a lack of cohesion involves changes and inconveniences on the authorial authorities or paid attenti...

The paper focuses on the level of knowledge of the inhabitants of the Nitra region in lay cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The authors deal with the issue of the current state of knowledge and in lay emergency resuscitation, approach lay first aid in Slovakia, including statistics of lay first aid through cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the application of an automatic external defibrillator, and teach first aid in Slovakia. The main goal of the research was to determine the level of knowledge of the inhabitants of...

The article is devoted to the application of the auto-hypno-ideomotor system (AHIM) for training shooters-students with hearing impairment. The purpose of the study is to test the proposed method of using the AHIM system in the training and competition process of shooters-students with hearing impairment. The object of research is the training and competition process of shooters-students with hearing impairment. The subject of the research is related to the study and application of the AHIM system for shooting stu...

In the conditions of Slovakia, the main household income is income from work. Just paid work should be a protective factor against an individual or family falling into poverty. However, various socio-economic processes create conditions in which, despite paid employment, it is impossible for a certain group of people and their families to secure an income that would allow them to fully saturate their needs. Despite the increase in the minimum wage and other measures taken by the government in recent years, accordi...

In my paper I will focus on the most efficient strategies for teaching Romanian as a Foreign Language in the Covid-19 context. My groups are composed of 20 students each, I team up with other 3 teachers and we devise our lessons so we cover general Romanian as well as Romanian for Specific Purposes. Our students study Romanian intensively, in 2 semesters, and at the end they follow their BSc/MA/doctoral programs. Students come from all over the world and their interests are extremely varied. This is one of the fac...

In this paper we aim to analyze the degree of concentration of the Romanian Gas Sector, taking into account the picture at national level, both regulated and competitive markets. Based on the available information, certain data analysis is made taking into account both the market shares of the enterprises in the sector and the number of active competitors, turnover or output, while the economic approach was tailored to availability of the data for each market. The Natural Gas Sector has been analyzed in terms of m...

The paper aims to assess the causal relationship between entrepreneurship framework conditions of an economy (12 factors) and the level of total early-stage entrepreneurial activity (TEA). The study uses data from 50 economies participating in Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) in 2019, grouped into four regions (Middle East & Africa, Asia & Pacific, Latin America & Caribbean, Europe & North America) as defined by the World Economic Forum, and into three income levels (low, middle, high). The geographical regio...

Human resources management is an important supporting function, being a preferred area of activity of the internal auditor, largely justified by the multitude of processes that are carried out and implicitly by the risks that accompany them. The approach to human resources auditing, as a discipline of study, is of particular importance because it involves measures for maintenance and continuous improvement of human resources strategies, practices and policies, all the more so as the field of human resources auditi...

The subject of the study is the identification of effective factors of altered communication of seniors with acquired cognitive impairment in the context of the possibilities of music therapy intervention. Epistemological starting points are clinical aspects of the target group, further verified and functional non non-pharmacological approaches to its representatives and theories and methodologies of expressive approaches. The paper specifically describes the partial results of one of the parts of longitudinal res...

The tendency to increase the volume of Bank transactions and losses from theft committed using electronic means of payment indicates the need to ensure the security of non-cash transactions. The article presents the basics of the modern concept of fraud prevention using electronic means of payment, formulated on the basis of studying the experience of foreign countries, current trends, and prospects in the field of non-cash Bank transfers. For the purpose of writing the article, the authors used foreign and Russia...

News has a deep impact on mass consciousness, which makes it extremely important to conduct researches on news discourse. However, by the news discourse, different researchers often mean absolutely different things. For this reason, there is a need to distinguish what news discourse is by describing its relationship with other types of discourse, which makes this research relevant. The article reveals that the genre differentiation of news discourse is determined by the way news discourse is defined. The work deri...

According to World Health Organization (WHO) data since the start of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) pandemic approximately 75 million have become infected with HIV and around 32 million people have died of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)-related illnesses. Thus, HIV problem became as one the most important issue worldwide. Countries and organizations are uniting in their fight against the virus. Therefore, the strong partnership between non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and government, as we...

The main feature of the new Millennium is the rapid development of innovative economy. This has affected engineering education, as the state and employers have formed new requirements for the quality of professional training of future specialists in the current socio-economic conditions. The article examines the requirements for employment and qualifications in the labor market of future specialists, analyzes the results of employers surveys. To determine new requirements for the quality of professional training o...

Italy is one of the most representative tourist destinations worldwide. Its wide range of attractions makes both urban and rural spots to be visited annually by millions of tourists. Tourism also supports the local economy and helps local communities from less developed regions to diversify their sources of income. Puglia is one of the Italian regions where local authorities encourage the development of tourist activities, especially those specific to the ecotourism niche, as a real alternative to agriculture. In ...

In this paper, we present the results from research focused on the usage of visual programming languages for teaching programming and algorithmization, which was a part of research named „The usage of educational materials in informatics“. The purpose of this research was to collect data about which didactics aids and educational materials do teachers use and get the foundation for upcoming research that would go deeper into specific topics. The data were collected by a questionnaire among Czech teachers of a seco...

In recent years, the examination of the management models of companies has seen the emergence of more and more, but still not enough, choices of governance oriented, and then conditioned by, to corporate social responsibility which is that strategic vision of the company that includes in its economic objectives, not only the relationships with all its stakeholders, but supports them with social objectives, which then turn into values - measurable - for the same company. This choice is influenced by the national an...

Poverty is a phenomenon that, even though we live in the 21st century, at a time when there is a sufficiency, there are people who are poor. Poverty affects people who are ill for a long time [1], migrants [2], those who are low-skilled, but even some university graduates, e.g. social workers working in certain types of facilities [3]. Poverty is not always the result of unemployment, but people who work are also poor. The aim of the article is to find out how working poverty in Slovakia perceives his life and how...

Under the conditions imposed by the knowledge society, in order to start a strategy with real chances of success in product and service innovation, it has become increasingly clear the need for companies to participate in networks, alliances and collaborations to reduce the rising costs of technology transfer. There are different types of RDI agreements that companies can make directly with R&D institutes, universities, other organizations, public-private partnerships, which may be different depending on the finan...