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The latest paradigm of modernization of public administration is its digital transformation. Two main issues for the success of digital transformation are identified: motivating citizens to use digital technologies and the transition from government-oriented services to meet the needs of citizens to an environment in which they will independently determine their needs and mechanisms to meet them, the study proposes indicators for assessing the process of digital transformation at the local level. The combination of qualitative assessment of the motivation of service recipients and quantitative data indicating the level of electronic readiness of the region allowed to establish the effectiveness of its digital transformation. The implementation of the prepared recommendations will help increase the efficiency of digital services and will contribute to the digital transformation of public administration in Ukraine.
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The administrative act enjoys the presumption of legality, which in turn is based on the presumption of authenticity and veracity, being itself an enforceable title. However, the principle of legality of administrative acts presupposes that both the administrative authorities do not violate the law and that all their decisions are based on the law. It also requires that the authorities effectively ensure that these requirements are met. The cancelling of administrative acts may be ordered by both the administrative court and the criminal court. The administrative court examines whether there are grounds for illegality, while the criminal court examines whether an offense provided for by the criminal law has been committed.
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Green products have gained prominence on the market largely due to their perceived benefits of environmental sustainability. In view of the growth in influence of green products, the objectives of the study were to determine the impact of product quality on purchase intention for green products; to determine the impact of product quality on purchase intention of green products; to ascertain the influence of environmental concerns on purchase intention for green products; to establish the influence of situations affecting green product purchase on purchase intentions for green products; to establish the impact of preference for green products on purchase intention and to assess the impact of purchase intention on re-purchase intention of green products. To establish these facts the study adopted a quantitative methodology, which made use of a self-reporting questionnaire that was administered to consumer households in parts of Zimbabwe as the target population. The 497 responses received were accepted as the sample size of this study. Data collected was captured and analysed on SPSS (v22.0) and AMOS (v24.0) to yield descriptive and inferential statistics. Structural Equation Modelling was then used to provide estimates of the strength of all the hypothesised relationships. The key findings of the study were that green purchase intention was significantly and positively influenced by product quality, environmental concern, preference for green products, environmental responsibility and selection attributes, but not by situations affecting purchase behaviour. It was also found that purchase intention had a strong correlation with re-purchase intention. We thus propose that marketers need to formulate and implement green marketing strategies to improve consumer perceptions of green products. We also suggest that marketers should drop deceptive marketing practices that cause consumers to be skeptical about green products.
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The article discusses the key events leading to the ideation, initiation, and establishment of the first programming contests for high school students in Bulgaria. The competitions preceding the First National Olympiad in Informatics (NOI) are presented in detail. More specifically, they include the programming contests, initiated by the author and held in Shoumen, Plovdiv and Pazardjik in 1982, 1983, and 1984 respectively. At the time, the main programming language used was FORTRAN for IBM/360 compatible computers. Next, the first NOI is discussed at length. Some of the subsequent NOIs are also outlined. The paper also includes facts about the Winter Mathematics Competitions and the high school student competitions held during the Spring Conferences of the Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians. A brief historical data about the Spring Tournament in Informatics is also presented. Due to its factual nature, the article contains an extensive list of references, including text excerpts, citations, pictures, and other relevant materials, supporting the historical facts related to the competitions in Informatics.
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The pandemic has deeply forced educational systems across the world to change face-to-face education practices policies. It has also forced the online education systems practices among Moroccan higher education institutions. With the spread of the COVID-19 all over, the Moroccan education system circumstances did not allow face-to-face education neither did it allow online education as solutions. As a matter of fact, hybrid learning remained the best proposed alternative as suggested in literature. The present paper investigated higher education English learners’ attitudes towards hybrid education. After using a qualitative method, the findings suggested that Moroccan higher education learners showed that hybrid education did not support the majority of participants’ learning process. However, the hybrid learning was to an extent a successful process to a number of other participants. Unsatisfying quality of the internet remained an issue to be sorted out in the future among other issues. Laziness to attend the online morning classes was also an evidence why hybrid learning is the main challenge. The learners favoured face-to-face classroom-based instruction then blended learning regardless of the advantages of the latter. A great portion of the population favoured face-to-face rather onlinelearning. The learners also got confused using hybrid model. Last, it was evidence that the learners preferred face-to-face model as their best model to use in many cases.
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Cutting of geometric figures involves two interrelated processes, first: cut ting one or more geometric figures into several parts, and second, assembling another, predetermined geometric figure from the obtained parts. This article discusses some standard plane and space tasks, for which complete solutions are presented.
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Purpose: This study aims to investigate the transcreated advertisement, in order to highlight the use of identity features in its conception. Furthermore, it studies their effect, to provide a baseline understanding on how to translate for the target audience, where identity is the main element to be manifested in the communicative message of marketing purposes. Methodology: This research follows the qualitative approach to examine some advertisement figures in terms of their transcreation. The reason behind it is in demonstrating the variables in how and why both translation and creation were applied for conceiving exclusive advertisements. Findings: The results indicated that in transcreating advertisements, changes on the level of the source message were strongly related to the social and cultural references that built and identified the target expression system. Moreover, the results demonstrated the mechanism of the target expression and how far identity can have an impact on the target audience by using specific codes in the conception of the advertisements. Practical implications: The research provided some guidelines about the applicable procedures that the transcreator should be aware of to better address the target audience. Originality/ value: This investigation is in line with some prior research that discusses the topic of transcreating an LSP (Language for Specific Purposes). It is also to shed light on and enrich the literature about the rendition for exclusive advertisements in contemporary societies, and to expand the focus on theories and approaches of free and creative translations.
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We give one interesting method for finding explicit form of solutions of Pell’s equation. This method is the method of difference equations by using Hamilton-Cayley’s theorem.
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Investing is a process of a crucial importance in the field of economics, as it concerns the possibility of increasing existing money capital. However, this process is closely related to the need of performing some preliminary calculations and analysis in order to select the best investment option. There are some mathematical tools that allow determination of optimal option for investing a certain amount of money but it must be understood and applied correctly in order to receive expected results. Some aspects of these mathematical tools are discussed in the present paper, accenting not only on the presentation of the right approach for optimal investment choices but also on the methodology of its application.
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PAWEŁ POPIELIŃSKI: Mniejszość niemiecka w III Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej (1989-2019) w procesie integracji ze społeczeństwem większościowym, Wydawnictwo Instytutu Studiów Politycznych PAN, Warszawa 2020, 514 ss. (Katarzyna Gelles) Ziemie Zachodnie i Północne (1945-2020). Nowe konteksty pod redakcją Małgorzaty Bukiel, Andrzeja Saksona, Cezarego Trosiaka, Instytut Zachodni, seria Ziemie Zachodnie – Studia i Materiały nr 29, Poznań 2020, 415 ss. (Ewa Kurzyk) ROMAN DZIERGWA: Przerwany bieg po żelaznej drodze. Kolej Powiatowa Ostrzeszów-Namysłaki, jej czasy i ludzie w aspekcie historycznym i kulturowym, ANC Ostrzeszów/Namysłaki/Poznań 2020, s. 276. (Andrzej Denka) EWA KOBYLINSKA-DEHE, PAWEL DYBEL, LUDGER M. HERMANNS (Hgg.), Wiederkehr des Verdrängten? Psychoanalyse und das Erbe der Totalitarismen; aus dem Polnischen und Englischen von Bernhard Hartmann. Psychosozial-Verlag, Gießen 2020. 331 ss. (David Engels)
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