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21st century is characterized by rapid changes in economy, science, education and social life. The necessity for the development of new competence for everybody is growing day by day to be able to compete in the labour market. In order to make the students - future podologist’s training and their professional competence development successful, it is necessary to introduce systematic changes in the content of the program, in the use of modern teaching and learning methods and evaluation of the study process of the ...

The paper focuses on joint education of students with autism spectrum disorder in elementary schools. The paper presents the results of a research study, the principle objective of which was to assess the attitudes of teachers to the process of integration of students with autism spectrum disorder. The purpose of the research study was also to determine whether there was an association between the teachers’ attitudes to the integration of a student with ASD in the context of the teachers’ experience with educating...

In this empirical research we have treated the correlation between external and internal motivation of teachers and their competencies for work with students in school. In this empirical research we have treated the correlation between external and internal motivation of teachers and their competencies for work with students in school. In this empirical research we have treated the correlation between external and internal motivation of teachers and their competencies for work with students in school. The above wr...

Background. Rate of early miscarriages is about 10-15% worldwide, and immune causes can play an important role in their pathogenesis. Normally Th2 lymphocytes is predominant subpopulation during early stages of pregnancy, while Th1 lymphocytes, which provide activation of cell immunity, are decreased. Regulatory T-lymphocytes (Treg, Th3) maintain tolerance to self-antigens and suppress excessive inflammatory response and also may be involved in pathogenesis of miscarriages. Th17 lymphocytes (Th17) play an importan...

Our living in the dramatically globalizing world makes us admit that individuals need new abilities to survive and succeed in the societies with a high level of interdependence and integration. As a response to these current challenges global competence appears to play a very important role in bringing up a globally competent person who can work and communicate effectively with people from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds which is especially urgent for Russia as it is actively participating in solving...

The urgent medicine is very young and dynamic discipline of health sciences. Work at department, called Emergency or Departments of urgent medicine has to be very quick and arduous. The main aim of management of this department is continuous increase of quality of health care. Very important parts of medics’ teams there are nurses. The nurses’ work is essential component of full system of care. We would like to know; what is the impact of this work on the nurses employed at department. The identification of proble...

A number of serious consequences for the person, his organism and its safety has resulted from transition from post-industrial to information society. One of such consequences are information overloads. Information overload is only a factor that is somehow connected in the future with negative consequences for a person. The problem of information stress as a form of psychological stress was revealed today. Information overload, first of all, affect the emotional component of stress that acts as a kind of trigger f...

ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) presents challenges that affect everyday life and learning for pupils as well as their teachers and parents. Much has been written and researched when it comes to the disorder, with some conclusions resulting in great debate and controversy. Experts on ADHD offer a number of suggestions to help pupils with reading and writing. Paper presents some ways to provide pupils with secondary “fidget” activities, ones that don’t distract pupils from the task at hand but actua...

The represented article is devoted to the investigation of conditions for the developing of the pedagogical experience of newcomers to the university teachers in the process of intercultural interaction and improvement of the training of newcomers to the university teachers for intercultural interaction. The analysis of the scientific literature declares that named issue has not yet obtained the sufficient theoretical substantiation in pedagogical literature and viable practical fulfilment. As a result, the proble...

The article suggests solutions to the problems that may arise in the practical implementation of a new approach to the distribution of state-funded places among the universities, subordinated to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and the competition among the applicants. These problems include the excess of educational organization material resources with a sharp increase in the number of applicants recommended for enrollment; the mechanisms for taking into account additional creative ...

This paper deals with the concept of the social area of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Directed interviews conducted in a few large chemical enterprises in the Czech Republic discovered an interesting fact concerning perception of social activities within corporate social responsibility. What is surprising is the fact how often statutory employee care is confused or identified with above-standard care in corporate practice. It is also obvious that employees take a number of above-standard employee benefits...

In working life occupational health and safety is an important issue. The factory workers who feel sick may not have high performance at work. The feeling of illness will lead the worker to depression. Some of the problems of worker’s health and safety arise from the individual some of them are from the workplace. With this study it has been aimed to build a model revealing the relations among the individual variants such as perceived pain, The Cornell Musculoskeletal Discomfort Questionnaire. The aim of this rese...

The paper is devoted to the problem of youth workers´ professional growth. The European Commission notes of the European Union (EU) youth work directions currently in growing professionalisation and the rise of the proportion professional education youth workers and expected the increasing demand for youth work by society. However, it was noted that state support can be decreased with the pressure of the sector and can discourage youth work, thus contributing to staff turnover (2014). During the period 2005-2015 v...

The basis of the paradigms Environmental Sociology uses roots in the 19th-century social thought. It is possible to elucidate the conceptions of the Classical Sociology theoreticians which constitute the basis for “Environmental Sociology”. Although ideas directly in relation to the environment were not included in the studies of Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, and Max Weber, it is possible to apply their paradigms to “Environmental Sociology”. Since Classical Sociology Theories take an important place in the basis of ...

The purpose of the article is the investigation of the different types of the professional stratification of public servants. The main methodological approaches were system, activity and institutional ones. The base methods which authors have used are the analysis of the documents, including laws and other normative papers, massive questionnaire survey of different groups of servants and an expert survey of their managers. Indicators for the analysis of the characteristics of professional stratification of servant...

This article looks into natural science problems. Although a lot is being done in the country in the improvement of natural science education in schools, however, as international research data show, students’ natural science competence is insufficient. The present day student as well as schoolchildren is a technology generation person. His attitude to natural sciences, motivation to develop natural science competence is similar to schoolchildren’s. In this article it is discussed, how pre-service primary school t...

In recent times volunteering became more diverse. Its various types and manifestations can increasingly be reflected in different spheres of modern society’s life. The importance of the study of child volunteering is determined by the social meaning of this activity and its educational potential. The study of children and adolescent volunteering is also useful in the context of understanding volunteerism as a broad social phenomenon. The purpose of the article is to examine the child-teen volunteering as local pra...

Pituitary tumors often manifest through their local extension, involving the optic chiasm or the optic nerve and producing subsequent visual field alterations. Bitemporal hemi-anopsia is the most common visual field (VF) lesion in pituitary adenomas. According to tumor size and the degree of involvement of the optic chiasm, a variety of field modifications can occur. In the non-secreting pituitary adenomas patients, these alterations may very well predate the clinical features. The aim of this study was to report ...

Introduction. A series of studies presented in the paper indicate that people with motor experience are better mentally prepared to prevent and combat stress, negative emotional states due to the fact that psychic states influence the physiological state of the body which in turn has a repercussion on the psyche. Objective. This research seeks to identify the impact of physical activity on the personality of future lawyers, the echo of the research results, which we expect to be positive, reaching other students o...

Currently, in Russia, introduced a system of inclusive education aimed at reducing social discrimination against children with disabilities. Nevertheless, many children who study on an equal basis with healthy children face with the problem of motor adaptation, which subsequently becomes the reason for the reduction of psychological and social adaptation in general. For improving the motor adaptation, it is necessary to study the physiological and biomechanical foundations of the movement, based on which it will b...

Modern educational system needs a communicative and self-organized teacher capable to think flexibly. In our opinion, teachers’ professional development consists not only in subject and professional-pedagogical knowledge improvement, but also in motivation for professional -personal development. Nowadays labour optimization depends on many factors, one of which is organization competence. To learn to manage yourself effectively and by own opportunities is not a simple task, however, by means of specific technologi...

The article is devoted to the problem of student’s cultural self-determination by means of humanitarianly oriented teaching a foreign language. A person’s cultural self-determination is the formation of the student as a subject and an object of the public relations, the establishment of the stable relations with the world around us caused by the valuable and semantic contents. The development of the students’ cultural self-determination in the course of humanitarianly oriented teaching a foreign language represent...

The paper deals with analyses of sports activities in pubescent (12 – 15 years old) pupils in the Czech Republic and some EU countries. The aim of the study is to analyse, to verify and to identify the status quo of children’s interest in locomotive activities at basic schools and their attitude to these activities including determinants that shape the attitude. The study is done with help of kinatropological research. We chose a method based on questionnaire survey and following analyses and syntheses of gained d...

The risk of having a musculoskeletal injury or work-related disorder may be high in dental practice. Sit-down dentistry is not without potential harm to the dentist or if equipment or other constraints create postural problems. Surveys of musculoskeletal disorders of dentists are few, and lower limbs pathology is sometimes neglected. {{The aim}} of this paper is to investigate occupational health problems involving lower limbs in Romanian dentists who work in Constanta city. {{Method}}. A pre-tested, self-administ...

The authors analyse the current situation related to methodological and practical aspects of preparation of pedagogical profile bachelors specialising in education for children with disabilities. Integration of inclusive education at schools and universities of the country. Based on the experience of various universities, systemised and created special educational programs of additional education. An important condition of training is the professional self-determination. Methods: the authors of this article to exp...

Visual impairment has a very important psychosocial dimension - it determines the development of an individual's personality, his socialization process, social integration and inclusion into society, his psychological and social well-being too. In the following, we will attempt to outline the basic character of the psychosocial dimension of visual impairment, with an emphasis on the social specifics of a visually impaired individual in the situation of inclusion in educational process in elementary school. As Bakk...

Teaching a foreign language for specific purposes is one of the goals of the curriculum at a non-linguistic higher education institution. Various lingo-didactic technologies are used to realize this goal. Gamification approach i.e. the use of educational games including computer games is of crucial importance. Different aspects of using games in teaching English for specific purposes were already examined by one of the authors (Belenkova N. Computer Games: Leisure or Stimulus to Learning. International Conference ...

Social work has a negative image in public opinion. It determines important barriers for quality social work education and social work practice. The main goal of the research has discovered opinions students and social workers toward main ideas about social work importance and professional development. The research is based on sociological questionnaire of 445 students, social workers and other social groups (Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2015-2016). In result we have described students and social workers perceptions of ...

Decision-making about new products is crucial for the growth and prosperity of any company, especially in the rapidly changing medical device market. In recent years the issue of evaluation of investment effectiveness into medical devices has been intensively solved both at private and national level. The most common methods can be divided into three groups: 1. strategic and financial valuation of projects (e.g., NPV, IRR, DCF), 2. weighting and scoring of products and product criteria (e.g., analytic hierarchy pr...

In our research, we dealt with the phenomenon of teacher burnout in Hungary. It is a great issue, due to the parliamentary regulations of the public education in Hungary, where the teachers are working in a volatile environment, in which the challenge for them is to provide value by educating the younger generation. This increased pressure from the society increase the level of frustration, and teachers’ mental health may decline, while burnout syndrome may develop. Our future purpose is to create an intervention ...

Future social and health workers will be implemented in a complex, multifaceted, difficult activity that needs professionals prepared to work flexibly and effectively with people who have social and health problems. ?hey are responsible for performing different social roles: provider of information /related to documents on social policy and practice/ generator of new ideas / in connection with problem solving/, partner in the process of communication, organizer, assistant in the performance of various practical ta...

This article discusses the formation of Russian young generation personal and civil identity problems. The basis of identity includes the common culture with the common values, history, myths, and life standards. Obviously, the most important mentality forming function, in the conditions of radical social changes, is performed by the education method based on the activity approach and students’ involvement into the real socially-reformative activity. The article analyzes the sociological poll results of 300 studen...

Environmental problems related to the pollution and protection of the natural resources; deterioration of the air quality; pollution of water and soil; hygiene and influence of chemical substances on living organisms; waste and the proper usage and disposal of the waste; resources of energy by their rational utilization; material cycles and energy in the nature are not unknown issues. All these concerns are taken into account within science lessons such as chemistry, geography, ecology, biology and physics at prim...

Religion is a form of social consciousness that represents a basis of the deepest human reflections through specific theories and practices. This reflects the continuous tendency of human mind: to know, to question in connection with what is known, to overcome concrete existence, to enter a world that is beyond the objective aspects. Man as a multidimensional being, relates to existence, not only by reason and pragmatism but also by feeling and contemplative experience, ranging restlessly between the profane socia...

{{Background: }} The aim of the study was to find out the way of providing information preferred by patients after implantation of vascular prosthesis in lower extremities or abdominal aorta in order to develop a new educational material. {{Methods: }} The participants involved in the study had achieved at least 24 points of Mini Mental State Examination and had undertaken the surgery. The study was agreed by the institutions`s ethical committee and all the participants who had been informed about the study purpos...

In adolescence, reproductive capacity and even physical growth gradually reaches. In terms of health, it is important to pay attention to the sexual behavior of adolescents, their health education within the meaning of minimizing the possible risks and incidence of sexually transmitted diseases (STD). Design: The study was designed as a descriptive cross-sectional study. {{Materials and methods: }} The aim of this study was to determine the level of sexual behavior of adolescents in relation to use of contraceptio...

Introduction: Assessing various physiological parameters at the second ventilatory threshold (ATV2) is one of the ways of determining a person's cardiovascular fitness. The intensity of exercise that accompanies the reaching of ATV2 is sufficient to act as a training stimulus. The purpose of this paper is to assess whether a period of one year’s sport specific training produced any metabolic, circulatory, and respiratory changes in athletics runners (AR) and race walkers (RW) when tested at a level of physical exe...

Melodic interpretation of an instrument (the piano) is the main part of piano performance. One of the most important criteria of the quality of a pianist’s performance is an ability to show piano’s melodic potential, to convey the vocal expressiveness to the sound of a melodic “tapestry”. Many well-known concert pianists used exquisite piano cantilena, a piano “sang” in their performances, relaying a palette of nuances of vocal intonation using the means of pianistic sonority. The study and research of the subject...

The role of the Diagnostic Center is to help children and parents to identify the most common causes of child behavioral disorders and to promote the development of their social skills. The Decree of the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic states that the role of the diagnostic centers is to involve children in the re-socialization, reeducation and also in the diagnostic process. Resocialization is the process of reeducation, the task and the goal is to alleviate or overcome the long-term social need of t...

This article represents the result of research on the transformation of modern pilgrim practices. In a crisis of religious identity, defensive reactions on the level of social behavior and interaction of the various religious and pseudo-religious groups and communities become actual. According to the authors such reactions have both destructive and constructive potential that is proved by questionnaires and statistical analysis. The article states the emergence of new types of pilgrimage as a spiritual tourism, id...

In this article the author analyzes the influence of amendments in the religious sphere of postsoviet society on strengthening anomie in it. Among factors, that influence anomie and characterizes the religious sphere state of the modern Russian society, he names the existence of many religious confessions due to missionery activities, traditional confession restoration (Orthodox, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Lutheranism), actualization of religious identity matter, phenomena of “out of confession heresy” and interrel...

The problems of crimes against families, which include domestic violence, have been present in society for many years. Nevertheless, with all changes in functioning of society and progress in the systems used to prevent violence and help both victims and offenders, it is worth analysing this topic further. On the one hand, the social awareness of the problem of violence and methods to react if it is observed are improving. On the other hand, violence is perceived as a problem concerning only women: it is often hea...

The article describes the effectiveness of education system, which is the foundation element in the process of human capital formation. Nowadays higher education stands as the main element of a stable development in the modern world. It is intended to use its great potential to reproduce human capital. Education is the most efficient way to increase labor quality and productivity. This idea is massively supported by the human capital theorists all over the world As the result of the fulfilled analysis the authors ...

Background: Nowadays young people have to take longer way to adulthood. They try to get a degree, a good job and get married. They can reach the traditional adult roles minimum 5 years later than 30 years ago. This new term is called “emerging adulthood” which is between the adolescence and young adulthood. Emerging adulthood is characterized by freedom, unsettled life, freedom to discoveries and from consequences, low level of risk perception and risky health behaviour. Therefore, health promotion has to work wit...

Health concepts are dealt with by a multitude of professionals: presenting, analyzing, systematizing, debating, adding new and meaningful elements and then re-analyzing, debating and systematizing them [9]. There are few basic concepts like health that most people define as very simple, but experts beliefs this issue are very complex and multi-dimensional. The European Union's White Paper sets out important strategies for school health promotion, which provides as a guideline for Member States. In addition to the ...

The goal of the article is to determine the factors that cause changes in the attitude of the youth toward migrants based on the regular monitoring results. It deals with the socio-cultural consequences of modern migration processes and their influence on the modern communicative space as well as on the youth value system and priorities. A ten-year social survey shows that the youth value system is volatile and dependent on both external and internal factors. The expansion of anti-migrant attitudes of young people...

Improving the quality of the teacher's professional competences is currently the subject of professional discussion in Slovak education. The intention is to improve and expand the theoretical and practical teacher training. Examination and reflecting on the issue of evaluation of the work of pupils in the process of education is considered to be an important aspect of undergraduate study. Effective and objective evaluation of the process and the results of education are among the basic pedagogical competencies. Th...

Mechanical systems for producing mechanical vibrations gained more and more the role of training equipment and the vibrations obtained have an effect on muscles, facilitating the contraction or relaxation reflex depending on the possibilities of adjusting their parameters. Vibration platform training generates a tonic stretch reflex in all the muscles involved in the effort. During this reflex, the muscles contract and relax at very high speeds and the amount of active fibers reach 95% of muscle fibers involved in...

The article discusses the relevance of key competencies in the education system, once analyzed various approaches to the definition of key competences, existing in domestic and foreign science. The article focuses on the fact that one of the priority strategic educational benchmarks are the key competencies that serve as a possible mechanism for enhancing the potential of human capital and the level of development of the economic welfare of the country. The classification of the components of the competencies that...

Background: Professional self-determination in the educational system of modern Russia have no common policy in the sphere of it organization. UrFU is working with the secondary school students by the different technologies of professional self-determination. The University organizes the activities of schools and programs in various areas of training, such as "Test drive", "Pro debut, testing centers," Academy of power". Methods: The purpose of the article is empirical research’s results of three years of experien...