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MODERN CAREER THEORIES IN THE CONTEXT OF DIFFERENT GENERATIONS AND CHANGEABLE ENVIRONMENT
Authors: Katane Irēna , Korna-Opincāne Evita 
Published: May 2019

One the most topical issues in modern education is to support students in their interaction with the changing environment, thus helping them to accept these changes, live with them and find new opportunities for development, including opportunities for career development within these changes. Another topical issue is the generational change of students and respecting the specific qualities of this new generation during the education and career development support process in schools. Both these issues reflect in career theories in a form of new trends. Which generations can these career theories be applied to the most? How will the representatives of different generations join in the changing educational and professional environments? Understanding of these questions is essential within the context of providing modern career support. The aim of this article is to analyse and evaluate modern career theories within the context of different generations and changeable environment. The publication comprises the finding of the latest theoretical studies and results of the authors reflecting upon their professional experience. Career development during the current decade of the 21st century is determined by several new theoretical viewpoints, each of which focuses on its own research issue, yet they are united in the aspect of taking individual responsibility of one’s own career development and career self-management in the situation of changeable environment, which can be helpful in adapting to and coping with unexpected changes and challenges presented therewith in the context of career development. From the point of view of modern career theories, challenges within educational and professional environments posed by global changes may be better understood within the context of career development of pupils. People of different generations have different attitudes towards their careers and the possibilities for their developments, therefore studies within the context of generation and career theories are essential.
A FAMILY WITH MANY PROBLEMS IN THE SOCIAL SUPPORT SYSTEM
Authors: Matejek Józefa 
Published: May 2019

The contemporary family is subject to significant transformations, which forces its members to adapt in new conditions of social functioning. Changing socio-economic conditions, difficult financial situation, helplessness, occurrence of addictions and social pathologies often make families unable to properly fulfill their tasks and functions. Social support can refer to taking action in any difficult situation in which a person is - a family who can not cope independently under the circumstances. The family is one of the most important values in human life, therefore the possibilities of its support should be broad, varied and generally available.The aim of the study is to present selected aspects and forms of social support for the family, which experiences many problems in everyday functioning. Supportive activities concern, among other things: the form of social assistance that the family will receive in the light of legal acts, the types of benefits a family can get in a difficult life situation and diversified forms of assistance and support from specialists for working with family - social workers and family assistants. The study uses the method of analysis of existing data (desk research), the research has been given a diagnostic and descriptive character. In the presented article, the analysis covered the subject literature on the subject matter covered, applicable legal acts, statistics, government reports and reports on social assistance benefits. The collected material was supplemented by an expert interview conducted with social workers and family assistant. Undertaken assistance activities should support families not only in the traditional social role, but also be open to the dynamics of socio-economic and cultural changes and new areas requiring assistance. Therefore, when undertaking supporting activities, one should focus both on preventing negative phenomena that may threaten the proper functioning of the family and effectively eliminate the effects of their occurrence.
THE NEED OF EDUCATION IN THE FIELD OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Authors: Papáček Peter 
Published: May 2019

The paper deals with the thesis that our classical type of education is not always enough to prepare us for the real life matters. One of those matters, a really negative one, is the domestic violence. It is a not very comfortable issue to talk about or to admit its existence in our lives. Furthermore, it deals with the possibility to find a place for this education issue in our educational system and its curriculums. The main aim is to prepare and to give the knowledge about the matter of domestic violence to the youngsters at a reasonable age. It could help in the field of prevention and even in the situations when we have to face the domestic violence – to identify its forms, what can the legal consequences be, how can we act, how can the legal authorities help, what are their competences and how or where can we get legal aid. The paper uses mainly analytical methods to examine the current state and comparative methods too, to compare the current state and the status recommended by the aim of the paper. The main research result is an educational model in the field of domestic violence which is practical and useful in real life situations.
ORIENTATION IN A SIGNAL FLOW AND INTELLIGENCE OF CHILDREN WITH AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS
Authors: Nikolaeva Elena , Gaidamakina Margarita , Zavodovskaia Darja A. 
Published: May 2019

The hypothesis was tested that these children may be more effective than their normally developing counterparts when analyzing a signal flow unrelated to speech or social conditions, for example something that is Nature-based or abstract. There were 52 participants in the study: 22 children with autism spectrum disorders, ranging in age from 3.1 to 7.9 years old, and 30 normally developing children, who were 4-5 years old. In order to achieve the goals and objectives the following methodologies were used: the Sally-Anne test; reflexometry; Raven’s Colored Progressive Matrices; a parent questionnaire. Results. Out of the 22 preschool children with ASDs, 21 of them had an unformed theory of mind. In the norm group, 80 percent of the children had a formed theory of mind. Mute preschool children with ASDs made fewer mistakes in the simple sensory-motor reactions (of the go-go type). Mute children with ASDs were better at orienting themselves in a sensory flow that was unrelated to speech and social information, which can be considered as a compensatory reaction, given their psychophysical inability to develop normal speech. In mute children with ASDs, the level of nonverbal intelligence was no different from that of the children in the norm group.
TRANSFERRING STUDY PROCESS INTO VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT: WHY IS IT NEEDED?
Authors: Piscikiene Inga , Šustickienė Brigita 
Published: May 2019

The paper presents a comparative analysis of the opinion regarding the advantages and disadvantages of virtual environment Moodle among lecturers and students in 2015 and in 2018 and correlations with increased use of Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) to improved study outcomes. The study has revealed that virtual learning environments are beneficial for the study process as they create new learning opportunities, increase access to learning material and allow time and space flexibility. The purpose of this study is to examine the use of Moodle in a college type higher education institution in 2018 and compare the results of the survey to those obtained in a similar survey in 2015 in the same college, as well as relating the change in the use of Moodle to the change in the study outcomes. The interviewees were the lecturers and students who answered questions related to the use of Moodle. The implemented learning environment includes 14 feature creation functions and 7 resources. The evaluation results indicate that Moodle is commonly used to deliver course content, develop a course plan, evaluate, create activities, and communicate with course participants. Among many functions offered by Moodle only some of them are considered to be very important and commonly used, such as tasks, reviews, tests and workshops.
SELF-EVALUATION METHODOLOGY OF PROGRAMMERS' COMPETITIVENESS IN THE CONTEXT OF LIFELONG EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL SELF-DEVELOPMENT
Authors: Katans Edgars , Katane Irēna , Vītols Gatis 
Published: May 2019

Contemporary social sciences, including pedagogy and psychology, carry out researches in the field of competitiveness. The more competitive each member of the society is, the more competitive is the society as such. The aim of research was: experimentally approbate the developed methodology for evaluating the competitiveness of programmers. Research methods were: survey as pedagogical experiment, projective method for data obtaining; Wilcoxon test for data processing. The results of the pedagogical experiment testify that: during the pedagogical experiment, research participants changed their competitiveness self-assessment. Therefore it is very important to know self-evaluation indicators of professional development because it significant impacts both: programmers notions about professional self-development and competitiveness as result of this development, changing competitiveness self-assessment as well. During the experiment, the participants of the research gained new experience of reflection, reflecting on their professional development, including professionalism, career, in past, present and future, and this reflection experience can serve as a basis for programmer's professional development and adequate competitiveness self-assessment. The experimentally approbated self-assessment methodology of professional development and competitiveness is valid and can be used in further research.
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING OF THE BALTIC COUNTRIES' INHABITANTS IN THE CONTEXT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Authors: Lonska Jelena , Komarova Vera 
Published: May 2019

Since the Baltic countries have joined the European Union, the value of personal satisfaction with life has fluctuated – decreased or increased – along with GDP per capita until the crisis, i.e. until 2009; afterwards, the nature of this dependency started to change across the countries. The novelty of the current research study is the analysis of the people's SWB dependence upon the economic development indicators in the Baltic countries after their accession to the EU, conducted in the context of the results of previous research studies on the topic. The research aim is to review theoretical research studies on the interrelation of people’s SBW and economic development of the country, as well as to analyse the situation in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. The following research methods were applied: the monographic method and regression analysis. The findings of the research study showed that Estonia was the leader among the three Baltic countries in all the economic development indicators considered, whereas Latvia was behind in all the indicators; moreover, the level of personal satisfaction with life was the highest in Estonia, although, as the results of the regression analysis demonstrated the SWB of people in Estonia was the least dependent on the economic development indicators.
INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHODS AND THEIR RELATION TO THE LEVEL OF EQUIPMENT OF A FARM IN INFORMATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE ELEMENTS
Authors: Kuboń Maciek , Kwaśniewski Dariusz , Malaga-Toboła Urszula , Niemiec Marcin , Ovcharuk Oleg , Kocira Sławomir 
Published: May 2019

All item flows are always accompanied by information flows. The condition of the goods flow between a sending point and a receipt point is exchange of information between a sender and a consignee. The role of scientific-technical and economic information in modern agriculture grows successively. It is hard to imagine efficient management that would guarantee rational use of the factors of production, including respect for the environment, ensuring high quality of products and satisfaction of market requirements without it. Information is indispensable for both agricultural producers as well as producers and providers of production means and agricultural products consignees. Farms which strive to be competitive and which want to develop must use facilities of modern information technologies. The aim of the paper was to determine information acquisition methods and the relation to the level of equipment and the use of information infrastructure elements on commodity farms. The paper covered 50 agricultural farms located in the south Poland region. Information acquisition methods and the level of equipment and use of information infrastructure elements were determined. Respondents also evaluated which of the information acquisition methods was the best and which was the worst. It was concluded that the level of farm equipment in elements of information infrastructure was satisfactory and the information infrastructure methods guaranteed efficient farm management.
ASSESSMENT OF FISCAL POLICY IN LATVIA
Authors: Zubule Erika 
Published: May 2019

The aim of the research is: to evaluate the fiscal policy in Latvia in accordance with the theoretical and practical conclusions of scientific investigations in the world, to determine the main fiscal risks and to find fiscal policy gaps in national government budgeting as well as in the use of funds and to define recommendations for making a sustainable fiscal policy in the country. At present, economic development in the world and Europe, the geopolitical situation, the migration of the population as well as the domestic problems of the development of Latvia pose new challenges to the government’s fiscal policy; they create new fiscal risks and problems that require strong fiscal discipline and an efficient fiscal policy. The fact that Latvia did not have fiscal reserve resources for easier survival of the crisis is a severe and painful lesson about the errors in the fiscal policy. New circumstances that have occurred recently have to be taken into account by the policy makers. In order to build an effective fiscal policy, the following has to be found out: the most important factors of impact, whether they are of objective or subjective nature, and what fiscal risks may threaten the performance of individual fiscal indicators, and how big must be the fiscal security reserve.
ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL LITERACY TRENDS
Authors: Čaplinska Aina , Stašāne Janīna 
Published: May 2019

The following skills, such as planning of personal finances, formation and diversification of savings, augmentations of personal capital and open-mindedness to new initiatives in entrepreneurship activities, enhance financial sustainability of the population, and are decisive for the quality of life. Every person in certain circumstances can be financially and economically active, if he/she has got such a competence as financial literacy, which is much more important in the course of life than a level of income or professional qualifications, because, hereafter the governing factor will be not a possession of financial instruments by the person, but skills of the effective management for an achievement of own objectives. The aim of the research – to analyse the financial literacy of young people in Daugavpils.Methods used in the research: the monographic method – a theoretical description of financial literacy, the graphical method – a graphical representation of obtained results, the interview method (questionnaire) – data acquisition required for the research, the statistical method–analysis of statistical information, the comparative method – a description of obtained data and drawing conclusions. The financial literacy of Daugavpils youth has been researched and evaluated.
IMPLEMENTATION OF INTEGRATED MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY: A LITERATURE REVIEW
Authors: Ņikadimovs Oļegs 
Published: May 2019

The hospitality industry is one of the most dynamic and competitive sectors, it has become more important to communicate marketing messages that are clear, unified and integral throughout all the communication channels to the target audiences. The paper aims to review the previously conducted research efforts on implementation of the concept of integrated marketing communications (IMC) in the hospitality industry. The aim of this research study is to collect and analyse the main concepts and conclusions of theoretical and practical research in the hospitality IMC implementation in the recent years. The methodology for paper selection was the following: 1) databases - Scopus, ScienceDirect, EBSCOHost, Emerald Insight - were examined; 2) main search criterion was “IMC hospitality implementation”, 3). additional research criteria were time of publication and peer-reviewed papers. Qualitative data analysis methods were used to assess the selected papers, while the review itself can be classified as narrative. Eight papers were selected for the analysis, showing an overview of the latest trends in research on IMC implementation in the hospitality industry. The findings indicated correlation between IMC strategy implementation and the impact on target audiences. This literature review can be used as the theoretical background for future researches.
DEVELOPMENT OF RETROSPECTIVE LIFE-LONG PHYSICAL ACTIVITY QUESTIONNAIRE: FIRST STAGE
Authors: Ulmane Zane , Šneidere Kristīne , Stepens Ainārs 
Published: May 2019

With the increase in life expectancy and declining birth rates, the issue of improving the quality of life in people over 60 has become one of the priorities in health care (WHO, 2015). So far a limited number of studies have addressed the long-term relationship between aerobic exercise and cognitive processes (e.g. see systematic review by Young, Angevaren, Rusted, & Tabet, 2015). The aim of the study was to conduct the first stage in developing an instrument to retrospectively investigate life-time physical activity. Methods: a literature search in databases EBSCO, Pubmed, SCOPUS and Science Direct using keywords “retrospective physical activity”, “long-term physical activity” was conducted. After literature review, individual interviews with participants aged from 65 to 76 were held to create a retrospective physical activity questionnaire. Interviews were conducted according to literature-based protocol, which was updated after each participant. Results: eight main categories of life-time activity: "work”, “education", "sleep", "transportation", "self-care", "leisure time", "household activities" and "sports”. Conclusions: means of measuring life-long physical activity retrospectively would be highly beneficial in physical activity research; however, further work in developing and validating retrospective physical activity questionnaire is needed.
SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS DEFINING THE ATTITUDE OF RUSSIAN PEOPLE TOWARDS PRENUPTIAL AGREEMENT
Authors: Sergeeva Anna , Pryaluhina Alla , Tuzova Olga , Tuchkova Tamara 
Published: May 2019

In the modern world the institution of family and marriage is undergoing various changes. The attitude of Russian people towards the prenuptial agreement shows a tendency for acceptance and approval. The stereotypical perception of the prenuptial agreement as unacceptable between close people is in the past. Based on that, the article is focused on the comparative analysis of the factors that define the attitude of Russian people towards the prenuptial agreement. The key point in the research is evaluation of specific features of respondents’ opinions, expressed in the years of 2007 and 2018, in accordance with the following socio-psychological factors: awareness of the prenuptial agreement, aims for signing one or reasons to refuse doing so, gender and age factors. Research methods include: a preliminary survey of couples in order to define sample groups, a questionnaire, observation, a mathematical method of data analysis (Fisher’s φ-criterion). The research was conducted in two stages: the first diagnostics in the year 2007 (n=40 couples), and the second – in 2018 (n=50 couples). The respondents were divided into groups by the social status of their relationships: officially married, planning to get married, co-habiting couples and partner (guest) relationships. The age of respondents was 18-47. The results of the research showed the following: increase in age leads to clearer understanding and a better expressed opinion about the prenuptial agreement, positive dynamics in favourable perception of prenuptial agreement among the respondents who are officially married or are planning to marry, increased importance of motives for signing a prenuptial agreement – “protection of one’s own interests” and “opportunity to put pressure on the spouse”, lack of connection between the attitude towards prenuptial agreement and awareness of the document.
Frequency, risk factors and materno-foetal outcomes among cases of Placenta previa at a tertiary care hospital: a two year study
Authors: Bindu Reddy Pamulaparthi , Swetha Reddy Gurram 
Published: May 2019

Background: Placenta previa refers to the presence of placental tissue that extends over the internal cervical os. Placenta previa is linked to maternal hypovolemia, anaemia, and long hospital stay and with prematurity, low birth weight, low APGAR score in newborn. So it is very important to identify the condition at an early date to warn the condition thereby reducing the maternal and foetal morbidity and mortality. The present study was aimed to estimate the prevalence of PP, its associated predisposing risk factors and maternal morbidity, mortality and the perinatal outcome.Methods: A prospective observational study for two years was conducted at a tertiary care hospital. Pregnant mothers with >28 weeks of age with H/o ante partum haemorrhage were screened for placenta previa, confirmed by ultra sonography and included in the study. Clinical history, obstetric examination was done and followed up till the delivery. Maternal and foetal outcomes were recorded. Data analyzed by using SPSS version 20.Results: 1.4% incidence of PP was noted, mean age of group was 29.17±1.6 years. Age group of 21-30 years, multiparity Gravida 2-4, previous history of caesarean section and less number of ante natal checkups were significant risk factors and LSCS was most common outcome. Prematurity, low birth weight and APGAR <7 score for 1 minute was common foetal outcomes.Conclusions: Our study strongly suggests foetal surveillance programmes in cases of placenta previa. Measures should be made to bring awareness about PP, in urban slums and to increase medical checkups regularly. Making USG mandatory during every ANC and referral of cases of PP to tertiary care centres would definitely reduce the chances of morbidity and mortality.