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Mies van der Rohe’s approach to architecture through a poetic structural skeleton, abstractly refined to become a universal prototype of the essence of form and spiritualization of space, can be best seen at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. This unique modern temple recently under restoration work by the subtle pencil of David Chipperfield [1] will soon have to be prepared to receive the extra additional space designed by the winner competition office leaded by Herzog & De Meuron [2]. Despite the rebirth of t...

The article represents a concept of the new civilizational and cultural paradigm in the process of formation. Determined by the coexistence of two strong types of cultures with the opposite focuses, this new paradigm designates the two cultural types by the indicators "Retro" and "Future" accordingly. Here we describe the specifics of each civilizational and cultural type. In particular, this work proves the necessity of preserving the fundamental "status quo" of these civilizational and cultural types. This neces...

In contemporary societies employed parents are often faced with difficulties while trying to balance their work and family obligations. Previous research showed that this negatively influences the quality of family life and results in family stress. Additionally, it causes lower level of job satisfaction and work effectiveness. Recognizing these issues, some work organizations implemented family-friendly policies in order to support employees and to help enhance their family-work balance. For the same reason they ...

Energy is a key factor that affects all sectors of the economy and is one of the cornerstones of the economy. Energy security is part of national security and is one of the tools to ensure the country's sovereignty, political independence and economic security. The current EU security environment is influenced from a global perspective by globalization and the uneven development of states and regions in the world. There is also a noticeable trend that non-military threats come to the fore and become more burning t...

Today in Ukraine, the issue of organization of recreation becomes a priority issue not only in the physiological-psychological aspect, but also as a socially-organized function of people's lives. It provides an opportunity for an integrated combination of recreation, tourism and excursions, in order to promote the development of tourist excursions. Natural, cultural-historical and socio-economic resources of the region, as well as the presence of territories and objects of the nature reserve fund are important fac...

Railway transport facilities are a group of interconnected and interactive parts that perform an important work or task. These include, for example, track and station security equipment, interlocking security equipment, dispatching workplaces, communication equipment elements and others. Many are dependent on electricity supply, although some of their functions may be temporarily supplied from alternative sources. The electricity distribution network, which has a number of different elements, is relatively vulnera...

At present an economic management of any administrative region (territory with fixed legal boundaries) is impossible without modern technologies of spatial analysis. Administrators of power structures use every opportunity to ensure that the management of the region is based on the automated processing of spatial data and particularly on remote sensing data. First of all, the possibilities of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are used such as data collection and systematization, automated analysis, compilatio...

Karelian Pomorie is part of the historical and geographical province of Pomorie in the North-West of Russia, stretching along the coast of the White Sea within the modern polar regions of the Russian Federation: Karelia, Murmansk and Arkhangelsk oblast. The object of our research is the part of Pomorie area within the borders of the Republic of Karelia. On the scheme of historical and geographical zoning of Karelia, the territory received the name of the Pomorie province. The isolation of the province is associate...

The Romanian gastronomy is a very rich branch, very developed, which over the years has gathered a lot of both indigenous elements and some borrowed from other nations and peoples. When it comes to Romanian culinary habits, each geographical area has its own traditions, and these are manifested especially around Christmas, when most people prepare selected dishes. Speaking in general, however, Romanians are used to using tarragon, thyme and garlic when it comes to spices, and a special position in the Romanian cui...

Parking policy should be part of an integrated revitalization strategy. An integrated approach requires the implementation of processes that influence the determination of the value of parking indicators. It is also important to implement projects that will indirectly contribute to improving the situation in degraded areas. One of such actions is the implementation of a parking policy that aims to eliminate the problem of congestion in city centers. There are no mandatory indicators for the minimum number of parki...

The paper focuses on the possibilities of assessing the attractiveness of open recreational areas in the city using mathematical tools based on fuzzy logic. Urban studies aimed at evaluation of the chosen urban structure or its fragment always require taking into account many criteria. They are factors which often are difficult to be measured. Then the expert's knowledge and experience play a key role. The paper presents the concept of inference based on fuzzy logic. It has been used to assess the attractiveness o...

Introduction: Motherhood is an important part of life of every woman. The aim of our study was to find out views on motherhood among adolescent girls. Methods: The non-standardized questionnaire of our own design was employed in the study. The study sample consisted of 141 female students of secondary school. The age of the respondents ranged from 17 to 20; the average age was 18 В± 0,79 years. For data processing we used a simple descriptive statistics. Results: In analyzing the results, we found that most respon...

The study proposes to promote ecotourism and to highlight its importance for the economic development of the studied area. Caras Severin County attract a lot of tourists due to the high number of touristic objectives, but mainly due to Bigar waterfall which was nominated as the most beautiful waterfall in the world. Due to the high number of tourists, the natural landscapes are damaged, therefore the purpose of this study is to acknowledge the value of nature, so that the tourists and the managers of the touristic...

In the contemporary society different scholars have emphasized the pluralization processes and variability in family forms (Giddens 1991; Beck, Beck-Gernsheim 2001; Baumann 2000). This trend is known as “individualization”, where individuals and self-realization become primary objective and the relationships are "instrumental" to personal happiness and gratification. In this context the value of family ties becomes considerably weakened: some sociologists wonder if the family is still a resource or rather an o...

In the article the specificity of gifit? as a hybrid genre of New Media Art is investigated. The scientific novelty of the work consists in revealing the main genre characteristics of gifit? as the newest hybrid artifact in the contemporary audiovisual culture, as well as outlining the development prospects of this phenomenon within the New Media Art. The methodology of the research is based on using the genre concepts which sharpen the attention to the processes of hybridization in the contemporary genre generati...

The aim of the article is to analyse the role and importance of international issues in shaping the program objectives and political activities of the national workers' party. This movement was created in 1920 by way of consolidation of previously functioning political, professional and social organizations. It took a centrist position on the Polish political scene of the interwar period. Being a democratic movement, it assessed the international situation from this perspective. The issue of Poland's security (esp...

The aim of the article is to analyse the theoretical basis of the idea of social solidarism proclaimed by Leopold Caro in Poland in the interwar period. Solidarism is for Caro a system different from liberalism and socialism. He contrasted the selfishness characterizing liberalism as well as Marxism and socialist collectivism with an economy for which the overriding values are the person, the common good and the ethical principles present in economic life. Such an approach entailed an interdisciplinary method with...

Background Taking into account, that many recent research papers about functional anatomy, emphasized strong connections between motor cerebral areas and pre-frontal ones and that professional training performed on a period of time longer than 5 years, produced cerebral hemispheres functional plastic modifications, we consider opportune, to study the effects of long term physical effort, over cerebral activity at athletes, with a professional sportive experience longer than 5 years, from different sports as handba...

Museum exhibition not only display objects, it tells the stories behind them, brings the ideas and concepts which were the source of their creation. The fundamental aspect of museum exhibitions is to create a space where the process of interpretation and conferring of a meaning will occur as an essential “content” of the museum. Therefore the overriding aim of this paper is to provide specific example of the role of museum exhibition in the process of constructing historical knowledge, based on the uniqueness ...

This paper orders the facts relevant to the functioning of Jewish schools in the city of a particular significance for Jews, considered to be 'the mainstay of Jews'. Jewish school-ing in Lviv in the times of the Austrian Partition of Poland reflects the principal prob-lems of Jewish schooling in 19th and at the beginning of 20th century, in Central-Eastern Europe. In the paper, (were indicated) three original stages of the formation of schooling among the Jews were indicated. The first of those stages was connecte...

This paper is to present Polish-Ukrainian-Jewish relations in Galician education in 1867-1914. The activity of the Land Education Council in Galicia for the development of public education from the point of view of the above-mentioned nations was present-ed in it. It was demonstrated that its composition did not reflect that of Galician popula-tion. The LEC was dominated by Poles, which caused the protests for the part of Ukrainians, and its activity was largely determined by politics, and not conducive to de-velo...

Although the Republic of Croatia has committed itself by both international obligations and its national legislation to respecting the rights of persons with mental disorders, preserving their dignity, improving their health and integrating them into the family, work and social environment, their status in society is far from satisfactory. Persons with mental disorders are faced with a series of problems in their everyday life, e.g. systematic discrimination, lack of adequate health and social services, poor rehab...

The research study offers an analysis of the public opinion of citizens of the Slovak Republic focused on the results of the referendum vote in the United Kingdom in 2016, in which the British voters decided to leave their country of the European Union. The study also presents prevailing opinions, attitudes, preferences and values of the Slovak people on the possible impacts of Brexitis in Great Britain on Slovaks or on the future of the European Union. We used the questionnaire method in the research. The survey ...

Based on current security risks developed countries of the world have defined critical infrastructure as an asset or system whose disruption or destruction should have adverse effect on the performance of economic and social functions of the state, and thus on the quality of life of residents in terms of the protection of their life, health, security, property, as well as the environment. The objective need to ensure protection and defence of important national infrastructure assets against traditional threats suc...

Poverty and social exclusion, as prominent phenomena in Romania, generate the necessity to study the elements of risk that determine a) the institutional factors and b) the personal factors that lead to university abandonment in the first year of studies, at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, of the University of Oradea. At the same time, these factors may be regarded as an opportunity to create the tools that would reduce the risk of abandonment in the case of students from the vuln...

The researches were performed in Orsova region, located at a distance of about 25 km far from Drobeta Turnu Severin (Mehedinti County). The point of attraction of the studied area is the Danube River. In Orsova area tourism is performed through the capitalization of the natural environment and of the accommodation supply, of the services offered by hotels and farms managers and the objective of this activity is to achieve incomes. In the ellaboration of this paper, our objective was to present the touristic potent...

Modern humanitarian knowledge has increasingly paid attention to axiological aspects of human life. In search of moral values of the present, it makes sense to address to the cultural heritage of the previous eras. Restoration Comedy, emerged as a reaction to six-year puritanical dictatorship, followed by the restoration of the monarchy, is of special interest, in this sense. The peculiar attitude towards the moral standards found the reflection in comedies of manners of the Restoration era is, certainly, related ...

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 b...

In recent years, both sports performance and sports sciences have progressed a lot. In this context, the assessment of coordination abilities is an extremely difficult action, because they are particularly complex and are found in a multitude of situations. The most significant techniques used to assess them are kinaesthetic sensitivity (measured with the kinesimeter) and the sense of balance. From a physiological point of view, postural balance is attributed to static kinesimetry and is achieved by the dynamics o...

The theory of social treaty is one of the basic socio-political doctrines of the Enlightenment in Europe and in Russia. Different models of relations between the authorities and society are reflected in the treatises of European and Russian thinkers of the time. However, the concept of the social treaty represents the constantly changing ideological construct, "a tacit agreement", created, sought and spoken in various texts of culture. The author intents to observe the odic poetry of the XVIII century, the field o...

This study deals with the role and place of social rights in the legal system of the first Czechoslovak Republic. The aim is to point out that the first Czechoslovak Republic did not adopt market economy right from the beginning of its formation. After the end of the First World War there was the gradual transition of the Czechoslovak war economy towards market economy. The milestone was the adoption of the Czechoslovak Constitution in 1921, which not only signalized the development of civil rights but also social...

Background Our research aim was to emphasized different neurological patterns at athletes, by evaluating the parameters of somatosensory evoked potential (SEP) and compare the obtained results, in order to demonstrate the influence of specific professional training over the cortex. Methods The tested subjects were a group of 21 male athletes, with an average age of 19 years, which practiced fencing or handball, for at least 6 years, homogeneous regarding age, height, weight and training regime. We used the Nihon K...

Early literacy, as a foundation for future literacy skills and academic performance, is the actual research trend. This developmental face is a source for the results of formal literacy (Scarborough 2009) and a framework of academic performance (in tests like PISA, PIRLS and others). Besides the contribution to the academic success, the interest for early literacy stems also from the need to recognize children at risk for reading disability and dyslexia (Catts, Petscher, Schatschneider, Sittner Bridges & Mendoza, ...

The problems emerging from the damage to the environment cause changes, conflicts and injustice in the social sphere. For this reason, sociology discipline deals with environmental problems. A result of the activities of humans, who have lost harmony with nature, which damage the environment is “Global Climate Change and Global Warming”. As a result of “Global Climate Change and Global Warming”, it is predicted that arid regions on the Earth’ surface will expand, erosion will accelerate, productive soils ...

Financial health of companies is a topic that has been historically studied under various conditions. However, the current economy is a living organism and, the conditions affecting the financial health of companies are changing dynamically. There are many ways how to evaluate the financial health of a company. In addition to the use of the ratio indicators, complex models using one numeric indicator expressing the financial health of the company can be applied. These include, for example, bankruptcy and credibili...

In terms of linguistic exploration, the language of advertising has been thoroughly studied. Advertising as a form of communication in contemporary societies is discussed in its social and cultural context which is inseparable from the language itself. Although the visual in advertising has gained the supremacy nowadays, the language still has the important part as far as the impact of the advertisementВ’s message on the consumers is concerned. Regarding that, the research objective in this textual analysis is to ...

The aim of our research is to create an adequate preoperative education in order to reduce anxiety of patients, therefor it is necessary to understand their emotional experiences, cognitive processes and behavioral aspects as well. This article presents the development of a measure of pain in patients in whom vascular procedures using prosthetic grafts are indicated. The test battery is based on the Dynamic Model of Psychological Processes in Chronic Pain primarily used in clinical practice. Dynamic Model includes...

Binding the outgrowing of educational content, often observed just as a group of rules throughout history, with ethical ideas of good and philanthropy that have the power to change the image of the world, this paper aims to demonstrate the factors and social conditions in which processes that have contributed to the science of nurturing, namely pedagogy, take place, as an independent and autonomous scientific discipline in today's Croatian territory. Over the course of history, the pedagogy systematized from the p...

To eat rationally means to follow the general rules of healthy eating based on its basic principles. People have fed since they live on the ground, but rational nutrition has become an acute public health issue in the last two decades after an observation and some research showed that most of the diseases that currently affecting humanity, which cause early disability and shorten the thread of life are largely due to an uncontrolled diet. The present paper proposes, in the context described above, to emphasize rig...

The following article gives a picture of the history and current state of the entertainment gaming industry, which is rapidly developing and changing in these few years. Compares features of gaming devices and consoles, methods of distribution of its products to consumers and describes the modern selling models such as microtransactions. The article deals about current sales and marketing models used in this industry. It also focuses on the big problem in the gaming industry which is piracy. In the analytical part...

In the context in which healthy nutrition, institutionalized nutrition and combating of childhood obesity are a strategic interest in improving the health of young people, this paper is constituted as a nutritional analysis of the quality of menus for school catering in Romania. An efficient system of products quality evaluation provided by the commercial and the social catering system can lead to optimizing the production processes, to improve the legal framework for beneficiaries and to support the education sys...

The paper presents the analysis of resolving the problem of parking in Wroclaw according to P&R rules. The analysis uses software tools made based on evaluation model of P&R facilities location. The model was built on the basis of urban expert knowledge transformed into fuzzy inference algorithm. Fuzzy inference is commonly used in computer science as a decision-making tool of artificial intelligence. The proposed model of evaluation of the location of P&R objects in the first stage of the work was subjected to a ...

This paper studies the trends in higher education and internationalization policies in context of Singapore and Russia. The main idea of this research is analysis and comparison of education system policies in Singapore and Russian Federation in order to discover the key differences and possibilities for future development and growth factors. Correlation analysis of the economical and educational statistical data reveals common principles responsible for the economic success. Problems and possible actions in the a...

Like in many other countries, the status of women in Croatian politics is neither satisfactory nor have their political rights been developed to an adequate degree. Croatian women face numerous prejudices and stereotypes and are almost invisible at a high political level. Consequently, the number of Croatian female MPs is small despite the fact that the rules on electoral gender quotas were introduced in 2008. As stipulated by those rules, there shall be at least 40% of women on parliamentary candidate lists. Inst...