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The number of the country's population has significantly decreased in the Baltic States over the last fifteen years, experiencing the highest wave of emigration in the years of the economic crisis, when many residents went to other countries to ensure higher incomes and material well-being in general. In the Baltic States, emigrants are mainly people of working age. This has an impact on the labour market and the national economy as a whole. As the role of the labour force in the formation of the national economy ...

Covid-19 had tremendously affected the way how people learn. As a general tendency, the sector of adult education has transformed towards digitization offering a wide range of online adult education programmes, including in geosciences. Due to the Covid-19 related restrictions, educational institutions offering adult education programmes were forced to develop their strategies on how to adapt to the new reality. Within this study, a comparative analysis of three adult education institutions representing Latvia, Po...

In this paper we are analysing the competition on the energy sector of Romania. The Energy Markets are divided into the market for the production and sale of electricity, electricity supply market, electricity transport market and electricity distribution market. The analysis is based on three indicators used to measure the degree of competition: Concentration Ratio (CRk), which measures the combined market ratio of the top k companies in the sector, and Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI), which is the sum of the sq...

Public administration and the services it provides have an important role in the lives of citizens. People use these services to solve various problems, and the interaction that people have with public servants can influence their opinion about the performance and quality of these services. The aim of the paper was to identify the factors that influence the perception of citizens from the city of Brasov about the public services for registration of persons and marital status, in order to improve them and make them...

Given the demographic situation in Latvia, the decline in the working-age population and the increase in the number of persons with disabilities (PwD), it is necessary to address the employment issues for disabled people. Therefore, it is relevant to integrate the factors affecting the employment of people with disabilities into a coherent system to address the employment problem. Only 47.2% of the working-age population with disabilities were employed in Latvia in 2021, while the employment rate in the general ag...

The article describes the discussion among East Slavic researchers regarding the appearance of the manuscript “The Musical Grammar” by M. Dyletskyi in 1723. Mentions in its text of musical instruments and imitation of their sound nature in the newly found composer’s choral concerto“Let the trumpets sound” have been analyzed. The musical instruments have been considered for the first time depicted on the title sheet of the manuscript in terms of similar Slavic and Western European instruments of the XII – XVIII cen...

During the COVID -19 pandemic, among other institutions, mass media has played an essential role in disseminating information about the evolution of the pandemic, but also in shaping peoples’ opinion about the COVID - 19 vaccine. The purpose of our paper was to identify the way online media channels portrayed the positive and negative effects of the COVID – 19 vaccines in order to raise awareness regarding the importance of analyzing the subject from several perspectives. We considered such an analysis to be both ...

Most empirical studies on mindfulness-based interventions’ effects on alcohol use problems are carried out in the Western, and very few in the Hungarian population. In this randomized-controlled pilot study, we aimed to investigate the effects of the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training’s mindfulness exercises on Alcohol Use Disorder symptoms. We hypothesized that the mindfulness intervention would significantly reduce the AUD symptoms. Our sample consists of Hungarian adults at risk for alcohol use disord...

We are surrounded by video surveillance cameras that register separately in two light areas: visible to our naked eye - Red, Green Blue record and near infrared record (NIR – Z). In this article, we present quantitative data on the measurement of light absorption for fine art colorants. We expand the theory and practice of Infrared Art by giving examples of artists who paint so-called "infrared pictures" as a new, different creation of a work of art, a new expressive possibility that the artist adapts to his artis...

In the regulation of the current Romanian Code of Criminal Procedure (Law no. 135/2010, entered into force on February 1, 2014), the contestation regarding the duration of the criminal trial was conceived as a procedural remedy in the case of the lack of celerity of the judicial bodies. The lack of promptness of the criminal investigation bodies can lead to the violation of the fundamental right to resolve the case within a reasonable term, as a component of the right to a fair trial, enshrined in the European Con...

The article authors reveal the specific features of music education in Waldorf school. Based on theoretical methods (synthesis and analysis of scientific and educational sources) and empirical methods (observation, survey, conversation, study of the academic results of schoolchildren’s activities etc.), the general tendencies of modern Waldorf education, as well as the specific features of organizing the educational process in Waldorf school and music education, in particular, have been identified. The general ten...

The valorization of medieval castles in the territory of the Republic of Croatia, regardless of the fact that it is largely under the protection of UNESCO, is an important issue of a modern and multicultural society that can only be built by active work on preserving cultural diversity and building its useful and aesthetic value. The process of valorization of cultural heritage is extremely important for the preservation of cultural and historical heritage, which Northern Croatia recognizes as the most important p...

As law enforcement officers work in the system person-person they must possess the ability to stop conflicting parties’ opposition, resolve conflicts on the basis of the rule of law. So developing conflict managing skill is crucial in professional training of future law enforcement officers. The article purpose is to identify the impact of the pedagogical conditions of the development of future law specialists’ ability to resolve conflicts on the level of this skill development. Research methods were the following...

Electricity production takes place in facilities where the maximum technical, economic, and ecological effect can be obtained. Electricity is delivered to consumers using transmission and distribution electrical networks. In the territory of Latvia, the total length of electric network lines in 2021 was 98,032 km, ensuring safe electricity supply to 1.1 million objects. Electric networks cross land properties and occupy certain land areas. In 2021, 1,032,177 land units were registered in Latvia. So, on average, th...

The study provides an overview of the pedagogical role of board games. In every section of it argues for the importance and role of them: in the first part it presents a short historical overview by offering evidences and examples of how they were used in different eras, starting from a couple of thousand years B. C. Another part of the article deals with the development of game theories and the perception of using board games for pedagogical aim. As it concludes from this section, these thoughts and ideas are als...

The work aims to apply a divergent and convergent approach in teaching professional English focused on developing verbal creativity within the training of communication skills for university students. The research involved 50 students of economics in an experimental group with a divergent approach (N = 25) and a control group with a traditional convergent approach (N = 25) at the University of Zilina in an engineering study within an 8-week experiment. Before/after the experiment, verbal creativity in topic-based ...

The primary purpose of the paper is to present research analysis which aims to recognize the art of Kosovan piano music through analysis for interpretation as a relatively new discipline born in the late ‘90s that today in the world counts numerous publications. The qualitative-descriptive methodology is used in this paper. It entails interpreting and analyzing music, with a focus on Rauf Dhomi’s Opus “70 Pieces for Piano”. Many European countries have previously experienced the splendor and enchantment of the Ren...

The paper analyzes the role of small and medium-sized enterprises in the development of Georgian economy. It is justified that the development of effective mechanisms of public procurement in this type of enterprises will greatly contribute to the growth of GDP, as well as play an important role in the structural change of the economy, in the formation of a competitive environment, in the development of private entrepreneurship, in the modernization of the consumer market and in solving socio-economic problems. Th...

The article aims to highlight the chrono-spatial distribution of electoral processes in the Olt Country (southern Transylvania, Romania), in the last seven centuries. For the medieval era we have information related to the election of members (boyars) of the Superior Seat of Fagara?, an institution of regional autonomy preserved by both the Muntenian rule (before 1462) and the Transylvanian (XVI-XVII centuries), and in the first phase (XVIIIth century), by the Habsburg Court in Vienna too. For the middle of the XI...

The present study examines the contemporary rewriting in the French language of Euripides' play The Trojan Women by Jean Paul Sartre. The French philosopher having the intention once more to deal with humanity’s big problems, he intensifies Euripides’ text with elements drawn from modern society and era. The theme dealt with is war and suppression, along with their conviction, a pattern especially popular with the creator since it is the one he deals with in his debut drama Bariona ou le fils de tonnerre (1940). A...

William Blake’s aesthetic vision of the secular world is based on divine inspiration. In the myth of The Ancient Britons, he discusses the three aesthetic categories of the sublime, the beautiful and the ugly. These establish his theory of art, which is based on Jesus the Imagination. The sublime, the beautiful and the ugly are forms indicative of gradations of divine influx in every individual. In this sense, the myth explicitly describes and distinguishes the three aesthetic categories that shape the secular and...

Industrial accidents, including major accidents involving hazardous chemicals, continue to occur around the world, and the trend, for example according to European Commission statistics, is not particularly downward. It is well known that the consequences of industrial accidents on human health and life, property and environmental components can be devastating. What may not always be identified, however, are the potential causes and possibly the culprits. It should be good practice for the process of identifying t...

The need for innovative changes in the fight against crime and the necessity to revise the established paradigms of forensic science was bound to reflect in forensic didactics. The academics’ expectations of practice not only call for a new approach to the content and forms of legal education but also for a dialogue with students, who are increasingly shifting from passive consumers of knowledge to active participants in the study process to eventually become the future initiators and implementers of innovation. A...

Genetic algorithms are one of the most efficient meta-heuristics. The base of genetic algorithms is a set of candidate optimal solutions called population. The initial population usually is randomly generated. Optimization goes in epochs of new generations. New generations are produced after crossover and mutation. Mating between individuals is done after the selection of the better-fitted individuals. The fitness value of each individual is calculated by supplying the candidate solution to the optimized target fu...

Using dialectical and systemic methods, the author conducted a thorough analysis of the thematic and organizational aspects of the cadets' assistance to the population in the fields of law, intellectual volunteerism, and public activity, including with the participation of international donor organizations, in cooperation with Ukrainian public organizations, using a virtual environment. Through the prism of the experience of the functioning of the School of Scientific Leadership of the Kharkiv National University ...

The article is devoted to the problems of the social role of the musical ensemble. The purpose of the article is to identify the ethical and social specifics of the ensemble as a phenomenon and the consolidating nature of the very nature of ensemble music-making as a form of communication. The main methods are socio-anthropological, culturalhistorical, phenomenological and systemic. The proposed study is based on the concept of the theory and history of the musical ensemble, created by the author of the article an...

In the contemporary society there are many discussions about bullying and public shaming, especially about the need to eliminate this harmful phenomenon, but it can be seen that there is bullying and public shaming that affect countries and populations, without synchronizing the approach for the elimination of these phenomena. Romania and Bulgaria are the most exposed countries to what could be defined as bullying and public shaming at the country and population level, especially by presenting them as negative exa...

The Covid-19 crisis has contributed to the growing structural imbalances in the labour market. Both unemployment in general and youth unemployment makes serious consequences in the economy and development for the people, undermining the pillars of human well-being and better living conditions. Young people have disadvantage in finding a job, especially those with low skills, without education and job experience. Those young people are often discriminated when they want to enter the labour market. Youth employment ...

The territory of modern Turkey is abundant in ancient monuments of a various kind and historical periods. Among most notable ones are the ruins of the ancient Hittites capital near modern settlement of Bogazkoy / Hattusas. The remains of the stone structures located in that area have been studied for more than a century and there are many documented discoveries. However, some of these discoveries are still lacking a reliable scientific research data. For that reason, such objects often become popular subjects for ...

Andrzej Karalow (b. 1991) is a pianist, composer and improviser. In his approach to music, an avid interest of the young generation, he breaks free from the traditional form and instrumentation, striving for creative freedom and artistic exploration. The composer combines a variety of trends that are fundamental for several genres of music and determine a contemporary world of sounds. Performing as a pianist and guitar player, Karalow creates artistic projects with Jerzy Przezdziecki, a recognised Polish experimen...

The history of mankind demonstrates that the most difficult task has always been and remains the maintenance of society and social life in an orderly, balanced and dynamic state of optimal viability. The depressing regularity of social cataclysms, wars, crises and local conflicts convincingly testifies to the extreme complexity of this task. This complexity, however, does not negate the need and importance of scientific support for specific modern forms of violence and the development of new theoretical and empiri...

This paper analyses Brentano’s aesthetical classification of arts from a psychological standpoint. Two questions are raised. First, if the established number of arts, which is five, is transparent and if one type of art does not only deflect the attention of others. That means if we have five completely different arts or maybe some of them fall in the same class altogether. The used method is an inquiry into how the arts that we percept through sight and hearing influence our psychological processes such as imagin...

Today's competitive environment requires managers who are able to identify and distinguish false information and critically analyze information. Today's businesses are driven by a knowledge-based society, and the more critical the thinking, the better the knowledge. Information literacy helps young people to become more critical of the information they receive, while business information literacy can significantly improve decision-making processes. Information literacy is considered to be the ability to critically...

This paper contrasts Monarchia by Dante Alighieri with Il Principe by Niccolo Machiavelli. It is argued that the Principe not only incorporates the realities of politics but is also superior to the Monarchia as a scientific work because it avoids the latter’s commitment to scholastic philosophy and has greater empirical relevance and logical consistency. Moreover, it can serve to some extent as a role model for an approach to a positive analysis of politics even today.

Well-functioning financial markets are crucial in creating strong economic environment, determined by stock market size, capitalization, and also banking development, which can forecast the improvements in growth and productivity. Access to sustainable financing could benefit equally to companies and also environment. Stock market is an alternative source of funding to banks, when they are cautious in lending to businesses, especially during various crises. The research aim is to analyze stock market capitalizatio...

Human dignity is inviolable. It must be respected and protected. Everyone has the right to respect for his or her physical and mental integrity. [1] Hate crimes are crimes motivated by racial, ethnic, or religious hatred or hostility. Media regularly reports violence against certain ethnic groups. Lithuania, like other EU countries, applies EU law directly or transposes it into national law. These changes have also had an impact on the fight against hate crime, as this type of crime has received increasing attenti...

Pavel Srut (1940-2018) was a representative of a young generation of poets in the golden 1960s. After the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops (1968), he stayed in Czechoslovakia but could only publish in samizdat and exile. During the period of strict neo-Stalinist censorship (1969-1989), Srut continued to write, more for himself and for a vaguely anticipated future readership. He followed the tradition of the Central European absurdity, which we know from the work of Franz Kafka. One of the highlights of Srut’s po...

The Covid-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected persons with disabilities in the world; the number of deaths caused by the pandemic has largely affected persons with disabilities as reported by United Nations. However, people with disabilities not only faced greater health impacts, but were also affected by worsening economic situation. Many persons with disabilities were dismissed from work, but many unemployed persons with disabilities stopped looking for work. The pandemic has halted the progress that had...

Sustainable development goals in education foresee availability of education among others. Availability of educational services exactly near to living place is significant for reaching sustainable development goals. Although, availability of educational services near to living place requires investments and clear understanding of possible demand for the services in the future. Depopulation at regional level is the issue, which complicates availability of education near to living place. As a result, regions need to...

The article highlights the chrono-spatial distribution of the evolution of some demographic peculiarities at the level of the districts of Fagara? for almost a millennium, starting from the XIth century, until today. Thus, first of all, the evolution of the population is highlighted, as a whole and on the component districts. Closely related to this is the evolution of density, both for the settlement's total and at the district level. Also, based on documentary sources – statistical-fiscal (urbaria, conscriptions...

The result of a decision in situations of internal conflict is influenced not only by emotions and experience, but also by age. The main life decision-making process for young people is more limited. Today, information overload and time constraints have a strong impact on the decision-making process, including risks and trends such as delays, transfers and redeployment. Factors such as emotional state, skills to manage emotions and experience are becoming important factors in decision making. Self-regulation plays...

In the light of Objective 3 of the 2030 Agenda, this paper will analyse, the state of the art of sustainable innovation in healthcare and the improvement that it has brought both in the context of healthcare companies and socio-economic factors using the statistical data. The author will consider the repercussions that the emergency linked to Covid-19 had on this progress, highlighting the criticalities of the health system. The author will also look into how these can be remedied through the investments provided ...

This paper innovatively analyzes cultural intersections between the literary oeuvres of modern Italian writer Cristina Campo and the topics pertaining to ecocriticism, together with concomitant digital aspects thereof. The paper explores transversally across her work the elements of eco-literature, as well as interdisciplinary convergences in the light of environmental science with a particular focus on the envisionment of diachronic examples and other external intertextual elements in the contemporary era. The in...

This article reveals the links between second language learning and the development of global citizenship in pre-school education. A review of educational policy documents shows that global citizenship education is defined as a democratic and sustainable education focused on the development of competences of a global citizen. It emphasises the importance of global citizenship in the education of the pre-school child, since from this point onwards, the child becomes familiar with his/her surroundings, not only loca...

In the digital society variety of technological tools became available that bring the new tutoring student-centred ecosystem enhancing professional English L2 teaching/learning skills and abilities. The work aims at adopting technology in education (EdTech) by comparing the advantages and limitations and addressing experimental evidence on the effectiveness of technology-based approaches by developing English communication skills for graduates. The pre-experimental phase recognised and mapped the most effective an...

“The Trust” Stalin’s own secret service organizations were appropriately named in 1930, for the exclusive purpose of using the emigration upon which he considered the OGPU has not concentrated sufficiently or used to the fullest extent, and this he believed to be because the OGPU, was already overloaded with work in other directions. The work of “The Trust” was the subject of the direct personal control of Stalin who had expressed the opinion that with the advance of Hitler to power in Germany, the political impor...

It is important to identify the intentions of young people to start a business and the factors that influence them, as well as to find an explanation that leads to entrepreneurial activities and the emergence of new businesses. Entrepreneurial intentions are important in the context of individual career development. Identifying an individual's entrepreneurial intentions is important because it focuses on activities that could add value to both the individual and society in the future, as well as create new jobs. E...

Transgenders are those whose sex assigned to them at birth i.e., male or female, does not conform with their current perceived gender. Since transgenders are considered by the traditional binary male or female society as deviating from the established gender norms, they often face humiliation, discrimination or social exclusion. This paper examined the approaches made by the authorities of Malaysia and England when dealing with transgender issues. The authors employed a doctrinal research method for this paper. Th...

Bulgaria is extremely rich in prehistoric and historic monuments. Among Bulgaria’s outstanding monuments there are not only the well-known Varna Necropolis and Provadia-Solnitsata ancient salt mining and urban center, but also numerous other megalithic prehistoric monuments. Until now, they have been identified and recognized mainly as alone - standing objects. Current paper focuses on the study carried out in the vicinity of Zlatosel village on the prehistoric site of the Plochata Dolmen. The study indicates that...

The new rural zones need a new quality. A green grid means intersections of lines and nodes into the rural landscape through alleys, green playgrounds, community gardens, and contact with orchards, meadows, and streams create ecological and human conditions for quality new residential rural suburbs. Our research focuses on these current issues in the form of case studies of rural areas and an evaluation of their quality. In four case studies in Zahorska Bystrica near Bratislava, a comparative method of comparing a...