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This paper is a brief synopsis of a work regarding the security policy in Italy between 2008 and 2013. Trough the analysis of the main national press of different political orientation, the paper aims to investigate the shift in priority of Italian parties in front of new threats and the effects this shift had on Italian policy. With the results of 2008 election, right-wing People of Freedom (PdL) and left-wing Democratic party (PD) centered their agenda on physical security. The zero-tolerance policy of Berluscon...

This paper analyses legal consequences of applying conscientious objections to childhood mandatory vaccinations in the Czech Republic. There is no common European approach towards childhood vaccination and legal exemptions from statutory duty imposed by part of the states. The European Court of Human Rights considers vaccination campaigns which oblige individual to defer to general interest and not to endanger health of others where his own life is not in danger, not going beyond the margin of appreciation left to...

In today’s world, where we can witness the ubiquitous implementation of information and communication technologies along with the inevitable digitalization of business processes, the role of intangible assets, of intellectual property and intellectual resources for achieving sustainable competiveness is growing in importance. The aim of the present article is to contribute to the identification of the elements of intellectual capital in trade under the established fields in the economic literature: human, organisa...

The study focuses on the importance of balancing the need to share and use genetic sequences and the need to protect the privacy of biological groups who could be harmed if the genetic data of a group member were made public. Many medical discoveries are based on the use of human cells which are donated by volunteers. But the will of the donors could be in contrast with the will of their relatives. The aim of the study is to determine what the preeminent interest between the desire of the donor to help the researc...

The parallel development of the digital society and the ideas for sustainable development provokes courier companies to seek innovative solutions based on ecofriendly practices that correspond to the technological changes that take place in the major players in the realization of products, which are the merchants. The aim of this paper is to reveal the place of the courier companies as the main logistics intermediaries in the context of the omnichannel commercial strategy and to outline the trends in the sector fa...

The author presents project, the aim of which is adaptation of folklore songs for voice and piano by contemporary Slovak composer Pavol Krška. The project is the result of pedagogical practice needs. All songs were composed for specific interpreters in the specific key e.g. a baritone. The project gives a chance to other voice groups of a tenor and a bas to include songs to their repertory. The same principle works also in case of the adaptation for female voices.

Background The publication presents the results of an analysis of the technological and material construction solutions of insular Venice, in addition to their destruction and securing methods. Corrosion is a natural process of the environment’s influence on materials, which produces chemical or physicochemical reactions causing damage to a given structure. The first materials to undergo destruction are those that are most susceptible to corrosion. The rate of the infliction of corrosive damage to multi-element st...

The word-building methods lying behind the formation of brand names are thoroughly researched. However, little is known about the word-formation potential of the trade marks themselves though the phenomenon may significantly contribute to the study of neologisms and the ways that help to enrich the vocabulary. This work is devoted to studying the peculiarities of word formation processes occurring on the basis of word trade marks in the English language. The author studies composition, affixation and conversion as...

This study aims to describe the main musical and aesthetic concepts that define music as a special kind of language. The Ancient Greek doctrine of ethos claims that music is associated with feelings, since it imitates the human voice and expresses one’s state of mind or mood. In the doctrine of the affections music is compared to the art of rhetoric in its ability to affect emotions. So if rhetoric is an art of persuasion, then music is an art of suggestion. Romanticism in its turn declares music the language of f...

The more and more accelerated scientific and technological progress in advanced economies requires an increased complexity of the uncertainty and non-repetitiveness characteristics of the university activities. This calls more and more for the diversification, perfection and refinement of the evaluation methods for the efficiency and effectiveness of the university activity, in the short, medium and long run under the new conditions of globalization and assertion of knowledge-based society. This paper compares met...

The areas which are heavily urbanized, including densely developed districts, limited open spaces and biologically active areas, provide a special environmental context, as well as increased pollution and emission of heat generated by human activity. The climatic factors undergo transformation (e.g. shading, changed directions of wind caused by buildings, the phenomenon of the urban heat island). There are various building needs in the scope of the development of their interior microclimate, for instance, problems...

Background: The question of safe use of the Internet by school students is one of the questions actively discussed in recent years. There is a particular concern about the entry of children into informal groups, sometimes of terrorist orientation, children's dependence on on-line-games, the treatment of the children to the sites, the content of which causes harm to physical and psychological health of children. Governments around the world have taken measures to ensure the safety of young Internet users at the leg...

The problem of shaping and functioning safety culture and its role in the operations of construction enterprises has been undertaken in the paper. The ways of defining safety culture and the safety culture assessment model in the company have been presented. Risk and safety have been presented as cultural values. Social factors conditioning the conduct and motivation to organize safe working conditions have been incorporated into the safety culture notion, and the development of positive safety culture is now rega...

Background Our research aimed to outline the muscular activity characteristics at athletes, with the help of sEMG parameters indexes, at the same time, trying to prove their relevance, in defining, from electrophysiological point of view, the corresponding studied sports. Methods We have studied a group formed of 22 male athletes, 11 fencers and 11 volleyball players, active for at least 6 years, exclusively in either one of the studied sports, with homogeneous average ages, heights, weights and training regime. E...

This article is devoted to the history of epigrammatic art as one of most problematic and interesting phenomena, paying special attention to its oral and written manifestations closely attached to medical art in all its aspects. Thus, the authors point out the main features and particularities of epigrams as a classical small literary genre which together with poems, epitaphs and other small form a real separate trend in the European literary art. In the frame of diachronic approach to the topic they give a detail...

The fixed phrase scheme of the modern German language «Wie + AF (?)!» is of great importance for the communication practice, because the use of this scheme in spoken speech increases the efficiency of the communicative process, giving it a natural and relaxed character. It has been established that this scheme is capable of expressing different meanings: «statement», «negation» and «negative evaluation». The spe?ific character of its signified element is the combination of dictum and modus propositions. This phras...

Though distant in time and style, the two classics of the European culture display a common and deep understanding of the human nature and of humanity’s way of reaching its purpose and truth. Refined observers of human behaviour, they both emphasize, each in his own manner, and with specific artistic means, the human need for self-knowledge and accomplishment, and the way it fails or succeeds in attaining them. With both playwrights, there is no way to self-knowledge and happiness but in the mirror of another cons...

The paper presents the results of the first phase of research focused on the evaluation of effective factors of multisensory approaches in the field therapeutic education. The research focuses on -qualitative observation of interventions in people with autism spectrum disorder that were implemented in the year 2017 in Slovakia. Extraction of effective communication factors was accomplished through qualitative methodology using the Atlas software. Multisensory play takes place in a pre-prepared environment that all...

The tax harmonization process in the EU is part of global trends, namely tax adaptation, cooperation, coordination and harmonization versus competition. Unlike other areas, for example business, there is no institution representing all countries in the field of tax coordination. So the tax harmonization process is demanding and depends on the decision of the countries. The aim of this paper is to analyse the process of harmonizing value added tax (VAT) in the European Union (EU), one of the prerequisites for the s...

The article deals with the concept of keywords from the position of an associative approach. This concept is widely used in professional scientific and educational activities. The definition of the key words of the text is a prerequisite for the preparation of a scientific work for publication, as well as one of the stages in the teaching of philological analysis of the text. In this regard, it becomes urgent to identify what is meant by the term "keywords" in the professional activities of a philologist. We belie...

William Hazlitt’s “Lectures on English Comic Writers” were delivered in 1818 at Surrey Institution and immediately after, they were published. Two centuries later the list of authors discussed in the “Lectures” by Hazlitt still draws University lecturers’ attention around the world. Poetry and plays by William Shakespeare and Ben Johnson, Cowley’s and Vanbrugh’s comedies, Alexander Pope’s poems, Addison’s and Steele’s periodical essays, Fielding’s, Richardson’s, Smollett’s and Goldsmith’s novels, even Hogarth’s pa...

Background information The article studies one of the key pragmatic goals of professional communication – influencing the addressee – by considering French and English precedent phenomena consequential to the target audience. Advertising as a goal-oriented speech effort is becoming an increasingly popular object of humanitarian research. The inextricable connection of language and culture has recently become the focus of renewed interest, and in this context of professional communication studies, precedent phenome...

Emotions were always at the heart of the primary nominations. Not a single word was born without a person's emotions. The linguistic aspect of emotionality has become an integral part of scientific research in various fields of knowledge (philosophy, psychology, linguistics, medicine, psycholinguistics, etc.). The ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle described the world of emotions. The problem of realization of the emotional function of the Arabic language was reflected in the works of medieval philolog...

The aim of this paper is to assess the scope of application of the relevant articles of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in relation to individual types of administrative offences provided for in Czech legal regulations, or proceedings in relation to such offences, based on an analysis and comparison of the practice of the European Court of Human Rights and the decision-making and practice of Czech courts. The paper introduction focuses on the legislative developm...

Financial instruments are one way of providing assistance from the European Structural and Investment Funds. They support investments that are expected to be financially viable but have insufficient funding from market sources. They may take the form of capital investments, loans, guarantees or other risk-sharing instruments. Unlike grants, they represent a return form of assistance through them the final beneficiary can access the financing of economic activities on preferential terms. The specificity of financia...

Place making is a concept meaning space improvement aimed at creating places that let you think of public spaces as "another place of your own". In recent years, it grew mainly within the United States, and the research accumulation is progressing. In this research, the study's target site was set up in an elementary school district in Fukuoka, Japan. At the northern end of the complex estate site, there is a parking lot site which is not currently used, and we considered it to be a community farm. In the survey m...

This article refers to the philosophical study of myth construction in videogames. We have studied how the philosophical ideas of the Modern Era (which has the idea of rationalization in its core) were presented in videogames using horror games as examples. We have analyzed the narrative of Modernization as “disenchantment of the world” (M. Weber) in several game series (Outlast, The Evil Within, Resident Evil). Eventually, we have concluded that the narration in these games is constructed in accordance with a cer...

Sustainable development is a way of developing a human society that aligns economic and social progress with full environmental conservation. One of its pillars is the Economic Pillar, which consists of all economic activities in a given company, interactions between them and between the environment and society. The aim of the paper is to specify and analyse the contribution and effectiveness of business co-operation through regular offline networking meetings in the given locality with an impact on the economic p...

Art has always been and still is a mirror in which human activity is reflected. One of the basic human activities is physical activity, thanks to which humans are able to satisfy their needs, improve health and also function in society. Therefore, there are different relationships between physical activity and art. Both of them are present in the public space of cities and this aspect of connection is addressed in the article. The first research question addresses how the presence of art in public space can contri...

The management of human resources is one of the core activities of managers who are responsible for successful corporate governance. Managing employees is one of the basic tasks of managers. This managerial task is an integral part of the managerial activity. The main objective is to convince their employees to meet the objectives of the company. The Human Resources Department in bigger companies is headed by the HR manager. The HR managers of companies operating in domestic environment have to work mainly with do...

The purpose of the article is to present a catalog of factors used to measure the efficiency of the health care sector. The first part of the study depicts conducted literature review on the methods of testing efficiency in healthcare. A brief characteristics of parametric, non-parametric and indicative methods of efficiency measurement was presented. The second part of the study demonstrates the application of the Balanced Scorecard method to evaluate the effectiveness of functioning of general hospitals in Polan...

Colorimetry and exposure measurement rank among the key technological attributes for the qualitative acceptance of a media work in the context of using modern technologies. Abrupt changes and a rapid development in audiovisual recording represent a qualitative shift in the formal understanding of a media work. Our research focuses on the practical determination of exposure and of the colorimetric setting of modern digital cameras for low-budget films, exploiting the maximum digital recording potential of various r...

The material of Yakut literature is a great illustration to the problem of the dialogue between cultures. Typological parallels can be found between Yakut Olonkho and other peoples` heroic songs, for example, Turkic heroic songs and European archaic significant sites like Celtic legends and Scandinavian Poetic Edda. The old comparative linguistics exceptionally found similarity reasons of artistic-literary phenomena in immediate connections, migratory subjects or mythological archetypes. But representatives of the...

One of the basic theoretical postulates for the protection of monuments is to preserve them in the place of their creation. However, such action is not always possible to implement. The great historical processes of the 20th century led to significant national, political, religious and cultural changes in the border areas between Poland and Ukraine. As a result of those changes, a large number of wooden churches have lost their users. These buildings indicate the development of the skills of using wood as the basi...

More or less stable elements of human identity are inevitably formed during the whole life of a person through interactive processes and socio-cultural factors. This process builds a system of basic features – somatic, psychical, social and intellectual aspects, which are carried by three levels of identity: biological, psychical and social. Personality is based on the biological sphere as it is the primary structure related to empirically experienced anxiety of existence. The features of primary personality trigg...

The aim of the article is to present new activities in the located in the region of southern Poland spa resorts. In Poland there are 45 spa resorts (mostly small towns and villages) half of them were developed in the southern part of Poland and many of them are interesting examples of the transformations of the urban public space in a spa resorts. Almost all those settlements are locate in the outstanding natural environment including landscapes, climate and above all in the water, confirm a number of studies and ...

Background. Any chronic disease or disorder has a psychological burden on patients. Almost a third of asthmatics are psychologically distressed. The aim of the study was to evaluate the relationship between the quality of life and the scores of depression and anxiety among inpatients with occupational asthma. Study design. A cross-sectional study of prevalence was performed among patients admitted in hospital with diagnosis of occupational asthma. Material and methods. In addition to the usual clinical and lung fu...

At present, it is widely accepted that the innovation represents the engine for the economic development, increasing the quality of life and building a sustainable future for humanity. Innovation exists from the beginning of mankind, in various forms, but only during the last century, its role increased continuously and became a fundamental element in the development process. European Union started to assess the performance in innovation from 2001 with European Innovation Scoreboard, a composite indicator that cov...

The aim of the paper is to describe and compare different approaches in lexical semantics and to find out which of them can be used to study semantic features that are necessary for a speaker and a listener while processing spoken word. We group the methods that can be used in semantic research according to three criteria:1) what aspects are in focus of a research: here we compare the studies of the relations between different concepts (such as a word association experiment) and the studies of the components of co...

Military psychologists play an important role in a modern army, particularly under conditions of war. During hostilities, a military psychologist extensively uses the group form of work. If this is the case, he applies a number of professional skills that are pedagogical or related to them. This makes it expedient to use immersion of military psychologists into pedagogical situations during their training. The paper describes the advisability of exploiting such a pedagogical situation as giving mini-lectures. The ...

In the last decades, there has been a discussion about teachers’ professional development in Slovakia but also in the European context. Researches show that Slovak teachers have lost their professional status in Slovakia. Their initial and continuing education is strongly theoretical and formal, the development of their practical skills and team working is not supported. As a research team, we have created a Model of professional development of teachers in schools which reflects actual problems of teachers’ profes...

Ecodesign of steam turbine elements can contribute to reducing the environmental impact of traditional power generation systems. The article identifies and analyzes environmental parameters in the life cycle of the steam turbine diaphragms. The identification of ecodesign variants, as part of conceptual design, creates the opportunity to choose optimal life cycle parameters related to minimization of material and energy consumption, as well as waste reducing. At the stage of conceptual design, three design solutio...

The initial part of the article provides an overview of the constitutional and statutory bases of the institution of petition and the constitutional bases of the administration of justice in Poland. The author also presents the parliamentary procedure of considering petitions with a particular emphasis on the role of the Committee on Petitions in this regard. These considerations are followed by the analysis of five petitions submitted to the Sejm in the 8th term of office, which began on 12 November 2015, until 3...

The data quoted on the legal employment of foreigners do not show the actual employment rate of immigrants in our country. Firstly, due to Poland's membership in the EU, citizens of other EU countries who take up employment in Poland do not need to register this fact, do not need a work permit and are (in accordance with EU legislation) treated as employees of the target country1. Secondly, and it is resulting from the first fact, there is a lack of statistics on the number of actually employed citizens on the bas...

The article explores lexical-semantic and functional aspects of intercultural professional communication from the perspective of opposing identities exposed in the context of professional communicative exchange effectuated by people of various national backgrounds. In an age of multiculturalism, peoples’ linguistic identity goes hand in hand with their mentality, which is why the study also considers professional language as a component of both general linguistic system and a type of social dialect. For the purpos...

The permanent and irreversible effects of changes in the face of the Earth that modern architecture should respond to, are discernible. What distinguishes the ideology of sustainable architecture is highlighting the meaning of the relationship between man and the environment. Due to their activity, people have not only a visible impact on the nature of the landscape, but also on climate change, disturbances in the functioning of flora and fauna, and even deterioration of the health of the population. Ecological, e...

The article is devoted to the first literary texts of the Khanty written language of L.P. Vologodskiy “Matve? elta jemy? a?kol-jastypsa” (Sacred legends of Matthew in the Obdorsk dialect, 1868), the publication is available at http:// lingvodoc.ispras.ru/dictionary/1167/4/perspective/1167/5/view?page=1, I. Egorov, I. Popov "????? ???????” (Sacred History, 1900), available at http:// lingvodoc.ispras.ru/dictionary/902/27/perspective/902/28/view and A.A. Dunin- Gorkavich "??????-???????-????????i? ??????????i? ?????...

Caucasus is a land of various languages, but the Republic of Dagestan often called a ‘mountain of languages’ is especially endowed with them. This ‘mountain’ consists, first of all, of languages spoken by the indigenous population. Among them is the language under the present research, Avar. It is an ancient language which has not been studied deep enough (as well as the history of Avars) and needs a detailed linguistic characterization. In contrast, the French language which has a larger number of speakers has be...

The given study covers an actual interdisciplinary issue – Russian language, post-Soviet Russian literature in particular, that includes the "otherness" of multiple ethnic cultures and creates unique images of the world. In the modern conventional sense, culture is replaced by transculture – a space of interaction and mutual repulsion, intertwinement, constellation, overlapping, flowing of cultures into one another. These processes have no and can't have any solidified, final forms that would be determined once an...

The transition to the use of new information technology means is a characteristic feature of the modern general education and higher school. The programs of informatization are being implemented and the means of education informatization are being developed in the educational process of the educational institutions of Tatarstan within the framework of the priority national project "Education". Modern educational standards also pay special attention to the need of competence development in the use of information an...