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Central state administration entities implement public administration functions at the territorial level through territorial state administration entities, which constitute a distinct component of the public administration system. This level is crucial as it directly ensures the provision of administrative and public services to individuals within the administrative units of the Republic of Lithuania, thereby serving the public interest. This article aims to analyse the organisational model of territorial state ad...

Metacognition has been acknowledged as a key component of self-regulation and has also a multidimensional nature, with at least three components: (a) metacognition as theory of mind, (b) metacognition as epistemic thinking, and (c) metacognition as knowledge and regulation of our cognitive self. In an Erasmus+ collaborative project a multicomponent metacognitive training course for teachers was developed incorporating metacognitive knowledge and skills, adopting the principles of action research. The interventionв...

In the frame of the realized research based on the constructivist approach to teaching mathematics at primary and secondary schools, among other aspects, the idea was to focus on one of the key and important activities of the teacher, such as the analysis of pupils' problem solving. In this contribution, the written form of the pupils’ solutions has been focused and shown. According to the missing practical experiences in the mathematical areas, pupils investigated some properties (principles) in a series of mat...

With a view to modernising state management in the last decade, Lithuania has focused mainly on observing the experience of how foreign countries have handled state management and the development of the self-government system. Lithuania did not gain exper

The process of organization and functionality of one of the most important attributes of any modern democratic legal state, i.e. the state power, is based on certain principles. The principle of separation of powers is universally acknowledged as such a fundamental principle, thus it is generally established in the constitutions of democratic states. Upon restoration of Independence1 the state power in the Republic of Lithuania is also implemented based on the doctrine of separation of powers. Particularly increas...

Nowadays music has become an inseparable element of modern audiomarketing strategies. It is intentionally introduced into commercial spaces to influence consumer behaviour by triggering appropriate physiological, affective and cognitive responses. In order to determine the possible selected dependencies, experimental studies were carried out in natural conditions in one of the chain clothing stores located in a shopping mall in Warsaw, where an audiomarketing strategy is implemented on a daily basis. Three situati...

The study deals with the topic of otherness in literary work for children and youth in Slovakia. The gradual incorporation of otherness into the literature for children and youth is one of the possible ways to strengthen the inclusion of people with disabilities in society. The literature for children and youth on the topic of human otherness shows the way, in which it is possible to acquaint children with this important issue, and accordingly prevent the social exclusion of handicapped individuals. By offering a ...

Starting from 2018, the tax benefits for donating legal entitiesand private persons have been reduced considerably in Latvia, and the previous research suggests that the income of the non-governmental organizations mainly consists of donations made by legal entities. This study investigates the donating legal entities of the largest charity organization in Latvia for the purpose of finding out the donorsВ’ understanding of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and their motivation for engagement in charity, in ord...

Changes in organization are considered very important for its survival, development and well-being in todayВ’s competitive environment. Advantage of organizationВ’s success and achievement mostly depends on ability to harmonize its inner regulations and order with demands of the outside environment. Resistance to change is mainly considered as problematic behavior that needs to be overcome in order to guarantee successful introduction of changes. Aim of this study: to research causes and manners of resistance to c...

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...

Urban sustainability has been a topic of keen interest to both the scientific community, as well as practitioners around the world. However, despite increased efforts in recent years, the debate continues over its clear definition and especially its measurement and monitoring. As the concept of urban sustainability is deeply rooted in its physical context and the territory scale taken into consideration, a wide variety of studies, diagrams, graphic models or value maps have been proposed, as each researcher and na...

Object: is to formulate provisions that basically would constitute an integral and consistent view of the role and significance of developing the legal framework for international cooperation in the context of responding to natural disasters. Methods: special historical methods, such as specific historical, comparative historical and chronological methods, as well as historical and legal and complex methods, which allowed to go beyond formal research and study the development of the legal field of the internationa...

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 ...

The need to steer our development towards a more sustainable future is ever more imminent in the light of the latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. Urban areas bear much of the blame and burden and interventions towards urban sustainability may have the greatest impact. Despite increasing interest in urban sustainability, from both the scientific community, as well as practitioners around the world, its clear definition and especially its measurement and monitoring is still a cause of ...

Workplace stress is recognized as a worldwide challenge for both employees and organizations. From this point of view, approaching a research topic regarding the factors that determine the occurrence of stress within the project teams from public institutions, along the realized public projects, I think it is also of real interest for public institutions. This research aimed to determine which are the main stressors that appear within the project team, more precisely in the elaboration and implementation of public...

The global collapse of the environment is inevitable. Developed states should work alongside developing countries to make sure that their economies do not contribute to increasing pollution problems. Today's politicians should think about supporting pollution reduction programs rather than expanding industrialization as much as possible. Environmental conservation strategies should be accepted on a global scale, and people should start thinking about a significant reduction in energy consumption without sacrificin...

The purpose of the article is to identify the specifics of adaptation and life of orphans and children left without parental care after graduation from orphanages, which is associated with multiple social, legislative and ethical problems in society. Arrangement of teenagers-graduates of orphanages after graduation, as well as their lack of experience and skills to adapt to real life situations, is an urgent problem of Russian society. The article analyzes the current view on the problem of orphansВ’ adaptation, c...

TodayВ’s research upon efficiency of user interaction with large web portals has established links between webpage popularity and crucial elements of webpage design, such as page layout and navigation on the portal, or, more narrowly, menu design. But despite their established importance, the two aforementioned elements of web design are next to never studied together, and their relative roles in rising webpage ranks are virtually unknown. In this paper, we assess pages with high betweenness centrality within the ...

Management is the oldest area of human activity, which exists as long as people live and as long as they work in communities. In modern society, a new type of management has emerged - remote or distance management of employees. There can be several reasons for spread of remote management: the highest possible costs for an employee permanently present in an office, such as renting an office space and the associated costs of maintaining working places, or the type of activity of the organization that implies the mai...

All projects in different sectors are unique, but the information technology industry is a prosperous and growing sector of all developing countries, which is mainly based on projects [1]. The purpose of the work is to investigate the quality of working life of IT project managers in Riga, causes of job related stress and influencing factor and to find out what strategies for stress management are used and also, develop proposals for major IT companies to improve the quality of life of IT project managers and over...

In recent years, the scientific community, as well as practitioners around the world, have gradually turned their attention towards the matter of life quality, both from an ecological, as well as from a socio-economic point of view – particularly in relation to the realities of the urban environment. Within contemporary cities, collective housing neighborhoods concentrate the highest densities of housing units, thus offering shelter to a large percentage of the population. These developments therefore have the l...

In the current research, we analyse the displacement of the church from the village Timiseni to the “Dimitrie Gusti” National Village Museum (Bucharest) as being part of the environmental conflicts which resulted after the exploitation of coal in the Carboniferous Basin Rovinari. The old community of free village people, called in the Romanian language “Mosneni”, from the village Timi?eni had been surviving over the centuries because they were placing all they had more precious, treasures and hopes for a b...

The icon is defined in the orthodox tradition as the Bible of the low literate, reason for which, in just a few colors it is synthesized important attitudes and events. The look of the believer is inevitably attracted by the face of Jesus and/or of the saints, for finding out and memorize easier the message of the Evangel. The icon "The Judgement of the Pontius Pilate 1829", kept in the Alexander Nevsky Crypt Museum, is an atypical one: Jesus is hard to find between the negative characters, dressed atypical and ke...

Topic modeling is a method of automated definition of subtopics in a text corpus. Usage of topic modeling for short texts, e.g. tweets, is highly complicated due to their short length and grammatical restructuring, including broken word order, abbreviations, and contamination of different languages. In this paper, the authors use the BTM topic modelling algorithm (previously found to work best in comparison with two other topic models measured by automated coherence metrics Umass and NPMI) to test three topic qual...

The urban structure reflects different stages of its life cycle land use efficiency. Extensive development of Slovak cities in the second half of the 20th century in combination with the construction method, demands on infrastructure and transformation of the industry, caused that there is an enormous number of dysfunctional, unused, empty areas and degraded sites in our cities. Such areas can be regarded as a problem, but above all as a potential and driving force for re-development, the city's urban vitality gen...

The article considers the problems of the influence of modern migratory processes on the formation of mass youth consciousness, sociocultural consequences of the transformation of communicative space of contemporary civilization in the global migration crisis; the need to carry out regular monitoring of youth value mind on the issues addressed is justified. On the basis of the data obtained from the carried out monitoring, the authors analyze the dynamics of studying youth's axiological conscious in their relation...

Yakutia is a region where the largest mining projects have been implemented for several decades, but traditional activities for the North (e.g. livestock, reindeer herding, fishing, hunting and gathering) maintain their steadiness, which spawns conflicts in land and nature use. The paper is devoted to the issue of access of Yakut traditional communities to land and natural resources in the context of ensuring income and consumption on the basis of traditional economic activities. The evolution of the settlement sy...

The article deals with a specific form of organizing and providing the information in the sphere of business, in particular, presentation. In the article the author focuses on a communication strategy – this is a term which unveils the principles of speech organizing from the viewpoint of rhetoric and pragmatics. The author, in the article, considers specific rhetorical techniques, which arrange these means so as to enhance the entire quality of a speech by expressing the key ideas and producing a certain logica...

In politics if we consider complex social systems and processes manifests itself the dichotomy between “stability and manageability” of a political system and “socio-political diversity” which brings modernization impulses that are making political systems more diverse. This is especially noticeable for the states in transition with anocratic political regimes and supranational entities. This kind of social dichotomy, however, should not be confused with the pure dichotomy between democratic and authoritar...

Information and communication technologies (ICT) play an important role in the development of modern Russian society. Their fast development together with the convergence of computer systems with different types of communications resulted in the need to reevaluate the perception of these technologies in the spiritual sphere of a human being. This paper analyses the implementation of information and communication technologies into the spiritual sphere of the Russian society. Based on the analysis of statistical and...

At present, the patients' safety is the key parameter of quality of health care provided. Falls of hospitalized patients constitute the most frequently reported accidents in health care facilities. A fall may occur for different reasons, e.g. due to weakness or balance disorder, sudden change of health condition, sight disorder, effects of medicines, slipping due to unsuitable shoes, disorientation in unknown environment. The prevention of falls constitutes the base of nursing care for a fall-endangered patient. E...

The elaborate treatment of the issues as the role of ethnic information as well as other information, the contexts of the use of ethnos names – ethnonyms in mass media products, the linguistic presentation of ethnic positive / negative data, their influence on consciousness of information consumers and their functions in press media of any country is considered very topical. Since the role of mass media along with other factors in giving corresponding or conflicting characteristics to interethnic and intercultur...

Background: Health and health promotion in the old age are one of the hot topic both in association with the ageing population and in the context of providing complex health care of the elderly, not only in the Czech Republic. Health promotion in the old age, as one of the dimensions of health literacy, relates (1) to getting and understanding the health-related information, (2) to the ability to take care of one`s own health, and (3) to reducing the inequality in the approach to health in the elderly population. ...

Every citizen in the country uses the services provided by the public administration in daily contact. At present, we can see increasing demands on public administration employees, as well as changing citizens' understanding of the client and the consumer, as it is in the private sector. Here, however, it is important to point out that the citizen is more like an unwanted client, hitting a high level of bureaucracy and also the unwillingness of officials to act. The first impression and contact with professional o...

The personnel recruitment system is one of the key mechanisms in the work of the personnel management department. The personnel department is responsible for the attraction and selection of individuals with the required working skills. Problems in the researched organisation are inadequacy of employees in a stressful environment and oftentimes unsuccessful personnel recruitment processes. Str?ss is among the key factors which influence the job efficiency of the personnel in the researched organisation. Some employ...

The article deals with new paintings of Nada ВЋiljak, an academic painter. She applies an infrared method in painting. Infrared painting is an innovative method of creating a unique double image - one visible to the eye, and the other, hidden drawing that can be seen with an infrared camera. The first image is a luxurious, often abstract painting concealing a monochrome drawing of distinct erotic themes. The author creates an original world based on hiding and discovery inspired by the power of his own imagination...

An analysis of the contribution of the information technology industry in India showed that the country had found a profitable middle ground between science and economy, the share of the sector in the country's GDP structure is more than 10% in 2016/2017. On the other hand, the total contribution of information technologies, including the digital and mobile component of the Russian economy, amounted to 5.06% of GDP in 2017. Despite the economic stagnation, high-tech segments have continuing to develop and find new...

Falls constitute a serious problem primarily in elderly persons. The highest prevalence of falls can be expected in hospitalized persons and falls are considered undesirable and hazardous incidents that may have serious impact on the expected therapeutic outcomes. The assessment of risk of falls provides basic information to determine the right interventions efficient for preventions. The nursing activities of care for patients endangered by fall include: identification of risk of fall in the admitted patient, its...

Using e-learning platforms in universities in Romania has become a habit, surpassing trends and integrating naturally in a modern educational system. The objective of this article is to show what are the most used platforms in major universities in Romania and why they have been chosen. If high schools in Romania e-learning platforms were introduced centrally through a project of the Ministry of Education, universities have relied on university autonomy. We have identified and analyzed the main e-learning platform...

Sentiment analysis for the French language remains an under-developed research area. At the same time, sentiment analysis works well for identifying conflictual discourses in English. Today, identifying sentiment in social networks and microblogs, including Twitter, is a growing area of studies, but despite French is one of the most popular post-colonial languages online, the studies of user sentiment in this language are still rare enough. Also, there are practically no studies that would link sentiment analysis ...

The unevenness of providing countries with natural resources, as well as their consumption, puts forward a number of regularities in the economic development of different countries. The first relates to the need to find ways to better manage natural resources in the face of scarcity. The problem is particularly acute for developed countries. As a matter of fact, their variant of industrial development in last decades (economy of resources) and is resource way of economic development. The urgency of the problem of ...

The article examines the characteristics of behavior in a conflict of students of various nationality backgrounds. The research goal is to reveal potential possibility of studentsВ’ conflict prevention in a multinational institution. The research objective is to elicit specific conflict behavior types adhered to the students of different nationalities. The article represents the results of an empirical study of the characteristics of behavior in the conflict of the students. The two nationalities that were viewed ...

Our research offers a solution to the problem of searching for a universal methodology that will allow describing the structure and functions of consciousness in the form of a coherent system. As such a methodology, we consider the constructivist approach. Thanks to consciousness, the subject builds a constructive relationship with the world, realizes the subjectivation of reality, which is conditioned by a single system of mutually defining and mutually referring constructs. In the system of these constructs, bot...

Human capital plays an important role in the development of an innovation-oriented economy, the multiplication and spread of which will allow to preserve the existing and create new competitive advantages in high-tech industries, improve the development of the territory. The article deals with the features of statistical evaluation of the effectiveness of investment in human capital. The authors emphasize the need for an integrated approach to such an assessment in accordance with the types of effects. The analysi...

This article views the problems connected with the influence of globalization processes and new information and communication technologies on the transformation of cultural codes systems, the increase of intensity of adverse impacts of social anomie, the marginalization of culture, the destruction of the foundations of collective identity. In the present context the authors analyze new trends of civilizational development of society, having a direct impact on the transformation of value orientations of mass, youth...

In accordance with the implementation of the concept of sustainable development and the need to implement policies aimed at creating an enabling environment for a decent life of citizens, the main strategic objective of the spatial development of a modern city is to ensure sustainable and balanced development of urban space in order to improve the quality of life of citizens.The unevenness of the economic development of the territories within the boundaries of the city determined the need for strategic planning an...

Today’s comparative analysis of professional journalistic cultures has quite developed methodologies but relies on national level of comparison, which might be misleading. We test whether, in Russia of 2010s, the structure of professional journalistic community is as diverse and fragmented as the media system itself – and, thus, whether it can be perceived as a whole, unlike journalistic cultures in the West. The cleavages include generational ones as well as value-based ones, the latter being reflected in jour...

Hospitals and hospital complexes represent an important function in the urban fabric of cities. As usually closed and impassable areas, they have specific requirements for a good accessibility and for a constant implementation of innovations in healthcare and technologies. Old hospital complexes situated in city centres and their outdated hospital buildings are often not able to adopt the advances in healthcare and they become dysfunctional. New modern hospital complexes are developed in more suitable urban locati...

The budgetary policy of any state is a tool that realizes its priorities, goals and objectives that finds its reflection in structure of its expenditures. The analysis of the budget items allows making conclusions about the state priorities and prospects for the development of this state. The main criteria reflecting the country's long-term social and economic forecast are investments in the spheres reflecting the development of the human capital, that is, into the social policy. A lot of the developed countries a...

INTRODUCTION: The support of cardiovascular health constitutes an important part of the strategy of national and multinational health projects. Nurses-educators can play an important role in primary prevention of cardiovascular health. GOAL: The extensive research project is focused on the educational activities of the nurse in cardiology, on preventive interventions, on the modification of influenceable risk factors in persons with high risk of origination of cardiovascular diseases and in cardiovascular patients...