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(Todor Hristov, The Sound and the Fury: Archeology of Domestic Quarrels. Sofia: Sofia University Press, 2021)
The Sound and the Fury: Archeology of Domestic Quarrels (2021). The book deals with speech in domestic quarrels. Or, to put it more concretely, the target of the study is “impossible statements”, statements usually discarded as “meaningless voices, as noises”.
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A qualitative research inspired by the dynamics of the interaction between Romanian professionals in the cultural sector and their French and German colleagues revealed numerous factors that influence the international communication. Thirty-two interviews were taken and for their analysis, a comparative approach was adopted. The thematic analysis of the collected interviews disclosed the differences between the ancient and the new member states of the European Union, as well as between the Europe above and the Europe below. In this qualitative research the new, sometimes sensitive information provided by the professionals, gave the opportunity to the researcher to observe the anomalies and the dysfunctions in the international communication. This methodology allows therefore to generate debates about possible changes in a socio-political system.
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The article is devoted to revealing the phenomenon of contemporary changes in the language space, in accordance with the processes of transition that take place in the economy of Ukraine in the context of knowledge representation, neuro-modeling and artificial intelligence. The relevance and expediency of the study are due to the uncertainty to some extent of innovative processes occurring in the development of the contemporary Ukrainian language in connection with the transitional processes in the economy. The relevance of the study is determined by: 1) the importance for contemporary linguistics of identifying and describing the structural and typological features of the “dominant” (according to Zagorovskaya) lexical and semantic subsystems of the contemporary Ukrainian language, reflecting the most significant concepts of contemporary Ukrainian conceptosphere; 2) the importance of the lexical subsystem of public administration not only for the contemporary Ukrainian language and contemporary Ukrainian national consciousness, but also for the effective economic policy of the state; 3) a lack of special generalizing research on the problems of formation, development and current state of the Ukrainian vocabulary of state regulation of the economy; 4) the need to clarify and improve the methodology of complex analysis of lexical and semantic systems in the Ukrainian language, methods and techniques of describing lexical units in synchronous and diachronic aspects. 5) current needs in the use of artificial intelligence, based on the principles of neuro-modeling in the representation of knowledge in the conditions of transition economy of Ukraine.
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This article examines the trends of digital marketing in the context of information society development. Under the influence of informatization of society, the spread of innovative development of the economic environment are transformed all its components, including changing approaches to marketing, which uses more and more digital opportunities to increase its efficiency. In society, specific relationships are formed associated with the search, receipt, transmission, production and dissemination of information using information technology. Under the influence of informatization of society, the contemporary consumer and his requirements are changing, which is reflected in marketing activities. The reaction to the growing role of social networks and communities in consumer buying behavior was the formation of crowd marketing. Digital marketing is a contemporary tool for promoting a product, brand or brand through digital channels, and also uses a number of techniques that allow you to reach your target audience even in an offline environment. Digital marketing means that consumers, customers or society at large can access any information they need. Today, digital marketing is becoming an increasingly important tool for promoting almost any type of product compared to traditional marketing.
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In today's complex world, influenced by information bombardment and rapid technological development, professional training cannot remain limited to the idea of passing knowledge. There is a need to shift the students’ view towards the true spirit of research, which targets the scientific thought on certain social phenomena, and to form critical thinking skills to produce effective individuals in the current labour market, who not only receive information, but go further and analyze problems in the workplace, presenting solutions to identified problems and applying these solutions in concrete situations. For this reason, critical thinking is considered a top skill, being highly appreciated by the business world and organizations. But to think critically is a capacity that does not develop by itself, it must be practiced and encouraged in a correct learning environment. Critical thinking has become one of the most important educational goals, which must be achieved by the different educational institutions through all the programs studied by students in the different educational cycles, but also by students in the university environment. Starting from this, this article analyses the types of specific actions which target the introduction of the abilities of critical thinking in the training activities in Romania, and in society in its entirety, by identifying the setbacks encountered, and the limits of such an endeavour.
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The COVID-19 pandemic context put to test all adaptive skills of human beings around the world. In this disruptive context, a sample of 401 respondents (173 male and 228 female), aged between 19 and 65 years old, were assessed using the Unconditional Self-Acceptance Questionnaire (USAQ), the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ), the Emotional Distress Profile (PDE) and the Autonomy Questionnaire, from Cognitrom Assessment System. The main objectives of the study aimed at identifying the significant differences in emotional distress, coping mechanisms, autonomy and self-acceptance based on gender and age as grouping variables, and the significant relationships between all these variables. Statistics show differences in behavioural and emotional autonomy between male and female, differences related to catastrophizing and blaming others as resilience mechanisms between male and female, differences in self-acceptance and positive assessment (as coping mechanism) between young people and adults, and significant negative correlations between emotional distress and all types of autonomy (value, cognitive, behavioural and emotional), significant positive correlation with coping mechanisms like blaming others, catastrophizing, self-blame and acceptance, and significant negative correlation with positive assessment and refocusing on planning. All results are discussed in the context of the disruption caused by the pandemic context and in relationship with the necessity of supporting people to maintain their mental health and well-being, now more than ever, with the new turning back to the previous way of life caused by the lifting of the state of alert by the authorities.
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Cette note de sociologie empirique recourt à des données relatives à un choix d’auteurs étrangers de réputation internationale actifs dans les sciences sociales et cités dans la presse hongroise dans les années 1900‑1944, années de formation pour ces disciplines, la sociologie avant tout. Ces statistiques de citations offrent une image de l’évolution de l’impact des grands auteurs – somme toute assez équilibrée entre les grandes puissances intellectuelles occidentales, avec de fortes variations dans le temps. Parmi les auteurs des pays de l’est seul Dimitrie Gusti semble avoir exercé beaucoup d’influence à la fin des années 1930, notamment sur les ‘explorateurs de villages’ en Hongrie.
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The substantial ageing impact projected by the Eurostat motivates this research for the case of the Czech Republic. The study assists policymakers by analysing fiscal-policy measures to stabilize ageing impact on the income and the well-being; and motivates fiscal authorities to utilize an extended version of the Czech Ministry of Finance model for the demographic agenda. The examined fiscal measures consist of postponing retirement, increasing pensions, and reducing social-security payments. The simulation outcome reveals reducing social-security payments as the only fiscal policy that would maintain both labour income and well-being unaltered in the presence of ageing. The study continues by proposing a policy mix to mitigate the subsequent government deficit. The policy mix consists of increasing the VAT tax rate and decreasing pensions and other transfers. In conclusion, the reduction of the social security payments financed by the suggested policy mix would support individuals' responsibility for their future income while motivating them towards higher productivity during their younger years.
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This article provides a critical examination of Pauline Greenhill’s monograph, Reality, Magic, and Other Lies: Fairy-Tale Film Truths (2020) and situates it within her larger body of scholarship. The title reflects the contradictory nature of fairy tales, which often contain moral and social truths beneath their fictional surfaces. Though related to her previous work, this book represents a departure from her earlier collections. Here, she provides close readings of various films, employing a sophisticated and detailed analysis of film techniques, and supplying a relevant social commentary. She asserts that fairy-tale films are multi-layered works that do more than simply convey aesthetically pleasing imagery. She breaks downs scenes into minute details, and occasionally provides diagrams that allow readers to understand and visualise scenes of films that, perhaps, they have not even seen. While these characteristics are present in her previous works, here they coalesce to form a perspective that reflects in a detailed way Greenhill’s vision of fairy-tale films and situates it within the larger context of fairy-tale film studies.
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Following a review of the eHealth Development Programme, National Health Strategy 2016-2020, the National Health Strategy Project 2021-2030, and publicly available articles, an overview of the effects of digitisation and transformations in eHealth has been made.
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The International Accounting Standards Board / IASB / turned 2021 into the beginning of an important stage of introduction into the corporate reporting of insurers. The strategic line for insurers to be part of a smart economy and smart growth - economics and growth based on knowledge and innovation – rejoices ahead of the introduction of the new IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts, which regulates a revolutionary change over the past 20 years in the accounting model applied to the insurance company. The Standard introduces a single and comprehensive framework for reporting all types of insurance contracts to insurers. The substantial, complex and long-awaited change in the insurance accounting model, dictated by the objective of achieving a thorough global harmonisation of insurance accounting with the principles of IFRS, regulates risk-based optimisation of insurance portfolios and their reporting. The basis is the grouping and evaluation of all insurance contracts in the insurance company, as required by the Standard and the separation of insurance income and expenses from the financial one. The preparation of insurers for the introduction of IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts, key challenges facing them, as a result of its requirements and the potential „highway effects“of its application to the processes in the insurance business. In the course of the assessments and conclusions made and in order to achieve the completeness of the study, the author also launches long-term observations and studies on the expected satisfaction of the criterion of high performance of intelligent specialization in the corporate accountability of insurers through the introduction of IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts, tied to the possibilities of increasing the competitiveness and market advantages of insurers and achieving a qualitative improvement in customer satisfaction with insurance services and understanding of transparency of the insurance business.
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This article traces the development of the European social policy from its minimalist role provided for in the Treaties of Rome, through the neoliberal orientation, especially in the financial crisis of 2008, to the trend towards a socio-investment perspective in response to the crisis caused by the Kovid19 pandemic. Current EU social policy applies a new approach that emphasizes the need to invest in education and training and the provision of quality social services throughout the life course of people - from early childhood to old age. It relies on the mutual enrichment of national and supranational forms of social protection.
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This article aims to investigate the genesis of the Bulgarian political dream, the attitudes among the Bulgarian society about the modernization of Bulgaria after 1878, the real results of the imposed political development models of Bulgaria and the stages through which the Bulgarian statehood passed, and an analysis of the reasons, because of which the idea of a pure and holy republic never happened in Bulgaria. The research methodology includes using historical, sociological, and political tools to analyze ideological, political, and social facts and events. The main findings are that, despite Bulgaria's rich constitutional experience, a working, efficient and stable executive power is not realized, and the dominant is populism and the following of foreign political governance models, without taking into account national traditions and attitudes in Bulgarian society. The study covers the genesis of the Bulgarian political dream and the stages it goes through in modern Bulgaria. Conclusions can be made about the main political shortcomings of the Bulgarian political being and the manifestations, although episodic, of responsibility before the Bulgarian society and its influence on the development of statehood. The study reveals a reconciliation of the Bulgarian society for its development, the modernization of Bulgaria, and the concentration of unity in meeting the economic and life needs, although there are few exceptions.
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The aim of the study was to examine the development of speed and strength dynamics of motor characteristics in 15-16-year-old volleyball players in five training sessions per week for a period of one year and the application of objective tools for its assessment differences in motor potential between the beginning of the study period and one year later, at the end of the study. Methods: Objects are specific indicators measured by objective tools, as well as their systematization and analysis. Results: In the period from September 2020 to July 2021, a measurement of the motor potential of high school students in the education system was conducted. Conclusions: To derive the relationship between the indicators, an analysis of the dynamics was applied by mathematical and statistical processing to derive coefficients of variation and establish the probability for the p-value, as well as to measure students’ criteria.
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Today, in practice, we increasingly meet children with autism. One way to integrate them, as far as possible, into their environment is through art. Using art as an art-therapeutic approach, we try to support the development of the child's personal potential.
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On 13 May 2021, „Iustin Patriarchul [Patriarch Iustin]” Hall of „Dumitru Stăniloae” Continuing Formation Centre in Bucharest, hosted the third online conference on religious freedom during the pandemic. Like the previous two ones (held on 15 April, and 26 April 2021), this event was jointly organized by the Holy Synod Chancellery and the Representation of the Romanian Patriarchate to the European Institutions. The conference, entitled „Administering the holy mysteries or hierurgies in times of pandemic”, was attended via Zoom conferencing platform by hierarchs - members of the Holy Synod, professor priests, and representatives of the eparchies of the Romanian Patriarchate. The lecturers were His Grace Varlaam Ploieșteanul, Patriarchal Vicar Bishop, and rev. prof. dr. Viorel Sava of „Dumitru Stăniloae” Faculty of Orthodox Theology – Iaşi. The event was moderated by Rev. Archdeacon prof. dr. George Grigoriță, patriarchal counsellor of the Holy Synod Chancellery. The presentations delivered by the two guests were followed, during the second part of the event, by discussions on the issues debated and examined. The participants’ questions to the two lecturers mainly addressed the challenges raised by ministry and the solutions proposed in dealing with various situations.
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The year 2021 marks the 150th anniversary of the first Celebration of Romanians Everywhere and the first Congress of Romanian Students Everywhere, held at Putna on 15-16 August 1871. The celebrations at the time, which took place at Putna Monastery in 1871, on the patronal feast – the Dormition of the Theotokos –, was a milestone in asserting Romanian identity and the national ideal in the aftermath of the 1859 Union. 150 years after that event, wishing to honour the ancestors and to continue on their path, at Putna Monastery an initiative committee made up of representatives of the students’ associations, youth, and Romanian cultural and spiritual circles, planned this anniversary in terms of continuing the pursuit of an ideal: The Celebration of Putna – 150. The continuity of an ideal. The events dedicated to this anniversary were attended by His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel, Mr Ioan Aurel Pop, President of the Romanian Academy, hierarchs of the Holy Synod, representatives of the local authorities, as well as numerous clergy members and faithful of our Church. On 15 August 2021, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel celebrated the Holy Liturgy alongside a synaxis of bishops, priests and deacons. After the Holy Liturgy, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel consecrated the silver vigil lamp brought by the Romanian students from Romania and abroad, and Mr Ioan Aurel Pop, President of the Romanian Academy, delivered a speech entitled „Let our motherland be our faith” on the Celebration of 1871. To conclude the events of 15 August, the Monastery’s abbot, archimandrite Melchisedec Velnic, thanked His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel for the joy he had brought by taking part in the celebrations of the patronal feast and the commemorative event. The reverend abbot also thanked the concelebrant clergy members, the guests, the officials and pilgrims, and especially the students who had taken part in the organizational work. On Monday, 16 August 2021, the feast of the Holy Brâncoveanu Martyrs, after the Holy Liturgy, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel alongside a synaxis of bishops, priests and deacons, officiated the memorial service (panikhida) for the founders of Putna Monastery and the authors of the 1871 Celebration of Putna. For the pahikhida, the monastery prepared a list of the participants and supporters of the 1871 Celebration, based on documents and the publications dating from 1870–1871. Then His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel attended the prize awarding for the contests „The Celebration of Putna – 150”, organized for this year’s festivities, according to the model of the oratory contest held in 1871, which in that year was won by the future great historian A.D. Xenopol. After 4 p.m., cu ora 16, in the Monastery’s Cultural Centre „Metropolitan Iacob Putneanul” was held the Anniversary Congress of Students, which opened with the welcoming address of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel, entitled „Anniversary and commemoration to foster Romanian communion”. It was followed by the address of Mr Ioan Aurel Pop, President of the Romanian Academy. The Congress continued with the questions addressed by students to His Beatitude and to the Academy’s President, followed by speeches delivered on behalf of students’ and youth organizations in Romania and abroad. Finally, it concluded with the reading out of the Declaration of the Anniversary Congress of Students, drafted as a result of the consultations prior to the Celebration.On Tuesday, 17 August 2021, in the sound of bell tolling, abbot Melchisedec Velnic and the congregation of Putna Monastery accompanied His Beatitude and the hierarchs who were leaving Putna, and thanked for the blessing, prayers and advice offered to the participants in the Celebration. These were days filled of grace and hope, continuing in the history of the Monastery the values held dear by the Holy Prince Steven the Great, and by Mihai Eminescu and his generation in 1871: belief in God and love for the motherland.
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Немам намјеру да подносим цјеловито уводно излћгање о етничкој проблематици аустроугарског периода, већ ћу се ограничити само на неколико маргиналних напомена које су већ биле предмет дискусије у нашој поткомисији. У оквиру разматрања етничке проблематике у вријеме аустроугарске окупације централно мјесто заузимају проблеми националног развитка и међунационалних односа.
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Reviews of: Ignacije Voje, “KREDITNA TRGOVINA U SREDNJOVJEKOVNOM DUBROVNIKU, ANU BiH”, djela .knj. 49. odjeljenje društvenih nauka, Sarajevo 1976 (390); Milan Vasić, “GRADOVI POD TURSKOM VLAŠĆU”, u knjizi Istorija Crne Gore, knj. treća, tom 1, Titograd 1975, str. 503-607 - poseban otisak; Naučni skup “Život i djelo Vladimira Čopića” (Senj 1-2. X 1976); “SARAJEVO U REVOLUCIJI, Revolucionarni radnički pokret 1937-1941.” (Sarajevo 1976, knjiga 1, str. 750); Gligo Mandić, “17. istočnobosanska NOU divizija”, Beograd 1976, str. 353
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